Enhancement Shaman Nerub-ar Palace Raid Tips - The War Within 11.0.2

Save Wind Rush Totem for Carnivorous Contest to help targeted players push against the pull-in and avoid being killed. It can also be used in the intermission to help the raid avoid Juggernaut Charge while dealing with adds.
Move out of the group when targeted by Digestive Acid and make use of Astral Shift / Stone Bulwark Totem to reduce the damage as it expires.
The intermission begins at 1m30s, and lasts for 45 seconds plus the amount of time it takes you to complete Ready to Feed. Make sure to only use cooldowns during this period, the intermission shouldn't need any.

The Bloodbound Horror Enhancement Shaman Talent Builds

Bloodbound Horror Elementalist
Bloodbound Horror Storm

The The Bloodbound Horror is a bit more complex, requiring the raid to split into two teams that need to be sent down into a separate realm, dealing with a variety of important adds. Depending on your assignment and group composition, your exact role will vary but as a general recommendation having access to Crash Lightning for additional cleave is preferable. Your choice between Storm Swell and Arc Discharge mostly comes down to where you're struggling more - boss damage means the former while add damage is the latter.

Use Wind Rush Totem while downstairs to help your team rotate around the Spewing Hemorrhage beams. Try to stay ahead of them while dealing with any adds in each quadrant.
Interrupt Black Bulwark from Lost Watcher at range, while focusing your damage on the more dangerous Forgotten Harbinger to make sure Manifest Horror doesn't get out of control.
Use Spirit Walk to run out of the Goresplatter circle, then Feral Lunge to re-engage the boss quickly after.
Move carefully when targeted by Grasp From Beyond, as moving too fast ahead of the group may trap them with tentacles you leave behind.

Sikran, Captain of the Sureki Enhancement Shaman Talent Builds

Sikran Elementalist
Sikran Storm

Sikran is a pure single target encounter with a varying degree of movement, requiring you to react to Phase Blades and position after-images correctly, while trying to keep as much uptime on the boss as possible. There's no real special recommendations here outside of just hitting the boss as hard as you can.

Save Spirit Walk to get out of the group if targeted by Phase Blades to drop the after-image in a safe spot away from the raid. Alongside this, use Astral Shift or Stone Bulwark Totem as it's about to hit to reduce the up front damage.
Use Wind Rush Totem to help the raid make distance for Shattering Sweep. Use Feral Lunge to get back to the boss quickly.

Rasha'nan Enhancement Shaman Talent Builds

Rasha'nan Elementalist
Rasha'nan Storm

The most important part of the Rasha'nan encounter is single target boss damage, however add waves that spawn do need to be killed efficiently before they get out of control. The frequency with which they spawn is high enough that picking up Crash Lightning for some additional cleave and funnel is a good idea, though they rarely live long enough to get value out of Arc Discharge so stick with Storm Swell.

Broodtwister Ovi'nax Enhancement Shaman Talent Builds

Broodtwister Ovi'nax Elementalist
Broodtwister Ovi'nax Storm

Broodtwister Ovi'nax is a lot more complex than the previous encounters, requiring your raid to move the boss around a wide area while you deal with an onslaught of adds. Due to that, while priority damage is very important, the fight will almost constantly involve additional enemies that need to be cleaved down. With the bounce range of Chain Lightning being high enough to consistently jump between them, picking up Crash Lightning and Arc Discharge to help with this is a good idea.

Use Astral Shift / Stone Bulwark Totem when targeted by Experimental Dosage. Also make use of Spirit Walk to quickly get to your assigned egg to spawn the correct adds.
Be careful when doing the above if targeted by Sticky Web to not trigger a Web Eruption chain reaction by sprinting near others, as it will cleanse it. Ideally, pick up Thunderous Paws here and use Ghost Wolf to comfortably dispel yourself in a safe area.
You can also take Jet Stream here and set up a designated dispelling area for players to run into and remove their webs away from other players, but try not to drop it at random as it will clear any players inside.

Use either the boss or a Colossal Spider as an anchor target to cleave off. Try to help slow any Blood Parasite spawns and AoE them down, ideally slowing them with either Hailstorm or Earthbind Totem.

Nexus-Princess Ky'veza Enhancement Shaman Talent Builds

Nexus-Princess Ky'veza Elementalist
Nexus-Princess Ky'veza Storm

Nexus-Princess Ky'veza is another pure single target encounter, requiring a lot of movement and adjustment while trying to keep full uptime on the boss. This is more conditional on how your raid Assassination phantoms and the tank positions the boss to make sure you can pull against Nether Rift effectively. You also need to make sure you have some of your own movement tools saved to deal with these mechanics if you're targeted, rather than using them purely to stick to the boss.

When targeted by Assassination, if your raid has fixed positions to drop them make sure you have Spirit Walk ready to get to the correct spot. Use Astral Shift / Stone Bulwark Totem before it goes off to stay healthy and avoid dying to Reaper, and position correctly for the follow-up Queensbane so you don't shoot the orbs through the rest of the melee.
Positioning can be tight for this, so try to have some ranged abilities available in case you're forced to sit out of range for a while.
Wind Rush Totem should be used during Nether Rift to help the raid push against it and stick to the boss. It can also be used in the intermission as, while Eclipse is fairly easy to outrun it does help players get to the safe spot and adjust around more comfortably.

The Silken Court Enhancement Shaman Talent Builds

Silken Court Elementalist
Silken Court Storm

The Silken Court is an extremely high movement fight with a lot of volatility on how much uptime you'll be getting on each boss. Ideally with good tank positioning you should have relatively high uptime on Crash Lightning between the two bosses and Shattershell Scarab waves that move toward melee, but in some cases you'll simply have no way of forcing more uptime. I'd still recommend picking this up, and since there's a lot of situations where Storm Swell will fizzle I'd also grab Arc Discharge as well.

Try and maintain Crash Lightning whenever possible and watch for when the bosses are about to split to get a last second refresh. Similarly, if you can keep Lashing Flames up on both bosses it's helpful.
Try to slow and CC Shattershell Scarab spawns while they're cleaved down, ideally killing them before they become immune to being slowed.
When you successfully block Reckless Charge from Anub'arash with Binding Webs, he takes double damage for 12 seconds. Try to dump any high value globals into this window, but don't go out of your way to hold long cooldowns like Ascendance. Setting up Primordial Wave or Tempest in the lead up to this is ideal.
Use Wind Rush Totem with Jet Stream during the intermission to help players adjust around the Shatter Existence cones comfortably.
Use Astral Shift / Stone Bulwark Totem on Venomous Rain or during the intermission, as it's the highest raid damage in the encounter.
Use Feral Lunge to stick to the boss following Void Step. Save Spirit Walk to get out of the Entropic Desolation AoE.

Queen Ansurek Enhancement Shaman Talent Builds

Queen Ansurek Elementalist
Queen Ansurek Storm

As Queen Ansurek wasn't tested at all on the PTR and we're not quite sure how the encounter will play out, or what will be the most important factor in defeating her, I'd just recommend a standard single target build for now. This will be adjusted in the coming weeks when we know more about how the fight plays out.

Enhancement Shaman Viability in Nerub-ar Palace

Enhancement brings a very strong variety of damage profiles, and most importantly has very strong single target damage while also having some funnel to bring bosses down faster. The variety of cooldowns at its disposal - both long and short - to help with key moments in encounters alongside the free cleave it provides makes it a very desirable melee on your team.

It's also relatively durable with the updates in The War Within, though it sometimes needs to resort to using Maelstrom Weapon on healing in particularly dangerous situations. Alongside that, as a Shaman it brings Skyfury to cover that raid buff for your team and both Ancestral Guidance and Wind Rush Totem as additional useful utility.

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About the Author

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