Basics of Enhancement

There is a simple truth about being an Enhancement Shaman.
***DPS***
Any way you can dish it out.

For this shaman have melee attacks, stormstike, weapon enhancements, shocks, lightning shield, and totem to create a substantial wall of damage. All of these items lend to the overall damage a Shaman can dish out, and it is such a high amount I can output as much DPS as other melee classes that are bettered geared than me. And this is possible due to extremely tight gearing practices.

The most important stat for Enhancement Shaman is Strength. After this is Agility, Stamina and Hit. There is a lot of debate over the matter of agility and hit among enhancement shaman but after substantial testing and research I have come to the conclusion of that STR comes first, and the other 3 are tied for second. Overall our job is to add totem support for damage to the melee group or party, and secondarily to hit as hard as possible. To do this means that our AP must be as high as we can get it and this means we have to look at how STR and AP scale.

Elitist Jerks have researched the matter of scaling for STR and AP extensively and they concur that STR scales better than just straight AP. Shamans gain 2 AP per point of STR, and depending upon other factors in the way gear scales it may actually be a little higher than that. AP directly translates and doesn't gain much from scaling. So from a standpoint of gear selection, you want gear with STR on it. This means, a lot of the PVP gear is ideal, even though your trade off will leave you with a low hit rating. This isn't as bad as it seems if you specc'ed into Resto for the hit bonus.