As you probably know, when you level an enhance shaman you can pick up any gear thats mail with attack power/crit on it. Since hunters & shammies are the only mail wearing classes, and hunters & shamans share stats, its pretty simple on the way to 80 to find gear that already has int and attack power on it.

If the mail you find has spell power on it, its only going to be for ele or resto shamans, and I’d never recommend looking for SP gear for enhance Shamans (we get ours from a percentage of AP after all).

Once you get your first socketed gear, I recommend gemming attack power mainly, with some hit, crit and a little expertise… depending on your talent choice.

For PvP I gem as much AP as I possibly can, with some resilience, spell pen, and of course stamina.

The best way to find out what to use is to inspect the guys from high end raiding guilds or the shamans dominating arena.

One problem I’m having with my enhance shammy is figuring out which gear boosts are the most preferred. It seems there are several (AGI/CRIT, AP, SP, SPI, INT, etc) that can benefit, so I’m looking for some guidance on which two or three of these are most important.

Thanks for any guidance, in advance. ^_^

Like I said, my build is meant to be flexible – for people who want to do a variety of things in game… so yes, it will suck compared to pure pvp builds.

On your pvp only build, its a great build for new level 80′s (due to most being under-geared) with the extra stamina, but once you’re better geared (around 20k hp) I’d drop those 5 points and use them for stun-toteming and crit damage increase.

I’m writing up a new enhancement pvp build today with some tips which I think you’ll like.

Here’s my build.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#hV0hZ0xgcoEdIGusRuio

I’d say it’s pretty good for both arena and battlegrounds. Consider some points in there, and redistribute according to your needs.

you could pass up elemental focus max points on elemental fury, good placement in imp fire nova totem I like that talent alot

drop some points out of strength or intellect
to get unleashed rage

MSW is more than for insta heals, you can instant LB or chain lightning, does a huge portion of your damage, if you check out my armory link, his name is vurok on destromath

not trying to harsh on your spec, just trying to help improve it , if you want to reply just shoot me an email cause I forget sites I go to lol

No worries man, no offense taken and thanks for sharing your experience!

You make a good point in that I could have shown two trees instead of one here, but this build really isn’t about min/maxing (making the perfect build for a given role), its for casual players who want to be able to do a little of everything and have fun as they level up. Also, while its a level 80 enhancement build, I assume my readers will use my suggestions as a template to assign points as they level up with this spec… but I’m considering doing some level by level suggestions.