Enhancement Shaman

The order abilities first landed across 4 top-parsing pulls, with the median time into the fight. The percentage is how many of those parses used the ability at all — a step at 100% is the opener, one at 60% is a choice some players make.

1. 1Voltaic Blaze+0.7s100%
2. 2Crash Lightning+1.7s50%
3. 3Stormstrike+1.9s75%
4. 4Voracious Heart of Ula'tek+2.5s50%
5. 5Ascendance+3s100%
6. 6Doom Winds+4.1s100%
7. 7Tempest+4.3s100%
8. 8Windstrike+4.3s100%
9. 9Lightning Bolt+5.1s50%

What was pressed next, counted over every observed pair. This is the closest a log gets to a priority list — but it describes behaviour, not a rule: a player casting Execute because it lit up looks the same here as one following a plan.

• Lightning Bolt81 casts→Lightning Bolt43%Windstrike37%Crash Lightning17%
• Windstrike42 casts→Doom Winds59%Lightning Bolt29%Stormstrike5%
• Doom Winds40 casts→Lightning Bolt65%Tempest25%Voltaic Blaze10%
• Tempest21 casts→Windstrike52%Tempest43%Crash Lightning5%
• Crash Lightning17 casts→Doom Winds47%Lightning Bolt35%Stormstrike12%
• Stormstrike13 casts→Stormstrike30%Lightning Bolt20%

Casts per minute across 20 top-parsing kills in The Venomous Abyss. Per minute rather than totals, so a long fight does not read as a heavily used ability.

Fights are sorted by how much damage landed on boss units rather than by a hand-kept list of which encounter is the AoE one, so the split stays right after a retune. Fights in between are left out of both columns.

Updated 31/08/2026. These are observed casts, not a recommended priority — the order reflects how often an ability came up, which is not the same as when to press it.

Secondary stat split across the 100 best-geared synced characters. Averaged per player, so one heavily geared character cannot define the answer for everyone.

• Versatility37.6%821 avg
• Haste35.4%813 avg
• Mastery17.6%428 avg
• Critical Strike9.4%234 avg