Shaman Enhancement Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Voltaic Blaze 2 Bloodlust 3 Stormstrike 4 Stormstrike 5 Lightning Bolt 6 Stormstrike 7 Crash Lightning 8 AscendanceOff-GCD 9 Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 10 Tempest 11 Lightning Bolt

1 Voltaic Blaze 2 Spirit WalkOff-GCD 3 Crash Lightning 4 Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 5 AscendanceOff-GCD 6 Tempest 7 Tempest 8 Lightning Bolt 9 Lightning Bolt

1 Voltaic Blaze 2 Stormstrike 3 Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 4 AscendanceOff-GCD 5 Tempest 6 Tempest 7 Crash Lightning 8 Lightning Bolt 9 Crash Lightning

#showtooltip Voltaic Blaze
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Ascendance
/cast Voltaic Blaze

Ability	Top-player CPM
Stormstrike	15.0
Lightning Bolt	10.6
Doom WindsPassiveFires on your weapon swings — median gap 1.0s. It scales with time spent in melee range, not with a key.	10.1
Crash Lightning	9.3
WindstrikePassiveTriggered, not pressed — watch the buff, not the button.	5.5
Voltaic Blaze	5.4
Tempest	4.9
Chain Lightning	3.9
Lava Lash	1.6
Ghost Wolf	0.7
Healing Surge	0.7
AscendanceOff-GCD	0.6
Astral ShiftOff-GCD	0.4

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Totemic ProjectionOff-GCD 2 Chain Lightning 3 Ghost Wolf 4 Chain Lightning 5 Bloodlust 6 Voltaic Blaze 7 Crash Lightning 8 Stormstrike 9 Capacitor Totem 10 Tempest 11 Stormstrike 12 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 13 Crash Lightning 14 Stormstrike 15 Empowering Venom

1 Stormstrike 2 Crash Lightning 3 Stormstrike 4 Lava Lash 5 Chain Lightning 6 Spirit WalkOff-GCD 7 Stormstrike 8 Voltaic Blaze 9 Chain Lightning 10 Chain Lightning 11 Bloodlust 12 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 13 AscendanceOff-GCD 14 Empowering Venom 15 Tempest

1 Stormstrike 2 Stormstrike 3 Stormstrike 4 Voltaic Blaze 5 Crash Lightning 6 Chain Lightning 7 Bloodlust 8 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 9 AscendanceOff-GCD 10 Empowering Venom 11 Crash Lightning 12 Tempest

#showtooltip Stormstrike
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Totemic Projection
/cast Spirit Walk
/cast Stormstrike

The Patch 12.1 Omnium Folio has five rune rows. This is what the sampled top logs actually run in each row, read from the runes' own damage, healing and buff traces. Bold = most picked. Rows 1 and 5 are procs, so their share is inferred from the traces they leave.

Row	Raid	Mythic+
Row 1	Rune of Unleashed Fire 100%	Rune of Unleashed Fire 97% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 3%
Row 2	Rune of Self-Mending 45% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 38%	Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 51% Rune of Self-Mending 38% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 8%
Row 3	Rune of Lingering 100%	Rune of Lingering 100%
Row 4	Rune of Burning Haste 52% Rune of Masterful Cunning 25% Rune of Critical Power 22%	Rune of Critical Power 44% Rune of Burning Haste 31% Rune of Masterful Cunning 23%
Row 5	Rune of Overload 92% Rune of Echoes 8%	Rune of Overload 92% Rune of Echoes 8%

The GearInsight addon shows the same table next to your own current runes and can switch every row to the recommended one in one click.

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,exists][] Wind Shear

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Cleanse Spirit

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@player] Healing Surge

#showtooltip
/cast [@player] Surging Totem

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Surging Totem

#showtooltip
/cast [@player] Totemic Projection
/cast Stormstrike

#showtooltip Lava Lash
/cast Lava Lash
/cast Surging Totem

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Stormstrike	15.0
2	Lightning Bolt	10.6
3	Crash Lightning	9.3
4	Chain Lightning	8.5
5	Voltaic Blaze	5.4
Z	Tempest	4.9
X	Lava Lash	1.6
C	Ghost Wolf	0.7
V	Healing Surge	0.7
R	AscendanceOff-GCD	0.6
F	Astral ShiftOff-GCD	0.4
—	Doom WindsPassiveFires on your weapon swings — median gap 1.0s. It scales with time spent in melee range, not with a key.	10.1
—	WindstrikePassiveTriggered, not pressed — watch the buff, not the button.	5.5