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
Doom WindsPassiveFires on your weapon swings — median gap 1.0s. It scales with time spent in melee range, not with a key.	10.1
Lightning Bolt	9.7
Crash Lightning	9.3
WindstrikePassiveTriggered, not pressed — watch the buff, not the button.	6.4
Voltaic Blaze	5.3
Tempest	5.1
Chain Lightning	3.7
Lava Lash	1.5
Healing Surge	0.7
Ghost Wolf	0.7
AscendanceOff-GCD	0.6
Voracious Heart of Ula'tek	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 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 Ghost Wolf 2 Voltaic Blaze 3 Bloodlust 4 Crash Lightning 5 Stormstrike 6 Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 7 AscendanceOff-GCD 8 Tempest 9 Chain Lightning 10 Crash Lightning

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 Spirit Walk
/cast Ascendance
/cast Stormstrike

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	9.7
3	Crash Lightning	9.3
4	Chain Lightning	8.5
5	Voltaic Blaze	5.3
Z	Tempest	5.1
X	Lava Lash	1.6
C	Healing Surge	0.7
V	Ghost Wolf	0.7
R	AscendanceOff-GCD	0.6
F	Voracious Heart of Ula'tek	0.6
T	Empowering Venom	0.5
G	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.	6.4