#0 - Aug. 25, 2006, 10:45 a.m.
(NOTE: THIS IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS GUIDE, I'LL DO MY BEST TO KEEP IT BUMPED AND EDITED)
UPDATE APR 23 11:51PM
Added DPS leather items from AQ40 and added items from BWL to the list. Corrected a few spelling mistakes.
UPDATE APR 24 1:50PM
Added Onyxia drops section, Added Obsidian Mail Leggings, corrected a few more spelling and formatting errors.
UPDATE APR 24 5:47PM
By request, I added a shields section
UPDATE APR 26 12:05AM
Added Notable BG-Rewards Thanks to Urvic
UDATE MAY 2 3:00PM
Added world drop boss loots thanks to Tashyn, Added a few more shields and world drops.
UPDATE JULY 4 12:24 AM
Added Naxxarams Drops
UPDATE JULY 31st 11:00pm
Added "Best in Game" tags to various pieces of gear that I felt maximized damage, armor, stam, ap and crit and all enhancement shammans should go for at least some of them.
UPDATE AUG 25 2:48am
I managed to migrate the guide over it seems. Thanks again to Oryx to post a placeholder for me it was much appreciated! ^_^
I also merged my Greatcow's Compiled Enhancement Concerns/Questions thread into this one to make sure multiple threads don't pop up :) Hope you all like the new guide :)
BIG BIG UPDATE Aug 30 12:09pm
Alrighty I took the advice of many people who posted after I bumped and combed throught the guide and edited in the major suggestions. PVP rewards got a major update and got its own section. Revised the "Best in Game" tag system to also include an "excellent" tag. The difference between these two is simply while the "excellent" tag isn't THE best, it still is a great piece of gear that will serve you very well.
Edit: Ok for further clarification:
Best In Game: Generally refers to gear that any alternative that offers such significant upgrade to it's stats or abilities either does not exist currently, or is in Naxx.
Excellent: Gear that will serve you for an extended period of time, but there does exist something better. Barring loot luck, you should be able to replace this gear within about 6 months.
Added several items including Boots of the Vanguard and Boots of the Shadowflame. ALSO! Check out my CTprofiles wishlist again posted below. I managed to update the wishlist with some rather sick enh gear. Try 1100ap unbuffed and 25% chance to crit? Sound good? oh yeah :D
Rev Updated to 1.3
UPDATE DECEMBER 5 2006 4:49PM
Ok folks, sorry about the long quiet on the wester front as it were. Added the Dual Wield Guide to My Enhancement section. Scroll down to view it. Also combed through and added a few omissions thanks to the keen eyes of other players. Thanks for the helps folks! :D
More mail items are being added to the game so this, for the moment, is only a partial list of the available enhancement items in the game.
For a reference check my profile and click on PVP profile and wishlist profile and you can get an idea of what an endgame shammy with enhancement can do.
http://ctprofiles.net/302079
Finding Enhancement gear pre BWLAQ40 is pretty damn tough. Blizzard has kind of made it blatantly obvious that Enhancementis not really welcome endgame unfortunately, but we can make do with what we are tossed.
For finding gear pre level 50, theres not really that much out there in the way of gear and it radically changes with regards to post 40 action since we'll be switching over to mail.
Pre-40 Gear
Here you'll be using random greens and the occasional blue leather item. Finding enhancement gear here will be fairly easy but a bit more delicate to deal with as most every rogue out there will be after the same gear you are. Emphasize on str/agi/stamina as per usual. Items to look for include
Anything of "The Monkey" (Agi/Stam)
ANything of "The Bear" (Str/Stam)
Anything of "The Falcon" (Agi/Intellect)
Anything of "The Gorrilla" (Str/Intellect)
Anything of "The Tiger" (Agi/Str)
40-50 Gear, The Odd spot
This is unfortunately a pretty tough area to find solid enhancement gear in. The majority of the mail you'll find will be geared to caster shammies and finding good blue mail items will be very hard to find,...anyone else noticing a pattern here?
Quite honestly, the best enahancement mail gear for this level will be found within Scarlet Monastery as there is a massive amount of well stat'd mail pieces that an enhancement shammy will find very very appealing.
The Scarlet Chain Set
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/itemset.html?setid=163
Some other Good Drops from SM include
Aegis of the Scarlet Commander
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=3653
Archon Chestpiece
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=6323
Flintrock Shoulders
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=15413
Herod's Shoulder
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=3612
Ironspine's Eye
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=3795
Raging Beserker's Helm
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=3797
Steelclaw Reaver
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=3580
After Scarlet monastery however, the pickings become further and fewer inbetween.
Helms
Bloomsprout Headpiece
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=17767
Shoulder
Khan's Shoulders
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=14787
Spaulders of a Lost Age
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=9430
Chest
Protector Breastplate
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=14789
Atal'lai Brestplate of <Random Enchantment>
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=10784
Waist
Defiler's Chain Girdle
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=20151
Belt of the Gladiator
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=13134
Legs
Nothing of any notable mention here
Feet
Bloodshot Greaves
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=10846
Defiler's Chain Greaves
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=20155
Fleetfoot Greaves
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=11627
Wrist
Windtalker's Wristguards
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=19583
Bracers of the Stone Princes
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=17714
Arena Bands
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=18711
Hands
Rockgrip Gauntlets
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=17736
