Elemental Shaman Raid Guide

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Last Updated:February 25, 2025|Changelog|FAQ

Welcome to the Elemental Shaman Raid guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.1! This guide covers everything you need to know to understand your character! Are you starting out and leveling up from 70? Check out the leveling guide!

Overview

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Elemental ShamanRaid
Single-Target
Average
AoE
Excellent
Utility
Strong
Survivability
Average
Mobility
Average
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Hero Talents

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Farseer
Stormbringer
  • Call of the Ancestors
    • This is the whole mechanic for this Hero Tree. Whenever you summon an Ancestor you reduce the cooldown of your Fire Elemental or Storm Elemental by 5 seconds thanks to Offering from Beyond.
    • These Ancestors cast spells depending on what you cast.
      • If you cast any ST spell the Ancestor casts a Lava Burst on your target.
      • If you cast any AoE spell the Ancestor casts a Chain Lightning on your target.
    • Ancestors spawn when you cast Primordial Wave and Ancestral Swiftness, which is the capstone talent in the Hero Tree. Make sure you have Nature's Swiftness specced if you play this tree.
  • Latent Wisdom or Ancient Fellowship
    • Latent Wisdom
      • Your Ancestor's spells are 25% more powerful.
    • Ancient Fellowship
      • Ancestors have a 20% chance to call another Ancestor for 6 sec when they despawn.
  • Heed My Call or Routine Communication
    • Heed My Call
      • Ancestors last an additional 4 sec.
    • Routine Communication
      • Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, Chain Lightning, Icefury, and Frost Shock casts have a 8% chance to call an Ancestor to your side for 6 sec.
  • When an Ancestor despawns they cast an Elemental Blast on a nearby target thanks to Final Calling. This Elemental Blast does give you the Critical strike, Haste or Mastery as well.
  • The rest of this tree are passives that don't affect your gameplay much.
    • Primordial Capacity
      • Increases your maximum Maelstrom by 25.
    • Maelstrom Supremacy
      • Increases the damage of your spenders by 15%.
    • Elemental Reverb
      • Lava Burst gains 1 additional charge and deals 5% increased damage.
  • Tempest
    • Your Lightning Bolt turns into Tempest after either
      • You spend 300 Maelstrom.
      • You get 3 stacks of Awakening Storms.
    • The main idea of this Hero Tree is to cycle through as much Maelstrom as possible and cast as many Tempest as possible.
  • Arc Discharge
    • Tempest causes your 2 next Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning to be instant cast and deal 40% increased damage.
  • Storm Swell or Supercharge
    • Storm Swell
      • Tempest grants you 9% Mastery for 6 sec.
    • Supercharge
      • Lightning Bolt, Tempest, and Chain Lightning have a 50% chance to cause an additional Overload
  • Rolling Thunder
    • Grants you 1 charge of Stormkeeper every 50 sec.
  • Conductive Energy
    • Casting Tempest applies Lightning Rod to your target.
  • The rest of this tree are passives that wont effect your gameplay much.
    • Unlimited Power
      • Spending Maelstrom grants you Haste.
    • Voltaic Surge
      • Increases the damage of your Earthquake and Chain Lightning by 5%.
    • Stormcaller
      • Increases the critical strike chance and damage of your nature spells by 5%.

Talents

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Farseer Elemental Shaman Hybrid talents in Raids

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

  • Storm Elemental
    • Gives you Wind Gust stacks, which increases your Haste by 4%, stacking up to 4 times.
  • Stormkeeper
    • Empowers your next 2 Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning.
  • Primordial Wave
    • Together with Splintered Elements increases your Haste by up to 30%.
  • Ascendance
    • 3 min cooldown. Increases your Mastery: Elemental Overload damage by 150% and your spells proc 1 additional Mastery: Elemental Overload.

Class Tree

  • Spiritwalker's Grace
    • Allows you to cast while moving for 15 sec, which can save you a lot of DPS you might lose otherwise in certain scenarios.
  • Nature's Swiftness
    • Makes your next nature cast instant. When playing Farseer, it becomes Ancestral Swiftness and summons Ancestor as well.

Hero Talents

  • Call of the Ancestors
    • Ancestors spawn when you cast Primordial Wave and Ancestral Swiftness.
  • Final Calling
    • When an Ancestor despawns, it will cast an Elemental Blast, which does give you the Critical strike, Haste or Mastery as well.

Rotation

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Tier Set

  • 2-Set: Your spells and abilities have a chance to hit a Jackpot! that summons a Storm Elemental for 8.0 sec. Ascendance always hits a Jackpot!
  • 4-Set: When you summon or extend your Storm Elemental, your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Tempest and Lava Burst deal 20% increased damage for 8 sec.

Single-Target

Farseer

Opener

  • If you get an Icefury at some point you cast it instantly to trigger Fusion of Elements.
Farseer Elemental Shaman single-target opener in Raids
  • With the new reworked Ascendance, you don't have infinite Lava Burst anymore, so you spread out your Lava Burst casts.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

  1. Cast Storm Elemental on cooldown.
  2. Cast Stormkeeper on cooldown.
  3. Cast Ascendance on cooldown.
  4. Cast Primordial Wave on cooldown.
  5. Cast Ancestral Swiftness on cooldown.
  6. Cast Earth Shock with Master of the Elements.
  7. Cast Icefury if you don't already have Fusion of Elements active.
  8. Cast Lava Burst.
  9. Cast Frost Shock only while moving.
  10. Cast Lightning Bolt.

Multi-Target

Farseer

Opener

Farseer Elemental Shaman Multi Target opener in Raids
  • In the opener you are trying to cast as many Earthquake and Chain Lightning as possible, during Ascendance.
  • With the new reworked Ascendance, you don't have infinite Lava Burst anymore, so you spread out your Lava Burst casts.
  • If you are fighting 4+ Targets, skip casting Lava Burst.
  • If you are fighting 2 Targets, spend Stormkeeper on Lightning Bolt.

Multi-Target Priority List

  1. Cast Storm Elemental on cooldown.
  2. Cast Stormkeeper on cooldown.
  3. Cast Ascendance on cooldown.
  4. Cast Primordial Wave on cooldown. Apply Flame Shock if needed first.
  5. Cast Ancestral Swiftness on cooldown.
  6. Cast Earthquake.
  7. Cast Icefury if you don't already have Fusion of Elements active.
  8. Cast Chain Lightning.
  9. Cast Lava Burst.
  10. Cast Frost Shock only while moving.

Deep Dive

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Lightning Rod

Elemental Blast, Earth Shock, Earthquake, and Tempest applies Lightning Rod which duplicates a lot of you Chain Lightning, Lightning Bolt, and Tempest damage on to the targets affected by Lightning Rod.

Elemental Blast and Earth Shock will always apply Lightning Rod to your target.

Earthquake prioritizes your target, but if your target already has Lightning Rod, it will apply it to a nearby enemy instead.

Most of the time you don't have to care about Lightning Rod as on Single-Target it will just get applied to your target, while on AoE your Earthquake will automatically apply to other targets, however, on AoE you need to think about how you use Tempest. Whenever you cast it you want to try to cast in a target that doesn't have Lightning Rod or is about to fall off. If there's a priority target without Lightning Rod you can also try to apply it to that target.

Understanding Maelstrom

Maelstrom is an essential resource to play around. Due to our mastery, Mastery: Elemental Overload you will generate Maelstrom randomly and you have to be ready so that you don't overcap. This is why it's important to spend as soon as you can.

In some AoE scenarios, you will be playing Swelling Maelstrom which reduces the chance of overcapping.

When you are playing, try to think how much your spells will generate ahead of time and learn to understand how much you will have in one or two globals from now, so you can plan your rotation ahead of time.

Understanding Mechanics

Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.

Liberation of Undermine

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Vexie
Cauldron
Rik
Stix
Sprocketmonger
One-Armed Bandit
Mug'Zee
Gallywix
Farseer Elemental Shaman Vexie talents in Raids

Offensive Cooldown Usage

  • Tune-Up could be slightly delayed as it is based on when your raid breaks all Protective Plating.
  • You want to use Storm Elemental as soon as it comes ready to get extra uses in. If you have good RNG it can come ready around 4:00 and if it's close you hold Ascendance a bit to line them up at around 4:00-4:15

Boss Tips

  • Rotate Astral Shift and Stone Bulwark Totem when you are targetted by Incendiary Fire.
  • In P2 you want to interrupt and disrupt the Pit Mechanics Repair cast as it shortens the duration of P2.
Farseer Elemental Shaman Cauldron talents in Raids

Offensive Cooldown Usage

Boss Tips

  • Earth Elemental is great to use when you are on Flarendo, as there will be multiple Scrapbombs you have to soak.
Farseer Elemental Shaman Rik talents in Raids

Offensive Cooldown Usage

Boss Tips

  • Wind Rush Totem is great to use during P2 to help your group run between the Amplifiers.
  • You can hold Stormkeeper for the upcoming Pyrotechnics.
Farseer Elemental Shaman Stix talents in Raids

Offensive Cooldown Usage

  • This fight is random as you can get Rolling Rubbish at different times each pull. You want to use CDs whenever there are adds so always hold for the next add wave.

Boss Tips

  • You want to rotate Astral Shift and Stone Bulwark Totem on Incinerator.
Farseer Elemental Shaman Sprocketmonger talents in Raids

Offensive Cooldown Usage

Boss Tips

  • Your defensives should be used when you are about to get hit by stuff, as there is a lot of things to dodge. Blazing Beam, Rocket Barrage and Mega Magnetize are all scary you have to be ready with defensives.
Farseer Elemental Shaman One-Armed Bandit talents in Raids

Offensive Cooldown Usage

  • The opener is awkward as you want to hold CDs for roughly 20 seconds. This way you have CDs lined up for each Spin To Win!.
  • Try to use Ancestral Swiftness and Primordial Wave on cooldown the whole time so that it lines up with Spin To Win!.
Farseer Elemental Shaman Mug'Zee talents in Raids
Farseer Elemental Shaman Gallywix talents in Raids

Stat Priority

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Understand your secondary stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Raid boss fights as an Elemental Shaman. For more detailed information, visit the Stats and Attributes guide.

Elemental Shaman Stat Priorities in Raid

Higher Item level items are better in most scenarios. For an accurate representation of what item to equip you should use Simcraft! A static "Stat Priority" is just a starting point and can easily shift depending on your individual gear.

  • All secondary stats are affected by diminishing returns. Click here to learn more!

Tertiary

  • Avoidance - Great stat to reduce the damage intake of "Area of Effect" abilities.
  • Leech - Provides additional healing through damage dealing.
  • Speed - Niche tertiary that can be very useful and has been proven useful in the past. Makes playing certain mechanics a lot easier.

Gear

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Best in Slot
Farmable Alternatives
SlotItemLocation
HeadGale Sovereign's Charged HoodTier / Catalyst
NeckStrapped Rescue-KegCinderbrew Meadery
ShoulderGale Sovereign's ZephyrsTier / Catalyst
CloakConsecrated CloakCrafting
ChestGale Sovereign's Clouded HauberkTier / Catalyst
WristGlyph-Etched VambracesCrafting
GlovesGravi-Gunk HandlersSprocketmonger
BeltShalebiter Interlinked ChainTHE MOTHERLODE!!!
LegsGale Sovereign's PantaloonsTier / Catalyst
BootsTreads of the Galvanic SkysoarerRookery
Ring 1Cyrce's CircletSiren Isle
Ring 2The Jastor DiamondGallywix
Trinket 1Suspicious Energy DrinkDelves
Trinket 2Eye of KezanGallywix
WeaponBest-in-SlotsOne-Armed Bandit

Below you are presented with a good list of farmable alternatives that are obtainable outside of WoW’s weekly lockout system. While replaced in time as you progress, these offer immediate character power.

SlotItemLocation
HeadAmphitheater Stalker's HoodTheater of Pain
NeckStrapped Rescue-KegCinderbrew Meadery
ShoulderSkystreak's Hidden MissilesOperation: Floodgate
CloakCloak of Questionable IntentThe Motherlode
ChestBront's Singed BlastcoatOperation: Floodgate
WristConsecrated Baron's BindingsPriory of the Sacred Flame
GlovesSwift Pneumatic GripsOperation: Mechagon
BeltManiacal Monarch's GirdleOperation: Mechagon
LegsChemical Blaster's LegguardsThe Motherlode
BootsTreads of the Galvanic SkysoarerThe Rookery
Ring 1Footbomb Championship RingThe Motherlode
Ring 2Fleshfused CircleTheater of Pain
Trinket 1Carved Blazikon WaxDarkflame Cleft
Trinket 2Signet of the PrioryPriory of the Sacred Flame
Main-HandDark Zone HeadtakerDarkflame Cleft
Off-HandBarricade of the Endless EmpireTheater of Pain

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to our recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the raid boss.

Active Trinket alternatives

  • House of Cards
    • If you do not have Best-in-Slots, this trinket is your best on-use option.
  • Signet of the Priory
    • Good on-use option, but since it is a 2 min CD it doesn't line up great.

Passive Trinket alternatives

  • Reverb Radio
    • Great passive option, especially if you are low on Haste.
  • Mug's Moxie Jug
    • Good passive option.
  • Candle Confidant
    • Good passive option.

Embellishments

  • Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension
  • Writhing Armor Banding
    • If you don't have access to Best-in-Slots, these will be your best embellishments.
      • Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension has to go on your weapon.
      • Writhing Armor Banding is best to put on your Cloak or Wrists.

or

  • Dawnthread Lining
    • If you do have Best-in-Slots, then you should use any of these 2. Sim whichever is better with your current gear.
    • The optimal slots to craft on are Cloak, Belt, Boots or Wrists depending on your available gear.

Remaining Sparks

  • Crafted items are 675 item level and regular items are 678 on max item level, therefore, it's not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your 2x embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.

Simcraft

To find the best combination of gear available to you or identify the best possible upgrades, visit our Simcraft guide to learn how to utilize Simcraft easily and effectively.

Consumables

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  • Phials
    • Fleeting Flask of Alchemical Chaos
  • Food
    • Feast of the Divine Day
  • Combat Potion
    • Tempered Potion
  • Health Potion
    • Algari Healing Potion -- a big burst of healing
  • Weapon Oil
    • Algari Mana Oil -- default
    • Flametongue Weapon if you are specced into Improved Flametongue Weapon.
  • Augment Rune
    • Crystallized Augment Rune
  • Sockets
    • Quick Onyx
    • Culminating Blasphemite -- Unique, use one of each gem color to enhance your Culminating Blasphemite.
      • Masterful Emerald
      • Masterful Ruby
      • Masterful Sapphire

Enchantments

HeadS.A.D.
NeckMagnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
CloakEnchant Cloak - Chant of Leeching Fangs
ChestEnchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance
WristEnchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Leech
S.A.D.
WaistS.A.D.
LegsSunset Spellthread
BootsEnchant Boots - Scout's March
Ring 1Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery
Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
Ring 2Enchant Ring - Radiant Mastery
Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
WeaponEnchant Weapon - Authority of the Depths
Elemental Shaman Enchantments in Raids

You buy S.A.D. from the Great Vault Vendor to add sockets to your Helm, Wrists & Waist.

Races

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For min-maxing an Elemental Shaman in raiding, different racial traits can provide a tremendous benefit to your character. If this is not your top goal, picking a race that fits your style works just as well.

  • Stoneform -- Dwarf
    • Dispels Magic and Bleed debuffs. Has been useful in the past on some bosses with Bleeds.
  • Rocket Jump -- Goblin
    • Do a small jump in the direction your character is facing.
    • While you're in the Rocket Jump animation you are placed on a global cooldown until your character lands.
  • Berserking -- Troll
    • Strong DPS racial on-use, lines up nicely with Ascendance.
    • Reduce the duration of movement-impairing effects by 20%. This was only useful once in the recent history of progression raiding but is still worth noting.
  • Blood Fury -- Orc
    • Strong DPS Racial on-use.
    • 20% reduced stun duration on you which can be useful in some situations.

Recommendation

In general, it's safe to say that if you care about min-maxing your DPS, you should go with the highest DPS racial. That being said, the story is a bit different if it's about progression raiding. Some help out massively to speed up the progression on certain bosses. Notably, Dwarf with their Stoneform helped out on Tindral Sageswift and Fyrakk the Blazing in the past by having easy access to dispelling yourself at crucial points of the fights mentioned.

Macros

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Discover recommended macros for Elemental Shamans during Raid encounters and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

Earthquake -- Casts Earthquake on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Earthquake

Liquid Magma Totem - Uses Liquid Magma Totem on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Liquid Magma Totem

Wind Rush Totem -- Casts Wind Rush Totem on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Wind Rush Totem

Totemic Projection -- Casts Totemic Projection on your cursor without confirmation.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Totemic Projection

Addons

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Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Elemental Shaman, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Raids to make your life easier.

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Elemental Shaman Interface in Raids

Changes this Patch

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