Elemental Shaman
DPS Caster spec built on shocks and lightning. Gains Lava Burst in Forever.
Best in slot
Head Totemic Leather Hood Leatherworking · Crafted 9
- 2 Wisdom's Leather Hood Leatherworking · Crafted
- 3 Pristine Circlet Tailoring · Crafted
- 4 Trapper's Leather Hood Leatherworking · Crafted
- 5 Lakeshire Firefighter's Headband Source not listed
- 6 Shadow Goggles Engineering · Crafted
- 7 Stormrider's Leather Hood Leatherworking · Crafted
- 8 Green Tinted Goggles Engineering · Crafted
- 9 Solomon's Comfortable Hat Source not listed
- 10 Flying Tiger Goggles Engineering · Crafted
Neck Mark of the Pack Leader Source not listed 9
- 2 Sorcerer Collar Rethilgore · Shadowfang Keep
- 3 Scholarly Pendant Source not listed
- 4 Tarnished Locket Source not listed
- 5 Replica Crescent Necklace Source not listed
- 6 Snake Eye Kaleidoscope Lady Anacondra · Wailing Caverns
- 7 Roadwatcher's Confidence Source not listed
- 8 Ephemeral Choker Faldrim Anvilmar · Hall of Thanes
- 9 Erudite's Amulet Source not listed
- 10 Scout's Medallion Kelm Hargunth · Vendor
Shoulder Magician's Mantle World drop 9
- 2 Raptorclaw Shoulders Source not listed
- 3 Chestnut Mantle Allegiance to the Old Gods · Quest (Horde)
- 4 Rose Mantle Morganth · Quest (Alliance)
- 5 Reinforced Woolen Shoulders Tailoring · Crafted
- 6 Ghostly Mantle Deathstalkers in Shadowfang · Quest (Horde)
- 7 Double-Stitched Woolen Shoulders Tailoring · Crafted
- 8 Talbar Mantle In Nightmares · Quest (Horde)
- 9 Silk Mantle of Gamn Uncovering the Past · Quest (Alliance)
- 10 Desert Shoulders Grimtotem Spying · Quest (Horde)
Back Windsong Drape Free at Last · Quest (Horde) 9
- 2 Prelacy Cape Researching the Corruption · Quest
- 3 Heavy Woolen Cloak Tailoring · Crafted
- 4 Battle Healer's Cloak Kelm Hargunth · Vendor
- 5 Caretaker's Cape Illiyana Moonblaze · Vendor
- 6 Pearl-clasped Cloak Tailoring · Crafted
- 7 Feyscale Cloak Deviate Faerie Dragon · Wailing Caverns
- 8 Black Whelp Cloak Leatherworking · Crafted
- 9 Soft Willow Cape Je'neu of the Earthen Ring · Quest (Horde)
- 10 Mystic Shawl Pyrewood Ambush · Quest (Horde)
Chest Dro'zem's Tunic Source not listed 9
- 2 Stormrider's Leather Armor Leatherworking · Crafted
- 3 Leftover Abomination Skin The Baron · Ruins of Lordaeron
- 4 High Robe of the Adjudicator Assault on Fenris Isle · Quest (Horde)
- 5 Filigreed Pristine Gown Tailoring · Crafted
- 6 Wisdom's Leather Armor Leatherworking · Crafted
- 7 Barkshell Tunic Betrayal from Within · Quest (Horde)
- 8 Totemic Leather Armor Leatherworking · Crafted
- 9 Gray Woolen Robe Tailoring · Crafted
- 10 Moonglow Vest Leatherworking · Crafted
Wrist Mindthrust Bracers Trash drop · Shadowfang Keep 9
- 2 Aetherwisp Bracers Faldrim Anvilmar · Hall of Thanes
- 3 Tabitha's Cuffs Source not listed
- 4 Featherbead Bracers Returning the Lost Satchel · Quest (Horde)
- 5 Owl Bracers Source not listed
- 6 Witherbite Bracers Witherfang · Ruins of Lordaeron
- 7 Owlbeard Bracers Earthen Arise · Quest (Horde)
- 8 Harpy Bangles Source not listed
- 9 Bright Bracers World drop
- 10 Ratchet Wristwraps Ratchet - Friendly · Reputation
Hands Jutebraid Gloves Horde Presence · Quest (Horde) 9
- 2 Stormrider's Leather Gloves Leatherworking · Crafted
- 3 Serpent Gloves Lord Serpentis · Wailing Caverns
- 4 Fletcher's Gloves Leatherworking · Crafted
- 5 Gnoll Casting Gloves Mosshide Mistweaver · Wetlands
- 6 Tattered Mittens Source not listed
- 7 Pristine Gloves Tailoring · Crafted
- 8 Windfelt Gloves The Absent Minded Prospector · Quest
- 9 Totemic Leather Gloves Leatherworking · Crafted
- 10 Wisdom's Leather Gloves Leatherworking · Crafted
Waist Warsong Sash Warsong Supplies · Quest (Horde) 9
- 2 Heartwood Girdle Twilight Falls · Quest (Alliance)
- 3 Pristine Sash Tailoring · Crafted
- 4 Stormrider's Leather Belt Leatherworking · Crafted
- 5 Novice Arcanist's Sash Tailoring · Crafted
- 6 Wisdom's Leather Belt Leatherworking · Crafted
- 7 Novice Ardent's Sash Tailoring · Crafted
- 8 Hillman's Belt Leatherworking · Crafted
- 9 Totemic Leather Belt Leatherworking · Crafted
- 10 Keller's Girdle World drop
Legs Dark Ritual Leggings Source not listed 9
- 2 Stormrider's Leather Pants Leatherworking · Crafted
- 3 Wisdom's Leather Pants Leatherworking · Crafted
- 4 Filigreed Pristine Leggings Tailoring · Crafted
- 5 Dreamer's Leggings Source not listed
- 6 Totemic Leather Pants Leatherworking · Crafted
- 7 Colorful Kilt Tailoring · Crafted
- 8 Ogre Loincloth Rhahk'Zor · The Deadmines
- 9 Wispcloth Leggings The Abandoned · Ruins of Lordaeron
- 10 Smouldering Leggings Source not listed
Feet Spidersilk Boots Tailoring · Crafted 9
- 2 Stormrider's Leather Boots Leatherworking · Crafted
- 3 Wisdom's Leather Boots Leatherworking · Crafted
- 4 Totemic Leather Boots Leatherworking · Crafted
- 5 Nimbus Boots Twilight Falls · Quest (Alliance)
- 6 Red Woolen Boots Tailoring · Crafted
- 7 Feather Padded Treads Source not listed
- 8 Moonglow Boots Leatherworking · Crafted
- 9 Black Whelp Slippers Leatherworking · Crafted
- 10 Disjointed Shoes Source not listed
Finger 1 Advisor's Ring Kelm Hargunth · Vendor 9
- 2 Lorekeeper's Ring Illiyana Moonblaze · Vendor
- 3 Minor Channeling Ring WANTED: Chok'sul · Quest (Alliance)
- 4 Sludge-Stained Band Source not listed
- 5 Lavishly Jeweled Ring Gilnid · The Deadmines
- 6 Sacred Band The Den · Quest (Horde)
- 7 Black Pearl Ring Lady Vespira · Darkshore
- 8 Loop of Sacrifice Source not listed
- 9 Totemic Clan Ring Revenge of Gann · Quest (Horde)
- 10 Skull Ring Souvenirs of Death · Quest (Horde)
Finger 2 Lorekeeper's Ring Illiyana Moonblaze · Vendor 9
- 1 Advisor's Ring Kelm Hargunth · Vendor
- 3 Minor Channeling Ring WANTED: Chok'sul · Quest (Alliance)
- 4 Sludge-Stained Band Source not listed
- 5 Lavishly Jeweled Ring Gilnid · The Deadmines
- 6 Sacred Band The Den · Quest (Horde)
- 7 Black Pearl Ring Lady Vespira · Darkshore
- 8 Loop of Sacrifice Source not listed
- 9 Totemic Clan Ring Revenge of Gann · Quest (Horde)
- 10 Skull Ring Souvenirs of Death · Quest (Horde)
Trinket 1 Minor Recombobulator Engineering · Crafted 8
- 2 Gnomish Universal Remote Engineering · Crafted
- 3 Rune of Duty Source not listed
- 4 Rune of Perfection Source not listed
- 5 Lookie's Spyglass Cookie · The Deadmines
- 6 Crystal of Zin-Malor Source not listed
- 7 Greater Insignia of the Alliance Source not listed
- 8 Greater Insignia of the Horde Source not listed
- 9 Insignia of the Horde Rank 6 · PvP Rank
Trinket 2 Gnomish Universal Remote Engineering · Crafted 8
- 1 Minor Recombobulator Engineering · Crafted
- 3 Rune of Duty Source not listed
- 4 Rune of Perfection Source not listed
- 5 Lookie's Spyglass Cookie · The Deadmines
- 6 Crystal of Zin-Malor Source not listed
- 7 Greater Insignia of the Alliance Source not listed
- 8 Greater Insignia of the Horde Source not listed
- 9 Insignia of the Horde Rank 6 · PvP Rank
Main Hand Gnarled Necromancer's Staff Ruins of Lordaeron Quest · Quest Reward 9
- 2 Staff of the Blessed Seer Trash drop · Blackfathom Deeps
- 3 Evocator's Blade Trash drop · Blackfathom Deeps
- 4 Coldspire Staff Rath'mael · Ruins of Lordaeron
- 5 Crescent Staff Leaders of the Fang · Quest (Horde)
- 6 Pathfinder's Clearway Source not listed
- 7 Emberstone Staff Captain Greenskin · The Deadmines
- 8 Scepter of the Abandoned The Abandoned · Ruins of Lordaeron
- 9 Golemheart Stave Plunder · Hall of Thanes
- 10 Staff of Orgrimmar Hidden Enemies · Quest
Off Hand Dwarven Tome Halls of Thane Quest · Quest Reward 9
- 2 Seedcloud Buckler Verdan the Everliving · Wailing Caverns
- 3 Defective Samophlange Ratchet - Honored · Reputation
- 4 Skum's Bucket Skum · Wailing Caverns
- 5 Mathystra Channeling Orb Source not listed
- 6 Expended Apothecary Vial Source not listed
- 7 Bouquet of Auberdine Flowers Source not listed
- 8 Forest Buckler World drop
- 9 Owl's Disk Source not listed
- 10 Bristlebark Buckler World drop
Ranged Polished Driftwood Icon Enchanting · Crafted 1
- 2 Firestorm Totem Source not listed
Where the list sends you
- 5 Crafted of 48 on the list
- 3 Quest (Horde) of 20 on the list
- 2 Vendor of 7 on the list
- 2 Quest Reward of 2 on the list
- 1 World drop of 5 on the list
- 1 Shadowfang Keep of 2 on the list · 4 quests
Alternatives only: Quest (Alliance), The Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, Ruins of Lordaeron, Hall of Thanes, Quest, Reputation, Darkshore, PvP Rank, Blackfathom Deeps, Wetlands.
Talents
51 points, all of them spent by level 60.
Elemental
31Enhancement
10Restoration
1021 points, which is everything the beta's level 30 cap allows.
Elemental
21Enhancement
0Restoration
0Rotation
In priority order: the first line that applies is the one you press.
- Maintain Searing Totem , Mana Spring Totem , and your assigned Earth and Air Totems via Call of the Elements . Summons a Searing Totem with 5 health at your feet for 30 sec that repeatedly attacks an enemy within 20 yards for 9 to 11 Fire damage.
- Maintain Flame Shock . Instantly sears the target with fire, causing 24 Fire damage immediately and 28 Fire damage over 12 sec.
- Cast Lava Burst if the target is afflicted by Flame Shock . You hurl molten lava at the target, dealing 164 to 212 Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst deals 20% increased damage.
- Cast Chain Lightning . Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing 85 to 97 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Each jump reduces the damage by 30%. Affects 3 total targets.
- Cast Lightning Bolt . Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for 15 to 17 Nature damage.
- Cast Flame Shock while moving. Instantly sears the target with fire, causing 24 Fire damage immediately and 28 Fire damage over 12 sec.
- Maintain Searing Totem , Mana Spring Totem , and your assigned Earth and Air Totems via Call of the Elements . Summons a Searing Totem with 5 health at your feet for 30 sec that repeatedly attacks an enemy within 20 yards for 9 to 11 Fire damage.
- Maintain Flame Shock . Instantly sears the target with fire, causing 24 Fire damage immediately and 28 Fire damage over 12 sec.
- Cast Chain Lightning . Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing 85 to 97 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Each jump reduces the damage by 30%. Affects 3 total targets.
- Cast Lightning Bolt . Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for 15 to 17 Nature damage.
- Cast Flame Shock or Earth Shock while moving. Instantly sears the target with fire, causing 24 Fire damage immediately and 28 Fire damage over 12 sec.
Races
Ranked by how many of a race's racials touch what this spec does, read out of the game's own wording and out of the weapon its gear list aims for. Those are lit; the number on the right is the count. It is a measure, not a verdict: nothing in the beta has been parsed yet, so anything stronger would be a guess.
Alliance
- 1 Dwarf Big Game Hunter Mace Specialization Stoneform Find Treasure 1
Horde
- 1 Skyborne Elemental Insight Skysight Walk on Air Wind Blessed 2
- 2 Orc Shatter Curse Axe Specialization Blood Fury Hardiness 1
- 3 Tauren Plainsrunning Cultivation Endurance War Stomp 1
- 4 Troll Rapid Regeneration Berserking Regeneration Beast Slaying 1
What Forever changed
8 new, 29 rewritten, 2 no longer taught, across the whole class. Every ability, rank by rank.
In the Elemental tree
- Lava BurstElemental gains a Fire nuke that interacts with Flame Shock, giving the tree a hard-hitting button it never had.
Elsewhere in Shaman
- Shamans are no longer Horde-onlyDwarves can play Shaman for the first time, and Horde-aligned Skyborne join the existing roster. This is the largest identity change the class has had since Vanilla.
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Maelstrom WeaponMelee hits reduce the cast time of your next spell, finally connecting Enhancement's melee and casting halves instead of leaving them separate. - RiptideRestoration gets an instant heal with a heal-over-time attached, widening a toolkit that was almost entirely direct heals in Classic.
- Two-handed weapons are baselineTwo-handed axes and maces no longer cost a talent. Dual wield was not available in the level 38 BlizzCon build.
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Enhancement can tankSpirit Weapons raises threat while Rockbiter is active and lowers it without, and other talents add parry and threat generation. There is no separate tank spec, but the support is deliberate. -
Improved StormstrikeA chance to reset Stormstrike's cooldown on dodge or parry, which pushes further toward defensive melee builds. - Ghost Wolf indoorsImproved Ghost Wolf makes the form usable indoors, and instant at two points invested.
- Totemic ProjectionA new ability that relocates all of your totems at once.
New abilities
- Totemic ProjectionRelocates your active totems to the specified location.
- RiptideHeals a friendly target for 613 to 678, an additional 575 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.
- Fire NovaInstantly inflicts 53 to 62 fire damage to enemies within 10 yd of your active Fire totem.
- Call of the ElementsSimultaneously places up to 4 totems specified in the Totem Bar.
- Totemic RecallReturns your totems to the earth, giving you 25% of the mana required to cast each totem destroyed by Totemic Recall.
- Call of the AncestorsSimultaneously places up to 4 totems specified in the Totem Bar. Can call different totems than Call of the Elements.
- Call of the SpiritsSimultaneously places up to 4 totems specified in the Totem Bar. Can call different totems than Call of the Elements or Call of the Ancestors.
- Lava BurstYou hurl molten lava at the target, dealing 164 to 212 Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst deals 20% increased damage.