Elemental Shaman DPS Starter Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

Windspeaker's Lava ResurgenceEchoes of Great SunderingSkybreaker's Fiery DemiseUnityWindspeaker's Lava ResurgenceEchoes of Great SunderingBest Elemental Shaman TalentsAftershockEchoing ShockElemental BlastIcefuryPrimal ElementalistElemental Shaman Stat PriorityIntellect > Versatility > Haste > Crit ~= Mastery

Intellect: Increases all damage done by native class spells, and abilities. Previously one of the weakest stats, but now much more impactful, making raw item level much more important again.

Versatility: Increases damage done and reduces damage taken by half the amount. This affects all damage done including trinkets, potions, and enchantments.

Haste: Compresses the rotation by reducing the base Global Cooldown (GCD) for all abilities and the cast time of our spells.

Critical Strike: Increases damage done by spells and trinkets. While some talents, legendaries, and covenant abilities interact with critical strike, and we get increased critical damage from Elemental Fury, the value of this stat is quite low due to Lava Burst's 100% crit rate.

Mastery: A chance for a few of our spells to duplicate their casts at reduced effectiveness. Looks cool, but is generally weak because it doesn't work with our entire toolkit and receives a heavy penalty (66% reduced effectiveness) on AoE.

Elemental Shaman Enchants and Consumables

Cloak: Increase stamina and tertiary bonuses, which are largely interchangeable. When in doubt, choose speed or avoidance.
Enchant Cloak - Fortified Avoidance, Enchant Cloak - Fortified Leech, Enchant Cloak - Fortified Speed, Enchant Cloak - Soul Vitality

ChestEnchant Chest - Eternal InsightWristsEnchant Bracers - Eternal IntellectGlovesEnchant Gloves - Shadowlands GatheringBootsEnchant Boots - Soul TreadsRingsEnchant Ring - Tenet of VersatilityEnchant Ring - Bargain of VersatilityMainhand WeaponEnchant Weapon - Celestial GuidanceBest Elemental Shaman Rotation

Fire Elemental on cooldown

Flame Shock and keep it active on your enemy at all times.

Earth Shock to dump Maelstrom

Elemental Blast on cooldown

Lava Burst Make sure you never have both charges of the spell available at the same time

Lightning Bolt

Storm Elemental or Fire Elemental on cooldown, depending on your talents

Chain Lightning to generate Maelstrom

Earthquake to dump Maelstrom

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