Elemental Shaman Mists of Pandaria: Remix Guide — The War Within Pre-Patch

Welcome to our MoP Remix Guide for Elemental Shaman! This page contains everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Elemental Shaman in the Patch 10.2.7 special feature, Mists of Pandaria: Remix.

This page is focused only on Elemental Shaman in MoP Remix. If you want to know more about MoP Remix in general, such as its rewards, check out our dedicated page below.

Below, you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Elemental Shaman in MoP Remix. There are various ways of leveling in MoP Remix, and the build we offer is versatile.

Note that this Leveling section is specific to MoP Remix. For our Dragonflight Leveling Guide for Elemental Shaman, please check our dedicated Leveling page.

Gems are one of the unique ways to augment your character in MoP Remix, offering offensive, defensive, and utility benefits. On this page, we list the best gems for each type. To learn more about Gems in MoP Remix in general, check out our dedicated page below.

• Meta Gem: Lifestorm
• Cogwheel Gem: Blink
• Prismatic Gems:

  You will have a tremendous amount of stats as you start unlocking all Gem slots. If you want to go for a Fire-focused build with Elemental Blast you will likely want to soft-cap your Mastery (7200). Keep in mind most Tinker Gem effects do not scale with Mastery. Otherwise, a healthy mix of Haste, Critical Strike and Versatility is recommended, with a priority on Haste.

• Tinker Gems:
  • Sunstrider's Flourish
  • Windweaver
  • Enkindle
  • Lightning Rod
  • Wildfire
  • Explosive Barrage
  • Fervor
  • Frost Armor
  • Slay
  • Storm Overload
  • Vindication
  • Brittle — Mainly for dungeons.
  • Meteor Storm — if you value the Stun
  • Incendiary Terror — if you value the Horrify
  • Cold Front — if you value the Slow
  • Ankh of Reincarnation
  • Especially during leveling, adjust on the fly depending on personal preference, mainly how defensive you want to go. You can also use "combos" such as Meteor Storm and Opportunist. Keep in mind different Tinker gems scale differently. Notably, the ones granting Shields appear to scale very weakly.

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Your first talent unlocks at Level 10.

This is an example setup; it is difficult to go wrong while leveling. For example, you may want to make a beeline for damage talents and ignore some defensive/healing or crowd-control abilities. We would encourage experimenting with the feel of different talents. Note that the value of some talents/talent combos can change significantly depending on your secondary stats. This assumes no particular stat is heavily favored.

• Level 11 and 12: Get Astral Shift then Astral Bulwark on your class tree and Earth Shock or Elemental Blast on your elemental tree. If you would prefer a higher Astral Shift uptime at the cost of a significantly lower damage reduction, you can spec into either Planes Traveler instead.
• Level 13 to 18: Get Brimming with Life then Earth Elemental and Earth Shield on your class tree and Fire Elemental, then Earthquake and Echo of the Elements on your elemental tree.
• Level 19 to 24: Get Elemental Orbit, Capacitor Totem and Guardian's Cudgel from the class tree, then Master of the Elements, Elemental Fury and Aftershock on the elemental tree.
• Level 25 to 34: Get Wind Shear, Frost Shock and Nature's Fury from the class tree and Unrelenting Calamity, then Flash of Lightning, Icefury, Fusion of Elements then Swelling Maelstrom.
• Level 35 to 44 Get Spiritwalker's Grace, Gust of Wind, Fire and Ice, Healing Stream Totem and Elemental Resistance from the class tree and Flow of Power, Improved Flametongue Weapon then Primordial Fury, Lightning Conduit and Elemental Unity from the elemental tree.
• Level 45 to 50: Get Elemental Warding, Ancestral Guidance and Thunderstorm from the class tree as well as Flames of the Cauldron, Eye of the Storm and Power of the Maelstrom from the elemental tree.
• Level 51 to 56: Get Graceful Spirit, Nature's Swiftness and Lightning Lasso from the class tree, and Primordial Wave, Splintered Elements and Liquid Magma Totem from the elemental tree.
• Level 57 to 62: Grab Traveling Storms (or Thundershock), then get Stone Bulwark Totem and Enhanced Imbues. On the spec tree, grab Ascendance, Preeminence and Echo Chamber.
• Level 63 to 70: Get Primordial Bond, then Totemic Surge, Totemic Recall and Call of the Elements from the class tree. On the spec tree, grab Stormkeeper, Deeply Rooted Elements, Skybreaker's Fiery Demise and Mountains Will Fall.

Remember to keep the following buffs up at all times:

• Lightning Shield, mostly important after talenting Lightning Conduit.
• Earth Shield
• Skyfury
• Flametongue Weapon (because of the Improved Flametongue Weapon talent

1. Start by casting Fire Elemental when a fight is going to last a while.
2. Cast Flame Shock when engaging enemies , with Primordial Wave when it is available. If engaging multiple enemies, cast Primordial Wave on one and Flame Shock on another.
3. Cast Liquid Magma Totem when multiple enemies will be hit by it.
4. Cast Primordial Wave on cooldown. Aim to hit a target not affected by Flame Shock.
5. Cast Ascendance whenever you need the burst.
6. Cast Lava Burst whenever it is available.
7. Cast Stormkeeper whenever it is available.
8. Cast Earth Shock/ Elemental Blast or Earthquake if multiple enemies will be hit by it.
9. Cast Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning if multiple enemies will be hit by it.
10. Cast Flame Shock when you need to move, and the enemy will live for a while yet. Otherwise, cast Frost Shock.