Elemental Shaman DPS Guide — The War Within (Season 1)

Elemental received another rework for Patch 11.0.5. While it kept its core abilities and interactions, many things are changed. The Elemental tree in particular has received another overhaul, with some new talents and some talents moving in different spots.

• Stormbringer is now the superior hero talent choice in every circumstance.
• Flash of Lightning no longer reduces ability cooldowns. This in and of itself invalidates our previous builds and leads to massive changes to our rotations/talents. No more Lightning Bolt spam in single-target!
• Ascendance has been completely overhauled both visually (looks great!) and mechanically. It is an extremely powerful cooldown that will be played around.
• Skybreaker's Fiery Demise is gone. No more mostly-permanent Storm Elemental ! It now has very little uptime, notably making Primal Elementalist, Elemental Unity and Echo of the Elementals much worse.
• Mastery is now Elemental Shaman's strongest stat.
• We are back to using Icefury, mainly for Fusion of Elements, but mostly ignore empowered Frost Shocks unless we need to move. We also buff Earth Shock with Master of the Elements in single-target situations.
• Correctly using Tempest becomes a key part of our rotation in both single and multi target situations.

The following Specialization talents have been introduced:

• New Talent: Herald of the Storms — Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning casts reduce the cooldown of Stormkeeper by 2 seconds. Choice node against Fury of the Storms.
• New Talent: Erupting Lava — Increases the duration of Flame Shock by 6 seconds and its damage by 50%. Lava Burst consumes up to 3 seconds of Flame Shock, instantly dealing that damage. Lava Burst overloads benefit at 50% effectiveness.
• New Talent: Charged Conduit — Increases the duration of Lightning Rod by 4 seconds and increases its damage bonus by 25%.
• New Talent: Earthshatter — Increases the damage of Earth Shock and Earthquake by 8% and increases the stat bonuses granted by Elemental Blast by 25%.

The following Specialization talents have been removed:

• Skybreaker's Fiery Demise
• Unrelenting Calamity

The following Specialization talents have been reworked:

• Flash of Lightning no longer reduces the cooldown of Nature spells when Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning are cast.
• Storm Frenzy now reduces the cast time of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 30% (was 40%) but now also reduces the global cooldown of its associated spells if the spell has a low enough cast time to be under the normal global cooldown.
• Ascendance now transforms you into a Flame Ascendant for 15 seconds, instantly casting a Flame Shock and a 100% effectiveness Lava Burst at up to 6 nearby enemies. While ascended, Elemental Overload damage is increased by 150% and spells affected by your Mastery: Elemental Overload cause 1 additional Elemental Overload.

The following Hero Talents have been introduced:

• New Talent: Lightning Conduit — You have a chance to get struck by lightning, increasing your movement speed for 5 seconds. The effectiveness is increased to 100% in outdoor areas. You call down a Thunderstorm when you use Reincarnation.
• New Talent: Electroshock — Tempest increases your movement speed by 20% for 5 seconds.

The following Hero Talents have been removed:

• Shocking Grasp

The following Hero Talents have been reworked:

• Stormbringer: Storm Swell has been redesigned — Tempest grants 10% Mastery for 6 seconds. Now a choice node against Supercharge.
• Stormbringer: Nature's Protection has been redesigned — Lightning Shield reduces the damage you take by 3%
• Stormbringer: Surging Currents has been redesigned — When you cast Tempest, you gain Surging Currents, increasing the effectiveness of your next Chain Heal or Healing Surge by 20%, up to 100%.
• Farseer: Routine Communication now also triggers from Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Icefury and Frost Shock.
• Farseer: Routine Communication now has a 5% chance to call an Ancestor (was 8%)

• All damage reduced by 8%.
• Lava Burst damage increased by 32%.
• Earthquake damage increased by 17%.
• Elemental Blast damage increased by 12%.
• Erupting Lava damage increased by 17%.
• Frost Shock damage increased by 30%
• Icefury now increases Frost Shock damage by 150% (was 225%)
• Icefury now causes your next Frost Shock to be empowered (was next 2) and now also causes Frost Shock to hit 4 additional targets.
• Icefury can now trigger from casting Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning in addition to Lava Burst.
• Wind Gust from Storm Elemental now grants 4% Haste instead of 3% cast time reduction and stacks up to 4 times.
• Surge of Power now causes Lightning Bolt to trigger 1 additional Elemental Overload (was 2).
• Deeply Rooted Elements now triggers from Earth Shock, Earthquake, or Elemental Blast instead of Lava Burst.
• Frost Shock, Flame Shock and Primordial Wave now generate 3 Maelstrom.
• Liquid Magma Totem now generates 8 Maelstrom.
• Icefury now causes Frost Shock to generate an additional 7 Maelstrom.
• Fire Elemental and Storm Elemental now last 20 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Lesser Elementals from Echo of the Elementals now last 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
• Fury of the Storms now summons a powerful Lightning Elemental for 10 seconds (was 8 seconds).
• Primordial Wave now also grants Lava Surge.
• Poison Cleansing Totem now has a 2 minute cooldown (was 45 seconds).

Miscellaneous additional changes:

• Mastery: Elemental Overload now also increases pet damage.
• Elemental Blast from Ancestors now prioritize your most recently attacked target when possible.
• Ancestors now prefer to Chain Lightning your target when you cast Chain Lightning or the targetable version of Earthquake
• Stacks of Wind Gust now show on the Personal Resource Display and no longer reset when a Lesser Storm Elemental from Echo of the Elementals spawns.
• The cooldowns of Meteor, Immolate, Call Lightning and Stormfury are now reset when Fire Elemental or Storm Elemental are refreshed due to casting the ability while an elemental is already active.
• All Shaman Ascendance models have been updated.
• Ascendance now also allows you to float on water.
• Primordial Wave's icon has been updated.
• The previous Lightning Conduit talent has been renamed to Lightning Capacitor.
• Updated visuals for Lava Burst.