Elemental Shaman DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0.1)

This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks to use for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Elemental Shaman, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

We highly recommend using Raidbots to sim your character's ideal gems and enchants, as they might differ from our general recommendations.

The best stat for Elemental Shamans is Mastery, followed by Haste. You should most likely be gemming for Mastery.

You should use Elusive Blasphemite in one socket. To gain adequate benefits from its unique effect, you should use at least one hybrid gem of each color except orange (Stamina). Fill in remaining sockets with whichever secondary you are lacking, likely Haste and/or Mastery. For people who do not value the movement speed at all, you can use Culminating Blasphemite but note that the unique effect is fairly minor for Elemental Shamans.

There are several consumable items that can be purchased that will help you with your leveling speed.

• Ideally you want to have useful flasks buffing you at all times, you can buy various level-appropriate ones for cheap. Charged Phial of Alacrity (from level 61) needs refreshing often but gives Speed, which is is typically more useful than combat stats for leveling. If you prefer combat stats, you can use flasks such as Flask of Tempered Versatility from level 71, or Flask of Alchemical Chaos since it gives you slightly more secondaries overall.
• Food buffs are not as good if only because you need to waste time to eat, but it can still be useful, particularly when you have to wait for an NPC or for a mob to spawn. Ideally you want to eat Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle (requires level 75), otherwise you can try Fried Bonefish or Bear Tartare, those will give you speed after killing an enemy.
• Healing potions will help minimize downtime by allowing you to play more aggressively without having to heal yourself as much. Use level-appropriate ones, such as Invigorating Healing Potion from level 71.
• The Loot-A-Rang toy can be used to retrieve loot from a nearby corpse.
• Goblin Glider Kit is very useful for covering long distances from high places.
• Gunshoes are an Engineering item that increase your movement speed by 200% for 25 seconds. These will make you almost as fast as a Flying mount. We recommend having a lot of these, and using them whenever you are traveling more than ~250 yards.

The Gunshoes will not let you stop moving as long as they are active. Using this macro twice will click the buff off and allow you to stop.

• #showtooltip
• /use Gunshoes
• /cancelaura Gunshoes

If you are not using using the Flametongue Weapon weapon imbue talent, you should apply Algari Mana Oil on your weapon every couple of hours. They do not stack.

You should be drinking Flask of Alchemical Chaos.

Your stat potion should be Tempered Potion. Use these when you will do the most damage with your abilities, likely during your cooldowns and/or Bloodlust/ Heroism. You can also obtain Fleeting Tempered Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

You should keep a stock of Invigorating Healing Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately! You can also obtain Fleeting Invigorating Healing Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

You should be eating from a primary stat Feast at all times, either Feast of the Divine Day, Feast of the Midnight Masquerade, or Hearty Feast of the Midnight Masquerade.

If Feasts are not available, eat Outsider's Provisions, Beledar's Bounty, Jester's Board, or Empress' Farewell instead.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Crystallized Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

You can also buy the permanent Ethereal Augment Rune once at Renown 18 with the new Season 3 K'aresh Trust faction or use the Soulgorged Augment Runes that drop from the new raid and persist through death.