Elemental Shaman PvP Rotation and Playstyle — Midnight Season 1

This is done through spreading damage and disrupting the enemy team.

1. Maintain Voltaic Blaze as a core priority, which applies Flame Shock to multiple targets instantly and ensures your Lava Burst always critically strikes. This helps generate Maelstrom if talented into Searing Flames.
2. Use Lava Burst on cooldown as soon as possible if you have a Lava Surge proc on a target with Flame Shock active to guarantee a critical strike.
3. Cast Earth Shock if Maelstrom is close to max, and you do not have Lava Surge proc available.
4. Cast Purge or Greater Purge as a filler.
5. Cast Wind Shear on the healer or enemy casters.
6. Cast Hex on enemy melee to reduce incoming damage, or on enemy healers.

When you have the enemy healer in crowd control, and you are trying to kill an enemy, you use your burst damage.

1. Ensure Voltaic Blaze is used on your kill target and as many other enemy team members as possible to apply Flame Shock.
2. Ensure you have almost maxmimum Maelstrom to be able to use Earth Shock.
3. Cast Stormkeeper, which will activate Totem of Wrath, if talented.
4. Use Ancestral Swiftness.
5. Use Ascendance.
6. Cast Lava Burst, which will critically strike all targets with Flame Shock from Voltaic Blaze.
7. Use Lightning Bolt.
8. Use Lightning Bolt.
9. Use Lava Burst with Lava Surge procs.
10. Use Earth Shock if you have enough Maelstrom.
11. Fill with Lava Burst.

1. Ensure Voltaic Blaze is used on your kill target and as many other enemy team members as possible to apply Flame Shock. This increases your burst by 10% due to Inferno Arc.
2. Ensure you have Tempest available, if you do not cast Earth Shock until you do.
3. Ensure you have almost maxmimum Maelstrom to be able to use Earth Shock.
4. Cast Stormkeeper, which will activate Totem of Wrath, if talented. This will also increase your damage with Fury of the Storms and Elemental Unity for +6% damage to Nature spells.
5. Use Lava Burst for Master of the Elements +15% damage to next Nature spell, also benefitting from Purging Flames.
6. Use Nature's Swiftness.
7. Use Ascendance.
8. Use Tempest.
9. Use Lightning Bolt, benefitting from Stormkeeper buff.
10. Use Lightning Bolt, benefitting from Stormkeeper buff.
11. Use Lightning Bolt instant cast from Tempest.
12. Use Earth Shock to try to proc another Tempest.
13. Use Tempest, if you get another proc.
14. Use Lightning Bolt instant cast from Tempest.
15. Use Lava Burst with Lava Surge procs.
16. Use Earth Shock if you have enough Maelstrom.
17. Fill with Lava Burst, or Lightning Bolt.

Astral Shift is the main defensive for Elemental Shaman, which is on a 1.5-minute cooldown. This ability decreases damage taken by 40% for 8 seconds and is not usable while stunned. It is best to communicate with your healer and use this cooldown at high health when your opponents are using their offensive cooldowns and your healer needs help keeping you alive.

Burrow an immunity, similar to Dispersion from a Shadow Priest. While under the ground, you can be healed and can move at full movement speed. This is particularly useful if your healer gets crowd-controlled and the Shaman does not have Astral Shift available.

Ghost Wolf is an underrated ability; it allows the Shaman to stay at 100% movement speed with any slowing debuff active. This is the way Elemental Shaman can kite melee opponents and stay very mobile. If you are moving beyond a very short distance, Ghost Wolf is worth the global cooldown it incurs. Ghost wolf can be purged, which is one of the reasons why the Spirit Wolf talent is not as good as it could be.

Thunderstorm knocks back all enemies around the Elemental Shaman as long as they are not rooted or have an immunity to knock-backs or magic effects active like Anti-Magic Shell from Death Knights. This is incredibly useful and can be used to save your teammates on arena maps with ledges, Dalaran Sewers, and Blades Edge Arena. This is also a great ability for battlegrounds in Eye of the Storm or certain areas of Twin Peaks and Arathi Basin, which can kill the enemies from fall damage in these cases.

Gust of Wind jumps the Shaman forward, which can be used to jump onto platforms or simply quickly changing position, similar to Mage Blink.

Nature's Guardian gives you a tool to survive stuns, something that Restoration Shamans are normally weak at. If a team is able to make this go off, play extra defensively until you are able to use Nature's Guardian again.

Grounding Totem summon an Air Totem with 5 Health at the feet of the caster that will redirect all harmful spells cast on a nearby party or raid member to itself. It will not redirect area of effect spells and lasts 3 seconds. This talent is important to help you avoid incoming crowd control. You can also use this to stop some incoming spell damage.

Tremor Totem breaks friendly team members out of Fear or Mind Control effects.

Healing Stream Totem should be used on cooldown to provide moderate amounts of passive healing. This is also increased through the 20% benefit if Earth Shield is on the target and will provide significant side healing.

Healing Surge is a spammable heal that provides significant side-healing. This should be used if your healer is stunned or crowd-controlled.

Earth Shield maintain this on yourself and one teammate due to talent Elemental Orbit to provide side-healing to your team.

Hex is a curse 7-second crowd-control which can be broken by damage. In general, you do not want to damage a target that has been hexed. That player does still have control of their character to move out of line of sight. This is best used on the enemy team when they have used an offensive or defensive cooldown or the healer as part of a crowd-control chain.

Earthbind Totem/ Earthgrab Totem is a placed totem that roots or slows any enemies within the radius. This totem is incredibly useful and should be used on cooldown. This helps your team's positioning. This totem can also help you land Capacitor Totem.

Purge or Greater Purge can be used defensively to purge off your opponent's offensive cooldowns or Mana back cooldowns, which are purgeable. One very important use is during a Priest's Mind Control of your teammate. When a Priest does this, it is better to use purge on your Mind Controlled teammate and not use your Wind Shear interrupt. This is because purge has no cooldown, while Wind Shear is on a 12-second cooldown.

Capacitor Totem is placeable Totem, which can be relocated using Totemic Projection, and can AOE stun for 3 seconds. It does require 2-seconds to detonate so be thoughtful when placing the totem it won't be instantly killed.

Static Field Totem allows you to restrict player movement, and move the enemy players trapped within the totem using Totemic Projection.