Season of Discovery Elemental Shaman DPS Talents and Runes

This build generally offers the most balanced DPS to Mana capabilities. Regardless, if you are comfortable with using Shamanistic Rage, you could possibly be able to drop Convection in order to pick up some extra utility from Improved Ghost Wolf and survivability from Elemental Warding.

Elemental Shaman's bottom talents are incredibly powerful: Elemental Fury, Lightning Mastery, and Elemental Mastery are all great talents that drastically increase your burst damage capabilities.

You should also pick up Improved Lightning Shield to increase the damage potential of Rolling Thunder and Ancestral Knowledge provides a small, but relevant contribution to the Mana returned by Shamanistic Rage

• Gloves — Lava Burst
• Pants — Shamanistic Rage
• Chest — Overload
• Waist — Power Surge (ST) or Fire Nova (AoE)
• Feet — Spirit of the Alpha (if not available from other Shaman) or Decoy Totem
• Head — Burn
• Wrist — Rolling Thunder

Overload provides a large passive damage increase to Elemental Shamans, while Lava Burst is an extra spell capable of high (burst) damage, as long as you remember to apply Flame Shock first.

On the pants, Shamanistic Rage wins out against its competitors due its very strong Mana regeneration capabilities, and a significant amount of this Mana also goes towards your raid members!

The Waist slot has some interesting options. Power Surge provides a ton of Mana while also occasionally granting instant offensive spell casts, while Fire Nova enables excellent AoE damage if the encounter calls for it.

The Feet slot is quite straightforward: Spirit of the Alpha should always be taken if you do not have an alternative way to obtain this buff in your group, but if you will already be getting it from other Shaman in the group, just get Decoy Totem for the small defensive and movement benefits.

Finally, Burn improves your Flame Shock massively, especially for area damage where you can get huge amounts of Power Surge procs very quickly with minimal effort. Rolling Thunder enables your Lightning Shield to contribute towards your damage and Mana regeneration when Earth Shock is used together with the lightning damage spells.

More engravings are likely to come out as we reach higher level caps so make sure to double check our Shaman rune guide to know where to get the currently recommended runes and learn about future runes as they are made available.