Elemental Shaman Dragonflight Leveling Guide From 1 to 60 (Dragonflight 10.0.2)

When leveling up, you should always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.

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Your first talent unlocks at Level 10.

This is an example set up, it is difficult to go wrong while leveling, I 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 Earth Elemental on your class tree and Earth Shock on your elemental tree. If you struggle with damage taken at any point, you should spec into either Planes Traveler or Astral Bulwark so Astral Shift is either available more often or more powerful.
• Level 13 to 18: Get Spiritwalker's Grace then Earth Shield and Elemental Orbit on your class tree and Fire Elemental then Refreshing Waters and Lava Surge on your elemental tree.
• Level 19 to 24: Get Wind Shear, Capacitor Totem and Guardian's Cudgel from the class tree then path to Call of Thunder on the elemental tree, grabbing Inundate.
• Level 25 to 34: Get Hex, Nature's Guardian and Improved Lightning Bolt from the class tree and Elemental Fury then Unrelenting Calamity, Stormkeeper, Call of Fire then Echo of the Elements.
• Level 35 to 43 Get Fire and Ice, Frost Shock, Purge and Nature's Furyfrom the class tree and Surge of Power, Master of the Elements then Eye of the Storm from the elemental tree.
• Level 44 to 50: Get Winds of Al'Akir, Gust of Wind and Thunderstorm from the class tree and Primordial Fury, Flow of Power and Swelling Maelstrom from the elemental tree.
• Choices!: At this level you can pick Primordial Wave, Ascendance or Primal Elementalist. You probably want all three. Primordial Wave will help kill spread out mobs faster and is also a nice single-target boost. The other two give you strong DPS cooldowns for bigger or more dangerous encounters, although they can be pretty overkill. Alternatively you could skip 2 of the "choice" talents and path directly to Windspeaker's Lava Resurgence.
• Level 51 to 56: Get Lightning Lasso and Surging Shields from the class tree and the 2 previous talents you did not get at level 51 on the elemental tree.
• Level 57 to 62: Get , Graceful Spirit and Ancestral Defense from the class tree and Magma Chamber and Windspeaker's Lava Resurgence.
• Level 63 to 70: Get Brimming with Life, Earthgrab Totem and Nature's Swiftness or 2 points into Elemental Warding from the class tree. The elemental tree picks are really down to preference and what you feel you need more of. You can get Oath of the Far Seer to have a stronger Ascendance you can use much more often. You can get Rolling Magma for more Primordial Waves, Searing Flames to get more Earth Shocks, Flames of the Cauldron and Improved Flametongue Weapon for some basic damage increases...

Note that this list prioritizes speed over utility, you may wish to pick some important utility talents earlier, notably Wind Shear or Capacitor Totem.

Starting at Level 1, you only have one main damaging ability: Lightning Bolt. This will change at level 10, when you select Elemental as your specialization and unlock other ranged abilities. Until then, use Lightning Bolt to kill targets, and make use of Flame Shock when it unlocks at level 3 and of Lightning Shield once it unlocks at level 9.

1. Keep Lightning Shield active on yourself (out of combat)
2. Keep Earth Shield active on yourself (out of combat)
3. Apply Flame Shock if it is absent
4. Cast Fire Elemental if it is off cooldown. Try to pair your elemental with Haste buffs if possible (e.g. Bloodlust/ Heroism).
5. Cast Earth Elemental if it is off cooldown.
6. Cast Stormkeeper whenever available. Delay the usage if multiple stacked targets will be present within the span of its cooldown
7. Cast Ascendance whenever available. You generally want to use Flame Shock on a different target so you get a free Lava Burst on both.
8. Cast Primordial Wave whenever available. You generally want to use Flame Shock on a different target so you get a free Lava Burst on both.
9. Cast Earth Shock if Maelstrom is 90 or greater; or 50 or greater if you have Master of the Elements's buff.
10. Cast Lava Burst whenever available.
11. Cast Earth Shock if Maelstrom is 60 or greater.
12. Cast Lightning Bolt as a filler on a single target.
13. Cast Frost Shock as a filler while moving.

Since the new leveling system from Dragonflight, class abilities are a prominent part of specs again, and represent many of the abilities you gain while leveling. You will only start unlocking Elemental specific abilities and passives once you select it as your active specialization past Level 10.

In order to avoid overloading the guide with redundant information which is easily understood from opening your spell book, we would advise you to read our detailed spell guide for the detailed information on each spell and how it is used in WoW.

In this section, we will rank the PvP talents for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content in order of priority. Below is a ranking of the PvP talents Elemental Shamans can use well for PvE.

1. Skyfury Totem increases the critical effect of spells of allies within 40 yards by 20% for 15 seconds, with a 40-second cooldown. It is good for solo play, but excellent if you are doing outdoors content with others.
2. Control of Lava makes your Flame Shock deal damage 15% more often. The secondary effect is irrelevant in PvE but it is already pretty nice.
3. Swelling Waves makes your Healing Surges 50% stronger. Amazing for sustain or if you are struggling. The delay can actually be a positive thing.
4. Counterstrike Totem replicates and reflects damage you take for 15 seconds, on a 45-second cooldown. This can be really strong when in a high damage area to deal some chip damage to targets around you, and convert your health pool into additional damage.
5. Static Field Totem is a very strong crowd control effect, it might be overkill with all the tools you already get though.
6. Traveling Storms got buffed a lot and can now transform your Thunderstorm into a significantly more powerful crowd control ability.

Grounding Totem, Unleash Shield and Spectral Recovery have either niche uses or just are not very useful compared to the other talents. Do not dismiss them entirely but for the most part, you can safely ignore them.

You should equip new quest rewards when their item level starts beating out your previous set of gear. If you are currently wearing top end Shadowlands gear, it is best to let the quest rewards significantly beat your existing item level before using them.

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

• 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

Congratulations on reaching Level 70! Now that you have hit Level 70, we recommend looking at our Easy mode page and Talents section to learn how to play at max level.