Elemental Shaman Dragonflight Leveling Guide From 1 to 60 (Dragonflight 10.1)
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Elemental Shaman leveling guide for Dragonflight Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Shaman leveling guide.
Gear Options
When leveling up, 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.
Level by Level Rotation and Talents
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Talents to Level Up as an Elemental Shaman
Your first talent unlocks at Level 10.
This is an example setup; 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. This
guide chooses to skip Icefury as you already have a lot of buttons,
especially if you pick a lot of active talents on the class tree, and Icefury can
be overwhelming for newer players. It is a healthy option for leveling.
- Level 11 and 12: Get
Astral Shift then
Astral Bulwark on your class tree and
Earth Shock on your elemental tree. If you would prefer a higher
Astral Shift uptime at the cost of a significantly lower damage reduction, you can spec into either
Planes Traveler instead, or take
Wind Shear early to deal with pesky spellcasters.
- Level 13 to 18: Get
Wind Shear then
Earth Elemental and
Capacitor Totem on your class tree and
Fire Elemental, then
Refreshing Waters and
Lava Surge on your elemental tree.
- Level 19 to 24: Get
Guardian's Cudgel,
Fire and Ice and
Healing Stream Totem 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
Thunderstorm from the class tree and
Elemental Fury, then
Unrelenting Calamity,
Stormkeeper,
Call of Fire then
Echo of the Elements.
- Level 35 to 44 Get
Swirling Currents,
Spiritwalker's Grace,
Brimming with Life 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 45 to 50: Get
Winds of Al'Akir and
Gust of Wind from the class tree and
Focused Insight,
Flow of Power and
Swelling Maelstrom from the elemental tree.
- Choices!: At this level, you can pick
Primordial Wave,
Ascendance and either
Primal Elementalist or
Liquid Magma Totem. You may want three of those.
Primordial Wave will help kill spread-out mobs faster and is also a nice single-target boost. The others give you strong DPS cooldowns, although apart from
Liquid Magma Totem, they can be pretty overkill. Alternatively, you could skip 2 of the "choice" talents and a path directly to
Windspeaker's Lava Resurgence.
- Level 51 to 56: Get
Ancestral Guidance,
Graceful Spirit and
Surging Shields from the class tree and the 2 previous talents, you did not get to level 51 on the elemental tree.
- Level 57 to 62: Finish
Surging Shields, then get
Earth Shield. On the spec tree, grab
Magma Chamber and
Windspeaker's Lava Resurgence.
- Level 63 to 70: Get
Elemental Orbit, then depending on preferences, any/all of
Lightning Lasso,
Earthgrab Totem
Nature's Swiftness, you could also take 2 points into
Elemental Warding,
Ancestral Defense or
Go with the Flow. There are no wrong options, depending on what you are struggling with. You can also pick any of those earlier during the leveling process; it is largely personal preference, how fast you want to go, whether you take pauses or grind non-stop... The elemental tree picks are also down to preference and what you feel you need more. 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 along with
Primordial Surge for more single-target (generally overkill), or
Splintered Elements if you also use
Liquid Magma Totem if you do big pulls,
Searing Flames to get more
Earth Shocks,
Flames of the Cauldron and
Improved Flametongue Weapon for some basic damage increases. I even skip
Ascendance for those, as I feel it is overkill for leveling.
Changelog
- 02 May 2023: Modified a setting to make things clearer for people leveling from 60.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for the class talent overhaul of Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 18 Nov. 2022: Updated with a new build order. People who want to know in advance where to go from level 60 to 70 can now see my recommendations.
- 07 Nov. 2022: Talent pick order in calculator should be fixed. .
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
This guide has been written by Stormy, Elemental main since Wrath of the Lich King and member of the Storm, Earth and Lava Elemental theorycrafting team.
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