Elemental Shaman DPS Easy Mode — The War Within (11.1.7)

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The following build is not the best possible for every specific situation. However, it tries to be universally "good-enough" while focusing on ease of use. Notably, if you want to optimize your pure single-target damage in raid, we recommend you pick the Farseer build from our talent page below instead.

If you are looking for the absolute best talents for Elemental, you can find a more in-depth analysis on our full talents page below.

1. Cast Storm Elemental.
2. Cast Stormkeeper.
3. Cast Ascendance, sync it with on-use trinkets, Bloodlust, Tempered Potion
4. Keep Flame Shock up.
5. Cast Tempest (or Primordial Wave if using a Farseer build).
6. Cast Earth Shock, preferably after a Lava Burst.
7. Cast Icefury.
8. Cast Lava Burst.
9. Cast Lightning Bolt.
10. Cast Frost Shock while moving (ideally empowered by Icefury, making them only a small loss).

You can find that on the rotation page for a more detailed and optimized version of the priority list.

Note that the ideal Elemental Shaman priorities differ depending on how many targets you are fighting. This is an approximative "overall" list. For more accurate priority lists for every situation, please refer to the Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities page.

For people who do not want to pay attention to Tempest procs, you can use this macro that replaces Chain Lightning with Tempest whenever it procs!

• #showtooltip
• /cast [known:Tempest] Tempest; Chain Lightning

1. Cast Storm Elemental.
2. Cast Stormkeeper.
3. Cast Ascendance, sync it with on-use trinkets, Bloodlust, Tempered Potion.
4. Cast Tempest Make sure to pay attention to its procs as it replaces Lightning Bolt.
5. Cast Earthquake.
6. Cast Chain Lightning.
7. Cast Icefury while moving.
8. Cast Frost Shock while moving (ideally empowered by Icefury, making them only a tiny loss).

You can find that on the rotation page for a more detailed and optimized version of the priority list.

For basic information on how this new feature works, please visit our Combat Assistant guide.

Short version: It has very limited uses as a new Elemental player.

We recommend against using the Single-button Rotation feature except maybe if you have never played Elemental at all and are off-speccing it for the first time, or are using a level boosted Shaman. In those cases only, it can initially help giving you an idea of the "rhythm" of how Elemental plays, but the built-in GCD penalty is a massive DPS loss. Beyond those basics relying on that button will prevent you from learning how to actually play the specialization, and your damage will be lower.

The Button Highlight feature does not incur a built-in GCD penalty, and is a more reasonable in-between, especially as a fresh Elemental practicing on target dummies or in trivial content. That being said, it is also worse than doing a "proper" rotation, as it will regularly give you bad advice. Finally, it requires you to stare at your action bar and lose focus on your combat environment, which can lead to many mistakes.