Elemental Shaman DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Dragonflight 10.0.7

This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks to use for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Elemental Shaman, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

As a reminder, you do NOT need any consumables to change your talents anywhere. Tome of the Still Mind are obsolete.

As part of Dragonflight's overhaul of Professions, many crafted items and consumables may have multiple ranks of quality that impact their effects. For consumables, there are potentially three ranks of an item that may be used, with Rank 3 items (shown as item level 415 in-game and with three gold stars) providing the most powerful bonuses. However, higher quality consumables will generally be more expensive and not always necessary depending on the content you are doing. You should be willing to use whatever rank of an item is most within your budget, and save higher-quality consumables for content where you will really need the extra boost!

If you would like to learn more about quality ranks on profession items, or the overhaul to professions as a whole, please see our overview below.

Currently, those gems and the associated ring Onyx Annulet are not quite worth using if you have Mythic rings. This is likely to change as it has been said clearly that they are intended to be BiS until season 2.

Assuming they are appropriately buffed, you will probably want to get the following gems, in order of priority:

1. Humming Arcane Stone
2. Flame Licked Stone
3. Freezing Ice Stone

Desirous Blood Stone is probably best for PvP, while Pestilent Plague Stone might do a lot of damage in heavy AoE situations.

For more information regarding the Onyx Annulet, the Primordial Gemstones, and how to obtain them, check out our dedicated guide for it below.

You should use one Illimited Diamond with your best stat, most likely Skillful Illimited Diamond, and either Keen Neltharite or Zen Neltharite in the rest of your sockets.

If you are using Elemental Lariat, keep in mind that the proc works strangely and will always give you whatever the LOWER stat on your gem is, so using Keen Neltharite would proc a haste buff.

Note that you can use Tiered Medallion Setting successively at increasingly high qualities to add sockets to your necklace, up to a total of 3.

You want to use a Howling Rune unless you are using Improved Flametongue Weapon, as those do not currently stack any more.

Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power is your strongest potion, but it costs Primal Chaos to use, so you will want to use regular Elemental Potion of Power in almost every scenario.

Phial of Static Empowerment is your strongest flask in low movement encounters. Trying to gain full benefit from it is both difficult and potentially problematic, so in many situations you will probably want to use Phial of Elemental Chaos instead. In situations where you can always stay well away from allies for most of the fight, you can use Phial of Charged Isolation instead.

In Mythic+ you will most likely want to use Phial of Tepid Versatility, as Phial of Glacial Fury's AoE damage is not enough to overtake the all-rounder value of a big consistent versatility buff.

Use both Warlock Healthstone and Refreshing Healing Potions.

You should eat from the Hoard of Draconic Delicacies or Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak when available and otherwise eat your own Fated Fortune Cookies. Alternatively, you can eat Great Cerulean Sea or Sizzling Seafood Medley.

If you can afford it, you should use Draconic Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of these runes available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them for when you need them.