Elemental Shaman DPS Mythic+ Tips — 12.0.5

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

This alternative build has the following trade-offs:

• You lose significant damage across the board.
• Better 2-3 target and spread cleave.
• Less reliant on Ascendance and more flexible.
• Easier to play, less focus on target swapping, much better mobility.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

Wind Shear is your "kick" and your most important bit of utility in Mythic+, used to stop enemy casts for the benefit of the group and especially the tank. It is highly recommended to use a Focus Kick macro for this.

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you have no Focus target, and your target if you have neither of those.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro.

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.

Elemental Shamans have a large variety of "hard" crowd-control abilities available to them, but they all work in different ways.

Earthquake will "naturally" knock enemies down from time to time, giving you free stops, though its unpredictability makes it so you should never count on it to reliably interrupt any cast. Think of it as a bonus.

Capacitor Totem is delayed but reliable, and you can potentially reduce its cooldown by almost half with several talents, although it comes at a significant opportunity cost.

Thunderstorm will interrupt enemies and knock them away. Be very careful of the direction you will knock enemies towards as you may slow down your group's damage, worsen your crowd control or even worse, pull additional packs.

Hex is meant as a long-duration crowd-control but can serve as a stop in a pinch, though it is rarely practical or efficient. You do not really have the points to spare unless you really want it for a particular mob.

Note that Earthgrab Totem "roots" a target but is not a "stop"; it only prevents movement.

Technically, Earth Elemental with Primal Elementalist also will stun their target shortly after you summon it, so it can be used to interrupt an enemy in a pinch.

Elemental has mediocre mobility:

Few instant spells:

• We have few instant abilities in our rotation: Voltaic Blaze (or Flame Shock), Earth Shock/ Earthquake, Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning buffed by Stormkeeper.
• Stormbringer users can use Nature's Swiftness as a reactive instant.

But powerful mobility tools:

• Wind Rush Totem, especially boosted by Jet Stream or Ascending Air, and potentially by Totemic Focus, is a powerful ability that is useful for any content, having a powerful effect. Moreover, you can extend its benefits by using Totemic Projection to reposition it!
• Spiritwalker's Grace not only gives you full mobility while casting for 15 seconds (19 for Farseer users), it also gives you 20% movement speed and has fairly short cooldown thanks to Graceful Spirit .
• Gust of Wind is fantastically versatile burst mobility, while our other choice Spirit Walk has a much higher cooldown but gets rid of root and snare effects.
• Ghost Wolf form needs to be used sparingly in combat but is very useful, especially due to Thunderous Paws or potentially Spirit Wolf in higher keys.

Shamans have an excellent toolkit that greatly benefits from being tailored to each dungeon:

Off-healing:

• Earth Shield, especially when also cast on your tank or a character with weak self-sustain can add up to very significant healing almost for free, especially when paired with Therazane's Resilience.
• Healing Surge is a generic fast heal that only really shines when you are healing yourself and have Earth Shield and Refreshing Waters talented, but does not heal for much.
• Healing Stream Totem is one of those abilities you drop when you have nothing else you can do; it helps a little bit, and Elemental Resistance can potentially help surviving one-shots. It is hard to justify the talent points for it however.

Many kinds of "opt-in" dispells Typically you should know in advance whether those will be needed for a particular dungeon or not, and otherwise should not have them talented:

• Purge can remove scary magic buffs on enemies, as well as help deal with the Ascendant Affix. Typically you should know in advance whether it will be needed for a particular dungeon or not.
• Cleanse Spirit removes curses and can help deal with the Devour Affix. Typically you should know in advance whether it will be needed for a particular dungeon or not.
• Poison Cleansing Totem removes all poison effects on your entire party every 1.5 seconds for up to 9 seconds. When it is useful, you most likely want to have Totemic Focus as it increases its duration by 50%. Typically you should know in advance whether it will be needed for a particular dungeon or not.
• Tremor Totem removes Charm, Fear, and Sleep effects. It is rarely useful, but is the best tool in the game to deal with these debuffs when they happen.

Elemental has quite a few ways to deal with this affix:

• Purge
• Thunderstorm
• Capacitor Totem
• Earthquake (unreliable, only for orbs stacked on enemies)

Nothing special here beyond making sure to soak them when you are not in danger of killing yourself, as it deals significant damage. Remain close at least one other party member so your pulsar gets soaked.

Poison Cleansing Totem immediately dispels everything. Pretty strong!

You can also spec into Cleanse Spirit, but unless it is good in that particular dungeon, it should not be necessary.

Kill the Void Emissary fast. That is all. It is not worth holding onto cooldowns for it however, unless they are somehow not dying in time.