Elemental Shaman DPS Spell List and Glossary — The War Within (Season 1)

Last updated on Nov 26, 2024 at 11:40 by Stormy 84 comments
General Information

On this page, we present you with all spells and procs that you need to understand as an Elemental Shaman in World of Warcraft — The War Within (Season 1).

If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Elemental Shaman spells.

1.

Elemental Shaman Spell Summary

If you are new to Elemental, it is recommended you read this before proceeding! In this section, we will discuss what abilities you have, what they are used for within the specialization, and how they interact with important cooldowns. If you have played this spec before or have already achieved a level of comfort playing this spec in a practical environment, it is recommended you skip this section and move on to the rest of the guide.

2.

Main Resource for Elemental Shaman

Maelstrom is the primary resource of Elemental Shamans. Maelstrom is essentially a clone of the Rage resource Warriors use. It is generated by casting spells and using specific abilities, while other abilities covert Maelstrom into powerful damage. Maelstrom is generated and consumed fairly slowly for Elemental, which makes the rotational priority very easy to predict and contributes to a fluid state of play.

Note that this page simply lists all the different abilities, assuming you are at max level. If you are leveling, check out our dedicated Shaman Leveling page, which has detailed information on when you unlock all of these abilities.

3.

Hero talent abilities for Elemental Shaman

3.1.

Farseer abilities for Elemental Shaman

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Call of the Ancestors Icon Call of the Ancestors - Primordial Wave calls an Ancestor to your side for 6 seconds. Whenever you cast a healing or damaging spell, the Ancestor will cast a similar spell.
Latent Wisdom Icon Latent Wisdom - Your Ancestors' spells are 25% more powerful.
Ancient Fellowship Icon Ancient Fellowship - Ancestors have a 20% chance to call another Ancestor for 6 seconds when they expire.
Heed My Call Icon Heed My Call - Ancestors last an additional 4 seconds.
Routine Communication Icon Routine Communication - Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning, Icefury Icon Icefury and Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock casts have an 8% chance to call an Ancestor to your side for 6 seconds.
Elemental Reverb Icon Elemental Reverb - Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst gains an additional charge and deals 5% increased damage.
Offering from Beyond Icon Offering from Beyond - When an Ancestor is called, they reduce the cooldown of Fire Elemental Icon Fire Elemental and Storm Elemental Icon Storm Elemental by 5 seconds.
Primordial Capacity Icon Primordial Capacity - Increases your maximum Maelstrom by 25.
Spiritwalker's Momentum Icon Spiritwalker's Momentum - Using spells with a cast time increases the duration of Spiritwalker's Grace Icon Spiritwalker's Grace and Spiritwalker's Aegis Icon Spiritwalker's Aegis by 1 sec, up to a maximum of 4 seconds.
Natural Harmony Icon Natural Harmony - Reduces the cooldown of Nature's Guardian Icon Nature's Guardian by 15 seconds and causes it to heal for an additional 10% of your maximum Health.
Earthen Communion Icon Earthen Communion - Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield has an additional 3 charges and heals you for 25% more.
Maelstrom Supremacy Icon Maelstrom Supremacy - Increases the damage of Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock, Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast, and Earthquake Icon Earthquake by 15% and the healing of Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge by 8%.
Final Calling Icon Final Calling - When an Ancestor expires, they cast Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast at a nearby enemy.
Ancestral Swiftness Icon Ancestral Swiftness ASw/AnS Your next healing or damaging spell is instant, costs no mana, and deals 10% increased damage and healing. If you know Nature's Swiftness Icon Nature's Swiftness, it is replaced by Ancestral Swiftness and causes Ancestral Swiftness to call an Ancestor to your side for 6 seconds. 30-second cooldown.
3.2.

Stormbringer abilities for Elemental Shaman

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Tempest Icon Tempest - Every 300 Maelstrom spent replaces your next Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt with Tempest. Deal heavy Nature damage to your target and 50% as much to another enemy targets within 8 yards of your target.
Unlimited Power Icon Unlimited Power - Spending Maelstrom grants you 1% Haste for 15 seconds, stacking. Gaining a new stack does not refresh the duration.
Stormcaller Icon Stormcaller - Increases the Critical Strike chance of your Nature damage spells by 5% and the Critical strike damage of your Nature spells by 5%.
Electroshock Icon Electroshock - Tempest Icon Tempest increased your movement speed by 20% for 5 seconds.
Lightning Conduit Icon Lightning Conduit - You have a chance to get struck by lightning, increasing your movement speed by 50% for 5 seconds. The effectiveness is increased to 100% in outdoor areas. You call down a Thunderstorm Icon Thunderstorm when you use Reincarnation Icon Reincarnation.
Supercharge Icon Supercharge - Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning Elemental Overloads have a 50% chance to cause an additional Elemental Overload.
Storm Swell Icon Storm Swell - Tempest Icon Tempest grants 10% Mastery for 6 seconds.
Arc Discharge Icon Arc Discharge - When Tempest Icon Tempest strikes more than one target, your next two Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning spells are instant cast and deal 40% increase damage.
Rolling Thunder Icon Rolling Thunder - Gain one stack of Stormkeeper Icon Stormkeeper every 50 seconds.
Voltaic Surge Icon Voltaic Surge - Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning and Earthquake Icon Earthquake damage increased by 5%.
Conductive Energy Icon Conductive Energy - Lightning Rod Icon Lightning Rod targets now also take 20% of the damage that Tempest Icon Tempest deals, and Tempest also applies the Lightning Rod effect.
Nature's Protection Icon Nature's Protection - Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield reduces the damage you take by 3%.
Surging Currents Icon Surging Currents - When you cast Tempest Icon Tempest you gain Surging Currents Icon Surging Currents, increasing the effectiveness of your next Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal or Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge by 20%, up to 100%.
Awakening Storms Icon Awakening Storms - Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning have a chance to strike your target for significant Nature damage. Every 3 times this occurs, your next Lightning Bolt is replaced by Tempest Icon Tempest.
4.

Baseline abilities for Elemental Shaman

These abilities are available no matter what talents you choose and form the bread and butter of this specialization.

Note that Elemental's Mastery: Elemental Overload has been redesigned. It now also increases all Physical and Elemental damage dealt, in addition to giving your Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning, Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst, and Icefury Icon Icefury a chance to trigger a second cast on the same target, now dealing 25% (from 85%) of normal damage and generating less Maelstrom.

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt LB Your main filler. It deals low damage and generates 6 Maelstrom. It can become quite strong with a Lightning-focused build.
Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock FS A damage-over-time spell you should keep applied to your primary target at all times. It deals weak damage over time but has important interactions with your Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst: it guarantees that all Lava Burst casts will be critical hits and can proc Lava Surge Icon Lava Surges . Flame Shock generates 3 Maelstrom has a 6-second cooldown.
Lava Surge Icon Lava Surge LS Makes your Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock have a 10% chance to activate Lava Surge, which resets the cooldown of your next Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst and makes it an instant cast.
Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge - Heals for a significant amount with a fast cast time. It costs 10% of your base Mana pool. Do not hesitate to use it on yourself or others. Particularly useful for solo content, especially with the Swelling Waves Icon Swelling Waves War Mode talent.
Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust/Heroism Icon Heroism BL Formerly the signature Shaman cooldown, increasing the haste of all your party and raid members by 30% for 40 seconds, with a 5-minute cooldown. Presently available to Mage, Hunter, and now Evoker as well.
Reincarnation Icon Reincarnation Ankh A passive ability allowing you to raise from the dead with 40% of your Health and Mana. This has a 30-minute cooldown, which does not reset on a wipe. This is a unique and incredibly powerful ability when it is available.
Earthbind Totem Icon Earthbind Totem - Projects a totem that slows everything around it by 50% for 20 seconds. Very useful, especially if you kite around the totem.
Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield - A maintenance buff that needs to be refreshed every hour when using the Lightning Conduit Icon Lightning Conduit talent or for fights where there is a risk of getting hit in melee. When hit, you generate 5 Maelstrom and deal minor damage. It only stacks with Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield if you have the Elemental Orbit Icon Elemental Orbit class talent, so keep that in mind.
Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon - Only actually used if you are also using the Improved Flametongue Weapon Icon Improved Flametongue Weapon talent, but by default, you should be using it.
Primal Strike Icon Primal Strike - You will never use this. Take it off your bars.
Skyfury Icon Skyfury SF Harness the fury of the Windlord to grant a target ally 2% Mastery and empower their auto attacks to have a 20% chance to instantly strike again for 1 hour. If the target is in your party or raid, all affected party and raid members will be affected.
Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf - Transforms you into a wolf, preventing you from casting but increasing your movement speed by 30% as long as you stay in this form. In addition, your movement speed cannot go below 100% while in this form.
Ancestral Spirit Icon Ancestral Spirit - Allows you to resurrect allies after a very long cast. It is not usable in combat.
Astral Recall Icon Astral Recall - Is essentially a second Hearthstone Icon Hearthstone charge, with a 10-minute cooldown. It is still linked to your Hearthstone, and you can only use this to teleport back to the location you picked with your Hearthstone.
Far Sight Icon Far Sight - Is one of the least useful spells in the game; it allows you to see at a distance. You can safely remove this from your bars.
Water Walking Icon Water Walking - Allows you or whoever you target to walk on water as long as no damage is taken.
Inundate Icon Inundate - Makes your successful Purge Icon Purge, Cleanse Spirit Icon Cleanse Spirit, Healing Stream Totem Icon Healing Stream Totem, Hex Icon Hex and Wind Shear Icon Wind Shear casts generate 8 Maelstrom during combat.
5.

Active Class Tree Abilities for Elemental Shaman

5.1.

Rows 1-4

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal CH Is the only multi-target heal Elemental Shamans can get, it heals one target for a moderate amount, then jumps on up to 3 nearby allies, the healing amount decreases by 30% with each jump. It costs 15% of your base Mana pool.
Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst LvB Is one of your main damage spells, technically dealing less damage than Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt; however, when used on an enemy afflicted by Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock, it always critically strikes. Because we always take Elemental Fury Icon Elemental Fury this makes Lava Burst inherently powerful. Generates 8 Maelstrom.
Astral Shift Icon Astral Shift AS Is a 1.5-minute cooldown reducing your damage taken by 40% for 12 seconds. It is your main defensive cooldown, and you should use it often.
Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning CL Is your main Maelstrom generating ability for AoE/Cleave It deals decent damage and generates 2 Maelstrom per target hit. It can chain to up to 5 targets.
Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield EaS Places a shield that heals its target for a small amount whenever they take damage. This healing can only occur once every few seconds and has 9 charges. Your healing is increased by 20% on whoever has this spell active. It costs 5% of your base Mana pool.
Wind Shear Icon Wind Shear WS (rare) Is your "kick." It is fairly unique in that its 30 yards range and 12-second cooldown are shorter than most other ranged characters. This makes Wind Shear one of the best interrupts in the game, and you should use it's a lot.
Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock FrS Is your filler spell during movement. It also slows the target by 50% for 6 seconds. It deals a mediocre amount of damage and generates 3 Maelstrom. Unless empowered by Icefury Icon Icefury you should only use it for movement (and even then, rarely), when you need the slow, or if you really need extra damage immediately.
Capacitor Totem Icon Capacitor Totem Cap totem Is your only way to "stun" targets. You cast it at a target location, and after 2 seconds, it will stun enemies within 8 yards for 3 seconds. This ability has a 1-minute cooldown, which can be reduced by using the Static Charge Icon Static Charge talent.
Spirit Walk Icon Spirit Walk SW (rare) Removes all movement-impairing effects and increases your movement speed by 60% for 8 seconds on a 1-minute cooldown.
Gust of Wind Icon Gust of Wind GoW Hurls you forward (similar to Hunters' Disengage Icon Disengage but forward) on a 20-second cooldown.
Healing Stream Totem Icon Healing Stream Totem - Does minor healing within 40 yards over 15 seconds. It costs 5% of your base Mana Pool. It can be useful between fights or when moving.
Earthgrab Totem Icon Earthgrab Totem Summons a totem at a target location for 20 seconds with a 30-second cooldown. Every 2 seconds, all enemies within 8 yards of the totem is rooted in place for 2 seconds. Enemies previously rooted by the totem instead suffers a 50% movement speed slow.
Purge Icon Purge - Removes 1 beneficial magic effect from an enemy target. It costs 14% of your base Mana pool.
Greater Purge Icon Greater Purge - Removes 2 beneficial magic effects from an enemy target. It has twice the mana cost of Purge Icon Purge and a 12-second cooldown. Currently does not seem to have a useful niche. It costs 21% of your base Mana pool.
Earth Elemental Icon Earth Elemental EE/Steve Is a summon that is primarily used to help with tanking for 1 minute. It can taunt and take quite a bit of punishment before dying and also deals decent damage. Your maximum Health is increased by 15% while it is active. It has a 5-minute cooldown.
5.2.

Rows 5-7

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Cleanse Spirit Icon Cleanse Spirit Cleanse Removes all curses from a friendly target within 40 yards, with an 8-second cooldown. It costs 10% of your base Mana pool.
Tremor Totem Icon Tremor Totem Tremor Summons a totem removing all Fear, Charm, and Sleep effects on party and raid members within 30 yards every few seconds for 10 seconds.
Hex Icon Hex - Is the Shaman equivalent of Polymorph Icon Polymorph. This spell transforms 1 enemy into a frog for 60 seconds, preventing it from attacking or casting spells as long as you do not attack it. It only works on humanoids and beasts.
Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem WRT Summons a totem for 15 seconds that increases the speed of allies within 10 yards by 40% for 5 seconds. The speed buff is continually refreshed, as long as they are within range.
Spiritwalker's Grace Icon Spiritwalker's Grace SWG Allows you to cast while moving for 15 seconds on a 1.5-minute base cooldown (usually reduced to 1 minute by Graceful Spirit Icon Graceful Spirit). It also increases your movement speed by 20%. It is a very helpful tool for movement, which should be used to kite or to keep dealing damage when you have to move a lot.
Ancestral Guidance Icon Ancestral Guidance AG Converts 25% of your damage and healing done into healing on up to 3 nearby party and/or raid members for up to 20% of your maximum Health per tick. It lasts 10 seconds, with a 2-minute cooldown.
Thunderstorm Icon Thunderstorm - Does very little damage but knocks away enemies around you and slows them by 40% for 5 seconds. Quite useful, especially when you use it to displace an enemy in a specific direction.
5.3.

Rows 8-10

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Lightning Lasso Icon Lightning Lasso Lasso Is a channeled ability that stuns a target within 20 yards and deals considerable damage over 5 seconds. You can move while channeling and it has a 45-second cooldown.
Totemic Projection Icon Totemic Projection - Is a 10-second cooldown ability that allows you to move all your active totems to a location within 40 yards.
Poison Cleansing Totem Icon Poison Cleansing Totem - Removes ALL poison effects from a nearby party or raid member within 30 yards every 1.5 seconds for 6 seconds on a 2-minute cooldown.
Nature's Swiftness Icon Nature's Swiftness NS Is a one-minute cooldown ability that makes your next healing or damaging Nature spell instant and cost no mana.
Stone Bulwark Totem Icon Stone Bulwark Totem Bulwark Summons an Earth Totem at the feet of the caster for 30 seconds, granting the caster a shield absorbing damage for 10 seconds and an additional absorb every 5 seconds. 2-minute cooldown.
Totemic Recall Icon Totemic Recall Resets the cooldown of your most recently used totem that has a base cooldown shorter than 3 minutes.
6.

Passive Class Tree Abilities for Elemental Shaman

6.1.

Rows 1-4

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Planes Traveler Icon Planes Traveler - Reduces the cooldown of Astral Shift Icon Astral Shift by 30 seconds.
Astral Bulwark Icon Astral Bulwark - Makes Astral Shift Icon Astral Shift reduce your damage taken by an additional 20%.
Spirit Wolf Icon Spirit Wolf - Increases your movement speed and damage reduction by 5% every second you stay in Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf form, up to 4 times.
Thunderous Paws Icon Thunderous Paws - Increases the movespeed of Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf form by an additional 25% for the first 3 seconds and removes any snare effects on you. This effect can only occur every 20 seconds.
Winds of Al'Akir Icon Winds of Al'Akir - Increases the movement speed bonus of Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf by 10%. Additionally, when you have 3 or more totems active, your movement speed is increased by 15%.
Elemental Orbit Icon Elemental Orbit EO (rare) Increases the number of Elemental Shields you can have active on yourself by 1 and allows you to have Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield cast on yourself and one ally at the same time.
Fire and Ice Icon Fire and Ice - Increases all Fire and frost damage you deal by 3%.
Ancestral Wolf Affinity Icon Ancestral Wolf Affinity - Makes Cleanse Spirit Icon Cleanse Spirit, Wind Shear Icon Wind Shear, Purge Icon Purge and totem casts no longer cancel Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf.
Encasing Cold Icon Encasing Cold - Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock snares its targets by an additional 10%, and its duration is increased by 2 seconds.
Arctic Snowstorm Icon Arctic Snowstorm - Enemies within 10 yards of your Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock are snared by 30%.
Brimming with Life Icon Brimming with Life - Increases your maximum Health by 10%, and while you are at full Health, Reincarnation cools down 75% faster.
Static Charge Icon Static Charge - Reduces the cooldown of Capacitor Totem Icon Capacitor Totem by 5 seconds for each enemy, it stuns up to a maximum reduction of 20 seconds.
Guardian's Cudgel Icon Guardian's Cudgel - Spawns a secondary Capacitor Totem Icon Capacitor Totem when it fades or is destroyed.
6.2.

Rows 5-7

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Elemental Resistance Icon Elemental Resistance - Healing from Healing Stream Totem Icon Healing Stream Totem reduces Fire, Frost, and Nature damage received by 6% for 3 seconds.
Nature's Guardian Icon Nature's Guardian NG Heals you for 27% of your maximum Health whenever your Health is brought below 35%. This effect has a 45-second cooldown.
Nature's Fury Icon Nature's Fury - Increases the critical strike chance of your Nature spells by 4%.
Refreshing Waters Icon Refreshing Waters - Your Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge is 25% more effective on yourself.
Elemental Warding Icon Elemental Warding - Reduces all magic damage taken by 6%.
Primordial Bond Icon Primordial Bond - Reduces your damage taken by 5% while you have an elemental active.
Voodoo Mastery Icon Voodoo Mastery - Your Hex Icon Hex target is slowed by 70% during Hex and for 6 seconds after it ends. Also reduces the cooldown of your Hex spell by 15 seconds.
Totemic Focus Icon Totemic Focus - Increases the radius of your totem effects by 15%. Additionally, it increases the duration of your Earthbind Totem Icon Earthbind Totem and Earthgrab Totem Icon Earthgrab Totem by 10 seconds, and the duration of your Healing Stream Totem Icon Healing Stream Totem, Tremor Totem Icon Tremor Totem, Poison Cleansing Totem Icon Poison Cleansing Totem and Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem by 3 seconds.
Ascending Air Icon Ascending Air - The cooldown of Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem is reduced by 30 seconds, and its movement speed effect lasts an additional 2 seconds.
Jet Stream Icon Jet Stream - Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem’s movement speed bonus is increased by 10%, and now removes snares.
Enhanced Imbues Icon Enhanced Imbues - The effects of your weapon imbues are increased by 20%.
6.3.

Rows 8-10

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Graceful Spirit Icon Graceful Spirit - Reduces the cooldown of Spiritwalker's Grace Icon Spiritwalker's Grace by 30 seconds and increases your movement speed by 20% while it is active.
Spiritwalker's Aegis Icon Spiritwalker's Aegis - Enhances your Spiritwalker's Grace Icon Spiritwalker's Grace by making you are immune to Silence and interrupt effects for 5 seconds when you cast it.
Totemic Surge Icon Totemic Surge - Reduces the cooldown of your totems by 6 seconds.
Seasoned Winds Icon Seasoned Winds - Interrupting a spell with Wind Shear Icon Wind Shear decreases your damage taken from that spell school by 15% for 18 seconds. Stacks up to 2 times.
Mana Spring Icon Mana Spring - Restores 1750 mana to you and 4 allies within 40 yards whenever you cast Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst.
Thundershock Icon Thundershock - Makes Thunderstorm Icon Thunderstorm knock enemies up instead of away and reduces its cooldown by 5 seconds.
Traveling Storms Icon Traveling Storms - Thunderstorm Icon Thunderstorm now can be cast on allies within 40 yards, reduces enemies movement speed by 60%, and knocks enemies 25% further.
Call of the Elements Icon Call of the Elements - Reduces the cooldown of Totemic Recall Icon Totemic Recall by 60 seconds.
Creation Core Icon Creation Core - Makes Totemic Recall Icon Totemic Recall affect an additional totem.
7.

Active Elemental Tree Abilities

7.1.

Rows 1-4

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock ES is one of your main Maelstrom-consuming nukes. It deals powerful instant damage has no cast time and costs 60 Maelstrom.
Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast EB Is a 2-second cast that costs 75 Maelstrom and replaces Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock. It deals massive damage and increases either your Critical Strike or Haste by 6%, or your Mastery by 11% for 10 seconds. It has no cooldown and deals "Elemental" damage, meaning it counts as Nature, Fire, and Frost damage.
Earthquake Icon Earthquake EQ Is your main Maelstrom-consuming nuke for AoE/Cleave It deals good damage over 6 seconds in the targeted area (or around your target depending on the choice node you pick) and has a 5% chance to knock down enemies within every time it deals damage.
Fire Elemental Icon Fire Elemental FE Is a 2.5-minute cooldown that summons a powerful Fire Elemental for 20 seconds. You do not have control over it, but it deals significant damage, and you usually want to pair it with Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust/Heroism Icon Heroism/Time Warp Icon Time Warp. It increases the damage of Flame Shock Icon Flame Shocks by 33% and the duration of new Flame Shock casts by 100%.
Storm Elemental Icon Storm Elemental SE Is a 2.5-minute cooldown that summons a powerful Storm elemental for 20 seconds. You do not have control over a bit, but it deals significant damage and reduces the cast time of and the GCD incurred by your Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning by 3% each time you cast either spell, up to 10 times
Icefury Icon Icefury IF Casting Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning has a chance to temporarily replace your Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock button with Icefury. It deals moderate damage, generates 12 Maelstrom, is an instant cast and has a 30-second cooldown. It causes your next Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock to deal 200% increased damage and generate 10 Maelstrom.
Stormkeeper Icon Stormkeeper SK Has a 1.5-second cast time and causes your next 2 Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolts to do 150% more damage and also causes your next two Lightning Bolts OR Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightnings to be instant cast and trigger an additional Elemental Overload on every target hit.
7.2.

Rows 5-7

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Thunderstrike Ward Icon Thunderstrike Ward TW Imbue your shield with the element of Lightning for 1 hour, giving Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning a chance to call down 2 Thunderstrikes on your target for Nature damage.
7.3.

Rows 8-10

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Ascendance Icon Ascendance Asc Transform into a Flame Ascendant you for 15 seconds, instantly casting a Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock and a 100% effectiveness Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst at up to 6 nearby enemies. While ascended, Elemental Overload damage is increased by 150% and spells affected by your Mastery: Elemental Overload cause 1 additional Elemental Overload.
Primordial Wave Icon Primordial Wave PWave Deals some damage and applies Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock to an enemy. Additionally, it causes your next Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst to also hit all targets affected by your Flame Shocks for 50% of normal damage. It generates 3 Maesltrom has a 30-second cooldown.
Liquid Magma Totem Icon Liquid Magma Totem LMT Summons a totem at the target location for 15 seconds that deals damage to 3 nearby enemy targets, applying Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock, then deals damage to a random nearby target every second for 6 seconds, dealing Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards of the target. Generates 8 Maelstrom. It has a 30-second cooldown.
8.

Passive Elemental Tree Abilities

8.1.

Rows 1-4

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Elemental Fury Icon Elemental Fury - Increases the damage your Critical Strikes do to 250% from the usual 200%.
Flash of Lightning Icon Flash of Lightning FoL Increases the critical strike chance of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 10%.
Aftershock Icon Aftershock AfS Gives Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock, Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast and Earthquake Icon Earthquake a 25% chance to refund all Maelstrom spent.
Surge of Power Icon Surge of Power SoP Makes Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock, Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast and Earthquake Icon Earthquake casts enhance your next spell cast within 15 seconds.
  • Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock: The next cast also applies Flame Shock to 1 additional target within 8 yards of the target.
  • Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt: Your next cast will cause an additional 2 Elemental Overloads.
  • Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning: Your next cast will chain to 1 additional target.
  • Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst: Your next cast reduces the cooldown of your Fire and Storm Elementals by 4 seconds.
  • Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock: Your next cast freezes the target in place for 6 seconds.
Echo of the Elements Icon Echo of the Elements EotE Gives Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst an additional charge.
Master of the Elements Icon Master of the Elements MotE Causes your Lava Burst Icon Lava Bursts to increase the damage or healing of your next Nature, Physical, or Frost spell by 15%.
8.2.

Rows 5-7

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Fusion of Elements Icon Fusion of Elements - After casting Icefury Icon Icefury, the next time you cast a Nature and a Fire spell, you additionally cast an Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast at your target at 60% effectiveness.
Storm Frenzy Icon Storm Frenzy - Your next Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning or Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt has 30% reduced cast time, and also global cooldown if the spell has a low enough cast time to be under the normal global cooldown, after casting Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock, Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast, or Earthquake Icon Earthquake. It can accumulate up to 2 charges.
Swelling Maelstrom Icon Swelling Maelstrom - Increases your maximum Maelstrom by 50 and increases the damage of Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock, Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast and Earthquake Icon Earthquake by 5%.
Primordial Fury Icon Primordial Fury - Increases the critical damage bonus of Elemental Fury Icon Elemental Fury by 25%.
Fury of the Storms Icon Fury of the Storms - Activating Stormkeeper Icon Stormkeeper summons a powerful Lightning Elemental to fight by your side for 10 seconds.
Herald of the Storms Icon Herald of the Storms - Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning casts reduce the cooldown of Stormkeeper Icon Stormkeeper by 2 seconds.
Flow of Power Icon Flow of Power - Increases the Maelstrom generated by Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst by 2.
Elemental Unity Icon Elemental Unity - While a Storm Elemental Icon Storm Elemental is active, your Nature damage dealt is increased by 10%. While a Fire Elemental Icon Fire Elemental is active, your Fire damage dealt is increased by 10%.
Flux Melting Icon Flux Melting - Increases the damage of your next Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst by 20% after you cast Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock.
Lightning Capacitor Icon Lightning Capacitor - While Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield is active, your Nature damage dealt is increased by 8%.
Power of the Maelstrom Icon Power of the Maelstrom PotM Gives your Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst casts a 60% chance to cause your next Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning casts to trigger an additional Elemental Overload. Stacks up to two times.
Improved Flametongue Weapon Icon Improved Flametongue Weapon - Makes Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon also increase your Fire spell damage by 5% for 1 hour.
Everlasting Elements Icon Everlasting Elements - Increases the duration of your Elementals by 20%.
Earthshatter Icon Earthshatter - Increases the damage of Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock and Earthquake Icon Earthquake by 8% and increases the stat bonuses granted by Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast by 25%.
Echo Chamber Icon Echo Chamber - Increases the damage of your Elemental Overloads by 10%.
Searing Flames Icon Searing Flames - Gives Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock damage a chance to generate 2 Maelstrom.
Earthen Rage Icon Earthen Rage - Your damage spells incite the earth around you to come to your aid for 6 seconds, repeatedly dealing Nature damage to your most recently attacked target.
Flames of the Cauldron Icon Flames of the Cauldron - Reduces the cooldown of Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock by 1.5 seconds, and Flame Shock deals damage 15% faster.
8.3.

Rows 8-10

Ability Abbreviation Description/Effect
Elemental Equilibrium Icon Elemental Equilibrium EEq Makes it so doing direct Fire, Frost, and Nature damage within 10 seconds will increase all damage dealt by 10% for 10 seconds, with a 30 seconds internal cooldown. Note that due to Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast's Nature, it counts as all 3 damage types at once, and so can immediately proc Elemental Equilibrium.
Eye of the Storm Icon Eye of the Storm - Reduces the Maelstrom cost of Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock and Earthquake Icon Earthquake by 5 and reduces the Maelstrom cost of Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast by 10.
Echo of the Elementals Icon Echo of the Elementals - When your Storm Elemental Icon Storm Elemental or Fire Elemental Icon Fire Elemental expires, it leaves behind a lesser Elemental to continue attacking your enemies for 10 seconds.
Lightning Rod Icon Lightning Rod LR Causes Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock, Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast, and Earthquake Icon Earthquake to designate a target as a Lightning Rod for 8 seconds. Lightning Rods take 20% of all damage you deal with Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning.
Mountains Will Fall Icon Mountains Will Fall MwF Allows your Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock, Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast and Earthquake Icon Earthquake to trigger your Mastery: Elemental Overload at 50% effectiveness. Overloaded Earthquakes do not knock enemies down.
First Ascendant Icon First Ascendant - The cooldown of Ascendance Icon Ascendance is reduced by 60 seconds.
Preeminence Icon Preeminence - Your Haste is increased by 20% while Ascendance Icon Ascendance is active, and its duration is increased by 3 seconds.
Erupting Lava Icon Erupting Lava - Increases the duration of Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock by 6 seconds and its damage by 50%. Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst consumes up to 3 seconds of Flame Shock, instantly dealing that damage. Lava Burst overloads benefit at 50% effectiveness.
Magma Chamber Icon Magma Chamber - Makes Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock damage increase the damage of your next Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock, Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast or Earthquake Icon Earthquake by 1.5%, stacking up to 10 times.
Splintered Elements Icon Splintered Elements - Primordial Wave Icon Primordial Wave grants 10% Haste plus 4% for each additional Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst generated by Primordial Wave Icon Primordial Wave for 12 seconds. It also grants Lava Surge Icon Lava Surge.
Echoes of Great Sundering Icon Echoes of Great Sundering EoGS Makes your Earth Shock Icon Earth Shocks increase the damage of your next Earthquake Icon Earthquake by 120% and makes your Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blasts increased the damage of your next Earthquake Icon Earthquake by 140%.
Deeply Rooted Elements Icon Deeply Rooted Elements DRE Gives Earth Shock Icon Earth Shock, Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast and Earthquake Icon Earthquake casts a 7% chance to activate Ascendance Icon Ascendance for 6 seconds.
Primal Elementalist Icon Primal Elementalist PE Increases the damage to your Earth, Fire, and Storm Elementals by 80% give them additional abilities and give you direct control over them.

For a more in-depth look at all the Elemental Shaman talents, visit the link below.

For more information on how to use these abilities together in your rotation, please read our rotation page.

Once you reach max level, it can be somewhat overwhelming to completely change the way you play by suddenly implementing a large number of addons in a short space of time, especially if they have a heavy visual impact on your UI. We recommend using some of the more basic addons recommended on our Addons Page below while leveling so that you have more time to get used to them during the easier phases of playing your class. You will want at least some of our Macros as well!

9.

Changelog

  • 26 Nov. 2024: Updated for November 26th hotfixes.
  • 22 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
  • 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
  • 21 Aug. 2024: Updated with Hero Talent abilities.
  • 12 Aug. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.2.
  • 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for the Shaman rework.
  • 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 4.
  • 17 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Updated with 10.2 spell and talent changes.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Updated Nature's Guidance and Brimming with Life with 10.1.5 changes. Updated utility and healing spells with their new base mana cost.
  • 01 May 2023: Updated the description of Power of the Maelstrom, Earthgrab Totem to reflect the 10.1 changes.
  • 20 Mar. 2023: Updated many talents descriptions for the Patch 10.0.7 changes.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Updated Mana Spring and Totemic Surge descriptions for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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