Elemental Shaman DPS Stat Priority — The War Within (11.1.5)

Intelligence is your most important stat. This means you should most of the time equip your highest item level gear and sim yourself from there for adjustments that will be specific to your gear.

Note that in some extreme cases, stacking too much of one stat can lead to significant diminishing returns beyond the usual relative values.

For exact ratios, this will vary depending on your talents and other factors. To obtain the exact relative values for your character, we recommend simming your character.

Out of 100% of your secondary stats you ideally want to have a spread of roughly:

• 35% into Haste;
• 35% into Mastery;
• 15% into Critical Strike.
• 15% into Versatility;

Note that these are for Farseer and optimized for raid fights. AoE favors Critical Strike much more than Versatility, and Stormbringer also values Critical Strike more in general.

When close to reaching BiS item level, you will have around 45,000 secondary stats. This means that you should have something resembling:

• 16,000 Haste
• 16,000 Mastery
• 4,500 to 9,000 Critical Strike
• 4,500 to 9,000 Versatility

Note that due to the possibilities of having many different items granting additional secondaries on use or on proc, this can vary quite a bit. Best-in-Slots, House of Cards (and similar trinkets), Cyrce's Circlet and weapon enchants complicate things.

The gems, enchants, and consumables you will use are directly derived from your stat priority, and you can find our advice on this topic in our dedicated page.

These statistics have been obtained by combining common sense, in-game testing, and simulations using SimulationCraft.

Mastery, through Mastery: Elemental Overload, increases all your Elemental and Physical damage done and causes some of your spells to have a chance to deal additional damage and generate extra Maelstrom. Note that with the Mountains Will Fall talent, your Mastery will apply to your spenders, making Mastery more valuable.

Haste increases the speed of your casts as well as the tick rate of your damage-over-time effects.

Critical Strike increases the damage of your spells. Worth noting that Elemental Shaman has multiple talents increasing their Critical Strike damage.

Versatility increases all damage done increase and reduces all damage taken.