Elemental Shaman DPS Vault of the Incarnates Raid Guide — Dragonflight 11.0
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Elemental Shaman for each boss of the following raid: Vault of the Incarnates. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 11.0.
Introduction
On this page, you will find Elemental Shaman specific information to deal with each Boss in the Vault of the Incarnates raid.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Elemental Shaman and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
As a rule of thumb, if you can use those talents, use
Healing Stream Totem and
Earth Shield during movement when your
only alternative is a regular
Frost Shock or if you are out of range of
the Boss for a bit (such as when dropping void zones in a corner).
Demonic Gateway, if available (and it almost always should be),
helps simplify many movement-heavy mechanics, so adjust your movement cooldown
usage depending on what your raid decides to use Demonic Gateway on (also true
of
Stampeding Roar). You should absolutely buy
Gateway Control Shard in Valdrakken in order to use Gateways more
reliably.
We also recommend being very aware of how boss abilities cycle and not using
defensive cooldowns or Health consumables just because your Health drops low;
it is likely that the "dangerous" ability just happened, and you should not
take much damage for a while. Try to figure out in advance the situations where
you would benefit the most from them, as they are not necessarily best used as
"panic buttons." Feel free to cast Healing Surge on yourself (or
others) when in doubt.
Fire-dominant builds are currently vastly superior, especially with T31. We do not recommend ever using a hybrid or lightning-dominant build at the moment.
Eranog
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Tips
Flamerifts appear every 30 seconds. You should hold your first
Stormkeeper and use it right before the adds spawn, and then repeat this for every second add spawn. Similarly, if using these talents, make sure you have an
Echoes of Great Sundering and
Surge of Power buff ready for this AoE burst.
- When targeted by
Flamerift, use
Spiritwalker's Grace to keep casting at the Boss while adjusting your positioning. Use
Gust of Wind to accelerate this if you are out of position.
- You can use
Capacitor Totem and
Earthbind Totem on Flamescale Taraseks to keep them stacked.
- When targeted by a Flamescale Taraseks fixate, you can use
Thunderstorm to prevent it from getting too close.
- Make sure you focus down the right Primal Flame during Phase 2.
- The only ability which should require
Astral Shift use is
Incinerating Roar once you reach a certain amount of stacks. Feel free to use your potions or heal yourself with
Healing Surge if you think your healers are struggling or you are dropping dangerously low
- In Mythic difficulty, you want to focus down the Flamescale Captain
as soon as possible, and to keep interrupting their
Pyroblast with
Wind Shear.
For more information, please refer to our Eranog guide.
Terros
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Tips
- This is a relatively straightforward fight that requires a lot of healing and
movement. Do not hesitate to use
Spiritwalker's Grace,
Gust of Wind or going into
Ghost Wolf form a lot.
- There are multiple uses for
Wind Rush Totem. Do not hesitate to use it for any big raid movement if it is not assigned to a particular ability.
Rock Blast is likely to be a good example.
- This fight is much easier if your raid organizes their movement cooldowns properly,
most notably
Demonic Gateway and
Stampeding Roar. I recommend even pick-up groups on lower difficulties do this.
For more information, please refer to our Terros guide.
The Primal Council
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Tips
- Keep
Flame Shock on all targets.
- When you have a
Conductive Mark on you and are targeted by
Meteor Axes, use
Astral Shift and use all the healing you can.
- Interrupt Dathea's
Lightning Bolts and the Primal Council's
Frost Spikes.
- You will most likely want to use
Gust of Wind,
Spiritwalker's Grace or both when dealing with
Primal Blizzard.
For more information, please refer to our The Primal Council guide.
Sennarth, the Cold Breath
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Tips
- Focusing down Frostbreath Arachnids is the most important thing
in the fight. Use movement abilities to maintain full uptime when they are up and
defensives/healing to survive their
Chilling Blast.
- Caustic Spiderlings can if necessary be bullied with
Thunderstorm and
Capacitor Totem.
Wind Rush Totem should be available for intermissions.
For more information, please refer to our Sennarth guide.
Dathea, Ascended
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Tips
- Use
Spiritwalker's Grace during
Cyclone,
Wind Rush Totem should also be used there.
- Interrupt in priority Volatile Infusers'
Diverted Essence cast, then Thunder Callers'
Storm Bolt.
- You can jump back on the boss platform with
Gust of Wind early.
For more information, please refer to our Dathea guide.
Kurog Grimtotem
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Tips
- Always hard focus the adds.
- Use
Gust of Wind and/or
Spiritwalker's Grace to reach
Thunder Strikes.
- Interrupt Smoldering Hellions'
Flame Bolts and Frozen Destroyers'
Frost Binds.
- Use
Astral Shift for when
Lethal Current targets you, or you have to soak a
Thunder Strike when the Boss has a lot of Dominance stacks.
- In Mythic difficulty, use
Spiritwalker's Grace to deal with
Searing Carnage.
For more information, please refer to our Kurog Grimtotem guide.
Broodkeeper Diurna
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Single-target build
Cleave/AoE build
There are typically 2 "groups" assigned in this fight, one to focus on single-target DPS on the boss, the other focusing/AoEing down adds.
Tips
- Always focus Juvenile Frost Proto-Dragons.
- As usual, use
Thunderstorm and if necessary
Capacitor Totem to stack adds together and stun them.
- Use
Spiritwalker's Grace when pursued by
Greatstaff's Wrath. As you are the one choosing to be targeted by this ability, you should always have Spiritwalker's Grace available for it.
Gust of Wind will do in a pinch.
- Interrupt Primalist Mages'
Ice Barrages and Drakonid Stormbringers'
Static Jolt.
- You should problably keep
Astral Shift for
Frozen Shroud. You can also use it if someone is about to break eggs with
Greatstaff's Wrath during a
Chilling Tantrum.
For more information, please refer to our Broodkeeper Diurna guide.
Raszageth the Storm-Eater
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Tips
Wind Rush Totem and
Gust of Wind are very helpful in all difficulties to help people reposition during/after multiple abilities, or not get blasted off a platform.
- Make sure you have DPS cooldowns available to deal with the various adds.
- Volatile Spark can be interrupted and therefore killed by
Wind Shear but also
Capacitor Totem,
Purge and
Thunderstorm.
For more information, please refer to our Raszageth guide.
Changelog
- 20 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 23 Apr. 2024: Adjusted Razsageth talent recommendation.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 29 Dec. 2022: Forgot to add purge to the list of things that can deal with Volatile Sparks.
- 21 Dec. 2022: Updated wording on council recommendations, added Razsageth recommendation.
- 13 Dec. 2022: Adjusted talent recommendations on Eranog and Sennarth, added an additional option on Dathea.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Stormy, Elemental main since Wrath of the Lich King and member of the Storm, Earth and Lava Elemental theorycrafting team.
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