Elemental Shaman PvP Guide — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Elemental Shamans have a combination of consistent damage, interrupts, disruption, and mobility. The playstyle focuses on setting up burst damage while controlling the positioning of the match. Elemental Shaman's class design that mainly contributes to this is Voltaic Blaze, Lava Surge, Stormkeeper, Earth Shock, and Lightning Lasso.

• Additions:
  • Voltaic Blaze is now a core priority ability, replacing Flame Shock functionality and aspects of Primordial Wave & Liquid Magma Totem. It instantly applies Flame Shock to multiple targets and ensures Lava Burst always critically strikes.
• Removals:
  • Primordial Wave has been removed.
  • Fire Elemental and Storm Elemental have been removed.
  • Liquid Magma Totem has been removed.
  • Icefury has been removed.
  • Stone Bulwark Totem and Totemic Recall have been removed.
  • Talents removed: Deeply Rooted Elements, Splintered Elements, Echo of the Elementals, Elemental Equilibrium, Erupting Lava, Flux Melting, and Magma Chamber.
• Changes:
  • Ascendance has been reworked, replacing the Fire Elemental button and is now no longer optional to cast.
  • Rotation priorities have shifted to focus on Voltaic Blaze as the core ability for applying Flame Shock and enabling critical strikes.