Elemental Shaman PvP Guide (Dragonflight 10.2)

Elemental Shamans have a combination of high burst, 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 Primordial Wave, Lava Surge, Skyfury Totem, Earth Shock, and Lightning Lasso.

• Elemental Shaman's 2-set bonus: Primordial Wave also casts an Elemental Blast at the target at 100% effectiveness, and grants you all three Elemental Blast bonus effects for 15.0 sec.
• Elemental Shaman's 4-set bonus: For 10 seconds after using Primordial Wave, whenever you consume Lava Surge, your next Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning is instant cast and deals 25% increased damage.
• Splintered Elements now grants you 20% Haste plus an additional 4% Haste per extra target hit by Primordial Wave, rather than 10% Haste per target hit.
• Primordial Wave can no longer be used to heal a friendly ally, it is now only an offensive spell for Elemental Shaman.
• Elemental Blast can now refresh and extend the duration of the Haste , Critical Strike, and Mastery effects to up to 130% of the base 10 second duration, but will still prefer to apply a buff that you don’t already have.

Strengths

• High sustained damage with high uptime of Fire Elemental and Flame Shock through the use of Surge of Power causing strong pressure
• High burst damage with Primordial Wave, Lava Burst, Deeply Rooted Elements and Earth Shock
• Strong mobility and kiting with Gust of Wind, Thunderstorm and Earthgrab Totem
• 5-second stun and moderate damage with Lightning Lasso, which cannot be dispelled but can be interrupted.
• Dispel protection of Flame Shock
• Has Healing Stream Totem, Earth Shield and Healing Surge for strong off-healing
• Short cooldown interrupt in Wind Shear
• Grounding Totem, Static Field Totem and Tremor Totem provide strong utility to the team

Weaknesses

• Predictable burst damage when Primordial Wave is cast
• Dependent on procs of Lava Surge based on Flame Shock which can be dispelled
• When focused, it can be challenging to generate Maelstrom