Best Mastering the Elements Talent Build Guide for Mining in Dragonflight

The Mastering the Elements tree allows you to specialize into gathering the various types of Rousing and Awakened Essences when looting Dragon Isles ore veins affected by modifiers.

This is mostly done through the usage of the Overload Elemental Deposit ability, which you should be using on cooldown. While its baseline cooldown is 12 hours, each ore vein you pick during this period reduces the cooldown by 30 minutes, allowing you to use it somewhat frequently, especially if you also have the cooldown reduction talents present in the Mastering the Elements tree branches.

Using this ability on the following modified ore vein types will lead to a specific result. Note that Rich nodes cannot be affected, and you can loot the overloaded ore vein before or after participating in its respective mini-game.

• Primal overloads grant you some minor combat buffs and the Explosive Elements buff, which allows for faster Overload Elemental Deposit refreshes;
• Titan-Touched overloads open a portal next to the ore vein which ports you to a random ore vein node nearby. Pick up the overloaded ore vein before taking the portal for some Rousing Order;
• Hardened overloads spawn multiple small items nearby which can be looted for Rousing Earth;
• Molten overloads spawn an enemy that can be looted for Rousing Fire;
• Infurious overloads knock back nearby enemy players and grant you 10% extra stats from Overload Blood for 10-minutes.

1. 10 points into Mastering the Elements for pathing;
2. Learn Primal (no knowledge point investment required) for extra Rousing Essences when gathering;
3. 10 points into Mastering the Elements for further pathing;
4. Learn Molten (no knowledge point investment required) for 50% less damage taken from the dispellable debuff applied when you mine these deposits;
5. 10 points into Mastering the Elements for further pathing;
6. Learn Titan-Touched (no knowledge point investment required) to gain a short burst of speed and secondary stats after mining Titan-Touched nodes;
7. 10 points into Mastering the Elements for further pathing;
8. Learn Hardened (no knowledge point investment required) for quicker gathering of Hardened nodes;
9. 10 points into Mastering the Elements to gain a random Rousing Essence when using Overload Elemental Deposit.

This talent pathing focuses on Mastering the Elements and unlocking all the sub-nodes without point investment into them. The objective is to become highly efficient at mining all types as quickly as possible, and further specialization into a type can be done later, perhaps in the form of 20 point investments into all of them, to lower the cooldown on Overload Elemental Deposit as much as possible!