Table of Contents
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Elemental Shaman Overview
elemental Shaman is a damage dealing spellcaster with a rich people and flexible toolkit. elemental Shamans can approach a multitude of environments without feeling compromised. Through certain talents, Elemental can besides provide very significant explode damage, allowing them to surge ahead during light damage checks or dungeon bosses. overall, this specialization has a tool or endowment for every scenario, although its nourish single-target wrong might be lacking .
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Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
Best single-target talent build is very fun and mobile .- Some endowment builds are very square to play .
- Potential for massive fusillade damage in Cleave/AoE .
- excellent utility outside of Raids .
- talent choices allow for excellent flexibility and varied playstyles .
Weaknesses
Most survivability tools are talent-related and can be awkward to use by rights .- Tends to be outclassed by early specializations outside of specific situations .
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Patch 9.2 Changes for Shamans
We are maintaining a tilt of changes for Shamans, so you can see what changes with every patch of Shadowlands. Be sure to besides check out Elemental ‘s specific changes for the approaching eyepatch, 9.2, to hear our thoughts on the newly tier set bonuses that will be coming .
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Mage Tower Challenge
From Patch 9.1.5 ahead, both Legion Timewalking and the Mage Tower have returned. As such we have created a divide steer detailing what you can expect from the Mage Tower challenge available to Elemental Shamans .
3.2.
Notable 9.2 Changes for Elemental Shaman
Within the new Sepulcher of the First Ones raid that will be coming in Patch 9.2, every class will once again gain pieces of a gear hardened that is uniquely class-themed with its own two- and four-piece bonuses for every specialization. For elementary Shamans, these set bonuses are :
Flame Shock immediately has a target capital of 6. This only matters for enhancement Shamans because of a newly machinist they get .
Frost Shock damage increased by 40 %. This seems huge but as you will see below, 
Icefury has been nerfed significantly. This calm results in an overall ~12 % buff for Icefury on paper, however for several reasons we will explain below, once you obtain hardened bonuses, Icefury becomes a lot less desirable. however, having Frost Shock do 40 % more damage baseline is still quite helpful in itself, giving elemental Shamans more allowance to move whenever needed without losing much DPS if they do not have a 
Lava Surge or 
Earth Shock ready .
Fire Elemental has had the Mana cost of its abilities reduced by roughly 90 % and should no longer run out of Mana. This is a pay back caused by the newly tier set bonus which extends the duration of Fire Elemental. On PTR, the Elemental would run out of Mana during its extend duration and stop doing anything !
Icefury now causes your future 4 Frost Shock mho to deal 225 % increase damage ( was 300 % ). This combined with the changes to baseline Frost Shock results in an overall buff to the talent which most elementary Shamans will likely take advantage of early in the mend. however, Elemental ‘s tier set bonuses in mend 9.2 synergize direction excessively much with 
Primal Elementalist for Icefury to remain a likely rival in most PvE encounters.
Elemental Conduit, the Venthyr Legendary, nowadays besides causes Flame Shock critical strikes to reduce 
Chain Harvest ‘s cooldown by 1 second. This is a significant buff to this presently largely-unused Legendary when multidotting is allow. Combined with the newfound ability to equip 2 Legendaries, one of them being a Covenant Legendary, this fan may well be adequate for Venthyr to catch up to other Covenants in many situations, a well as place it in a fantastic place in the content where it was already strong .
Splintered Elements ‘s Haste bonus now lasts for 12 seconds alternatively of 10. This is a welcome buff to a bare Legendary which remains unfortunately lackluster for single-target .
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Leveling an Elemental Shaman
If you want to play an Elemental Shaman, but presently do not have one at soap horizontal surface, you can check out our leveling scout for tips on your travel .
After the charge phase, you may want to optimize your performance by using one or respective addons. In order not to be overwhelmed, we recommend you start using at least some of our commend addons during the level of your Shaman, so you can get acquainted with them and configure/customize them to your like .
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Basics of Elemental Shaman Gameplay
elemental Shaman is a specification with simple fundamentals for both single-target and AoE, with a wide range of customization available from your talents. Some talents allow for Elemental to be very easy to play, or very building complex and reinforce .
Most of your time will be spent casting 
Lightning Bolt and 
Lava Burst, while maintaining Flame Shock and casting Earth Shock once you have adequate Maelstrom. Beyond these fundamentals, gameplay largely depends on your talent choices .
If you are equitable starting as an Elemental Shaman and are interesting in learning the basics of the specification, visit the Spell Summary first gear, then the Easy Mode page under .
If you already know how Shamans work, head immediately to the Talents and Rotation pages in order to find out more detailed information .
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How to Gear Up as an Elemental Shaman
Gearing is not a bare as it once was, although the easy entree to simulations are highly helpful. Our gearing page will help you learn about how best to gear your Elemental Shaman .
After you have acquired some gearing, you must then use the right enchants, gems and consumables. Visit our dedicated foliate, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as our stats page thus you get a better mind which stats you should look for .
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Elemental Shaman in Shadowlands
Shadowlands introduces 4 Covenants, new unique “ factions ” that do not like each other, so much so that you can only join one of them ! They are core to the Shadowlands experience and which Covenant you join is one of the biggest decisions you can make in World of Warcraft .
Shadowlands besides introduces an armory of legendary Powers, but you can entirely have one at a meter, and crafting them takes time and money, choose wisely ! legendary Powers are to be acquired from the fresh end-game activeness, Torghast .
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End-Game as an Elemental Shaman
While your core gameplay loop is accessible early on, max horizontal surface gameplay can be wildly different than during razing. Our Torghast, Mythic+, Raiding, and PvP guides will help you fine tune your gameplay in any end-game content .
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Improving as an Elemental Shaman
If you are struggling with doing good DPS and are uncertain what you are doing wrong, visit the pages below in order to find answers and advice .
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