Elemental Shaman Mythic+ Guide (2024)

• Call of the Ancestors
  • This is the whole mechanic for this Hero Tree. Whenever you summon an Ancestor you reduce the cooldown of your Fire Elemental or Storm Elemental by 5 seconds thanks to Offering from Beyond.
  • These Ancestors cast spells depending on what you cast.
    • If you cast any Single-Target spell the Ancestor casts a Lava Burst on your target.
    • If you cast any AoE spell the Ancestor casts a Chain Lightning on a random target in range.
  • Ancestors spawn when you cast Primordial Wave and when you consume Ancestral Swiftness, which is the capstone talent in the Hero Tree. Make sure you have Nature's Swiftness specced if you play this tree.
• There are 2 choice nodes that you change together most of the time. You either play
  • Ancient Fellowship and Routine Communication or
  • Latent Wisdom and Heed My Call.
  • The first version is more raid focused as it encourages you to cast as many Lava Bursts as possible to spawn as many Ancestors as possible.
  • The second version is generally better for Mythic+ as here you want to pool Maelstrom for when you use Primordial Wave and Ancestral Swiftness and cast as many AoE spells as possible to get as many extra Chain Lightning as you can.
• When an Ancestor despawns they cast an Elemental Blast on a nearby target thanks to Final Calling. This Elemental Blast does give you the Critical strike, Haste or Mastery as well.
• The rest of this tree are passives that don't affect your gameplay much.
  • Primordial Capacity
    • Increases your maximum Maelstrom by 25.
  • Maelstrom Supremacy
    • Increases the damage of your spenders by 8%.
  • Elemental Reverb
    • Lava Burst gains 1 additional charge and deals 5% increased damage.

• Tempest
  • Your Lightning Bolt turns into Tempest after either
    • You spend 300 Maelstrom.
    • You get 3 stacks of Awakening Storms.
  • The main idea of this Hero Tree is to cycle through as much Maelstrom as possible and cast as many Tempest as possible.
• Storm Swell or Arc Discharge
  • Choice node where in Mythic+ you pick Arc Discharge in every case, which makes your next 2 Chain Lightnings instant cast and deal increased damage after Tempest hits 2 or more targets.
  • Storm Swell grants you 30 Maelstrom after your Tempest only hits 1 target.
• Rolling Thunder
  • Grants you 1 charge of Stormkeeper every 50 sec.
• Conductive Energy
  • Casting Tempest applies Lightning Rod to your target, which makes you target swap every now and then on an AoE pull.
• The rest of this tree are passives that don't effect your gameplay much.
  • Unlimited Power
    • Spending Maelstrom grants you Haste.
  • Voltaic Surge
    • Increases the damage of your Earthquake and Chain Lightning by 15%.
  • Stormcaller
    • Increases the critical strike chance and damage of your nature spells by 5%.

When to use this Spec

This is your standard Mythic+ build, where your focus is to stack up your Wind Gust quickly and make use of the 10 stacks for as long as possible before your Storm Elemental despawns. This build isn't topping on Single-Target but you are doing massive AoE DPS. Sadly there is no great Mythic+ build currently that performs great at everything.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

• Earthquake
  • Your main AoE spender. Here you can choose if you want to choose the location with your mouse, or for it to drop on your targets location.
• Storm Elemental
  • The whole build revolves around Wind Gust from your Storm Elemental.
• Surge of Power
  • Empowers your next cast of a few selected spells. Mostly used for Lightning Bolt on Single-Target fights.
• Stormkeeper
  • Empowers your next 2 Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning.
• Primordial Wave
  • Together with Splintered Elements increases your Haste by up to 30%.
• Liquid Magma Totem
  • Enables Primordial Wave and Skybreaker's Fiery Demise which give you incredibly high uptime of Storm Elemental.
• Flash of Lightning
  • Increases the crit chance of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 10%, and reduces the cooldown of all your nature spells whenever you cast either spell.

Class Tree

• Totemic Surge
  • Reduces the cooldown of your totems by 6sec, which makes it a must have for Liquid Magma Totem cooldown reduction.
• Spiritwalker's Grace
  • Allows you to cast while moving for 15 sec, which can save you a lot of DPS which you might lose otherwise in certain scenarios.
• Nature's Swiftness
  • Makes your next nature cast instant.

Hero Talents

• Tempest
  • Your Lightning Bolt turns into Tempest after either
    • You spend 300 Maelstrom.
    • You get 3 stacks of Awakening Storms.
• Arc Discharge
  • If your Tempest hits 2 or more targets, your next 2 Chain Lightnings deal increased damage and become instant.
• Conductive Energy
  • Tempest now applies Lightning Rod to your target so you need to target swap to maximize the value.
• Rolling Thunder
  • Grants you one charge of Stormkeeper every 50 sec.

When to use this Spec

This build is better in lower keys as your damage is more front-loaded through your Ancestors. It performs worse than Stormbringer on longer AoE fights but its Single-Target is just fine. If you are only doing lower keys you can easily play this build and do just fine.

Talent Adjustments

Listing all the changes within the Class and Spec tree compared to the default build.

Hero Talents

Changed Stormbringer to Farseer for more info visit the Hero Talent section above.

• Latent Wisdom
  • This version wants to pool Maelstrom and cast as many AoE spells as possible while your Ancestors are active.
• Heed My Call
  • Increases your Ancestor duration by 4 sec which enables you to have big Ancestor windows.
• Natural Harmony
  • The best defensive choice on this node.

Opener

• Your goal in the opener is to stack up Wind Gust as quickly as possible.

• On Single-Target you only want to cast Lava Burst with Lava Surge to empower your Earth Shock or Tempest. If Primordial Wave is about to fall off you can hardcast a Lava Burst.
• If you get a Tempest at an early point in your opener you naturally cast it by trying to cast a Lightning Bolt.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

1. Cast Storm Elemental if it is not active.
2. Cast Stormkeeper on cooldown.
3. Cast Primordial Wave on cooldown.
   • Using Primordial Wave on cooldown should be enough to keep 100% Flame Shock uptime.
4. Cast Lava Burst if you have Lava Surge or Primordial Wave active.
5. Cast Earth Shock.
6. Cast Tempest.
7. Cast Lightning Bolt with Stormkeeper active.
8. Cast Liquid Magma Totem on cooldown.
9. Cast Lightning Bolt.

Opener

• In the opener you are trying to cast as many spells as possible while your Ancestors are active, and stack up Wind Gust for your next Ancestors.

• The idea is to cast Lightning Bolt until you have enough to spend your Maelstrom on an Earth Shock.
• You only cast Lava Burst to consume Primordial Wave, and when you have a Lava Surge proc. If Primordial Wave is about to run before you get Lava Surge, cast a Lava Burst.
• You want to cast Primordial Wave and Ancestral Swiftness on cooldown to summon Ancestors which are a big part of your damage.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

1. Cast Storm Elemental if it is not active.
2. Cast Stormkeeper on cooldown.
3. Cast Primordial Wave on cooldown.
   • Using Primordial Wave on cooldown should be enough to keep 100% Flame Shock uptime.
4. Cast Ancestral Swiftness on cooldown.
5. Cast Lava Burst if you have Lava Surge or Primordial Wave active.
6. Cast Earth Shock.
7. Cast Tempest.
8. Cast Lightning Bolt with Stormkeeper active.
9. Cast Liquid Magma Totem on cooldown.
10. Cast Lightning Bolt.

Opener

• Your goal in the opener is to spread Flame Shock to gain value from Splintered Elements, while trying to stack up Wind Gust as quickly as possible and start spending Maelstrom so you can start casting Tempest as soon as possible.

• On AoE you only want to cast Lava Burst with Primordial Wave active to get the Haste from Splintered Elements.
• If you get a Tempest at an early point in your opener you cast it instantly.

Priority List

1. Cast Storm Elemental if it is not active.
2. Cast Stormkeeper on cooldown.
3. Cast Primordial Wave on cooldown.
   • Using Primordial Wave on cooldown should be enough to keep 100% Flame Shock uptime.
4. Cast Liquid Magma Totem on cooldown.
5. Cast Lava Burst if you have Primordial Wave active.
6. Cast Earthquake.
7. Cast Tempest.
8. Cast Chain Lightning with Stormkeeper active at 3+ Targets.
9. Cast Lightning Bolt with Surge of Power on 2 targets.
10. Cast Chain Lightning 2+ targets.

Opener

• Your goal in the opener is to spread Flame Shock to gain value from Splintered Elements, while trying to stack up Wind Gust as quickly as possible so that you can cast as many spells as possible while your Ancestors are active.

• On AoE you only want to cast Lava Burst with Primordial Wave active to get the Haste from Splintered Elements.
• You want to pool some Maelstrom for your Primordial Wave and Ancestral Swiftness so that you can cast as many fast spells as possible while your Ancestors are active.
• Around 25 sec after using Primordial Wave and Ancestral Swiftness you get them ready again and you should be at 10 stacks of Wind Gust.

Priority List

1. Cast Storm Elemental if it is not active.
2. Cast Stormkeeper on cooldown.
3. Cast Primordial Wave on cooldown.
   • Using Primordial Wave on cooldown should be enough to keep 100% Flame Shock uptime.
4. Cast Ancestral Swiftness on cooldown.
5. Cast Liquid Magma Totem on cooldown.
6. Cast Lava Burst if you have Primordial Wave active.
7. Cast Earthquake.
8. Cast Chain Lightning with Stormkeeper active at 3+ Targets.
9. Cast Lightning Bolt with Surge of Power on 2 targets.
10. Cast Chain Lightning 2+ targets.

Boss Tips

Avanoxx

• Use Astral Shift on Alerting Shrill.
• Avoid kiting Starved Crawlers into the boss else the boss receives Insatiable.
  • Use Earthbind Totem to keep them slowed.
  • AoE them down as soon as possible.

Anub'zekt

• Use Astral Shift when you are targetted by Burrow Charge.
• Kill Bloodstained Webmages fast and interrupt Silken Restraints.

Ki'katal the Harvester

• Use defensive while you're affected by Cultivated Poisons and make sure you face correctly to not hit your party.
• When you're affected by Grasping Blood you can use any form of crowd control to break it, such as Thunderstorm.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Resonant Barrage from Trilling Attendant.
  • Horrifying Shrill from Ixin.
  • Revolting Volley from Bloodstained Webmage.
  • Venom Volley from Blood Overseer.

• Pay extra attention to these casts:
  • Alarm Shrill from Sentry Stagshell
    • A really long cast that needs to get disrupted.
  • Massive Slam from Nerubian Hauler and Hulking Bloodguard
    • A short stun that ramps in damage done per cast.

Boss Tips

Orator Krix'vizk

• Use your Wind Rush Totem during Vociferous Indoctrination.
• Use Astral Shift if you are targeted by Shadows of Doubt

Fangs of the Queen

• Watch out for Knife Throw. Use defensives if you're targeted by this ability.
• You can cleanse Ice Sickles by using Spirit Walk or Thunderous Paws. If you are specced into Jet Stream you can also use Wind Rush Totem.

The Coaglamation

• Use your defensives for Dark Pulse. This happens at 100 boss energy.
• When you soak a Viscous Darkness it spawns a pool so try to soak it close to other pools.

Izo, the Grand Splicer

• Save Liquid Magma Totem for Ravenous Scarabs spawns to easily spread Flame Shock. You can also hold Primordial Wave if they are about to spawn to gain even more Haste.
• Use your defensives for Splice since it's the highest damage event during this fight.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Web Bolt from Sureki Silkbinder.
  • Grimweave Blast from Covert Webmancer.
  • Mending Web from Covert Webmancer.
  • Twist Thoughts from Herald of Anurek.
  • Void Wave from Sureki Unnaturaler.

Boss Tips

E.D.N.A.

• Always stack up to spawn Volatile Spikes close together to ensure you can detonate them all with 1 Refracting Beam.
• Use Astral Shift or Stone Bulwark Totem for Earth Shatterer.

Skarmorak

• You can apply Flame Shock to all Crystal Shards to gain some cooldown reduction on your Storm Elemental.
  • Be wary of Crystalline Eruption.
• Use your defensive before Unstable Crash happens or while you have multiple stacks of Unstable Energy.

Master Machinists Brokk and Dorlita

• Make sure you keep Flame Shock on both bosses.
• Use your defensive during Exhaust Vents and Blazing Crescendo.

Void Speaker Eirich

• Make sure you drop Entropy from Entropic Reckoning in a good postition or you run out of room during this fight.
• Use your defensive on Entropic Reckoning.

Trash Tips

• Focus down Earth Burst Totem from Cursedforge Stoneshaper. They have a low amount of health but are not affected by AoE abilities.
• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Howling Fear from Ghastly Voidsoul.
  • Censoring Gear from Turned Speaker.
  • Piercing Wail from Void Bound Howler.
  • Restoring Metals from Forgebound Mender and Cursedforge Mender.
  • Arcing Void from Cursedheart Invader.

Boss Tips

Speaker Shadowcrown

• Consider using a defensive if you're affected by Collapsing Night. Getting out of this quickly is important since it deals a lot of damage every 0.5 seconds.
• You can cleanse Burning Shadows by using Spirit Walk or Thunderous Paws. If you are specced into Jet Stream you can also use Wind Rush Totem.

Anub'ikkaj

• Stun Animate Shadows with Capacitor Totem
• Use defensives for the Dark Orb and Shadowy Decay. If you use Astral Shift very late before the Dark Orb hits a wall, it can cover some of the Shadowy Decay as well, this depends on how far the orb travels.

Rasha'nan

• Be aware of Erosive Spray. It applies Lingering Erosion which is dangerous when combined with other damage events.
• During Phase 2 you can mitigate some damage by using Gust of Wind after dropping your Spinneret's Strands.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Night Bolt from Nightfall Shadowmage.
  • Ensnaring Shadows from Nightfall Shadowmage.
  • Tormenting Beam from Nightfall Darkcaster.
  • Umbral Barrier from Nightfall Darkcaster.

Boss Tips

Ingra Maloch

• Interrupt Spirit Bolt every time a non-tank player is targeted. Due to Wind Shear short cooldown you should be interrupting the majority of the casts.
• Use Tremor Totem whenever Repulsive Visage is being cast.
• Try to line up your cooldowns with Droman Oulfarran's Droman's Wrath to gain a huge DPS boost. This happens when Droman Oulfarran reaches 20% health.

Mistcaller

• You can use Earthbind Totem to slow the Illusionary Vulpins. You can also spec Hex but there are a lot of good talents in this dungeon so it could be hard to get.
  • If your group is not crowd-controlling the Illusionary Vulpins use Flame Shock on them.
• Use your defensives during the Guessing Game.

Tred'ova

• Stay far away from your team to quickly break Mind Link.
• Don't overmove on the Acid Expulsion as the boss remembers your movement for the next Acid Expulsion and spawns swirlies in the direction you moved previously.
• You can use Liquid Magma Totem on the Glooming Larvas to gain some funnel.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Spirit Bolt from Drust Harvester.
  • Harvest Essence from Drust Harvester.
  • Nourish the Forest from Mistveil Tender.
  • Bramblethorn Coat from Mistveil Shaper.
  • Stimulate Regeneration from Spinemaw Staghorn.
  • Stimulate Resistance from Spinemaw Staghorn.

Boss Tips

Blightbone

• Use Astral Shift or Stone Bulwark Totem if you're targeted by Heaving Retch.
• You can keep Earthbind Totem down on the boss to slow Carrion Worms.
• Liquid Magma Totem is great to use on the Carrion Worms to kill them fast, but also to gain funnel.

Amarth, The Harvester

• Make sure you Wind Shear the Reanimated Mages instantly.
• If any adds are still alive during Final Harvest, try to time a Capacitor Totem. With them crowd-controlled the adds don’t explode and wipe the group despite being alive.

Surgeon Stitchflesh

• Try to bait Embalming Ichor on the sides of the room to make it easier to kite the boss later during Morbid Fixation.
• Be ready to aim Meat Hooks towards the boss to pull him down.

Nalthor the Rimebinder

• Be positioned on the outside of the room so you can instantly get dispelled on Frozen Binds. If you are playing Spirit Walk you can cleanse it yourself.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Drain Fluids from Corpse Harvester and Corpse Collector.
  • Necrotic Bolt from Zolramus Sorceror & Zolarmus Necromancer.
  • Rasping Scream from Skeletal Marauder.
  • Frostbolt Volley from Reanimted Mage.
  • Goresplatter from Corpse Collector.
  • Repair Flesh from Flesh Crafter.

Boss Tips

Chopper Redhook

• You can pool Maelstrom for when the boss walks into Bombs which afflicts him with Heavy Ordnance.
• You can spread some Flame Shock on the adds to gain some funnel.

Dread Captain Lockwood

• Focus down the Ashvane Cannoneer during the phase change to quickly use Unstable Ordnance to get the boss down from the ship.
• If the boss is slowed or rooted she does not cast Evasive. Keep Earthbind Totem down on the boss if your group doesn't have any constant passive slow.

Hadal Darkfathom

• Stay away from the center of the room to bait Break Water far away. This way you can have the center free for when Tidal Surge comes.

Viq'Goth

• Keep Flame Shock on Demolishing,Gripping Terrors as well as the boss at all times.
• Focus down the Demolishing Terror first on each platform.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Brackish Bolt from Irontide Waveshaper.
  • Watertight Shell from Irontide Waveshaper.
  • Water Bolt from Bilge Rat Tempest.
  • Choking Waters from Bilge Rat Tempest.
  • Bolstering Shout from Ashvane Commander.

Boss Tips

General Umbriss

• Use Gust of Wind and Wind Rush Totem to help you dodge Shadowflame Breath from Commanding Roar.
• Use Astral Shift before Commanding Roar.

Forgemaster Throngus

• Use Astral Shift during Blistering Heat.
• Drop the Molten Pool in good locations to use the space well.

Drahga Shadowburner

• Use Astral Shift during Twilight Buffet.
• Use Cleanse Spirit to dispell Curse of Entropy.

Erudax, the Duke of Below

• Use defensives during Abyssal Corruption and Void Surge.
• You can use Mutated Hatchlings as a funnel for more boss damage! But make sure you kill them at a proper time so as they make you take increased shadow damage when they die

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Earth Bolt from Twilight Earthcaller.
  • Mass Tremor from Twilight Earthcaller.
  • Shadowflame Bolt from Twilight Beguiler.
  • Sear Mind from Twilight Beguiler.

Below you are presented with a good list of farmable alternatives that are obtainable outside of WoW’s weekly lockout system. While replaced in time as you progress, these offer immediate character power.

#showtooltip/cast [@cursor] Earthquake

#showtooltip/cast [@cursor] Liquid Magma Totem

#showtooltip/cast [@cursor] Wind Rush Totem

#showtooltip/cast [@cursor] Totemic Projection