ELEMENTAL SHAMAN
Elemental Shaman is built on the Elemental talent tree and plays as a damage dealer in raids. The tree has 16 talents: 3 new in Forever, 13 changed from Classic.
ELEMENTAL GUIDE
We'll write the Elemental Shaman rotation, stat priority and recommended build as the beta data settles. For now, see the talent tree below, the talent calculator and the class discussions on the forum.
WHAT IT BRINGS TO A RAID
The catalogue has no raid contribution tied only to Elemental; the ones below apply to every Shaman.
EVERY SHAMAN BRINGS
Strength of Earth TotemGrace of Air TotemWindfury TotemFlametongue TotemMana Spring TotemHealing Stream TotemStoneskin TotemFire resistanceFrost resistanceNature resistancePoison cleanseDisease cleanseOffensive dispelInterruptFear protectionOut-of-combat resurrection
DETAILS ON THE CLASS PAGE →TALENTS
Hover or tap a talent to read it below. Text is for the final rank.
5Convection
5Concussion
3Elemental Warding
5Reverberation
3Call of Flame
3Elemental Devastation
1Elemental Focus
3Elemental Alacrity
2Improved Fire Nova
3Eye of the Storm
1Call of Thunder
2Elemental Reach
3Lightning Overload
1Earthbound
5Elemental Fury
1Lava Burst- ConvectionRow 1 · 5 rankChanged
Reduces the mana cost of your Shock, Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, and Chain Lightning spells by 10%.
- ConcussionRow 1 · 5 rankChanged
Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Earth Shock spells by 5%.
- Elemental WardingRow 2 · 3 rankChanged
Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost, and Nature effects by 10%.
- ReverberationRow 2 · 5 rankMoved
Reduces the cooldown of your Shock spells by 1.0 sec.
- Call of FlameRow 2 · 3 rankChanged
Increases the damage done by your Fire Totems and by your Flame Shock, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 15%.
- Elemental DevastationRow 2 · 3 rankChanged
Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 9% for 10 sec.
- Elemental FocusRow 3 · 1 rankMoved
Gives you a 10% chance to enter a Clearcasting state after casting any Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
- Elemental AlacrityRow 3 · 3 rankChangedClassic name: Lightning Mastery
Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.50 sec.
- Improved Fire NovaRow 4 · 2 rankChangedClassic name: Improved Fire Totems
Increases the damage done by your Fire Nova spell by 20% and reduces its cooldown by 4 sec.
- Eye of the StormRow 4 · 3 rankChanged
Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst by 70%.
- Call of ThunderRow 4 · 1 rankChanged
Increases the critical strike chance of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 3%.
- Elemental ReachRow 5 · 2 rankChangedClassic name: Storm Reach
Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 6 yards, and increases the range of your Flame Shock spell by 15 yards.
- Lightning OverloadRow 5 · 3 rankNew
Gives your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells a 10% chance to cast a second, similar spell on the same target at no additional cost that causes half damage and no threat.
- EarthboundRow 5 · 1 rankNew
Your Earthbind Totem Immobilizes nearby targets for 5 sec when cast.
- Elemental FuryRow 6 · 5 rankChanged
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Searing and Magma Totems and your Fire, Frost, and Nature spells by 100%.
- Lava BurstRow 7 · 1 rank · activeNew
You hurl molten lava at the target, dealing 150 to 192 Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst deals 20% increased damage.
Removed from Classic: Elemental Mastery
Talent, spell, race and raid data: talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), from the WoW Forever beta client; data date 2026-10-14. Numbers can lag live tuning. Spell names, icons and tooltip text belong to Blizzard Entertainment. Shaman talent calculator.