Leveling right now at 52 it’s pretty frustrating to play. Even with stormbringer up if I pull more than 1 mob it’s an uphill battle since chain lightning feels so weak unless I get really lucky with procs. In general though I feel like I spend a lot of time with mobs smacking me in the face and not enough cleave to feel like I’m strong.
Contrast this to say my Spriest or my WW where I can pull to my hearts content since I can cleave well.
Does this change at 60? I like the overall theme of the class and I like seeing big numbers from ranged but the leveling process is pretty painful so far.
What talents are you using?
I’ve been mowing mobs down and can even use the earth ele to tank large groups while you blast them.
Echoing shock used with stormkeeper chain lightning is particularly nasty especially if used after lava burst and master of the elements. I also level with WM on for skyfury.
Lightning lasso is also a free kill every 30 seconds too.
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i have to say, levelling as ele was not the best experience. its not bad, i was able to handle it, but it felt like i had to work harder than i needed to.
stormkeeper and capacitor totem were the only reason i could cleave down mobs. if it was a big pack, earth elemental every 5 minutes helps too. outside of those cooldowns i really needed to stick to 1 or 2 mobs at a time.
Man, I feel like I’ve been playing a completely different class than everyone else. Elemental has been nonstop fun for me. Survivability can sometimes be an issue if I pull one too many mobs, but it’s nothing my earth elemental can’t handle.
For leveling, I found it especially useful to stack Mastery because getting that second cast can do some particularly nasty damage to enemies. Echoing Shock is also pretty useful as well since it can be paired with your ST or AoE abilities, although you will want to consider respeccing into Elemental Blast at level 60 for more sustainability.
enhance is way better at leveling , instant heals , instant attacks ,earth elemental + wolfs , and if u choose pvp talents its even get better BL every min !
is not like ele is bad , stormkeeper can mow down groups , but CL does meh dmg and EQ is a dot after all…
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agreed. 100%.
i love ele at 60… doing world quests or whatever, but levelling was just a pain.
yeah at 60 with gear Ele gets better , kinda like all the casters 
I would say ele gets much much more fun with gear. Once you’re in the 180ilvl+ range, the spec becomes much more dynamic, especially if you go with the windspeaker lava resurgence legendary with some decent haste. I too was ready to give up before I had any decent gear, but I’m glad I stuck with it.
What Ilvl is your shaman op? My shaman rekt stuff pretty easy. I didnt pull a bunch usually, but if I had cds up I could pull 5 or more and live just fine. Earth ele is a god send as well when fighting rares or elites. Just be sure to use your kit. Kite with slow totem and frost shocks and blow them up with instants.
I pulled mobs based off of my CD’s
If earth elemental was up I can pull a whole room and mow it down.
If stormkeeper was up I can do a big pull and burst it down.
If I had no CD’s available I would stick 1-2 mobs and wait for my cds.
If I accidentally pulled to many it wasn’t a death sentence shamans can kite very easily with their kit so I would just kite my way to victory just felt like this approach took unnecessary time.
When I was leveling I had 55% mastery and an old raid trinket that could proc me up to 70%.
I had a blast and had absolutely no trouble even with 3-4 mobs on me. Things were dying within 1-2 LvB.
pro tip (well semi pro), don’t use echoing shock with storm keeper CL, unless you use it on the 2nd storm keeper charge
there was a change where if you echoing shock your storm keeper, it uses up both your storm keeper charges instantly.
So if you storm keeper -> echoing shock -> CL = 6 CL total, no point in using up an echoing shock for that
but if you: storm keeper -> CL -> echoing shock -> 2nd storm keeper CL = 9 CL
echoing shock is much more beneficial on a lava burst
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Gets better, but I still consider it the worst spec to level or do WQs on due to how it functions mechanically.
I had to shelve mine, its just so awkward to play.
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I’ve been leveling as Ele and it seems to hold its own just fine.
While levelling as ele, I felt stronger at level 50 than I did as a fresh 60. It seemed I was doing the same damage in my BfA gear at level 50 as I was in SL levelling gear at 60.
But is ele fun at 60? Hell yes!
I was supposed to maining this DK or Spriest or affliction lock in SL.
Ele is way too much fun
I feel the same and I’m level 60.
I think it’s mostly the long cast times on our spells I’m not use to.
But i main Resto
Compared to Druid every caster is meh…
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I feel like mage is the real equalizer.
Mage depends … arcane is easy to play. Fire is too intense and punishing if you miss a rotation . Frost i never liked .