What’s the best rotation or opener for ele pvp
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Prioritize flame shock on as many targets as you can. Keep lava bursts rolling (try not to sit at 2 stacks).
Burst: Use primordial wave => stormkeeper => sky fury totem => LvB => LB => LvB => LB => ES => LVB (with lego) => lasso (if needed)
Mastery of the elements talent is why you do LvB before LB.
Don’t bother casting LB outside of stormkeeper.
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How necessary are throwing down totems and 3 at once?
Skyfury is necessary for your burst combo because Lava Burst is a guaranteed crit, and therefore it, its mastery echoes, and echoing shock echo, and all its primordial wave targets benefit from the bonus crit dmg %.
As stated above, that’s a good guide.
Ele pvp is about keeping flame shock up as much as possible — and being utility outside things like earth shock, lava surge procs, your burst combo, and refreshing flame shock.
Between each flame shock you have ~4 gcds. Look to purge things. Look to cross hex. Look to dispel curses. Look to snare with frost shock/earthbind. Look for interupts. Look for spells to ground.
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Thanks for the help
Sky fury totem for burst (helps your team too), the rest are for utility as needed.
Eventually, get used to throwing down grounding totem for spells like mind games. Tremor totem for incoming fears. Healing stream totem whenever you have some free globals, and earthbind for general annoyance or kiting. Capacitor totem for stun, capacitor totem + thunderstorm is a sure fire way to make sure they can’t leap back after getting knocked off a cliff too (or hex into thunderstorm).
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Wall of Text incoming-
Personally I do not run the Storm Keeper talent, as I prefer the Ascendence “pray and spray” method lol.
for Opening you just get out your Flame Shocks and make sure that you are not getting gated off the bat (if you open with your burst, you can get a full HoJ/Kidney stun and be closed out of the window). be sure not to use any CD’s/trinkets for this time, but use any totems that are not SkyFury.
for the burst window, its as follows.
Fire Ele/trinket (i use the 213 pvp on use), refresh your flame shock on target 1, hit the Primidoral Wave on target 2, (flame shock target 3 if in 3’s, or 2nd wave if you get it). sticking on your last target, do the following:
Skyfury > Echo shock > LavaBurst > Ascendence > LavaBurst (most likely a free one) > Earth shock > Free LB (assuming Leggo).
if you get super nice RNG, you just hit each target with 6 super juicy Lavaburst, but with no RNG, you hit each target at least 3 times. I hit the target dummies but can’t seem to paste the Screenshot here, but between 2 targets i got the following output:
Target 1:
6x Lavabursts for 41,986 total damage
Target 2:
5x Lavabursts for 40,575 total damage
now note that these are against PvE training dummies, so i wouldnt expect that level of damage in PvP, but say that each lavaburst hit for 5k, you’d still get 30k on target 1 and 25k on target 2, add on the flameshock damage, your fire ele damage and you have put the healer in a new pair of underwear.
a super important factor in this burst window is you HAVE to make sure that the enemy healer doesn’t have a cleanse ready (omniBar can help with that) else a cleanse before you start this burst will result in a wet noodle.
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The CD is so long .
In BG’s for vast periods of time you will be left with no burst . Just my opinion .
This is the reason I think I prefer ele shaman to other bursty casters. I don’t feel tied to a 2+ min CD for my damage. Elemental seems to surprise me with opportunities to burst even in between my 1 min SK CD.
Ascendance might be fun to try out and see if there are enough proc based damage windows created in between 3 min go’s.
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agreed 100%
i do not think there is any other 1 minute cooldown as powerful as Stormkeeper. And tbh, i think it is goign to scale SCARY fast once crit levels on gear improve. if you can get to like 25%+ crit value, that means reliably critting 1 out of the 4 instant lightning bolts… thats reliably 4k 4k 4k 13k and wow. thats alot of damage.
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Mastery is also a strong stat with current elemental setup, due to the power of those overloads.
yeah but stormkeepr is already goign to overload. id rather they crit
The overloads are for lava burst to reset master of the elements, and earth shock to reset the ES legendary
i’d still rather reliable lightning bolt crits. haha. maybe once we get enough stats for both but thats probably end of expansion gear
Let’s talk defense now what’s the first thing you do when getting attacked in pvp
Depends who is attacking you.
If it’s a rogue, trinket, and primal elementalist to stun them so they can’t chain shadow dance nonsense onto you.
For warriors, I tend to storm the first charge and immediately frost shock. If they leap, I rocket jump (goblin) to where they leapt from and earthbind between us.
If it’s a DK, if they haven’t gripped…I tstorm and instantly grounding because grip is their reaction.
Ret and feral I struggle against so I can’t offer proper advice. Feral eats me alive, but I generally find myself using lasso to make space against highly mobile classes rather then to secure my kill.
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usually either lightning lasso or frost shock.
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Best opener I find is going rock against scissors. You’ll find better balance in pet battles than PVP right now
mastery is an ok stat on ele rn, crit is better