Ele survival

Classes Shaman
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Trying to pick up Ele as an off-spec so I can blast through side content without having to run everything as Resto, but this spec just seems to fold in half. Damage rotation is straight-forward enough, but chain heal barely moves your health bar, healing stream is meh–so your major ability to heal seems to lean on nature’s guardian procs (every 30 seconds), and a 1.5M Astral Shift CD. I get ranged are supposed to kite/use roots, etc. but a lot of situations I’m fighting caster mobs that are going to continue damaging me regardless.

The only other DPS spec I play for caster is Shadow Priest, and I basically just pull entire rooms, pop my ‘heal while I do dmg’ button, and don’t even need to use flash heal–but I still even get instant procs of flash heal which is a significantly bigger heal than chain heal on Ele.

Am I missing something with this spec for survival? Or is it just do a lot of damage and get trucked while kiting like crazy and blasting with instants?

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Well, it’s considered a glass cannon. But, it’s not really squishy. You should use healing surge and not chain heal. I had to go enhancement to beat Nebullous at rank 11 but that’s about the only hold down I’ve encountered as ele and am currently not running a shield. If you have a MH and shield, you get a good bit tankier.

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Tbh I had no idea that was even an option. I just steal builds and roll with it, so I assumed chain heal was all that’s available. Having Healing Surge solves 100% of my problems.

Thank you, wise stranger.

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