Do you guys use it in opener vs rogues and then flesh for big shield?
Do you use fire ele in opener normally, then use earth mid-game when you’re in trouble, then feel like your dmg sucks until fire ele is back up?
Do you have it on passive and tell it who to stun? Tired of him waddling forever to get the stun off…
Kinda hate the ability TBH.
Trying to improve my survivability, but using earth ele seems like we’re making a decision to potentially live, but be weak AF for a min or 2.
Most ideal rotation is fire and astral/ trinket then earth then astral should rotate back.
You can start earth vs RMP/jungle etc to be safe, feels really bad if they don’t go you cus you have 140k HP and then you’re doing less damage and your defensives from rocky get wasted lol
If it can be helped/discussed with your team, start fire and be diligent with astral/external defensives.
You want to manually pulverize tho, yea Earth ele is slow/clumsy
Having earth ele out does make you feel like you need a senzu bean yea
Dont shamans usually use it with the leggo at the start of burst and just let it rack up damage?
Yea Earth Ele is always used in the rmp opener as it can stop first go completely with walling a stun and stunning a bust or blades dance.
you should also use it vs all in comps such as TSG in the opener as being able to wall in stun saves a trinket and the max hp conduit is pretty big to sustain major cooldowns on your healers from being depleted.
Almost never used 2nd as u need to use fire ele to get the pressure ramping versus wasting trinket astral first.
Especially in a comp where Ele is the kill target vs the RMP IE Outlaw Priest Ele, Ele Arms Rdruid etc.
In general all in comps on openers (TSG, RMP) use first.
Other comps generally avoid using it until its absolutely necessary - IE fire ele is now gone and on CD so you use earth ele to filler additional cc to force game to end, or shift is down and you know big go is coming.
This is actually awful advice
Use trinket wall first as the 1.5 and 2 min cds come back faster than the earth ele wall so you can actually rotate stuff
You can completely shut down the rmp first go with stun while sapped of feared with earth ele and can wall if they decide to use bust on you. It’s great advice and you have no idea what you are saying.
It’s the best thing you can do during mage invis go.
Definitely! That’s why no high rated eles use that strat! Not to mention the fact that your ele can be ccd easily in the opener as well and then you have to trinket anyway
imagine using move pet to avoid cc gottem you wouldn’t know how
I feel like most of the time you’re going to want to open with earth Ele against any team that could global you in openers…
Rogue Mage
Jungle
Ret war
TSG
WW DK
Hero Cleave
Something where you’re going to be spending the first 20-30 seconds living. Elementals are weird becasue you can’t have both out at the same time so I swear opening with earth ele, getting through their damage, then fire ele’ing.
It always feels bad to earth ele and not have them go you, as you waste the wall, but the extra stun is super helpful to peel and honestly if they don’t go you because earth ele is out than it’s kind of served its purpose.
After opening go’s against deadly teams is over i’ll fire ele.
I’m not sure what others do but opening with fire ele then having to dismiss it super early and reactionary to earth ele wall is awful.
This is only as resto shaman. Elemental shaman has a talent called ‘primal elementalist’ that lets them control the elementals as pets. Ele uses dwayne for a stun + 50% on use wall (can use while stunned). Very different than resto’s set and forget usage.
Can you tell me the name of the buff? Not sure if i have my BigDebuffs addon with the buff added
Yea even more reason to use it early being able to slow down momentum comps knowing they go you
When you need it, press the ability and it activates the spell.
There’s no buff, the earth ele legendary effect puts earthquake down that follows the pet. You should see the visual under the pet, but it can be glitchy. There’s no need to track this for shamans using the lego anyway. It’s a lot of extra pad dmg, can assist in pressure with a comp like DH/DK or ret/warr.
Only resto shaman run it. Ele and enh give up too much to use it.
If a resto shaman has “earthquake” in their damage breakdown on details, they’re using “Deeptremor Stone” - the earth ele does earthquake lego.