What is the optimal/desired corruption these days for Elemental Shaman? I’ve been following the guides, which generally all say the same thing: Infinite Stars > Gushing Wounds > Strikethrough > Expedite (increases AoE) > Severe. The problem I have is that I’m under performing in single target. RL says, hey, just go +% stats like Crit. I see lead Ele Shamans with Crit, Strikthrough, whatever. What’s the story?
The story is there is not updated guide.
Just look up warcraft log to see what corruption they using, in general is crit amp and the increase crit damage. The guides you reading prob just outdated aka before corruption vendor.
You could be doing mistake in your rotation, on the fight too for not doing well.
1st off sim yourself. You may find out that there are better talents/traits/essence combos you can be running and doing way more dmg.
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If you are running Ascendance, crit isnt going to be a fantastic option as crit does nothing for LvB.
Vers/haste may be a better option stat wise for optimal meatball spam.
As for corruptions, I would personally stay away from RNG ones. Tendrils, Stars, TD are amazing when they proc. If they dont proc your dmg sucks.
Personally; if I was more concerned with raiding I would go gushing and which ever stat increase would give me the dps increase. Remember ele shaman dmg scales really well with secondaries. Or just crit dmg increase.
If you are more focused on M+ I would go a full crit to about 50% then dump the rest into crit dmg increase and change my talents to a LB/CL spam build with NH+darkness x3 traits. I really believe this build would do great in raid as well given the nature of all the adds.
I’ve found this new meta of corruption to be annoying to figure out. No mainstay website has anything new or updated about it. I’ve simmed myself and Raidbots prefers Ascendance over Stormkeeper. Though I find Stormkeeper better quality of life for ease of use.
From a stat weight perspective, Crit & Vers are equal in value, with Haste not far behind. In thinking about this new pure secondary stat gain, I feel like I should be balanced in Crit & Vers (say at x2, +24%), with Haste (x1, +12%) and the rest into Strikethrough (+4% Crit/Heal effect); or combo of Strikethrough and Gushing Wounds. I have 150 corruption to play around with to stay at 39 Corruption or less.
To achieve 50% Crit requires about 3,200 Crit rating. With Natures Harmony and Manifesto of Madness, that’s not hard to achieve as burst. Presumably, if you scale close to 50% Crit you are doing more damage then before. Just seems that Vers and Haste shouldn’t be neglected too.
Afterthought, after looking at our abilities again, Crit % directly improves Ascendance while Versatility % improves Earthquake; on top of just improving chance of doing more damage and incrementally increasing damage.
Both options sound pretty solid.
barokoshama has a m+ video where he talks about 50% crit, 20% haste, 10% vers.
Though if you are planning on keeping Asc I wouldnt have my crit that high. I would only run that much crit if I was running SE/PE/SK or SE/PE(SoP)/UP builds.