Teach me the ways of Ele Shaman

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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Hey, everyone. I just recently made a new Shaman and I’m wanting to improve as much as possible.

I have the feel of the rotation, but I’m not 100% sure on it. The guide on Icy-Veins says to use Fulmination at 7 stacks and up. Is there any reason to delay using it? Is there situations where Lightning Bolt spam will do more damage?

I also have a hard time working with the AoE rotation. It says to spread Flame Shock on as many targets as possible. Is this worth doing? or would it be a dps loss?

Any advice you all can give would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

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Correct.

Yes, if Lava Burst is up.

Not over a 7+ fulmination ES it wont.

It isnt worth doing at all, dont do it.

For AOE you want to do single target rotation but replace lightning bolt with Chain lightning, you also want it glyphed unless its going to be 3 targets or less. So for big aoe bosses you want it always glyphed. Use Flameshock on main target and Lava Burst when off CD and spam CL.

For fights like Morchok in DS you want the glyph removed.

Use 4% lightning bolt damage glyph on no movement fights like Ultraxion. If it has movement use the other glyph that lets you cast Lightning Bolt while moving.

Only Fulmination on AOE if its a prio target youre cleaving off of that needs to die, for example Ship boss in DS, you need to kill drakes.

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Thank you for taking the time to go over all this.

So if I’m just normally AoE’ing without a priority cleave, it’s just Chain Lightning and Lava Burst?

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Yes.

Can also use Ele mastery freely if youre clearing trash since CL and LB reduce its CD, just make sure its up before a boss.

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Awesome. Ty for all your help. :slight_smile:

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I’m embarassed i’ve been forgetting to do this lmfao

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Yea it happens.

Are you using the pre pull swaps?

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Nah I CBA to farm out the resto 4p, glyph swapping just didn’t occur to me since 99% of fights have movement in cata

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I don’t think the four piece is really worth it I was talking about the trinkets.

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oh nah I haven’t, the other ele in my run keeps getting caught in the prepull gear and trolling us and i don’t want to do the same lmao

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Well if someone is pulling too early they’re the ones who are trolling.

If he messes up and the full-timer does go all the way down it’s on him.

The trinket swap is easy you use both PVP trinkets the one from this phase and then the one from last phase.

It ends up being 2700 spell power for 20 seconds which is kind of massive for your opener with elemental mastery and pre pot.

Also gives you a pretty big fire ele

Only takes two hotkeys

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ill think about it, thanks for the tip

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It’s the 1650 conquest trinket that procs off damage and healing and the 1650 honor version of same trinket.

They both proc spell power.

So 4 seconds before pull you cast a healing rain on the raid and both will proc giving you just under 2700 spell power than pop gloves and pre pot and LB.

You don’t need to pvp for it, you can convert valor to conquest and you can convert justice to honor

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I note that using Lava Burst on AoE pulls is a DPS loss if there’s enough targets, usually around 4-5 targets.

It’s still something you should use in a cleave situation, but if all you want to do is kill ten targets as quickly as possible and don’t care what order they die in, the rotation is
10 Chain Lightning
20 GOTO 10

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Correct.

Don’t use LVB if it’s 5 targets

Also 5 targets is all we can hit (with glyph).

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I was wondering about this. Thank you for the advice :slight_smile:

I have a few more questions.

I’ve seen a few Shamans take Earthquake. Is there any situation where we should grab this talent? It looks pretty weak from a first glance. And every guide I look at says to skip it.

Also, for stat priority. If we aren’t able to get enough haste for the closest breakpoint, do we just wanna reforge everything into Mastery until we have enough gear to hit that breakpoint?

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EQ is a meme.

Best advice is to just sim it.

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It does no damage. The only reason I could see people bringing it is for the knockdown, but with that huge mana cost and long cast time, I can see why it’s a meme lol.

Alrighty. Gonna have to mess around with it a bit. Thank you again :slight_smile:

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I use this site.

https://wowsims.github.io/cata/shaman/elemental/#

And get this addon for it

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/wowsimsexporter

In game you do /WSE and hit “equipped gear” and it will create a string code you copy.

Then on the sim on the top click “Import” and then “addon” on the drop down and paste it in there.

You can even on the right save that as your current gear.

You can change the sim to whatever length of fight you want.

You can also hit “suggest reforges” and it will show you the best dps reforges for your gear, then you can just go reforge it.

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I’ve never simmed before, so I’m gonna look up some guides on how to properly do it.

For now, I’ll save the the link and add-on for later.

I’ve been practicing the rotation with your advice and it’s helped a bunch :slight_smile: