Elemental Shaman Gearing Guide

Tier Sets Season 2

• (2) Set Bonus: Chance on spell cast to Summon or extend your Storm Elemental for 6 seconds, this is affected by Everlasting Elements. Casting Ascendance always triggers this effect.
• (4) Set Bonus: Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning and Lava Burst deal 30% more damage after summoning or extending your elemental.

The 2-set is fairly strong as it lets the Primal Storm Elemental recast Stormfury even if it triggers while active.

The 4-set is however extremely lackluster as it provides no damage increase to the majority of the toolkit, especially when it excludes spenders like Earth Shock or Elemental Blast.

This means that at the time of writing this the initial way to gear is to keep your 2-set from Season 1. This is likely to receive changes by Blizzard as they have historically not liked when people keep using the previous tiers gear.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Elemental Shaman, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

If you’re unsure what to prioritize, running a Droptimizer sim can help you choose which dungeon to farm.

The best trinket in this tier depends on the duration of the encounter. Eye of Kezan and Mug’s Moxie Jug are both exceptionally strong and while Eye of Kezan is the better trinket once fights start going past the ~6 minute mark, shorter fights favour Mug’s Moxie Jug.

The other trinket this tier that is strong is the House of Cards that provides a large amount of mastery with a 90 second cooldown which means it can be lined up with Ascendance when used once in between.

Since this trinket provides mastery which has a cap of 100%, you’ll need to make sure that the rest of your gear has slightly less mastery to accommodate for this, taking the 14% from Elemental Blast into account. Best way to do this is by simming your character.

The best embellishment will depend on if you’re able to acquire a Best-in-Slots at a higher ilvl than you can craft a weapon.

While using a Best-in-Slots the best embellishments will be either Duskthread Lining or Dawnthread Lining depending on the rest of your gear, make sure to sim yourself to find out which is best. Cloak, Bracers, Belt and Boots are all good options for these.

If you do not have a Best-in-Slots at a higher ilvl than you can craft, a weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascendance paired with a Writhing Armor Banding on a piece of armour to double its effect is a better choice.

Dinars (Cartel Chips)

There’s upwards of five items that you’d like to purchase with the new Puzzling Cartel Chips, this is priority I’d recommend, assuming they are all same item level:

1. The Jastor Diamond
2. Best-In-Slots
3. House of Cards
4. Mug’s Moxie Jug
5. Eye of Kezan

Corruption

The best corruption is expected to be Void Ritual as all the corruptions perform fairly evenly on paper in single target, but the secondaries from Void Ritual makes it perform much better in AoE.

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

Recommended Titan Discs for Elemental Shaman

The recommended effect to choose for raid is Charged Bolts as it performs well in most cases.

In very heavy AoE and M+effects like Critical Chain or Spark Burst can be strong contenders.

For more information about unlocking the DISC belt and the different Miniature Titan Disc effects available, check out Method's D.I.S.C Belt Guide.

Cyrce's Circlet

Cyrce's Circlet remains strong, make sure to sim your character to see when to replace it.

The gems of choice are:

• Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine
• Stormbringer's Runed Citrine
• Legendary Skipper's Citrine