Elemental Shaman Gearing Guide

Tier Sets Season 3

The tier sets in season 3 are centered around the hero talents and therefore are both a farseer and stormbringer version.

• (2) Set Bonus Farseer: Ancestral Swiftness Summons an empowered Ancestor for 15 seconds that deals 10% increased damage.
• (4) Set Bonus Farseer: Ancestral Swiftness increases the damage and healing of your spells by 25% and increases the recharge rate of Lava Burst by 50% for 8 seconds.
• (2) Set Bonus Stormbringer: Ascendance has 100% chance to grant a charge of Tempest and every 9 Awakening Storms now activates Ascendance for 6 seconds.
• (4) Set Bonus Stormbringer: Nature damage increased by 3% Ascendance empowers your next 2 Tempests to gather a storm that deals nature damage to its primary target and reduced damage to nearby enemies after 1.5 seconds.

The Farseer set is very powerfu and increases your burst potential even more thanks to the generic damage increase the 4 set offers. The reduced cooldown on Lava Burst is also strong and makes it much easier to take advantage of Master of the Elements while the buff is active.

The Stormbringer set provides a more deterministic Ascendance proc and some additional damage when you cast Tempest. Stormbringer is very far behind Farseer in a raid environment but the tier set might prove strong in M+ since you also generate Awakening Storm much faster in AoE.

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.

Araz’s Ritual Forge will be the most important trinket for this season; it provides the most stats of any on-use trinket available. Even though it has a 2 minute cooldown you want to align this with Ascendance.

An alternative to this would be the Lily of Eternal Weave which provides mastery on-use which would require less mastery on gear to not overcap.

The best second trinket to wear is basically a tie between the Azhiccaran Parapodia and Diamantine Voidcore. They both provide an intellect buff with excellent uptime.

Ara-Kara Sacbrood, So’Leah’s Secret Technique and Empowering Crystal of Anub’Ikkaj are all good alternatives.

The best embellishment remains as Darkmoon: Ascension paired with Writhing Armor Banding.

It’s recommended to eventually have the Ascension embellishment on an held-in off-hand Vagabond’s Torch once a mythic main-hand is acquired, but early in the season it’s likely better to craft the main-hand with ascension instead.

The Armor Banding ideally goes on bracers.

Double Duskthead Lining is also a viable option.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is a new Cloak released in Patch 11.2 and will be the only cloak you use (and the only one that can drop from any content in Season 3). You gain access to it via a quest chain and completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline.

The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work-order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Energizing Fiber (Mastery).

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.

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

Recommended Titan Discs for Elemental Shaman

The recommended effect to choose for all content is Static Charge as it outperforms all other options.

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.