Tier Sets
- (2) Set Bonus: Elemental Blast, Earth Shock and Earthquake damage increased by 25%
- (4) Set Bonus: Spending Maelstrom grants 5% increased Critical Strike chance and 10% increased Critical Strike damage.
These bonuses are fairly strong but don't provide any change in gameplay.
elemental shaman Best in Slot 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.
Overall Best Gear
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Noetic of the Forgotten Reservoir | Silken Court |
| Neck | Sureki Zealot’s Insignia | Sikran |
| Shoulders | Concourse of the Forgotten Reservoir | Rasha’nan |
| Cloak | Royal Emblem of Nerub-ar | Ulgrax |
| Chest | Goresplattered Membrane | Bloodbound Horror |
| Wrist | Throne Defender’s Bangles | Sikran |
| Gloves | Covenant of the Forgotten Reservoir | Sikran |
| Belt | Glyph-Etched Binding with Writhing Armor Banding embellishment | Crafting |
| Legs | Sarong of the Forgotten Reservoir | Ky’veza |
| Boots | Shoes of the Forgotten Reservoir | Catalyst |
| Ring | Seal of the Poisoned Pact | Queen Ansurek |
| Ring | Writhing Ringworm | Ovi’nax |
| Trinket | Spymaster's Web | Silken Court |
| Trinket | Unbound Changeling | Mists or Weekly Vault |
| Main Hand | Everforged Runeaxe with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension | Crafting |
| Off Hand | Crest of the Caustic Despot | Queen Ansurek |
Trinkets
The best trinket of the tier is by far Spymaster’s Web, this trinket provides both great passive intellect as the stacks build up over time and then a massive pay-off when used at the end of a fight for an absurd almost 40,000 intellect for 20 seconds. This lets you take massive advantage of potential damage taken increases or add spawns like the final set of Acolytes on Queen Ansurek. Always pair this with Ascendance.
The 2nd best trinket is the Unbound Changeling, the stat it provides can be changed by eating different food from Shadowlands, sim what is best for you!
Other strong alternatives are Ara-Kara Sacbrood, Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj, Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg and Gale of Shadows. These are all very close and the one with higher ilvl is likely to be the best choice.
Embellishments
For Crafted gear and Embellishments the strongest combination is Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on a 1-handed intellect dagger or axe, combined with an armor piece that has the Writhing Armor Banding to double the effect of the Ascension Sigil.