Method Elemental Shaman Guide - Stats Races And Consumables

Stat Priorities

Stat Ranking

Stat priorities remain the same for all builds currently.

Mastery>>Haste>Vers>>>Crit

Mastery has a hard cap of 100%. Going past this provides no gain at all since spells can’t overload twice outside of Ascendance.

Elemental Blast most of the time provides 14% mastery so the real cap is 86% but then there’s also Flask of Alchemical Chaos and Tempered Potion to take into account lowering that even further. A good target is just over 70% or 20k rating while buffed by Skyfury. Make sure to sim your character to find what is optimal with your gear.

Stat Outline

Mastery started out as the worst stat of the expansion but thanks to the rework to Ascendance it’s now the strongest. During Ascendance the value of Mastery is essentially quadrupled thanks to the 150% damage increase and the additional overload.

Mastery also giving more overloads increases maelstrom generation which in turn increases the odds of triggering Deeply Rooted Elements.

Haste is fairly self explanatory, more casts means both more damage and more maelstrom generation.

Critical Strike chance would be a strong stat for Elemental thanks to Elemental Fury and Primordial Fury making Critical Strikes do almost triple damage rather than the normal double damage other classes do. But Lava Burst having an inherent 100% chance to critical strike on targets with Flame Shock reduces the value of crit significantly.

Versatility is just a generic increase to damage dealt and reduction to damage taken.

Races

The most important part about choosing a race is to pick the one you want to play.

For throughput, Tauren and Dwarf are generally the strongest thanks to their 2% critical damage increase. Everything else is about the same apart from Vulpera which is the only bad choice.