Method Elemental Shaman Guide - Stats Races And Consumables

Stat Priorities

Stat Ranking

Farseer: Mastery>Haste>Versatility>Crit

Stormbringer: Mastery>Haste=Crit>Versatility

Stat Outline

Mastery is the most interesting stat for Elemental as it increases the chance to trigger Elemental Overloads, which makes spells cast additional times automatically with lower damage and resource generation. There are a lot of talents that interact with these overloads, making mastery a very valuable stat.

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, Primordial Fury and Feedback Loop, making Critical Strikes do more than triple damage rather than the normal double damage other classes do. But Lava Burs,t having an inherent 100% chance to critically strike on targets with Flame Shock, reduces the value of crit significantly when Lava Burst does a large portion of damage.

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

Races

Tauren and Dwarf are normally the preferred races for Elemental, thanks to their passive that increases critical strike damage having strong synergy with Lava Burst’s guaranteed crits.

The difference is generally incredibly minor and should not really be taken into consideration if one prefers a different race for aesthetics.