Stat Priorities
Stat Ranking
Stat priorities remain the same for all builds currently.
Haste>>Crit>Versatility>>>>Mastery.
Stat Outline
Haste is self explanatory, more casts means more damage. There’s also a fair few effects Elemental has that casting more increases your chance of getting them, like Deeply Rooted Elements, Routine Communication or something like Flash of Lightning.
Critical Strike chance is 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. Lava Burst having an inherent 100% chance to critical strike on targets with Flame Shock reduces the value of crit, but this is offset a bit by Ascendance.
Versatility is just a generic increase to damage dealt and reduction to damage taken.
Mastery is in a pretty bad state after they changed the damage from overloads down to 25%. The increase to elemental and physical damage it provides scales far slower than vers making mastery the least preferred stat.
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.
Enchants
Cloak: Chant of Winged Grace
Chest: Crystalline Radiance
Bracers: Chant of Armored Avoidance
Boots: Defender’s March
Legs: Sunset Spellthread
Rings: Radiant Haste
Weapon: Authority of Radiant Power
Gems
1x Culminating Blasphemite
1x Quick Ruby
1x Quick Sapphire
Fill the rest of your slots with Deadly Emerald
Consumables
Food: The Sushi Special
Flask: Flask of Tempered Swiftness
Potions: Tempered Potion
Health Potions: Algari Healing Potion
Weapon Oil: Howling Rune
Runes: Crystallized Augment Rune