Method Elemental Shaman Guide - Stats Races And Consumables

Stat Priorities

Stat Ranking

Stat priorities remain the same for all builds currently.

Mastery>>Haste/Crit>>>Versatility

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. The biggest reason haste isn’t valued much higher than crit is thanks to Preeminence already giving a lot during Ascendance.

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 slightly.

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.