Method Elemental Shaman Guide - Stats Races And Consumables

Stat Priorities

Stat Ranking

Farseer: Mastery > Haste >= Crit > Versatility

Stormbringer: Mastery > Crit > Haste > 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. Unfortunately a lot of Elemental Overload’s damage was nerfed with 12.1, making Mastery less valuable than it has been historically. However, it’s still our most valued stat by a small margin.

Haste is fairly self-explanatory; more casts means both more damage and more maelstrom generation. With the shift of damage from Ascendance being spread into your normal spells, Haste gains a bit more value because it lets you squeeze out more of those valuable casts outside of your burst windows where you would possibly be overcapped past the GCD limit anyway.

Critical Strike chance is a very 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. Previously, Lava Burst’s guaranteed crits during Flame Shock took away a lot of this value, but as of Midnight Lava Burst’s damage scales directly with Crit chance. Even more value has been applied in 12.1, with the Farseer hero talent’s Ancestral Spirits now having Crit scaling on their Lava Bursts. Additionally, due to the way Crit multiplies your base damage per spell, the changes in Midnight providing more base value to Elemental’s spells inherently give Crit more value.

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.

Dwarf has an additional bonus of Stoneform, which can work as a very good defensive on some fights by preventing a massive amount of damage taken from dots.

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