Method Elemental Shaman Guide - Gearing - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (2024)

Gear

Tier Sets

Elemental gains a very powerful new tier set with Amirdrassil that shifts the focus back to Primordial Wave and Lava Burst.

2 Set: Primordial Wave also casts an Elemental Blast at the target at 70% effectiveness, and grants you all three Elemental Blast bonus effects for 10 seconds.

This 2 set is incredibly strong, the free Elemental Blast triggers everything that a normal cast would, such as Surge of Power, Windspeaker’s Lava Resurgence and it can overload with Mountains Will Fall. Being given all three of the buffs at once is a large amount of free stats that you normally have nowhere near full uptime on.

4 Set: Lava Burst burns your target for 10% additional damage over 4 seconds, and after consuming Primordial Wave, your next 2 casts of Lava Burst also hit up to 3 additional targets affected by your Flame Shock for 65% of normal damage

This basically makes Lava Burst deal 10% more damage as a DoT that behaves like Fire Mage’s Ignite. It also gives you a few more AoE-Lava Bursts after a Primordial Wave which helps reduce the cooldown of said ability because of Rolling Magma.

Elemental Shaman Best in Slot Gear

You should still prioritize the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Elemental Shaman, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

Keep in mind that Elemental has a cap of 88% Mastery from gear, do not surpass this as it will be entirely wasted once you get the buff from Elemental Blast.

Overall Best Gear

Best Gear from the Raid

Best Gear from Mythic+

Embellishments

Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards offer both a Haste/Mastery buff when dealing damage, as well as a Crit/Vers buff when taking damage. These bracers get better the more difficult content you engage with, where you're able to reach upwards of 35-40% uptime on both buffs, providing a massive amount of stats.

Elemental Lariat is a good choice as the second embellishment, just need to make sure to sim it properly in order to not have the proc go to waste if it chooses mastery.

Blue Silken Lining is a solid choice for the second embellishment, offering a large amount of mastery at times. It’s not incredible, but the remaining choices are even more underwhelming.

Acidic Hailstone Treads will give slightly more damage than Blue Silken Lining but at the loss of 10% movement speed. Use at your own risk, not recommended in most cases.

Trinkets

Elemental has a fair few options this tier, make sure to sim yourself to find the best combination for you.

Belor’relos the Suncaller offers the most amount of damage but has a downside of both being limited to only 12 yards around you as well as doing a non-insignificant amount of damage to yourself.

Umbreskul’s Fractured Heart performs very well in single target situations and doesn’t have the downsides that Suncaller does.

Tome of Unstable Power is also a good choice for a passive damage trinket that scales into AoE situations.

Pip’s Emerald Friendship Badge, Whispering Incarnate Icon and Ominous Chromatic Essence are all solid trinkets that just provide a bunch of stats and don't require you to play around them. Ominous Chromatic Essence is the best of the three by a large margin and should be preferred.

Vessel of Searing Shadow does damage and provides a good amount of haste that doesn’t fluctuate too much and benefits the rather flat damage profile of the spec.