Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Races for Elemental Shamans in Cataclysm
All sections for Elemental Shaman PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal race, talents, glyphs, gear, professions and macros. This will help you have a good understanding on Elemental Shaman in PvP for Cataclysm, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will explain the best Elemental Shaman races for each faction in PvP for Cataclysm Season 9.
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Table of Contents
Best Elemental Shaman PvP Races
Alliance
Draenei
If you plan to choose Alliance as your faction for Elemental Shaman in Cataclysm PvP, there are two options you can choose from. Both of these races have unique racials that makes them valuable in specific PvP scenarios. Draenei is one of your main options out of both factions. If you want an alternative race while playing as an Elemental Shaman in Cataclysm PvP, Dwarf is a promising pick for increased survivability into specific classes.
As one of your best races to play as for Elemental Shaman, Draenei is a very solid pick. Gift of the Naaru and Heroic Presence are impactful spells, and provide better stat optimization for your character.
Gift of the Naaru Racial
Gift of the Naaru grants your character a 20% heal of their total health for 15 seconds. Using this racial as an ability to preemptively press as a heal during stuns, especially during Kidney Shot or Maim from Subtlety Rogues or Feral Druids, can help survive potential kill opportunities.
Heroic Presence Racial
Heroic Presence provides 1% Hit Rating to your character, allowing you to optimize your character with other stat requirements, or to min-max your damage output as opposed to using Hit.
Dwarf
As an alternative race to choose from, Dwarf best fits this category for Elemental Shaman. The racial ability, Stoneform, allows for more survivalibility when facing Death Knights, Rogues, and Feral Druids. All of these classes will be prevalent throughout Cataclysm, and having a racial to counteract some of their damage on yourself may help win arena matches.
Stoneform Racial
Stoneform as a racial ability has the ability to clear all Poison, Disease, and Bleed effects off of your player, as well as a 10% damage reduction from players for 8 seconds. This racial will make your survivalibility a bit stronger when facing classes that require bleed damage, and can be used preemptively or reactively, paired with Vicious Gladiator’s Medallion of Accuracy, to mitigate any incoming burst damage.
Increased Mace Expertise
Having additional Expertise when equipping 1-Hand and 2-Hand Maces can be essential to your gearing process. Using Maces can allow you to increase other secondary stats for your character without having to worry too much on Expertise.
Horde
Orc
If you plan to choose Horde as your faction for Elemental Shaman in Cataclysm PvP, you will have only one option to choose from, Orc. This race provides Hardiness and Blood Fury, allowing you to have strong survivability and throughput when in PvP combat. This race is a strong competitor with the Alliance racials.
Hardiness Racial
Hardiness‘s ability grants a player passive 15% stun reduction. Stuns used on you being a shorter duration as well as the use of a PvP trinket allow for players to slip away from danger quicker, and allow for players to be more active during a PvP game.
Blood Fury Racial
Orc is provided with an On-Use racial, Blood Fury, which grants Spell Power to you for a short amount of time. This can be paired with your burst cooldowns to annihilate your enemies.