Welcome to Skill Capped’s Elemental Shaman PvP Guide for The War Within 11.0
All sections for Elemental Shaman PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Elemental Shamans in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section provides a brief overview of Elemental Shamans in The War Within.
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What’s New for Elemental Shamans in The War Within?
The identity of Elemental Shaman has fluctuated quite a bit in The War Within, as the method of dealing the most damage is now quite different from how we have been accustomed to in Dragonflight. Instead of rotating between Lava Burst and Earth Shock constantly to deal some ridiculously high numbers, you will be more concerned with your Flame Shock uptime on as many targets you can possibly apply them to. This mainly is attributed to our reduced Lava Burst proc rate, making it more important than it used to be.
Another reason why Elemental Shamans are more focused on AoE cleave is due to our major offensive cooldowns, predominantly Primordial Wave and Ascendance, which is now a proc from our Lava Burst and a cooldown we can use for some on-demand AoE cleave and burst. Both of these cooldowns immediately fire Lava Bursts on all targets affected by Flame Shock, and if used appropriately you can force the opposing team in a defensive position quite often.
We also obtain Icefury built into our rotation, which can occasionally proc from Lava Burst, and in combination with Fusion of Elements we can send an Elemental Blast on our next Nature and Fire ability after using Icefury. Lastly, we obtain two new PvP talents; Totem of Wrath and Shamanism. Totem of Wrath is essentially the same as Skyfury Totem without much change, but Shamanism is a completely new talent Elemental Shamans receive that makes Heroism a usable cooldown in arena every minute. You’ll commonly apply this on your teammate to apply a Haste buff to them and yourself every other Primordial Wave. This makes your burst windows quite deadly.
Now, to address the most dramatic change in The War Within, we have Hero talents with two trees to choose from. These are Farseer and Stormbringer. With Stormbringer being quite lackluster in its effectiveness, we will solely cover what we gain out of Farseer.
Hero Tree: Farseer
Farseer is considered our default hero tree, as it provides us with more ways to deliver some solid burst damage on our opponents, or off-healing on ourselves and allies when we really need it. This centers around Call of the Ancestors as our hallmark node, allowing us to summon an Ancestor from our Primordial Wave. You’ll also be using Ancestral Swiftness, which replaces our Nature’s Swiftness to summon yet another Ancestor. In case you select Routine Communication, you can summon Ancestors with Lava Burst, but is quite RNG when put to use.
Since Elemental is more reliant on AoE spread pressure, you’ll be more likely to spread out your Ancestors during your rotation, as long as you have enough Maelstrom built up to release some heavy burst while they are active. This is because our Ancestors deal some damage or healing depending on the type of spell we cast, meaning that you’ll want to have as much damage ready to burst your foes the moment these are summoned.
However, you do have the alternative method of using both Primordial Wave and Ancestral Swiftness at the same time to deliver some heavy hitting burst, as long as you have saved up enough Maelstrom for this burst window.
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