Elemental Shaman Abilities and Talents Guide - Midnight

By HawkCorrigan Updated: 2026/08/12

Baseline Elemental Shaman SpellsOffensive Abilities

Flame Shock (FS) - Instant cast damage spell that applies a damage over time effect, dealing a small amount of instant damage to the target. This is a vulcanic spell, which means it is a Nature and Fire spell at the same time.

Lightning Bolt (LB) - Casted damage spell that generates Maelstrom.

Primal Strike - Melee strike that deals minor damage. This isn't useful for us.

Flametongue Weapon (FTW) - Enchants your weapon with fire, increasing damage dealt with melee strikes.

Offensive Cooldowns

Bloodlust (BL) - Increases the haste of you and your party or raid by 30%. You can only benefit from this effects once every ten minutes.

Utility Abilities

Ancestral Spirit - Resurrects a dead ally when you are not in combat.

Healing Surge - Heal the target for an average amount.

Earthbind Totem - Place down a totem that slows all enemies in its range by 50%.

Ghost Wolf - Transform into a Ghost Wolf. You gain increased movement speed while in this form, but casting spells shifts you out of this form.

Lightning Shield - Gain an elemental shield, striking melee attackers and generating Maelstrom.

Passive Abilities

Mastery: Elemental Overload - Your generators have a chance to trigger a second cast on their target, dealing reduced damage and generating less Maelstrom. Also increases all Elemental and Physical damage dealt.

Inundate - Your successful Purge, Cleanse Spirit, Healing Stream Totem, Hex, and Wind Shear casts generate 8 Maelstrom during combat.

Mail Specialization - Increases your primary stat when you wear only Mail armor.

Skyfury - Grant all allies in your party or raid 2% Mastery and a 20% chance for their auto attacks to instantly hit again.

Lava Surge (LS) - Makes your Flame Shock have a chance to reset the cooldown of your Lava Burst and make it instant cast.

Elemental Shaman Hero Talents Farseer Elemental Shaman TalentsKey Talent

Call of the Ancestors - Stormkeeper calls an Ancestor to your side for 6 sec. Whenever you cast a healing or damaging spell, the Ancestor will cast a similar spell. If you are casting a Single Target spell, all active Ancestors will fire a modified Lava Burst that always crits regardless of the current target having Flame Shock or not. If you are casting an AoE spell, the Ancestor will fire a modified Chain Lightning that only hits 3 targets. Neither of those spells can overload, but they do scale with the passive portion of your Mastery, as well as Versatility. If you are casting Single Target or AoE healing spells, Farseer will cast their versions of Healing Surge or Chain Heal respectively.

Capstone Talent

Ancestral Swiftness (AnS) - Buff your next healing or damage spell by 10%. If you know Nature's Swiftness, it also spawns an Ancestor.

Choice Nodes

Choice Node 1:
Latent Wisdom - Your Ancestors' spells are 20% more powerful.

Ancient Fellowship - Ancestors have a 20% chance to call another Ancestor for 6 sec when they expire.

Heed My Call - Ancestors last an additional 4 sec.

Routine Communication - All your generators have a 5% chance to call an Ancestor to your side for 6 sec.

Natural Harmony - Your Pseudo-"Cheat Death" Nature's Guardian gets 15 sec cooldown reduction and heal for an additional 10% of your maximum health.

Earthen Communion - Earth Shield has an additional 3 charges and heals you for 25% more.

Passives

Primordial Capacity - Increase your Maelstrom cap by 25. (up to 175)

Spiritwalker's Momentum - Allows you to increase the duration of Spiritwalker's Grace by up to 4 seconds via casting spells.

Maelstrom Supremacy - Increase damage of your spenders by 8%.

Final Calling - When an Ancestor expires, they cast Elemental Blast at a nearby enemy.

Offering from Beyond - When an Ancestor spawns, it reduces the cooldown of your Elementals by 5 seconds.

Elemental Reverb - Lava Burst gets an additional charge (up to 3) and deals 5% additional damage.

Ancestral Influence - Your Intellect is increased by 1.0% for each Ancestor active. This spell is currently bugged and does not work correctly.

Windspeaker - The cast times of Healing Surge, Chain Heal and Lava Burst cast 10% faster.

Mystic Knowledge - Increases the chance for Lava Surge from 10% to 12% (normalized in AoE to not increase proc chance for extra targets).

Stormbringer Elemental Shaman TalentsKey Talent

Tempest - Spending Maelstrom has a 0.3% per point spent chance to turn Lightning Bolt into Tempest, a small Nature damage nuke that deals additional AoE damage to targets around its main target. Tempest behaves like a Lightning Bolt in a lot of ways, e.g. for effects like Power of the Maelstrom.

Capstone Talent

Awakening Storms (AwS) - Increases the chance for spenders to proc Tempest from 0.3% per Maelstrom spent to 0.6% per Maelstrom spent.

Choice Nodes

Choice Node 1:
Storm Swell (SS) - Tempest provides 9.375% Mastery for 6 seconds.

Supercharge (SC) - Lightning spell Overloads have a 50% chance to cause an additional Elemental Overload.

Nature's Protection - Lightning Shield reduces damage taken by 3%.

Surging Currents - After using Tempest, your next Chain Heal, or Healing Surge heals for 20% more, stacking 5 times.

Electroshock - Casting Tempest increases your Movement Speed by 20% for 5 seconds.

Lightning Conduit - Sometimes you get struck by lightning, increasing your move speed by 50%. This is doubled outdoors. Also casts a Thunderstorm whenever you use Reincarnation.

Passives

Unlimited Power - Spending Maelstrom grants you 1% haste for 15 sec, stacking. Gaining a new stack does not refresh the duration.

Stormcaller - Increases the critical strike chance of your Nature damage spells by 5% and the critical strike damage of your Nature spells by 5%.

Arc Discharge (AD) - Tempest gives a stack of Stormkeeper.

Rolling Thunder - Reduces the cooldown of Stormkeeper by 15 seconds.

Voltaic Surge - Chain Lightning and Earthquake damage increased by 5%.

Conductive Energy - Lightning Rod targets now also take 10% of the damage that Tempest deals, and Tempest also applies Lightning Rod effect.

Stormwell - Stormkeeper generate 10 Maelstrom and Fury of the Storms spawns Storm Elemental for 12 seconds instead of 10 seconds.

Natural Gift - Increase all Nature damage by 2%.

Descending Skies - Casting Ascendance procs Tempest.

Elemental Shaman TalentsShaman Class Talents

Chain Heal - A 4 target heal with a high mana cost, healing your target and jumping to people close to the previous target. This is useless for Elemental because of its low individual healing and high cast time.

Lava Burst (LvB) - Our main damage source, generating high amounts of Maelstrom with a guaranteed crit on targets with an active Flame Shock.

Chain Lightning (CL) - Our main AoE generator, dealing high damage to up to 5 targets. Every target hit has a separate chance to proc an Elemental Overload at a reduced rate.

Earth Shield - A shield increasing healing taken from you and healing the target by a small amount every time they take damage. This has a small internal cooldown.

Ancestral Wolf Affinity - Ancestral Wolf Affinity enables you to stay in Ghost Wolf when using some of your utility spells. This is a great pickup if you can profit off Spirit Wolf, enabling you to use spells, while also keeping the damage reduction.

Fire and Ice - A small buff to our Fire and Ice spells, namely Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Elemental Blast.

Choose one of the following:

Spirit Wolf - Turns our Ghost Wolf into a damage reduction, mostly useful during downtime or very long movement.

Thunderous Paws - Turns our Ghost Wolf into a burst movement tool, granting an additional movement speed buff for the first 3 seconds after activating the spell.

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Elemental Orbit - Increases the number of possible active shields to 2. Enables you to have Lightning Shield and Earth Shield active on yourself, or put one Earth Shield on yourself and another on a friendly target.

Choose one of the following:

Spirit Walk - A spell that was previously limited to Enhancement Shamans, Spirit Walk can get you out of sticky situations and also removes all movement impairing effects. Combine this with Spiritwalker's Grace to move very far without losing damage.

Gust of Wind - Gust of Wind makes a comeback, finally enabling Shaman again to jump short distances and more importantly cancel fall damage and change your fall trajectory.

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Encasing Cold - Increases the slow applied by Frost Shock by 10% and increases the duration by 2 seconds. This reduces the GCD investment to keep a target slowed pretty noticeably.

Arctic Snowstorm - Turns Frost Shock into a small AoE Slow. Having a spammable AoE slow can be good for some situations but usually the DPS cost is too high for this.

Healing Stream Totem (HST) - This lets you summon a small healing totem, targeting injured allies. This is not significant enough to warrant the GCD in content where you have a healer with you, and is mostly used in the open world.

Winds of Al'Akir - Increasing the speed while you are in Ghost Wolf by 10% is pretty strong. You will rarely benefit from the second effect in normal play. Stacking 3 totems is pretty rare for us, especially in end game content.

Choose one of the following:

Planes Traveler - Decreases the cooldown of Astral Shift to 90 seconds and increases the duration to 12 seconds.

Astral Bulwark - Increases the damage reduction provided by Astral Shift to 55%.

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Elemental Resistance - This turns Healing Stream Totem into a damage reduction for a few players in your group or raid. Sadly you cannot control who this targets which makes it just nice to have and impossible to use as targeted mitigation.

Earthgrab Totem - Summon a totem, rooting all enemies in range for 8 seconds. Damage breaks this effect.

Capacitor Totem (Cap (Totem)) - One of our CC totems, exploding 2 seconds after being placed, stunning all enemies in range for 3 seconds. Timing this can be one of the hardest things to do with this spec.

Spiritual Awakening - Increases your Mastery by 5.625%.

Enhanced Imbues - Increases the effectiveness of all weapon imbues by 30%, namely Improved Flametongue Weapon and Thunderstrike Ward.

Windveil - A notable damage reduction, every time you interrupt an enemy.

Refreshing Waters - Healing Surge heals yourself for 30% more. Nice for proactive self-sustain.

Cleanse Spirit - Removes all curse effects from the target. Shaman shares the ability to remove curses with Mages and Druids.

Static Charge - Capacitor Totem gets its cooldown reduced by 10 seconds per rank up to 20 seconds.

Wind Rush Totem (WRT) - Summon a totem that increases the move speed of all allies by a medium amount. 2 minute cooldown

Earth Elemental (EE/Steve) - Our tank pet that by default can taunt enemies and help with wipe recovery if your tank dies.

Choose one of the following:

Purge - Remove one beneficial magic buff from your target. This has no cooldown.

Greater Purge - Remove two beneficial magic buffs from your target. This costs twice as much mana and incurs a small cooldown.

Nature's Fury

Ascending Air - Improves Wind Rush Totem by reducing its cooldown by 30 seconds and increasing its duration by 2 seconds.

Jet Stream - Improves Wind Rush Totem to increase movement speed by another 10% and also remove all snares.

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Spiritwalker's Grace (SWG) - This spell turns us into a walking lightning cannon, enabling us to cast while running around for 15 seconds every 2 minutes. This spell can be further improved by the next row.

Totemic Projection - Moving our totems is not particularly important to Elemental. You will mostly be using this spell to move your Liquid Magma Totem when your tank is dragging the mobs away from it.

Elemental Warding - Reduces all magic damage taken by 2%.

Totemic Focus - This increases the radius of your totems by 15%.

Choose one of the following:

Graceful Spirit - Move faster while Spiritwalker's Grace is active and reduce its cooldown by 30 seconds. Nice if you need to move frequently in a boss fight.

Spiritwalker's Aegis - Spiritwalker's Grace also protects you from Silences and Interrupts. This is only useful in PvP and possibly selected dungeon boss fights.

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Tremor Totem - Tremor Totem can remove Fears, Charms and Sleep Effects from multiple people in your group. If you get targeted yourself, make sure to cast it before you get effected. Otherwise, you can also use it while your group is effected.

Poison Cleansing Totem (PCT) - Poison Cleansing Totem enables us to dispel poisons, giving us access to two types of debuff removal. As a totem, this can happen more than once over a 6-second period.

Therazane's Resilience - Earth Shield heals 15% more each time it is triggered and doesn't lose charges, which means that it never needs to be recast in combat.

Reactive Warding - Earth Shield gets its internal cooldown reduced by 1 second and refreshing it heals you for a significant amount based on charges missing at the time.

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Nature's Swiftness (NS) - Nature's Swiftness makes your next Nature Spell instant cast. Presumably this is mostly useful to get 1 instant cast Elemental Blast every minute.

Totemic Surge - Reduces the cooldown of your totems by 5 seconds.

Instinctive Imbuements - Lightning Shield give 3% intellect and also applies all imbues and shields to yourself.

Elemental Specialization Talents

Feedback Loop (Passive) - Very basic talents: All Overload damage is 35% higher.

Feedback Loop (Passive) - Similarly simple: Free 10% crit chance and free 50% crit damage, increasing our crit damage multiplier to 325%.

Feedback Loop (Passive) - The third Apex talent allows overloads to chain into more overloads. How exactly this works is currently not known.

Choose one of the following:

Earth Shock (ES) - Our base single target spender, consuming 60 Maelstrom by default and dealing significant damage.

Elemental Blast (EB) - This spell replaces your single target spender Earth Shock. Elemental Blast does massive damage and grants one of three buffs but also costs 50% more Maelstrom than the base spell.

Choose one of the following:

Earthquake (EQ) - Our AoE spender, consuming 60 Maelstrom by default and dealing damage over time to all enemies in its range. This has a 5% chance per hit to knock the enemy down, interrupting spell casts and stunning them for a bit. This knockdown does not suffer from diminishing returns.

Earthquake (EQ) - Earthquake for the lazy. It does everything exactly identically but is placed on your current target, avoiding the need to use your cursor.

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Flash of Lightning (FoL) - Increases the crit chance of Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning by 10%.

Choose one of the following:

Aftershock (AfS) - A 25% chance for your spenders to refund their Maelstrom cost. Currently, not all that impressive, considering the relatively low strength of them.

Tectonic Collapse (TC) - Buffs your spenders by 20%.

Molten Wrath (MW) - Buff your Lava Burst by 15%.

Master of the Elements (MotE) - Master of the Elements makes your Lava Bursts buff your next non-fire damage spell by 15%.

Lightning Capacitor - Turns your Lightning Shield into a DPS-relevant maintenance buff, increasing your Nature damage dealt.

Stormkeeper (SK) - Stormkeeper massively amplifies the strength of your next two Lightning Bolts or Chain Lightnings, buffing Lightning Bolt by 150% or guaranteeing Chain Lightning to trigger an overload on every target.

Improved Flametongue Weapon (IFTW) - This gives our weapon imbue Flametongue Weapon the effect of increasing all of our fire damage by 5%.

Storm Frenzy (SF) - After casting a spender, your next Lightning spell will have a reduced casting time which can go below the GCD cap.

Swelling Maelstrom - Increase your maximum resource from 100 to 150 providing a much-needed buffer in for builds with Elemental Blast. Also buffs the damage of spenders by 5%.

Primordial Fury - Increases the damage done by your critical strikes even further. This only affects your damage-dealing spells and doesn't work with heals.

Choose one of the following:

Fury of the Storms (FotS) - Casting Stormkeeper spawns a Storm Elementals which casts Nature spells at your enemies.

Herald of the Storms -Reduces the cooldown of your Stormkeeper by 15 seconds.

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Amped Up - Increases your haste by 3%.

Choose one of the following:

Elemental Resonance - Increases all damage by 3%.

Thunderstrike Ward (TSW) - A weapon imbue that is specific to the shield slot, giving your Lightning spells a chance to proc additional Nature damage. Limits you to using a one-hander and a shield.

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Power of the Maelstrom (PotM) - Power of the Maelstrom is gives our kit some extra synergy, giving Lava Burst a small chance to buff your next Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning by making it overload one additional time.

Earthshatter - Increases the damage of Earth Shock and Earthquake by 25%, It also buffs the status bonuses of Elemental Blast by 25%. This includes any Elemental Blast that are generated via Fusion of Elements and Final Calling.

Storm Infusion - Increases the effectiveness of Thunderstrike Ward or Elemental Resonance.

Echo Chamber (EC) - Amplifying your overloads by 40% multiplicatively from 25% to 35%. If specced into this talent, Ascendance can amplify Overloads to do 87.5% of their base damage.

Everlasting Elements (EvE) - Increases the duration of your Elementals by 20%, including ones spawned by Echo of the Elementals. Synergizes well with the plethora of other talents affecting our Elementals.

Earthen Rage (ER) - Passive damage on a random delay that happens continuously while fighting. Pure Single Target talent, which doesn't interact with any other part of the kit

Lava Flows - Your Lava Burst and its overloads deal 5% more damage and generate 1 more Maelstrom.

Fusion of Elements (Fusion/FotE) - After consuming Power of the Maelstrom, you shoot an Elemental Blast at your target at reduced strength.

Eye of the Storm (EotS) - This reduces the cost of our spenders. Earth Shock/Earthquake cost 55 Maelstrom and Elemental Blast goes down to 80 Maelstrom

Ascendance (Asc) - Our big damage cooldown. When pressed it applies Flame Shock to up to 6 enemies within range and throws a Lava Burst at each of them. During its uptime every spell that can generate overloads will always proc one more and every overload deals 150% more damage multiplicatively.

Inferno Arc - Increases the damage of all Nature spells by 10% if the target has an active Flame Shock.

Flames of the Firelord - Doubles the damage of Flame Shock.

Lightning Rod (LR) - Lightning Rod makes your spenders apply a debuff to your targets, making them take a percentage of the damage you deal with Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning. Consult the rotation guide to check how to properly use this spell.

Mountains Will Fall (MwF) - This spell makes it possible for our spenders to overload (at reduced strength). This makes mastery as a stat relevant for us even outside of pure Single Target.

Call of Fire - Casting Ascendance spawns a Fire Elemental which doubles the lengths of all newly applied Flame Shock, not including the DoTs applied by the Ascendance cast itself and dynamically increases the tick rate of all Flame Shocks by 33% while it's active.

Voltaic Blaze - An AoE nuke that applies Flame Shock to up to 6 targets around your main target. This ability always crit but doesnt benefit from any crit damage buffs.

Charged Conduit (CC) - This turns Lightning Rod into an AoE powerhouse. While the skill ceiling for spreading out Lightning Rod is pretty high, this allows you to keep good uptime on the debuff on as many as 5 targets, massively increasing the effective damage of any Lightning spell.

Choose one of the following:

First Ascendant - This makes Ascendance a 2 minute cooldown.

Preeminence - 25% haste while Ascendance is up and increasing the duration of a hardcasted Ascendance by 3 seconds.

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Comments

Comment by Adradia

dafuq is this "row 1 row 2 row 3"....just show the talent planer pls

Comment by Chocolatebar

Stone Bulwark Totem - Stone Bulwhark Totem is a medium cooldown defensive which excels against consistent damage intake. Can also be reset via Totemic Recall.

It is not true anymore, Stone Bulwhark Totem has a 3 minutes base cooldown, making it ineligible to the reset.

Elemental Shaman Abilities and Talents Guide - Midnight

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