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
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Morningscale Cowl | The Everbloom |
| Neck | Eye of the Rising Flame | Tindral Sageswift |
| Shoulders | Greatwolf Outcast’s Companions | Smolderon or Catalyst |
| Cloak | Drape of the Loyal Vassal | Atal’Dazar |
| Chest | Greatwolf Outcast’s Harness | Nymue or Catalyst |
| Wrist | Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards | Crafting |
| Gloves | Greatwolf Outcast’s Grips | Igira or Catalyst |
| Belt | Reality-Warping Waistband | Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond’s Rise |
| Legs | Greatwolf Outcast’s Fur-Lined Kilt | Larodar or Catalyst |
| Boots | Acidic Hailstone Treads | Crafting |
| Ring | Band of Burning Thorns | Larodar |
| Ring | Arch-Druid’s Tainted Seal | Darkheart Thicket |
| Trinket | Belor’relos, the Suncaller | Tindral Sageswift |
| Trinket | Sea Star | Throne of the Tides |
| Main Hand | Vakash, the Shadowed Inferno | Fyrakk |
| Off Hand | Verdant Matrix Beacon | Nymue |
Best Gear from the Raid
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Snake Eater’s Cowl | Volcoross |
| Neck | Eye of the Rising Flame | Tindral Sageswift |
| Shoulders | Greatwolf Outcast’s Companions | Smodleron or Catalyst |
| Cloak | Mantle of Blazing Sacrifice | Smolderon |
| Chest | Greatwolf Outcast’s Harness | Nymue or Catalyst |
| Wrist | Twisted Flamecuffs | Larodar |
| Gloves | Greatwolf Outcast’s Grips | Igira or Catalyst |
| Belt | Jeweled Sash of the Viper | Volcoross |
| Legs | Greatwolf Outcast’s Fur-lined Kilt | Larodar or Catalyst |
| Boots | Boots of the Molten Hoard | Fyrakk |
| Ring | Band of Burning Thorns | Larodar |
| Ring | Signet of the Last Elder | Igira |
| Trinket | Belor’relos, the Suncaller | Tindral Sageswift |
| Trinket | Pip’s Emerald Friendship Badge | Council of Dreams |
| Main Hand | Vakash, the Shadowed Inferno | Fyrakk |
| Off Hand | Verdant Matrix Beacon | Nymue |
| Staff | Dreambinder, Loom of the Great Cycle | Nymue |
Best Gear from Mythic+
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Morningscale Cowl | The Everbloom |
| Neck | Chain of the Green Flight | Darkheart Thicket |
| Shoulders | Greatwolf Outcast’s Companions | Catalyst |
| Cloak | Drape of the Loyal Vassal | Atal’Dazar |
| Chest | Greatwolf Outcast’s Harness | Catalyst |
| Wrist | Slaughterhouse-Chain Bracers | Waycrest Manor |
| Gloves | Greatwolf Outcast’s Grips | Catalyst |
| Belt | Reality-Warping Waistband | Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond’s Rise |
| Legs | Greatwolf Outcast’s Fur-Lined Kilt | Catalyst |
| Boots | Grunt’s Eternal Treads | Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond’s Rise |
| Ring | Arch-Druid’s Tainted Seal | Darkheart Thicket |
| Ring | Ring of Contempt | Black Rook Hold |
| Trinket | Sea Star | Throne of the Tides |
| Trinket | Balefire Branch | Waycrest Manor |
| Main Hand | Morchie’s Distorted Spellblade | Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond’s Rise |
| Off Hand | Disc of Indomitable Will | Atal’Dazar |
| Staff | Iridal, The Earth’s Master | Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond’s Fall |
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.
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.
Pip’s Emerald Friendship Badge, Sea Star and Coagulated Genesaur Blood are all solid trinkets that just provide a bunch of stats and don't require you to play around them.
Balefire Branch is an on-use intellect buff that can be used to take advantage of certain fights where the boss takes increased damage for a period of time, take sims with this trinket with a grain of salt as the downside of losing parts of the buff when taking damage can’t properly represent every encounter.