Elemental Shaman DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

The best stat for Elemental Shamans is Mastery, followed by Haste. You should therefore be gemming for Mastery, unless you already have loads of Mastery on every single gear-piece.

You should first put Indecipherable Eversong Diamond in one of your sockets. Then, depending on whether you lack Mastery or Crit the most, use either Flawless Masterful Garnet or Flawless Deadly Amethyst.

Note that all jewelry items come with one socket, and you cannot add any more. The only items with 2 sockets are very rare jewelry items from raids. Tokens of Merit from the Vault can only add sockets to Helm/Belt/Bracers.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

If you are not using using the Flametongue Weapon weapon imbue talent, you should apply Thalassian Phoenix Oil on your weapon every couple of hours. They do not stack.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

You should be drinking a secondary stat flask: Flask of the Magisters if you lack Mastery, or Flask of the Shattered Sun if you lack Critical Strike.

There are a few different potions that all provide similar DPS benefits, but we recommend using Light's Potential or potentially Potion of Recklessness. You should use them during Bloodlust/ Heroism along with Ascendance and Stormkeeper.

It might be worth it to use Draught of Rampant Abandon, but beware of the void zone which silences you!

You should keep a stock of Silvermoon Health Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately!

You want to use Silvermoon Parade or Harandar Celebration to gain 50 Intelligence. When you need to buy personal food, use Royal Roast or Impossibly Royal Roast instead.

When you truly think it is worth to gain just a tiny extra bit of damage, you can use Void-Touched Augment Rune. You should probably sell those instead for a bit of extra gold though, unless you are raiding Cutting Edge!

When your group is struggling on a boss, you can use a Vantus Rune: Radiant on the boss to gain a good amount of Versatility which only works against this boss. You can only do this once per week on one boss, but it works across difficulties, does not go away on death, and lasts until the weekly reset.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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This guide has been written by Stormy, Elemental main since Wrath of the Lich King and member of the Storm, Earth and Lava Elemental theorycrafting team.