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DPS · Raids Level 60 · 38 / 0 / 13 · Elemental 38 · Enhancement 0 · Restoration 13

Elemental Shaman build with Elemental Alacrity, Elemental Mastery and Lightning Overload. Restoration points help with healing and totem costs. Load the level-60 build in the calculator to adjust it for your gear and group.

Level-30 beta Shaman Elemental Raid build

Level-30 Elemental dungeon caster · 16 / 5 / 0 · 21 standard talent points. Reviewed 16 October 2026.

The 16 Elemental / 5 Enhancement split adds Thundering Strikes to a Lightning Bolt foundation with Elemental Alacrity and Call of Flame. It favors critical chance on spells and attacks during protected group casting, rather than one Lightning Overload rank and damage-related pushback protection.

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Beta talent allocation: 16/5/0

Elemental: 16 points

Talent	Rank	Effect at this rank
✦ Convection	5/5	Reduces the mana cost of your Shock, Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, and Chain Lightning spells by 10%.
✦ Concussion	5/5	Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Earth Shock spells by 5%.
✦ Call of Flame	2/3	Increases the damage done by your Fire Totems and by your Flame Shock, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 10%, as well as increases the duration of your Flame Shock spell by 6 sec.
✦ Elemental Focus	1/1	Gives you a 10% chance to enter a Clearcasting state after casting any Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
✦ Elemental Alacrity	3/3	Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.50 sec.

Enhancement: 5 points

Talent	Rank	Effect at this rank
✦ Thundering Strikes	5/5	Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 5%.

How to play this beta version

1. Use Lightning Bolt during safe casting windows and Earth Shock when denying a cast is the higher-value action.
2. Place totems for the pull and use Elemental Focus when it procs; preserve Mana for emergency recovery.
3. Stay behind the tank: this split does not include Eye of the Storm to reduce pushback when enemies hit you.

What changes from the 51-point build?

• Lava Burst is now reachable with 21 Elemental points, but this 16/5 split does not select it. Chain Lightning is learned at 32.
• Lightning Overload, Eye of the Storm and Reverberation are not selected.

Use the deeper Elemental alternative when attacks often contest your cast time. It restores full Eye of the Storm and one Lightning Overload rank while giving up Thundering Strikes.

Why this beta talent split?

Enhancement Thundering Strikes improves spell critical chance without changing the casting foundation. Early Restoration can shorten Healing Wave, but does not improve the same damage casts. Restore deeper Elemental when pushback or an Earthbound-style control plan matters more.

Alternative beta buildElemental with pushback protection 21/0/0Talent split

When to use

Use when enemies frequently hit you while casting.

Trade-off

Gives up Thundering Strikes but restores Eye of the Storm, Reverberation and one Lightning Overload rank.

Elemental21 points

• Convection5/5
• Concussion5/5
• Reverberation1/5
• Call of Flame2/3
• Elemental Focus1/1
• Elemental Alacrity3/3
• Eye of the Storm3/3
• Lightning Overload1/3

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Level-60 Shaman Elemental Raid build: 51 points

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Elemental Raid at a glance

How to play Elemental Raid

Use Lightning Bolt as the main cast and Chain Lightning when its target pattern is useful. Lightning Overload is an automatic extra half-damage cast, not a proc you actively spend. Place the totems your group needs and watch Mana through longer encounters. This allocation includes Lava Burst and its dependent Elemental Mastery. Keep Flame Shock active when using Lava Burst for its conditional damage bonus; Elemental Mastery reduces Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst cast times by 0.5 seconds and removes Chain Lightning’s cooldown for 15 seconds. Plan that casting window around the Mana you have available.

Related planning: Read the dungeons and raids guide, open the Shaman talent calculator, or review the class changes before you finalize the build.

Elemental Raid talent allocation and effects

Elemental (38 points)

Talent	Rank	Effect
✦ Convection	5/5	Reduces the mana cost of your Shock, Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, and Chain Lightning spells by 10%.
✦ Concussion	5/5	Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Earth Shock spells by 5%.
✦ Elemental Warding	3/3	Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost, and Nature effects by 10%.
✦ Reverberation	4/5	Reduces the cooldown of your Shock spells by 0.8 sec.
✦ Call of Flame	2/3	Increases the damage done by your Fire Totems and by your Flame Shock, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 10%, as well as increases the duration of your Flame Shock spell by 6 sec.
✦ Elemental Focus	1/1	Gives you a 10% chance to enter a Clearcasting state after casting any Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
✦ Elemental Alacrity	3/3	Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.50 sec.
✦ Eye of the Storm	3/3	Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst by 70%.
✦ Elemental Reach	2/2	Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 6 yards and reduces the cooldown of Totemic Projection by 20 sec.
✦ Lightning Overload	3/3	Gives your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells a 10% chance to cast a second, similar spell on the same target at no additional cost that causes half damage and no threat.
✦ Elemental Fury	5/5	Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Searing and Magma Totems and your Fire, Frost, and Nature spells by 100%.
✦ Elemental Mastery	1/1	Gain mastery over Fire and Lightning, reducing the cast time of Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst by 0.5 sec, and removing the cooldown from Chain Lightning. Lasts 15 sec.
✦ Lava Burst	1/1	You hurl molten lava at the target, dealing 113 to 145 Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst deals 20% increased damage.

Restoration (13 points)

Talent	Rank	Effect
✦ Improved Healing Wave	5/5	Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.5 sec.
✦ Totemic Focus	5/5	Reduces the Mana cost of your totems and any spells that summon or move them by 25%.
✦ Mindfulness	3/3	Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.

Why Elemental Raid takes these talents

Elemental Alacrity reduces the cast times of listed lightning and lava spells and unlocks Lightning Overload. Lightning Overload adds a free half-damage lightning cast on a proc. Eye of the Storm reduces pushback on listed offensive casts; it does not provide immunity to interrupts. Mindfulness allows part of normal Mana regeneration to continue while casting.

Elemental Raid FAQs

More builds to try

Playing a different class? These dps builds from other classes follow a similar role: Marksmanship Raid (Hunter), Combat Swords (Rogue), Shadow Weaving Raid (Priest).

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