Cataclysm Elemental Shaman Leveling Build Guide 4.0.6

Elemental tree is the recommended talent spec tree for leveling a Shaman in WoW Cataclysm.  This leveling build guide will take you to 85 and is updated for patch 4.0.6.

After level 80 the talents are really up to you.  I put some points into the enhancement tree but it really is up to you once you have hit your max talent in the Elemental tree.  You really cant go wrong.

These are the best talent points for leveling an elemental shaman to go along with the best leveling route guide: Zygor’s Leveling Guide.

Any intellect item will go along well with your Elemental shaman.  In Cataclysm, mastery is obtained on gear instead of talents.  Reforging is the way to get your master stats.  There are reforgeries in any major city.  You will want to reforge your stats to Mastery.

The glyphs are only recommendations.  I have left some open spots because its pretty open as far as what you want to use

The following is the Cataclysm Elemental Shaman Leveling Build Guide.  These are the best talents for leveling to go along with a good leveling path such as Zygor’s Leveling Guide.

The guide below takes you to 80.  A link to the talent tree of this guide and skills up to 85 can be found here.

Rotation

Flameshock Debuff

Lava Burst

Earth Shock (when lightning shield has a 9 stack on target)

Lightning Bolt

Cataclysm Elemental Shaman Leveling Build Guide

Level 85 Shaman (36/5/0)

Elemental (36 Points)

Acuity – Rank 3/3
Increases your critical strike chance with all spells and attacks by 3%.

Convection – Rank 2/2
Reduces the mana cost of your damaging offensive spells by 10%.

Concussion – Rank 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Thunderstorm, Lava Burst and Shock spells by 6%.

Call of Flame – Rank 2/2
Increases the damage done by your Fire Totems and Fire Nova by 20%, and damage done by your Lava Burst spell by 10%.

Reverberation – Rank 2/2
Reduces the cooldown of your Shock spells and Wind Shear by 1 sec.

Elemental Precision – Rank 3/3
Increases your Fire, Frost and Nature damage by 3% and grants you spell hit rating equal to 100% of any Spirit gained from items or effects.

Rolling Thunder – Rank 2/2
When you deal damage with Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning while your Lightning Shield ability is active, you have a 60% chance to recover 2% of your mana and to generate an additional Lightning Shield charge, up to a maximum of 9 charges.

Elemental Focus – Rank 1/1
After landing a non-periodic critical strike with a Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell, you enter a Clearcasting state. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next 2 damage or healing spells by 40%.

Elemental Reach – Rank 2/2
Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 10 yards, and increases the range of your Shock spells and Searing Totem by 15 yards.

Elemental Oath – Rank 2/2
While Clearcasting from Elemental Focus is active, you deal 10% more spell damage. In addition, party and raid members within 100 yards receive a 5% bonus to their critical strike chance.

Lava Flows – Rank 3/3
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Lava Burst spell by an additional 24% and the periodic damage of your Flame Shock by 60%. In addition, when your Flame Shock is dispelled you gain 30% spell haste for 6 sec.

Fulmination – Rank 1/1
When you have more than 3 Lightning Shield charges active, your Earth Shock spell will consume any surplus charges, instantly dealing their total damage to the enemy target.

Elemental Mastery – Rank 1/1
When activated, your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Lava Burst spell becomes an instant cast spell. In addition, your Fire, Frost, and Nature damage is increased by 15% and you gain 20% spell haste for 15 sec.

Earth’s Grasp – Rank 2/2
Grants your Earthbind Totem a 100% chance to root nearby targets for 5 sec when cast.

Totemic Wrath – Rank 1/1
Causes your Fire totems to increase the spell power of party and raid members within 100 yards by 10%.

Feedback – Rank 3/3
Your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells reduce the remaining cooldown on your Elemental Mastery talent by 3 sec.

Lava Surge – Rank 2/2
Gives your Flame Shock periodic damage ticks a 20% chance to reset the cooldown of your Lava Burst spell.

Earthquake – Rank 1/1
You cause the earth at the target location to tremble and break, dealing 493 Physical damage every 1 sec to enemies in 8 yard radius, with a 10% chance of knocking down affected targets. Lasts 8 sec.

Enhancement (5 Points)

Elemental Weapons – Rank 2/2
Increases the passive bonuses granted by your Flametongue Weapon and Earthliving Weapon abilities by 40%, the damage of your extra attacks from Windfury Weapon by 40%, and the effectiveness of the ongoing benefits of your Unleash Elements ability by 50%.

Improved Shields – Rank 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Lightning Shield orbs by 15%, increases the amount of mana gained from your Water Shield orbs by 15%, and increases the amount of healing done by your Earth Shield orbs by 15%.

Restoration (0 Points)

None

Glyphs

Glyph of Flame Shock (Prime Glyph)
Increases the duration of your Flame Shock by 50%.

Glyph of Lava Burst (Prime Glyph)
Your Lava Burst spell deals 10% more damage.

Glyph of Lightning Bolt (Prime Glyph)
Increases the damage dealt by Lightning Bolt by 4%.

Glyph of Chain Heal (Major Glyph)
Increases healing done by your Chain Heal spell to targets beyond the first by 15%, but decreases the amount received by the initial target by 10%.

Glyph of Totemic Recall (Major Glyph)
Causes your Totemic Recall ability to return an additional 50% of the mana cost of any recalled totems.

Glyph of Healing Stream Totem (Major Glyph)
Your Healing Stream Totem also increases the Fire, Frost, and Nature resistance of party and raid members within 30 yards by (cond($lte(level, 70), level, cond($lte(level, 80), level + (level) * 5, level + (level) * 5 + (level) * 7))).

Glyph of Renewed Life (Minor Glyph)
Your Reincarnation spell no longer requires a reagent.

Glyph of Water Walking (Minor Glyph)
Your Water Walking spell no longer requires a reagent.

Glyph of Astral Recall (Minor Glyph)
Cooldown of your Astral Recall spell reduced by 7.5 min.

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