Ele Sham Talent Choice

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Can I get some suggested talent trees to see what you guys would choose for

1. Strictly Damage
2. Ele/resto utility (w/ ele as priority)


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strictly damage: https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-calc/shaman/55000115230215

The last 5 points in the elemental tree are the most important (-1 sec cast speed on your main spells) so I dont know about hybrid...

Yea there's not much play with the ele sham build imo but I'm open to be proven wrong. I just feel, like you said; -1 second cast speed needs to be taken.

I'd opt for something more like this:
https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-calc/shaman/55000115230215

The fire nova totem does respectable damage, but it costs so much mana. I guess you could argue it's life saving for quick burst melee range but I'd rather get the extra range on earthbind and reduce the cd of shocks by a further .4 seconds.

One could argue also that getting 15% increase damage on fire totems is a great way to go. Searing totem does pretty good poke if it's ignored. But again, I think that kiting with frost shock rank 1 and earthbind is the way to go, while conserving mana for quick offheals when needed.
 
i would seriously consider getting the damage reduction and fire totem damage over the 5/5 mana cost. you can always drink or healy hut to get mana but you cant DEF hut for the damage reduction.

Rank 7 LB costs 165 mana ( lvl 38 ) you only save 16.5 mana per cast every 10 casts you get a "free one" , not really worth i think.

You can run a semi melee/ele build using 1hder/shield and focusing more on shock/melee damage over hard casting ele damage, u dont often get much room to free cast. i run this https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-calc/shaman/0523015001301-50202 on my shammy, switch between SoJ and 1hder/shield mostly eagle type gear with abit of agl/str gear, can still put out decent WF hits but most of your damage will be shocks

Edit - His gear if interested https://classic.wowhead.com/gear-pl...OKwJXiioNTi0LMycMEcUNBXwORW4PMzSQBkI2SpEeLk4x swap out SoJ with Crusader every now and then but honestly prefer the extra dam reduction from 1hder/shield, 2 things i would change if i could, Skilled handling gloves and Encarmine boots.
 
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Yea there's not much play with the ele sham build imo but I'm open to be proven wrong. I just feel, like you said; -1 second cast speed needs to be taken.

I'd opt for something more like this:
https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-calc/shaman/55000115230215

The fire nova totem does respectable damage, but it costs so much mana. I guess you could argue it's life saving for quick burst melee range but I'd rather get the extra range on earthbind and reduce the cd of shocks by a further .4 seconds.

One could argue also that getting 15% increase damage on fire totems is a great way to go. Searing totem does pretty good poke if it's ignored. But again, I think that kiting with frost shock rank 1 and earthbind is the way to go, while conserving mana for quick offheals when needed.

You linked the same build as OP. I think you were suggesting swap Imp Fire Totes for Earth's Grasp and also think it's worth looking at. Depends on playstyle I suppose but if you're using a lot of Earthbinds I would say no question radius is worth it. Otherwise there's not too much room for flex points but Elemental Warding is a very strong talent and worth keeping in mind.
 
You linked the same build as OP. I think you were suggesting swap Imp Fire Totes for Earth's Grasp and also think it's worth looking at. Depends on playstyle I suppose but if you're using a lot of Earthbinds I would say no question radius is worth it. Otherwise there's not too much room for flex points but Elemental Warding is a very strong talent and worth keeping in mind.

oops yeah:
https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-calc/shaman/35200135030215

This is what I was suggesting
 

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