Elemental Shaman 79 BIS Gearing Guide by Tyntyn (ank)

[Kalinka]

-you need to build around SWP gear mostly to maximize your burst potential, you need to gem in to spell pen(75 atleast)>spell power=haste, look up for gear with haste on it, fortunately there is a ton of gear with haste stat in SWP
-there will be more than enough sockets on SWP gear to get atleast 75 spell pen, and you'll be left with some extra sockets
-sadly, i cant explain properly why you shouldnt use gnomish trinket, but based on my personal experience crit is completely useless and the shared cooldown with hand rocket is pissing me off, any pve stat stick or proc trinket is a better choice IMO

Ah okay thank you so much! How would you advice going about getting SWP gear the most efficient way? Will ditch the trinket!

 

[ankertest]

How would you advice going about getting SWP gear the most efficient way?

ask people to help you out, you need some geared people out there, without any help it's a dead end for you, the rest is rng

 

[Kalinka]

Okay thanks, will farm SWP!

Regarding on-use trinkets and pyro gloves, is it so that they all share CD? So there's no point in having two on-use trinkets + pyro gloves for max burst? I read somewhere that the haste glove engineering thing on the other hand isn't causing a CD with trinkets, so maybe that could be better then? This seems to be the best on-use trinket, but correct me if I'm wrong. And then maybe it's best to do an on equip chance trinket like this one for the other trinket slot and hope for a proc for max burst together with the on-use trinket? Potentially with haste glove instead of pyro rocket if it shares CD?

ask people to help you out, you need some geared people out there, without any help it's a dead end for you, the rest is rng

 

[ankertest]

So there's no point in having two on-use trinkets + pyro gloves for max burst?

right, but there is a point of having rocket + 1 on use trinket, since you can use trinket first and then use rocket after 10 sec cd

I read somewhere that the haste glove engineering thing on the other hand isn't causing a CD with trinkets

idk honestly

Shifting Naaru Sliver

naaru sliver is hindering, but stat buff itself is strong

personally i'd choose https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=33829/hex-shrunken-head no downsides on use, great in general

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=32483/the-skull-of-guldan might be also a good choice, great stats, but it's a situative trinket, i'd choose this if only im lacking hit chance

 

[Kalinka]

Awesome thank you so much! I’ll do Hex then. Is there anything you would change in this setup before I start farming for it? For absolute max burst dmg with the goal of close to instant kills.

Really appreciate your help and input!

 

[Selaya]

jc trinket's your best bet tbh, they're incredibly powerful stat sticks.

 

[Kalinka]

Ah better than the cape enchant from tailoring you think?

 

[Kalinka]

Any thoughts on the above gear link @ankertest ? Would love your input before I start farming!

 

[ankertest]

Any thoughts on the above gear link @ankertest ? Would love your input before I start farming!

i dont have much time to deep dive and find an actual bis for this kind of build, but in general it's good
couple pieces you can replace:
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=34566/skyshatter-treads better damage-wise, or https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=37105/treads-of-altered-history
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=34350/gauntlets-of-the-ancient-shadowmoon also better damage-wise, but if you want to keep a4 gloves for utility it's completely ok

 

[Kalinka]

i dont have much time to deep dive and find an actual bis for this kind of build, but in general it's good
couple pieces you can replace:
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=34566/skyshatter-treads better damage-wise, or https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=37105/treads-of-altered-history
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=34350/gauntlets-of-the-ancient-shadowmoon also better damage-wise, but if you want to keep a4 gloves for utility it's completely ok

Understand! Thanks a lot, I'll do Skyshatter Treads instead.

 

[Kanisterkopf]

Crit is not useless in a PvP setting with low resil opponents. Just because LvB does not benefit from crit does not make it useless especially for a BG setting with low lvl and low resli opponents. Spellpower is for sure not equal haste.

 

[Kalinka]

Crit is not useless in a PvP setting with low resil opponents. Just because LvB does not benefit from crit does not make it useless especially for a BG setting with low lvl and low resli opponents. Spellpower is for sure not equal haste.

Gotcha, what would you do differently in the gear?

 

[69 Arms Warrior]

Ah better than the cape enchant from tailoring you think?

asking this again, not sure why its overlooked.

Lightweave Embroidery 50% proc rate 45s internal cooldown 295 SP

sure its only like 60 SP per minute but we are talkin battlegrounds and burst damage here.
getting like 20% more SP for an engagement, less than every minute, that you dont have to acitivate, that also stacks with trinkets

BIS is engineering of course for the gloves

Also Black Magic seems to be BIS weapon enchant, again dont know why people are talking about sunwell gear and cloth armor but not these 2 staples

https://eightyupgrades.com/character/nfSGXT5C1CtH3g7hiFgu59/set/pPSodFjtKj35v9RpumVBeA

 

[ankertest]

added eightyupgrades links, gear/talents/glyphs/stats related things in one place