WoW Forever · Spell damage

Elemental Shaman

Elemental spends mana on Nature and Fire attacks while choosing totems and utility for the encounter. Lightning Bolt is a repeatable cast; a Shock can serve a different damage or interrupt job. Choose the spell that solves the moment rather than assuming every available cast belongs in one fixed burst sequence.

Current beta play is capped at level 30. Level 60 reference models and deeper talents are identified as later planning. Client descriptions and server updates can differ.

In this guide

What this build asks you to do

Elemental Focus can prepare a Clearcasting state from an eligible damage cast, reducing the cost of the next damage spell. Notice the proc before choosing the follow-up; it is not permanent free casting. Later Lava Burst benefits from Flame Shock already on the target in the published Forever description. Do not replace that rule with the old assumption that every Flame Shock setup guarantees a critical Lava Burst.

A proc can create an efficient follow-up while totems add utility.
Movement, interruptions and mana determine usable output; a future damage model is not a levelling guarantee.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
NickTew: Forever Shaman levelling Forever author guide · 2026-10-04
Current author advice about mana, imbues and interrupts; not a measured universal fastest route.
Matching Forever attribute breakpoints Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
First 20 effective Intellect and Stamina breakpoints; Intellect above 20 has 15 mana per point in the client display. HP above the Stamina breakpoint uses a runtime getter.
Forever client regeneration evidence Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Reported rate display and accepted class/retention evidence. No universal Spirit-to-MP5 conversion or invented server tick formula.

Choose the next action

Open from a safe casting position and choose a learned Lightning Bolt or other damage spell that suits the target. Use a Shock for its useful damage or interrupt job rather than assuming it is always the next burst button.
Notice Elemental Focus’s eligible Clearcasting preparation. Spend the prepared reduction on a useful following damage spell; it is not permanently free casting.
Choose totems for the party and pull. An enemy or group moving away can make the original position poor, so consider the actual range before paying to place another support effect.
Keep mana and a quick utility response available. A timely interrupt can improve the pull more than another completed damage cast.
Later Lava Burst has its stated Flame Shock relationship. Do not replace it with the old claim that every Flame Shock setup guarantees a critical Lava Burst.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
NickTew: Forever Shaman levelling Forever author guide · 2026-10-04
Current author advice about mana, imbues and interrupts; not a measured universal fastest route.
Matching Forever attribute breakpoints Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
First 20 effective Intellect and Stamina breakpoints; Intellect above 20 has 15 mana per point in the client display. HP above the Stamina breakpoint uses a runtime getter.
Forever client regeneration evidence Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Reported rate display and accepted class/retention evidence. No universal Spirit-to-MP5 conversion or invented server tick formula.

A damage proc prepares one efficient follow-up

Click through an illustrative sequence. Conditional effects require the named spells and talents; this is not a damage, resource, threat or timing simulation.

Cast an eligible damage spell: Use a learned Lightning Bolt; a Clearcasting trigger is conditional.
Notice Clearcasting: With Elemental Focus learned, this example shows its proc state.
Choose the next damage spell: Use the benefit on a useful eligible damage spell, not on an invented permanently free sequence.
Recheck mana and utility: A control or totem decision may be more useful than continuing to cast at a poor target.

Inspect the interaction

The scene explains this named mechanic. The saved level 60 priority reference, where present, is separate.

A damage proc prepares one efficient follow-up Current beta · use the spells and talents you know

A damage proc prepares one efficient follow-up

Click through an illustrative sequence. Conditional effects require the named spells and talents; this is not a damage, resource, threat or timing simulation.

This scene illustrates a named interaction. Playback does not simulate combat timing, damage, resource costs or enemy behaviour.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
NickTew: Forever Shaman levelling Forever author guide · 2026-10-04
Current author advice about mana, imbues and interrupts; not a measured universal fastest route.
Matching Forever attribute breakpoints Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
First 20 effective Intellect and Stamina breakpoints; Intellect above 20 has 15 mana per point in the client display. HP above the Stamina breakpoint uses a runtime getter.
Forever client regeneration evidence Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Reported rate display and accepted class/retention evidence. No universal Spirit-to-MP5 conversion or invented server tick formula.

Build the toolkit

Learn the Shocks and damage ranks you actually use, retaining a cheap interrupt option when its effect is sufficient. Elemental Focus is a talent interaction; deep Lava Burst planning does not make the spell available to a current level 30 character.

Build the toolkit
Level	Decision or milestone	Scope
20	Elemental Focus is an ordinary talent-row option.	Current beta
30	Lightning Overload becomes a talent-row option.	Current beta
40	Lava Burst is deeper planning.	Later planning

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
NickTew: Forever Shaman levelling Forever author guide · 2026-10-04
Current author advice about mana, imbues and interrupts; not a measured universal fastest route.
Matching Forever attribute breakpoints Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
First 20 effective Intellect and Stamina breakpoints; Intellect above 20 has 15 mana per point in the client display. HP above the Stamina breakpoint uses a runtime getter.
Forever client regeneration evidence Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Reported rate display and accepted class/retention evidence. No universal Spirit-to-MP5 conversion or invented server tick formula.

Understand the upgrade

Compare the spells you actually cast and the recovery needed to repeat the pull.

Intellect supports the mana pool; specific damage or recovery relationships apply only through learned effects.

These examples describe the pinned client baseline. Learned talents, buffs, attack type and actual encounter change the useful result; they are not universal stat weights. Spirit’s value must be compared through the full and casting regeneration your character reports, rather than a fixed Spirit-to-MP5 rule.

Understand the upgrade
Comparison	Meaning
+10 Intellect	+150 mana if existing effective Intellect is at least 20, before further modifiers; about +0.355 percentage points of spell crit at level 30.
+7 Intellect from 19	The first-20 breakpoint gives +91 mana, not +105.
Spell/healing power	Compare the affected spell or heal and learned rank; the coefficient and useful outcome differ.

Sources for this section

Forever class attribute coefficients Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Class baseline attack-power coefficients; form-specific branches and modifiers are separate.
Matching Forever character-stat display Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Client display basis: 14 AP per nominal ordinary weapon DPS, 2 Armor per Agility, and Cat-specific Agility branch. Not a special-attack or shapeshifted damage model.
Matching Forever attribute breakpoints Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
First 20 effective Intellect and Stamina breakpoints; Intellect above 20 has 15 mana per point in the client display. HP above the Stamina breakpoint uses a runtime getter.
Forever client regeneration evidence Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Reported rate display and accepted class/retention evidence. No universal Spirit-to-MP5 conversion or invented server tick formula.

Questing and group play

Solo Elemental needs both a damage plan and recovery after the pull. Start with targets that allow safe casts and use control when the enemy arrives. In groups, support with useful totems and interrupts while respecting the tank’s target; a one-target stationary model does not represent a moving dungeon pack.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
NickTew: Forever Shaman levelling Forever author guide · 2026-10-04
Current author advice about mana, imbues and interrupts; not a measured universal fastest route.
Matching Forever attribute breakpoints Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
First 20 effective Intellect and Stamina breakpoints; Intellect above 20 has 15 mana per point in the client display. HP above the Stamina breakpoint uses a runtime getter.
Forever client regeneration evidence Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Reported rate display and accepted class/retention evidence. No universal Spirit-to-MP5 conversion or invented server tick formula.

Choose useful equipment

Compare affected Nature/Fire or general spell damage with Intellect and sustainable casting. A melee weapon’s larger ordinary hit is a different upgrade from the spell you cast at range. Armor and health can matter when the solo enemy reaches you even if the reference ignores travel and movement.

Sources for this section

TalentsForever: current beta talents and spell tooltips Forever beta report · 1.60.1.70170 · 2026-10-04
CC-BY-4.0 author-client export generated October 4. Build 70170 with dated research/hotfix annotations; client descriptions do not establish every current server effect or trainer offer.
NickTew: Forever Shaman levelling Forever author guide · 2026-10-04
Current author advice about mana, imbues and interrupts; not a measured universal fastest route.
Matching Forever attribute breakpoints Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
First 20 effective Intellect and Stamina breakpoints; Intellect above 20 has 15 mana per point in the client display. HP above the Stamina breakpoint uses a runtime getter.
Forever client regeneration evidence Client interface source · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Reported rate display and accepted class/retention evidence. No universal Spirit-to-MP5 conversion or invented server tick formula.
Forever item reference: build 70205 Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Item names and requirements; client presence does not establish a drop source or current access.

Level 60 reference priorities

Tauren; saved 33/5/13 talent split; level 60; 10,000 iterations; one level 63 target; nominal 120 seconds with ±15 seconds variation.

These are the visible core spell decisions in this saved model’s effective rotation, in source priority order. Check the first usable higher-priority action; later entries can be skipped. Item, racial and other auxiliary management remains in the full report, and execute-phase percentages are encounter settings rather than proc chances.

Level 60 reference priorities
Action	Condition in this saved model
Searing Totem	(target count = 1 AND NOT (periodic effect active: Searing Totem))
Magma Totem	(target count ≥ 2 AND NOT (periodic effect active: Magma Totem))
Flame Shock	NOT (periodic effect active: Flame Shock)
Lava Burst	No additional priority test
Fire Nova	Mana % ≥ 30%
Chain Lightning	(active effect: Clearcasting OR target count ≥ 2 OR Mana ≥ (fight time remaining × 100))
Lightning Bolt	Mana ≥ (fight time remaining × 35)
Lightning Bolt	No additional priority test

Sources for this section

MythicSim: Elemental Shaman Model documentation · 2026-10-05
Saved level 60 reference, inspected October 5, 2026. Engine forever-f43215d07e51fc228c2e32366d7563b03d76fec8. Its priorities and events describe this model, not tested live gameplay.

Inspect the saved opening

These timestamps show selected events from one recorded model opening. A row can be a triggered event; it is not automatically another button press. Negative times are preparation before the encounter.

Saved endgame model · later planning

Saved level 60 reference

Inspect events from this saved setup.

Level 60 single-target damage reference · later planning

Inspect the saved opening

These rows are events from one model timeline. A triggered hit or effect is not automatically an extra player cast.

Saved model event · -2 sLightning Bolt

Inspect the original setup and full report →

Sources for this section

MythicSim: Elemental Shaman Model documentation · 2026-10-05
Saved level 60 reference, inspected October 5, 2026. Engine forever-f43215d07e51fc228c2e32366d7563b03d76fec8. Its priorities and events describe this model, not tested live gameplay.

Equipment in this reference

The publisher describes these sets as primarily dungeon and crafted equipment, rather than optimized BiS. The Survival and Holy / Protection references have beta-gear exceptions. This is an item sample without inferred inventory slots.

Equipment in this reference
Reference item	How to use this comparison
Storm Gauntlets	Fixed reference item; verify your level, source and current access.

Sources for this section

MythicSim: Elemental Shaman Model documentation · 2026-10-05
Saved level 60 reference, inspected October 5, 2026. Engine forever-f43215d07e51fc228c2e32366d7563b03d76fec8. Its priorities and events describe this model, not tested live gameplay.
Forever item reference: build 70205 Client data · 1.60.1.70205 · 2026-10-04
Item names and requirements; client presence does not establish a drop source or current access.
MythicSim: reference-model methodology Model documentation · 2026-10-04
Dated level 60 damage-model references; selected profiles are not gameplay or healer-performance evidence.