Elemental Shaman endgame PvE build (31/0/20)

How to play it

• Lava Burst is gone; the rotation is Lightning Bolt with Flame Shock and Chain Lightning on cooldown (2.5-second cast, expensive). Lightning Overload at 30% copies many bolts.
• Water Shield from Restoration is mana on every hit taken; Natural Grace keeps threat down now that Salvation is gone.

Talents taken

Elemental (31)

• Convection 5/5: Reduces the mana cost of your Shock, Lightning Bolt, 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%.
• Reverberation 2/5: Reduces the cooldown of your Shock spells by 0.4 sec.
• Elemental Alacrity 3/3: Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.50 sec.
• Call of Flame 1/3: Increases the damage done by your Fire Totems and by your Flame Shock and Fire Nova spells by 5%, as well as increases the duration of your Flame Shock spell by 3 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%.
• Eye of the Storm 3/3: Gives your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
• Elemental Reach 1/2: Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Fire Nova spells by 3 yards.
• Call of Thunder 1/1: Increases critical strike chance of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 5%.
• Lightning Overload 3/3: Gives your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells a 30% 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%.
• Lightning Mastery 1/1: Gain mastery over Fire and Lightning, reducing the cast time of Lightning Bolt by 0.5 sec, and removing the cooldown from Chain Lightning. Lasts 15 sec.

Restoration (20)

• Tidal Focus 5/5: Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 5% and improves your chance to hit by 5%.
• Mindfulness 3/3: Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
• Natural Grace 2/3: Reduces the threat generated by your spells by 10%.
• Totemic Focus 5/5: Reduces the Mana cost of your totems and any spells that summon or move them by 25%.
• Water Shield 1/1: The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water. When a spell, melee, or ranged attack hits the caster or when one of the caster's spells gets a critical result, 2% of maximum mana is restored to the caster, expending one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
• Restorative Totems 4/5: Increases the effect of your Mana Spring Totem by 20% and increases the effect of your Healing Stream Totem by 40%.

Point order by level

First point at level 10 (set the Talented perk in the calculator if you start earlier).