Elemental Shaman

The priority

1. Stormkeeper — when it is ready
2. Ancestral Swiftness — when it is ready
3. Lava Burst — with lava surge (no master of the elements waiting)
4. Flame Shock — when flame shock is missing or ending
5. Lava Burst — without master of the elements
6. Elemental Blast — with master of the elements, or near the cap
7. Voltaic Blaze — without master of the elements waiting
8. Lava Burst — when a charge is available
9. Lightning Bolt — as a filler

Common mistakes

• Casting Elemental Blast without Master of the Elements when Maelstrom isn’t about to cap.
• Letting Flame Shock fall off.
• Hard-casting Lightning Bolt while a Lava Surge proc is waiting.

What’s simplified

• Each turn is one decision (about one global cooldown). Cooldowns and buff durations are converted to turns, so timing is approximate.
• Priority order follows SimulationCraft’s default priority list for this build, simplified to the abilities modeled here. Costs, cooldowns and effects come from Blizzard’s spell data. Rule wording is our own.
• All spells are instant in the trainer. In game Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst and Elemental Blast have cast times.
• Lava Burst has 2 charges and a 5-turn recharge (an approximation of its hasted recharge). Lava Surge is a 16% chance per turn while Flame Shock is up.
• Maelstrom caps at 150. Lightning Bolt gives 8, Lava Burst 10 and Chain Lightning 4 per target (approximations). Elemental Blast costs 90 and Earthquake 60, as in spell data.
• Flame Shock lasts 12 turns (18 seconds) and counts as refreshable in its last 4. Voltaic Blaze also applies it.
• Ascendance, Call of the Ancestors, Stormkeeper stack counts and Elemental Blast’s random stat buff are simplified or left out.

Sources

• SimulationCraft: Default action priority list (Oct 20, 2026)
• SimulationCraft: Spell data dump, build 12.1.5.70391 (Oct 16, 2026)
• Blizzard Entertainment: Spell tooltips and Game Data API (spells) (Oct 13, 2026)
• Warcraft Secrets: Patch 12.1.5 content update notes (class changes) (Oct 13, 2026)

Farseer with Elemental Blast and Master of the Elements: the build this module teaches. Stormbringer and Ascendance are not modeled. Reviewed Oct 20, 2026. A training aid, not a damage simulator.