Elemental Mastery

Shaman · Elemental Combat · opens at 30 points spent · 1 rank

Elemental Mastery works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Instant · 3 min cooldown

Elemental Mastery ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Gain mastery over Fire and Lightning, reducing the cast time of Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst by 0.5 sec, and removing the cooldown from Chain Lightning. Lasts 15 sec.

What Elemental Mastery does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.

Rank 1 When activated, this spell gives your next Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell a 100% critical strike chance and reduces the mana cost by 100%.

Where Elemental Mastery sits in the Elemental Combat tree

Elemental Mastery is a Elemental Combat talent for Shaman. You need 30 points in Elemental Combat before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Lava Burst first.

Requires: Lava Burst

How often people take Elemental Mastery

31 of the 223 public Shaman builds saved here (14%) put at least one point in Elemental Mastery. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Elemental Mastery

4 of the public Shaman builds written up here spend points on Elemental Mastery.

Shaman Elemental Combat 24/13/0 · 1/1 , 17 up
Shaman Elemental Combat 20/5/0 · 1/1 , 16 up
Shaman Elemental Combat 24/7/8 · 1/1 , 5 up
Shaman Elemental Combat 22/5/15 · 1/1 , 3 up

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

Forever client build 1.60.1.70532
the beta client's hotfix cache, 22 October 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70450)