Elemental Shaman is a ranged DPS that also provides support with totem buffs, Bloodlust, and [Elemental Oath] that increases the party or raid spell critical strike chance by 5%.

Stats for Elemental Shaman Wotlk

Stat priority

14% hit cap* > Spell Power > Haste (1350) > Crit > Intellect

Elemental Shaman Stats Overview

*Hit Cap

For a caster the hit cap is 17%, with 3% with [Elemental Precision] and 3% from other classes debuffs, 11% is the hit rating necessary to hit with spells, however, if there is no Shadow priest or Balance Druid present in the raid, the amount needed is still 14%.

Spell Power

Spell power is the best stat for an elemental shaman after hit, the spell power will increase the damage output of all spells.

Haste

Haste reduces the global cooldown by a small amount and increases the speed of the casts, after 1350 the cast time will be below the Global Cooldown of one second, and it won’t be beneficial to stack more.

Critical Strike

Elemental Shaman spell damage can be increased to do double damage with critical strike, the best stat after haste rating reaches 1350.

Intellect

Intellect increases the mana pool and the critical strike chance, however, most of this stat will come from the gear itself.

Stats Breakdown without increasing effects

33 hit rating ≈ 1% to hit

33 expertise rating ≈ 1 expertise

33 haste rating ≈ 1% haste

45 critical chance ≈ 1% critical

1 stamina ≈ 10 Health

1 intellect ≈ 15 mana

1 agility ≈ 1 attack power

1 strength ≈ 2 attack power

1 critical chance ≈ 84 agility

14 Armor Penetration ≈ 1% Armor ignore