Shaman Elemental Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Stormkeeper 2 HeroismOff-GCD 3 AscendanceOff-GCD 4 Empowering Venom 5 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 6 Ancestral SwiftnessOff-GCD 7 Lava Burst 8 Lightning Bolt 9 Lava Burst 10 Lightning Bolt 11 Lava Burst 12 Elemental Blast 13 Lava Burst 14 Lightning Bolt 15 Lightning Bolt

1 Lava Burst 2 AscendanceOff-GCD 3 Empowering Venom 4 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 5 Ancestral SwiftnessOff-GCD 6 Lava Burst 7 Lightning Bolt 8 Lava Burst 9 Lightning Bolt 10 Lava Burst 11 Elemental Blast 12 Lightning Bolt 13 Lava Burst 14 Lightning Bolt 15 Lightning Bolt

1 Stormkeeper 2 Ancestral SwiftnessOff-GCD 3 Freightrunner's Flask 4 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 5 AscendanceOff-GCD 6 Lightning Bolt 7 Lightning Bolt 8 Lava Burst 9 Lightning Bolt 10 Lava Burst 11 Elemental Blast 12 Lightning Bolt 13 Lava Burst 14 Lightning Bolt 15 Lava Burst

#showtooltip Stormkeeper
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Ascendance
/cast Ancestral Swiftness
/cast Stormkeeper

Ability	Top-player CPM
Lightning Bolt	14.2
Lava Burst	12.4
Elemental Blast	7.2
Chain Lightning	3.9
Flame Shock	3.9
Ancestral SwiftnessOff-GCD	1.9
Stormkeeper	1.3
Spiritwalker's GraceOff-GCD	0.7
Ghost Wolf	0.6
AscendanceOff-GCD	0.5
Empowering Venom	0.5
Astral ShiftOff-GCD	0.3

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Wind Rush Totem 2 Voltaic Blaze 3 Spiritwalker's GraceOff-GCD 4 Chain Lightning 5 Lightning Bolt 6 Lava Burst 7 Lightning Bolt 8 Lightning Bolt 9 Voltaic Blaze 10 Stormkeeper 11 Chain Lightning 12 Earthquake 13 Chain Lightning 14 Ancestral SwiftnessOff-GCD 15 Freightrunner's Flask

1 Voltaic Blaze 2 Gust of Wind 3 Voltaic Blaze 4 Stormkeeper 5 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 6 Chain Lightning 7 Chain Lightning 8 Ancestral SwiftnessOff-GCD 9 AscendanceOff-GCD 10 Empowering Venom 11 Earthquake 12 Lava Burst 13 Earthquake 14 Earthquake 15 Voltaic Blaze

1 Stormkeeper 2 Voltaic Blaze 3 HeroismOff-GCD 4 Ancestral SwiftnessOff-GCD 5 AscendanceOff-GCD 6 Empowering Venom 7 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 8 Earthquake 9 Chain Lightning 10 Chain Lightning 11 Chain Lightning 12 Earthquake 13 Spiritwalker's GraceOff-GCD 14 Chain Lightning 15 Lava Burst

#showtooltip Wind Rush Totem
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Ancestral Swiftness
/cast Wind Rush Totem

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,exists][] Wind Shear

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,exists][] Purge

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@player] Wind Rush Totem

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@cursor] Wind Rush Totem

#showtooltip Lava Burst
/use Ancestral Swiftness
/cast Lava Burst

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=10 Skyfury, Lightning Shield

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Earthquake

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Flame Shock

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Spirit Walk
/cast Spiritwalker's Grace

#showtooltip
/use [pet:Primal Fire Elemental] Meteor

#showtooltip
/use [known:Gust of Wind] Gust of Wind; [known:Spirit Walk] Spirit Walk

#showtooltip
/use [@mouseover,help,nodead,known:383010] Earth Shield; [@player] Earth Shield

#showtooltip
/use [@mouseover,help,dead] Ancestral Spirit; [@mouseover,help,nodead] Healing Surge; [dead] Ancestral Spirit; Healing Surge

#showtooltip
/use [@mouseover,harm,nodead,known:Purge] Purge; [@mouseover,help,nodead] Cleanse Spirit; [harm,known:Purge] Purge; Cleanse Spirit

#showtooltip
/use [@mouseover,harm,nodead] Chain Lightning; [@mouseover,help,nodead] Chain Heal; [harm] Chain Lightning; [] Chain Heal

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Lightning Bolt	14.2
2	Lava Burst	12.4
3	Chain Lightning	9.4
4	Elemental Blast	7.2
5	Earthquake	6.2
Z	Voltaic Blaze	5.6
X	Flame Shock	3.9
C	Ancestral SwiftnessOff-GCD	1.9
V	Stormkeeper	1.3
R	Spiritwalker's GraceOff-GCD	0.7
F	Ghost Wolf	0.6
T	Gust of Wind	0.6
G	AscendanceOff-GCD	0.5
Shift+1	Empowering Venom	0.5
Shift+2	Astral ShiftOff-GCD	0.3