Elemental Warding
Shaman · Elemental Combat · opens at 5 points spent · 3 ranks
Elemental Warding works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Elemental Warding ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost, and Nature effects by 3%.
- Rank 2 Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost, and Nature effects by 6%.
- Rank 3 Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost, and Nature effects by 9%.
What Elemental Warding 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 Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost and Nature effects by 4%.
- Rank 2 Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost and Nature effects by 7%.
- Rank 3 Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost and Nature effects by 10%.
Where Elemental Warding sits in the Elemental Combat tree
Elemental Warding is a Elemental Combat talent for Shaman. You need 5 points in Elemental Combat before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Reverberation, Call of Flame, Elemental Devastation
How often people take Elemental Warding
34 of the 232 public Shaman builds saved here — 15% — put at least one point in Elemental Warding. 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.
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage