Storm, Earth and Fire Visual idea

[Lastlivingsoul]

Since we haven't seen any visuals of the new spell I thought the new spell should mimic the art that inspired it.

Storm, Earth and Fire: Cosmetic idea

Storm: While the spell is active the monk crackles with White Lightning. (Character has a White Glow)
Earth: The First Clone Swings a Giant Stone Panda Totem. (Clone has a Green Glow)
Fire: The Second Clone of yourself cast dual-weilds to burning Katanas like in the picture. (Character has a Red Glow)

Edit: Borrowing image from below

The spell already existed in WC3. Looks like this -

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Picture isn't working. But pretty mutch Brewmaster ultimate from DotA.

[Frostinferno]

The spell already existed in WC3. Looks like this -

[Sylar Hao]

I find it funny that the most shamanistic ability ever is not a shaman spell XD

[Valedus]

I find it funny that the most shamanistic ability ever is not a shaman spell XD

It's not a shaman ability. It was a Pandaren Brewmaster skill in Warcraft 3.

[Ujio]

I find it funny that the most shamanistic ability ever is not a shaman spell XD

Don't be jelly bro.

[Edds]

well a shaman quotes it at the start of the credits in wc3 or frozen throne i cant remember. i always thought it was a shaman only quote/spell

[Super Kami Dende]

Considering monks are meant to be one with everything, It makes sense they can control the elements.

[Qprah]

Since we haven't seen any visuals of the new spell I thought the new spell should mimic the art that inspired it.

Storm, Earth and Fire: Cosmetic idea

Storm: While the spell is active the monk crackles with White Lightning. (Character has a White Glow)
Earth: The First Clone Swings a Giant Stone Panda Totem. (Clone has a Green Glow)
Fire: The Second Clone of yourself cast dual-weilds to burning Katanas like in the picture. (Character has a Red Glow)

Edit: Borrowing image from below

I would go one step further: Allow the spell for all 3 specs and make the 'main' clone be based on what spec you are.

Eg: while a windwalker, you take on the roll of the 'fire' clone, and your 2 copies are the 'earth' and 'storm'
while a brewmaster you take on the roll of 'earth' and your clones are 'fire' and 'storm'
while mistweaver you are 'storm' and your clones are 'fire' and 'earth'

[Fibby76]

I would go one step further: Allow the spell for all 3 specs and make the 'main' clone be based on what spec you are.

Eg: while a windwalker, you take on the roll of the 'fire' clone, and your 2 copies are the 'earth' and 'storm'
while a brewmaster you take on the roll of 'earth' and your clones are 'fire' and 'storm'
while mistweaver you are 'storm' and your clones are 'fire' and 'earth'

I absolutely love this idea! Seconded!

[Boogums]

Picture isn't working. But pretty mutch Brewmaster ultimate from WC3.

Fixed /10 char

[Amigam]

I would go one step further: Allow the spell for all 3 specs and make the 'main' clone be based on what spec you are.

Eg: while a windwalker, you take on the roll of the 'fire' clone, and your 2 copies are the 'earth' and 'storm'
while a brewmaster you take on the roll of 'earth' and your clones are 'fire' and 'storm'
while mistweaver you are 'storm' and your clones are 'fire' and 'earth'

Its a Windwalker spec only ability

[Valsh]

Its a Windwalker spec only ability

"I would go one step further: Allow the spell for all 3 specs..."

[Kisho]

well a shaman quotes it at the start of the credits in wc3 or frozen throne i cant remember. i always thought it was a shaman only quote/spell

Storm, Earth, and Fire: Heed my Call!

*awesome guitars start playing*

The same credits also have Arthas, the Lich King, playing an electric guitar and generally being badass. That sure isn't canon!

Or... Maybe it is. He needed something to do whilst waiting for us to reach him at the top of ICC, after all.

[Lupinemancer]

I absolutely love this idea! Seconded!

I second this idea!

[Dreyo]

well a shaman quotes it at the start of the credits in wc3 or frozen throne i cant remember. i always thought it was a shaman only quote/spell

To clarify, "Storm, earth, and fire, heed my call!" is what a Warcraft 3 Orc Shaman says upon finishing training and appearing by your Spirit Lodge.

ETC yanked the line because it's awesome, and made a song about it. But it's definitely a shaman thing.

Why the Pandaren Brewmaster got the ability in war3, I still have no idea. Never made sense, even then.

[Exorte]

To clarify, "Storm, earth, and fire, heed my call!" is what a Warcraft 3 Orc Shaman says upon finishing training and appearing by your Spirit Lodge.

ETC yanked the line because it's awesome, and made a song about it. But it's definitely a shaman thing.

Why the Pandaren Brewmaster got the ability in war3, I still have no idea. Never made sense, even then.

The rumor I heard is that three elemental are the based original model for Pandaren (on top of the page in the link below). Their model are more closely relate to Japanese and not Chinese because Samwise Didier thought pandas are from Japan. The Chinese fan was not thrilled to say the least, if you know the Asia world war 2 history you would know why*. So Blizzard reworked the Pandaren to a more Chinese feel. To answer your question, reuse scraped models.

Picture of Japanese influence Panadren under Shado-pan, and wardancer:
http://classic.battle.net/war3/pandaren/ <- Yes, I surprise as well that this link still works.

*During world war 2 Japan conquer a large part of China. Hence, even to this day, Chinese doesn't take anything with the implication that China is under Japan's rule well.

[Sylar Hao]

Don't be jelly bro.

I'm not jelly at all, I don't even play a shaman, but I do play a WW monk. Don't get me wrong, I love this new ability. My point is that this ability, even if it was a Brewmaster spell back in WC3, still fits better on a shaman, who is the elements master in this game. That's all

[Deleted]

If this abillty is a toggle, i will find it hard toggling it off

[Valsh]

I'm not jelly at all, I don't even play a shaman, but I do play a WW monk. Don't get me wrong, I love this new ability. My point is that this ability, even if it was a Brewmaster spell back in WC3, still fits better on a shaman, who is the elements master in this game. That's all

I think the issue with the skill feeling a bit out of place compared to its WC3 counterpart is that Blizzard didn't really give us many elemental related abilities. We've got some spinning fire stuff, nature spells and that's about it - would be thematically good to have some rock/wind/water stuff thrown in there.