Cataclysm - Build 12479 - Shaman

[Awanae]

One thing I noticed: the Lightning Mastery talent that reduces the cast time of LB, CL and LvB is missing from the elemental tree (it's a chubby talent, so no surprise)... but it isn't listed anywhere as a specialization bonus or that the spells themselves had their cast times lowered. I'm hoping this is an oversight of the changes, a beta quirk or a bug and not a deliberate overreaction to WotLK spell haste. :x

I found the answer, this talent is now included in our new passive talent Eye of the storm

[TheDeceived]

Taking into account the changes to the "mortal strike" debuffs that a lot of specs now have in Cataclysm, doesn't a Resto Shaman make those effects completely redundant?

We get +15% healing received from Spark of Life, and then if we Earth Shield ourselves, we receive a further +15% healing from the re-designed Nature's Blessing. Therefore, we're sitting at +30% healing from talents alone and the new - healing % effects range from 20-25%. Unless it's designed to be hard to keep yourself alive at 130%, then I don't see the point of the healing debuffs?

Oh and if the LHW glyph remains in the game, then we'll be at +50% extra healing from LHW.

Anyone got any further information on the design implications behind these talents?