Thread: Cataclysm Changes - Elemental

Elemental Spells:

Unleash Weapon (level 81): Unleashes the power of your weapon enchants for additional effects (see below). A dual-wielding Enhancement shaman will activate the effects of both of their weapon enchants. Instant cast. 30-yard range. 15-second cooldown. Undispellable.

Here are the current effects of the different enchants when using Unleash Enchant:

* Windfury Weapon – Hurls a spectral version of your weapon at a target, dealing 50% weapon damage and increasing the shaman's attack speed by 20% for 6 seconds.
* Flametongue Weapon – Deals instant Fire damage and buffs the shaman's next Fire attack by 20%.
* Earthliving Weapon – Heals the target slightly and buffs the shaman's next healing spell by 20%.
* Frostbrand Weapon – Deals instant Frost damage slows target by 50%, if Frost Shock is on target the slow is increased to 70%.
* Rockbiter Weapon – Deals no damage but physically taunts the target onto the shaman for 5 seconds.


Here is a video with an explanation of the Unleash Enchant spell including some training dummy footage as elemental, voice over by Pandamonium





Spiritwalker's Grace (level 85): When this self-targeted buff is active, your spells are no longer interrupted by movement and possibly even by your own attacks. This will give shaman of all three specs another way to heal or do damage when it’s necessary to move in both PvE and PvP. Instant cast. 10-second duration. 2-minute cooldown.


Mastery Passive Talent Tree Bonuses

* Spell damage
* Spell Crit
* Elemental Overload


Elemental Overload: Your direct-damage spells have a chance to proc a less powerful 'bonus" version of the spell. This will work much like the current Lightning Overload talent, but would also apply to Lava Burst.

Lava Surge: This deep Elemental talent gives your Flame Shock ticks (not initial strike) a 30% chance to refresh the cooldown of Lava Burst making Lava Burst a much more unpredictable part of an Elemental Shaman rotation.

Here is a video explaining the Mastery system for Shaman and Blizzards current ideas for the future, voice over by Pandamonium




Talents/Spells lists:
Level 10 abilitys for choosing elemental:
Shaman - Elemental
A spellcaster who harnesses the destructive forces of nature and the elements.

* Eye of the Storm
* Thunderstorm
* Elemental Fury

Talents: http://www.wowtal.com/#k=.9mn.shaman
Spells: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...d-12479-Shaman

The Elemental 31 point talent is Earthquake, currently a channelled spell that does mediocre damage, every tick of damage has a chance to knock the target down for 1.5-2 seconds
15 second cooldown, 12 second duration.
Here is a video of Earthquake in action with a small voice over by Pandamonium





Totem of Wrath has been scrapped and removed from the game. There is now a talent point in deep Elemental tree named Totemic Wrath.
The talent works as follows:
Your fire totems will increase your party / raids spellpower by 10% - 100 yard range
This enables Elemental shaman to drop damage increasing fire totems in combat without fear of hurting the power of your party / raid.

Flametongue Totem now will replace Totem of Wrath Elemental shaman, and dropping this totem will buff the group's spell power by 4%. The 4% and 10% buffs will be exclusive with each other and with the warlock's Demonic Pact, so you can't benefit from all of them at once. We're also considering letting Elemental drop Searing Totem at range.

Elemental will have a deep talent that allows Spirit (which will appear on the gear they share with Restoration shaman) to boost their Hit rating.

The following video is an explanation of how it is likely the Elemental Shaman rotation will be in Cataclysm, this rotation is more demanding than the current rotation and many will be pleased of this.



Videos from Pandamonium, check out his youtube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/hybridpanda

as nice as the ability to pop off a second lava burst is, i doubt that will go live for pvp reasons. pve could really use that, but i just do see that happening.

ah, but pvp is going to have higher health pools across the board, so I can see it workin out just fine :3

Originally Posted by Arcsecant

Yeah the pvp QQ will be unbearable. 2 LVB crits, 2 CL crits, 2 EM/LB crits, frost shock crit in 4 seconds. That is some serious damage. AND casting all of this and more while moving? yes please!

the way im reading that is its only going to be one cast while moving.

Originally Posted by Pearroc

Elemental Information

Mastery Passive Talent Tree Bonuses

* Spell damage
* Spell Crit
* Elemental Overload


Elemental Overload: Your direct-damage spells have a chance to proc a less powerful 'bonus" version of the spell. This will work much like the current Lightning Overload talent, but would also apply to Lava Burst.

Other information
Elemental Reach will be simplified so shaman have a more consistent spell range.

We plan to add Earthquake as a deep Elemental talent for targeted and persistent AoE.

Totem of Wrath now will replace Flametongue Totem for all shaman, and dropping this totem will buff the group's spell power by 4%. Elemental shaman will have a talent that lets all Fire totems provide +10% spell power, allowing them to drop Searing, Magma, or Fire Elemental Totems without losing their spell-damage buff. The 4% and 10% buffs will be exclusive with each other and with the warlock's Demonic Pact, so you can't benefit from all of them at once. We're also considering letting Elemental drop Searing Totem at range.

Elemental will have a deep talent that allows Spirit (which will appear on the gear they share with Restoration shaman) to boost their Hit rating.

Didnt they say that they are only putting spirit on healing gear? They said that dps specs wont have to worry about spirit. Or was it something else

Originally Posted by Pearroc

Elemental Overload: Your direct-damage spells have a chance to proc a less powerful 'bonus" version of the spell. This will work much like the current Lightning Overload talent, but would also apply to Lava Burst.

What I'm curious about is whether or not they're also keeping Lightning Overload? And if so, will it stack with its Mastery counterpart? If so, I can only imagine the burst.

To simplify: Cast Lightning bolt (lightning overload for 50% dmg). Will mastery just increase the chance of that? Or would it cast yet another bolt? Cast Lightning Bolt (Lightning overload 50% dmg + % master dmg)?

Oh, I'm sure people are just going to macro Unleash Weapon prior to their LvB (unless it is on the GCD) to make it just add static dmg.

All they need to do now to make us even more OP is allow all shaman spells able to be casted while in Ghost Wolf form.