Blizzard
As the patch 8.1.0 information starts to comes out, we wanted to share the current plans of what is being changed for Elemental Shaman.
Core Ability Changes: - Shifted some damage from Earth Shock to Blitzschlag.
Elemental Shaman is the only lightning based spell caster. However, over time, Blitzschlag has gone from being a significant portion of your total damage to one of your least damaging abilities. It should be a powerful and effective spell for you to cast, and not something that feels like a burden to your rotation. Erdschock will still be your hardest hitting spell, but Blitzschlag should feel a bit better as part of your rotation.
Lavaeruption has had its functionality changed behind the scenes to allow an in-flight Lava Burst to gain a guaranteed critical strike from a
cast after the
Lavaeruption has been cast.
- This change should help your initial spells cast against a monster, boss, enemy player, or whatever else feel much better. You can cast Lavaeruption before combat, and when it finishes, cast , and the Lavaeruption will gain the critical strike benefit from your .
Talent Changes: - The level 15 talent Elementarschlag will now always pick a different secondary stat buff when causing an Elemental Overload.
- The level 30 talent Meister der Elemente can now also benefit a Physical damage spell, allowing it to increase the damage of an Erdbeben.
- The level 100 talent Sturmhüter now also increases the damage of your next two Blitzschlags by 250% in addition to its existing effects. This damage bonus will also apply to the Elemental Overloads of Lightning Bolt from Stormkeeper.
The Master of the Elements and Stormkeeper changes are primarily to help keep balance between single target damage and area damage of the talent rows. Meister der Elemente will now affect your next Erdbeben spell to keep the talent more competitive when dealing area damage, and Sturmhüter will grant you two really powerful Blitzschlags that also cause Elemental Overloads when fighting just a single target.
The level 15 talent
Entblößte Elemente has been removed, and the level 90 talent
Irdene Wut has taken its place
The level 60 talent
Hochspannung has been removed.
New talent in the level 60 row: Call the Thunder
New talent in the level 90 row: Surge of Power
- When looking at the whole sum of changes made to Elemental Shaman this expansion, we feel that some of the passive talent choices weren't holding up well, and had no interaction with how you played the game at all. We're adding some experimental new talents that should allow some additional decision making on how you choose to use some of your abilities. Please keep in mind that both of these new talents, as well as all of the other changes, are still under iteration and may change entirely throughout the patch 8.1.0 PTR cycle.
Just as a quick update, here's the current version of the experimental new talents that will be hitting the PTR soon. Reminder that these are experimental, the PTR is for testing, we'll probably iterate on or completely replace these designs, etc.
Call the Thunder - Your maximum
Mahlstrom is increased by 30, and the
Mahlstrom cost of
Erdschock and
Erdbeben is reduced by 10.
Surge of Power -
Erdschock also enhances your next spell:
- : The next cast does not incur a cooldown.
- Blitzschlag: Your next 3 casts will cause an additional Elemental Overload.
- Lavaeruption: Reduces the cooldown of your Fire (or Storm) Elemental by 6 sec.
- Frostschock: Roots the target in place for 6 sec.