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 闪电箭.
Elemental Shaman is the only lightning based spell caster. However, over time, 闪电箭 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. 大地震击 will still be your hardest hitting spell, but 闪电箭 should feel a bit better as part of your rotation.
熔岩爆裂 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
熔岩爆裂 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 熔岩爆裂 before combat, and when it finishes, cast , and the 熔岩爆裂 will gain the critical strike benefit from your .
Talent Changes: - The level 15 talent 元素冲击 will now always pick a different secondary stat buff when causing an Elemental Overload.
- The level 30 talent 元素宗师 can now also benefit a Physical damage spell, allowing it to increase the damage of an 地震术.
- The level 100 talent 风暴守护者 now also increases the damage of your next two 闪电箭s 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. 元素宗师 will now affect your next 地震术 spell to keep the talent more competitive when dealing area damage, and 风暴守护者 will grant you two really powerful 闪电箭s that also cause Elemental Overloads when fighting just a single target.
The level 15 talent
元素外露 has been removed, and the level 90 talent
大地狂怒 has taken its place
The level 60 talent
高压 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
漩涡值 is increased by 30, and the
漩涡值 cost of
大地震击 and
地震术 is reduced by 10.
Surge of Power -
大地震击 also enhances your next spell:
- : The next cast does not incur a cooldown.
- 闪电箭: Your next 3 casts will cause an additional Elemental Overload.
- 熔岩爆裂: Reduces the cooldown of your Fire (or Storm) Elemental by 6 sec.
- 冰霜震击: Roots the target in place for 6 sec.