New ele Shammy Changes 3.1

[Multibocks]

We are making some upcoming changes to the Elemental shaman tree. Our goal was to streamline a few of the utility-based talents while giving shamans a little more damage scaling in later tiers of gear.


Unrelenting Storm – reduced from 5 points to 3 points. Bonus is 4/8/12% of your Intellect returned as mana.
Elemental Warding – now reduces all damage (not just Nature, Fire and Frost) taken by 2/4/6%
Elemental Shields – this talent has been removed, since its effects were combined with Elemental Warding.
Storm, Earth and Fire – reduced from 5 points to 3 points, but keeps around the same net benefit. In addition to current effects, also increases Wind Shock range. The damage bonus to Flame Shock has increased to 60% at 3 ranks. Storm, Earth and Fire has been moved up the tree as well.
Shamanism – this is a new 5 point talent in the old Storm, Earth and Fire position. Your Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst gain an additional percentage of your bonus damage. We have not finalized the numbers, but it will probably be something like 10% for Lightning Bolt and 20% for Lava Burst at max ranks.

These changes will be available in the next minor content patch, and are in addition to the AE changes mentioned previously.

REJOICE!!!

[Ellay]

HOLLAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Ellay]

On a more serious note, this is great news

[algol]

Nice.

But it looks like we lose a talent point. Four points freed up, another five to spend. The devs giveth, and the devs taketh away with the other hand. 8|

I don't entirely follow why the fire totem changes equal major AoE changes...anyone want to explain that one?

[Pact]

A Single Magma Totem does alot more pew pew just under par with mage and warlock aoe i believe. So for us boxers we can just drop magma totems now for trash and afk.

..Hopefully

[Zal]

ARGGG!!! I was just gonna make a post about this. Beat me to it ><
CAN'T WAIT FOR THE MORE OP TO BEGIN!!!! :thumbsup:

[Tasty]

A Single Magma Totem does alot more pew pew just under par with mage and warlock aoe i believe. So for us boxers we can just drop magma totems now for trash and afk.

..Hopefully

<Generic Mage Redundancy QQ>







Grats shaman

[Ellay]

They said the Magma totem will be ticking for about 600 damage every 2 seconds and it starts out aggroless so it doesn't get whacked. While this is down x4 or however many you have you can do other things, while other AoE classes are very limited in what they can do. This is a large boon to us.

[Chaosomega]

Dam it i was about to make a post about this too!

Beat me too it, not fair.

So maybe at 80 currently 1500 spell power is about 300 dmg which obviously will scale more with gear, but hey thats about 800 more dmg on crits,

for multiboxers that 800x5 = 4000 more dmg.

Hey from 40k to 44k crit lava burst, notbad... still overkill but not bad...

[Chaosomega]

btw Ellay and Zal, ishidia is better then ichi or ryukia (if thats how you spell her name)