Prepatch and you
Rise and shine Elemental Shamans! It’s Prepatch time.
This post presents an overview. If you’re curios about how to play elemental now, please head to the appropriate guide pages in the top menu. The following list doesn’t follow any particular order.
Changes
- Flame Shock has once again a 6 sec CD, making target switching more difficult
- Flame Shock no longer spends Maelstrom
- Flame Shock lasts 18 seconds
- Fire Elemental is down to 2.5 minute CD and 30 sec duration
- Fire Elemental provides a passive effect while it’s active (generates 3 Maelstrom on each Flame Shock tick)
- Fire Elemental model got an update
- Storm Elemental provides a passive effect while it’s active (stacking cast time reduction for Lightning Bolt/Chain Lightning)
- Storm Elemental model was replaced by Lightning Elemental
- Capacitor Totem is baseline on a one minute CD
- Lava Burst Maelstrom generation was reduced
- Mastery: Elemental Overload deals 85% damage and generates 50% Maelstrom baseline now
- Lava Surge went from 10% chance to 15% chance
- Frost Shock no longer requires Maelstrom
- Frost Shock deals decent damage
- Earth Shock costs fixed 60 Maelstrom now
- Earthquake costs fixed 60 Maelstrom now
- Ancestral Guidance got buffed
Gone
- Elemental Focus
- Path of Flame
- Gust of Wind
- Earthgrab Totem
- Voodoo Totem
- Ancestral Swiftness
- Elemental Mastery
- Elemental Fusion
- Lightning Rod
- everything Artifact power related
New
- Tremor Totem is back
- Exposed Elements
- Master of the Elements
- Spirit Wolf
- Earth Shield
- Static Charge
- Nature’s Guardian
- Unlimited Power
- Stormkeeper
- Meteor for Fire Elemental with Primal Elementalist
- Harden Skin for Earth Elemental with Primal Elementalist
- Stormfury for Storm Elemental with Primal Elementalist
These lists should bring you up to speed. Let us know, if something is missing. Reminder: Read the actual guide pages in the top menu to get the latest information on how to play.
You can also check out Naesams latest video to get a quick overview.