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Elemental Shaman State on Shadowlands Beta - Removal of Maelstrom, Covenant Abilities, Legendaries

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Chain Heal - Heals the friendly target for (255.5% of Spell power), then jumps to heal the 2 most injured nearby allies. Healing is reduced by 30% with each jump.

Flametongue Weapon - Imbue your weapon with the element of Fire for 1 hour, causing each of your attacks to deal additional Fire damage.

Frost Shock - Chills the target with frost, causing (45% of Spell power) Frost damage and reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 6 sec.

Healing Stream Totem - Summons a totem at your feet for 15 sec that heals an injured party or raid member within 40 yards for (47% of Spell power) every 2 sec.

Lightning Shield - Surround yourself with a shield of lightning for 30 min. Melee attackers have a 100% chance to suffer (3.6% of Attack power) Nature damage and have a 100% chance to generate a stack of Fulmination. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at a time.

Primal Strike - An instant weapon strike that causes 34% Physical damage.

Elemental Shaman Baseline Changes

漩涡 has been removed. In its place is:
Fulmination - Lightning Bolt and Lightning Bolt Overload have a 100% chance to generate a stack of Fulmination, up to 8 stacks. Earth Shock will discharge all stacks of Fulmination on the target, causing an extra (10% of Spell power) Nature damage per stack of Fulmination

Seismic Thunder - Each time Chain Lightning hits more than 1 target, the cast time of your next Earthquake is reduced by 20%, and the damage of your next earthquake is increased by 30%, stacking up to 5 times.

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Elemental Blast is now set up to consume Fulmination when taken. It's an interesting new take on an old talent that hasn't changed since it was introduced, allowing us to have 2 separate spenders if we can generate enough Fulmination to use both of them. Depending on how secondary stats (and with them, our resource generation) play out in Shadowlands, it could become awkward to play around both the cooldown of Elemental Blast and stacks of Fulmination. Time will tell though.

召唤雷霆 has been removed entirely and replaced by Echoing Shock, which duplicates the next spell you cast. How strong this talent will be remains to be seen, as that's largely dependent on numbers tuning and a couple of oddities in the function of the spell that have not yet been clarified (it will duplicate 风暴守护者 buffed damage/additional overloads, but will not duplicate the effects of 能量湍流 or Fulmination for example.)

图腾掌握 has been reworked completely. The original four totems it dropped have been replaced with Healing Stream Totem, 地缚图腾 & 灼热图腾. With old Resonance Totem no longer around to carry the talent single-handedly, we'll see how this new version fares. If 灼热图腾 is strong enough to make this new Totem Mastery competitive, it's likely to become the default choice as it's the only option in the row to provide additional utility with no opportunity cost.

冰怒 has lost the resource generation it once provided, which means it will need to stand on the damage it provides alone.

Covenant Abilities

Kyrian Covenant

Vesper Totem - Starting off on a strong note, this Covenant Ability is shaping up to be the strongest numerically (though numbers are very very much subject to change) at the moment and is smooth and simple to use. You can place it next to your foes, and move it to a new target (or to follow that tank that has an irrational fear of your 地震术s) off the GCD once every 3 seconds. It will explode 6 times, 3 when you cast damaging spells & 3 when you cast healing spells within the 30 second duration.

Simple, thematic, and for the moment strong. It's everything we want in a totem!

Venthyr Covenant

Chain Harvest - At the moment this Covenant Ability is in dire need of numbers tuning as it's not even worth having on your bars whatsoever for Elemental (again, numbers quite subject to change.) This is 闪电链 & 治疗链 combined, does less damage and healing than either, and doesn't interact with 精通：元素过载, Fulmination, or Seismic Thunder. It would be quite nice if this was made stronger, as the Venthyr Covenant ability that all classes receive - Door of Shadows would fill a part of the very large hole left by Gust of Wind when it was removed at the start of BFA.

Necrolord Covenant

Primordial Wave - This Covenant Ability is quite interesting! For any scenario where you want several active 烈焰震击s this will help ramp your multi-dotting up and throw a 熔岩爆裂 at each of your targets with 烈焰震击 active for good measure. This is a widely applicable ability that is just as simple and flexible as Vesper Totem, but is the only one of the four Shaman-specific Covenant Abilities that makes you choose between the damage and healing provided whereas each of the others allows you to utilize both.

Night Fae Covenant

Fae Transfusion - A 3-second channel makes this undesirable for Elemental from the start as we don't need even more reasons to hold still for as long as possible, and the overlap that Soulshape has with Ghost Wolf pushes us farther away from this particular covenant. As it stands it's on the weaker end of our Covenant Abilities, but as always numbers are subject to change.Legendary PowersGeneric Shaman Legendary Powers先祖之忆 - 英勇/嗜血 or any similar effects last an additional 20.0 sec on you, and you gain an extra 10% Haste from any 英勇 / 嗜血 type effect. This effect is inspired by the Legion Legendary 未知的提醒 with a slight twist, giving these effects additional power rather than just increasing the duration. If the item it was inspired by was any indication, it likely won't be the best legendary unless you get the opportunity to use the effect twice or you use it on a relatively short fight. It's not terribly interesting, but it's raw power which always has its uses.

深震之石 - 土元素 has a permanent 地震术 attached to it. This is the latest iteration of an old Azerite trait that we had at the start of BFA that was removed in a later patch - 撼地余震. This particular Azerite power will likely be relegated to meme status outside of some specific synergy with certain Torghast Anima Powers in Torghast itself.

根深蒂固的元素 - Casting 熔岩爆裂 has a 5% chance to activate 升腾 for 6.0 sec. If the numbers on this legendary are tuned appropriately, this could become a legendary Elemental looks to use in a manner similar to the item that inspired it - 阴燃之心. However, that seems unlikely as this power is tied to 熔岩爆裂 casts instead of 大地震击 which means that many of the greatest synergies the original had will be unavailable to this legendary power.

毁灭之链 - Casting 治疗链 makes your next 闪电链 instant cast. Casting 闪电链 makes your next 治疗链 instant cast. This Legendary power is meant to mitigate the damage lost through providing offhealing to the group by giving you a damage proc as a reward, and vice-versa. This will most likely mean that this particular legendary power falls by the wayside, as the solution to needing more healing or damage should never be to have a DPS spec start healing.Elemental Shaman Legendary Powers碎天者的炽烈灭亡 - 烈焰震击 damage over time critical strikes reduce the cooldown of 风暴元素 / 火元素 by 1.0 sec, and 烈焰震击 has a 30% increased critical strike chance. Inspired by the old Tier 20 set bonuses - Item - Shaman T20 Elemental 2P Bonus & Item - Shaman T20 Elemental 4P Bonus - this legendary power is the one that leans hardest towards Blizzard's goal that 烈焰震击 & 熔岩爆裂 be the primary focus of the rotation. Traditionally, those set bonuses were extremely powerful in council-type fights. So powerful in fact that Elemental favored using that set bonus a tier later on the one fight that favored it. Look for this Legendary to be one of the ones that Elemental aims for.

元素均衡 - Dealing direct Fire damage increases the damage of your next Frost spell by 30%. Dealing Frost damage increases the damage of your next Nature spell by 25%. Dealing Nature damage increases the damage of your next Fire spell by 20%. Similar in nature to 元素宗师, this Legendary power looks to expand further on that idea. If the talent is anything to go by, then if Elemental ends up utilizing this legendary then expect to treat this as a simple passive. Gaming the procs to try to maximize them has proven to be at best dps neutral in the past, and a loss if you lose any spell in the process. This legendary has potential, but the bonuses are too small at the moment to have a meaningful impact on our rotation.

大分裂的回响 - When you consume 6 or more stacks of 怒雷 with 大地震击, your next 地震术 will be instant cast and deal 250% additional damage. It's worth noting that the tooltip on the site, as of the writing of this article, is incorrect and the bonus provided in the beta currently is 250%. The return of 大分裂的回响 as a legendary power is a welcome one, and opens up the same interesting synergies it had with things like 余震 in Legion. It won't have much use on big AoE pulls, but this could see use on Single-Target/Cleave scenarios.

风语者的熔岩崛起 - When you consume 6 or more stacks of 怒雷 with 大地震击, gain 熔岩奔腾 and increase the damage of all 熔岩爆裂s cast in the next 15 seconds by 30%. Again the tooltip, as of the writing of this article, is incorrect and in the Beta it currently empowers all 熔岩爆裂 casts by 30% for the next 15 seconds. The only legendary Elemental without a known source of pre-Shadowlands inspiration, this one has some interesting potential. The current iteration of the legendary pairs quite strongly with 升腾 on single-target, and would certainly laser-focus us on single-target when used.
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