I don’t expect Blizzard to change anything mid expansion, so this is more of a fantasy post. But I would love to see the ingenuity that you guys can come up with as Maelstrom spenders. Mine are more for enhancement, but feel free to join in, elemental. Here’s some of my thoughts:
Earthwarden Coat (7 Maelstrom)
10,000 Mana
Instant - 1 minute CD - shares cooldown with Mudbracken
The shaman coats himself in a durable earthen coat, decreasing damage taken, movement speed, and damage dealt by 30% for 7 seconds. This skill can be empowered with extra maelstrom, increasing the duration by 1 for each additional stack of maelstrom consumed. USABLE IN STUN LOLOL.
Mudbracken (7 Maelstrom)
3 second cast time, reduced to 1 second maximum with Maelstrom - 1 minute CD - shares cooldown with boulderfist
The shaman wraps a fist of clay around the target, rooting them for four seconds and dealing crushing earth damage every two seconds. This can be expanded up to 3 seconds with additional maestrom.
Icicle Eruption
2 second cast time, reduced fully by maelstrom stacks.
18 second cd - 30 yd range
A giant pillar of pure ice erupts at the targets feet, knocking them up and dealing medium ice damage. This pillar consumes Hailstorm stacks to amplify and deal massive ice damage. For each hailstorm stack consumed, the cooldown is reduced by 0.5 seconds.
Tornado
Consumes 2 Maelstrom a second
Channeled Spell
Frontal AoE Cone, grows in size over channel duration
The shaman channels a tornado that funnels outwards, dealing wind damage and proccing windfury in a traveling cone. The tornado increases in intensity, gaining power every two seconds to a maximum of six seconds. This ability may proc and consume its own maelstrom stacks according to mastery %, up to 4 extra stacks.
Counterstrike Windcloak
Up to 10 Maelstrom - 45 second cooldown
An eruption of fettered winds cloaks the shaman, causing direct damage dealt to the shaman to be returned to the attacker at 50% return rate (100% with 10 maelstrom). This reflected damage has a chance to proc Windfury weapon on some arbitrary unknown Blizzard internal CD.
If the shaman reflects 50% of his maximum health in Counterstrike Windcloak, the reflect damage is reduced by 1/2 until expiration.
Usable in stun. ← blizzard take notes, notice the trend
Compressed Oceanosphere
Melee range - summons in front of Shaman - 2 minute cooldown
Requires 10 Maelstrom (Probably a talent that comes off Overflowing or something)
A hypercompressed, pressurized oceanosphere is summoned in front of the shaman. While summoned, the Shaman can attack the oceanosphere to cause it to erupt bolts of pressurized water at nearby enemies. The more damage the shaman deals to the ocean sphere, the quicker the pressurized bolts erupt. The sphere remains for 12 seconds, or until it is destroyed, whichever occurs first.
As the sphere becomes more unstable, it takes more damage. The sphere takes 100% additional damage from lightning.
The shaman can heal the oceanosphere, causing it to extend duration and durability, to a maximum of 25 seconds.
Random ones I thought of, how about you guys?