Its hard to tell if this is the intended way for this talent to work or not, but this is the tooltip: “Consuming 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon increases the damage of your next Stormstrike or Lava Lash by 25% and causes them to generate a stack of Maelstrom Weapon.”
The bug: This talent does not accumulate. For example, if I spend at 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon and then I spend another 6 Stacks of Maelstrom Weapon, I do not get the Lightning Strikes buff. You -have- to spend at exactly 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon to get this buff.
The reason I think this is a bug is because it is kind of works against a lot of our abilities/cooldowns.
- For example, if you take Thorims Invocation you are spending many different stacks of Maelstrom Weapon since its automatic during Ascendance and Doom Winds.
- For Totemic, Elemental Tempo essentially means you very rarely get the buff because you are always trying to extend your Hot Hands duration by spending quickly, usually around 6-8 stacks.
Talents that work similarly usually accumulate, so if you spend 5 Maelstrom Weapon stacks and then another 5 or 6 or 7 whatever, you would get the buff. Legacy of the Frost Witch worked this way for example. It could be that they want this talent incentivizing you to spend at 10 stacks of MSW, but unfortunately we can’t always do that or won’t always do that so it is a little counterintuitive. It would be much better if it would just accumulate I think.