New idea for a dual Talent node Elemental

Classes Shaman
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I want to start with the fact that I really appreciate the direction that blizzard is heading with the spec, finally allowing elementals shamans to choose between two different play style with leaning more into Fire damage with lava burst or Lighting damage with tempest and lighting rod. I got an idea and I was wondering what the shaman community would think of it.

A talent node in our spec that would be dual choice in order to compliment the choices of builds, where Option 1 it transform your flame shock into a lighting spell that would jump around the pack inflicting low to moderate lightning numbers and inflict a lightning amplify damage to the pack and would give you lightning surge instead of lava surge.

It would also transform your Lava burst into a Lightning burst to lean more into the class/damage fantasy. I always loved the lightning spells animations and would love if more options to transform thoses spells was available.

For the fire choice it would give some kind of Flameshock spread abilitie maybe like in SoD where your flameshock hit multiple target at the same time to help to spread our damage in heavy Aoe.

It would offer a transformative option that would feel good to play depending wich type of build you play.

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I like your idea. The Static Shock, “one of my favorite superheroes (slightly below Batman and Nightwing)” of shocking one target and then jumping to the next and buffing lightning dmg sounds fun.

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Thank you for replying, from reading the other post in this section it seem that alot of people would be interested in options to replace flameshock and lava burst when you choose a lightning build and I hope that this could give blizzard some idea :slight_smile:

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Small gripe


With Mage having a “Fire” spec and us slinging “Lava” as a primary attack, I really wish we would stop calling it “Fire” and call it “Lava”.

It sounds much more Shaman and less generic.

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Hey I dont disagree with your take :slight_smile:

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That’d be neat. Thow in an interaction where your Earth Shock/Elemental Blast/Earthquake crits cause your Lighting Shocks to do another tick or even pulse some light AoE damage would be also neat.

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Agreed! and I think more flameshock spread would also be good for the lava burst build :smiley: