PvP talents that should be Capstones Instead

Classes Shaman
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Burrow - Enhance Capstone in Shaman General Tree (Allow healing surge to be casted on self while underground or give a HoT while down there)
Ride the Lightning - Capstone (or close to it) in Enhance Spec Tree
Grounding Totem - Capstone in Resto Shaman General Tree (re-work which boss spells would be effected, maybe 10% DR instead for those cases. Or just make it 10-20% Magic DR [For PvE] for 3 seconds raid wide, I think tanks would absolutely love that and is a form of external CD.)
Skyfury Totem - Capstone (or close to it) for Elemental Shaman General Tree

New PvP Talents:
Electrocute - Becomes available for all 3 specs, not just Resto
Spirit Siphon - Stormstrike applies debuff that steals 15% of all healing the target received to the player instead. [Max Targets: 1-2] (weaker “fake” Mortal Strike effect that can stack with other classes.) [Dispellable. Removed with AMS/Cloak]
Voodoo - Some sort of mechanic that allows faster casts for Hex. (Similar to Owlkin Adept for Moonkin) [Stormweaver effecting hex? Every 1 Stack gives .1 Second faster cast?]
Master Wrangler - CDR Mechanic for Lightning Lasso (Every totem used reduces CD of Lightning Lasso by 5 Seconds?)
Earthen Bulwark - 10% more Stam. Some sort of CDR mechanic for Astral Shift. (Direct damage taken reduces CD on Astral Shift by 1 Second, 3 second Internal CD?)

Unrelated: Brimming with life should give double the HP inside Arenas or any other instance where Reincarnation is not usuable.
Unrelated2: Warriors have access to Berserker Shout on a 1 min CD that is usable while feared and breaks allies fears. Tremor Totem needs to go back to being usuable while feared (baseline, no 2nd talent). Fears don’t break on damage anymore and are essentially stuns at this point. Furthering the need.

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Stormweaver available for PvE enhance would be nice group utility and survival.

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I thought about that, but PvE Enhance shamans seem to feel very strongly about only wanting to hit damage buttons. I don’t think they would like the damage loss of weaving in heals into their rotation. Which is fair.

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Pve enhance is gcd locked and balanced around using all their globals for damage. I think many of us would be open to using utility if there were rotational gaps to do it, or if said utility was off the gcd.

As it stands even Windfury is a person loss we take to help the group.

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The rotational gaps used to be a thing, but I think that time has passed with procs/talents/haste right? Now it just all gas, all the time?

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I suppose so. But it would be less of a damage loss with stormweaver because at least then you wouldn’t be losing maelstrom stacks on a heal. And saving your group with an instant juiced up chain heal or surge would feel good! Sometimes a global here and there is worth it, plus it would be optional.

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Pretty much, yeah.