Heya looks like Stormbringer was Datamined! Credit to Swayertotem bringing it to my attention. Lightning Elemental and Enhance Storm Rejoice!!.
- Tempest, Targets struck by your Tempest deal 60,000% less damage to you for until cancelled. Instant.
- Tempest, Increases the critical strike chance of your Nature damage spells by 10% and the critical strike damage of your Nature spells by 5%.
- Tempest, Spending Maelstrom Weapon stacks grants you 60,000% haste for until cancelled, stacking. Gaining a new stack does not refresh the duration. Instant.
- Tempest, After using Tempest, your next Chain Heal, or Healing Surge will be instant cast and consume no Mana.
- Tempest, Tempest summons a Nature Feral Spirit for until cancelled.
- Tempest, Every 25 Maelstrom Weapon stacks spent replaces your next Lightning Bolt with Tempest. Tempest causes [ 180% of Spell Power ] Nature damage to the target and other enemies near your target. Damage is reduced beyond 6 targets. 0.2% of Base Mana. 40 yd range. 2 sec cast.
- Tempest, Every 25 Maelstrom Weapon stacks spent replaces your next Lightning Bolt with Tempest. Tempest causes [ 180% of Spell Power ] Nature damage to the target and other enemies near your target. Damage is reduced beyond 6 targets.
- Tempest, Your Nature damage critical strikes reduce the target’s movement speed by 50% for 3 sec.
- Tempest, After using Tempest your next Chain Heal, or Healing Surge will be instant cast and consume no Mana. Instant.
- Tempest, Targets struck by your Tempest deal 60,000% less damage to you for until cancelled.
- Tempest, Every 25 Maelstrom Weapon stacks spent replaces your next Lightning Bolt with Tempest. Tempest causes [ 180% of Spell Power ] Nature damage to the target and other enemies near your target. Damage is reduced beyond 6 targets. Instant.
- Tempest, Your Nature damage critical strikes reduce the target’s movement speed by 50% for 3 sec. Instant.
- Tempest, Spending Maelstrom Weapon stacks grants you 60,000% haste for until cancelled, stacking. Gaining a new stack does not refresh the duration.
From this post https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2649823-The-War-Within-Alpha-Datamining-Build-54521-Spell-Changes
Remember it’s only datamined, not in alpha so literally everything can change in a moments notice, could this be Ele and Enhance Lightning/Storm Build glorious return. God it feels good to see love to Lightning.
Looks like for Enhance, Elementalist will go Totemic and Storm build going Stormbringer.
Elemental, Lava Burst spam Farseer, Lightning Stormbringer.
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Some of those sound cool, but by and large im a little underwhelmed.
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It sounds decent, free nature wolf is absolutely great, glad they took that off our tier, Lightning Bolt turning into Tempest sounds awesome, we don’t need more buttons, so I’m all for it.
Spending MSW boosts haste, tempest reduces damage to us taken, and free heals that don’t use our MSW stacks, it’s looking great.
Tempest doing ST and AoE passively in rotation, although once again we capped at 6 targets, but hits harder in ST is good too.
More importantly so far everything literally doubles down on Lightning! Legit super excited.
Like I’m absolutely pumped, especially as a Storm Build lover, we lacked AoE, this essentially covers that weak spot!, greatly emphasises use of MSW stacks to get Tempest, Converts a button, rather then adding, Lightning/Nature Wolf + DRE I think be huge!.
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I think if we will be getting maybe something like that it become baseline, like convert it into a raid buff.
But we still have zero idea on our class/spec trees and how they will look too. Remember it’s only Datamine so everything can change.
But it’s a good foundation to set expectations.
Yeah, looks similar to the Totemic Datamine, incomplete aswell, I’m sure even what was datamined might even be changed before hitting alpha, although them 60000% modifiers are juicy 
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I don’t mean to be a downer, but 60,000% haste seems like a bit too much. I don’t want to get carpal tunnel, I think 30,000% haste would be better if they buff everything else to compensate.
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Haha I’m positive all that won’t make it into Alpha, I’m sure my fingers would explode if so.
The post though more shows the foundation for the Hero Spec, the direction they want for it, personally at face value it’s looking great, excited to see what makes it into Alpha, glad they doubled down on Lightning.
Would like to see more. This part just seems to be the enhancement part of the tree.
I do like that this Tempest spell appears to be an uncapped AoE. Reduced damage after 6 targets still kind of sucks, but at least it hits more than 6 targets.
100%, praying hopefully this week, both Stormbringer and Totemic make it into alpha. We need to see more and more importantly testing and feedback needs to be given!.
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Not a lot to go on here, but I don’t dislike what I see! Lightning wolf, haste, instant heal, all good!
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Maybe I wasn’t jazzed because I’m out of the loop, but how do you folks know what Lightning Wolf and Tempest are. I’m reading them as just words and we’ll find out what they are soon.
there is lots of copy paste. right now there is like only 3-4 effect out of the 10
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Seem tempest is a stronger version of lightning bolt. who might benefit from Maelstrom weapon . So a possible use of 10stack maybe to boost it max power
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Ok, obviously missed that one but if it benefits from MW then the tree is looking better. Going to make the Class tree builds a little harder though.
That was how I felt, I’m not depressed, I’m just not psyched.
It sounds like this would be just as good for elementalist. Tempest procs from spending maelstrom, it says nothing about what the maelstrom has to be spent on. The nature wolf is good for both builds as well. Tempest itself should hit 20% harder for storm builds, though.
Alpha is alpha, but currently Windfury totem is no longer in the enhance tree. I would say there is a pretty good chance it makes it to the class tree or is made baseline. If that’s the case it will likely be changed and made more useful.
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I wonder if Tempest will interact with Stormkeeper and Surge of Power. It seems to be an upgraded Lightning Bolt and if it got those guaranteed Overload procs that would be quite nice.
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I’ll be honest, I’m just glad it’s no mention of lava lash so far or including other buttons, but it’s still way to early to tell how the tree will turn out when it’s completed. So fingers crossed they stick strong to Lightning theme.
My main instant appreciation was instead of introducing a new button it just converts lightning bolt, so happy they did this.
Love the nature wolf, I’m assuming the free instant cast heal for enhance will now not consume MSW charges like how it is now, more so we just get a free heal. But it definitely could be more so for Elemental.
Now the only missing piece of the puzzle is how our class/spec trees are going to look like, We know Stormbringer is around Tempest, Totemic around Spire Totem. The biggest mystery is how our defensives will look like and will Shamans in TWW provide a raid/group buff moving forward.
But super pumped for Stormbringer even more reading the datamine so far!, very excited to see the full complete tree and the new visuals it brings.
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Nature Wolf is essentially the Tier 2 set bonus now for Enhance, rather then primordial wave activation it will be Tempest.
Tempest seems to be a passive that after spending so many MSW it converts Lightning Bolt into basically a super charged version with additional benefits.
The tree is vastly incomplete, but it gives a certain outlook of the direction they taking the Hero Spec.
A bit confused about how a lot of them say “until cancelled”
Anyone got any ideas?
Most likely has a debuff timer, or proc timer, generally that’s how they go.