Elemental Shaman Changes
Let Elemental be able to take 3 end nodes at the bottom of the tree.
Last Area in talent tree:
Elemental Equalibruim- make it 1 point.
Tumbling Waves- If staying at 15% make it 1 point. Or change it to 30% 2 points
Searing Flames- make it 1 point with 2 maelstrom each tick. If you’re going to invest so heavily on the right side this is a fair trade.
Middle Area in talent tree:
Storm Elemental- is on wrong side of tree. Needs to be on left side
Flames of the Firelord- Needs to be 1 talent. Since blizz changed it from 3 secs to 1.5 for a 2 talent.
Power of the Maelstrom- Needs to be 1 talent for 10%
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the awkward thing about Storm ele… is it kinda needs primal elementalist also. it feels like primal elementalist needs to be in the middle of the tree and storm ele on the left side.
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One thing to consider about putting Storm Ele on the left is: should you be able to skip Fire Elemental and still take Storm Elemental?
Should Storm Ele be a default 2-pt investment?
If it’s suppose to “replace” it - why not just make it a choice?
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Storm Ele’s node needs to switch places with the Ele Blast node, makes way more sense
That was a head scratcher for me as well. Left is Lightning and Right is Fire more or less so Storm Ele should be on the Left side IMO.
You cannot skip fire elemental even if you wanted to. You must take fire ele to get out of the first part of the tree
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Quality Point 
They could actually also just swap Fire Ele and Earth Shock. It would only mater from a leveling perspective, and it would make it ~truly~ unskippable.
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I think the best node for Storm Ele would be the shared one with Ele Blast. Windspeaker’s needs to be it’s own node and in the lava burst side of the tree. Tumbling Waves being nerfed to 15% would nearly make that talent dead for me even if it is just one point, it’s so low on the tree that it almost has to be 30% (it’s currently about 40%). I hope they give us more clarification on what Ele Blast will do, as it stands right now that talent is pretty much dead. Primal Elementalist should also make it’s way into the middle section of the tree. A quick suggestion I would have is to put it on its own node between Aftershock and Flames of the Cauldron. Another thing I would like to see is Echo Chamber being moved up higher into the tree. I am fine with it being a two point node, however we finally get a talent that sounds like it’s going to make mastery a viable stat for us and it gets buried deep into the tree. We are one of the few classes in the game that hasn’t used mastery almost at all in pve content, and it would be nice to be able to use it since versatlity gear historically has mainly come from pvp content. I can’t make any judgements until I see the loot tables, but again mastery is much easier to come by than versatility from pve content, so I would like to have a choice to take this talent based on my gear situation without spending a massive amount of points to get to it.
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I think it would be a cool change. Especially since Elemental has been kind of moving in the direction of being a pet class (especially after this past tier). Earth Shock, while iconic, is ignored in certain situations (I’m thinking 2 target cleave no Echoes specifically) while Fire Ele I would argue is our defining cooldown. Good suggestion !
So some ideas that I came up with. Make Storm Ele and Fire Ele a choice node. Make Echoing Shock where Storm Ele is in the Tree. And for Prim Ele move to master of elements and make that a choice node as well. Then move Windspeaker’s to where magma totem is to keep it a choice node. Then, try to bring back static discharge. Buff it. and make it a choice node with elemental blast.