Modified Spells

changed spells

• All totems are now considered on the "Physical" school, and no longer magical spells.
• Ancestral Awakening and Improved Water Shield will now affect Riptide.
• Fire Resistance Totem will now increase fire resistance by 130 and lasts for 5 minutes.
• Flametongue Totem is now a flat spell damage totem. All ranks have been modified.
• Flametongue Weapon: Now has a passive spell damage.
• Frostbrand Weapon's snare effect has been increased to 50%, up from 25%.
• Ghost Wolf's mana cost is now 13% base.
• Grace of Air Totem has been removed. (Agility has been rolled over into Strength of Earth Totem)
• Healing Grace (Restoration): Healing Way and Ancestral Fortitude are now affected by the dispel resistance portion of this talent.
• New ranks have been added of Water Shield, starting at level 20. (Level 20, 27, 34, 41, 48, 55, 62, 69)
• Nurture: The mana cost has been reduced by 18%.
• Rockbiter Weapon ranks 5 through 9 have been removed. Windfury Weapon is intended to replace Rockbiter at level 30.
• Shapeshifting will no longer cancel Water Walking.
• Stoneclaw Totem: Health of the Stoneclaw totem is increased by 5% of the Shaman's total health.
• Stoneskin Totem now increases armor instead of reducing physical damage.
• Strength of Earth Totem now also increases agility.
• The range of all "friendly totems" has been increased to 30 yards, up from 20.
• Totem of Wrath will now last 5 minutes.
• Tranquil Air Totem has been removed. (Threat is being addressed by modifications to the base threat of players and/or "baked" into tanking abilities.)
• Unleashed Rage is now raid wide and increases melee and ranged attack power within 45 yards.
• Windfury Totem is now a flat 20% melee haste totem. All ranks have been modified.
• Windwall Totem has been removed.
• Wrath of Air Totem is now a flat 10% spell haste totem.

3.03 patch

• Bloodthirst: Percentage of damage from attack power raised from 45% to 50%.
• Flurry: Now grants the proper number of charges when it triggers.
• Improved Fire Nova Totem: Increases the damage done by your Fire Nova Totem by 10/20% and your Fire Nova totem has a 50/100% chance to stun all targets damaged by your Fire nova Totem for 2 sec.
• Lava Burst: The base damage has been increased by approx. 10%.
• Maelstrom Weapon: Tooltips corrected to correctly describe the chance for this talent to be triggered.
• Riptide: The initial heal amount has been increased on ranks 3 and 4 and periodic healing has been increased on all ranks.
• Stormstrike: Other shamans can no longer consume charges of your Stormstrike, and each shaman can have their own stormstrike on the victim.
• Storm Reach is now called "Elemental Reach" and now includes Lava Burst.
• Thunderstorm: Mana gain has been increased to 8%.
• Tidal Mastery: Now correctly applies its critical strike bonus to Earth Shield.
• Tidal Waves will now also proc with Riptide.