5.2 Elemental Shaman changes.
•Chain Lightning will now deal the same damage to subsequent targets as it does to the first.
•Lava Beam’s damage now increases with jumps. Each jump increases the damage by 10%.
•Elemental Mastery now has a 90 second cooldown (was 2 minutes).
•Shamanistic Rage is now available to Elemental Shaman as well as Enhancement Shaman.
•Conductivity no longer requires that the target be within the area of effect of Healing Rain.
•Ancestral Swiftness now increases spell haste by 5% and melee haste by 10%, instead of 5% each.
•Glyph of Purge now adds a 6 second cooldown to Purge.
•Stone Bulwark Totem now absorbs 25% more damage.
•Unleashed Fury Flametongue now increases Lightning Bolt damage by 20% (was 30%), and Lava Burst damage by 10%.
•Primal Earth Elemental and Primal Fire Elemental now deal 20% more damage.
•Elemental Blast now has a chance to increase the caster’s Agility for Enhancement Shaman.
•Glyph of Flame has been redesigned. This glyph now causes the Shaman to heal for 30% of the damage dealt by Flame Shock.
•Flame Shock’s duration has been increased by 25%.
•The talent Totemic Restoration now has an additional effect. Any totems that have been destroyed or replaced behave as if the totem had been active for at least 1 second.
•When summoned, the Stone Bulwark Totem has health equal to 10% of the casting Shaman’s health.
•The talent Nature’s Guardian now preserves the player’s health percentage when its maximum health boosting effect expires.
Things you will probably want to look into…
a. AoE shaman build “Glyph of Chain Lightning”. With the increase in Lava beams damage with this glyph you will burn through multiple targets an average of 25% quicker as long as you hit five targets.
b. I’m assuming that with conductivity the player still needs to be standing in the Healing Rain just not the allies.
c. Removing Glyph of Purge should still make it spammable.
d. Unleashed Fury vs. Elemental Blast may end up being different now that Lava Burst is included in the Unleashed Fury. I for one will probably end up kicking Elemental Blast even though it’s a cool looking spell.
e. If you want to use Primal Earth totems make sure it’s glyphed and then maybe find a way to use the bonus spell on the pet bar if possible in your macro.
f. Remember to update your Flame Shock spell in your macro as the glyph won’t increase duration anymore.