Shaman Class Changes for Shadowlands (Patch 9.0.2)

Last updated on Nov 23, 2020 at 18:44 by Stan 9 comments

On this page, you will find a list of all Shaman changes coming in Shadowlands.

In addition to the class changes listed here, Shamans also gain access to class-specific Shaman Covenant Abilities that can be used anywhere in the open world, Legendary Powers obtained through Runecarving, Soulbind Conduits, and Anima Powers that only work in Torghast.

1.

General Changes

  • New Passive: Improved Reincarnation Icon Improved ReincarnationReincarnation Icon Reincarnation now revives you with an additional 20% health.
  • New Ability: Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon — Imbue your weapon with the element of Fire for 1 hour, causing each of your attacks to deal additional Fire damage.
  • New Ability: Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal — Heals the friendly target, then jumps to heal the 2 most injured nearby allies (3 for Restoration). Healing is reduced by 30% with each jump.
  • Healing Stream Totem Icon Healing Stream Totem — Summons a totem at your feet for 15 seconds that heals an injured party or raid member within 40 yards for every 2 seconds.
  • Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield — Surround yourself with a shield of lightning for 30 minutes. Melee attackers have a 100% chance to suffer Nature damage. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at a time.
  • Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning — Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets.
  • Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock — Sears the target with fire, causing Fire damage and then additional Fire damage over 18 seconds.
  • Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock — Chills the target with frost, causing Frost damage and reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 6 seconds.
  • Skyfury Totem Icon Skyfury Totem, Grounding Totem Icon Grounding Totem, and Counterstrike Totem Icon Counterstrike Totem now have 50 health (was 5).
2.

General Shaman Abilities Learned Above Level 50

  • Astral Shift Icon Astral Shift (Level 54) — Astral Shift Icon Astral Shift lasts an additional 4 seconds.
  • Hex Icon Hex (Level 56) — The cooldown of Hex Icon Hex is reduced by 10 seconds.
3.

Elemental Shaman

  • New Ability: Spiritwalker's Grace Icon Spiritwalker's Grace — Calls upon the guidance of the spirits for 15 seconds, permitting movement while casting Shaman spells. Castable while casting.
  • Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock now has an 18-second duration (was 24 seconds).
  • Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield generates 5 Maelstrom for the Shaman when attacked.
  • Lava Surge Icon Lava Surge proc chance reduced to 10% (was 15%).
4.

Elemental Shaman Abilities Unlocked Above Level 50

  • Elemental Fury Icon Elemental Fury (Level 54) — Elemental Fury Icon Elemental Fury now also causes your healing critical strikes to heal for 250% instead of the normal 200%.
  • Fire Elemental Totem Icon Fire Elemental Totem (Level 58) — While your Fire Elemental is active, any newly applied Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock lasts 100% longer.
4.1.

Elemental Shaman Talent Changes

  • New Talent: Echoing Shock Icon Echoing Shock (replaces Call the Thunder) — Shock the target for Elemental damage and create an ancestral echo, causing your next direct damage or healing spell to be cast a second time 1 second later for free.
  • New Talent: Static Charge Icon Static Charge — Discharge excess energy from your Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield, dealing Nature damage to an enemy within 40 yards every 0.5 second for 3 seconds. Targets with your Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock on them are preferred.
  • Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast now increases your Critical Strike, Haste, or Mastery by 3% instead of stat ratings and generates 30 Maelstrom. Elemental Blast Overload Icon Elemental Blast Overload generates 15 Maelstrom.
  • Totem Mastery has been removed.
  • Ascendance Icon Ascendance now fires a Lava Burst at all of your Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock targets, and refreshes their Flame Shock durations to up to 18 seconds upon activation.
  • Primal Elementalist Icon Primal Elementalist Primal Fire Elemental's Meteor is now capped at 8 targets.
  • Primal Elementalist Icon Primal Elementalist Primal Storm Elemental's Meteor now capped at 8 targets.
  • Ancestral Guidance Icon Ancestral Guidance no longer has a global cooldown.
  • Control of Lava Icon Control of Lava (PvP Talent) now increases Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock's damage by 25%, instead of increasing Lava Burst Icon Lava Burst's damage.
4.2.

Elemental Shaman Talent Tree

Below is the current talent tree for Elemental Shamans.

  • Level 15 Talents: Earthen Rage Icon Earthen Rage / Echo of the Elements Icon Echo of the Elements / Static Discharge Icon Static Discharge;
  • Level 25 Talents: Aftershock Icon Aftershock / Echoing Shock Icon Echoing Shock / Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast;
  • Level 30 Talents: Spirit Wolf Icon Spirit Wolf / Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield / Static Charge Icon Static Charge;
  • Level 35 Talents: Master of the Elements Icon Master of the Elements / Storm Elemental Icon Storm Elemental / Liquid Magma Totem Icon Liquid Magma Totem;
  • Level 40 Talents: Nature's Guardian Icon Nature's Guardian / Ancestral Guidance Icon Ancestral Guidance / Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem;
  • Level 45 Talents: Surge of Power Icon Surge of Power / Primal Elementalist Icon Primal Elementalist / Icefury Icon Icefury;
  • Level 50 Talents: Unlimited Power Icon Unlimited Power / Stormkeeper Icon Stormkeeper / Ascendance Icon Ascendance.
4.3.

Elemental Shaman Shadowlands Guide

5.

Enhancement Shaman

  • New Ability: Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning — Each target hit by Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning reduces the cooldown of Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning by 1 second.
  • New Ability: Windfury Totem Icon Windfury Totem (Level 52) — Windfury Totem Icon Windfury Totem has an additional 10% chance to grant party members an extra swing.
  • Maelstrom resource and Maelstrom bar have been removed.
  • New Ability: Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon (replaces Windfury Passive) — Imbue your main-hand weapon with the element of Wind for 30 minutes. Each main-hand attack has a 25% chance to trigger 2 extra attacks, dealing Physical damage each.
  • New Ability: Windfury Totem Icon Windfury Totem — Summons a Windfury Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 2 minutes. Party members within 30 yards have a 10% chance when they auto-attack to swing an extra time.
  • Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon has been redesigned — When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to gain Maelstrom Weapon, stacking up to 10 times. Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon reduces the cast time of your next damage or healing spell by 20% and increase the damage or healing of your next spell by 20%. A maximum of 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon can be consumed at a time.
  • Feral Spirit Icon Feral Spirit now generates 1 stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon immediately, and one stack every 3 seconds for 15 seconds.
  • Lightning Shield Icon Lightning Shield now has an additional effect — When Lightning Shield deals damage, you have a 50% chance to generate a stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon.
  • Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning has an additional effect — If Chain Lightning hits more than 1 target, each target hit by your Chain Lightning increases the damage of your next Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning by 20%.
  • Stormbringer Icon Stormbringer no longer causes your next Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike to trigger no cooldown, but will still have a 5% chance to reset the remaining cooldown of Stormstrike.
  • Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash damage reduced by 50%, now has a 12-second cooldown, and has an additional effect: Damage is increased by 100% if your Off-Hand weapon is imbued with Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon.
  • Frostbrand has been replaced with Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock.
  • Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock has been replaced with Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock.
  • Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock and Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock now have their cooldowns shortened by Haste.
  • Flametongue has been replaced with Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon.
  • Rockbiter has been removed.
  • Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning now deals reduced damage against additional targets.
  • Windfury Weapon Icon Windfury Weapon's proc damage has been increased by 240%.
  • Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge healing has been increased by 50%.
  • Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon spending abilities have had their damage or healing increased by 30%.
  • Feral Spirit Icon Feral Spirit's pet damage has been increased by 270%.
6.

Enhancement Shaman Abilities Learned Above Level 50

  • Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning (Level 52) — Each target hit by Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning reduces the cooldown of Crash Lightning Icon Crash Lightning by 1 second.
  • Windfury Totem Icon Windfury Totem (Level 58) — Windfury Totem Icon Windfury Totem has an additional 10% chance to grant party members an extra swing.
6.1.

Enhancement Shaman Talent Changes

  • New Talent: Lashing Flames Icon Lashing Flames (replaces Boulderfist) — Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash now increases the damage of Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock on its target by 100% for 12 seconds.
  • New Talent: Stormflurry Icon Stormflurry (replaces Landslide) — Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike has a 25% chance to strike the target a second time for 40% of normal damage.
  • New Talent: Ice Strike Icon Ice Strike (replaces Totem Mastery) — Strike your target for Frost damage, snaring them by 50% for 6 seconds. Ice Strike will also reset the cooldown of your Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock and Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock spells.
  • New Talent: Elemental Assault Icon Elemental Assault (Passive) (replaces Overcharge) — Stormstrike Icon Stormstrike damage is increased by 15%, and Stormstrike now generates 1 stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon.
  • New Talent: Fire Nova Icon Fire Nova (replaces Searing Assault) — Erupt a burst of fiery damage from all targets affected by your Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock, dealing Fire damage to up to 6 targets within 8 yards of your Flame Shock targets.
  • New Talent: Stormkeeper Icon Stormkeeper (replaces Fury of Air) — Charge yourself with lightning, causing your next 2 Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolts or Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightnings to deal 150% more damage and be instant cast.
  • Hot Hand Icon Hot Hand now causes melee auto-attacks with Flametongue Weapon Icon Flametongue Weapon active to have a 5% chance to reduce the cooldown of Lava Lash Icon Lava Lash by 75% and increase the damage of Lava Lash by 100% for 8 seconds. Hot Hand additionally resets the cooldown of Lava Lash when it activates.
  • Forceful Winds Icon Forceful Winds Windfury bonus damage is now 50% (was 80%).
  • Hailstorm Icon Hailstorm has been redesigned — Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon Icon Maelstrom Weapon consumed increases the damage of your next Frost Shock Icon Frost Shock by 35%, and causes your next Frost Shock to hit 1 additional target per Maelstrom Weapon stack consumed.
  • Sundering Icon Sundering no longer has a Maelstrom cost and now has a 6% mana cost.
  • Ascendance Icon Ascendance now causes you to explode with Nature damage upon activation, dealing damage to all enemies within 8 yards.
  • Ice Strike Icon Ice Strike damage has been increased by 75%.
  • Forceful Winds Icon Forceful Winds Windfury damage bonus per stack has been reduced to 35% (was 50%).
  • Lashing Flames Icon Lashing Flames duration has been increased to 20 seconds (was 12 seconds).
  • Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast damage has been increased by 25%.
  • Hailstorm Icon Hailstorm's Frost Shock damage bonus has been lowered to 15% (was 35%).
  • Fire Nova Icon Fire Nova damage has been increased by 75%.
6.2.

Enhancement Shaman Talent Tree

Below is the current talent tree for Enhancement Shamans.

  • Level 15 Talents: Lashing Flames Icon Lashing Flames / Forceful Winds Icon Forceful Winds / Elemental Blast Icon Elemental Blast;
  • Level 25 Talents: Stormflurry Icon Stormflurry / Hot Hand Icon Hot Hand / Ice Strike Icon Ice Strike;
  • Level 30 Talents: Spirit Wolf Icon Spirit Wolf / Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield / Static Charge Icon Static Charge;
  • Level 35 Talents: Elemental Assault Icon Elemental Assault / Hailstorm Icon Hailstorm / Fire Nova Icon Fire Nova;
  • Level 40 Talents: Nature's Guardian Icon Nature's Guardian / Feral Lunge Icon Feral Lunge / Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem;
  • Level 45 Talents: Crashing Storm Icon Crashing Storm / Stormkeeper Icon Stormkeeper / Sundering Icon Sundering;
  • Level 50 Talents: Elemental Spirits Icon Elemental Spirits / Earthen Spike Icon Earthen Spike / Ascendance Icon Ascendance.
6.3.

Enhancement Shaman Shadowlands Guide

7.

Restoration Shaman

  • :New Ability: Water Shield Icon Water Shield — The caster is surrounded by globes of water, granting 50 mana per 5 seconds. When a melee attack hits the caster, the caster regains 2% of their mana. This effect can only occur once every few seconds.
  • New Ability: Mana Tide Totem Icon Mana Tide Totem — Summons a Mana Tide Totem at the feet of the caster for 8 seconds, granting 100% increased mana regeneration to party and raid members within 10 yards.
  • Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield is no longer a Talent and is learned by all Restoration Shamans at level 22.
  • Riptide Icon Riptide duration is now 18 seconds (was 15 seconds).
  • Flame Shock Icon Flame Shock now has an 18 second duration (was 21 seconds).
  • Lava Surge Icon Lava Surge proc chance was reduced to 10% (was 15%).
8.

Restoration Shaman Abilities Learned Above Level 50

  • Mana Tide Totem Icon Mana Tide Totem (Level 52) — Mana Tide Totem Icon Mana Tide Totem's radius is increased by 100%.
  • Healing Tide Totem Icon Healing Tide Totem (Level 58) — Healing Tide Totem Icon Healing Tide Totem lasts an additional 2 seconds.
8.1.

Restoration Shaman Talent Changes

  • New Talent: Surge of Earth Icon Surge of Earth (replaces Earth Shield) — Consume up to 3 charges of Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield to heal up to 3 allies near your Earth Shield target per charge consumed.
  • Torrent Icon Torrent now increases the initial heal from Riptide Icon Riptide by 20% (was 30%).
8.2.

Restoration Shaman Talent Tree

Below is the current talent tree for Restoration Shamans.

  • Level 15 Talents: Torrent Icon Torrent / Undulation Icon Undulation / Unleash Life Icon Unleash Life;
  • Level 25 Talents: Echo of the Elements Icon Echo of the Elements / Deluge Icon Deluge / Surge of Earth Icon Surge of Earth;
  • Level 30 Talents: Spirit Wolf Icon Spirit Wolf / Earthgrab Totem Icon Earthgrab Totem / Static Charge Icon Static Charge;
  • Level 35 Talents: Ancestral Vigor Icon Ancestral Vigor / Earthen Wall Totem Icon Earthen Wall Totem / Ancestral Protection Totem Icon Ancestral Protection Totem;
  • Level 40 Talents: Nature's Guardian Icon Nature's Guardian / Graceful Spirit Icon Graceful Spirit / Wind Rush Totem Icon Wind Rush Totem;
  • Level 45 Talents: Flash Flood Icon Flash Flood / Downpour Icon Downpour / Cloudburst Totem Icon Cloudburst Totem;
  • Level 50 Talents: High Tide Icon High Tide / Wellspring Icon Wellspring / Ascendance Icon Ascendance.
8.3.

Restoration Shaman Shadowlands Guide

9.

More Patch 9.0.1 Class Changes

You can find other Patch 9.0.1 class changes linked below.

10.

Changelog

  • 23 Nov. 2020: Updated with Rank 2 Chain Lightning and Windfury Totem.
  • 16 Nov. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands release.
  • 12 Oct. 2020: Updated for the Shadowlands Pre-Patch.
  • 06 Sep. 2020: Elemental Shamans gained Maelstrom back.
  • 16 Aug. 2020: Updated with Elemental and Enhancement changes from Beta Build 35522.
  • 20 Jun. 2020: Reviewed for Alpha Build 34821.
  • 16 Jun. 2020: Shaman changes updated with the Alpha Build 34714 rework.
  • 09 Jun. 2020: Reviewed for Alpha Build 34615.
  • 02 Jun. 2020: Updated intro with links to Anima Powers and Covenant Abilities.
  • 25 May 2020: Reviewed for Alpha Build 34490.
  • 15 May 2020: Reviewed for Alpha Build 34365.
  • 08 May 2020: Reviewed for Alpha Build 34278.
  • 30 Apr. 2020: Reviewed for Alpha Build 34199.
  • 28 Apr. 2020: Reviewed for Alpha Build 34137.
  • 21 Apr. 2020: Page added.
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