The Elemental Combat tree adds Lightning Overload, Earthbound, and Lava Burst in the reported client read. Blizzard's September 24 notes confirm the Alacrity and Fury row swap and Lava Burst tuning; the later 1.60.1.70009 read reflects those rows. These beta values are not a final build.
Elemental in Forever
The current client read lists 16 Elemental Shaman talents: 3 new, 11 changed, and 2 matching Classic Era. Lava Burst is the reported 31-point capstone.
September 24 Elemental changesElemental Alacrity moves to Row 3 and Elemental Fury to Row 6; Lava Burst ranks 1 and 2 gain about 10% more base damage than the Lightning Bolt rank learned around the same levelChangedConfirmedBlizzard forums · September 24 beta notes
Every Elemental Shaman talent
In tree order. Each talent shows its Forever text at full rank beside Classic Era's, and the first rank that differs when full rank reads the same.
Row 1 open from the first point
Convection
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Reduces the mana cost of your Shock, Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, and Chain Lightning spells by 10%.
Classic, 5/5
Reduces the mana cost of your Shock, Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 10%.
Concussion
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Earth Shock spells by 5%.
Classic, 5/5
Increases the damage done by your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning and Shock spells by 5%.
Row 2 5 points in Elemental Combat
Elemental Warding
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost, and Nature effects by 10%.
Classic, 3/3
Reduces damage taken from Fire, Frost and Nature effects by 10%.
Reverberation
Unchanged
Forever and Classic, 5/5
Reduces the cooldown of your Shock spells by 1 sec.
Call of Flame
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Fire Totems and by your Flame Shock, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 15%.
Classic, 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Fire Totems by 15%.
Elemental Devastation
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 9% for 10 sec.
Classic, 3/3
Your offensive spell crits will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 9% for 10 sec.
Row 3 10 points in Elemental Combat
Elemental Focus
Unchanged
Forever and Classic, 1/1
Gives you a 10% chance to enter a Clearcasting state after casting any Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
Elemental Alacrity
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.5 sec.
Classic as Lightning Mastery, 5/5
Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 1 sec.
Row 4 15 points in Elemental Combat
Improved Fire Nova
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
Increases the damage done by your Fire Nova spell by 20% and reduces its cooldown by 4 sec.
Classic as Improved Fire Totems, 2/2
Reduces the delay before your Fire Nova Totem activates by 2 sec. and decreases the threat generated by your Magma Totem by 50%.
Eye of the Storm
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst by 70%.
Classic, 3/3
Gives you a 100% chance to gain the Focused Casting effect that lasts for 6 sec after being the victim of a melee or ranged critical strike. The Focused Casting effect prevents you from losing casting time when taking damage.
Call of Thunder
Reworked
Forever, 1/1
The dataset has no tooltip text for this rank.
Classic, 5/5
Increases the critical strike chance of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by an additional 6%.
Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 6 yards, and increases the range of your Flame Shock spell by 15 yards.
Classic as Storm Reach, 2/2
Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 6 yards.
Lightning Overload
New
Forever, 3/3
Gives your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells a 10% chance to cast a second, similar spell on the same target at no additional cost that causes half damage and no threat.
Earthbound
New
Forever, 1/1
Your Earthbind Totem Immobilizes nearby targets for 5 sec when cast.
Row 6 25 points in Elemental Combat
Elemental Fury
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Searing and Magma Totems and your Fire, Frost, and Nature spells by 100%.
Classic, 1/1
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Searing, Magma, and Fire Nova Totems and your Fire, Frost, and Nature spells by 100%.
You hurl molten lava at the target, dealing 150 to 193 Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst deals 20% increased damage.
Requires 3 points in Lightning Overload · 165 Mana · 30 yd range · 2.5 sec cast · 10 sec cooldown
Every fact, with its source
1 more fact, checked Sep 27, 2026; 0 from Blizzard. The 3 headline changes are above. The tag says how sure each one is.
Rotation and gearingThe checked Deep Dive recap does not give an Elemental rotation, gear list, or stat prioritiesNot announcedBlizzard · Deep Dive recap
TalentsNames, positions, ranks and text from the community WoW Forever Talents dataset, read from WoW Forever beta client build 1.60.1.70009. Reported
Classic EraThe comparison text comes from Classic Era client build 1.15.9.69722, in the same dataset. Unchanged means the same text as that client, not a Blizzard statement.
