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Conductivity

Conductivity
Requires Shaman
Requires level 75

Restoration
Your Healing Wave, Healing Surge, and Chain Heal increase the duration of your Healing Rain by 4.00 sec

Elemental and Enhancement
Your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Earth Shock, and Stormstrike increase the duration of your Healing Rain by 4.00 sec

up to a maximum increase of 30 sec.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 3000
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Effect #2

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Value: 50
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Effect #3

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Value: 40000
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Effect #4

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Value: 2
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Passive spell

Guides

Elemental Shaman Guide

Elementals in
Draenor: A Guide
to Elemental Shaman

Enhancement Shaman Guide

Restoration Shaman Guide

Warlords of Draenor
Shaman Changes

Comments

Comment by nikuito

The MOST interesting part of this bould talent, if things keep working the same way with telluric currents is the interaction with keeping a HR 24/7 and using TC for the dmg while geting that extra dmg converted to healing. Even so, the extra healing is pretty negligible, in a standard HR with 10 people in it each one will get a heal of 200 or so. Quite meh

Comment by KeleturShask

As of this date, this talent is simply terrible for Enhancement.

On the MoP beta, LB, SS, and ES together don't even account for over 25% of Enhancement's damage in an ideal PVE situation. Seeing as you would have to spend your MW charges on Healing Rain, you can forget about LB and about half of that 25%. So, you're gimping your own damage to split ~7% (which is about half of half of 25%) of your DPS as HPS amongst your group/raid members. Terrible? Yeah.

In PvP, there is no practicality (at all) here as either Enhancement or Elemental.

In any kind of solo situation, there's no use for this at all.

Comment by subanark

So, as elemental, if LB and ES do around 1/2 of the damage output, you could spend 2 seconds out of 12 casting this healing rain on the tank and boss (assuming tank is standing alone) and get around 1/4 of your total dps to go towards healing the tank. With dots and everything going (and CDs coming up) you are probably only losing 10% of total dps doing this. Provided that Blizzards tries to make crit/mastery/haste/int around the same value for single target dps, you will probably want to stack crit seeing as that doesn't' affect lava burst, and thus LB/ES more (Elemental has 250% crit damage in MoP to make up for lava burst always criting).

Comment by Ismat

As elemental, the healing that Conductivity puts out in combination with Chain Lightning spam on five targets (glyphed) is extremely impressive, capable of healing you from zero to full in just a few casts while doing heavy aoe damage. If you're solo or healing only one target, the healing provided by Conductivity is even greater than Ancestral Guidance (50% vs. 40% of damage converted to healing), and unlike Ancestral Guidance, which is a two-minute cooldown, Conductivity can be maintained with almost 100% uptime indefinitely if desired.

While leveling from 85 to 90, this talent allowed me to constantly take on groups of 4-5 same-level mobs, in green questing gear, while finishing fights at full health and mana. By additionally using capacitor totem, healing stream totem, and stone bulwark totem as needed, I could take on even larger groups at once in reasonable safety—though I died a few times when fighting things which unexpectedly possessed stuns, silences, or stacking dots.

This talent is also excellent for offhealing scenarios. It lets you maintain significant healing on a tank, melee, and/or yourself while still doing almost full damage.

Comment by Kyeld

this talent shines when doing dailies in tightly packed areas... throw down healing rain, start spamming chain lightning, and I can kill mobs pretty much endlessly as long as they don't have an interrupt.

Comment by Bogdanov89

Quite useful during leveling and even perhaps in 5man (as DPS) - the main problem is casting Healing Rain as DPS requires you to spend time (and enha's maelstrom stacks) every ~10 seconds to trigger this talent's effect.

Just the above makes this talent already a huge dps loss compared to other talents in this row, but do note that Conductivity works with only about HALF of your spells (any fire or frost spell/totem is not gonna be affected) which makes it even further weaker than it's rival talents of the same row.

In short, as far as endgame pvE goes, skip this talent as DPS.

Comment by Reebs

Since they changed this talent to not needing your dps target to actually be in the healing rain, it's actually become incredibly useful in certain fights as elemental over the more standard healing tide totem/AG talents.

Two fights that come to mind off the bat are Horridon and Ji-Kun as an egg/hatchling killer.

With Horridon, your melee/tanks will be stacking to aoe dps the adds, while your ranged are usually nearby. Since you'll be spamming chain lightning alot, being specced into conductivity as a dps can actually bring more healing to the group than HTT. Simply throw a rain out while spamming CL, and you should be getting some nice numbers on your melee pile/tank. This is mostly helpful during the 2nd wave of adds (especially if a poison volley slips out), the Drakkari trolls (where are your people should be stacked on/near the tank and side stepping when there's a frost orb), and on the last phase itself. With the 200% increased damage you do to Horridon at this point, any thrown healing rains will get a substantial boost in their targetted area, even if it's just centered on the tank. Even with the tank needing to dodge Horridon's cleave, a well timed healing rain with the conductivity healing can help the healers out immensely.

With Ji-Kun as a nest killer, it brings the same efficiency as a 5 man party conductivity set up does. Since you'll be in the nests aoeing hatchlings most the time, the effectiveness of HTT is a bit less impressive, especially since you'll usually be taking the most damage during a still in the nest quills. Being able to use HR/aoe during each quills helps out your nest healer, and not having HTT if a quills happens with no adds still shouldn't kill you since you'll have said nest healer.

The biggest benefit is that it's restricted not by a cooldown, but by availability of targets and how much your group is moving, so while this talent is still situational there are at least a few ToT fights it really stands out for as an ELEMENTAL DPS over AG/HTT.

Comment by HyperDemonic

I like taking this talent as enhancement for some fights but with the new change in 5.4 I will most likely quit taking it. Given stormstrike's cooldown I will get only like 2 more secs out of this talent now.

Edit: Now that this is put up to 3 secs and now works with earth shock too, it might still be useful.

Comment by Reebs

So in 5.4 they're greatly changing this talent to getting a 3 second increased duration every time a shaman casts Healing Wave, Greater Healing Wave or (this one is important!) CHAIN HEAL!

Now as a resto shaman it should be pretty obvious that the addition of chain heal (which has a *base* cast time of 2.5 seconds before haste), along with the increase from 1 to 3 seconds in the duration boost, is pretty much gold. For any Megara-esqe everyone stack and aoe heal fight like mad, this pretty much guarantees that you only need to cast ONE healing rain for the entirety of the stack if you're spamming (well nearly) chain heal during the stack phase. Not only does this effectively save mana from casting more than one Healing Rain, but it could be seen as a boost to your healing output as well since you don't have to stop and recast another Healing Rain (in addition to recasting UE to buff it beforehand). Granted this won't hold true in every scenario, but it still makes it a much more attractive talent for those sort of stack heal fights.

Unfortunately, this same feature for ele/enhance (3 seconds increased duration every time we Earth Shock/Chain Lightning/Stormstrike/Lightning Bolt) makes it a bit more underwhelming, if less gimmicky than it previously behaved for the shaman dps classes, as well as killing elemental's ridiculous ability to heal up on any sort of fight we can aoe a group of mobs repetitively with chain lightning (and by extension the fun of gathering up a bunch of mobs while you're doing dailies and just burning them down while laughing merrily at the healing numbers).

It's not going to be an awful talent necessarily for dps specs on stack fights, mind you, but picking it over AG would probably require a fight where you can't time the burst dps healing or don't need it as much. I'm also curious to see how long an enhancement shaman can extend the rain for, since while they use all of the abilities that increases the duration of the rain, enhance can't spam cast like resto/ele with them. Edit: As of the most current build, the duration increase has been reduced back to 2 seconds, and the total increase capped at 40 seconds, I suppose for justified reasons :(

Comment by Zaroh

Casting a second healing rain after prolonging the previous one using conductivity will replace the old healing rain with base amount of duration (in other words, you will not have 2 healing rains).

Forgot to add : this is on 5.4 PTR

Comment by DrChristmas

Due to the removal of earth shock from all specs besides elemental, it's now much harder for enhancement shamans to keep conductivity going. Stormstrike's 7.5-second cooldown and the inconsistency of maelstrom weapon procs means the spell often runs out.

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