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Elemental Mastery

Elemental Mastery

Instant	2 min cooldown

Requires Shaman
Requires level 60

Elemental forces empower you with 30% haste for 20 sec.

Buff

Elemental Mastery	Magic

Haste increased by 30%.
20 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

20 seconds

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

2 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect

Apply Aura: Decrease Attack Speed % (10)
Value: 30%

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Guides

A guide to the
Elemental Shaman
(PvE) [Outdated - 5.4.7]

Elemental Shaman Guide

Elementals in
Draenor: A Guide
to Elemental Shaman

Enhancement Shaman Guide

Raid and Class
cooldown list.

Restoration Shaman Guide

Comments

Comment by Alisdair

Very powerful and useful talent. When soloing or in instances, use it every chance you get. Best when used with Chain Lightning. At level 49 I was easily doing up to 2400 damage total on three targets.

Comment by RayMkII

Great talent to have. Mana free instant crit spell? Definitely worth the point if you're deciding to go deep Elemental.

Comment by Largos

With the new change on clearcasting, this will be a free crit and 2 free mana spells.

Comment by DuMaiKe

If you use this and Lightning Overload procs, do both spells have 100% crit chance?

Comment by penan

starting 2.4 this ability will now share a 10 sec cooldown with Natures swiftness. Bye elemental shammy's.
directly from revised patchnotes http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

Comment by randomtotem

They reverted the changes
we get some love =/

Comment by Martyrbg

Elemental shaman's maximum PvP crit guide:

Wear your best PvE gear. Enchant and spec for damage.
Use Wrath of Air, consumables (food, oils, elixirs), and get yourself a +spell damage trinket, ideally a Hex Shrunken Head, because few real PvPers could get hold of a Shifting Naaru Sliver.
Get the Berserking buff in a battleground.
Get lucky and stumble upon a warrior with Berserker Stance, Death Wish and Recklessness all popped on.
Get even luckier and have an enhancement shaman Stormstrike him and a shadow priest put Misery on him. Asking for a Ferocious Inspiration hunter and an Improved Sanctity Aura paladin might be too much.
Unleash an Elemental Mastery nuke.
Hope for a crit in the maximum range of your spell damage.
Press Print Screen.

If you accomplished those 8 simple steps, congratulations. You've won the game.

Comment by nillzoor

Does it trigger the global cooldown?

Comment by vexis58

Allowing for the following macro:

#showtooltip Lightning Bolt
/use Elemental Mastery
/use Lightning Bolt

You'll automatically use Elemental Mastery every time the cooldown is up.

Comment by Smyd

Goodbye old friend we'll miss you. Next coming patch will include a revamp of EM.

Elemental Mastery -- Now increases the Shaman’s critical strike chance by 20% for 30 seconds. Cooldown remains 3 minutes. We recognize this might be a slight nerf in certain PvP situations where players relied on the shaman to nuke an injured person to death. Still, I'm betting most shamans will prefer the new design.

Comment by Mobbe

i think its better pve now cause 20% over 30 secs and 20% less mana.
But in pvp when you realy need the 100% crit its actually pretty annoying -.-
But i think its better now :P

Comment by DenDuvel

As since of Patch 3.0.8 this spell will be changed into the most best Design it ever had for PVE.
For PVP the burst is reduced but seeing it as another very nice buff in for example 5v5, or any other Arena where you aint the primary target ( which most of cases will be tho).

Comment by danroe

Anybody wondering, if AP sucks now?

This, 20% crit chance -20% cost

AP, 20% dmg, +20% cost

Comment by dinnerbone

As of the new build on the PTR, this no longer reduces the mana cost but instead also makes your next LB, CL or LvB spell an instant cast. Source: http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=43777.0

Comment by KelDazan

This is sad. I was like screaming and flying happy as a bee since patch 3.0, when blizz decided to PopUp Elems (and in every single Patch after 3.0) and now they want spoil it all again. Lowering down the crit rate IS acceptable, but 15sec duration instead of 30 - more looks like a spit in the face of Elemental community.

Comment by hellothere123

in 3.1.0 this is gonna get changed to make your next chain lightning, lightning bolt instant cast and increases the crit chance of your fire frost and nature spells by 15% for 15 secs

MASSIVE NERF

heres why:

elementals can be slightly mana starved so the loss of -20% mana cost is big
crit chance down from 20 to 15 %
lasts half as long thats half the amount of lb or cl high crit casts

and 1 instant cast spell every three minutes is nothing

Comment by Abomb

yes elemental shammies deserve this so they can fire shock+lava burst+elemental mastery+CH+TS is going to be a crap load of bust dps if they ever need more

Comment by KingAnubis7

This is like Mage's P.O.M except you get an extra 15% extra dmg on nature, frost, & fire.

Comment by zolikk

Good luck surviving my instant Flame Shock + Lava Burst combos from now on. Who cares if it's been nerfed to 15%? Lava Burst crits anyway so I get a guaranteed Elemental Oath, which brings it up to 20%, and besides, when your crit chance is above 60%, what does 5% matter anyway?

Comment by felixmdx

total crap not a spell
never used and not going to use :P

Flame Shock + Lava Burst and u get 5% crit bonus from Elemental Oath
while the gear allready gives 30%
so total crit all the time is 35% and 15 sek is enought to get some more crits for another Elemental Oath

this is fail not spell

Comment by paranoidkiwie

Patch 3.3.0 notes
* Elemental Mastery now gives you 15% spell haste for 15 sec instead of increasing your critical strike chance.

Buff FTW (also makes the T10 bonus better)

Comment by Facerollking

Its best to use the Flame Shock + Lava Burst + Elemental Mastery = A world of hurt (Aka Instant Lava burst crit)

Comment by kyro707

I have 1 question whats the best pvp spec for shamys is it Elemental

Comment by Tarondin

As of 4.0.3a, this talent shares a cooldown with the troll racial Berserking.

EDIT: This has now been fixed and no longer shares a cooldown.

Comment by guatafu

All in one caster damage cd. HAX

Comment by PriestessAur

In Mists of Pandaria this talent becomes available to all specs at level 60. It no longer reduces the cast time of our next spell or grants a damage increase. It simply grants a flat 30% haste buff for 20 seconds.

Cooldown reduced to ~~1 min~~ 90 seconds down from 2 min as of Patch 5.2

Comment by Azaram

Current build in MoP beta: tier 3 talent, gives +30% haste for 20 seconds. Other options on the tier are totemic restoration and totemic projection.

Comment by siscorskiy

As of 5.4, if you're choosing between this and Ancestral Swiftness, EM comes out to 6.6% haste over its duration, vs. AS at 5% for ele/resto and 10% for enhance

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