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Comment by MeanMachine

It appears that lightning shield would be the the ehancement shaman's best shield in WotLK. As it is now, all shields cost no mana, so with conjunction with this talent, you get an additional damaging proc at the cost of a global cooldown every once in a while -- a total win for enh shamans.

However, this talent is less useful in PvP, since the shaman will undoubtedly take damage in such situations, enough to cause lightning shield to proc. The 3 extra charges are a minor boost since you'll reapply the shield less, but, at least in my opinion, not enough to put 3 points in. For raiding shamans, though, go for it!

Comment by 137460

This talent gives you a 6% chance of dealing about 425 nature damage (assuming you took improved shields) and every 6 procs you need to refresh the shield. Frankly this isn't the most useful talent, not only is it another extra point to put into the enhancement tree; but it will use your global cooldown for mediocre damage on a bad proc rate.

Comment by 111373

Of course he's talking about WotLK:

...ehancement shaman's best shield in WotLK. As it is now...

Also, the fact that this is www.wowhead.com/wotlk and not www.wowhead.com/wotlk, should tell you something ;P

Comment by Spooon

Is there a chance of this going off with a dot? I would use Flame Shock more if this could proc every second.

Comment by 56833

Quoted from the WoWwiki page mentioned above

Each charge receives 33% of spell damage.

So, since the regular Lightning Shield has 3 charges, it does in fact take 100% (or 99%, but it's possible it's in fact 100% and just listed as 33% for conveniency) of your spell damage. Now, 3/3 Static Shock increases the number of charges to 6, making the Lightning Shield take 200% of spell damage.

Comment by 164904

since this talent got a major buff by adding 6 lighting orbs(was 3 before) which makes it 9orbs!(wish it was 10 to make it even), at no mana cost, lasts 10minutes(only if it wer 30minutes). now this with conjuction to imp. sheilds, SS, and glyphs we will be seeing our lighting shield acutally dealing damage to melee or caster class maybe even 1k damage per orb or more! and with the 6% chance to hit with nature damage( useing up a orb ). and with lava lash, we would be useing firebrand( with spirit weapons to increase +spelldamage by 30%) on our off-hand giving us +spelldamage(i know i will). this is wat i like to say a wounderful sunday, and the 6%chance is the cherry on top.

Spooons question:
Is there a chance of this going off with a dot?

wowheads anwser:
You have a 6% chance to hit( im guessing melee ) your target with a Lightning Shield Orb charge

Comment by NerArth

Static Shock Rank 3
You have a 6% chance to hit your target with a Lightning Shield Orb charge when you do damage, and increases the number of charges of your Lightning Shield by 6.

Doesn't this make the shield in fact have 9 charges and not 6? As the talent says, increases, this is why I ask.

Comment by 73706

To answer the lingering question: fully specced, you get NINE (9) total lightning shield charges.

Comment by 18560

As for now (level cap 70, Patch 3.0.2), I considered putting 3 points in it, and it turned out to be not that great.

On our Karazhan skill test run today, the lightning shield did about 4,5% of my total damage.
The question is, would it make more sense to switch the 6 points of this + Improved Shields (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/spell=51881) into elemental tree.

So I skilled that way: https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/talent=hV0hZhbgcoxdAIkubot (2/2 Imp. Ghost Wolf because <3 Insta Wolf, as a raider you could surely go into 4/5 Ancestral Knowledge)

My personal oppinion is that, since "+ X crit rating" is now applied to spells, too (I got around 16% spelldrit that way), and you are also spamming lightning bolts / chain lightnings because of Maelstrom Weapons, the chance to get the Elemental Devastation is relatively high, and so the overall damage output would be greater, if you just go with Water Shield and leave out the Static Shock and Improved Shields.

I did not test it long enough to get any detailed numbers, anyone can dis-/agree on that?

Comment by Wooohooohooo

Lightning Shield (Rank 9) “Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for 287 Nature damage.” as of level 70 combined with Static Shock “6% chance to hit your target”, may seem ideal in heroics/raids. Even when you’re not the tank, taking damage nonetheless as a melee dps class should increase your output damage. Let us not forget though, Improved Shields (Rank 3)” Increases the damage done by your Lightning Shield orbs by 15%” also can apply. Although, I always used Water Shield (Rank 8) & so…I have not applied any points unto this talent.

Comment by 178750

I think that water shield is better for Enhancement shaman because he needs mana....if u have water shield ,this talent is useless....

Comment by 263386

My question, and this would make this talent a good buff, is: Does it crit? And when it does crit, do those crits proc Elemental Devastation? As it is now, at 80 in all Enhance mail (it's not just hunter gear anymore) including T7 chest and a few heroic epic drops I'm getting better DPS with those points going toward 5/5 Elemental Fury (bringing spell crit damage up to a full 2x). If Static Shock can crit (for 2x damage with EF) and proc Elemental Devastation, it's definitely worthwhile.

Comment by 263386

Answering my own question, after speccing to try. Lightning shield can't crit (at least through static shock and probably not through other means) so it doesn't benefit from Elemental Fury and cannot proc Elemental Devastation. In addition, the returns from Improved Shields aren't worth the extra 3 points when the proc rate is as low as 6%. I'd only recommend this talent once you're heroic/Naxx geared and have the mana you need to do without water shield, and I wouldn't recommend taking improved shields at all. In my testing, static shock was dealing between 2 and 3% of my overall damage, which makes it worth taking.

Comment by 37999

This has got to be a reference to the show "Static Shock."

Comment by shadowstevens

Does this proc from:
- Windfury weapon procs
- Stormstrike (attack with both weapons = 2 melee attacks)
?

Comment by W4lker

Several questions I had concerning this talent I'm hoping to get answered:

Can Static Shock Crit?
-If so does it receive modifiers from Elemental Fury and can it proc Elemental Devastation?

Does Static Shock get 33% spell damage coefficient like normal Lightning Shield procs?

Do weapon enchants (Windfury/Flametongue) have a chance to proc this?

Is there an internal CD or PPM on Static Shock?

Comment by Noromis

Superhero Static Shock, Woo Woo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7lf4BebjE

Comment by 477542

assume you have two 2.6 speed weapons
given Lava Lash has a 6 sec cooldown and Stormstrike is at 8 seconds, and Stormstrike has 2 chances to proc Static Shock

--In a 1 minute fight (60 seconds)
23 MH at 6% proc is 1.38
23 OH -- 1.38
10 LLash -- 0.6
7 SStrike -- 0.42 x2 = 0.84

assuming the less than 1 procs did proc, you would have 5-6 Static Shocks

--in a 5 minute fight (300 seconds)
115 MH --6.9
115 OH -- 6.9
50 LLash -- 3
37 SStrike -- 2.22 x2

and now we see 19 to 22 procs.
in 5 times the length of the fight, we only see a x4 increase in procs

It is my opinion that this talent is substandard and is only taken for lack of better DPS options.
now if Lightning Shield was buffed or this talent is given a higher proc chance, it might be decent.
(and if you say 2pc t9, Ill stab you with something sharp and rusted!)

Comment by Vorph

Does anyone have an idea about if it's better to go to this talent as Enhancement or give it up for getting Fire Nova instead of this?

Comment by 128335

Can anyone confirm that this is affected by the talent Improved Shields and the Glyph of Lightning Shield, or do they just improve the 'passive' effect which occur when you are attacked?

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Static Shock

Static Shock

Talent

You have a 6% chance to hit your target with a Lightning Shield orb charge when you deal damage with melee attacks and abilities, and your Lightning Shield gains 6 additional charges.

(Proc chance: 6%)

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n/a

School

Physical

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n/a

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n/a

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n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

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Effect #1

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 6
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script
Affected Spells:

	Lightning Bolt	Chain Lightning	Lightning Bolt
	Lightning Bolt	Lightning Bolt	Chain Lightning
	Lightning Bolt	Chain Lightning	Lightning Bolt
	Lightning Bolt	Lightning Bolt	Chain Lightning
	Lightning Bolt	Lightning Bolt	Chain Lightning
	Chain Lightning	Lightning Bolt	Lightning Bolt
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	Lightning Bolt	Lightning Bolt	Chain Lightning
	Chain Lightning

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Modifies Charges (4)
Value: 6
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

Lightning Shield	Lightning Shield	Lightning Shield
Lightning Shield	Lightning Shield	Lightning Shield
Lightning Shield	Lightning Shield	Lightning Shield
Lightning Shield	Lightning Shield

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