WotLK Shaman Talent Changes - Build 8970

Mostly generic talent adjustments and fixes, certainly the most interesting change is the addition of the new restoration talent, riptide. Riptide - Heals a friendly target for 764 to 826 and another 477 over 15 sec sec. Your next Chain Heal cast on that primary target within 15 sec sec will consume the healing over time effect and increase the amount of the Chain Heal by 25%. 18% of base mana, 40 yd range, Instant Cast, 6 sec cooldown.

Not much PvP utility, but certainly a nice bonus for PvE shamans. Chain heal is already the primary healing spell for most shamans anyway, this just adds extra unneeded incentive to spam chain heal.

The big change, and one I’m most excited for is the new 5 minute timer on all totems. Pretty awesome change for shamans’ as a whole, I’m not sure how much this change will factor into arena play as totems are easy targets…but for PvE shamans this will make a huge improvement to overall mana efficiency in long duration fights.

A welcome and long overdue change…now all we need is a new ability called “High Powered Rotary Fan” - your totems now float on a cushion of air and are programmed to follow you around via GPS. =D

Elemental

• Lava Flows - Now increases the range of your Flame Shock by 5/10/15 yards instead of increasing the amount of bonus spell damage on your Flametongue Weapon by an additional 15/30/45%.
• Eye of the Storm - Now reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lava Burst and Hex spells by 23/46/70% instead of giving you a 23/46/70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage.
  

Enhancement

• Static Shock - Now increases the number of charges of your Lightning Shield by 2/4/6 up from 1/2/3.
• Elemental Weapons - Now increases the spell damage on your Flametongue Weapon by 10/20/30% and increases the bonus healing on your Earthliving Weapon by 10/20/30% instead of increasing the damage caused by your Flametongue Weapon and Frostbrand Weapon by 5/10/15%.
  

Restoration

• Healing Focus - Reduces the pushback suffered by 23/46/70% instead of giving you a 23/46/70% chance to avoid interruption.
• Blessing of the Eternals - Now increases the chance to apply the Earthliving heal over time effect on the target by 40/80% when they are at or under 35% total health instead of increasing the bonus healing from your Earthliving weapon by 5/10%.
  
• Earthliving Weapon - All ranks saw a healing increase, max rank now 70 up from 26.
  
• Spirit Link - Removed, replaced with Riptide.
  
• Riptide - Heals a friendly target for 764 to 826 and another 477 over 15 sec sec. Your next Chain Heal cast on that primary target within 15 sec sec will consume the healing over time effect and increase the amount of the Chain Heal by 25%. 18% of base mana, 40 yd range, Instant Cast, 6 sec cooldown
  

Totems

• All totems now last 5 min.