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Shaman

Your class, through every change.

  1. Source publication dateLatest update Official source
    Beta

    Beta development notes · 2026-10-16

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    Buffs

    Fire Nova’s mana cost has been significantly reduced.

    Chain Lightning: Mana cost reduced by approximately 35% on all four ranks.

    Elemental

    Call of Flame: Now also extends duration of Flame Shock by 3/6/9 seconds.

    Elemental Reach: Now also reduces the cooldown on Totemic Projection by 10/20 seconds.

    Nerfs

    Fire Nova’s Spell Power Coefficient has been changed to 0.143 (was 0.214).

    Fire Nova’s base damage has been significantly reduced.

    Bugfix

    Fixed an issue where Totemic Recall cost 70 silver on the trainer instead of 22 silver, as intended.

    Enhancement

    Fixed an issue where Stormstrike could be consumed by other players or pets that weren’t the casting Shaman.

    New

    Added a little green to the visual of Chain Heal without overpowering the original effect.

    Restoration

    Added an additional Rank of Mana Tide Totem that is learned at level 38, so now you have ranks at level 25, 38, 48, 58 (was levels 25, 48, 58).

    Removed

    Elemental

    Your Clearcasting from the Elemental Focus talent will no longer have a way to be spent on the same Fire Nova that activates it.

    Call of Thunder: Talent removed.

    Changes

    Windfury Totem and Flametongue Totem retain their exclusivity.

    Grace of Air Totem, Strength of Earth Totem, Windfury Totem, and Flametongue Totem are now Raid wide.

    Grounding Totem is now correctly destroyed after redirecting a spell.

    Windfury Weapon’s attacks now appear as White hits in the scrolling combat text.

    Flametongue Totem and Windfury Totem now correctly only affect players.

    Grace of Air Totem is no longer exclusive with Windfury Totem and Flametongue Totem.

    Elemental

    Elemental Alacrity: Moved from 3rd row to 2nd row.

    Fire Nova’s tooltip now correctly increases when placing talents into Trial By Fire (the talent formerly known as Improved Fire Nova).

    Lava Burst: Moved from the 7th row to the 5th row as the 21-point gold medal talent. New rank 4 added and ranks reflowed. No longer has any pre-requisite.

    Clearcasting will no longer be consumed by Lightning Overload activations.

    Elemental Mastery: This talent has returned as the new 31-point gold medal talent. Reduces the cast time of Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst by 0.5 seconds and removes the cooldown from Chain Lightning for 15 seconds. 3-minute CD. Lava Burst is pre-requisite.

    Elemental Warding: Moved from 2nd row to 3rd row.

    Lightning Overload: Now has Elemental Alacrity as pre-requisite.

    Earthbound: Moved to 4th row as the 16-point gold medal talent.

    Column Arrangement: Many talents moved to make room for other talents and their connections.

    Elemental Fury: Now has Lightning Overload as pre-requisite.

    Enhancement

    Your Stormstrike debuff is no longer consumed if your spell does not land.

    Stormstrike’s cost changed to 8% of Base Mana (was 125 Mana at all points in the game).

    Restoration

    The Restorative Totems talent now correctly increases the effect of the entirety of Healing Stream totem (was the base value).

    Water Shield: Can now trigger from any critical spell cast by the Shaman (was only critical heals).

    Tidal Focus and Totemic Focus have swapped locations. Tidal Focus is now in the 1st row, and Totemic Focus is now in the 2nd row.

  2. Source publication date Official source
    Beta

    Beta development notes · 2026-10-08

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    Changes

    The Eye of the Tempest for “Heed My Call” is now multi-drop.

    The various creatures needed for the quest “Storm, Earth, and Fire” respawn more quickly, creatures drop their twisted totems more often, Maraudine Scouts now drop Twisted Air Totems, Ongeku can now drop a Twisted Earth Totem, Murdaloc can now drop a Twisted Fire Totem. The Twisted Fire Totem can now additionally be obtained via Dustbelcher ogres across the Badlands. Larger encampents like Dustbelch Grotto will respawn more quickly, but smaller ones will not.

    Lightning Bolt: The base points and points per level of ranks 1-5 of this spell have been adjusted to make the growth rate of ranks 1-6 more consistent, and new ranks always an upgrade.

    Flametongue Totem will now correctly use the target’s attack speed if they are Shapeshifted, instead of using the speed of their equipped weapon.

    Elemental

    Elemental Focus is no longer activated and immediately consumed when using Fire Nova.

    Restoration

    Mana Tide Totem will once again display its visual when pulsing.

    Water Shield no longer says it has a 15 second cooldown (it didn’t have one).

    Water Shield now accurately displays the mana restored in the buff tooltip.

  3. Source publication date Official source
    Beta

    Beta development notes · 2026-10-01

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    Bugfix

    Fixed an issue where Totemic Recall was not restoring Mana.

    Fixed an issue where Disease Cleansing Totem wasn’t a 5-minute duration.

    Changes

    Ghost Wolf should now be more visible while in well-lit areas.

  4. Source publication date Official source
    Beta

    Beta development notes · 2026-09-24

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    Buffs

    Elemental

    Lava Burst damage on ranks 1 and 2 increased to be about 10% more base damage than the Lightning Bolt rank learned around the same level.

    Bugfix

    Restoration

    Corrected an issue and now Riptide can land critical hits.

    Changes

    Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Flametongue Weapon.

    Flametongue Totem is no longer able to be stacked by repeatedly casting Flametongue Totem.

    Lightning Bolt: Damage on ranks 3 and 4 increased to make these spells always upgrades over previous ranks (despite changing cast times).

    Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Windfury Totem.

    Flametongue Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Flametongue Totem” instead of “Flametongue Totem Effect”.

    Tranquil Air Totem, Windfury Totem, and Grace of Air Totem no longer stack together even if used by different Shamans in the same group.

    Flametongue Totem no longer has a duration and is instantly replaced when placing another totem.

    Windfury Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Windfury Totem” instead of “Windfury Totem Passive”.

    Elemental

    Swapped the positions of the Elemental Fury (Row 3) and Elemental Alacrity (Row 6) talents.

    Enhancement

    Rage of the Far Seer (Row 7) no longer increases the Shaman’s Spell Casting Speed.