So far patch 3.1 has very few changes for Elemental. The only change/addition is the talent Booming Echoes, adding a +10% damage bonus, per point for a maximum two points, to Frost Shock and the direct damage portion of Flame Shock, as well as reducing the cooldown on these shocks by 1 second per point (incidentally, it appears that the shock cooldown is reduced to 4 seconds after FS or FrS, while ES/WS will give a 6 second shock cooldown).

The question now is where to take the two...

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So from feedback from Ghostcrawler & co, Elemental DPS at 70 is a bit "low", but it is expected that this will pick up when we get Lava Burst. Most players seem to disagree on scaling grounds, citing the lack of empowerment talents, and the limited scaling talents (Concussion, Call of Flame, Overload, Lava Flows, Storm Earth & Fire), of which only 2-3 affect any one spell.

However, there's one thing that seems to have gone unnoticed so far. The Haste Problem. More specifically, the...

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I'm currently 73 at the moment, running around with a 51/0/12 build. This is mostly because Elemental Oath is "broken" (increases mana cost rather than decreasing) as well as the fact that stack buffs like that aren't that useful in a levelling sense.

Thunderstorm so far is very fun to use. There's the usual Frost Shock + Thunderstorm trick to get a mob far enough away to kill it before it gets back and running away with Earthbind down. I've also been using it in a "crowd control"...

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This is a repost from the WotLK Shaman beta forum

I’m sure that most will have read my initial feedback that was posted by Malan in this thread: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...4749&pageNo=1&

What I’m going to look at today is how things have changed in 8770, and what issues/concerns may still be outstanding (bugs aside).

Summary of Previous Post

Issues from TBC
Lack of Pushback...

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Since the beta information was released, some of this had to be changed. Please be aware that as WotLK is still in Beta, the talents discussed in this entry may change

So by now you should have seen the numerous fan site WotLK talent tree calculators that have sprung up. My favourite, as always, is WoWHead's. Most of us would have seen alpha information before now, but it's all been "underground" until the WWI in Paris.

Looking at the talents as they are, there are...

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