Water Shield is the Wildcard for Ele shaman but it depends on the amount of group/raid dmg there will be in Forever

In the most recent class video on the wow YouTube. They showed a tooltip of overload and it was increased to 30% on the video. So hopefully that is true.

Im hoping for real changes before actual launch, chain lightning has been absolutely neutered, I dont know if its even worth pressing in its current state over just conserving mana for fire nova. Elemental is the only caster that has its new ability as the capstone, every other caster gets a new ability for their rotation at row three or four, and elemental has by far the lamest 1 point talents of all the casters. It has the clearcasting proc, which is worse than druids, the 3 percent crit on lightning spells, which in a vaccume is cool, but when compared to other classes and what they get feels rushed and lazy. Elemental has 0 wind totems that benefits casters, and water totem is just worse than resto’s because resto still has a talent that buffs water totems.
Also alot of the kit is just going to be kind of dead for ele, none of the weapon imbues help casters, no reason for ele to press water shield or lightning shield.
If you do actually like lava burst gameplay, destro lock and fire mage does it better, if you like chain lighting then our only option is to hope.

How come no one is talking about that as an ele you have to always run into melee range to put dowm your fire totem in order for your fire nova to hit anything at all? I dont know if this is the same as in classic but this sound awful for a spec that wants to cast from afar

Ele looks like buns

I think you didn't mention the 3rd row talent at enchacement Shamanistic Focus , it reduces the mana cost of all Shocks by 45%. Considering Shocks are pretty much going to be used all the time, this is a mana saver for sure

In the recent spotlight video from Blizz, Lightning Overload has a 30% chance to proc not 10%. Not sure which version will make it to live tho.

The cast speed reduction is a PURE NERF for elemental.  For resto if they didnt want to go into the tree that .5 could be seen as a trade, but for ele it was only a hurt to coefficient for the whole game to benefit the few levels of a faster cast where you likely weren't elemental anyway

If you grab the Mindfulness in resto, Elemental is a solid build.

I dont understand why no one is saying anything about certain totems stacking with enchanted weps. Like enha can have wf totem up and flametongue wep at the same time.

Can you do a video talking about leveling as elemental?  Maybe how you would allocate points 10 to 60 or if the spec is even viable for leveling?  Good gear from quests or dungeons?

Lava burst doing less than half the damage of Warlock's new Incinerate which has no cd makes the new ability look subpar in comparison. I rather we just get Elemental Mastery back. It was niche but fun to use and more useful than this new ability. In any situation with the new talent changes, I'll take NS over Lava burst unless they buff it by making it able to proc with Lightning Overload (should be renamed to Elemental Overload then), or make it a guaranteed crit on cast.

I also think they should buff lightning overload to make the proc chance higher. Either increase it to a standard 33% at max rank or add a new balanced effect that works like Hot streak where every cast has a higher chance to proc the effect if the last cast didn't proc the effect and when it does proc, then the counter resets.

Why on earth is stuff like the spellpower coefficient not shown anywhere? Im new to WoW and coming from mobas it seems insane to me that the spells have ratios and they are just not shown anywhere in game lmao.

Which would you "rank" higher for pve? For dps and for healing, Balance Druid + Resto vs Elemental + Resto Shaman? :D I might lvl both in the end, but I am leaning towards druid atm. Tho I love the vibe of Shamans, tho the dwarf race slightly lowering it ( Just how armor look on them, compared to etc humans or elfs etc etc.) But who cant love that laugh of theirs :D

Interesting perspective. I've watched the SPriest and shockadin videos with interest as well. Kinda refreshing format compared to all the  tierlist nonsense and same old "class picking guides"

Why is over load such a low percent compared to what it was in tbc or wrath

If it's numbers i'm not worried. Core design choices are the the problem

Lava burst is kind of a bland end talent considering it doesnt guarantee crit now but i understand they are balancing things, but considering destruction warlock has the same ability with incinerate but its 25% damage increase it just doesnt feel unique for elemental shaman i wish they kept to the theme of lightning instead of another ability we know from another expansion

Bro i love shaman so much, i hope blizzard keeps at making them awesome. Hope if they even seem slightly good we don't get some whiners asking for nerfs right away. Ele can be really good with a few changes and we lack alot of what makes it good.

elemental focus worked on overload on ascension wow. so it might work. lighting overload is strong AF, played ele on ascension. and the damage it provided was nothing to scuff at it was in the numbers of 2nd highest damaging source. the numbers this gonna provide is excellent. you also forgot to mention you have access to water shield and if bosses will have an aoe spell you will get 2% mana back.
sad they have not reworked lightning shield or mana shield. so lightingshield is pretty much useless for ele shaman. and watershield only useful when the boss has an aoe raidwide aoe however when they do have it you wont have any mana issues what so ever.