Elemental Alacrity

Shaman · Elemental Combat · opens at 5 points spent · 3 ranks

Elemental Alacrity works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Changed in the latest patch (Blizzard's 2 November changes). See the patch notes

Elemental Alacrity ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.17 sec.
Rank 2 Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.33 sec.
Rank 3 Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.5 sec.

What Elemental Alacrity does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side. In Classic Era it is called Lightning Mastery. It has 5 ranks in Classic Era rather than 3.

Rank 1 Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.2 sec.
Rank 2 Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.4 sec.
Rank 3 Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.6 sec.

Where Elemental Alacrity sits in the Elemental Combat tree

Elemental Alacrity is a Elemental Combat talent for Shaman. You need 5 points in Elemental Combat before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Lightning Overload.

Unlocks: Lightning Overload
Same row: Elemental Devastation, Reverberation, Call of Flame

How often people take Elemental Alacrity

56 of the 222 public Shaman builds saved here (25%) put at least one point in Elemental Alacrity. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Elemental Alacrity

6 of the public Shaman builds written up here spend points on Elemental Alacrity.

Shaman Elemental Combat 23/11/0 · 3/3 , 17 up
Shaman Elemental Combat 23/5/8 · 3/3 , 16 up
Shaman Enhancement 10/14/0 · 2/3 , 6 up
Shaman Elemental Combat 16/9/11 · 3/3 , 3 up
Shaman Elemental Combat 15/9/0 · 3/3 , 2 up
Shaman Restoration 10/0/37 · 3/3 , 2 up

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)