Elemental Devastation

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

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

Elemental Devastation ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 3% for 10 sec.
  2. Rank 2 Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 6% for 10 sec.
  3. Rank 3 Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 9% for 10 sec.

What Elemental Devastation 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.

  1. Rank 1 Your offensive spell crits will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 3% for 10 sec.
  2. Rank 2 Your offensive spell crits will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 6% for 10 sec.
  3. Rank 3 Your offensive spell crits will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 9% for 10 sec.

Where Elemental Devastation sits in the Elemental Combat tree

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

How often people take Elemental Devastation

164 of the 219 public Shaman builds saved here — 75% — put at least one point in Elemental Devastation. Counted across the 1498 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 Devastation

8 of the public Shaman builds written up here spend points on Elemental Devastation.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893