Lightning Mastery

Shaman · Elemental Combat · opens at 30 points spent · 1 rank

Lightning Mastery 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

Instant · 3 min cooldown

Lightning Mastery ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Gain mastery over Lightning, reducing the cast time of your Lightning Bolt spell by 0.5 sec, and removing the cooldown from your Chain Lightning spell. Lasts 15 sec.

What Lightning Mastery 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 Elemental Mastery.

Rank 1 When activated, this spell gives your next Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell a 100% critical strike chance and reduces the mana cost by 100%.

Where Lightning Mastery sits in the Elemental Combat tree

Lightning Mastery is a Elemental Combat talent for Shaman. You need 30 points in Elemental Combat before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Call of Thunder first.

Requires: Call of Thunder

How often people take Lightning Mastery

31 of the 222 public Shaman builds saved here (14%) put at least one point in Lightning Mastery. 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 Lightning Mastery

4 of the public Shaman builds written up here spend points on Lightning Mastery.

Shaman Elemental Combat 23/11/0 · 1/1 , 17 up
Shaman Elemental Combat 19/5/0 · 1/1 , 16 up
Shaman Elemental Combat 23/5/8 · 1/1 , 16 up
Shaman Elemental Combat 19/8/11 · 1/1 , 3 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)