Maelstrom Weapon

Shaman · Enhancement · opens at 25 points spent · 5 ranks

Maelstrom Weapon does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Maelstrom Weapon ranks in Forever

Rank 1 When you deal damage with a melee attack, you have a chance to reduce the cast time and Mana cost of your next Lightning Bolt spell by 4%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.
Rank 2 When you deal damage with a melee attack, you have a chance to reduce the cast time and Mana cost of your next Lightning Bolt spell by 8%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.
Rank 3 When you deal damage with a melee attack, you have a chance to reduce the cast time and Mana cost of your next Lightning Bolt spell by 12%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.
Rank 4 When you deal damage with a melee attack, you have a chance to reduce the cast time and Mana cost of your next Lightning Bolt spell by 16%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.
Rank 5 When you deal damage with a melee attack, you have a chance to reduce the cast time and Mana cost of your next Lightning Bolt spell by 20%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.

Where Maelstrom Weapon sits in the Enhancement tree

Maelstrom Weapon is a Enhancement talent for Shaman. You need 25 points in Enhancement before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Maelstrom Weapon

71 of the 222 public Shaman builds saved here (32%) put at least one point in Maelstrom Weapon. 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 Maelstrom Weapon

6 of the public Shaman builds written up here spend points on Maelstrom Weapon.

Where this came from

New in Forever.

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