All right, so I've been thinking about changes Blizz needs to do for elemental talents for shamans, and I've got a list:
1) Make the elemental focus talent give free healing spells, too.
2) Add +crit with healing spells back in to the call of thunder talent (it used to do this in the original beta).
3) Change Eye of the Storm into a 35/70% chance to be uninterrupted while casting lightning bolt/chain lightning. It's pretty clear in the expansion that elemental shamans are meant to spam lightning bolt/CL, but eye of the storm is the only way to get that now and it blows, horribly.
4) Reduce Unrelenting Storm to 3 ranks, but keep it at 10% int as mp/5, to put it in line with Dreamstate.
5) To help play up the hybrid nature, replace elemental fury with a new weapon buff.
New weapon buff - Thunderbrand weapon
Adds 25% of your spell damage/healing to your melee attacks as nature damage, and while this buff is on, your spell crits will deal 100% additional damage.
6) Move totem of wrath up to the same tier as elemental mastery. It's really not good enough to be a 41 point talent, BUT it's a pretty good talent. I'd rank it as good as elemental mastery now, hence the reason for it to be moved up.
7) Up the % chance for lightning overload to proc. That 5% basically never happens.
8) Replace elemental shields with a talent similar to lunar guidance for balance druids - 3 points, 25% of int added as spell damage. Elemental shields sucks, and every other hybrid's caster tree has a % int added to spell damage talent.
9) A few different 41 point talent suggestions: A) Earthquake. Channeled AOE nature damage over 6 seconds, 30 second cooldown, does about the damage of 2 blizzards, has about the mana cost of rain of fire. May stun and disarm targets for 3 seconds. B) Lightning Shock. Another pure nature damage shock, but it either stuns for 3 seconds or does additional mana burn (i.e. rank 1 would be 300 nature damage and 300 mana burn, doing 50% of the mana burned as damage).
That's really all I can think of right now. I'm hoping blizzard takes some of these suggestions and puts them into the expansion in some form, since as it is elemental is a complete joke. I'm sure the whole list sounds overpowered, and it's not like I expect them to put ANY of these in... but I'm hoping they can at least put in a few things off this list. Especially the elemental focus, eye of the storm and totem of wrath changes.
