| Template:Epic | |
| Binds when picked up | |
| Unique | |
| Trinket | |
| Requires Level 60 | |
| Equip: Chance to strike your melee target with lightning for 200 to 300 Nature damage. | |
| Sells for 10 to vendors | |
| Item Level 66 |
This is one of the four available Darkmoon Cards.
A highly useful item for melee fighters, it is mostly aimed for Fury Warriors and Dagger Rogues, who relay on incredibly fast rate of attacks. This trinket has about 1.5% proc chance, and it procs from every melee strike, including feral attacks (making this very useful for feral Druids) and free strikes. It is not known to crit or be effected by +spell damage, and can be resisted normally as nature damage, it can also hit for 1000-1400 when the target is vulnerable to nature, in BWL for example. Depending on weapon speed, it can add between 1 to 3 DPS (and sometimes higher), on average.
It is useful as a damage trinket in high-end raids, in PvP and PvE solo.
To obtain the Maelstrom card you make complete the Elementals Deck. The Ace of Elementals drops the various Elemental lords that can be found in Azeroth - Lord Incendius, Hydrospawn, Princess Tempestria, The Windreaver, Baron Charr and Avalanchion.
Darkmoon Card
Darkmoon Cards are obtained by completing a set of nine cards (The relevent Ace plus 8 general cards, numbered 1 of X deck and up to 8 of X deck - like, for example, Four of Beasts). After obtaining the nine cards the player can create a Deck item by clicking and activating the Ace card. All the individual cards and the deck itself are BoE items and can be bought in the Auction House, making an exciting collecting, trading and selling mini-game.
Each Ace drops from a specific elite boss somewhere in the game, which usually have an estimated (unverified) 10% drop chance (since 1.10 patch). The general cards are worldrops from ANY general humanoid level 51 and above, including elites. There are no specific place or mob they can drop from. The drop rate is slightly better for elite dungeon bosses.
Once you have the deck item, you can turn it in the Darkmoon Faire for your final Epic trinket.