Maelstrom Weapon

Maelstrom Weapon
Maelstrom Weapon (5 ranks) When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to reduce the cast time of your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lesser Healing Wave, Chain Heal or Healing Wave spell by 20%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.
Requirements
Class	Shaman
Talent required	None
Properties
Affects	[Lightning Bolt], [Chain Lightning], [Lesser Healing Wave], [Chain Heal], [Healing Wave]
Related buff
Magic Maelstrom Weapon Reduces the cast time of your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lesser Healing Wave, Healing Wave or Chain Heal spell by 20/40/60/80/100%. Duration: 30 seconds

Maelstrom Weapon is a talent in the Enhancement tree, you will need to spend 50 points in Enhancement to max it.

Rank table

Rank	Chance
1	-
2	More often than rank 1.
3	More often than rank 2.
4	More often than rank 3.
5	More often than rank 4.

Notes

The chance to gain a charge when attacking is dependent on weapon speed, using the PPM mechanic. This means that you gain charges from auto-attacks at the same rate regardless of weapon speed. In effect, this means that slower weapons will have a slightly higher chance to trigger Maelstrom Weapon due to instant attacks. Dual wielding will greatly increase the rate at which charges are generated, due to the increased number of attacks, though due to the miss penalty inherent to dual wielding it will not generate charges twice as fast as when using only one weapon.

Maelstrom Weapon charges stack up to five, at which point the next [Chain Lightning], [Lightning Bolt], [Lesser Healing Wave], [Healing Wave], or [Chain Heal] spell becomes instant cast. Because of this, the talent can be seen as the [Nature's Swiftness] of the Enhancement tree, allowing for free emergency heals or burst damage.

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