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Earthquake

Earthquake

0.75% of base mana	35 yd range

2.5 sec cast	10 sec recharge

1 Charges
Requires Shaman (Elemental)
Requires level 60

You cause the earth at the target location to tremble and break, dealing [Spell power * 0.11 * 10 * (1.16)] Physical damage over 10 sec to enemies in an 8 yard radius, with a 10% chance of knocking down affected targets.

Buff

Earthquake

Suffering Physical damage every 1 sec with a chance to be knocked down.
10 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

0.75% of base mana

Range

35 yards (Medium-Long)

Cast time

2.5 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Persistent Area Aura: Dummy
Radius: 8 yards
Server-side script

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Value: 100 every 1 second

Effect #3

Create Area Trigger (3691)

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Elemental Shaman Guide

Elementals in
Draenor: A Guide
to Elemental Shaman

Warlords of Draenor
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Comments

Comment by Lavafrost

This spell will be an Elemental Shamans targeted AoE. A welcome upgrade, it will allow the Shaman to deal AoE damage without the use of Totems or Thunderstorm.

Comment by domalus

seems like a cool tool = )

the icon has been around for a looong time and i have never seen any spell fir this good to the picture =D

Comment by knasen88

86% of base mana? Ain't that ALOT?

Comment by Keelerak

How long does the knockdown last?
I see it very good in WSG to cast this in fron of our tunnel when enemy flag carrier wants to go out, or when enemies are following our flag carrier, because they cant sidetrack it in so narrow corridor

edit: I browsed a bit myslef, i believe knockdown lasts 2sec. > Earthquake

Comment by Archael

Physical tho so will be different based on classes/armor/talents for different targets. Odd to cost more than other aoe's and have a more open form of resistance as well...

Comment by Flaks

I'm not a shaman, but reading this ability, I see the aoe effect as a much needed addition to the shaman arsenal in terms of PvE damage and a potential tool to get stealth classes out off stealth in PvP.

The knock-back seems to be almost exclusively geared towards PvP and as such, I find the 20% proc rate to be too unreliable and at times ridiculously overpowered if RNG dictates as such. I want to hear your guys' opinion on a potential change to the ability that would confirm the knockdown (100% proc rate) but add a cool down to how often it can occur (5 seconds sounds about right).

Comment by Studestroy

Wild Mage appeared!
Player sent out Elemental Shaman and Balance Druid!
Balance Druid uses Solar Beam!
It isn't very effective...
Wild Mage uses Fire Blast!
It's super effective!
Balance Druid fainted...
Elemental Shaman uses Earthquake!
It's super effective!
Mage's ability, Molten Armor hurts Elemental Shaman!
Wild mage fainted!
Elemental Shaman gains 456 experience! (228 Rested Bonus)

Comment by Keelerak

It's sounding better and better for casters....
Well, ratardins and ferals are receiving Interrupts (and the feral´s one HURTS), rogues can now hide in smoke, ~~blood DK can strangulate you every 10 sec~~... Casters are getting improved, but anti-casters, too.

edit: strangulate had shorter base CD when I wrote this. by "hurts" I didn´t mean damage, but fact it includes charge and manacost increase on you spells (and thus is more powerful). I never said that ret pally has better interupt than others, I just said they are receiving one... you probably read something wrong
edit2: the post that I edited this because of seems to be deleted

Comment by acwilkins

considering that this is physical damage and not nature damage which i personally think it shoud be, this should be an interesting spell to be using. I'm hoping that there is going to be another way to increase this damage or its going to scale somehow with spellpower. Because as it stands right now, its pretty bad. The mana cost on the other hand, 86% of base mana seems like quite a lot, but also take into consideration the increase in statistics that we are all getting with the quest gear that will be replacing t10 items -.-
Anyways. If you are looking for something that i can base this off of look at this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg1L8uFYpzg
This is totalhalibut's video regarding the stonecore. For those that have already seen it, when he shows his gear it shows some of his stats including his health and mana. At level 83..... if i recall correctly he has 53k health and 63k mana.
I cannot even begin to imagine what the stats are going to be like at 85.
So, mana cost of this spell, most likely not going to be a problem later on. Damage, we shall see.

Edit: just watched the vid again. he shows u his gear at 23:48 in the video and he does in fact have 53k health but he only has 47k mana. But still thats a lot of goddamn health and mana

Comment by Likkan

Think Clearcast finally will get the respect it deserve,,,

~~Could be the physical part that interfear but Earthquake is unaffected by Clearcast and even Elemental Oath...~~

Fixed in 4.0.6

Comment by Valyndyral

Elemental shamans are currently hating this spell pretty hard right now (At least judging by the reports I've read on various fansites), but there are two considerations that one might do well to keep in mind:

1. The physical damage is not necessarily a bad thing. It makes this one of the only damage-dealing spells that will not, for example, be absorbed by a Death Knight's Anti-Magic Shield, or a rogue's Cloak of Shadows. Seeing as melee classes have traditionally presented problems for ele-shamans in PvP, this should be a welcome change.

2. Even if it doesn't do a lot of damage, the amount of control one could accomplish with a knock-down AOE effect is pretty considerable. I don't know if anyone here remembers the early days of WOTLK when Death Knights would spam DnD on the bridge in AV and lock down an entire team (That is why they removed the cower effect from DnD, as a matter of fact), but this is the first (and only) spell since then that can accomplish a similar effect. Multiple shamans laying down multiple earthquakes at a choke-point like the AV bridge or the WSG tunnels can accomplish unprecedented levels of mass-crowd control in rated battleground environments. And if you don't care about PvP, there's still the consideration that mobs hit much harder in Cataclysm and CC will be much more important - Elemental shamans will now have access to both a knockdown as well as their initial hex.

Don't think of it as AoE damage with a bonus knockdown.

Think of it as as AoE CC with a little bonus damage.

Comment by Weimann

Do we know anything about damage scaling on this one? Does it scale with spell power even though it's physical?

Comment by lyph3

This ability is amazing. I don't know if my mana regen is bugged or what, but I can drop totems, chain 2-4 earthquakes, and pick up my totems... and I've lost maybe 2000 mana. Drop a thunderstorm and I'm still topped off.

I was watching my SCT and I was gaining so much mana from the new Rolling Thunder talent that I wasn't dropping below 95% mana, even on long boss fights.

Comment by TylerGamer84

Appears to be Nature Damage even thought the tooltip says physical. I was testing it and also Bind Elemental in Nagrand. The Earth and Air elementals there are immune to it just as they are to any other Nature spell. Even WoWHead lists it in the school of Nature magic.

Comment by Urgronak

Apparently, Blizzard decided this was "too powerful" and now does pathetic tooltip damage ONLY...before the patch, my Earthquake hit for 1-1.5k and crit for over 2k....now hits for EXACTLY 442 damage and MAYBE crits for 1k (this is with 3800 SP too) Leaving my bars till this is fixed...what a waste

Edit: This apparently was a mistake and a blue post confirmed that it was an error that Earthquake didn't scale off spell power

Comment by Nazgren

I still think this is the worst 31pt talent in all of the Cataclysm trees. Blizzard stated that they wanted the 31pt talents compelling and useful in almost any situation (see: almost every other 31pt.) Right now I think most elemental Shaman are only picking this up to gain access to the other 2 trees.

Every other caster has some form of AoE that is learned as a base skill. Mind Sear, Blizzard, Rain of Fire, and Hurricane. Elemental Shaman have to spend 31pts in the talent tree to get one that does mediocre damage and whose CC effect is unreliable at best.

I think Blizzard should make this baseline for all Shaman (with standard buffs and etc for it in the Elemental Tree) and replace our 31pt with something useful. This would be the perfect situation for an Air Elemental totem pet. Think about it. Extra damage, maybe even some form of CC/interrupt or a cleanse type effect for friendly targets.

It's another "Endless Rage" from the Warrior's BC talent tree. Trying to be useful and fit the theme of the tree, but failing.

Comment by Saeg

As of 4.0.3a they have changed the look of Earthquake. It now shows pulsing circles with rocks and dust bouncing up and down. It also has a red colour to it.

Comment by Abomb

other than hiding in a bush interrupting enemies trying to cap a point in a BG, this ability is for the most part useless in pvp and completely in arena

Comment by domalus

the new animation makes this spell one of the coolest again = ) the old one SUCKED balls on every angled surface

Comment by StellaO

Is this the only ranged, magic (i.e mana based, non-hunter) spell that does physical damage?

Comment by Spinnacer

As a tank, I can say that this is my favourite AOE.

The AOE knockdown-effect is amazing. Constantly interrupting both melee and caster mobs, I end up taking considerably less damage when tanking large packs of mobs.

Comment by Afakaz

Changed in patch 4.1 to a 2 second cast according to patch notes (2.5 according to wowhead tooltip), with a 10 second duration and 10 second cooldown so that you can't stack more than one at once.

Comment by Ionite

It's funny how some players in the dungeons think that's an enemy aoe and run the hell out of it.

Comment by Homeboy3

It appears to be getting quite a boost in 4.3. At the moment each tick receives 10% of your SP. With 0 haste and 7500 SP (Flametongue included), that will be more than a 200% increase in damage. With haste that number's even bigger.

Awesome :)

Comment by imri500

I must fight for this ability's PVP powers, while in arena it is quite useless, in large scale battles like Tol Barad, Alretac Valley and Isle of Conquest, a shaman can wreck absolute havock by doing the following -

Summon both your elemntals, Pop hero, pop your burst macro, cast earth-quake, spam chain lightning.

There isn't a battle I havn't won yet with this combo, their healers and casters will get interrutped all over the place, the elementals will distract some of the less then good players, Hero will ofc buff up your group's owange rate, and the chain-lightning is unbelievable good when casted again, and again, and again.

Comment by Alnair

Costs an insane amount of mana, but its cost is reduced when clear casting from Elemental Focus.
If you don't have the Elemental Focus proc up force one by casting Lava Burst before Earthquake.

Flame Shock -> Lava Burst ->Earth Quake.

Comment by Bogdanov89

According to the latest 5.3 PvE guides for Elemental, this spell is never worth casting.

For the largest packs that are AoEd in raids, you should use Glyphed Chain Lightning, Glyphed Thunderstorm and Magma Totem (easier with Totem Projection talent).

Comment by Yakeshi

"Thumbs up for epic earthquake!" *rolls eyes*

Comment by Bogdanov89

While this spell's damage does scale with spell power, it's physical damage IS reduced by armor.

You can test this yourself by casting Earthquake on a plate-class in full armor, and then again casting it after they unequipped all armor.

Most raid mobs have around 50% physical damage reduction, sometimes even more.

That means that, on average, Earthquake's damage against PvE mobs is reduced by around 50%... which makes it's already poor damage much much weaker...

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