Shaman: Forever against Classic

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New in Forever

Talents with no counterpart in Classic 1.12.

Elemental	Elemental Alacrity Reduces the cast time of your elemental spells.
Elemental	Trial by Fire Fire Nova hits harder and further.
Elemental	Earthbound Earth totems last longer and hit harder.
Elemental	Elemental Reach Increases the range of Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning and Fire Nova.
Elemental	Lightning Overload Lightning spells can strike a second time.
Enhancement	Mental Dexterity Your Intellect also raises your attack power.
Enhancement	Shamanistic Focus Reduces the mana cost of your Shock spells.
Enhancement	Spirit Weapons Reduces the threat caused by your melee attacks.
Enhancement	Mental Quickness Instant spells cost considerably less mana.
Enhancement	Improved Stormstrike Stormstrike restores mana.
Enhancement	Maelstrom Weapon Melee hits speed up your next spell.
Enhancement	Rage of the Farseer Sharply increases attack speed for a short time.
Restoration	Mindfulness Mana regeneration continues while casting.
Restoration	Natural Grace Reduces the cast time of your healing spells.
Restoration	Water Shield A shield that restores mana when your spells critically strike.
Restoration	Riptide Healing over time that also makes your Chain Heal stronger on that target.

Gone from Classic

Talents that existed in Classic and are not in the Forever client. The text below each one is the Classic tooltip, not our summary.

Elemental	Improved Fire Totems Reduces the delay before your Fire Nova Totem activates by 1 sec. and decreases the threat generated by your Magma Totem by 25%.
Elemental	Storm Reach Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 3 yards.
Elemental	Elemental Mastery When activated, this spell gives your next Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell a 100% critical strike chance and reduces the mana cost by 100%.
Enhancement	Shield Specialization Increases your chance to block attacks with a shield by 1% and increases the amount blocked by 5%.
Enhancement	Enhancing Totems Increases the effect of your Strength of Earth and Grace of Air Totems by 8%.
Enhancement	Two-Handed Axes and Maces Allows you to use Two-Handed Axes and Two-Handed Maces.
Enhancement	Improved Weapon Totems Increases the melee attack power bonus of your Windfury Totem by 15% and increases the damage caused by your Flametongue Totem by 6%.
Enhancement	Parry Gives a chance to parry enemy melee attacks.
Enhancement	Weapon Mastery Increases the damage you deal with all weapons by 2%.
Restoration	Nature's Guidance Increases your chance to hit with melee attacks and spells by 1%.
Restoration	Totemic Mastery The radius of your totems that affect friendly targets is increased to 30 yd.
Restoration	Healing Grace Reduces the threat generated by your healing spells by 5%.

Moved to another tree

The talent is still there, in a different tree - which means different points and often a different build.

Enhancement

Earth's Grasp from Elemental to Enhancement

Moved within its tree

Same tree, different row. A row is a price: from row 2 to row 5 the talent costs 25 points in the tree instead of 10.

Elemental	Elemental Warding from 5 points in the tree to 10
Elemental	Call of Flame a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Elemental	Reverberation from 10 points in the tree to 5
Elemental	Call of Thunder from 10 points in the tree to 20
Elemental	Elemental Devastation from 15 points in the tree to 5
Elemental	Elemental Fury from 20 points in the tree to 25
Elemental	Lightning Mastery from 25 points in the tree to 30
Enhancement	Ancestral Knowledge a different column in the same row - the price stays at 0 points
Enhancement	Thundering Strikes from 5 points in the tree to 0
Enhancement	Improved Ghost Wolf from 5 points in the tree to 15
Enhancement	Improved Lightning Shield a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Enhancement	Toughness a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Enhancement	Elemental Weapons from 20 points in the tree to 10
Enhancement	Stormstrike from 30 points in the tree to 15
Restoration	Improved Reincarnation a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Restoration	Ancestral Healing from 5 points in the tree to 10
Restoration	Tidal Mastery a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Restoration	Healing Way a different column in the same row - the price stays at 20 points
Restoration	Mana Tide Totem from 30 points in the tree to 15

A different number of ranks

The talent exists in both, with a different number of ranks.

Elemental	Call of Thunder 5 ranks in Classic, 1 in Forever
Elemental	Elemental Fury 1 ranks in Classic, 5 in Forever
Elemental	Lightning Mastery 5 ranks in Classic, 1 in Forever
Enhancement	Anticipation 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Restoration	Healing Focus 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever

What changed since BlizzCon

21 changes between the trees shown at BlizzCon and the launch client.

renamed	Elemental	Improved Fire Nova → Trial by Fire Fire Nova hits harder and further.
replaced	Elemental	Lava Burst → Lightning Mastery For a short time Lightning Bolt casts faster and Chain Lightning has no cooldown.
moved	Elemental	Elemental Warding Reduces elemental damage taken.
moved	Elemental	Call of Flame Fire totems deal more damage, and Flame Shock lasts longer.
moved	Elemental	Elemental Devastation Spell crits increase melee critical chance.
moved	Elemental	Elemental Focus Critical strikes make your next spell cheaper.
moved	Elemental	Elemental Fury Elemental critical strikes deal more damage.
moved	Elemental	Call of Thunder Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning crit more often.
moved	Elemental	Lightning Overload Lightning spells can strike a second time.
moved	Elemental	Earthbound Earth totems last longer and hit harder.
moved	Elemental	Elemental Alacrity Reduces the cast time of your elemental spells.
moved	Enhancement	Improved Ghost Wolf Reduces the cast time of Ghost Wolf, and Ghost Wolf can be used indoors.
moved	Enhancement	Improved Lightning Shield Lightning Shield deals more damage.
moved	Restoration	Tidal Mastery Increases the critical chance of healing and Lightning spells.
moved	Restoration	Tidal Focus Reduces the mana cost of your healing spells.
moved	Restoration	Totemic Focus Reduces the mana cost of your totems.
reworded	Elemental	Elemental Reach Increases the range of Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning and Fire Nova.
reworded	Enhancement	Mental Dexterity Your Intellect also raises your attack power.
reworded	Enhancement	Stormstrike A strike that makes your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Earth Shock on the target hit harder.
reworded	Restoration	Water Shield A shield that restores mana when your spells critically strike.
reworded	Restoration	Riptide Healing over time that also makes your Chain Heal stronger on that target.

Two independent Classic 1.12 talent datasets, compared against each other: maladr0it/classic-talent-calculator and hseager/Classic-WoW-Talent-Planner. All 431 talents they share sit at identical positions in both. Names and positions are taken from the second, which is the complete one; the first is missing Faerie Fire (Feral).