Shaman: Forever against Classic

Want to see the tree rather than the list? Open the Shaman talent calculator

New in Forever

Talents with no counterpart in Classic 1.12.

Elemental	Elemental Alacrity Reduces the cast time of your elemental spells.
Elemental	Improved Fire Nova Fire Nova hits harder and further.
Elemental	Elemental Reach Increases the range of your elemental spells.
Elemental	Lightning Overload Lightning spells can strike a second time.
Elemental	Earthbound Earth totems last longer and hit harder.
Elemental	Lava Burst A heavy fire spell against a single target.
Enhancement	Mental Dexterity Attack power also increases your spell damage.
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 you are struck.
Restoration	Riptide An instant heal that keeps working afterwards.

Gone from Classic

Talents that existed in Classic and are not in the beta 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	Lightning Mastery Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.2 sec.
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 a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Elemental	Elemental Focus a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
Elemental	Reverberation from 10 points in the tree to 5
Elemental	Call of Thunder from 10 points in the tree to 15
Elemental	Elemental Devastation from 15 points in the tree to 5
Elemental	Elemental Fury from 20 points in the tree to 25
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	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	Tidal Focus from 0 points in the tree to 5
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	Totemic Focus from 5 points in the tree to 0
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 the beta
Elemental	Elemental Fury 1 ranks in Classic, 5 in the beta
Enhancement	Anticipation 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in the beta
Restoration	Healing Focus 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in the beta

What changed since BlizzCon

4 changes between the trees shown at BlizzCon and the current beta client.

moved	Elemental	Elemental Fury Elemental critical strikes deal more damage.
moved	Elemental	Elemental Alacrity Reduces the cast time of your elemental spells.
moved	Restoration	Tidal Mastery Increases the critical chance of healing and Lightning spells.
moved	Restoration	Totemic Focus Reduces the mana cost of your totems.

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).