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Elemental Alacrity, a WoW Forever Shaman talent, in words

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Elemental AlacrityAn Elemental Shaman talent in WoW Forever: row 2 of the Elemental tree (level 15), 3 ranks, passive. Changed from Classic (renamed from Lightning Mastery, was Elemental row 6, was 5 ranks, now 3, no longer requires Call of Thunder). Its spot, arrow or text here is the server's 3 Nov hotfix over the client's files, read from the game's hotfix data and checked against Blizzard's notes or Wowhead's tooltips.

Elemental Alacrity opens at level 15, after 5 points in Elemental.

Changed from Classic

Row 2 of 7 in the Elemental tree, column 3.

Lv 15the earliest level
3ranks, passive
35%of Shaman builds take it
Find Elemental Alacrity on the Elemental tree ›Every Elemental talent in words

What it does Elemental row 2

  • Elemental Alacrity3 ranks · passiveRequires 5 points in Elemental Talents (level 15).Rank 1: Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.17 sec.Rank 2: Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.33 sec.Rank 3: Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.50 sec.Changed from Classic (renamed from Lightning Mastery, was Elemental row 6, was 5 ranks, now 3, no longer requires Call of Thunder). Classic rank 1: Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.2 sec.

What changed from Classic

  • Classic rank 1Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.2 sec.
  • WoW Forever rank 1Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.17 sec.
  • Alsorenamed from Lightning Mastery; was Elemental row 6; was 5 ranks, now 3; no longer requires Call of Thunder.

Who takes it pick rates from this site's builds

  • 35% of Shaman buildsTaken in 35% of the 6,788 Shaman builds with 41 or more points planned here, since the Nov 3 hotfixes to build 70755.
  • 99% of Elemental buildsTaken in 99% of the 1,919 builds that lead in Elemental, its own tree.
  • 10% of Enhancement buildsTaken in 10% of the 3,796 builds that lead in Enhancement.
  • 5% of Restoration buildsTaken in 5% of the 1,073 builds that lead in Restoration.
  • How it is countedEach build counts once, the way the calculator's pick-rate badges count. Recounted a few times a day, last on 2026-11-05.

Beta build history

4 changes, newest first

  • Values from Blizzard's notes over build 1.60.1.70753, 2026-11-02Ranks 1 to 3 text changed. Now: Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.17 sec. Was: Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.17 sec.
  • Build 1.60.1.70425, 2026-10-15Moved from Elemental row 3 to Elemental row 2. Blizzard: "Elemental Alacrity: Moved from 3rd row to 2nd row." (notes for build 70425)
  • Build 1.60.1.70009, 2026-09-24Moved from Elemental row 6 to Elemental row 3. Blizzard: "Swapped the positions of the Elemental Fury (Row 3) and Elemental Alacrity (Row 6) talents." (notes for build 70009)
1 earlier change
  • Build 1.60.1.70009, 2026-09-24No longer needs Call of Thunder.

Around it in the Elemental tree

Every Elemental talent 16

ConvectionConcussionElemental DevastationReverberationElemental AlacrityCall of FlameElemental FocusElemental WardingTrial by FireEye of the StormEarthboundElemental ReachCall of ThunderLightning OverloadElemental FuryLightning Mastery

newchangedmoved since Classic, the dots of the calculator's Compare to Classic. Down the side: the earliest level for each row.

The Elemental talents as a list row by row

The other two trees

From the WoW Forever beta client, with the 3 and 10 Nov server hotfixes on the Shaman trees as other readers logged them; checked in game with reader reports. Put points in Elemental Alacrity in the Shaman calculator.