Elemental Reach (was Storm Reach): WoW Forever Shaman talent

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Elemental ReachAn Elemental Shaman talent in WoW Forever: row 5 of the Elemental tree (level 30), 2 ranks, passive. Changed from Classic (renamed from Storm Reach). 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 Reach opens at level 30, after 20 points in Elemental.

Changed from Classic

Row 5 of 7 in the Elemental tree, column 1.

Lv 30the earliest level

2ranks, passive

21%of Shaman builds take it

Find Elemental Reach on the Elemental tree ›Every Elemental talent in words

What it does Elemental row 5

Elemental Reach2 ranks · passiveRequires 20 points in Elemental Talents (level 30).Rank 1: Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Fire Nova spells by 3 yards.Rank 2: Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Fire Nova spells by 6 yards.Changed from Classic (renamed from Storm Reach). Classic rank 1: Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 3 yards.

What changed from Classic

Classic rank 1Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 3 yards.
WoW Forever rank 1Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Fire Nova spells by 3 yards.
Alsorenamed from Storm Reach.

Blizzard's notes build by build

Elemental ReachElemental Reach no longer reduces the cooldown of Totemic Projection. Blizzard's development notes for build 70753, 2 Nov 2026.

Who takes it pick rates from this site's builds

21% of Shaman buildsTaken in 21% of the 6,788 Shaman builds with 41 or more points planned here, since the Nov 3 hotfixes to build 70755.
74% of Elemental buildsTaken in 74% of the 1,919 builds that lead in Elemental, its own tree.
0% of Enhancement buildsTaken in 0% of the 3,796 builds that lead in Enhancement.
0% of Restoration buildsTaken in 0% 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

2 changes, newest first

Values from Blizzard's notes over build 1.60.1.70753, 2026-11-02Ranks 1 and 2 text changed. Now: Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Fire Nova spells by 3 yards. Was: Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 3 yards and reduces the cooldown of Totemic Projection by 10 sec. Blizzard: "Elemental Reach no longer reduces the cooldown of Totemic Projection." (notes for build 70753 hotfixes)
Build 1.60.1.70425, 2026-10-15Ranks 1 and 2 text changed. Now: Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 3 yards and reduces the cooldown of Totemic Projection by 10 sec. Was: Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 3 yards, and increases the range of your Flame Shock spell by 8 yards. Blizzard: "Elemental Reach: Now also reduces the cooldown on Totemic Projection by 10/20 seconds." (notes for build 70425)

Around it in the Elemental tree

Same row (20 points in Elemental, level 30)Call of Thunder, Lightning Overload.
Row above (level 25)Trial by Fire, Eye of the Storm, Earthbound.
Row below (level 35)Elemental Fury.

Every Elemental talent 16

Convection

Concussion

Elemental Devastation

Elemental Reach

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 Reach in the Shaman calculator.