Elemental Devastation

Shaman · Elemental Combat · opens at 5 points spent · 3 ranks

Elemental Devastation has been read from Forever footage and matches its Classic Era wording.

Elemental Devastation ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 3% for 10 sec.
Rank 2 Your offensive spell crits will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 6% for 10 sec.
Rank 3 Your offensive spell crits will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 9% for 10 sec.

Slot corrected from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.

What Elemental Devastation does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.

Rank 1 Your offensive spell crits will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 3% for 10 sec.

Where Elemental Devastation sits in the Elemental Combat tree

Elemental Devastation is a Elemental Combat talent for Shaman. You need 5 points in Elemental Combat before the row it sits on opens.

Same row: Elemental Warding, Reverberation, Call of Flame

How often people take Elemental Devastation

128 of the 232 public Shaman builds saved here — 55% — put at least one point in Elemental Devastation. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Where this came from

Same as Classic (verified).

BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage