Elemental Reach
Shaman · Elemental Combat · opens at 20 points spent · 2 ranks
Elemental Reach works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Elemental Reach ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 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.
- Rank 2 Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fire Nova, and Lava Burst spells by 6 yards, and increases the range of your Flame Shock spell by 16 yards.
Now also extends Fire Nova, Lava Burst and Flame Shock. Rank 2 extrapolated.
What Elemental Reach 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. In Classic Era it is called Storm Reach.
- Rank 1 Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 3 yards.
- Rank 2 Increases the range of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 6 yards.
Where Elemental Reach sits in the Elemental Combat tree
Elemental Reach is a Elemental Combat talent for Shaman. You need 20 points in Elemental Combat before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Lightning Overload, Earthbound
How often people take Elemental Reach
76 of the 232 public Shaman builds saved here — 33% — put at least one point in Elemental Reach. 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
Changed in Forever.
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
- Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:36