Thundering Strikes
Shaman · Enhancement · available from the first tier · 5 ranks
Thundering Strikes works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Thundering Strikes ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 1%.
- Rank 2 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 2%.
- Rank 3 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 3%.
- Rank 4 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 4%.
- Rank 5 Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 5%.
Higher-rank values taken from a secondary source.
Where Thundering Strikes sits in the Enhancement tree
Thundering Strikes is a Enhancement talent for Shaman. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.
- Same row: Earth's Grasp, Ancestral Knowledge
How often people take Thundering Strikes
207 of the 232 public Shaman builds saved here — 89% — put at least one point in Thundering Strikes. 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