The caster is surrounded by 3 balls of lightning. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, the attacker will be struck for X Nature damage. This expends one lightning ball. Only one ball will fire every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
The caster is surrounded by 3 balls of lightning. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, the attacker will be struck for X Nature damage. This expends one lightning ball. Only one ball will fire every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
Lightning Shield is a nature-based buff. When getting attacked, it does direct damage to the attacker. It can only proc every few seconds and has three charges.
Being an elemental shield, Lightning Shield cannot be used at the same time as Earth Shield or Water Shield. It is however possible to use Water Shield or Lightning Shield on yourself while Earth Shield is up on another target.
It uses the lightning animation instead of the normal nature animation.
Lightning Shield is a good alternative to Water Shield for solo play or PvP, especially if mana is not a problem (either because you have enough mana anyway or because you expect fights to be quick).
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Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Mana cost removed. 
