Maelstrom Weapon
Maelstrom Weapon (Passive) Passive When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to reduce the cast time and mana cost of your next Nature spell with a base cast time shorter than 10 seconds by 20%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Utility
School	Physical
Talents
Specialization	Enhancement
Level required	44
Related buff
Maelstrom Weapon Reduces the cast time and mana cost of your next Nature spell with a base cast time shorter than 10 seconds by 20%. Duration: 30 seconds
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• Maelstrom Weapon (Passive)
• Passive
• When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to reduce the cast time and mana cost of your next Nature spell with a base cast time shorter than 10 seconds by 20%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.

Maelstrom Weapon is a passive shaman ability learned at level 44 for those with the enhancement specialization. Each stack reduces the cast time of the next Nature spell with a cast time of less than 10 seconds; fully stacked, those spells become instant cast.

Modified by Edit

2020

• Glyph of Healing Storm
• Item Level 25Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Major Glyph
• Classes: Shaman (Enhancement)
• Requires Level 25
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  Each application of Maelstrom Weapon also increases your healing done by 20%.
• Sell Price: 1

Notes Edit

The chance to gain a charge when attacking is dependent on weapon speed, using the PPM mechanic. In effect, this means that slower weapons will have a slightly higher chance to trigger Maelstrom Weapon due to instant attacks. [Dual wielding] will greatly increase the rate at which charges are generated, although it won't be double, due to the miss penalty inherent in dual wielding. When Dual wielding, the PPM rate is approximately 25 PPM.[1]

Patch changes Edit

• Patch 5.1.0 (27-Nov-2012): Effects has been improved. 
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (29-Nov-2011): Maelstrom Weapon can now also proc from fully absorbed melee attacks. 
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Now also has a chance to reduce the cast time of Hex. 
  
• Patch 3.0.3 (04-Nov-2008): Tooltips corrected to correctly describe the chance for this talent to be triggered. 
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Maelstrom Weapon proc chance reduced to 2/4/6/8/10% on critical hit when you deal damage with a melee weapon. Now affects chain heal and no longer affects Lavaburst. 
  

External links Edit

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

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