Maelstrom Weapon

Maelstrom Weapon
Maelstrom Weapon Level 29 Enhancement shaman ability Passive When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to gain Maelstrom Weapon, stacking up to 10 times. Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon reduces the cast time of your next damage or healing spell by 20% and increase the damage or healing of your next spell by 20%. A maximum of 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon can be consumed at a time.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Other information
Level learned	29

Maelstrom Weapon is a passive level 29 Enhancement shaman ability.

Patches and hotfixes

• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Redesigned.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Redesigned. Now causes auto attacks and [Windfury] attacks to generate 5 Maelstrom.
  
• Hotfix (2015-11-20): "Now increases direct healing done by 5% while in PvP combat (down from a 10% increase to direct healing)."
  
• Hotfix (2015-07-20): "Fixed an issue with Maelstrom Weapon that caused Healing Surge combined with the Tier-18 4-piece set bonus to heal for more than the intended amount."
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
  • No longer reduces the cast time of [Hex]. Chance to trigger has been reduced by 20%.
  • Now also increases the direct healing of affected spells by 10% per application.
    
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now applies to any Nature spell with a base cast time shorter than 10 seconds.
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Can now also proc from fully absorbed melee attacks.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Now also has a chance to reduce the cast time of [Hex].
  
• Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): Tooltips corrected to correctly describe the chance for this talent to be triggered.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

See also

• TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB