Elemental Alacrity, an Elemental Shaman talent in WoW Forever

Elemental Alacrity is a passive talent in row 3 of the Elemental tree. It needs 10 points in Elemental, so the earliest you can take it is level 20 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era. It was called Lightning Mastery in Classic.

Elemental Alacrity

3 ranks

Requires 10 points in Elemental

Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.17 sec.

Every rank of Elemental Alacrity

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.17 sec.
Rank 2	Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.33 sec.
Rank 3	Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.50 sec.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Elemental tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

Call of Thunder

That talent needs Elemental Alacrity at 3/3.

Same row

Elemental Focus

Row above (row 2)

Row below (row 4)

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Elemental Alacrity.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its name, its rank 1 text, its position and its rank count.

Name

Classic Era

Lightning Mastery

WoW Forever

Elemental Alacrity

Position

Classic Era

Elemental, row 6, column 3

WoW Forever

Elemental, row 3, column 3

Ranks

Classic Era

5 ranks

WoW Forever

3 ranks

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning spells by 0.2 sec.

WoW Forever

Reduces the cast time of your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells by 0.17 sec.

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The other Shaman trees: Enhancement and Restoration. Everything that changed for the Shaman since Classic is on the changes page.

Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.