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Elemental Devastation, an Elemental Shaman talent in WoW Forever

Elemental Devastation is a passive talent in row 2 of the Elemental tree. It needs 5 points in Elemental, so the earliest you can take it is level 15 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Elemental Devastation

3 ranks

  • Requires 5 points in Elemental

Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 3% for 10 sec.

Every rank of Elemental Devastation

RankText
Rank 1Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 3% for 10 sec.
Rank 2Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 6% for 10 sec.
Rank 3Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 9% for 10 sec.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Elemental tree

ConvectionConcussionElemental WardingReverberationCall of FlameElemental DevastationElemental FocusElemental AlacrityImproved Fire NovaEye of the StormCall of ThunderElemental ReachLightning OverloadEarthboundElemental FuryLava Burst
Needs
No prerequisite talent
Unlocks
No talent needs it
Same row
Row above (row 1)
Row below (row 3)

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

Compared with Classic Era

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

Position

Classic Era

Elemental, row 4, column 4

WoW Forever

Elemental, row 2, column 4

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Your offensive spell crits will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 3% for 10 sec.

WoW Forever

Your offensive spell critical strikes will increase your chance to get a critical strike with melee attacks by 3% for 10 sec.

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All Elemental talents

  1. Convection
  2. Concussion
  3. Elemental Warding
  4. Reverberation
  5. Call of Flame
  6. Elemental Devastation
  7. Elemental Focus
  8. Elemental Alacrity
  9. Improved Fire Nova
  10. Eye of the Storm
  11. Call of Thunder
  12. Elemental Reach
  13. Lightning Overload
  14. Earthbound
  15. Elemental Fury
  16. Lava Burst

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.