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Flame Shock and Lava Surges

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Overview

Spread Flame Shock with Chain Lightning and keep it ticking. Every Lava Surge gives you a free, instant Lava Burst.

How to play

  • Keep Flame Shock on everyone.
  • Spend Lava Surges straight away.
  • Thunderstorm melee off you.

Key passives

  • Lava Surge

    Flame Shock ticks (18%), Chain Lightning (16%) and Lava Burst (14%) can make Lava Burst instant and free; it then also hits 2 Shocked foes for 28%.

  • Chain Surge

    Lava Burst hits have a 14% chance to reset Chain Lightning's cooldown.

  • Static Ward

    After hard CC on you, your next 3 hits taken within 5 sec deal 18% less. Thunderstorm hits grant it for 3.2 sec.

Action bar

Hover or tap a spell for its in-game tooltip. Default keybinds.

Stock kit

Lightning Bolt1
Lava Burst2
Chain Lightning3
Lightning LassoE
Grounding Totem4
AscendanceQ
Astral Shift5
ThunderstormSpace
Wind Shear6
Gladiator's MedallionV

Abilities

1

Lightning Bolt

Nature

30 yd range0.7 sec cast

Hurls lightning at the enemy for 19 Nature damage and reduces movement speed by 32% for 1.8 sec.

Castable while moving.

2

Lava Burst

Fire

35 yd range1 sec cast4.2 sec cooldown

Deals 34 Fire damage, 25% more to targets with Flame Shock.

Lava Surge makes it instant.

3

Chain Lightning

Nature

35 yd rangeInstant3 sec cooldown

Deals 17 Nature damage to the target and jumps to 2 more enemies, spreading Flame Shock.

E

Lightning Lasso

Nature

25 yd range3 sec channel30 sec cooldown

Stuns the target for up to 3 sec while you channel, dealing 12 Nature damage every 1 sec.

Completing the channel grants Lava Surge. Kicks, stuns and range break it.

4

Grounding Totem

30 yd rangeInstant24 sec cooldown

Summons a totem with 120 health for 8 sec that redirects enemy projectiles to itself.

Q

Ascendance

Instant60 sec cooldown

Hurls a Lava Burst at every enemy with Flame Shock. For 8 sec Lava Burst is instant, deals 25% more and recharges 3 times as fast.

Off the global cooldown.

5

Astral Shift

Instant40 sec cooldown

Reduces damage taken by 40% for 5 sec.

Usable while stunned.

Space

Thunderstorm

Nature

9 yd rangeInstant16 sec cooldown

Deals 17 Nature damage to enemies within 9 yd, knocks them back and roots them for 1.1 sec.

Usable while rooted or stunned.

6

Wind Shear

Nature

30 yd rangeInstant18 sec cooldown

Interrupts spellcasting and prevents any spell in that school from being cast for 3 sec.

V

Gladiator's Medallion

Instant50 sec cooldown

Removes all stuns, roots, slows, Polymorph, Fear, Blind, Gouge and Cyclone effects. Only usable while crowd-controlled.

Talents

One pick per row, or leave a row on the stock kit.

1Keystone

Thunderstorm Vortex

Thunderstorm pulls enemies toward you.

Thunderstorm pulls enemies toward you.

No root on the enemies you hit.

Pull a caster off their pillar, or group enemies for Chain Lightning.

Spirit Link Totem

A totem that evens out your team's health.

For 6 sec, allies inside the ring share health: twice a second, each moves 30% of the way toward the group average.

No longer redirects spells.

Drop it when one ally is dying and the other is healthy.

Ghost Wolf

Astral Shift also breaks roots and speeds you up.

Astral Shift also breaks roots and gives 40% move speed for 5 sec.

Damage reduction drops to 20% (was 40%).

Take it into teams that root and kite, like Mage and Hunter.

2Tactics

Static Lasso

Lightning Lasso also interrupts, locking the target's school.

Lightning Lasso interrupts a cast and locks that school for 2 sec.

Lightning Lasso lasts 2.5 sec (was 3).

Lasso the healer mid-cast for a second kick.

Frozen Bolt

Lightning Bolt roots Flame Shocked targets briefly.

Lightning Bolt roots a Flame Shocked target for 1 sec.

Once every 12 sec per target; root DR applies.

Keep Flame Shock on the melee, then Bolt to root them and step away.

Quick Shear

Wind Shear comes back sooner with a shorter lockout.

Wind Shear cooldown 14 sec (was 18).

Lockout 2.5 sec (was 3).

Kick more casts per fight.

3Style

Lava Surge

Lava Burst on a shocked target resets Chain Lightning.

Lava Burst on a target with your Flame Shock resets Chain Lightning.

6% less maximum health.

Lava Burst the shocked target, then Chain Lightning the group.

Nature's Guardian

The first time you get low, you heal.

The first time you drop below 35% health, heal 20% of your maximum health. Once per life; dampening and healing reduction shrink it.

Ascendance cooldown +15 sec.

Buys the second you need to Ascendance or reach a pillar.

Storm Tempo

Casting Chain Lightning gives you a burst of speed.

Chain Lightning gives you 30% movement speed for 2 sec.

Chain Lightning bounces once (was twice).

Chain, then step out of melee range.