Maelstrom Weapon

Maelstrom Weapon
	Maelstrom Weapon; Row 2 shaman talent; Passive; When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to gain Maelstrom Weapon, stacking up to 5 times. Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon reduces the cast time of your next damage or healing spell by 20%. A maximum of 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon can be consumed at a time.;
Properties
Class	Shaman
Talents
Talent required	[Chain Lightning]
Improvements	[Hailstorm], [Improved Maelstrom Weapon], [Legacy of the Frost Witch], [Overflowing Maelstrom], [Raging Maelstrom], [Static Accumulation], [Swirling Maelstrom], [Witch Doctor's Ancestry]

Maelstrom Weapon is a shaman class talent. It is automatically learned for Enhancement.

Patch changes

Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Maelstrom Weapon damage increase now has a separate value from its healing increase.
Hotfix (2022-12-07): Fixed an issue causing Maelstrom Weapon to not stack past 8 stacks with [Raging Maelstrom].
Hotfix (2022-10-27): Fixed an issue where some unintended spells could grant a stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 class talent (was a level 29 Enhancement ability). The damage increase to your next ability has been moved to the [Improved Maelstrom Weapon] talent. Now stacks up to 5 times (was 10).
Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Maelstrom Weapon spending abilities have had their damage or healing increased by 30%.
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Redesigned – 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. Now learned at level 29 (was 40).
Old: Your auto attacks and [Windfury] attacks generate 5 Maelstrom.
Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 40 (was 52).
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Redesigned. Now causes auto attacks and Windfury attacks to generate 5 Maelstrom. Now learned at level 52 (was 50).
Old: When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a chance to gain an application of Maelstrom Weapon. Each application of Maelstrom Weapon reduces the cast time and mana cost of your next Nature spell by 20% and increases its direct healing done by 10%. Does not apply to Ancestral Spirit or Hex. Stacks up to 5 times.
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.
Hotfix (2014-12-03): Will no longer increase the damage or healing effects of spells that consume the [Ancestral Swiftness] buff.
Hotfix (2014-10-30): Should no longer incorrectly persist after the Shaman has switched to a different specialization.
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 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): The responsiveness of many abilities and effects has been improved, including Maelstrom Weapon.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now applies to any Nature spell with a base cast time shorter than 10 seconds (was [Lightning Bolt], [Chain Lightning], [Lesser Healing Wave], [Healing Wave], [Chain Heal], or Hex). Now a level 50 Enhancement ability (was a tier 6 Enhancement talent).
Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Can now also proc from fully absorbed melee attacks.
Hotfix (2011-02-08): [Stormstrike] is now correctly proccing Maelstrom Weapon.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now tier 6 (was tier 10). Reduced from 5 ranks to 3.
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.