Thrall Talents

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Echo of the Elements is a good Quest-based Talent that, after last-hitting enough enemy Minions, gives a second charge of Chain Lightning and halves its Mana cost.

The second charge directly increases burst damage and poke damage and indirectly increases your self-sustain by allowing you to trigger Frostwolf Resilience more often.

Keep in mind that this Quest can be stacked very efficiently with the help of nearby allied Heroes, Minions, or even Structures because it does not matter who delivers the killing blow to a Minion recently hit by Chain Lightning.

Crash Lightning is a situational Talent that requires Chain Lightning to bounce from a Hero to another with a single use. Consequently, this Talent can only be used when Thrall is not played as Offlaner, else he will not be able to complete its Quest before the late game.

You should keep this Talent only if you expect to complete its Quest within 7-8 minutes. Since the bonus damage it gives does not scale as you level up, it gives a bigger percentage increase when completed earlier.

Rolling Thunder is a good Talent that basically transfers part of the enemy Hero's maximum Health to Thrall, something that makes it particularly effective against Offlaners with high maximum Health (for example Yrel).

Feral Resilience is a situational Talent that helps charging Frostwolf Resilience and provides Thrall protection from Basic Attacks, valuable when playing against Heroes with slow but heavy-hitting Basic Attacks (such as Leoric) and really bad when playing against Heroes with fast-hitting Basic Attacks (like D.Va). If you miss enemy Heroes with Feral Spirit, this Talent gives no value.

Frostwolf Pack is a good Quest-based Talent that reduces the cooldown and Mana cost of Feral Spirit when completed. When playing as Offlaner, remember that dying or using Feral Spirit on Minions rather than Heroes will make you lose all the stacks.

We recommend choosing this Talent only when playing in the 4-man because you can easily follow-up the crowd control provided by your Tank and drastically reduce the chances to miss and reset the Quest progress.

You can pick this Talent together with Alpha Wolf at Level 16 to get more value from it as the cooldown reduction provided will let you cast Feral Spirit more often and thus boost your damage more often.

Mana Tide is a good Talent that increases the self-sustain provided by Frostwolf Resilience. The additional Mana is there to compensate for the cooldown reduction, but can be helpful to keep your Mana at a good level when not using your Abilities often.

Maelstrom Weapon is a decent Quest-based Talent that increases the temporary Movement Speed given by Windfury after unlocking the first Reward and permanent Movement Speed after unlocking the second Reward.

Pick this Talent only when you need the extra Movement Speed and you can easily get its Quest completed during the game.

Ancestral Wrath is a strong Talent that deals percent-based damage—particularly effective if used on enemy Heroes with high amounts of maximum Health (for example Deathwing)—and heals Thrall for 1.5 times that amount—drastically increasing his survivability.

We highly recommend this Talent because it makes Thrall compete against most Heroes which you could face in the offlane while also giving you extra survivability during team fights.

Follow Through is a situational Talent that increases Thrall's Attack Damage after using any Ability (including Heroic Abilities), something that may help you win the offlane against specific enemy Heroes.

Pick this Talent when you want more burst damage, especially against Heroes who do not have high maximum Health.

In this section we discuss when and why to pick a given Heroic Ability. If you want to read how they work in detail and/or you are looking for some tips on how to use them, check them out on the Abilities and Strategy page.

Sundering is a good Heroic Ability that damages and Stuns enemy Heroes hit, a powerful effect to have at your disposal when your team needs an interrupt to enable and/or secure (for example against Anduin with Holy Word: Salvation).

Earthquake is a strong Heroic Ability that damages and Slows enemy Heroes in the area each time it pulses, something that makes it really easy for your team to fight because the enemy Heroes will have a hard time moving around. While it is powerful on its own, this Talent has a pretty obvious synergy between the huge Slow provided and other area of effect Abilities that require the enemy Heroes to not move that much in order for them to hit (such as Apocalypse by Diablo).

While not as obvious as the synergy above, this Heroic Ability can also be used to Slow the enemy team while increasing the Movement Speed of your own team (for example Bloodlust by Rehgar).

Grace Of Air is a weak Talent that gives Thrall more self-sustain while using Windfury, mostly because it gets overshadowed by Frostwolf's Grace.

Frostwolf's Grace is a strong Talent that allows you to insantly get healed by Frostwolf Resilience, regardless of the number of stacks you have and without consuming them. The amount healed is equal to the baseline value plus the percentage of maximum Health that Thrall is missing (for example, at 40% maximum Health it will heal 60% more).

An effect like this helps when Thrall finds himself in dangerous situations and needs burst-healing, however, it can occasionally be used to increase your self-sustain when you do not expect a team fight for the next dozen of seconds (enough time to have it off cooldown again).

Spirit Shield is a situational Talent that should be considered if the enemy team features a Hero with a powerful heavy-hitting Ability (such as Pyroblast by Kael'thas) because in that case the Spell Armor provided can absorb more damage than Frostwolf's Grace could heal.

Tempest Fury is a decent Talent that provides Thrall additional burst damage while using Windfury. Before picking this Talent, remember that the Ability it empowers is countered by Blind effects, so the same is true for this Talent.

Thunderstorm is a good Quest-based Talent that increases your overall damage output, especially in the form of poke damage.

The increasing Slow provided by this Talent as you progress with its Quest is not that impactful, but it becomes powerful once the Quest gets closer to its completion. At that point you can use it to engage on enemy Heroes who are trying to flee.

Once fully stacked, make sure to avoid casting Chain Lightning on the same enemy Hero as primary target twice in a row, else you will have to stack the Quest again; however, it is not a bad move to give up the Quest progress to secure a kill. Dying will reset the Quest as well.

Alpha Wolf is a good Talent that gives Thrall a solid amount of percent-based damage, useful when playing against Heroes with high maximum Health (such as Stitches), while also increasing the Root duration.

Ideally, you want to combo Feral Spirit with Windfury to maximize Thrall's damage output.

Worldbreaker is a weak Talent that makes Sundering impassable terrain for a few seconds. This is often counter productive because you and your team will not always be able to reach the desired enemy Hero, unless you manage to perfectly split the enemy formation in two parts. The cooldown reduction may occasionally help you cast Sundering twice in a single team fight or use it for two consecutive team fights with low downtime between them.

Earthen Shields is a strong Talent that provides a powerful Shield to every allied Hero in the area covered by Earthquake when it pulses, something that can deny a lot of damage and makes it useful in any situation.

Elemental Momentum is a decent Talent that makes your Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of your Abilities by 0.25 seconds. The cooldown reduction provided is tripled against Heroes.

Tempest Fury at Level 16 allows you to get slightly more value from this Talent by adding 2 Basic Attacks to Windfury.

Nexus Blades is a situational Talent that makes Thrall deal more damage with Basic Attack and helps him stick on the target enemy.

Due to the importance of Earthen Shields and the utility of Wind Rush being superior, we only recommend this Talent when going for Core.

Wind Rush is a good Talent that gives Thrall a powerful mobility tool that can be used either as an escape or as a gap-closer.

When used, this Talent gives Thrall a free Windfury effect that benefits from any related Talent. What it means is that you should not use Windfury right before or right after using Wind Rush, but wait a few seconds to make the first Windfury effect expire and then use the other one, unless you just need the teleport effect.

When you pick Sundering at Level 10, you generally want to pick this Talent because it allows you to quickly reach the target of your engage and thus deal more damage to them while they are Stunned. That said, you should save it as an escape tool when you feel in danger.