Gathering Storm can cause Maelstrom to proc when in Werebear form. This also causes Maelstrom’s mana cost to be paid, which causes Werebear to end a lot earlier.
Perhaps this is intentional, but I get a feeling that Maelstrom’s mana cost should be ignored when it’s cast by Gathering Storm.
I disagree, maelstrom is already incredibly powerful.
You need to build around paying the mana cost.
You can also choose to not cast maelstrom manually and maybe go with 1 unspecced skill in your skill bar.
Both the unique and idols costing mana is totally fair.
But what could be improved are the tooltips on the idols and the shaman passive tree and maelstroms skill spec tree, that sone ways to trigger maelstrom do cost mana and some don’t