Earth Shield
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| Earth Shield | |
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| Usable by | |
| Class | Shaman |
| Properties | |
| Type | Defensive |
| School | Nature |
| Cooldown | Global Cooldown |
| Talents | |
| Talented | Yes |
| Talent tree | Restoration, Tier 9 |
| Improvement talents | Improved Earth Shield, Improved Shields, Purification, Tidal Focus, Tidal Mastery, Thundering Strikes, Blessing of the Eternals, Healing Grace |
| Other information | |
| Ranks | 5 |
| Related buff | |
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Earth Shield is a nature-based buff similar to Prayer of Mending. When getting attacked, it heals the buffed target. It can only proc every few seconds, and has six charges. It is available as a tier 9 talent in the Restoration tree
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Rank Table
| Rank | Level | Base Mana Cost | Healing per Charge | Cost |
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| 1 | 50 | 19% | 150 | Talent |
| 2 | 60 | 19% | 205 | 15 30
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3  | 70 | 15% | 270 | 22 50
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4  | 75 | 15% | 300 | 90
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| 5 | 80 | 15% | 337 | 90
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Notes
Being an elemental shield, Earth Shield cannot be used at the same time as Lightning Shield or Water Shield. It is however possible to use Water Shield or Lightning Shield on yourself while Earth Shield is up on another target. The ten minute duration combined with the charges only triggering on damage means that Earth Shield can be cast on a target before pulling with no loss of effect. The cooldown between charges triggering is roughly three seconds.
Earth Shield has a fairly low base amount of healing done, but benefits greatly from your spell power (roughly 15% per charge) and gains up to +35% healing done from talents. The spell uses your spell power at the time you cast it for the full duration, including any temporary bonuses from trinkets and totems. The 30% reduction of spell pushback stacks with other similar bonuses such as Healing Focus, and together these two add up to a 100% reduction, completely eliminating spell pushback.
Talent improvement
- Improved Earth Shield increases the number of charges from six to eight, and increases the healing done by the spell by 10%. Purification increases the healing done by another 10%. Improved Shields increases the healing done by a further 15%.
- Tidal Focus reduces the mana cost by 5%.
- Tidal Mastery increases the critical effect chance of the spell by 5%. Thundering Strikes increases that by another 5%. Blessing of the Eternals adds a further 4%.
- Healing Grace reduces the threat caused by the spell by 15%, and gives a 30% chance for the buff to resist dispel mechanics.
Tips and Tactics
- In PvE, Earth Shield's primary use is as a highly mana efficient long-duration heal over time on the tank. It is by far your most mana efficient single target healing spell, and its reactive nature minimizes overhealing.
- You may want to keep Earth Shield on the tank in group situations, although other occasions may call for it to be placed on a caster who is being interrupted, for example in Nightbane's airborne phases when healers get targeted, or if a Warlock or Mage or Moonkin is AOEing a pack of non-elites.
- Earth Shield is also great in PvP situations as it greatly increases the shaman's survivability.
Patch changes
Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.
Patch 2.4 (2008-03-25): Number of charges reduced from 10 to 6. Mana cost reduced by 50%.
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Earth Shield threat is now added to the healer. Previously the threat was added to the target being healed.
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