Healing Touch

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The druids' reverence for nature allows them to bestow wondrous gifts upon their allies.^{TCGHoA 22}

Healing Touch is a druid healing spell. It is the largest direct heal available to the class. The spell doesn't scale as well with talents and gear as other druid spells, however, and this combined with the unwieldy casting time means that the spell sees very little use at higher levels.

Contents 1 Rank Table 2 Notes 3 Improvements 3.1 Talents 3.2 Glyphs 4 Tips and Tactics 5 External links

Rank Table

Rank	Level	Casting Time	Base Mana Cost	Healing	Cost
1	1	1.5 sec	38%	37 - 51	Starts with
2	8	2 sec	38%	88 - 112	1
3	14	2.5 sec	38%	195 - 243	9
4	20	3 sec	38%	363 - 445	20
5	26	3 sec	38%	572 - 694	45
6	32	3 sec	38%	742 - 894	80
7	38	3 sec	38%	936 - 1120	1 20
8	44	3 sec	38%	1199 - 1427	1 80
9	50	3 sec	38%	1516 - 1796	2 30
10	56	3 sec	38%	1890 - 2230	3
11	60	3 sec	38%	2267 - 2677	3 6
12	62	3 sec	38%	2364 - 2790	3 87
13	69	3 sec	33%	2707 - 3197	8 10
14	74	3 sec	33%	3223 - 3805
15	79	3 sec	33%	3750 - 4428

Notes

• Druids start with this spell.
• Healing Touch is one of the more powerful healing spells in the game. It is however not very mana efficient at higher levels compared to other healing spells available to druids.
• Healing Touch costs 1165 mana at level 80 before reduction by talents.
• With a Glyph of Healing Touch and the proper talents, it is possible to make healing touch a useful fast cast direct heal. This can dramatically reduce a restoration druids' disability for healing per second.

Improvements

Talents

• Moonglow reduces the mana cost by 9%. Tranquil Spirit reduces the mana cost by a further 10%.
• Nature's Majesty increases the critical effect chance by 4%. Natural Perfection increases this by a further 3%.
• Nature's Focus reduces the pushback suffered from damage while casting Healing Touch by 70%. Note that this only affects pushback from taking damage, and offers no protection against interrupts such as Kick or Counterspell.
• Naturalist reduces the casting time by 0.5 seconds.
• Subtlety reduces the threat caused by the spell by 30%.
• Gift of Nature increases the healing done by 10%.
• Empowered Touch causes the spell to gain an additional 40% of the druid's spell power.
• Living Seed causes critical heals from Healing Touch to place a buff on the target, healing for 30% of the critical heal the next time the target takes damage.

Glyphs

Tips and Tactics

• Using Nature's Swiftness with this spell results in a massive instant direct heal, which is very useful for emergency situations. Most druids have a macro that immediately casts Nature's Swiftness followed by Healing Touch. In this way you can take advantage of the spell's strength (a massive direct heal) while ignoring its weakness (long casting time).
• If you think your target might die while you're casting this spell, cast Regrowth first to buy yourself a little time.

External links

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