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Lifeblood

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Lifeblood
  • Lifeblood
  • Instant cast
  • Uses your skill in Herbalism to absorb energy and nutrients from the earth, healing you for X over 5 sec.
Usable by
ClassAll
Properties
TypeDefensive
SchoolNature
Cooldown3 minutes
Other information
Ranks6
RequirementsHerbalism
Related buff
  • Lifeblood
  • Healing {X/5} every 1 sec.
  • Duration: 5 seconds

Lifeblood is a Heal over time ability available to sufficiently skilled herbalists. It is a free, instant heal that increases in power for every 75 skill points in herbalism. It does not scale with spell power, although it is affected by certain talents.

Contents

Rank table

Rank Healing Skill Level Skill Level (Tauren) Character Level
1 300 75 90 1
2 480 150 165 1
3 720 225 240 10
4 900 300 315 25
5 1200 375 390 40
6 2000 450 465 55

Notes

Because of the Cultivation racial, Tauren players need an additional 15 skill points to learn each rank, as indicated in the rank table.

Talents and abilities that increase healing taken, such as Demon Armor and Quick Recovery will increase the healing done by Lifeblood.

Using Lifeblood does not break stealth or prowl when used, but the ability causes flowers to grow around the feet of the character. This may alert enemies to your presence.

Lifeblood cannot be dispelled by any means.

Lifeblood can be used in arenas

Talent improvement

Lifeblood currently benefits from a shaman's Purification talent, though this could be a bug.

Tips and tactics

Lifeblood can greatly reduce downtime when leveling for classes that do not have any healing spells, making Herbalism an excellent profession while grinding.

Warlocks can use Life Tap to turn health into mana, and then cast Lifeblood to quickly restore the lost health. This way Lifeblood can be utilized to restore the warlock's mana.

While the health restored is fairly minor at very high levels, it is a very powerful ability when used at lower levels. The ability will often heal for more than than the character's maximum health, making it an excellent tool for surviving in emergencies.

Patches

  • Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04):
    • Increased healing from Lifeblood (Rank 6).
    • Lifeblood now scales slightly with maximum health. No longer affected by global cooldown.
  • Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Now have level requirements equal to the level required for the corresponding skill rank: Apprentice (1), Journeyman (1), Expert (10), Artisan (25), Master (40), Grand Master (55).
  • Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Changed to trigger global cooldown.
  • Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.

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