Lifeblood (herbalism ability)

Lifeblood
Lifeblood (6 ranks) All ability 3 min cooldown Instant Uses your skill in Herbalism to absorb energy and nutrients from the earth, healing you for X over 5 sec.
Properties
Class	All
School	Nature
Cooldown	3 minutes
Other information
Requirements	Herbalism
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.

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.
  

External links

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