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Tidal Waves

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Tidal Waves
  • When you cast Chain Heal or Riptide, you have a X% chance to lower the cast time of your Healing Wave spell by 30% and increase the critical effect chance of your Lesser Healing Wave spell by 25%, until two such spells have been cast. In addition, your Healing Wave gains an additional Y% of your bonus healing effects and your Lesser Healing Wave gains an additional 2% of your bonus healing effects.
Usable by
ClassShaman
Properties
LocationRestoration, Tier 10
AffectsChain Heal, Riptide, Healing Wave, Healing Wave
Ranks5
Requirements
Points required45
Related buff
  • Magic
  • Tidal Waves
  • Increases your spell haste by 30% for your next Lesser Healing Wave and Healing Wave spells.
  • Duration: 15 seconds

Tidal Waves is a Shaman talent in the Restoration tree. It provides a passive boost to the scaling of Lesser Healing Wave and Healing Wave, and also reduces the casting time of those spells when used right after Chain Heal or Riptide.

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Rank table

Rank Chance Healing Wave Lesser Healing Wave
1 20% + 4% + 2%
2 40% + 8% + 4%
3 60% + 12% + 6%
4 80% + 16% + 8%
5 100% + 20% + 10%

Notes

The talent has two separate effects:

  • Your Lesser Healing Wave spell gains an additional 10% of your spell power, and your Healing Wave spell gains an additional 20% of your spell power. This effect is passive and not dependent on the above.

Tips and tactics

When healing a single target, Tidal Waves allows you to briefly increase your healing output by casting Riptide followed by two fast Lesser Healing Waves or Healing Waves. This can help you overcome damage spikes on tanks, or help you or an ally survive in PvP.

When using Chain Heal to heal a raid group, Tidal Waves allows you to cast a quick Lesser Healing Wave or Healing Wave on a target that needs immediate healing. The reduced casting time of the heals not only means that a potentially life-saving heal can land faster, but also that you can get back to casting Chain Heal sooner.

Patch changes

  • Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): No longer reduces the cast time of Lesser Healing Wave by 30%. It instead now provides +25% critical strike chance to Lesser Healing Wave, along with the previous 30% cast time benefit to Healing Wave.
  • Hotfix (2009-04-22): "The Thunderfall Totem will no longer increase the casting time of Healing Wave or Lesser Healing Wave when Tidal Waves is active."
  • Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): Will now also proc from Riptide. Number of charges increased from 1 to 2.
  • Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.

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