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Ancestral Swiftness

Ancestral Swiftness

Instant	1.5 min cooldown

Requires Shaman
Requires level 60

Increases haste by 5% and attack speed by 5% at all times. When activated, your next Nature spell with a base casting time less than 10 sec. becomes instant.

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Ancestral Swiftness	Magic

Your next Nature spell with a casting time less than 10 secs will be an instant cast spell.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect

Apply Aura: Modifies Cast Time (10)
Value: -100 milliseconds%
Affected Spells:

Chain Lightning	Lightning Bolt	Healing Rain
Ghost Wolf	Healing Surge	Elemental Blast
Conductivity	Gale Force	Chain Heal
Earthquake	Healing Wave

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Elemental Shaman Guide

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Draenor: A Guide
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Enhancement Shaman Guide

Restoration Shaman Guide

Warlords of Draenor
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Comments

Comment by Zertz

A GREAT talent any elemental or restoration shaman should have. It's very useful, whether you need some quick burst damage or just an instant Healing Wave to survive longer.

Comment by Gulorg

If you prefer nuking and if you are doing a lot of PVP you should go for Elemental Mastery instead of Nature's Swiftness. If you like duels and raiding you should get Nature's Swiftness, it is more usefull for PVE. Elemental Mastery is basicly for PVP and nuking. In patch 2.0.1 you should no longer go for Nature's Swiftness, if you want to go Elemental spec. Totem of Wrath and Lightning Overload + Elemental Mastery together is way more important than Nature's Swiftness.

- Gulorg

Comment by Marn

Nature's Swiftness is a great talent to have generally as a healer, since it allows you for some very quick "panic" large heals on the main tank / other raid members.

Comment by TheOnyx

Another good use of this spell is an instant-cast Ghost Wolf, especially if you do not have the talent to reduce Ghost Wolf cast time. When running flags in PvP or simply trying to escape in PvP or PvE, 1-3 seconds can be the difference between life and death.

Comment by WildW

Something all shamans should concider getting. Even if you are going elemental, or even enhancement , it is certainly nice to have an instant heal for PvP. The talents on the way to get this talent are also really good.

It will probably take me a lot of time getting used to not having this if i ever choose to spec out of it.

Comment by koaschten

anyone tried to
- bloodlust
- nature's swiftness
- cast ressurrection
???

Comment by Cryptern

This talent is kinda bad for enhancement shamans.. even tho a instant heal is nice, most enhance will have next to 0 spelldamage / healing since they got AP / normal crit instead.

Comment by Mothber

actually using it enhance isnt too shabby,

stormstrike, NS->chain lightning, earth shock

gives u a huge damage burst, but kinda heavy on mana

Comment by dinnerbone

Skills it effects:
Lesser Healing Wave
Healing Wave
Lightning Bolt
Chain Lightning
Chain Heal
Ghost Wolf

Comment by Bojo

Good news for all shaman out there! I quote from http://wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/testrealm.html

"Nature’s Swiftness and Elemental Mastery now share a 10 second cooldown."
That's the official patch notes, and they come in 2.4.0!

But of course, this just sounds TOO good, and it would be, and this quote doesn't mean that you can cast these two spells every 10 seconds, it means that you can't cast nature's swiftness before 10 sec after you've cast elemental mastery, and vice versa... So yea, this is BAD news.

Comment by Kaperz

Ancestral spirit does NOT become instant.

Comment by Tankadin

before spell haste you used to be able to get an insta-rez as a troll, because you could berserk and NS then rez it used to be game changing :(

Comment by Cofra

This is the best spell for PVP shaman...the best talents for elemental shanans are:

Elemental:40
Enchancement:0
Restoration:21

This is much better and useful in pvp - instant heal or some burst of DMG!!

Comment by theelementgod

I usually use my ns in combat by combining it with my elemental mastery. crit on a shock then instant lightning bolt then another shock afterwards. lots of damage =)

Comment by qhiiyr

This page is outdated; the updated version of the spell is http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=17116

Comment by Rottz

I would say that NS is more important than Thunderstorm in pvp. Living thru a battle becuz i popped a quick heal means i stand for another roun vs waitn at the gy to respawn. Many times i have just stood there castn cont. heal on myself untill the cavalry arrived to kill my attacker. Or i get ahead enough in health to cast a few more bolts.... NS over Thunderstorm. Easy.

Comment by Quaxi

Does not affect Lava Burst.

Edit: Teradon is of course right, stupid miss from me. Rate this down.

Comment by Cuphat

In 3.1.0, this will share a cooldown with Elemental Mastery - but Elemental Mastery will gain the Nature's Swiftness effect on their damaging spells.

Comment by Zarleck

In patch 3.2, the cooldown of this spell is being reduced to 2 minutes to allow more Healing Waves... Seems good to me, but it'll ruin the "Instant-80%crit chance-Healing Wave", as Tidal Force's cooldown remains at 3 minutes... so far.

This may be changed, but it's what they're currently planning.

Comment by Legovlas

Can this be spellstolen by mage? I know mage dont have any nature spell but if shaman activate it and i spellsteal it will be wasted. I saw that this is physical effect and those cant be stealed right?

Comment by coyote72

Healing spells for Shamans and Druids are considered Nature spells, as healing spells for Priests and Paladins are Holy.

This is similar to a Mage's Presence of Mind.

Comment by Hrenyo

if you need a really big healing burst: Healing Surge+Ancestral Swiftness+Healing Wave. after the GCD is up again use Riptide

Comment by ellmo

It's quite obvious, but no-one said it yet: if you're Elemental the passive effect will stack with your Elemental Oath. So you get 10% flat spell haste (clearly, party members still benefit from Elemental Oath only)

It's my talent of choice for both Elemental and Resto at this tier.

Comment by Taraezor

As Elemental Shaman you do not want to get carried away with the non-passive use of this. It will make your Lightning Bolt instant cast. Yay! But the Lightning Bolt is at the bottom of your dps rotation/priority queue, lol. It does not help your Lava Burst at all. Elemental Shaman are all about Lava Burst and filling in the gaps around the 8 second cool down and making sure that Lava Burst always crits by having Flame Shock on the target.

Good to blow each time it is off CD with a Lightning Bolt straight after. But don't waste if your Ascendance is up. You'll be too busy spamming instant cast Lava Bursts to be even bothered with a much lower hitting Lightning Bolt.

As per the comment below. The passive is nice and the Elemental Shammies have some nice haste stacking happening.

Comment by Arterion

The haste bonus of this talent is a little better than it seems. It works just like a second application of Elemental Oath. Meaning it takes the the entire haste % you have (including the bonus from Elemental Oath), adds a bonus 5% of that existing haste (or x1.05 multiplier) then adds a flat 5% on top.

Elemental Oath does the same thing. It takes your haste percentage, multiples it by x1.05 (a bonus 5% of what you already have) then adds a flat 5% on top.

The cool thing about this talent is that is gives you the bonus 5% of Elemental Oath's flat 5%. Meaning Elemental Oath is actually giving you 5.25% flat haste rather than 5%.

So if you had 9% haste from gear, Elemental Oath would make that 9% * 1.05 = 9.45%, then add 5% on top. So you'd end up with 14.45% rather than just 14%.

If you added Ancestral Swiftness on top of that, you get 14.45% * 1.05 = 15.17%, then add another 5% on top, for a total haste of 20.17%. That hidden "bonus haste" is worth 1.17% in this conservative example of 9% from haste rating. AS specifically gives you a cumulative 5.96%. With more base haste rating, the more extra "bonus haste" AS will give you.

I currently have 14.24% haste. So Elemental Oath makes that 19.96% (an additional 5.75%). Adding Ancestral Swiftness makes my final haste 25.95% (adding an additional 6%!). 25.95% is exactly the number displayed on my character sheet.

Comment by Nomobo

As of Patch 6.0.2, Ancestral Swiftness no longer buffs Hex into an insta-cast.

Comment by Superchief

For enhancement in WoD I noticed we got this nowLightning Strikes. So without all the spreadsheet stuff that looks pretty good stacked with this. Perhaps an oversight, Blizz might have thought only resto or elemental would use it. With my green neglected 90 enhance shaman I have 12.35% haste, then with this ability that turns into 17.97% haste. I can only imagine how out of control this passive haste will get when I put a couple haste gems and enchants on a standard set of gear.

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