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Healing Touch

Healing Touch

10.35% of base mana	40 yd range

2.5 sec cast
Requires Druid
Requires level 26

Heals a friendly target for (360% of Spell power).

Balance
Healing increased by 50% when cast on self

Spell Details

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School

Nature

Mechanic

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Dispel type

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GCD category

Normal

Cost

10.35% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

2.5 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect

Heal

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted

Guides

Feral Druid Guide

Restoration Druid Guide

Restoration Druid
PVE Guide [5.4.0]

Warlords of Draenor
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Comment by Llamadruid

Even though Healing Touch has been hurt a lot by the nerf to down ranking (as rank 4 is incredibly efficient) healing touch is still the staple healing spell for any druid that is under 41 points in Restoration. It is much more efficient than Regrowth since Regrowth's Heal Over Time portion is generally overhealing, and it can be used repeatedly on the same target, unlike Rejuvination. However, once Tree of Life is obtained, Regrowth replaces it because Healing Touch cannot be used in Tree of Life. Also, in Tree of Life, the price of casting Heal Over Time spells (which Regrowth is counted as, due to it's Heal Over Time portion) is reduced significantly, making Regrowth much more efficient.

Comment by superman27

this is a slow but powerfull healing spell it does more then a priest greater heal but has extra .5 casting time

Comment by Alamo

If this critical heals a warlock it can easily do 11k healing :)

Comment by twarden94

As this spell ranks up when u reach higher lvls is takes longer to cast , so u wont be able to save u,or ur team. ;(

Comment by Cush

I wouldn't suggest using spam heal Healing Touch unless you went Dreamstate/ET.

Comment by lakis23

felguard4ever the best pet for a lock at lvl up and at pvp!!!

Comment by flyingtoastr

I wouldn't suggest speccing Dreamstate.

;-)

Comment by lagninja

Odds are that if you went Dreamstate, your a Moonkin, and are not going to be casting too many healing spells.

Comment by apttrick

Healing Touch Rank 13
935 Mana 40 yd range
3.5 sec cast
Heals a friendly target for 2707 to 3197 (2952 average).

Longest base cast time heal spell in the game. Largest base heal amount in the game. This post is looking at what it can do.

The coefficient for Healing Touch should be 100% of healing. (3.5/3.5 * 100% = 100%). Obviously, this is bumped 20% by Empowered Touch.

+Healing Amount Heal/sec Heal/mana
1000 4152 1384 4.44
1500 4752 1585.6 5.08
2000 5352 1784 5.72

But we can do better. The target build (as mentioned) for HT spamming druids is 33/0/28.

Key talents for this build are:
Restoration
2/2 Empowered Touch 20% increased Healing Touch Coefficient
5/5 Naturalist 0.5 second Healing Touch Cast time reduction
3/3 Intensity 30% mana regen while casting.
5/5 Tranquil Spirit 10% mana reduction to cast Healing Touch.
5/5 Gift of Nature 10% increase to all healing spells
Nature's Swiftness Instant cast healing spell every 3 minutes
Balance
3/3 Lunar Guidance Healing increased by 25% of intellect.
3/3 Moonglow 9% Reduced mana cost of certain spells.
Nature's Grace 0.5 second reduced cast time on any spell after a spell critical strike.
3/3 Dreamstate 10% of intellect regenerated as mana every 5 second.

The net effect of this is, 10% increase to healing done, 19% mana cost reduction, 0.5-1.0 cast time reduction.
Healing Touch Rank 13
757 Mana 40 yd range
3.0 sec cast (2.5 after critical heal)
Heals a friendly target for 2977 to 3517 (3247 average).

+Healing Amount Heal/sec Heal/mana
1100 4699 1566 6.21 (1000 +healing with 400 int)
1613 4752 1585.6 6.27 (1500 +healing with 450 int)
2125 5352 1784 7.07 (2000 +healing with 500 int)

The other benefit to this build is large mana regeneration. Intensity grants about 175 mana/5 on a Kara geared, spirit stacked druid. Dreamstate offers another 40-50 mana/5 while casting on the same druid. You'd have about 225 mana/5, before considering buffs, oils, consumables etc. At this rate, it would take 16.8 seconds inside the five-second-rule to regenerate enough mana to cast an extra healing touch.

So how does this build/playstyle compare against a ToL druid? Not too favorably, it seems. A resto druid with 1500 healing can pull 1200 Healing per second from lifebloom, Rejuvenation, and Regrowth HoTs while contributing the aura for an extra 100 - 200 +healing for every healer on the main tank. A Swiftmend contributes a ~4k average burst without interrupting this cycle at all.

Situations where this build might have a place:

The raid already has a resto druid in the main tank group.
The raid needs more dps on some fights and more heals on other fights and has no healer with a dps class alt.
All healing is done in very predictable bursts. A 3s cast can be very efficient healing (low over heal) if timed properly and mana is regened in between casts.

Outside these situations, a ToL druid will almost always do better in terms of effective healing, longeviety and usefulness to a raid.

This build will become more interesting with another 10 talent points to spend as 37/0/34, even though talents are likely to take a major shift before that's possible. Then, a balance/resto druid can obtain Improved Farie Fire, Moonkin aura for fights where damage needs to be done (such a druid as of now has no group buffs to offer), and Swiftmend/Empowered Rejuvenation/2/5 Improved Regrowth. Still missing a number of talents to excel at healing or damage, but (let's be honest) that's not what this build is about. It's about healers who want to be able to kill stuff, inside and outside of raids.

Comment by Zentyr

This spell is part of an amazing build for druids which is versatile but I don't really think resto druids are in the game for their spam healing, rather for their HoTs on targets. Druids are different from other healer classes in that they have the widest array of HoTs available to the game. So the point is, if you want to be a raid healer, don't go spam healing with your druid, it won't help as much as putting HoTs on targets. Let the other classes (AKA healadins) do the spam healing. If you still want a versatile build, then its your choice and I suggest you read the post above. Whatever your choice is, gl hf.

Comment by chris2568

chris is a mage and he likes penguins

Comment by Ravensceen

4375 to 5165 Healing without gear/talents, amazing with gear and talent/40%).
I will not bother with the math but it will be really high numbers.
5165 + 40% + 2500))Not sure how much +healing you got at LvL 80) = Much Much Much, even for pvp the 40% 2\\2 resto talent will be a lifesaver with NS-HT.

Comment by DrPancake

This will become much more used in WotLK, as it becomes usable in Tree of Life form, and refunds 5% of its Mana Cost per HoT you have on its target(potentially 4, so this would essentially cost 598 mana for a substantially more powerful heal then it is now).

Also, when it crits, the Target gains a Prayer of mending-Esque effect, making it so that when they next take damage they will be healed for 30% of the heal. So crits will be in essence just under 200% of healing done.

Comment by Matadava

I don't know when it happened, but Healing Touch has apparently been reduced to a 3 second cast time, modifiable to 2.5 seconds with talents, making it a much more usable spell.

Finely. >_>

Comment by Theblackwings

yea, but because it's cast time got cut so did its healing coefficient. it now gets the same from spell power as Holy Light (it used to be the highest HP/Mana cast time spell in the game). With talents i think it could overcome it. One thing that is for sure is that druid healing is no longer just HoTs, with Natures Grace a 2nd tier balance skill now as well as some modifications to the resto tree (like being able to cast ALL healing spells in tree of life). As well as them nerfing the spell growth of lifebloom (not gonna show the math but it got less additional healing from ranking up than other spells). I personally see two types of druid healers. The Rejuv/lifebloom/nourish (the predominant especially since natures grace will affect nourish and with the lifebloom and swiftmend glyphs) vs. a Regrowth /Nourish. With the regrowth glyph you might as well use that over healing touch, making healing touch w/ the healing touch glyph (-50% healed, -25% healed, -1.5sec) the ZOMG Natures Swiftness is down and i need burst NOW! button. Mathwise in the 3 sec you would normally cast this you would heal 1.5x as much for 75% more mana, in chunks of course.

The way i see it druid healing is more about synergy between actual spells being used vs the other classes where it is the synergy between the spells and the actual talents.

Pallys spam Holy light or flash of light while raid healing, beacon of light allows them to heal the tank at the same time

Shamans break the damage up between a couple targets using spirit link and use chain heal(lotsa talents towards chain heal now) as well as Ancestral Awakening+Tidal Force to keep the 3 targets up.

Priests actually broke into two trees (Disc CAN raid now, or rather can raid FAR better)

Holy- Raw healing Power, insane amounts of increases to the amount their heals get from spell power, along with their high spirit based mana regen they last well

Disc-All about mana efficiency as well as preventing damage. PW Shield gains absorption based on your spell power if you spec for it, Divine Ageis creates a shield when you crit heal, and when healing or absorption happens you get mana back (2.5% of max, though i see this getting nerfed if mana pools get high enough where you heal and you get more mana back than you used). Throw in Grace (healing target takes a 3x stacking 1% less dmg from attacks) and Penance (~1500 healed a sec for 2 sec =.... dur 3k, but you don't have to wait on cast times).

Remember ALL classes are getting buffs, and NO class is neccicairily better than the other, this is simply my OPINION on where each healing class is going. Lotsa Theorycrafting

Edit: Moving to forums b/c i ended up ranting beyond the subject. Look under Therorycrafting-->Where Healers are going for the discussion

Comment by Fruitcase

is 33% of base mana more then its previous mana ?

Comment by Sihd

Also the Glyph for Healing touch, which reduces cast time by 1.5sec, mana cost by 25%, and healing done by 50%, makes this spell very usefull, since druids have been missing a spell like lesser healing wave, flash of light and flash heal. then you also spare 5 talent point for something else, unless you want to have a lesser heal at 1sec cast (before haste rating)

Comment by gamemaster

well healing touch well nothing to say but i don't really know what to write sorry.....................................................ooo now i know lets see.................well the thing is to say when ever i have the highest rank of this i have is my most used healing touch and of course if i have a guy who has this of course!

Comment by ad00

I realize Nourish comes into the equation, but nonetheless, here's a build I was thinking about for a Rapid Fire/Low Mana Healing Touch Glyph build.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=0VG0uZZfVcuiuxiuVhsz

Basically, you can get something like a 0.5 second healing touch off after crits - An emergency situation would look like NS+Regrowth (likely to crit) -> 0.5 second HT -> Swiftmend the regrowth (which also gets to stick around with that glyph and last 24 seconds). Massive healing for cheap mana.

And the crit also plants a living seed!

Comment by afdafg

It is a druid healing spell, they start with it from lvl 1

Comment by manicmania

The spell power coefficent of healing touch is 162% (222% with empowered touch)
http://www.wowwiki.com/Spell_power_coefficient

Comment by apttrick

Healing Touch Rank 15
33% of base mana 40 yd range
3 sec cast
Heals a friendly target for 3750 to 4428.
Base mana at lvl 80 for a druid: 3496
33% of that is 1154 mana *cough*

Average base amount of healing (3750 + 4428)/2 = 4089

Coefficient 161.04%, 221.04% talented

Talents which effect HT:
Moonglow 9% cost reduction
Naturalist 0.5 second cast time reduction (20% spell haste)
Derived from: New Casting Time = (Base Casting Time)/(1 + (% Spell Haste / 100))
% Spell Haste = ( ( (Base Casting Time)/(New Casting Time) ) - 1 ) *100%
Master Shapeshifter 4% increase healing (while in ToL form)
Gift of Nature 10% increase to all healing
Tranquil Spirit 10% further cost reduction
Empowered Touch 40% coefficient increase
Tree of Life 6% increased healing to everyone you can reach with your heals (45 yard range).
Nature's Majesty and Natural Perfection for 7% total crit chance increase and Nature's Splendor for a potential 0.5 cast time reduction (50% spell haste cumulative with Naturalist).
Also, can be used with Nature's Swiftness for an instant cast.

I'm going to ignore the crit chance and on-crit effects for the following calculations. They're largely unreliable and frequently just result in more overheal even in the most ideal situations.

Mana Cost: (I honestly can't remember if Moonglow and Tranq. Spirit are additive or multiplicative. It's been a long time since I've sunk 5 talent points in Tranq. Spirit)
Base: Moonglow: Tranquil Spirit: Both (multiplicative/additive)
1154 1049 1038 935 / 945

Anyhow standard is to have Moonglow and not Tranq. Spirit since the former effects more spells.

Amount healed - Formula:
Total = (Average Base + coeff. * healing power)*1.1*1.06*1.04
Assumes Gift of Nature, Master Shapeshifter, Tree of Life are multiplicative, which I believe they are.

Table:
+healing Total Healed HPM HPS HPS(NM)
1500 8,979 7.78 3592 4490
1600 9,247 8.01 3699 4624
1700 9,515 8.25 3806 4758
1800 9,783 8.48 3913 4892
1900 10,051 8.71 4021 5026
2000 10,319 8.94 4128 5160
2100 10,587 9.17 4235 5294
2200 10,855 9.41 4342 5428

I did this math after getting my branches handed to me in tank healing on 25man Patch. My druid is still fairly undegeared for Naxx25 and most of the rest of the healing crew weren't stellar tank healers either. I wanted to see where the new healing touch stood for filling in when everything else has been rolled out (NS and Swiftmend on cooldown, all hots active) and the tank is still taking it in the face. A 4k Nourish wasn't cutting it and Regrowth spam wasn't giving consistent enough crits.

I have a similar comparison underway for Nourish and Regrowth. I have a hunch that Nourish will be close enough on the HPS to be worth casting after I pick up the 4piece t7 bonus. In the mean time, I'm going to be looking at Regrowth casting for a NM proc, then a 2 second HT cast.

Edit: 1049 HT mana cost with Moonglow, didn't test Moonglow/Tranquil Spirit combo. If anyone has numbers, please tell.

Comment by Steely69

aaa its cool !

Comment by grumpyoldman

with living seed, 3600 spellpower(about what i have raid buffed), this can crit for
29287 (this includes the 30% bonus proc from seed)

that sure is a nice OH CRAP instant heal isnt it?

its a fun spell to use in heroics when your just screwing around, but in raids its very mana costly, if nourish still didnt have the crit % though, it would be more mana efficient as it is less than double the mana cost.

So, HT hits for 14608 avg and costs 1154 mana
Nourish heals for 7527 avg(assuming 1 hot on target) and costs mana 629
2037+coef*3600 *1.1*1.06*1.04*1.2

with 15% crit chance unbuffed, talents and raid buffs get you to about 26%
and nourish would have 51% crit

HT avg heal inculding living seed: 18215
nouish avg heal including living seed: 11173
HT hpm: 15.78
nourish hpm: 17.763
assuming 15% haste unbuffed, 23% haste buffed.
HT cast time: 2.03 seconds
nourish cast time: 1.22
HT HPS: 8972.9.5
nourish hps: 9158.2
this does not include natures grace which will proc from nourish much more, further increasing the HPS

Conclusion? nourish is more hps, hpm, and faster than healing touch. The only time you should use HT is when you use natures swiftness.
if a target doesnt have a hot on them, just rejuv nourish or regrowth

Comment by Rtard

Requires level 8? I got this on level 1

Comment by Pythagoreant

This is druids' slow, big heal.

In Cataclysm (as of 4.0.3a), all healers have the following types of heals:

Quick, expensive heal: 1.5 second cast, very high mana cost, high heal value.
Inexpensive heal: 3 second cast (usually talented to 2.5), very low mana cost, low heal value.
Slow, big heal: 3 second cast (usually talented to 2.5), high mana cost, very high heal value.

The mana costs differ very slightly between classes. Two of them (priest and druid) have the quick heal cost more than the big heal.

Priest
Quick - Flash Heal
Cheap -
Big - Heal

Shaman
Quick - Healing Surge
Cheap -
Big - Healing Wave

Druid
Quick - Regrowth
Cheap -
Big - Healing Touch

Paladin
Quick - Flash of Light
Cheap -
Big - Holy Light

Comment by SirusStarseeker

Say goodbye to this if you are below level 78.

Healing Touch is now trained at level 78, up from level 3.

Comment by Aenonar

Didn't notice this spell had disappeared until I were desperately trying to find it in a fight... Thanks for the death blizz \\o/

Now I need to get from the middle of nowhere back to town to learn nourish... Could at least have given it to us... :/ Losing spells and glyphs randomly is getting kinda annoying...

Comment by untossable

Well, this was sort of expected and I can handle it on my druid at level 63.
Though there are 2 things I dont quite understand.

Why is the level gap between small heal / low mana and big heal / high mana so much bigger than for every other healing class/spec?
Why didn't they also push the Nature's Swiftness talent further down the tree?

Comment by Pegea

I'm in the unique experience of leveling my first druid alt, kitty dps while questing, resto offspec for dungeon healing, so yeah, this patch made me "wtf" for about 5 seconds until I saw the notes.

I put "Nourish" in my old "Healing Touch" spot, then just used Regrowth more, between that, Swift Mend, Wild Growth, and Eflurrourence, I healed a BC instance without much of a problem, so yeah. A weird change but not anything devastating.

Comment by tehaette89

i got a little problem im a level 66 druid with balance in my spec.?
and in some reason i have deleted my healing touch from my bar and i cant find it in my spellbook?
now is my quistion how do i got my spell back

Comment by erikgillespie

Replacing Healing Touch with Nourish was just dumb. Yeah, Healing Touch was an expensive cast, but I have a lvl 46 Resto Druid, and basically the only way I can lvl is through dungeons and such. It takes forever to kill stuff as a resto druid, so soloing is difficult. the HoT is useful, and I always used it as my primary healing in dungeons, but there were times where Healing Touch was NECESSARY to either save the tank, or to save myself if I drew too much aggro as the healer and the tank didn't get them off me in time. This Nourish is a junk ability at my lvl. It heals for 292 points of damage. That's real helpful. I can see where this wouldn't make much of a difference to higher level people (those who have their healing touch at lvl 78) - but us lowbies are now struggling. Personally, I never went into a dungeon without plenty to drink, and potions to restore my mana. If Blizzard wants to do something to improve the druid healing, they should have made the ability that restores your mana with a 3 minutes cooldown (innervate?) actually restore more of your mana. Heck, Warlocks can trade their health for mana, then heal themselves. Why can't our mana restoration be more useful like theirs?

Comment by darthsteven

I don't wanna know what they touch when they use this on themselves...

Comment by Sounder

Through a variety of mechanics Healing Touch is now a staple of the Feral Spec.

Predatory Swiftness is a passive ability in the Feral default kit. 100% chance of being able to cast an instant Healing Touch, in form, every time we do a 5-point finisher. (Plus occasional extras with fewer CPs.)

Nature's Swiftness, macroed with Healing Touch, is another big nuke heal on ourselves (or mouseover target if you want to get fancier with macros and decision-making). With a 1 min CD this is the best option on the "healing" tier of our talent tree (compare Renewal, Cenarion Ward).

Those free HT casts still consume GCD's. Feral is energy-limited not GCD-limited so sometimes they'll fit right in, but occasionally they'll delay the next DPS-related ability we should use. However:

Dream of Cenarius more than gives back that lost DPS. If you can time it so that Rake and/or Rip are the buffed abilities, even better.

Also note:
With +20% effect from Glyph of Cat Form, +30% from Dream of Cenarius, and the occasional +50% effect from Nature's Swiftness, these are substantial heals. Not enough to replace a healer, of course, but vigorously used Healing Touch makes Feral a high-survival, low-maintenance damage class, while improving their DPS!

Comment by Alixstar

For some reason this abilty does barely any healing on my 68 balance druid. It's a pain having to spam it to even heal any large amount. Anyone know why this is happening?

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