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Water Shield

Water Shield	Level 100

Instant
Requires Shaman (Restoration)
Requires level 20

The caster is surrounded by globes of water, granting 326 mana per 5 sec. When a melee attack hits the caster, the caster regains 447 mana. This effect can only occur once every few seconds. Lasts 1 hour.

Only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once.

Replaces Lightning Shield.

Buff

Water Shield

Grants 326 mana per 5 sec.
Melee attacks against you trigger additional mana restoration.
1 hour remaining

Spell Details

Duration

1 hour

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Proc Trigger Spell
Value: 40
Proc chance: 100%

	Water Shield

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Power Regen (Mana)
Value: 10

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Comments

Comment by kidgoku

Awsome for PVP, duels..

You regain 3 x 83 mana = 249 mana for the cost of 50 mana.

However, this is a total waste in PVE 25man/40 man raids. 5 man party's 10 man party's its actually good aswell depending if ur aggroing.

Comment by kidgoku

True, but i'd rather take earthshield then lightning shield and as last water shield.

Assuming u won't go oom that fast.

Comment by RayMkII

Truly amazing spell. As an elemental shaman I use this over Lightning Shield while instancing, grinding, etc. due to our shallow mana pools and horrid mana regeneration capabilities. For the cost of 50 mana we regenerate 249? Simply awesome. Can't wait to get rank 2!

I definitely recommend hardcore elemental shamans to test this shield out while grinding and instancing. You'll most definitely notice a change in your regeneration with this.

Comment by Craje

This shield is amazing i think. i have lightning shield set to my middle mouse button, but when i get this shield, it'll definitly be set to this one. 360 mana for the cost of 60. any shaman should have this on at all times, no way to lose mana from this
-Craje

Comment by Sylvanes

The mana restored scales with level as well. 3 extra mana per charge with each level gained.

Comment by Atedos

Is it affected by +spd gear?

Comment by kapiteiniglo

Does the procs give you extra threath?

Comment by Svenshinhan

This is indeed a really nice buff. If one of these globes activates every 3 seconds like before you're looking at a huge amount of mana gained for enhancement shamans. With this shield, Shamanistic Rage, plus the buffs to the enhancement tree in 2.3, you can pretty much spam shocks endlessly and not run out of mana while grinding.

Comment by BlacKSnaX

Bear in mind that although it being purged doesn't trigger any charges, the spell itself doesn't cost any mana to recast, so if someone is stupid enough to keep purging it off you, just keep casting it.

When raiding your looking at 50mp/5 at the least. While grinding... it'll be a lot more...

It's gonna be soooo sweet

Comment by Machar

So... 510 free mana for being in combat for about 10-15 seconds, or just waiting until it runs out in 1 minute? Sounds good to me. Excellent for an enhancement or even an elemental shaman soloing.

Comment by sbkidjamx

Being changed again in 2.3.2:

The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water, granting 50 mana per 5 sec. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, 200 mana is restored to the caster. This expends one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.

Comment by dinnerbone

2.3.2 means yet another big Water Shield change, and since I'm too lazy to type it all out again, here's a copy and paste of my post on the forums:
2.3.2 has yet more changes to Water Shield - but don't worry, it's much better!

Apparently the new tooltip for Water Shield is now:
"The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water, granting 50 mana per 5 sec. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, 200 mana is restored to the caster. This expends one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time."
This means a maximum result of 6,600 mana. Compared to 600 before.
And with , that will turn into around 6,840 mana.

Comment by haldarun

As of the patch 2.3.2 you will get +50 mana everytime you spam 'Water Shield'.
However - GM's have told players to resist the urge to spam this spell to get some quick mana back as this is considered a BUG !

This has NOT been checked. Please reply to confirm / discard this comment.

Comment by vendrel

is there a cooldown for this skill?

Comment by Meringue

Spells with no mana cost do not trigger the five second rule

Comment by dazzatron

i just leveled to 62 and got this. all i can say is, godly.

as a resto shaman, i had trouble soloing without expending all my mana b4 lvl 62. now i can spam shocks all day and refresh water shield wen need be. earth shield wen im up against 2+ mobs. but for 1v1 water shield all the way.

the mp regen for both solo and instancing is so gd. much better than wot i had expected. just did bf and didnt have to drink =P

Comment by Giraf

I just hit lvl 62 on my shammy today, (im lvling as enhancement)
Here is how i use this, i put it on everytime it runs out.
I can still spend my mana but after each combat i have enough mana to heal fully with a large heal.
If i go oom i cast the sheild repeatedly while auto attacking down a mob. Once the combat is over the mobs dead i have 75% hp and full mana...

Point of this post?
With this sheild and used correctly i have no downtime and i never have to drink or eat.

Comment by Pwyuh

I actually must say that this spell is the most cheatisch spell I have EVER seen... (almost)
NERF SHAMANS ..
If its someting i hate to be against in PvP its Shaman (whatever specced) and Paladins...
Though Shamans are one of the coolest classes evah! :D

Comment by donatelo

FYL
when you cast this it ticks...
so you can keep casting it and get a lot of mana out of it

Comment by NerArth

Nice, now Shamans seem to be getting mana shield sooner. I play a Shaman every now and then (level 51 at the moment) but I really can't tell if this will be too good (in terms of balance) to have so soon.

Comment by vikki

From the WotLK patch notes:
New ranks have been added of Water Shield, starting at level 20. (Level 20, 27, 34, 41, 48, 55, 62, 69)

Bye bye mana issues at lower levels!

Comment by awebz

Amazing buff to 49 shaman twinks, especially enhancement.

In fact all these low lvl ranks of water shield makes profund changes to how twink shamans will be played in all brackets.

Let's hope these changes indeed go through, and lets hope no one from blizzard reads this.

Comment by awebz

Water shield is game changing for leveling a shaman when you get it. Especially Enhancement spec which normally just have the base mana pool, terrible regen and thus need to drink every 2-3 kills.

Leveling from 61>62 (the level you curently get water shield) I went from this to basically being able to grind non-stop without stoping to drink, and using Stormstrike and Earth Shock at every cooldown.

My point is this is a huge and needed buff to leveling a shaman.

Palladins next Blizzard? =)

Comment by Cowcubine

Haha, guess shamans will be one of the best healing classes, as a 29 twink now. Not being able to go OOM seems kinda OP atm. Might just be me though :o

Comment by Slayer0606

As a shaman who just received rank two of this shield, I have a suggestion to all who plan to use it;

Stay with RANK ONE!

Rank one procs more off monster hits than it's counterpart, and restores just a LITTLE less mana. It's not worth the proc time lost.

Using rank one, water shield allowed me to always stay above 90% mana if I had it on at all times.
Using rank two, in the first 2 minutes, I was near 50% mana, and it had procced no more than 10 times, vs. the 20+ of rank one.

Comment by ThyFlame

It is impossible for me to have downtime as Enhancement while using this.

It also appears that water shield procs will keep a mob aggroed onto you (as in, they wont reset after a certain range of not being attacked). Probably a bug, as all other reactive damage does not do this.

Comment by webkilla

100 mp5... for free - and 400 mana when hit

homg

also, avaliable in weaker forms all the way down to lvl 20 - SWEET

Comment by MihaiLung

I would and will kiss the one at Blizzard who suggested this change. It's AWESOME. As a lvl 27 shamy, having always this on, I am DPSing like hell, dropping totems every fight, using shocks whenever the cooldown is off and still, I dont remain oom. This little spell purely changes the shaman's leveling style from 20 upwards. Cannot say anything except: Gz Blizz!

Comment by Papillonnyu

This spell is realy op for leveling especialy if you are ecnhancement and you get hit alot so you will be always getting mana and thus you can heal yourself and kill mobs w/o ever sitting to eat/drink

Comment by Abomb

with mana tide totem i can sit back on a hill WSG or and BG and heal to my hearts content without ever going oom, definate edge over resto druids

Comment by Kadathi

100mp5 , plus 30% from the major glyph.

and

Add 15% to each orb from 8 points in Enhance to Improved Shields

Does this Glyph and talent "stack"? I mean if mana shield rank 9 restores 100 mp/5, goes it like 100 mp5 * 1,15 * 1,3 = ~150 mp5?

And also "increases the amount of mana gained from your Water Shield orbs by 15%" does this include passive mana regen and the one when you are hit?

Comment by Khruschev

For restoration shamans it works best with a HW talent build and a lot of crit - you can be Main Tank healer !

False. Since it returns a static amount of mana per Crit, it works best with LHW. The faster casting speed means more Crits-- which results in higher Ancestral Fortitude up time on the tank, and more heals from Ancestral Awakening-- and you recoup a larger % of mana spent per cast.

Currently, either due a bug or design choice, the Enhancement talent Improved Shields is not increasing the amount of mana gained via Improved Water Shield.

Comment by CoolzInferno

Out of curiosity, being a magic effect is it dispellable/spell stealable by priests and mages?

Comment by Nozuka

now its finally possible to lvl an ele shamy without drinking all the time. thank you blizz.

edit:
my shaman is level 40 now and i never have to regen mana. (elemental)
however: this only works if you play alone or tank the mobs. you only regen enough mana if you get hit.

Comment by Calidus

It seems that it scales, at level 79 the tooltip states it restores 428 mana, while my enhancement shammy receives 470 mana when a charge is removed at level 79.
I didn't spec Improved Shield.

Comment by Kitteneater

If you nab 2 pieces of T7, granting this effect, the passive regeneration increases as follows:

With Glyph: 130 -> 140
Without Glyph: 100 -> 110

The active orbs also increase by 10%, but since talents affect this as well I have not done the math.

Comment by Morscerta

This is what happens when you don't pay attention to game changes.

I made a new Shaman in June 08, got him to 30 something and couldn't stand leveling him any longer. I already had a 70 Draenei Shaman and thought a Troll Shaman would be cool (You know what they say: Once you go Troll you don't reroll).

Wel today I dinged 36, went to the trainer to find Water Shield!.

Suffice to say this change has transformed questing and grinding.

Comment by Xeya

Currently trainable by all Shaman Trainers at level 20 and above. A very valuable tool for the Restoration Shaman and an almost impossible skill to pass up.

Currently, Water Shield can be affected by both the talent: Improved Shields and the Glyph: Glyph of Water Shield

While the Glyph adds one orb to the total amount allowed (3 increased to 4), it does not affect the passive mana regeneration rate.

The talent, Improved Shields, also does not increased the capped mana regeneration rate (100mp5), but rather increases the total amount of mana you receive after being hit. 400 + (400*0.15) = Around 460 or higher.

The only thing that effects the total amount of passive regeneration rate is the Major Glyph. This increases the amount regenerated by 30% making a total of 130mp5.

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Tips For Restoration
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If you are going to use any of the glyphs use the Glyph of Water Shield, and not Glyph of Water Mastery.

Make sure to spec using the talent found in the Restoration tree called Improved Water Shield. In raiding type situations, you are using Chain Heal, Healing Wave, and Riptide mainly. This talent is necessary, just make sure to keep refreshing your Water Shield.

Comment by davenrothz

Does AoE trigger the Water Shield?

Comment by RubyKeeper

I'm wondering because I'm currently leveling a Tauren Resto Shaman, wich is now level 26. When I got my watershield at level 20, it said that I'm refunded with 40 mana. Now, while having no talent or glyph increasing this spell, it sais 52 mana. I think it is gear depended because it doesn't change on leveling. So my question is what ability or statistic does increas the refunded mana on hit?

Comment by Cadapalo

In case anyone was wondering both Water Shield and Mana Spring Totem do stack for a quicker mana regen.

Comment by RogueDaGreat

Enha shamans before lvl 45-50 to get talets to fill their mana had a rly big problem with their mana, many times died durin the fight due to OOM and had to constantly buy water. Once you ding L20 mana will no longer be an issue, just stance dance between Lighting and Water and pewpew the mobs.

Comment by laserturkey1

the animation for when the water comes down from the sky is now rainbow. i miss the regular blue one! it doesn't feel as watery lol.

Comment by nataku87

I just happened to be standing next to Grommash Hold (Thrall's room) looking to see what skills would be available at 42 when I noticed this skill was listed as level 41. Thinking it was an error on wowhead I spoke to the shaman trainer only to find that this is indeed trainable at level 41... weird.

Comment by ClassicShine

While it says only one will proc every few seconds, that is based on a per mob functionality. If you fight one mob, it will take a very long time for the 3-4 charges to be used, however if you aoe grind each mob has it's own timer.

Whether or not this is intended, idk, but as ele shaman have extremely poor mana efficiency I have found it not only faster but often left with full mana after each pull of 4-5 mobs this way using the minor glyph. (using the heirloom mana regen trinks as well)

gl hf

Comment by kgurnhill

This restores 130 mana per 5 sec with Glyph of Water Mastery

Comment by Sarathstra

Does it proc off the DoTs ticks? If so, I better stop pestilencing diseases onto resto shammies in arenas.

Comment by schintus

I recently replaced the glyph for this shield (the 50% extra to the passive regen of Water shield, not the triggering regens).

I have ~3600 spirit in combat, so I felt the glyph was a little too useless :)

Comment by Londra

I'm getting 1745 mana per proc at 85, with the talent that boosts it, of course. As a reference, Healing Wave costs 1981 for resto shammies, according to EJs resto thread.

One of the joys of being a resto shammy is that perhaps the best source of mana regen in the game is piddly adds nibbling on you.

Comment by Grook

Anything about the internal CD?

Comment by Fysche

I'm not sure if anyone noticed, before 4.1 the animation was the old "nature" spell casting around the hands (like druid's heals). I was kinda bugged by it since they changed the casting animation for the healing spells, and this spell was most obviously 'water' rather than 'nature'.
After 4.1, they made the spell casting "water", like how healing wave and healing surge are when being cast. Just a little graphics change, but a great one at that! Thank you Bliz for taking note of small changes like this that makes shammies happy :)

Comment by Biske

Now confirmed to be 3.5 seconds internal cooldown according to the patch notes.
That is, it would be if the recent hotfix didn't double it, meaning it currently is 7 second internal cooldown on live.

Water Shield has had its internal cooldown reduced to 3.5 seconds, once again matching other shields.

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