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Water Walking

Water Walking

3.5% of base mana	30 yd range

Instant
Requires Shaman
Requires level 24

Allows the friendly target to walk across water for 10 min. Any damage will cancel the effect.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

10 minutes

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

3.5% of base mana

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect

Apply Aura: Water Walking

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted

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Comments

Comment by Sloshed

Water walking used to not be canceled by damage during beta. This was later changed due to shamans having quite a lot of 'naval superiority' when battling other classes near bodies of water such as Booty Bay.

Currently Water Walking is useful for swift travel over large areas of water but its best aspect is being able to use it to drink and eat while on water, which is otherwise not available unless you are on land.

Comment by Tehsteve

Also should be noted that it's only disrupted by damage, meaning that you can fishing with it on. Very useful when it comes to fishing, especially as you can get a better aim of certain spots.

Comment by Largos

Can you mount in water while water walking?

Comment by Spoggerific

An interesting note is that if you cast this on a player just before he jumps a long height into a body of water, instead of falling through the water, he will take falling damage, usually killing him. A devious way to kill allied players who are annoying you, or you can get a priest to mind control someone then throw them off a bridge. Interesting use of the buff, if not very often available.

Be wary grouping with shamans around long falls.

Comment by Brighid

Water Walking can also be used to keep up with Druids using Aquatic Form and Priests using Levitate. Using Water Walking, I've surprised many a Druid who thought they were finally safe when they reached the sea!

Comment by clavarnway

If you are particularly evil Shaman you can have fun with this spell in Serpentshrine Cavern.

Whenever you see a raid member about to jump into the water, give them Water Walking: they will usually take enough fall damage to die, considering the heights in that place.

On Lurker, give as many people as you can Water Walking right before a Spout: When they jump down to avoid it, they will find to their dismay they are on top of the water, and definitely not going under: before they realize to click off the buff, they are probably dead!

Comment by Shinespark

I suggest you ask for the fish oil in instances with naga or other aquatic enemies, most players are happy to oblige since they're nigh worthless selling to vendors.

Comment by Mainfold

..just to put it out there, since many people are wondering.

Can you use it on lava or other surfaces then water? because there are allot of people saying it is possible and many who doubt it.

and A to the Q?

Comment by Enhshammyzwin

in WotLK u can Ghost Wolf while under the effects of water walking as it says on the patch

Comment by Attero

I'm curious about this spell.. Mostly for the use of exploration.

Will Rocket Boots Xtreme or Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite break the effect? I know that the damage you get from fatique will, but there must be a way to get the most from this spell.

Comment by Rhainekovakal

I've heard of horde who used this spell to walk from darkshore to darnassus back when world pvp happened more often...now that no one goes to darnassus (even the night elves =P ), you don't hear about this anymore...

Comment by patrikman

It is cool spell that gives shamans and advantage when fighting around water, but I often use it to fun. Like My raid had dance party on water in SSC :D

Comment by Clopert

Mages, it is possible to Spellsteal this buff.
Thus, when that Shaman tries to run away over water, simple steal it and watch as he tries to swim away as you dash towards him :)

Comment by gman8687

You can now Water Walk with your mount up, deathknights are no longer snowflakes.

Comment by Indridcold

If you dismount over a body of water high in the air while you have Water Walking on, you will hit the water like its land. You will take damage, so if its on make sure you dont free fall from a great height.

Comment by dezzan

What makes me curious is the sludge in the Undercity is counted as swimming in water for Druids in aquatic form but i cannot water walk on it.

Comment by toastmaster7727

This spell is exceedingly helpful in the 29 bracket of Arathi Basin. If your on Alliance side, its possible to capture the Blacksmith flag before a horde hunter gets there with his cheetah. http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43388 also allows you to spam it on your teammates so they too can rush other bases. And yes, it DOES work in Ghost Wolf.

Comment by ninjalord

only 2 ppl that can use it... a Shaman and Jesus

Comment by gamedisciple

Hey all, just wanted to add a handy macro that I discovered recently. I found that water walking does not trigger the global cooldown for mounts, therefore, you can use this macro to cast water walking and mount at the same time:

/cast Water Walking
/userandom <Your Mount Goes Here>;Ghost Wolf
/stopmacro
/dismount

Hope you like it!

Comment by zomg123

For those who happen to "randomly" fall into the water while walking on water, holding on to your right click and slightly pointing downwards will make you fall in the water.

Comment by Windfighter

What I want to know is : Is it possible to Water Walk with your mount all the way from continent to continent?

Comment by SoulCrusherX

Water walking is overpowered.

Comment by DazArgentum

just a little trivia: even with water walking active you still sink to the bottom of a moonwell.

Comment by kosmicfoo

Got this at lvl 24

Comment by Xiamaru

So, a little comparision, assuming you also have the glyphs

-----------Shamans' Water Walking-----------------

Almost free use of water walking.

Can be cast on others, potentially WW 400 people at once (assuming 1,5 GCD)

Can use while mounted.

Can be used in rapid succession

Don't need to be anywhere near WW-targets, for the effect to persist

Have to be cast on each target for the effect to work

10 minute duration

------------Versus DK's Path of Frost---------------

Requires one frost rune, disallowing multiply casts in rapid succession

Reduces fall damage

Can use while mounted

Can potentially PoF 40 players in total, you included

Have to be within 50 yards for the effect to persist on effected targets.

Only needs to be cast once for it to work on all party/raid members within the mentioned 50 yards.

10 minutes duration

-------------Versus Jesus' Water Walking----------------

Can only be used on self

Cannot mount, as the mount isn't effected by his Water Walking

Free of use

Seemingly infinite duration

--------------Conclusion--------------

Shaman's Water walking comes in first, as the best tool for Water Walking, currently present.

Path of Frost comes in as a close second

And ultimately, Jesus fails hard. His Water walking is far less potent than the others. I think we might see a buff here in the near future, or maybe a nerf to the other two spells, although that seems unlikely.

Comment by Ethan191

on my 85 shaman, i tried to cast this on a friends lvl 13 druid and got the message "targets level is to low"

Comment by seahen

"I can walk on water, I can fly.
I will keep on fighting till I die."

Comment by WeeRyza

You can purchase the Glyph of Water Walking which is in AH most times so you don't need to use fish oil which helps alot!

Comment by GitzMisiti

It seems a little bugged, to me.

I'm used to casting it and jumping out of the water so I'll "land" on the surface. This is not working anymore, for no aparent reason.

It's getting quite frustrating, because I take over 5 minutes to finally walk on the surface, until then, I keep jumping out like a retard. .-.

Is this happening to anyone else?

Comment by Linkcisco

This buff currently has a bug (since November 1st, 2012, after a maintenance on patch 5.0.5).

If you lose your Water Walking buff (by falling, right clicking the buff or whatever) and you inmediatly cast something then your cast will be interrupted in the first half second (spell, mounting, profession spell, etc).

This is more noticeable if you have the Glyph of the Lakestrider, since it removes your Water Walking buff when you leave the Ghost Wolf form, so any cast you do while you are in Ghost Wolf (with the effect of this glyph) will be interrupted.

Edit: In (November 27th, 2012 - Patch 5.1.0 release) Water Walking buff (and therefore the glyph) got fixed.

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