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Astral Recall

Astral Recall
5.9% of base mana

10 sec cast	15 min cooldown

Requires Shaman
Requires level 34

Yanks the caster through the twisting nether back to <Hearthstone Location>. Speak to an Innkeeper in a different place to change your home location.

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Duration

n/a

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

5.9% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

10 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect

Teleport

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A guide to the
Elemental Shaman
(PvE) [Outdated - 5.4.7]

Elemental Shaman Guide

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to Elemental Shaman

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A Transportation Guide

Comments

Comment by TheOnyx

While the home location for this spell and your Hearthstone are the same, you do not need the Hearthstone to cast this spell. Once you get this spell, you can reclaim bag space taken up by your totems by placing your Hearthstone in the bank... or better yet, destroying the Hearthstone and saving valuable bank space as well.

Comment by orsmshaman

Tip: This amazing spell does not cause a hearthstone cooldown, so one could AR, hand in a quest, get a quest, finish that quest, hearth, accept another quest, do that quest and AR again, all in the space of 25ish minuets, which is practically awesome for a speed player.

Also note that while in combat this spell is inactive, so no battle hearth, thats only for the Loladins k

Comment by reverend

It's also worth mentioning that this spell, unlike a hearthstone, is NOT usable in combat.

Comment by Vlad

Affected by Heroism: http://i8.tinypic.com/8gfqvjr.jpg
Also affects Hearthstone cast time apparently. ;)

Comment by psilocybe

It probably is too obvious to be worth mentioning, but getting a mage to portal you to Shattrath and setting your hearthstone there will make the usually tedious old-world questing a bit less time consuming. True for all other classes as well, but especially nice with this spell.

Comment by Laihendi

does nature's swiftness make this instant cast? and if so, is that why astral recall can't be used in combat? :-P

i guess instant hearths to avoid enemy players would be a bit ridiculous lol

Comment by Ejdl

Anyone know if spell haste effects this spell? I know stuff as Bloodlust and Berserking (troll racial) does.

Comment by Robyn

Until I got my shammy past lvl 30 I didn't realise just how awesome this spell is. It's not the fact that it's on a seperate cooldown from your HS, but the 15 min cooldown on this which make it great. Being able to hearth every 15 mins is just very convenient for questing...

Tbh, it makes the HS pretty much obsolete. There just aren't many situations where you want to HS more often than once every 15 mins, at least up until Outland where Shatt and its portals make life more interesting ;p

Comment by Joh86

Use Astral Recall when it's up, Hearthstone when it isn't:
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=900 Astral Recall, Hearthstone

With Glyph of Astral Recall:
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=450 Astral Recall, Hearthstone

Edit: As noted below it's been changed. Updated.

Comment by TurkBrown

I just want to add, my way of benefiting from this is having HS in bag space, and when my bag needs extra space just drop hs. You don't have to delete your HS for ever. Like some people are saying. Just when you need the space.

Comment by petre

With the glyph, hearthstone, and scrolls of recall a shaman with inscription can return to an inn 14 times an hour. You can add in a Dalaran ring for an extra two teleports. If you need to go to an inn more often than that, I'm affraid you'll have to roll a mage.

Comment by Jigain

A little explanation of this macro. If you try and use Astral Recall within 900/450 seconds of last clicking the macro, it will use your hearthstone as it is next in the macro. After 900/450 seconds lapses, the macro resets to Astral Recall. This is not the same as 'if it is off cooldown' because every time you click the spell, it resets the timer. That means if Astral Recall is 5 seconds from coming off CD, and you click the macro, it will use your hearthstone then reset the macro. You will be locked out of Astral Recall (in the macro) for another 900/450 seconds even though it comes off cooldown 5 seconds later.

Not entirely true. Since it's a castsequence macro, once the last spell is reached, the sequence is reset. So this'd be a more accurate check:

The macro hasn't been used for 450 / 900 seconds? Try to cast Astral Recall.
The macro has been used within 450 / 900 seconds? Try to use Hearthstone.
Hearthstone was the last used? Try to cast Astral Recall.

Comment by moonwaves182

So as i was doing my Argent tournament dailies today i decide to use this spell on my shammy to quickly get back to Dalaran. to my GREAT surprise i find my self in the frozen sea out in the ocean, in the fatigue zone, way south of howling fjord. luckily i notcied intime to cast water walking and hop on my flying mount, barely making it out in time before the fatigue meter fell to 0. the one time i was glad to keep a real hearth stone in my bags :)

Comment by Arandir

This spell is affected by Haste from gear. At the time of this writing, my 315 haste rating (still gearing up D:) knocked off .88 seconds from the original 10 second cast time. Has absolutely no value in terms of combat, but a nice perk in addition to the already short cooldown time.

Comment by kerrymayall

Blizz must think that us shammies are Air heads who need, what amounts to a 2nd hearthstone, to go back to town and do the things we forgot to do the first time.

Comment by oomcake

What level Shamans get it at?

Comment by Ponraul

I suppose it's worth noting that you can get this spell to cast in around 2.5 seconds if you:

1) Drop wrath of air totem
2) Use Bloodlust/Heroism
3) Use Berserking (if you are a troll)
4) Pop a haste trinket
5) Drink a potion of speed

If you have black magic on your weapon, chances are it will proc on one of the spell casts, giving you another 250 haste.

Just sayin'

Comment by Benegesserit

They really need to let this bind to a unique location apart from the hearthstone. Hearthstones are 15m with the new guild perk already.

Comment by Kazi12

Can this be cast while using the spell that allows you to cast while moving? If so, would be nice.

Comment by ocelot113

Why in the world can't you set this to a different hearth than the hearth stone. Always confused me as to the purpose of being able to hearth to the same place. I don't know anyone that is that full of ADD that they can't plan ahead for 15 min. Back when it was 1 hour I could see the use, but now? They need to MAKE THIS A DIFFERENT HEARTH. Love my shaman just a completely useless spell as stands.

Comment by radicarl

Currently, on the WoW Armory app, when listing this power, instead of saying "<Hearthstone Location>" in the description, it says "Northshire Valley", which is ironic considering Shaman is one of the few classes a human CAN'T be.

Comment by Zethigar

Would be better if it was ancestral, not astral.

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