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Riptide

Riptide

7.29% of base mana	40 yd range

Instant	6 sec cooldown

Requires Shaman (Restoration)
Requires level 10

Heals a friendly target for (138% of Spell power) and an additional (180% of Spell power) over 18 sec. Your Chain Heal spell is 25% more effective when the primary target is affected by your Riptide.

Improved Riptide (Level 92+)
Reduces the cooldown of Riptide by 1 sec.

Buff

Riptide	Magic

Heals (30% of Spell power) every 3 seconds.
Increases caster's Chain Heal by 25%.
18 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

18 seconds

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

Normal

Cost

7.29% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Heal
Value: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodic Heal
Value: 1 every 3 seconds

Effect #3

Unknown Effect (Effect #0)
Value: 25

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted

Guides

Restoration Shaman Guide

Warlords of Draenor
Shaman Changes

Comments

Comment by izlosst

Any word on how much the initial and then periodic heals get of your +heal amount?

Comment by Avglaaz

Oh)
This tallent-spell owns!
Now with my ~500 heal spd bonus it heals for ~1.4K + heal_dot (~170) + hasterate for next 2 healing waves(with 5 tal points in "Tidal waves" (65 lvl, 0/0/56). This means for me that my maintank is mainly in full hp (with the addition of Earth shield:).
In pvp my restoshamy specked for MT-heal beats DK (not the antimage one) and mages (use the purge!) mostly. Stuning classes (as rogues and pals) are the terrible problem, but they fall smtimes, too). Mb this is until i train my hands to better lvl ;) This spell does the great job for this.
As for me it's worth every talent and mana point spent for it. Remember this: it's the only restoshamy's INSTANT heal.

PS: sorry for my English, i'm not the english speaker one.

Comment by ShockerFrostmane

http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61301 and http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=51558 make healing so much easier (:

Comment by skrom

Haste breakpoints for increased ticks.

35% haste (whether with wrath of air or not) = 10 ticks of the Hot
40% haste is still 10 ticks.
55% haste grants 11 ticks
85% haste grants 14 ticks

Tested with 35% haste from gear, plus Ephemereal snowflake on use effect (for 55%) and Trinket + Heroism for 85%.

Comment by Carighan

It's new breakpoints in Cataclysm are, assuming you are using the Glyph of Riptide:

+1 Tick at 915 / 261 hasterating
+2 Ticks at 2745 / 2005 hasterating
+3 Ticks at 4576 / 3748 hasterating

The first number is without, the second with the +5% spellhaste buff.

Comment by guatafu

1. Instant
2. Direct heal
3. HoT

Doesn't get much better.

Comment by Carighan

As of 4.3, the HoT-component has seen a 50% increase in scaling.
This is straight from the patchnotes, I have not yet been able to confirm it's actually 50% ingame, and whether it only affects the scaling or also the base value.

Comment by Cassonberry

When cast on a priest in shadowform this spell's graphics turn purple. Looks awesome :)

Comment by Saqib

As of MoP when you chose Restoration as your specialization you get this spell (in cata it was Earth Shield) as your initial specialization spell.

Comment by Zurgix

It seems that they kinda #$%^ed riptide. You either use the Riptide glyph and the improvement becomes useless, or your use another glyph. Either way sucky situation.

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