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Comment by 8049

A GREAT talent any elemental or restoration shaman should have. It's very useful, whether you need some quick burst damage or just an instant Healing Wave to survive longer.

Comment by 7343

If you prefer nuking and if you are doing a lot of PVP you should go for Elemental Mastery instead of Nature's Swiftness. If you like duels and raiding you should get Nature's Swiftness, it is more usefull for PVE. Elemental Mastery is basicly for PVP and nuking. In patch 2.0.1 you should no longer go for Nature's Swiftness, if you want to go Elemental spec. Totem of Wrath and Lightning Overload + Elemental Mastery together is way more important than Nature's Swiftness.

- Gulorg

Comment by 9029

Nature's Swiftness is a great talent to have generally as a healer, since it allows you for some very quick "panic" large heals on the main tank / other raid members.

Comment by TheOnyx

Another good use of this spell is an instant-cast Ghost Wolf, especially if you do not have the talent to reduce Ghost Wolf cast time. When running flags in PvP or simply trying to escape in PvP or PvE, 1-3 seconds can be the difference between life and death.

Comment by WildW

Something all shamans should concider getting. Even if you are going elemental, or even enhancement , it is certainly nice to have an instant heal for PvP. The talents on the way to get this talent are also really good.

It will probably take me a lot of time getting used to not having this if i ever choose to spec out of it.

Comment by koaschten

anyone tried to
- bloodlust
- nature's swiftness
- cast ressurrection
???

Comment by 63375

This talent is kinda bad for enhancement shamans.. even tho a instant heal is nice, most enhance will have next to 0 spelldamage / healing since they got AP / normal crit instead.

Comment by 40031

actually using it enhance isnt too shabby,

stormstrike, NS->chain lightning, earth shock

gives u a huge damage burst, but kinda heavy on mana

Comment by 51218

Skills it effects:
Lesser Healing Wave
Healing Wave
Lightning Bolt
Chain Lightning
Chain Heal
Ghost Wolf

Comment by Bojo

Good news for all shaman out there! I quote from http://wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/testrealm.html

"Nature’s Swiftness and Elemental Mastery now share a 10 second cooldown."
That's the official patch notes, and they come in 2.4.0!

But of course, this just sounds TOO good, and it would be, and this quote doesn't mean that you can cast these two spells every 10 seconds, it means that you can't cast nature's swiftness before 10 sec after you've cast elemental mastery, and vice versa... So yea, this is BAD news.

Comment by 80299

Ancestral spirit does NOT become instant.

Comment by 24122

before spell haste you used to be able to get an insta-rez as a troll, because you could berserk and NS then rez it used to be game changing :(

Comment by 137254

This is the best spell for PVP shaman...the best talents for elemental shanans are:

Elemental:40
Enchancement:0
Restoration:21

This is much better and useful in pvp - instant heal or some burst of DMG!!

Comment by 140992

I usually use my ns in combat by combining it with my elemental mastery. crit on a shock then instant lightning bolt then another shock afterwards. lots of damage =)

Comment by qhiiyr

This page is outdated; the updated version of the spell is https://www.wowhead.com/mop-classic/spell=17116

Comment by 94643

I would say that NS is more important than Thunderstorm in pvp. Living thru a battle becuz i popped a quick heal means i stand for another roun vs waitn at the gy to respawn. Many times i have just stood there castn cont. heal on myself untill the cavalry arrived to kill my attacker. Or i get ahead enough in health to cast a few more bolts.... NS over Thunderstorm. Easy.

Comment by 157864

Does not affect Lava Burst.

Edit: Teradon is of course right, stupid miss from me. Rate this down.

Comment by Cuphat

In 3.1.0, this will share a cooldown with Elemental Mastery - but Elemental Mastery will gain the Nature's Swiftness effect on their damaging spells.

Comment by 392736

In patch 3.2, the cooldown of this spell is being reduced to 2 minutes to allow more Healing Waves... Seems good to me, but it'll ruin the "Instant-80%crit chance-Healing Wave", as Tidal Force's cooldown remains at 3 minutes... so far.

This may be changed, but it's what they're currently planning.

Comment by Legovlas

Can this be spellstolen by mage? I know mage dont have any nature spell but if shaman activate it and i spellsteal it will be wasted. I saw that this is physical effect and those cant be stealed right?

Comment by 111622

Healing spells for Shamans and Druids are considered Nature spells, as healing spells for Priests and Paladins are Holy.

This is similar to a Mage's Presence of Mind.

Comment by 852431

if you need a really big healing burst: Healing Surge+Ancestral Swiftness+Greater Healing Wave. after the GCD is up again use Riptide

Comment by ellmo

It's quite obvious, but no-one said it yet: if you're Elemental the passive effect will stack with your Elemental Oath. So you get 10% flat spell haste (clearly, party members still benefit from Elemental Oath only)

It's my talent of choice for both Elemental and Resto at this tier.

Comment by Taraezor

As Elemental Shaman you do not want to get carried away with the non-passive use of this. It will make your Lightning Bolt instant cast. Yay! But the Lightning Bolt is at the bottom of your dps rotation/priority queue, lol. It does not help your Lava Burst at all. Elemental Shaman are all about Lava Burst and filling in the gaps around the 8 second cool down and making sure that Lava Burst always crits by having Flame Shock on the target.

Good to blow each time it is off CD with a Lightning Bolt straight after. But don't waste if your Ascendance is up. You'll be too busy spamming instant cast Lava Bursts to be even bothered with a much lower hitting Lightning Bolt.

As per the comment below. The passive is nice and the Elemental Shammies have some nice haste stacking happening.

Comment by 46526

The haste bonus of this talent is a little better than it seems. It works just like a second application of Elemental Oath. Meaning it takes the the entire haste % you have (including the bonus from Elemental Oath), adds a bonus 5% of that existing haste (or x1.05 multiplier) then adds a flat 5% on top.

Elemental Oath does the same thing. It takes your haste percentage, multiples it by x1.05 (a bonus 5% of what you already have) then adds a flat 5% on top.

The cool thing about this talent is that is gives you the bonus 5% of Elemental Oath's flat 5%. Meaning Elemental Oath is actually giving you 5.25% flat haste rather than 5%.

So if you had 9% haste from gear, Elemental Oath would make that 9% * 1.05 = 9.45%, then add 5% on top. So you'd end up with 14.45% rather than just 14%.

If you added Ancestral Swiftness on top of that, you get 14.45% * 1.05 = 15.17%, then add another 5% on top, for a total haste of 20.17%. That hidden "bonus haste" is worth 1.17% in this conservative example of 9% from haste rating. AS specifically gives you a cumulative 5.96%. With more base haste rating, the more extra "bonus haste" AS will give you.

I currently have 14.24% haste. So Elemental Oath makes that 19.96% (an additional 5.75%). Adding Ancestral Swiftness makes my final haste 25.95% (adding an additional 6%!). 25.95% is exactly the number displayed on my character sheet.

Comment by Thottbot

OW-NAGE!

>>>elemental mastery...

Comment by Thottbot

what does it mean by nature? can you use this as a insta-heal?

Comment by Thottbot

Natures swiftness is much better then SS because SS u can only use at close range and it only does dmg. it is deacent if u have a very slow wepon but sucks otherwhise. Natures Swiftness on the other hand can be used for dmg and healing. I found that the instant cast heal is very nice and has saved me many times. also u can use chain lightning or lightning bolt with NS also and unlike SS it can be used from a distance. the iceing on the cake is u dont have to go all the way down 1 tree to get NS

Comment by Thottbot

Does nature's swiftness apply to channeled spells such as hurricane or tranquility?

Comment by Thottbot

could u do natures swiftness and hearth?

Comment by Thottbot

shamans are NOT overpowered. no class except perhaps the warlock is, but they compensate by being suicidal and mostly broke. as a shaman u enherrit the everlasting problem of range of ur totems, ur complete inefficiency concerning mana and the fact that there's nothing u're very good at.

Comment by Thottbot

As noted, the Shaman's limitation is all about the mana. And yes, the totem's range. So if you want to bring the totem's with you, you have to keep recasting them. The Shaman's solution is to slow down the enemy, to keep them in totemic range (I made that term up!). But also, the key to the Shaman's success is having as much spirit as possible. That way, you can constantly have a full bank of mana.

Comment by Thottbot

I'm a shaman, and ive seen people say some cruel stuff about them. One time an alliance figured out a way to talk to me and he said, "You know, shamans are broken. Go reroll ur char. ;)" I feel kinda hurt by that comment. :( But still, shamans can do a decent amount of damage from any range, and totems cant be all bad.

Comment by Thottbot

theres alson the fact that shamans hav VERY low health

Comment by Thottbot

yes they do until they get their pvp gear+.
Also they are not godly. Most people just use the same strategie over and over. They are a hybrid so u can not fight one like u would a spellcaster or melee.

Comment by Thottbot

Im a troll shaman. If i use berserking Astral recall becomes 9 sec cast, so can i cast it instantly with natures swiftness?

Comment by Thottbot

can you make chain lighting instant with this?

Comment by Thottbot

Of course you can just read the skill -> NATURE DAMAGE

Comment by Thottbot

Can i use this spell if im in Tree of Life Form? cause ToL says only cast certain spells... but if i cant use in ToL then this spell isnt gona b that good, im a 44 druid trying 2 get 2 50 to try out tree =D but i need to know if this or not :P

Comment by Thottbot

Yeah blizz gives lost hope, bloodlust + NS + astral recall SHOULD work but it doesnt, it applies to initial cast time peeps

Comment by Thottbot

u can also cast instant ghost wolf with this ^^

Comment by Thottbot

YES you can click nature's swiftness than have a INSTANT ghost wolf, its pretty cool!

And YES you can give yourself a Instant healing wave, which is great because sometimes 3 seconds is a matter of life and well, self rez, lol

And in retrospect, this spell could definately save a tank's butt for a instant healing wave, 3seconds vs 0seconds woulda been Great for some dungeons I've wiped in.

Comment by Thottbot

best save spell in the game almost to good it needs to be nerfed(plz dont blizzard-.-;) well as an enhance shaman, 0/40/21, and i do a lot of PvP. when im getting about to kill a player and i all of a sudden get 2v1ed i pop this and i get a big advantage over opponent. When facing a caster or ranged, and close to killing them, i pop this spell for the instant lightning bolt or chain lightnin. other than the 3 min cooldown i think this spell is worth sacrificing the 41 point for it

Comment by Thottbot

I highly recommend getting this ability. The investment in Resto to reach it is slight (21 points) and its advantages are considerable. Being able to instantly cast a (improved) healing wave is extremely useful. In instances, this spell gives an added flexibility to healing that will prevent a tank's wipe-inducing death. My mostly Enhance shammy can do reasonably well being the main healer in a group, provided there's a backup healer, in large part due to this spell (and skill, and gear choice). I am very comfortable playing off-healer for the same reason.

The ability to turn the lightning spells into instants shouldn't be undervalued, though in practice it takes a back seat in importance to healing. Instant lightning can be decisive. Lightning's default range is greater than the shocks, and a bolt sped along by Nature's Swiftness is the closest the shaman gets to a bona fide ranged weapon. Although it's only one shot, even an Enhance/Resto shammy can do very good damage this way. At close range, the shocks might be better to use and NS saved for healing, but chain lightning can end a fight quickly sometimes.

The instant ghost wolf is an excellent bonus, too.

It's probably not worth forgoing more damage output from whichever other tree you choose as you're leveling just to get Nature's Swiftness. Veterans of full-Resto leveling will agree that it's a slow road. I chose a build path that had me get this at level 64, with Dual Weild at 63, and that's worked out pretty well for leveling.

Comment by Thottbot

Once lich king expansion comes out and lvl cap hits 80 a feral druid can get both mangle and NS, imagine a feral druid in the BG now, he starts in cat prowling and even if ur a high dps class and u get down a lot of his hp he can go caster and with this on he can cast cylcone on u and take his time with HT then go into bear to interrupt a spell if ur a caster or back into cat to use maim.

Comment by Thottbot

hehe :) blizz odda make the 61th talent in feral tree l33t ^.^

Comment by Thottbot

heh cat druids would be good, like good DPS and stuff but they suck ass in pvp, or against healers at least ^^ srsly on my resto sham when i see a cat its earth sheild heal heal heal heal heal heal heal heal heal (with no interruptions) heal heal slowly dps down heal heal heal heal dead cat.. the gouge spell thing and the first stun anrt enough to stop u and if he cyclones+heals its just wasting time hes not gonna kill me hehe

Comment by Allakhazam

overpower :P

Comment by Allakhazam

Yes, your healing spells are apparently "Nature based".

Comment by Allakhazam

This is awesome

Comment by Allakhazam

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Ancestral Swiftness

Ancestral Swiftness

Talent

Instant	1.5 min cooldown

Your next Nature spell with a base casting time less than 10 sec. becomes an instant cast spell.

Passive:
Increases spell haste by 5% and melee haste by 10%.

Buff

Ancestral Swiftness	Magic

Your next Nature spell with a casting time less than 10 secs will be an instant cast spell.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1.5 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect

Apply Aura: Modifies Cast Time (10)
Value: -100 milliseconds%
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

Lightning Bolt	Chain Lightning	Chain Heal
Ghost Wolf	Healing Surge	Hex
Healing Rain	Bind Elemental	Earthquake
Conductivity	Elemental Blast	Healing Wave
Earthquake	Greater Healing Wave

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Ancestral Swiftness

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