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Comment by Pope

Unleash Life from with
The buff effect gets buffed to 30% heal increase with 2/2
Instant-cast, spellpower coefficient according to Wowwiki is 21,43%

It's a nice and short weak heal, low mana cost (7% ~ 1600 Mana).
It affects all direct heals, and should also affect the HoT of Riptide. It does not affect Earth Shield and Healing Rain.

Smart usage of Unleash Life is adviced, to power up a heal before the Tank will get some big damage. However it's not an HPS increase compared to 2 direct heals.

Comment by 457798

In pvp if you have self cast turned on and do an unleash elements with earthliving weapon on your main hand weapon while targetting an out of range enemy you cannot cast unleash elements.

Annoying, and I cant see it as a bug as you cant cast it on an enemy in the 1st place. It should self cast on yourself, but the game wont let you :S

Comment by Nomobo

With the release of patch 6.0.2, this is only available to restoration-specced shaman. (Unlike previous to 6.0.2; also, Earthliving Weapon has been removed.)

Comment by 1057802

This spell is of questionable usefulness untalented. It actually decreases healing output considerably while boosting mana efficiency only slightly for Chain Heal and Healing Surge. For Healing Wave, it actually decreases both!

For instance, in my current PvE gear (iLvl 647), assuming Tidal Waves are up, my Healing Surge should provide, on average, 32.6k HPS (healing per second) and 7.0 HPM (healing per mana). If I cast Unleash Life first, the combination provides only 24.4k HPS and 7.9 HPM - a big hit to the former for a small increase to the latter.

Combined with is, of course, a different story altogether. The 30% from Unleash Life and the 50% from Unleashed Fury combine multiplicatively, giving a 95% boost altogether. In that case, Unleash Life combined with Healing Surge provides 35.0k HPS and 11.4 HPM - a small boost to healing and a considerable improvement to mana efficiency.

Healing Wave likewise is improved in both HPS and HPM with the addition of Unleashed Fury. Chain Heal, on the other hand, is unaffected, since Unleashed Fury only affects single-target heals.

NOTE: Calculations were based on http://iam.yellingontheinternet.com/healercalcs/

Comment by defektunge

This spell is both more and less useful than it might at first seem:

It is more useful than it seems due to making it grant a four second movement speed boost, letting you move as quickly as with Ghost Wolf while still being able to cast. The fact that it's instant also means it's another spell you can use while moving. So basically you get a movement speed boost from doing something you wanted to do while moving anyway - perfect for any time you need to move a short distance.

It is less useful than it seems because the spell does a pitiful amount of healing (even including the 30% boost) while still costing a non-trivial amount of mana. It has worse mana efficiency and does less healing per second than your main casting time heals (Chain Heal, Healing Wave), so it's never really worth casting if you can cast those, i.e. if you're standing still.

Another thing that reduces this spell's usefulness compared to previous expansions is that is no longer a competitive talent choice for PvE. With the massive buff that Elemental Blast got in patch 6.0, there's simply no real choice left in that talent tier: Elemental Blast is just far better in any imaginable PvE situation and not picking it means crippling your mana regeneration.

Comment by 1695631

As of now (7.0.3) it's a level 15 Resto talent. Unleashes elemental forces of life, healing a friendly target for # and increasing the effect of the Shaman's next direct heal by 45%. 15 second recharge is a bit long for it to be truly more useful than Torrent.

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Unleash Life

Unleash Life

0.8% of base mana	40 yd range

Instant	20 sec cooldown

1 Charge

Unleash elemental forces of Life, healing a friendly target for (609.991% of Spell Power).

Increases the healing of your next Riptide, Chain Heal, or Healing Wave by 25% and reduces its cast time by 30%.

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Unleash Life

Increases the healing of your next Riptide, Chain Heal, or Healing Wave by 25% and reduces its cast time by 30%.
10 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

0.8% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Heal (SP mod: 6.09991)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 25%
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Chain Heal		Healing Wave

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Modifies Cast Time (10)
Value: -30 milliseconds%
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Chain Heal		Healing Wave

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Active Threat
Not a Proc
Can Proc From Procs
Do Not Display Range
Aura Points On Client
Allow Class Ability Procs

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