Water Shield

Shaman · Restoration · opens at 10 points spent · 1 rank

Water Shield does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Instant · 15 sec cooldown

Water Shield ranks in Forever

Rank 1 The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water. When a spell, melee, or ranged attack hits the caster or when one of the caster's healing spells gets a critical result, 2% of maximum mana is restored to the caster, expending one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.

Instant, 15 sec cooldown.

Where Water Shield sits in the Restoration tree

Water Shield is a Restoration talent for Shaman. You need 10 points in Restoration before the row it sits on opens.

Same row: Ancestral Healing, Healing Focus

How often people take Water Shield

28 of the 232 public Shaman builds saved here — 12% — put at least one point in Water Shield. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Where this came from

New in Forever.

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