Healing Touch

Healing Touch
Healing Touch (15 ranks) Druid ability 40 yd range 17%-33% of base mana 3.5 sec cast Heals a friendly target for X to Y.
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Improvements	[Empowered Touch], [Gift of Nature], [Living Seed], Moonglow, [Natural Perfection], [Naturalist], [Nature's Majesty], [Nature's Focus], [Nature's Grace], Subtlety, [Tranquil Spirit]

[[Category:druid abilities]][[Category:druid abilities]]

The druids' reverence for nature allows them to bestow wondrous gifts upon their allies.

Healing Touch is a druid healing spell. It is the largest direct heal available to the class. The spell doesn't scale as well with talents and gear as other druid spells, however, and this combined with the unwieldy casting time means that the spell sees very little use at higher levels.

Rank Table

Rank	Level	Casting Time	Base Mana Cost	Healing	Cost
1	1	1.5 sec	17%	37 - 51	Starts with
2	8	2 sec	22%	88 - 112	1
3	14	2.5 sec	28%	195 - 243	9
4	20	3 sec	33%	363 - 445	20
5	26	3 sec	33%	572 - 694	45
6	32	3 sec	33%	742 - 894	80
7	38	3 sec	33%	936 - 1120	1 20
8	44	3 sec	33%	1199 - 1427	1 80
9	50	3 sec	33%	1516 - 1796	2 30
10	56	3 sec	33%	1890 - 2230	3
11	60	3 sec	33%	2267 - 2677	3 6
12	62	3 sec	33%	2364 - 2790	3 87
13	69	3 sec	33%	2707 - 3197	8 10
14	74	3 sec	33%	3223 - 3805	20
15	79	3 sec	33%	3750 - 4428	20

Notes

• Druids start with this spell.
• Healing Touch is one of the more powerful healing spells in the game. It is however not very mana efficient at higher levels compared to other healing spells available to druids.
• Healing Touch costs 1165 mana at level 80 before reduction by talents.
• With a Glyph of Healing Touch and the proper talents, it is possible to make healing touch a useful fast cast direct heal. This can dramatically reduce a restoration druids' disability for healing per second.

Improvements

Talents

•  [Moonglow] reduces the mana cost by 9%. [Tranquil Spirit] reduces the mana cost by a further 10%.
• [Nature's Majesty] increases the critical effect chance by 4%. [Natural Perfection] increases this by a further 3%.
• [Nature's Focus] reduces the pushback suffered from damage while casting Healing Touch by 70%. Note that this only affects pushback from taking damage, and offers no protection against interrupts such as [Kick] or [Counterspell].
• [Naturalist] reduces the casting time by 0.5 seconds.
• Subtlety reduces the threat caused by the spell by 30%.
• [Gift of Nature] increases the healing done by 10%.
• [Empowered Touch] causes the spell to gain an additional 40% of the druid's spell power.
• [Living Seed] causes critical heals from Healing Touch to place a buff on the target, healing for 30% of the critical heal the next time the target takes damage.

Glyphs

Glyph of Healing Touch
Glyph of Healing Touch Level 75 Restoration druid ability Instant When you cast Healing Touch, the cooldown on your Nature's Swiftness is reduced by 2 sec.
Usable by
Class	Druid
Specialization	Restoration
Properties
Level learned	75
Glyph type	Major Glyph
Source	Automatic

Source

This glyph is automatically learned by druids at level 75.

Patch changes

• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Item turned into  [Charred Glyph]; Ability now automatically learned at level 75. Effect updated.

  Previous version: When you cast Healing Touch, the cooldown on your Swiftmend is reduced by 1 sec.
  

• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Updated.

  Previous version: When you cast Healing Touch, the cooldown on your Nature's Swiftness is reduced by 10 sec.
  

• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Now reduces the cooldown on Nature's Swiftness by 10 seconds after using Healing Touch, up from 5 seconds.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Effect changed: When Healing Touch is used, the cooldown of Nature's Swiftness is reduced by 5 sec. (previously decreased the cast time of Healing Touch by 1.5 sec., the mana cost by 25%, and the amount healed by 50%).
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

Tips and Tactics

• Using Nature's Swiftness with this spell results in a massive instant direct heal, which is very useful for emergency situations. Most druids have a macro that immediately casts Nature's Swiftness followed by Healing Touch. In this way you can take advantage of the spell's strength (a massive direct heal) while ignoring its weakness (long casting time).
• If you think your target might die while you're casting this spell, cast [Regrowth] first to buy yourself a little time.

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB