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Ancestral Healing
Spell nature undyingstrength
  • Ancestral Healing (3 ranks)
  • Reduces your target's physical damage taken by X% for 15 seconds after getting a critical effect from one of your healing spells.
Requirements
Class Shaman
Talent required None
Properties
Affects Spell nature healingwavegreater [Chain Heal], Spell nature healingwavelesser [Healing Wave], Spell nature healingwavelesser [Lesser Healing Wave], Riptide
Related buff
Spell nature undyingstrength
  • Magic
  • Ancestral Fortitude
  • Reduces physical damage taken by X%.
  • Duration: 15 seconds

Ancestral Healing is a Shaman talent in the Restoration tree. It causes your critical heals to reduce the physical damage taken by the target healed for 15 seconds. It does not stack with the holy priest's third tier talent Inspiration.

Rank table

Rank Physical damage reduction
1 3%
2 7%
3 10%

Notes

  • Since the talent is based on crits, anything that increases crit chance will increase the uptime of the buff. Talents like Spell nature tranquility [Tidal Mastery], Ability thunderbolt [Thundering Strikes], and Spell shaman blessingofeternals [Blessing of the Eternals] are thus very useful.
  • Using Spell nature healingwavegreater [Chain Heal] can cause any or all of the targets to get the buff, as the spell has a separate chance to crit on each target.
  • While the talent doesn't specify, critical heals from your Spell nature skinofearth [Earth Shield] will not trigger this effect.

Talent improvement

Tips and tactics

  • If a tank you're healing is taking a heavy beating, you can use Spell frost frostbolt [Tidal Force] to greatly increase the chance of a critical heal, causing this talent to proc and thus reducing the physical damage taken by the tank.
  • Since the buff can be dispelled, many PvP builds spend one point in Ancestral Healing just to use it as a dispel buffer for more important buffs like Spell nature bloodlust [Bloodlust] or Spell nature skinofearth [Earth Shield].

Patch changes

  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): The buff from this ability now reduces the physical damage taken by the target by 3/7/10% instead of increasing the target's armor.

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