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Tidal Force
Spell frost frostbolt
  • Tidal Force (1 rank)
  • Shaman talent
  • 3 min cooldown
  • Instant
  • Increases the critical effect chance of your Healing Wave, Lesser Healing Wave and Chain Heal by 60%. Each critical heal reduces the chance by 20%. Lasts 20 sec.
Properties
Class Shaman
School Physical
Cooldown 3 minutes
Talents
Talent tree Restoration, Tier 3
Related buff
Spell frost frostbolt
  • Magic
  • Tidal Force
  • Increases the critical effect chance of your Healing Wave, Lesser Healing Wave and Chain Heal by 60%. Each critical heal reduces the chance by 20%. Lasts 20 sec.
  • Duration: 20 seconds

Tidal Force is a burst-healing tool similar to Nature's Swiftness. It does nothing on its own, but greatly increases the critical effect chance of the next Spell nature healingwavelesser [Lesser Healing Wave], Spell nature magicimmunity [Healing Wave], and Spell nature healingwavegreater [Chain Heal] spells cast. It is a available at tier 3 in the Restoration tree.

Notes[]

Tidal Force does not trigger the global cooldown, making it useful in burst healing macros. The bonus to critical effect chance stacks with your normal crit chance. If a player already has a 40% chance to crit from other sources, the first spell cast with Tidal Force is guaranteed to crit.

When cast, Tidal Force places a buff stacked three times on the player. Each stack increases the critical effect chance of Lesser Healing Wave, Healing Wave, and Chain Heal by 20%. Every time one of these spells crit, the stack is reduced by one. This means that after one crit the effect is reduced to +40%, after two it is reduced to +20%, and after three crits the buff is removed.

Since Chain Heal has a separate chance to crit on each target, it will remove one charge from the buff for each target it crits on. If the spell crits on all three targets, it will immediately consume all three charges of the Tidal Force buff.

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