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Water Shield
Ability shaman watershield
  • Water Shield
  • Level 12 Restoration shaman ability
  • Instant
  • The caster is surrounded by globes of water, granting 239 mana per 5 sec. When a melee attack hits the caster, the caster regains 2% of their mana. This effect can only occur once every few seconds.

    Only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once.
Properties
Class Shaman
School Nature
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talent required Spell nature healingwavelesser [Healing Wave]
Other information
Level learned 12
Improvements Spell nature lightningshield [Surging Shields]
Related buff
Ability shaman watershield
  • Water Shield
  • Grants 239 mana per 5 sec.
    Melee attacks against you trigger additional mana restoration.
  • Duration: 1 hour

Water Shield is a Nature-based Restoration shaman buff. The spell improves mana regeneration, and when taking damage, it restores mana to the caster. Water Shield can only proc every few seconds.

Notes[]

Being an elemental shield, Water Shield cannot be used at the same time as Spell nature skinofearth [Earth Shield]. It is however possible to use Water Shield on yourself while Earth Shield is up on another target.

Tips and tactics[]

  • It is a good practice for Restoration shamans to make sure Water Shield is always active, in order to take advantage of the passive bonus.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Water Shield has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 12.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Now returns 1% mana when struck by a melee attack in PvP combat (was 2%).
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-11-23): Fixed an issue causing Water Shield to be removed when logging out, entering instances, or when dying.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 3 Restoration talent (was a level 41 Restoration ability).
  • Shadowlands Hotfix (2020-12-17): Corrected an issue where some raid encounter abilities were incorrectly triggering the bonus mana restoration of Water Shield.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Re-added at level 41 (was 20). No longer replaces Lightning Shield.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
    • Now available only to Restoration shaman, and replaces Lightning Shield.
    • Now only triggers from melee attacks.
      • Mana costs for Restoration shaman have been adjusted to compensate.
    • Now persists through death.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer has charges and lasts for 1 hour, up from 10 minutes.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28):
    • Water Shield can no longer be dispelled.
    • Water Shield has had its internal cooldown reduced to 3.5 seconds, once again matching other shields. The amount of mana restored when Water Shield procs has been reduced by 50%.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2011-05-02): The internal cooldown of the mana effect from Water Shield has been doubled.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Ranks 1-6 added, making the spell trainable at level 20. The spell was previously not available until level 62.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): Duration back to 10 minutes. No longer grants mana when expiring. Now provides passive mana regeneration instead.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Mana cost removed. Mana gained per orb doubled. Duration reduced from 10 minutes to 1 minute. At the end of the duration, mana is gained for each remaining globe.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): When a Shaman with this spell active is afflicted with Spell nature earthbind [Cyclone], the charge burned will now grant mana.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09): Water Shield can no longer be over written by lower ranks.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.

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