| Ancestral Healing | |
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| Requirements | |
| Class | Shaman |
| Tree | Restoration |
| Points required | 10 |
| Talent required | None |
| Properties | |
| Affects |
 [Chain Heal],  [Greater Healing Wave],  [Healing Surge], [Healing Wave],  [Riptide] |
| Related buff | |
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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.
Notes
Since the talent is based on critical heals, anything that increases your critical chance will increase the uptime of the buff. The talent 
[Acuity] can thus be useful, although the critical effect chance you get from intellect alone is usually enough to ensure a very high uptime at higher levels. The talent is highly inconsistent in what types of critical effects trigger it. It is not triggered by 
[Earth Shield], Earthliving or 
[Healing Stream Totem], but can be triggered by 
[Healing Rain] and the periodic healing of [Riptide]. All direct healing spells can trigger the effect, including every jump of [Chain Heal].
Tips and tactics
- Simply keeping Riptide active on a tank will provide high uptime of Ancestral Fortitude, significantly reducing physical damage taken.
- 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
[Bloodlust] or Earth Shield.
Patch changes
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Down from 3 to 2 ranks. Moved from tier 2 to tier 3.
- 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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