Water Shield

Water Shield
Water Shield (9 ranks) Shaman ability gcd cooldown Instant The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water, granting X mana per 5 sec. When a spell, melee or ranged attack hits the caster, Y mana is restored to the caster. This expends one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Nature
Cooldown	GCD
Improvements	[Improved Shields], [Improved Water Shield]
Related buff
Magic Water Shield X mana per 5 sec. Attacks and spells used against you restore Y mana. 3 charges. Duration: 10 min. or 3 charges

[[Category:shaman abilities]][[Category:shaman abilities]]

Water Shield is a Nature-based shaman buff. It improves mana regeneration, and when getting attacked, it restores mana to the caster. It can only proc every few seconds and has three charges.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Passive Mp5	Mana Per Orb	Cost
1	20	10	40	19 80
2	28	15	60	??
3	34	21	85	76 50
4	41	26	105	96
5	48	33	130	1 76
6	55	38	150	2 32
7	62	43	170	3 42
8	69	50	200	7 11
9	76	100	400	7 90

Notes

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

The cooldown before another orb will trigger is roughly three seconds. The mana regeneration provided functions like MP5, thus is not affected by the five second rule. This regeneration stacks with all other mana-regeneration effects, both from gear and from abilities like [Mana Spring Totem] and [Blessing of Wisdom].

Improvements

[Improved Shields] increases the mana returned from each orb by 15%.

[Improved Water Shield] causes an orb to be consumed each time the caster gets a critical effect with [Healing Wave], [Lesser Healing Wave], or [Riptide].

 [Glyph of Water Mastery] will increase its passive mana regeneration by 30%.

 [Glyph of Water Shield] will increase the number of charges by 1.

Tips and tactics

Since it is free and provides a passive bonus, Water Shield should be up whenever you aren't using Lightning Shield or Earth Shield on yourself. Elemental and Restoration shamans generally make sure that Water Shield is always active.

It is generally a good idea to refresh Water Shield often, as it costs no mana to do so and you might not have time to recast it later. An experienced player can usually ensure that the buff is up 100% of the time.

If possible, always refresh Water Shield before the last charge is used up. If all three charges are consumed, you will lose the passive mana regeneration until you recast it.

Patch changes

Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added as a new ability for The Burning Crusade.
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.
Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): Duration back to 10 minutes. No longer grants mana when expiring. Now provides passive mana regeneration instead.
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.

External links

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