Water Shield, a WoW Forever Shaman talent, in words

What it does Restoration row 3

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  Water Shield1 rank · activeRequires 10 points in Restoration Talents (level 20). Instant.The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water. When a spell, melee, or ranged attack hits the caster or when one of the caster's spells gets a critical result, 2% of maximum mana is restored to the caster, expending 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.New in Forever. No Classic talent with this name.

Blizzard's notes build by build

• Water ShieldWater Shield now accurately displays the mana restored in the buff tooltip. Blizzard's development notes for build 70291, 8 Oct 2026.

Beta build history

• Build 1.60.1.70425, 2026-10-15Rank 1 text changed. Blizzard: "Water Shield: Can now trigger from any critical spell cast by the Shaman (was only critical heals)." (notes for build 70425)
• Build 1.60.1.70291, 2026-10-08Cost line changed: drops 15 sec cooldown. Now: Instant Was: Instant | 15 sec cooldown Blizzard: "Water Shield no longer says it has a 15 second cooldown (it didn’t have one)." (notes for build 70291)

Around it in the Restoration tree

• Same row (10 points in Restoration, level 20)Ancestral Healing, Healing Focus.
• Row above (level 15)Mindfulness, Natural Grace, Totemic Focus, Improved Reincarnation.
• Row below (level 25)Tidal Mastery, Restorative Totems, Mana Tide Totem.
• Gone from Classic RestorationNature's Guidance, Totemic Mastery.

Every Restoration talent 16

• Improved Healing Waverow 1
• Tidal Focusrow 1
• Mindfulnessrow 2
• Natural Gracerow 2
• Totemic Focusrow 2
• Improved Reincarnationrow 2
• Ancestral Healingrow 3
• Healing Focusrow 3
• Water Shieldrow 3
• Tidal Masteryrow 4
• Restorative Totemsrow 4
• Mana Tide Totemrow 4
• Healing Wayrow 5
• Nature's Swiftnessrow 5
• Purificationrow 6
• Riptiderow 7

The other two trees

• Elemental talents16
• Enhancement talents18