Ancestral Awakening

Ancestral Awakening
Ancestral Awakening (2 ranks) Row 9 Restoration shaman talent Passive When you heal with your Healing Wave or Riptide you have a 30% chance to summon an Ancestral spirit to aid you, instantly healing an injured friendly party or raid target within 40 yards for 15% of the amount healed. Critical strikes increase this chance to 60%.
Properties
Class	Shaman
Talents
Talent required	[Downpour] or [Echo of the Elements]
Other information
Affects	[Healing Wave], [Riptide]

Ancestral Awakening is a Restoration shaman talent.

Patch changes

• Patch 12.0.0 (2026-01-20): No longer affects [Healing Surge].
  
• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Now heals for 25%/50% of the amount healed (was 15%/30%) and has a 60% chance to trigger on critical strikes (was 40%).
  
• Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Moved to row 9 (was row 8). Now triggers at a 20% base chance and increases to a 40% chance when activated by a Critical Strike (was 100%).
  
• Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07):
  • Now heals for 10/20% of healing done (was 15/30%).
  • Now prefers to heal injured players instead of always healing the lowest health player.
    
• Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Now heals for 15%/30% of the amount healed (was 10%/20%).
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Re-added and redesigned as a row 8 Restoration talent (was a level 34 Restoration ability). When you critically heal with your [Healing Wave], [Healing Surge], or [Riptide] you summon an Ancestral spirit to aid you, instantly healing the lowest percentage health friendly party or raid target within 40 yards for 10/20% of the amount healed.

  Old: When you critically heal with a single-target direct heal, you summon an ancestral spirit to aid you, instantly healing the most injured party or raid target within 40 yards for 30% of the amount healed.
  

• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Removed.
  
• Hotfix (2013-07-19): Ancestral Awakening should now properly interact with [Battle Fatigue]. Previously, Battle Fatigue was being incorrectly applied a second time while healing nearby party or raid members.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 34 specialization ability for Restoration (was a tier 5 Restoration talent).
  
• Hotfix (2011-12-06): Now triggers properly based on pre-absorb healing, even if the triggering heal is fully absorbed.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Moved from tier 9 to tier 5. Now only mentions single-target direct heal spells.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): This talent now accounts for your ineffective healing, rather than effective.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

See also

• Ancestral Awakening, TCG card

Other versions

• Wrath Classic

  Ancestral Awakening
  Ancestral Awakening (3 ranks) Tier 9 Restoration shaman talent Passive When you critically heal with your Healing Wave, Lesser Healing Wave or Riptide you summon an Ancestral spirit to aid you, instantly healing the lowest percentage health friendly party or raid target within 40 yards for 10/20/30% of the amount healed.
  Properties
  Class	Shaman
  Other information
  Affects	[Healing Wave], [Lesser Healing Wave], [Riptide]

• Cataclysm Classic

  Ancestral Awakening
  Ancestral Awakening (3 ranks) Tier 5 Restoration shaman talent Passive When you critically heal with a single-target direct heal, you summon an Ancestral spirit to aid you, instantly healing the lowest percentage health friendly party or raid target within 40 yards for 10/20/30% of the amount healed.
  Properties
  Class	Shaman
  Talents
  Talent required	[Ancestral Healing]

• MoP Classic

  Ancestral Awakening
  Ancestral Awakening Level 34 Restoration shaman ability Passive When you critically heal with a single-target direct heal, you summon an ancestral spirit to aid you, instantly healing the most injured party or raid target within 40 yards for 30% of the amount healed.
  Properties
  Class	Shaman
  Other information
  Level learned	34

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