Healing Focus (shaman talent)

Healing Focus
	Healing Focus (3 ranks); Tier 3 Restoration shaman talent; Passive; Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting any Shaman healing spell by 23/46/70%.;
Properties
Class	Shaman

For the priest talent, see [Healing Focus].

Healing Focus is a Shaman talent in the Restoration tree. It greatly reduces the pushback suffered when you take damage while casting a healing spell.

Notes

The pushback duration reduction from this talent stacks with other similar effects, such as [Earth Shield] and [Concentration Aura]. The effects are additive, and it is possible to reach 100% pushback reduction. Combining three points in Healing Focus with Earth Shield will make the shaman immune to pushback.

Note that pushback is not the same thing as interruption. Healing Focus will not give any protection against abilities such as [Kick] or [Counterspell]. Instead, the Restoration talent Focused Mind reduces the duration of such effects.

Patch changes

Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Removed.
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Reduced from 5 to 3 points. Changed from giving a chance to ignore pushback to reducing the duration of pushback effects.
Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate it only works with Shaman spells. e.g.: Does not work with [Gift of the Naaru].
Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Renamed from Improved Lesser Healing Wave and now affects all healing spells (was only [Lesser Healing Wave]).