Heart of the Wild

For other uses, see Heart of the Wild (disambiguation).

Heart of the Wild
Heart of the Wild Row 10 druid talent 2 min cooldown Instant Perform a powerful off-role ability depending on your currently active shapeshift form. Non-shapeshifted: Empowered Wild Growth that heals up to 5 injured allies within 30 yards of the target for (2294% of Spell Power) over 7 sec. Cat Form: Unleash an empowered Feral Frenzy on your enemy target, dealing (163% of Attack Power) Physical damage and an additional (980.1% of Attack Power) Bleed damage over 6 sec. Awards 5 combo points. Moonkin Form: Call down waves of empowered falling stars upon enemies within 40 yds, dealing (1242% of Spell Power)) Astral damage over 8 sec. Bear Form: Increase your maximum health by 30% for 20 sec.
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Nature
Cooldown	2 minutes
Talents
Talent required	[Improved Stampeding Roar] or [Circle of the Wild]/ [Circle of the Heavens] or [Lycara's Inspiration]
Related buffs
Magic Wild Growth Heals (327.75% of Spell Power) damage every 1 sec. Duration: 7 seconds Feral Frenzy Bleeding for (32.67% of Attack Power) damage every 2 sec. Duration: 6 seconds Magic Moonfire Suffering (155.25% of Spell Power) Arcane damage every 2 seconds. Duration: 8 seconds Heart of the Wild Maximum health increased by 30%. Duration: 20 seconds

In the TCG.

Heart of the Wild is a druid class talent.

Patch changes

• Patch 12.1.0 (2026-08-11): Empowered Wild Growth healing increased by 25%.
  
• Hotfix (2026-03-24): [Cat Form] and [Moonkin Form] damage reduced by 20%.
  
• Patch 12.0.0 (2026-01-20): Redesigned – Perform a powerful off-role ability depending on your currently active shapeshift form. Cooldown reduced to 2 min (was 5 min).
  • [Bear Form]: Maximum health increased by 30% for 20 seconds.
  • Cat Form: Unleash an empowered [Feral Frenzy] on your enemy target, dealing Physical damage and additional Bleed damage over 6 sec. Awards 5 combo points.
  • Moonkin Form: Call down waves of empowered falling stars upon enemies within 40 yards, dealing Astral damage over 8 seconds.
  • Non-shapeshifted: Empowered [Wild Growth] that heals up to 5 injured allies within 30 yards of the target over 7 seconds.
    Old: Abilities not associated with your specialization are substantially empowered for 45 sec.
    • Balance: Cast time of Balance spells reduced by 30% and damage increased by 20%.
    • Feral: Gain 1 Combo Point every 2 sec while in Cat Form and Physical damage increased by 20%.
    • Guardian: Bear Form gives an additional 20% Stamina, multiple uses of Ironfur may overlap, and Frenzied Regeneration has 2 charges.
    • Restoration: Healing increased by 30%, and mana costs reduced by 50%.
      
• Hotfix (2025-04-03): Cast time reduction reduced to 15% in PvP combat (was 30%).
  
• Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23):
  • Now reduces the global cooldown of affected Balance cast-time spells.
  • Added to Personal Resource Display.
    
• Hotfix (2023-12-14): No longer unintentionally grants Combo Points to Feral Druids.
  
• Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Now additionally reduces the cast time of Balance spells by 30% and increases their damage by 20% (was 30%) and generates 1 combo point per 2 seconds while in Cat Form and increases Physical damage by 20% (was 30%).
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Redesigned as a row 10 class talent (was a level 35 talent). Now empowers abilities not associated with your specialization.
  Old: Abilities associated with your chosen Affinity are substantially empowered for 45 sec.
  • Restoration Affinity: Healing of Restoration abilities increased by 30%, and mana costs reduced by 50%.
  • Feral Affinity: Damage of Feral abilities increased by 30%, and combo point-generating critical strikes generate an additional combo point.
  • Balance Affinity: Damage of Balance abilities increased by 30%, and Starsurge is instant.
  • Guardian Affinity: Bear Form gives an additional 20% Stamina, multiple uses of Ironfur may overlap, and Frenzied Regeneration has 2 charges.
    
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Re-added and redesigned as a level 35 talent (was level 90). Now empowers your chose Affinity when activated and shifts you into the appropriate form upon cast.

  Old: When activated, dramatically improves the Druid's abilities in the three non-specialization roles (healing, tanking, spell damage, and melee damage).
  

• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
  
• Patch 6.1.0 (2015-02-24): Now increases spell damage by 150% (down from 200%), and Agility in Cat Form by 75% (down from 110%).
  
• Hotfix (2014-11-25): Heart of the Wild's bonuses are now halved when used while in PvP combat.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Redesigned. Now improves the Druid's abilities in the three non-specialization roles when activated (healing, tanking, spell damage, and melee damage).

  Old: Increases Stamina, Agility, and Intellect by 6% at all times. When activated, increases all healing done and dramatically improves the Druid's ability to perform roles outside of their normal specialization for 45 sec.
  Non-Guardian: While in Bear Form, Agility, Expertise, Hit Chance, and armor bonuses increased, Vengeance granted, chance to be hit by melee critical strikes reduced.
  Non-Feral: While in Cat Form, Agility, Hit Chance, and Expertise increased.
  Non-Restoration: Mana cost of all healing spells reduced by 100%. Guardian Druids may also cast Rejuvenation while shapeshifted.
  Non-Balance: Spell Damage and Hit Chance increased. Mana cost of all damage spells reduced by 100%.
  

• Patch 5.5.0 (2025-07-01):
  • Cooldown decreased to 3 minutes for Guardian (was 6 minutes).
  • Heart of the Wild is now canceled upon entering Bear Form for Guardian, but will refund 4 seconds of its cooldown for each second of duration that was remaining when the buff was canceled.
    

• Patch 5.4.7 (2014-02-18): Heart of the Wild now provides the following benefits from PvP Power when activated:
  • Restoration Druids now receive 50% of their PvP Power applied towards damage while the ability is active (down from 100%).
  • Feral and Balance Druids now receive 100% of their PvP Power applied towards healing while the ability is active (down from 120%).
    
• Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): When activated, now also provides a 25% bonus to healing for Restoration Druids.
  
• Hotfix (2012-11-27): Clearcasting is no longer consumed by damaging spells while Heart of the Wild is active.
  
• Hotfix (2012-09-20): Non-Restoration Druids will now properly get a mana discount when casting [Cenarion Ward] while Heart of the Wild is active. Feral and Guardian Druids will also properly gain increased healing.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Significantly redesigned as a level 90 talent for all druids instead of a Tier 1 Restoration talent. Now increases Stamina, Agility, and Intellect by 6% at all times. When activated, dramatically improves the Druid's ability to perform roles outside of their normal specialization for 45 sec.

  Old: Increases your Intellect by 2/4/6%. In addition, while in Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 2/4/6% and while in Cat Form your attack power is increased by 3/7/10%.
  

• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): The Bear Form Stamina bonus from this talent is now 2/4/6%, down from 3/7/10%.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Moved from tier 6 Feral Combat to tier 1 Restoration. Reduced from 5 ranks to 3.
  

• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Stamina bonus changed to 2/4/6/8/10%.
  

• Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): This talent no longer provides 4/8/12/16/20% bonus Strength in Cat Form. Instead it provides 2/4/6/8/10% bonus attack power.
  

• Patch 1.11.2 (2006-07-11): Fixed an issue where players with the Heart of the Wild talent were losing health each time they shifted to Bear Form or [Dire Bear Form].
  
• Patch 1.9.1 (2006-01-10): Previously, when shifting to Bear Form or Dire Bear Form, this talent would cause your current health to increase by the same amount as your max health. Now it will cause your percentage of max health to be the same before and after the shift, as well as shifting back to humanoid form. As a result, shifting in and out of these forms will no longer cause an increase in current health.
  

See also

• Heart of the Wild, TCG card

Other versions

• Classic

  Heart of the Wild
  Heart of the Wild (5 ranks) Tier 6 Feral Combat druid talent Passive Increases your Intellect by 4/8/12/16/20%. In addition, while in Bear or Dire Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 4/8/12/16/20% and while in Cat Form your Strength is increased by 4/8/12/16/20%.
  Properties
  Class	Druid
  Talents
  Talent required	[Predatory Strikes]
  Other information
  Affects	[Bear Form], [Cat Form], [Dire Bear Form]

• BC Classic

  Heart of the Wild
  Heart of the Wild (5 ranks) Tier 6 Feral Combat druid talent Passive Increases your Intellect by 4/8/12/16/20%. In addition, while in Bear or Dire Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 4/8/12/16/20% and while in Cat Form your attack power is increased by 2/4/6/8/10%.
  Properties
  Class	Druid
  Talents
  Talent required	[Predatory Strikes]
  Other information
  Affects	[Bear Form], [Cat Form], [Dire Bear Form]

• Wrath Classic

  Heart of the Wild
  Heart of the Wild (5 ranks) Tier 6 Feral Combat druid talent Passive Increases your Intellect by 4/8/12/16/20%. In addition, while in Bear or Dire Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 2/4/6/8/10% and while in Cat Form your attack power is increased by 2/4/6/8/10%.
  Properties
  Class	Druid
  Talents
  Talent required	[Predatory Strikes]
  Other information
  Affects	[Bear Form], [Cat Form], [Dire Bear Form]

• Cataclysm Classic

  Heart of the Wild
  Heart of the Wild (3 ranks) Tier 1 Restoration druid talent Passive Increases your Intellect by 2/4/6%. In addition, while in Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 2/4/6% and while in Cat Form your attack power is increased by 3/7/10%.
  Properties
  Class	Druid
  Other information
  Affects	[Bear Form], [Cat Form]

• MoP Classic

  Heart of the Wild
  Heart of the Wild Level 90 Druid talent 6 min cooldown Instant Increases Stamina, Agility, and Intellect by 6% at all times. When activated, increases all healing done and dramatically improves the Druid's ability to perform roles outside of their normal specialization for 45 sec. While not in an Arena or Battleground, shifting into Bear Form removes Heart of the Wild and refunds 4 seconds of its cooldown for each second of duration remaining on the canceled buff. Grants the following benefits based on current specialization: Non-Guardian While in Bear Form, Agility, Expertise, Hit Chance, and armor bonuses increased, Vengeance granted, chance to be hit by melee critical strikes reduced. Non-Feral While in Cat Form, Agility, Hit Chance, and Expertise increased. Non-Restoration Mana cost of all healing spells reduced by 100%. Guardian Druids may also cast Rejuvenation while shapeshifted. Non-Balance Spell Damage and Hit Chance increased. Mana cost of all damage spells reduced by 100%.
  Properties
  Class	Druid
  School	Nature
  Cooldown	6 minutes
  Other information
  Level available	90

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