Lesser Healing Wave

Lesser Healing Wave
Lesser Healing Wave (9 ranks) Level 20 shaman ability 40 yd range 15% of base mana 1.5 sec cast Heals a friendly target for X.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	20
Improvements	[Ancestral Awakening], [Ancestral Healing], [Blessing of the Eternals], [Healing Focus], [Healing Grace], [Improved Water Shield], [Purification], [Thundering Strikes], [Tidal Focus], [Tidal Mastery], [Tidal Waves]

Lesser Healing Wave is a shaman healing spell intended for fast healing when mana is not the primary concern. It is generally less mana efficient than [Healing Wave], but has a much shorter casting time. The spell is commonly referred to as 'LHW'.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Healing Done	Cost
1	20	162 - 186	19 80
2	28	247 - 281	50
3	36	337 - 381	90
4	44	458 - 514	1 62
5	52	631 - 705	2 43
6	60	832 - 928	3 6
7	66	1039–1185	5 22
8	72	1382–1578	18
9	77	1606–1834	18

Notes

While Lesser Healing Wave has a short casting time, it does significantly less healing per second than Healing Wave does when talented to reduce the casting time. The spell is very useful when there is a high risk that the target will not survive long enough for a slower heal to land, but it is generally not well suited for healing a tank due to the poor healing per mana and healing per second.

 [Glyph of Lesser Healing Wave] greatly increases the spell's usefulness for tank healing when combined with talents like [Improved Water Shield], which benefits Lesser Healing Wave considerably more than it does Healing Wave.

Improvements

• Bonus Healing: Purification increases the amount healed by 10%. [Nature's Blessing] increases this by 5-15% of your Intellect. [Tidal Waves] can give bonus healing up to 10% of your Spell power.

• Casting Speed: [Nature's Swiftness] can turn Lesser Healing Wave into an instant cast spell, though Lesser Healing Wave's speedy 1.5 cast time makes this unnecessary. This talent should be used with other, slower-casting spells.

• Critical Effect Chance: When activated, [Tidal Force] increases its critical effect chance by 60%, lessened by 20% each time you have a critical effect. [Tidal Mastery], [Blessing of the Eternals] and [Thundering Strikes] each increase your passive critical effect chance for Lesser Healing Wave.

• Mana Cost: [Tidal Focus] reduces the mana cost by 5%. [Improved Water Shield] returns mana with 20/40/60% chance when the spell crits, further increasing mana efficiency. Clearcasting from [Elemental Focus] will also reduce its cost by 40%.

• Interruption: Healing Focus reduces interruption caused by damage by up to 70%.

• Threat: [Healing Grace] lessens its threat.

• Miscellaneous: [Ancestral Healing] causes the spell to increase the target's armor when it has a spell critical effect. [Ancestral Awakening] allows the spell to heal a secondary target for 30% of the amount healed every time the spell crits.

• Glyph:  [Glyph of Lesser Healing Wave] causes it to heal for 20% more if the target is also affected by your [Earth Shield].

Tips and tactics

• The fast casting time can make the spell difficult to interrupt in PvP.

Patch changes

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Redesigned into [Healing Surge].
  
• Patch 0.7 (2004-06-15): Mana cost and heal amount reduced.
  

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