Nature's Swiftness (Classic druid talent)

Nature's Swiftness
	Nature's Swiftness; Tier 5 Restoration druid talent; 3 min cooldown; Instant; When activated, your next Nature spell becomes an instant cast spell.;
Properties
Class	Druid
School	Physical
Cooldown	3 minutes
Related buff
	Magic ; Nature's Swiftness ; Your next Nature spell will be an instant cast spell. ;

For the retail talent, see [Nature's Swiftness].

An age of growth in a fleeting moment - such is the unbridled power of nature.^[1]

Nature's Swiftness is a Restoration druid ability.

Notes

After activating Nature's Swiftness, a buff appears indicating the next cast will be instant. This buff will remain indefinitely until the effect is used, or until the player dies. The one minute cooldown will not begin until this buff is consumed.
Nature's Swiftness buff can be dispelled / stolen.
Activating this ability does not trigger the global cooldown.

This spell can be very helpful when you need to cast an emergency heal spell.
Making a spell instant is an excellent workaround to counterspell effects and pushback.
Instant cast of [Entangling Roots] can be useful to escape melee based opponents, or in battle ground to stop flag runners.
Nature's Swiftness can be dispelled or spellstolen. Because Nature's Swiftness doesn't trigger the global cooldown it can be used in macros to cast and instantly consume it to prevent this.

Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Redesigned.
Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Now also increases the healing done by the affected nature spell by 50%.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now a tier 3 talent (was tier 5).
Hotfix (2009-04-23): Nature's Swiftness should properly affect [Rebirth].
Patch 3.0.3 (2008-11-04): This ability will no longer give chances to trigger [Omen of Clarity].
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Now only affects spells with a cast time less than 10 seconds.
Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28): Now makes [Rebirth] and [Soothe Animal] spells instant cast.