Water Shield

For the Season of Discovery rune, see [Water Shield].

Water Shield
Water Shield Level 12 Restoration shaman ability Instant The caster is surrounded by globes of water, granting 239 mana per 5 sec. When a melee attack hits the caster, the caster regains 2% of their mana. This effect can only occur once every few seconds. Only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talent required	[Healing Wave]
Other information
Level learned	12
Improvements	[Reactive Warding]
Related buff
Water Shield Grants 239 mana per 5 sec. Melee attacks against you trigger additional mana restoration. Duration: 1 hour Max stacks: 9

Water Shield is a Nature-based Restoration shaman buff. The spell improves mana regeneration, and when taking damage, it restores mana to the caster. Water Shield can only proc every few seconds.

Notes

Being an elemental shield, Water Shield cannot be used at the same time as [Earth Shield]. It is however possible to use Water Shield on yourself while Earth Shield is up on another target.

Tips and tactics

• It is a good practice for Restoration shamans to make sure Water Shield is always active, in order to take advantage of the passive bonus.

Patch changes

• Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Now has 9 charges (was 3).
  
• Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Water Shield has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 12.
  
• Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Now returns 1% mana when struck by a melee attack in PvP combat (was 2%).
  
• Hotfix (2022-11-23): Fixed an issue causing Water Shield to be removed when logging out, entering instances, or when dying.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 3 Restoration talent (was a level 41 Restoration ability).
  
• Hotfix (2020-12-17): Corrected an issue where some raid encounter abilities were incorrectly triggering the bonus mana restoration of Water Shield.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Re-added at level 41 (was 20). No longer replaces Lightning Shield.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
  • Now available only to Restoration shaman, and replaces Lightning Shield.
  • Now only triggers from melee attacks.
    • Mana costs for Restoration shaman have been adjusted to compensate.
  • Now persists through death.
    
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer has charges and lasts for 1 hour, up from 10 minutes.
  
• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28):
  • Water Shield can no longer be dispelled.
  • Water Shield has had its internal cooldown reduced to 3.5 seconds, once again matching other shields. The amount of mana restored when Water Shield procs has been reduced by 50%.
    
• Hotfix (2011-05-02): The internal cooldown of the mana effect from Water Shield has been doubled.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Ranks 1-6 added, making the spell trainable at level 20. The spell was previously not available until level 62.
  
• Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): Duration back to 10 minutes. No longer grants mana when expiring. Now provides passive mana regeneration instead.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Mana cost removed. Mana gained per orb doubled. Duration reduced from 10 minutes to 1 minute. At the end of the duration, mana is gained for each remaining globe.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): When a Shaman with this spell active is afflicted with [Cyclone], the charge burned will now grant mana.
  
• Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09): Water Shield can no longer be over written by lower ranks.
  
• Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.
  

See also

• Water Shield, TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB