Ancestral Healing, a Restoration Shaman talent in WoW Forever

Ancestral Healing is a passive talent in row 3 of the Restoration tree. It needs 10 points in Restoration, so the earliest you can take it is level 20 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Ancestral Healing

3 ranks

• Requires 10 points in Restoration

Increases your target's armor value by 8% for 15 sec after getting a critical effect from one of your healing spells.

Every rank of Ancestral Healing

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases your target's armor value by 8% for 15 sec after getting a critical effect from one of your healing spells.
Rank 2	Increases your target's armor value by 17% for 15 sec after getting a critical effect from one of your healing spells.
Rank 3	Increases your target's armor value by 25% for 15 sec after getting a critical effect from one of your healing spells.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Restoration tree

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Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

• Healing Focus
• Water Shield

Row above (row 2)

• Mindfulness
• Natural Grace
• Tidal Focus
• Improved Reincarnation

Row below (row 4)

• Tidal Mastery
• Restorative Totems
• Mana Tide Totem

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Ancestral Healing.

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Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.