Healing Way, a Restoration Shaman talent in WoW Forever

Healing Way is a passive talent in row 5 of the Restoration tree. It needs 20 points in Restoration, so the earliest you can take it is level 30 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Healing Way

3 ranks

Requires 20 points in Restoration

Increases the amount healed by your Healing Wave spell by 8%.

Every rank of Healing Way

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases the amount healed by your Healing Wave spell by 8%.
Rank 2	Increases the amount healed by your Healing Wave spell by 17%.
Rank 3	Increases the amount healed by your Healing Wave spell by 25%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Restoration tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

Riptide

That talent needs Healing Way at 3/3.

Same row

Nature's Swiftness

Row above (row 4)

Row below (row 6)

Purification

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

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text and its position.

Position

Classic Era

Restoration, row 5, column 1

WoW Forever

Restoration, row 5, column 2

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Your Healing Wave spells have a 33% chance to increase the effect of subsequent Healing Wave spells on that target by 6% for 15 sec. This effect will stack up to 3 times.

WoW Forever

Increases the amount healed by your Healing Wave spell by 8%.

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The other Shaman trees: Elemental and Enhancement. Everything that changed for the Shaman since Classic is on the changes page.

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.