Improved Healing Wave, a Restoration Shaman talent in WoW Forever
Improved Healing Wave is a passive talent in row 1 of the Restoration tree. It needs no points in Restoration, so you can take it from level 10 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 5 ranks. It is the same as in Classic Era.
Improved Healing Wave
5 ranks
Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.1 sec.
Every rank of Improved Healing Wave
| Rank | Text |
|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.1 sec. |
| Rank 2 | Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.2 sec. |
| Rank 3 | Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.3 sec. |
| Rank 4 | Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.4 sec. |
| Rank 5 | Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.5 sec. |
Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.
Where it sits in the Restoration tree
- Needs
- No prerequisite talent
- Unlocks
- No talent needs it
- Same row
- Row above
- None: this is the first row
- Row below (row 2)
Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Improved Healing Wave.
Compared with Classic Era
Improved Healing Wave is the same as in Classic Era.
It sits in the same place, has the same number of ranks and has the same rank 1 text.
Open the Shaman talent calculator
All Restoration talents
- Improved Healing Wave
- Totemic Focus
- Mindfulness
- Natural Grace
- Tidal Focus
- Improved Reincarnation
- Ancestral Healing
- Healing Focus
- Water Shield
- Tidal Mastery
- Restorative Totems
- Mana Tide Totem
- Healing Way
- Nature's Swiftness
- Purification
- Riptide
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.