Riptide, a Restoration Shaman talent in WoW Forever
Riptide is an active talent in row 7 of the Restoration tree. It needs 30 points in Restoration, so the earliest you can take it is level 40 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 1 rank. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.
Riptide
1 rank
- 245 Mana
- 40 yd range
- Instant
- 6 sec cooldown
- Requires 30 points in Restoration
- Requires Healing Way at 3/3
Heals a friendly target for 485 to 533, an additional 445 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.
Every rank of Riptide
| Rank | Text |
|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Heals a friendly target for 485 to 533, an additional 445 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%. |
Where it sits in the Restoration tree
- Needs
Healing Way at 3/3
- Unlocks
- No talent needs it
- Same row
- None
- Row above (row 6)
- Row below
- None: this is the last row
Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Riptide.
Compared with Classic Era
Riptide has no Classic counterpart: the data lists it as new in Forever.
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.