Riptide
Shaman · Restoration · opens at 30 points spent · 1 rank
Riptide does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.
Changed in the latest patch (Blizzard's 2 November changes). See the patch notes
150 Mana · 40 yd range · Instant · 12 sec cooldown
Riptide ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Heals a friendly target for 445 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.
Where Riptide sits in the Restoration tree
Riptide is a Restoration talent for Shaman. You need 30 points in Restoration before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Healing Way first.
- Requires: Healing Way
How often people take Riptide
4 of the 222 public Shaman builds saved here (2%) put at least one point in Riptide. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Riptide
One of the public Shaman builds written up here spends points on Riptide.
- Shaman Restoration 10/0/37 · 1/1 , 2 up
Where this came from
New in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)