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Comment by 188759

Totemic mastery became automatic for shamans and this talent is much better than totemic mastery.
I think - 60 % critic chance is very useful in dungeons with just 3 minutes cd.
But 2 Second duration - its confusing just 2 seconds on 3 heal spells ^^
Does it stack with your normal critic chance ?

Comment by defektunge

It adds to your normal crit chance, so with full talents and this active, you'll have +69% crit on the first heal on top of what you have from gear and intellect.

Note that the "each critical heal" handles each jump of Chain Heal as an individual heal. If you activate Tidal Force and cast Chain Heal, and it crits on all three targets, all three charges will be gone (tested and confirmed in beta).

For maximum effect you'd activate this, then cast Healing Wave until you've had two crits, then Chain Heal until the buff falls off. In practice you likely won't have that much flexibility in what heals to cast, since this is something of a panic button, and most people will probably just macro it with Nature's Swiftness.

Comment by 72548

Macro Title: Oh $#%@

/cast Tidal Force
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/cast Healing Wave
/cast Riptide
/cast Lesser Healing Wave

Get your @$$ back in the game!
I love Resto so damn much...

Comment by Carighan

After extensively healing with it now, this talent is quite underperforming.
It's still good fod an 11-pointer, but don't expect it to come in handy half the time you use it.
+60% critchance is a lot, but due to a multitude of factors I rarely see more than 2 critted heals before Tidal Force runs out. One of them is that a critted Healing Wave restores so much health at lvl77 that after 2 crits I usually end up with the group at least temporarily being back to full health.

It's a good talent - it's just not as amazing as it sounds on paper.

Comment by 331004

Combined with Improved Water Shield, Tidal Force can altso be used to conserve mana.

Comment by Abomb

if i pop my crit trinket i will have 40% crit chance (with the right buffs) so with this i have a 100% crit chance on heals, a cool thing i found is if u use the first charge with riptide or chain heal, u get the tidal waves buff which gives an additional 25% crit chance for LHW so what means i have 100% crit chance on first charge, then 65% crit chance just from this and TW buff if u use LHW.

Comment by WyvernVJ

I really miss this spell. Q_Q

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Tidal Force

Tidal Force

Talent

Instant	3 min cooldown

Increases the critical effect chance of your direct heals by 60%. Each critical heal reduces the chance by 20%. Lasts 20 sec.

Buff

Tidal Force	Magic

Increases the critical effect chance of your direct heals by 60%. Each critical heal reduces the chance by 20%. Lasts 20 sec.
2 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

2 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

3 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect

Apply Aura: Dummy (7)
Value: 61
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script
Affected Spells:

	Healing Wave		Chain Heal		Healing Surge
	Earthquake

Flags

Generates no threat
No Aura Icon
Not In Spellbook
Reset cooldown upon ending an encounter

Tidal Force

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