Water Shield

Water Shield
Water Shield Level 20 shaman ability Instant cast The caster is surrounded by globes of water, granting X mana per 5 sec. When a spell, melee, or ranged attack hits the caster, the reactive shield generates Y mana. This effect can only occur once every 3 seconds. Lasts 1 hour. Only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Utility
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned	20
Modified by	[Glyph of Water Shield]
Improvements	[Resurgence]
Related buff
Magic Water Shield Grants X mana per 5 sec. Attacks against you trigger additional mana restoration. Duration: 1 hour

Water Shield is a Nature-based shaman buff. The spell improves mana regeneration, and when taking damage, it restores mana to the caster. Water Shield can only proc every few seconds.

Notes

Being an elemental shield, Water Shield cannot be used at the same time as [Lightning Shield] or [Earth Shield]. It is however possible to use Water Shield or Lightning Shield on yourself while Earth Shield is up on another target.

The cooldown before another orb will trigger is roughly three seconds. The mana regeneration provided functions like MP5, thus is not affected by the five second rule. This regeneration stacks with all other mana-regeneration effects, both from gear and abilities.

Improvements

• Glyph of Water Shield
• Major Glyph
• Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.
  
  Increases the mana generated reactively by your Water Shield when you are attacked by 50%, but reduces the passive mana generation by 15%.
• Classes: Shaman
• Requires Level 25
• Sell Price: 1

Tips and tactics

Since cost no mana and provides a passive bonus, Water Shield should be up whenever you aren't using Lightning Shield or Earth Shield on yourself. It is a good practice for Elemental and Restoration shamans to make sure Water Shield is always active.

Patch changes

• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): No longer has charges and lasts for 1 hour, up from 10 minutes.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Ranks 1-6 added, making the spell trainable at level 20. The spell was previously not available until level 62.
  
• Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): Duration back to 10 minutes. No longer grants mana when expiring. Now provides passive mana regeneration instead.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Mana cost removed. Mana gained per orb doubled. Duration reduced from 10 minutes to 1 minute. At the end of the duration, mana is gained for each remaining globe.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): When a Shaman with this spell active is afflicted with [Cyclone], the charge burned will now grant mana.
  
• Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added as a new ability for The Burning Crusade.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB