Lesser Healing Wave

Lesser Healing Wave is a shaman healing spell intended for fast healing when mana is not the primary concern. It is generally less mana efficient than Healing Wave, but has a much shorter casting time. The spell is commonly referred to as 'LHW'.

Improvements

 * Bonus Healing: Purification increases the amount healed by 10%. Nature's Blessing increases this by 5-15% of your Intellect.  Tidal Waves can give bonus healing up to 10% of your Spell power.


 * Casting Speed: Nature's Swiftness can turn Lesser Healing Wave into an instant cast spell, though Lesser Healing Wave's speedy 1.5 cast time makes this unnecessary. This talent should be used with other, slower-casting spells.


 * Critical Effect Chance: When activated, Tidal Force increases its critical effect chance by 60%, lessened by 20% each time you have a critical effect. Tidal Mastery, Blessing of the Eternals and Thundering Strikes each increase your passive critical effect chance for Lesser Healing Wave.


 * Mana Cost: Tidal Focus reduces the mana cost by 5%. Improved Water Shield returns mana with 20/40/60% chance when the spell crits, further increasing mana efficiency. Clearcasting from Elemental Focus will also reduce its cost by 40%.


 * Interruption: Healing Focus reduces interruption caused by damage by up to 70%.


 * Threat: Healing Grace lessens its threat.


 * Miscellaneous: Ancestral Healing causes the spell to increase the target's armor when it has a spell critical effect. Ancestral Awakening allows the spell to heal a secondary target for 30% of the amount healed every time the spell crits.


 * Glyph: Glyph of Lesser Healing Wave causes it to heal for 20% more if the target is also affected by your Earth Shield.

Tips and tactics

 * The fast casting time can make the spell difficult to interrupt in PvP.