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.

245 Mana · 40 yd range · Instant · 6 sec cooldown

Riptide ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Heals a friendly target for 479 to 528, an additional 499 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.

245 Mana, 40 yd range, instant, 6 sec cooldown. Capstone; the arrow from the slot above leads here.

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.

How often people take Riptide

1 of the 232 public Shaman builds saved here — 0% — 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.

Where this came from

New in Forever.

  • BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
  • Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:38