Tidal Focus
Shaman · Restoration · opens at 5 points spent · 5 ranks
Tidal Focus works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Tidal Focus ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 1% and increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 1%.
- Rank 2 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 2% and increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 2%.
- Rank 3 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 3% and increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 3%.
- Rank 4 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 4% and increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 4%.
- Rank 5 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 5% and increases your chance to hit with all spells and attacks by 5%.
Slot corrected from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.
What Tidal Focus does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 1%.
- Rank 2 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 2%.
- Rank 3 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 3%.
- Rank 4 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 4%.
- Rank 5 Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 5%.
Where Tidal Focus sits in the Restoration tree
Tidal Focus is a Restoration talent for Shaman. You need 5 points in Restoration before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Mindfulness, Natural Grace, Improved Reincarnation
How often people take Tidal Focus
66 of the 232 public Shaman builds saved here — 28% — put at least one point in Tidal Focus. 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
Changed in Forever.
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage