Ascendance

In the Restoration Shaman talent tree, Ascendance sits in the Restoration specialization talents, row 3 of 11. It is a single-point node.

Choice node

Ascendance shares its node with Healing Tide Totem. A character takes one of the two.

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  Healing Tide Totem

  Summons a totem at your feet for 10 sec, which pulses every 2 sec, healing all party or raid members for (514.5% of Spell Power). Healing reduced beyond 5 targets.

Connected above

The tree draws a line into Ascendance from Healing Stream Totem and Healing Rain.

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  Healing Stream Totem
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  Healing Rain

  Blanket the target area in healing rains, restoring to up to 6 allies over 18 sec. You can only have one Healing Rain active at a time.

Connected below

Ascendance leads on to Ancestral Vigor, First Ascendant or Preeminence and Resurgence.

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  Ancestral Vigor2 ranks

  Targets you heal with Healing Wave, Chain Heal, or Riptide's initial heal gain 5% increased health for 10 sec.

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  First Ascendant

  The cooldown of Ascendance and Healing Tide Totem is reduced by 60 sec.

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  Preeminence
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  Resurgence

  Your direct heal criticals refund a percentage of your maximum mana: from Healing Wave, from Riptide, and from Chain Heal.

Same row

Also on this row: Soothing Rain, Acid Rain and Water Totem Mastery.

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  Soothing Rain

  Increases the healing done by Surging Totem by 10%.

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  Acid Rain

  Deal Nature damage every 2 sec to up to 5 enemies inside of your Healing Rain.

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  Water Totem Mastery

  Reduces the cooldown of Healing Stream Totem by 5 sec.