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Ancestral Guidance

Spell

Ancestral Guidance

Nature

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Shaman

Instant castLong Range

For the next 10 sec, 25% of your damage is converted to healing on up to 3 nearby party members, and 100% of your healing is converted to damage on your most recent Flame Shock target.

Ancestral Guidance

Tooltip

For the next 10 sec, 25% of your damage is converted to healing on up to 3 nearby party members, and 100% of your healing is converted to damage on your most recent Flame Shock target.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Heal (effect type 10). Its base value is 54. Its area radius is 15 yards.

What it does

Ancestral Guidance is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it heals (base value 54) in a 15 yard radius.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Heal (10)
Value: 54
Radius: 15 yards

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Ancestral Guidance sounds

The sounds the game plays when Ancestral Guidance is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.

Precast Holy LowSoundKit 740

  1. Precastholymagiclow5.0s · ID 568915 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Holy Light ImpactSoundKit 1430

  1. Holylight Low Head3.0s · ID 569383 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Holy CastSoundKit 2562

  1. Holycast0.9s · ID 569763 · spells/cast
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Joined in the WoW Forever beta client: spell visual, then visual kit, then SoundKit, then the sound file. Browse every game sound in the sound archive.

Related

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Call of the SpiritsCall of the Spirits
Call of ThunderCall of Thunder
Chain LightningChain Lightning
ConcussionConcussion
ConvectionConvection
Earthbind TotemEarthbind Totem
Earth's GraspEarth's Grasp
Earth ShockEarth Shock

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 2 separate Spell records named "Ancestral Guidance". This page is record #409333. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#108281used by: Talent: Shaman; effect types: noneA different owner
#114911used by: Shaman; effect types: noneA different owner

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

Comments

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