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Yes, you can downrank your heals in WoW Forever as in Classic. In the client tables, each rank adds a share of your bonus healing based on its cast time (its coefficient: Lesser Heal rank 1 (1.5 s): 43%, against Greater Heal rank 1 (3 s): 86%). In Classic, spells learned before level 20 also added less: the calculator applies that rule, marked as Classic's. The only thing Blizzard has announced about low ranks in Forever is that talents granting a free effect trigger less often with spells of a much lower rank.
Calculator
Pick your class, the heal and your level. If you enter how much health you need to restore, the cheapest rank that gets there is marked.
No rank reaches that amount at your level.
How to read the table
Each row is a rank of the chosen heal, computed for your level:
- Healing: what the rank heals on average at your level, plus the share of your bonus it adds (its coefficient). In brackets, the minimum and maximum without bonus. For heals over time it is the total of all ticks.
- Heal per mana: healing divided by cost. This is what measures the saving: the most efficient row gives the most health per point of mana.
- Ranks heal a little more with each level up to their max level, so a low rank heals somewhat more at 60 than when you learned it.
- If you enter the health you need, the cheapest rank that gets there is marked: with it you do not waste mana on overhealing.
What the client and Blizzard say
This is how we compute it, without making anything up:
- The numbers are the WoW Forever client's (build 70862): base healing, range, healing per level, coefficient, cost and cast time of each rank.
- The client's coefficient depends on each rank's cast time: Lesser Heal rank 1 (1.5 s): 43%, against Greater Heal rank 1 (3 s): 86%. The tables hold no rank penalty.
- Classic rule (general knowledge): spells learned before level 20 add less bonus, 3.75% less of their coefficient for each level below 20 (a level 1 spell adds 28.75%). Blizzard has not said whether Forever keeps it: the calculator applies it while its box stays ticked.
- Blizzard explains in “World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Mage and Shaman” that talents triggering a free effect (such as Arcane Concentration) are less likely to trigger with spells of a significantly lower rank, and that it applied this to talents of several classes.
- For Chain Heal we count the first target only.
World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Mage and Shaman →
What we do not know yet
- Whether Forever keeps the Classic rule for spells learned before level 20, or applies another low-rank penalty that is not in the tables: Blizzard has not said.
- How much exactly those talents' chance drops with a low rank, and from how many ranks below.
- Crits and talents that increase healing or lower costs are not in the calculator.
Where this data comes from
This page comes from:
- The WoW Forever client tables (build 70862), with that build's server hotfixes: the numbers of every rank.
- “World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Mage and Shaman”, on Blizzard's official site: the rule for talents with low ranks.
Frequently asked questions
Can you downrank in WoW Forever?
Yes. Lower ranks are still in the spellbook, each with a coefficient based on its cast time. In Classic, those learned before level 20 also added less bonus healing.
Is there a penalty for low ranks in WoW Forever?
The only announced one is for talents that grant a free effect: they trigger less often with spells of a much lower rank. The client tables hold no other; the Classic one for spells learned before level 20 is not confirmed for Forever.
Which heal rank should I use?
The cheapest one that covers the health you need: enter your level, your bonus and the amount in the calculator and it marks it for you.
See also
A The Forever Era guide. Anything specific to Forever comes from Blizzard's official announcements or the game client; general Classic knowledge is marked as such. We never invent numbers or rankings, and the guide is reviewed with every build.
