Lifeblood

Lifeblood is an instant cast haste buff and minor heal available to sufficiently skilled herbalists. It is a free, instant buff that increases in power for every 75 skill points in herbalism. The healing portion does not scale with spell power, however, the heal can crit.

Talent improvement
Lifeblood currently benefits from a shaman's Purification talent, though this could be a bug.

Tips and tactics

 * As Lifeblood now grants a short haste buff and a small heal, the benefit for levelling (survival, downtime reduction for nonhealing classes) is greatly reduced. Regardless it may be a small benefit in this area.


 * Warlocks can use Life Tap to turn health into mana, and then cast Lifeblood to quickly restore the lost health. This way Lifeblood can be utilized to restore the warlock's mana.


 * While the health restored is fairly minor at very high levels, it is more significant when used at lower levels.


 * Because the Haste effect does not consume a global cooldown, it can be effectively macroed into damage spells, providing an effectively passive, if irregular damage boost. In the current game (4.0.1), haste is more beneficial to casters and some healers than melee, but this is of course subject to change as 4.x develops.