Omen of Clarity

Omen of Clarity is a passive Druid ability, trainable at level 20 for. It causes all of your damage spells and attacks to give a chance to grant you a Clearcasting buff, which reduces the mana, rage, or energy cost of your next damage or healing spell or offensive ability to zero.

Tips and Tactics

 * As the cost of the next ability is reduced to zero, the Clearcasting state is best used to cast an expensive spell or use an expensive ability.
 * A Restoration druid can attack in melee for extra chances to trigger Clearcasting, which may then be used to cast free healing spells. This can be very useful at lower levels, but at higher levels it is generally fairly dangerous to enter into melee range as a healer.
 * Spells cast with Clearcasting cost no mana, and thus do not trigger the five second rule, allowing mana to continue to regenerate at full speed. This can be taken advantage of to greatly increase the potential mana gained from Omen of Clarity when healing.

Past versions
At the time of release, Omen of Clarity was a talent available in the balance tree which applied a weapon buff to the druid's melee weapon. The clearcasting state gave mana-free spells only (not rage or energy-free feral abilities) and could only be triggered by the druid meleeing in caster form (not by attacks in bear or cat form, and moonkin form did not yet exist).

The original balance tree was exceptionally unpopular among druids, and Omen of Clarity with its requirement for significant caster-form melee was an obscure talent in that tree.

Patch 1.8 radically changed the talent by:


 * Making it a buff on the character instead of the weapon.
 * Allowing it a chance to proc on all melee attacks, including those made in feral forms.
 * Expanding clearcasting to give free feral abilities, as well as free spells.

This transitioned an obscure balance spell into a very potent feral combat spell.