Hybrid Riptide / Frost Shock

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Hybrid Riptide / Frost Shock

An optional Restoration talent key: instant Riptide support for friends or Frost Shock damage and slowing on the selected enemy.

This macro is based on research and still needs testing in game. Check the requirements and known limits before trying it.

Exact macro text

FF Tide Frost

  • HELPRiptideAlt self · friendly mouseover · friendly target
  • HARMFrost ShockSelected enemy · after friendly branches
#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt,@player][@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead] Riptide; [harm,nodead] Frost Shock

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Riptide: recorded level 40 · talent: Riptide; Frost Shock: recorded level 20. Confirm acquisition and other requirements in Details.

How this fits a Shaman key layout — compare shared keys and dedicated controls before choosing your pack.

Build and validation

Status
Researched
Target builds
1.60.1-beta, 1.60.1.70009
Tested builds
No recorded client test
Class / profile
Shaman / Healing
Specializations
Restoration

Targeting and features

Alt: yourself — Riptide → Otherwise: living friendly mouseover — Riptide → Otherwise: living friendly current target — Riptide → Otherwise: living hostile current target — Frost Shock → No matching branch: no cast

ModifierMouseoverPaired help / harmSelf Cast

Requirements

  • Riptide learned; source first-learning level 40; Frost Shock learned; source first-learning level 20. Each action needs its own learned spell.
  • Riptide requires its actual Restoration talent with a legal allocation and its Healing Way prerequisite; the reviewed tree requires 31 points including Riptide. A spec label alone does not grant it.

Known limitations

  • Researched design, not tested in the Forever client. Beta names, requirements and behavior may change.
  • English spell names only. Unqualified casts use the learned rank selected by the client; reference spell IDs do not force rank 1.
  • The first matching branch wins. An out-of-range, obstructed, unlearned or otherwise unusable helpful action does not fall through to the hostile action. Cooldown or resource failure never chooses another spell.
  • Keep Alt plus this key free of conflicting bindings. Alt explicitly selects yourself even with an enemy selected.
  • A living friendly mouseover takes priority over your selected enemy. Move the cursor off friendly units and frames when you intend to use the hostile action.
  • Enemy mouseover cannot redirect the hostile action. No target-of-target branch, automatic self fallback, retargeting or lowest-health selection is included.
  • Dead mouseover units are skipped, so a living selected enemy can still receive the hostile action. With no matching living recipient and no Alt, no spell is selected.
  • One press attempts one spell. No rotation, proc detection, cooldown fallback, /stopcasting or explicit /startattack is included. Normal cast and channel interactions still apply.
  • The Riptide branch is talent-gated; Frost Shock remains baseline. An unavailable Riptide does not cause a matching friendly branch to cast Frost Shock.
  • Riptide and Frost Shock keep their own spell effects, ranges and cooldown constraints; the macro never chooses by cooldown or healing urgency.
  • Frost Shock applies a slow that can be immune and has shorter range than Riptide in the source. Keep dedicated slow and interrupt access when required.
  • Riptide can improve a later Chain Heal directed at that recipient in the reviewed source. The player must choose that follow-up; this key does not select or chain it.

Notes

  • Keep these paired abilities in the same positions across this class's three specs. Add optional talent keys separately instead of remapping a shared pair.
  • Pairings are Allegedly Skilled recommendations for predictable bindings, not measured damage, healing or mana optima. Sharing a key grants no mechanical bonus and does not cast both spells.
  • All new hybrid keys use Alt self, living friendly mouseover, living friendly selected target, then living hostile selected target. Choose the question-mark icon for a paired key and verify its tooltip in the client.
  • Source first-learning levels and actual talent allocations are distinct requirements; neither a preferred spec label nor extra Legacy points prove spell acquisition.
  • Ability metadata adapted from Chris Baldwin / Talents Forever, https://talentsforever.com, CC BY 4.0. Macro designs and pairing recommendations are original Allegedly Skilled work.
  • Add as a fourth optional position once the actual Riptide talent is learned; do not move Healing Wave, Lesser Healing Wave or either Chain action.
  • Both branches are sourced instant actions, a deliberate convenience pairing. This is not a claim that Frost Shock is the highest-damage Restoration choice.

Abilities

  • Riptide
  • Frost Shock

Spell IDs

  • 408521
  • 8056

Modifiers

  • Alt: cast Riptide on yourself

Sources

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