Restoration Shaman Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight Season 1

While these are the baseline recommended talents, feel free to swap to different utility talents to suit your group composition, target dungeon, and active weekly affixes.

The general idea behind these talents is to give you high baseline healing and utility, including picking Ancestral Vigor to provide extra health to your party, reducing the impact of incoming burst damage. Acid Rain is skipped because it does very low damage and requires Healing Rain, which is a relatively weak button for Farseer in Mythic+ and can safely be skipped.

Flow of the Tides works well in keys as you will generally have Riptides to spare since there are only 5 targets for them, allowing you to always buff your Chain Heal without losing a lot of potential Riptide healing.

Unleash Life allows for near-permanent uptime of one Ancestor, and is a mandatory talent in Farseer builds, which tend to have better spread and spot healing due to stronger Healing Wave casts with Maelstrom Supremacy and Windspeaker.

The choice between Preeminence and First Ascendant comes down to whether the key route you planned requires you to press Ascendance more often than every 3 minutes, but by default, Preeminence has better synergy with Deeply Rooted Elements which we also spec.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

While these are the baseline recommended talents, feel free to swap to different utility talents to suit your raid setup and boss-by-boss needs.

While Healing Tide Totem works well with Totemic due to the new additional effect of Splitstream and new Primal Catalyst talent, Ascendance has higher potential healing and allows for very high single target healing when active, while HTT is a pure raid healing cooldown, making it a more flexible option.

The higher Ascendance uptime thanks to Deeply Rooted Elements has great synergy with Resurgence through the guaranteed double Healing Wave crits on every cast, which are made faster by Preeminence. Its alternative talent, First Ascendant, is a strong swap on fights with 2-minute raid damage, such as Vorasius intermissions.

Chain Heal and its support talents combo well with Totemic Hero talents as you will be able to cast many of them for free with Lively Totems whenever you use Healing Stream Totem, which has a reduced cooldown thanks to the new Totemic Momentum talent.

Finally, we skip Downpour in favor of Riptide talents such as Undercurrent and Wavespeaker's Blessing because they are easier to use and do not represent a significant healing loss over perfect usages of Downpour.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

While these are the baseline recommended talents, feel free to swap to different utility talents to suit the kind of Delve you are entering and its specific challenges.

While Restoration is not particularly fast at clearing Delves in general, it has the advantage of being able to do it while keeping itself healthy without much effort through beefy self-healing with Healing Wave and multiple cooldowns that work surprisingly well when healing only yourself, and perhaps also a handful of allies such as your Delve companion.

For advanced players, swapping to Reactive Warding is actually very strong because in a very small group setting Earth Shield is a major source of healing and thus this talent accrues a lot of value from low count shield refreshes. It is also much easier to refresh with the new Instinctive Imbuements, which refreshes all of your shields and buffs whenever you refresh Water Shield.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

While these are the baseline recommended talents, feel free to swap to different utility talents to suit your group composition, target dungeon, and active weekly affixes.

The general idea behind these talents is to give you high baseline healing and utility, including picking Acid Rain for extra passive DPS. Ancestral Vigor is also a great talent to take to reduce the impact of burst damage on your allies.

While Flow of the Tides is usually good in Mythic+, the large amount of Chain Heals cast automatically by totems tends to cause them to be removed unexpectedly, making Ancestral Reach more consistent.

Despite Healing Tide Totem having synergy with Totemic due to the new additional effect of Splitstream and new Primal Catalyst talent, Ascendance allows for very high single target healing when active, while HTT is a pure group healing cooldown, making it a more flexible option.

Chain Heal and its support talents combo well with Totemic Hero talents as you will be able to cast many of them for free with Lively Totems whenever you use Healing Stream Totem, which has a reduced cooldown thanks to the new Totemic Momentum talent.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

While these are the baseline recommended talents, feel free to swap to different utility talents to suit your raid setup and boss-by-boss needs.

Farseer has strong cast time healing due to Maelstrom Supremacy and Windspeaker, which leads to high value per cast.

The higher Ascendance uptime thanks to Deeply Rooted Elements has great synergy with Resurgence through the guaranteed double Healing Wave crits on every cast, which are made faster by Preeminence.

The choice between Preeminence and First Ascendant comes down to whether the healing cooldown plan for the boss you are doing requires you to press Ascendance more often than 3-minutes or not, but by default Preeminence has better synergy with Deeply Rooted Elements which we also spec.

Finally, we skip Downpour in favor of Riptide talents such as Undercurrent and Wavespeaker's Blessing because they synergize better with Farseer talents, and Downpour heals for much less when used with Healing Rain compared to Surging Totem.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!