Forever Restoration Shaman Stat Priority

Welcome to the Stats page for Restoration Shaman. This page is intended for Level 60 players, but it can still be useful at early levels due to the detailed explanations on how each stat works and what it contributes to your healing output.

Keep in mind that with Forever, many items are changing entirely and we do not have a full picture of what gearing will look like to this point. As more information is gathered, stat recommendations may change.

Each stat provides unique bonuses explained below:

Stat	Bonus
Spell Healing	This stat increases the potency of your healing spells.
Critical Strike	This stat increases the chance for your spells to occasionally heal for a much larger amount, also known as getting a crit, and also has strong synergy with Restoration talents Water Shield and Ancestral Healing.
Intellect	Each Intellect point provides 15 Mana and slightly increases Spell Crit chance.
Spirit	Provides a large amount of Mana Regeneration if you have not finished a spell in the last 5 seconds. Mindfulness also allows for 50% of your Spirit-based Mana regeneration to still work even while you are casting.
MP5	Points of MP5 provide constant Mana Regeneration, regardless of whether you are inside the 5-second rule or not.

In this section, we will break down each stat further and give details beyond what was found in their basic descriptions.

Spell Healing is the simplest stat to understand, as it increases the amount healed by your spells by the amount of Spell Healing you have, weighted by their spell power coefficient which depends on their cast time: faster spells gain less benefit from Spell Healing than slower casting spells.

Spell Healing Explained

As explained before, the amount Spell Healing actually contributes towards each individual spell depends on their cast time. The way to calculate the coefficient for each spell is as follows:

Base Cast Time (before talents) / 3.5 to a maximum of 1 (100%) coefficient

Instant spells are treated as having a 1.5 cast time due to the global cooldown, which translates into a 1.5 / 3.5 ~= 43% coefficient, and healing over time spells gain full benefit over the whole duration of the spell. Actual Spell Healing gains are calculated as follows:

Spell Healing x Spell Power Coefficient = Extra Healing

As a practical example, Healing Wave has a ~86% coefficient due to its 3 second baseline cast time and would thus gain 86 extra healing from a Spell Healing gain of 100.

Here are the calculated Spell Coefficients for Restoration-relevant spells:

• Healing Wave – 0.857
• Chain Heal – 0.714
• Lesser Healing Wave – 0.43
• Riptide – 0.214 (direct), 0.1 (heal over time)
• Healing Stream Totem – 0.022

Critical Strike gear increases your Spell Critical chance by a fixed percentage. Healing Critical Strikes are 50% more effective than regular spells, but Restoration Shamans have further synergy with Critical Strike thanks to Water Shield and Ancestral Healing, which return Mana and grant a significant Armor bonus when you critically strike.

Intellect increases your Mana and slightly increases your Spell Critical Strike chance. While its main upside is making your Mana last for longer in encounters, it also grants a small direct DPS increase from the extra Critical Strike.

Intellect Scaling

Each point of Intellect will increase your stats by the following.

• Mana
  • 1 Point of Intellect increases your Maximum Mana by 15.
• Critical Strike
  • 54 points of Intellect increase your chance to Critical Strike by 1%.

Spirit provides a large amount of Mana Regeneration while outside the 5-second rule. Mindfulness allows this regeneration to continue at 50% power, but maximizing your benefit from Spirit still requires you to group your casts together in order to spend as much time as possible not casting anything for 100% Mana regeneration speed. If you are unfamiliar with the 5-second rule, click below for a detailed explanation.

5-Second Rule

Whenever you finish casting a spell, your Spirit-based Mana regeneration stops for 5 seconds, after which it returns in full. Mindfulness allows this regeneration to continue at 50% power while casting, but the nature of this rule means that if there is no urgent healing to be done, it is generally best to completely stop casting in order to maximize your Mana availability for when healing is actually needed later.

Mana per 5 provides steady Mana regeneration independently of whether you are casting or not, equal to the amount of it you have every 5 seconds. This is not impacted by whether or not you have recently been casting, allowing for full value at all times.

More WoW Forever Shaman Guides

Restoration Shaman Healer Leveling Elemental Shaman Ranged DPS Guide Elemental Shaman Ranged DPS Stats Elemental Shaman Ranged DPS Leveling Restoration Shaman Healer Guide Enhancement Shaman Melee DPS Leveling

More WoW Forever Guides from Other Classes

Affliction Warlock Ranged DPS Guide Holy Priest Healer Leveling Beast Mastery Hunter Ranged DPS Guide Restoration Druid Healer Stats Subtlety Rogue Melee DPS Guide Arcane Mage Ranged DPS Guide