Restoration Shaman Healing Easy Mode — Dragonflight 10.0.7

Last updated on Mar 20, 2023 at 14:16 by Seksixeny 39 comments
General Information

On this page, we explain how to easily play Restoration Shaman in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.0.7, using the simplest rotation, talent tree, stat priority, gear setup, etc., without sacrificing performance.

1.

Foreword

This section is intended for players who are new to the game or class, have no intentions of raiding Mythic difficulty, or simply want a more straightforward way to play their specialization without being overwhelmed by the numerous priorities and active abilities that need to be taken into consideration for optimal play.

2.

The Basics for Restoration Shamans

Restoration Shaman is a healing specialization that excels at healing group damage and burst single-target healing. They have a variety of cooldowns to draw on that can suit any situation. In this section we will be focusing on a setup that minimizes the amount of buttons and reactivity necessary while still providing flexible and potent healing at your fingertips.

If you are completely new to Restoration and need more information on the abilities available to you, you can check out our Spell Summary page.

3.

Talent Choice for Restoration Shamans

These choices balance ease of use and raw power. Although different talents might offer higher gains when played well, these same talents often result in healing losses when utilized by less experienced players.

The talents recommended below aim to present a setup that has very little punishment for unfamiliarity or mistakes, and also includes the most used utility. Shaman is especially reliant on using fight-specific talents for its utility picks, and you should swap talents around when needed, for example to get Tremor Totem Icon Tremor Totem against Fear effects.

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If you are looking for the absolute best talents for Restoration, which do not compromise on performance for ease of use, you can find a more in-depth analysis on our full talents page below.

4.

Stat Choice for Restoration Shamans

Currently, you will want to prioritize stats as follows.

  1. Item Level
  2. Versatility = Critical Strike
  3. Haste = Mastery

While we provide stat preference lists, swapping gear to higher item level items — and their higher Intellect / total stats — should, usually, provide a larger upgrade than using lower item level items with better stats. The exception to this rule are items with important tertiary stats such as Leech, which should still be used ahead of other items without them, unless the difference in item level is around 7 or above.

If you want to see the full explanation of the stat priority, as well as the absolute top choices for the priority, head to our full stats page below.

5.

Basic Priority List for Restoration Shaman

  1. Keep Water Shield Icon Water Shield and Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield active on yourself;
  2. Keep Earth Shield Icon Earth Shield active on a tank;
  3. Keep Earthliving Weapon Icon Earthliving Weapon active on yourself;
  4. Use Cloudburst Totem Icon Cloudburst Totem on cooldown;
  5. Use Riptide Icon Riptide on an injured target whenever available;
  6. Use Healing Rain Icon Healing Rain on cooldown to heal groups of allies;
  7. Use Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal to heal groups of allies;
  8. Use Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge to provide emergency healing;
  9. Use Healing Wave Icon Healing Wave to provide Mana-efficient single-target healing;
  10. Use Lightning Bolt Icon Lightning Bolt for single-target damage and Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning against multiple enemies.

For a more detailed and optimized version of the priority list, check the full Restoration rotation page linked below.

6.

Healing Cooldowns for Restoration Shaman

Healing Cooldowns are meant to allow you to provide a big burst of healing or survivability to your group. In exchange, each of them is typically only usable once every 3 minutes. Below follows a short description of each cooldown and its basic applicability so that you can form an idea of when it is best to use them.

Earthen Wall Totem Icon Earthen Wall Totem can be deployed near party members taking high damage in emergencies, or rotationally as a form of Mana efficienct damage prevention.

Healing Tide Totem Icon Healing Tide Totem should be used when incoming group damage is high but spread equally over the whole group. It provides high spread healing over a period of time and can be used while moving, which allows you to use it while doing fight mechanics or casting other healing spells. As it heals all targets equally, it is especially useful in large groups when every player is evenly injured.

Mana Tide Totem Icon Mana Tide Totem (with Spiritwalker's Tidal Totem Icon Spiritwalker's Tidal Totem) is a flexible cooldown which should be used during high damage periods. It acts as a powerful multiplier to your healing for 10 seconds, as long as you make sure to spam Healing Wave Icon Healing Wave and Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal.

Ascendance Icon Ascendance is a healing multiplier which duplicates and distributes your healing evenly among allies within 20 yards. It will do high individual healing if you have only a few allies nearby, but low healing if many are within the 20-yard range.

Ancestral Guidance Icon Ancestral Guidance should also be used when incoming group damage is high, but it notably heals only 3 injured targets at a time for a high amount, allowing you to use it alongside other cooldowns, especially while under the effect of Ascendance Icon Ascendance or Spiritwalker's Tidal Totem Icon Spiritwalker's Tidal Totem, in order to convert high raw throughput increase into smart healing.

Spirit Link Totem Icon Spirit Link Totem grants 10% damage reduction to and redistributes the health of members inside the totem every second, keeping everyone inside at equal levels of health percentage. This cooldown is best used when there are allies taking deadly damage near other allies who are healthy, and is often combined with damage reduction raid or personal cooldowns and immunities, as the immune player will not take any damage from mechanics but still contribute to stabilizing the group through the totem's effect.

7.

Best Easy to Use Trinkets for Restoration Shamans

As this is the easy mode section, we will attempt to list trinkets that are easy to use and strong in all types of content below, as well as their sources.

You can find more trinket options and other gear, including BiS lists made from dungeon, raiding and PvP gear below:

8.

Changelog

  • 20 Mar. 2023: Updated talents and rotation for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 13 Dec. 2022: Added Primal Ritual Shell.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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