Restoration Shaman Healing Gear and Best in Slot — Dragonflight 10.1
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for your Restoration Shaman in World of Warcraft Dragonflight 10.1.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Restoration Shaman gear and best in slot.
- 1. Gearing a Restoration Shaman
- 2. Gearing Up in Dragonflight
- 3. Restoration Shaman Gear Upgrades in Dragonflight Season 2
- 4. Best Items to Upgrade in Dragonflight Season 2
- 5. Restoration Shaman Tier Set for Dragonflight Season 2
- 6. Gear Sockets in Dragonflight
- 7. Onyx Annulet for Restoration Shamans in Dragonflight Season 2
- 8. Should Restoration Shamans Farm Onyx Annulet in Dragonflight Season 2?
- 9. Trinkets for Restoration Shamans
- 10. Crafted Gear and Embellishments for Restoration Shamans
- 11. Gear Simulations for Restoration Shaman
- 12. Mythic+ Best in Slot List for Restoration Shamans
- 13. Raid Best in Slot List for Restoration Shamans
Gearing a Restoration Shaman
Welcome to our Gearing Page for Restoration Shaman, where we will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.
If you have a new piece of gear that you need gems and enchants advice for, you can find everything you need on our dedicated page below.
Gearing Up in Dragonflight
There are three main paths to gear your characters in Dragonflight:
- World Content (crafting, reputations, quests, world bosses, world PvP);
- Instanced PvE Content (dungeons and raids);
- Instanced PvP Content (battlegrounds and arenas).
You are free to pursue any or all of these paths. The more content you do in the game, the faster your gearing up will be, but we recommend that you focus on the types of content you enjoy the most, letting gear come as a by-product of having fun!
Restoration Shaman Gear Upgrades in Dragonflight Season 2
In Dragonflight Season 2, Valor is being replaced by the
new Crest system, which works for all PvE gear, including crafted gear (through
new Enchanting crafts, such as Enchanted Aspect's Shadowflame Crest)
and loot from the new raid, Aberrus.
You will be able to loot Flightstones and Shadowflame Crests from practically
all forms of content in the game. They can be used to upgrade gear up to Item Level
441, which is entry-level Mythic Raid Item Level. They can also upgrade Crafted Gear
up to Item Level 447, which is late-Mythic Item Level.
For more information on the new Gear Upgrades system, check out our dedicated page for it below:
As with Valor, the cost to upgrade scales differs per slot but now also increases
quickly as Item Levels go up. In order to create crafted gear in Season 2, you
will need the new Spark of Shadowflame, which you can obtain one of in the
first week of patch 10.1, with extras coming every 2 weeks for the remainder of
the season.
Gear obtained from PvP is upgradeable like before, with Conquest points earned from doing Rated PvP and other PvP activities.
Also, keep in mind that you should generally be using your highest item-level gear. If you have an Intellect two-hander that is of higher item level than your one-hand + shield combination, use the two-hander; otherwise, use the shield for an increase in survivability against physical damage.
Best Items to Upgrade in Dragonflight Season 2
You will usually want to start with upgrading your weapon, followed by trinkets, and then any leech / avoidance pieces or items you won't be replacing for a long time. Looking at the new raid as an example, these would be great choices:
Restoration Shaman Tier Set for Dragonflight Season 2
Restoration Shamans gain a new set from the Aberrus raid with the following bonuses:
Shaman Restoration 10.1 Class Set 2pc causes your
Healing Rain casts to heal each ally with your
Riptide on them for a significant amount;
Shaman Restoration 10.1 Class Set 4pc increases your healing done by 1% for 6 sec and the healing of your next
Healing Wave /
Healing Surge by 10%, or your next
Chain Heal by 2%. These effects stack and are increased by each ally healed by the 2-piece effect.
Besides getting them from doing the raid, you can also turn any non-profession piece of gear into a Tier piece with the Inspiration Catalyst system, which opens in the week of June 13th and will steadily accumulate tier-transformation charges throughout the rest of Season 2.
Gear Sockets in Dragonflight
In Dragonflight, only Helms, Necks, Bracers, Belts and Rings can have sockets.
These are guaranteed for necks and rings crafted from Jewelcrafting,
and you can add up to three sockets to any neck with the Jewelcrafting item
Tiered Medallion Setting, while other sockets are randomly rolled on items
when they drop.
Engineering items also come with a special Tinker Socket where
instead of gems, you socket special Engineering perks such as Tinker: Breath of Neltharion,
Tinker: Arclight Vital Correctors, or
Tinker: Plane Displacer.
Onyx Annulet for Restoration Shamans in Dragonflight Season 2
The Onyx Annulet is much stronger than equivalent 424 rings and still
worth using for most of Season 2. You can obtain it in your first Zskera Vault
run in the Forbidden Reach area.
For more details on how to customize your ring with Primordial Gemstones, please refer to our dedicated page:
For more information regarding the Onyx Annulet, the Primordial Gemstones, and how to obtain them, check out our dedicated guide for it below:
Should Restoration Shamans Farm Onyx Annulet in Dragonflight Season 2?
As Onyx Annulet is still very powerful in Season 2, it is a great item
to farm, especially as it can be done very fast, even for low-gear players!
Trinkets for Restoration Shamans
Take note that a trinket's worth might vary wildly between types of content.
For example, in PvP a PvP trinket
set should almost always be the best due to the powerful set bonus. A powerful
damage trinket such as Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance from Inscription
is great for Mythic+, while Raiding tends to favor stat-increasing trinkets.
The ranking system is as follows:
- S Tier: the strongest and most generally useful trinkets; these are always good choices;
- A Tier: these trinkets are slightly weaker than the S Tier traits, but are still solid choices;
- B Tier: a below-average trinket that should be picked only in the absence of an S or A Tier trinket.
S Tier
Rashok's Molten Heart (Aberrus);
Screaming Black Dragonscale (Aberrus);
Ominous Chromatic Essence (Aberrus);
Spoils of Neltharus (Neltharus);
Neltharion's Call to Dominance (Aberrus).
A Tier
Idol of the Lifebinder (Jewelcrafting);
Idol of the Spell-Weaver (Jewelcrafting);
Rainsong (The Vortex Pinnacle);
Sustaining Alchemist Stone (Alchemy);
Broodkeeper's Promise (Vault of the Incarnates);
Whispering Incarnate Icon (Vault of the Incarnates);
Erupting Spear Fragment (Neltharus).
B Tier
Conjured Chillglobe (Vault of the Incarnates);
Alacritous Alchemist Stone (Alchemy);
Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance (Inscription);
Ward of Faceless Ire (Aberrus);
Irideus Fragment (Halls of Infusion);
Time-Breaching Talon (Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr);
Primal Ritual Shell (World Quests);
Water's Beating Heart (Halls of Infusion).
Crafted Gear and Embellishments for Restoration Shamans
Sparks of Shadowflame
The Spark of Shadowflame is a time-gated resource used in all high-end
gear crafting, which you can find more about in our specialized guide below:
Be careful when deciding what you want to craft with these sparks, as there is no way to get them back once an item is crafted.
Embellishments
Embellishments are special effects that are either found on crafted pieces by default or can be added to crafted pieces during the crafting process. A character can have two embellishments equipped at any time. The following are our recommended embellishments:
Magazine of Healing Darts is quite a strong option after its huge buff in Season 2, and you can easily get it from a one-hand weapon craft with your first spark, for example;
Undulating Sporecloak is another great option which should help keep you alive, especially while you are at low Leech levels;
Venom-Steeped Stompers has an excellent upside, as you will be gaining a huge amount of the stat you care about the most while losing what you care about the least;
Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards provide a good amount of stats with their effect, but unfortunately these stats are mostly Haste and Mastery, which are also our weakest stats;
Elemental Lariat is a Jewelcrafting necklace with a powerful stat proc. This is a great embellishment, but only when you have at least 5 sockets on your gear due to the way the buff scales with socket amount. The stat you get from it on dual-stat gems is the lowest stat available on the gem;
Potion Absorption Inhibitor adds 50% extra duration to Potion uses. This amounts to a large stat increase with
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power or extra Mana with
Potion of Frozen Focus or
Potion of Chilled Clarity;
Blue Silken Lining grants a lot of Mastery but does require you to be healthy, which is usually not the case when you need to heal the most because everyone in the raid just took a very large hit;
- The Horizon Strider's Garments set would be potentially interesting with higher tuning, but unfortunately, it currently takes two embellishment slots while having a very low proc rate, on top of providing Haste which we value the least.
Season 2 also includes multiple embellishments that do not count towards your
maximum limit, and thus count as free power, such as Medical Wrap Kit and
Reserve Parachute, as well as Season 1's
Alchemical Flavor Pocket
which is sure to continue being a great pick for Mythic+!
Crafting Strategy
While your Spark of Ingenuitys are limited at the beginning of the tier,
we recommend being very careful how you spend them. Our current recommendation is
to use your first Spark to craft a one-hand weapon with
Magazine of Healing Darts,
such as the
Primal Molten Spellblade from Blacksmithing.
After that, you should get the Undulating Sporecloak, or one of the
other embellishment options, such as
Venom-Steeped Stompers or another
Magazine of Healing Darts.
Gear Simulations for Restoration Shaman
Simulating your damage is mostly a thing that DPS players do, as Healers need to interweave their healing with damage, which means their damage potential is always contingent on how much healing is needed.
For the most part, all you need to think about for damage is avoiding the Mastery stat, which has no DPS value. Learn more about how to optimize your damage rotation below.
For Healing, we recommend analyzing your performance in past encounters instead. Tools such as Warcraft Logs, WoW Analyzer, and QE Live are capable of giving you an accurate stat weight and tips on how to improve based on your logs.
You can find more details on how to make the most out of these tools in the specialized page below.
Mythic+ Best in Slot List for Restoration Shamans
In Season 2 of Dragonflight, not every dungeon will be available. Instead of having 8 entirely new dungeons, there will be 4 dungeons from Dragonflight expansion and 4 dungeons from previous expansions.
The 4 Dragonflight dungeons of Season 2 are: Halls of Infusion, Brackenhide Hollow, Neltharus, and Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr.
The 4 returning dungeons in Season 2 are: Underrot, The Vortex Pinnacle, Freehold, and Neltharion's Lair.
Although it is not directly linked in the list below, you should get the
new Tier set 4-piece bonus when possible, upgrading any eligible gear you loot
with the Catalyst. The best off-piece available is the chest Fatebound Chainmail.
Slot | Item | Source |
---|---|---|
Helm | ![]() |
Neltharus |
Neck | ![]() |
Brackenhide Hollow |
Shoulders | ![]() |
Brackenhide Hollow |
Cloak | ![]() |
Neltharus |
Chest | ![]() |
Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr |
Wrists | ![]() |
Neltharus |
Gloves | ![]() |
Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr |
Belt | ![]() |
Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr |
Legs | ![]() |
Brackenhide Hollow |
Boots | ![]() |
Halls of Infusion |
Ring #1 | ![]() |
Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr |
Ring #2 | ![]() |
Halls of Infusion |
Weapon | ![]() |
Brackenhide Hollow |
Shield | ![]() |
Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr |
Raid Best in Slot List for Restoration Shamans
Below is a sample list of recommended Aberrus items. As usual, prioritize Leech / Avoidance pieces and the highest item-level equipment you have regardless of its secondary stat distribution.
Also, although it is not directly linked in the list below, you should get the
new Tier set 4-piece bonus as quickly as possible, upgrading the suggested pieces
if needed in the Catalyst. The best off-piece available are the legs Scalecommander's Ebon Schynbalds.
Also, feel free to mix and match this gear with the Mythic+ best-in slot gear and fill in any gaps with powered-up crafting gear.
Changelog
- 01 May 2023: Season 2 upgrade system recap, updated Embellishment recommendation, and added some trinkets.
- 23 Mar. 2023: Updated post multiple gem buffs for the Onyx Annulet making it worth using.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Added information on the new Onyx Annulet ring.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 21 Dec. 2022: Revamped trinket recommendations and raid best in slot suggestions.
- 13 Dec. 2022: Added Embellishment recommendations and 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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This guide has been written by Seksi, member of Arctic Avengers and healing aficionado. You can find him answering questions and discussing Restoration Shaman gameplay on the Ancestral Guidance and Earthshrine Discords.
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