Restoration Shaman Healing Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Restoration Shaman for Midnight. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Restoration Shaman, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

In Midnight, all item levels were squished, which means the numbers on all items and their item level was massively reduced, allowing for all numbers to grow again throughout the expansion and future content without becoming too large to understand.

For detailed information on gear stats and what you want to chase, check out our Stats page below.

Also, 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.

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BiS Gear for Restoration Shaman

Pre-Season BiS List for Pre-Season

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Pre-Season BiS List for Restoration Shaman in Pre-Season

As usual, prioritize Leech / Avoidance pieces and the highest item level equipment you have, regardless of its secondary stat distribution.

The crafted items you should use depends on what loot you have out of the list below, but assuming a clean slate, you will want two crafted items with Arcanoweave Lining, preferably on weaker slots such as cloak and bracers.

FAQAre Two-Handed weapons viable?

While using a Shield is typically better due to the armor benefits, and certainly mandatory in PvP, in PvE you will rarely be taking damage that can be mitigated by armor. This makes using two-handed weapons completely viable, as long as they have high item level and good secondary stats, or a powerful unique effect.

Early on nothing beats crafting a two-handed weapon to get the most amount of power as quickly as possible. The list below assumes you already obtained a maximum level weapon from the available PvE sources, thus not requiring a craft.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Berserker's Hexclaws	Maisara Caverns
Off-Hand	Teldrassil's Sacrifice	The Blinding Vale
Helm	Vortex Visage	Magister's Terrace
Neck	Graft of the Domanaar	Voidscar Arena
Shoulder	Jangling Felpaulets	Murder Row
Cloak	Courtly Cloak	Tailoring
Chest	Manipulator's Vest	Voidscar Arena
Bracers	Scout's Scaled Bracers	Leatherworking
Gloves	Pulverizing Pads	The Blinding Vale
Belt	Tribal Defender's Cord	Den of Nalorakk
Legs	Wickedweave Trousers	Maisara Caverns
Boots	Whipcoil Sabatons	Windrunner Spire
Ring #1	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Heart of Wind	Windrunner Spire
Trinket #2	Emberwing Feather	Windrunner Spire

Until we have a more clear understanding of the trinkets available, we recommend using Heart of Wind and Emberwing Feather, with Refueling Orb also being very strong for buffing allies, and Unstable Felheart Crystal being a great trinket for saving allies that drop low suddenly.

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. We currently recommend using two Arcanoweave Lining Embellishments.

Our current recommendation is to craft two pieces of gear with Arcanoweave Lining, preferably on weaker slots such as cloak and bracers.

Alternatively, if you want to maximize your power as quickly as possible rather than aiming for overall best in slot, you can craft a two-handed weapon such as Floratender's Crutch, instead. This will give you the power of a 1h plus off-hand for half the crest investment, but without a shield, you will have much lower armor against physical attacks, which is not a big deal in PvE but not recommended for PvP and soloing.

While you can submit crafting orders for the items you need, you can also learn how to efficiently craft the items for yourself and your alts in our guides below:

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 or pieces with large stat allocations such as helms or legs. These would be great choices, for example:

1. Highest item level weapon you have;
2. Highest item level trinket(s) of S-rank you have;
3. Any Leech / Avoidance pieces of high item level.

You can learn more about the Gear Upgrade System in our Gear Upgrade System page.

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.