Restoration Shaman Healing Gear and Best in Slot — Dragonflight 10.0.2

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.

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!

Gear obtained from Mythic+ sources can be upgraded through the Valor system, where you gain an amount of points for each key completed that scales with the key level and are able to upgrade gear with those points up to a limit defined by your Mythic+ rating.

Gear obtained from PvP is upgradeable in a similar fashion by using 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.

Restoration Shamans gain a new set from the Vault of the Incarnates raid with the following bonuses:

• Restoration Shaman 2pc increases your Critical Strike chance by 10% while Healing Stream Totem (or Cloudburst Totem) are active;
• Restoration Shaman 4pc increases the effectiveness of your Critical Strike healing from 200% to 215%.

Besides getting them from doing the raid, you can also turn any non-profession piece of gear into a Tier piece with the new Inspiration Catalyst system, which opens later in the season and will steadily accumulate tier-transformation charges throughout the rest of Season 1.

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.

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: Inferno from Inscription is great for Mythic+, while Raiding tends to favor stat increasing trinkets.

The ranking system is as follows:

1. S Tier: the strongest and most generally useful trinkets; these are always good choices;
2. A Tier: these trinkets are slightly weaker than the S Tier traits, but are still solid choices;
3. B Tier: a below-average trinket that should be picked only in the absence of an S or A Tier trinket.

• Broodkeeper's Promise (Vault of the Incarnates);
• Whispering Incarnate Icon (Vault of the Incarnates);
• Voidmender's Shadowgem (Shadowmoon Burial Grounds);
• Mote of Sanctification (Halls of Valor);
• Spoils of Neltharus (Neltharus);
• Alacritous Alchemist Stone (Alchemy);
• Idol of the Lifebinder (Jewelcrafting);
• Idol of the Spell-Weaver (Jewelcrafting).

• Miniature Singing Stone (The Nokhud Offensive);
• Erupting Spear Fragment (Neltharus);
• Horn of Valor (Halls of Valor);
• Emerald Coach's Whistle (Algeth'ar Academy);
• Flask of the Solemn Night (Court of Stars);
• Eye of Skovald (Halls of Valor);
• Furious Ragefeather (The Nokhud Offensive);
• Static-Charged Scale (World Boss - Strunraan).

• Darkmoon Deck Box: Inferno (Inscription);
• Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance (Inscription);
• Ruby Whelp Shell (Ruby Life Pools);
• Conjured Chillglobe (Vault of the Incarnates);
• Darkmoon Deck: Inferno (Inscription);
• Darkmoon Deck: Dance (Inscription);
• Time-Breaching Talon (Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr);
• Water's Beating Heart (Halls of Infusion).

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.

This list has a rough best in slot shopping list for the period before the Vault of the Incarnates raid, Mythic+, and Rated PvP are released.

Keep in mind any of the pieces listed below can be replaced by a crafted item. We recommend picking a weapon or filling whatever slot you have the weakest item on once the pre-season is close to ending.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Amphibian's Bellowing Crown	Halls of Infusion
Neck	Ukhel Ancestry Beads	The Nokhud Offensive
Shoulders	Scaled Commencement Spaulders	Algeth'ar Academy
Cloak	Mammoth-Trainer's Drape	Neltharus
Chest	Hauberk of Frozen Fervor	Halls of Infusion
Wrists	Obsidian-Hardened Wraps	Neltharus
Gloves	Galerattle Gauntlets	Ruby Life Pools
Belt	Azure Belt of Competition	Algeth'ar Academy
Legs	Tassets of Densified Ooze	Brackenhide Hollow
Boots	Lightning-Charged Striders	The Nokhud Offensive
Ring #1	Platinum Star Band	Algeth'ar Academy
Ring #2	Scalebane Signet	Neltharus
2-Hand Weapon	Chillworn's Infusion Staff	Ruby Life Pools
1-Hand Weapon	Decatriarch's Bone Pestle	Brackenhide Hollow
Shield	Qalashi Defender	Neltharus

In Season 1 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 are: Ruby Life Pools, Algeth'ar Academy, The Azure Vault, and The Nokhud Offensive.

The 4 returning dungeons in Season 1 are: Court of Stars, Halls of Valor, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds, and Temple of the Jade Serpent.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Sharpeye Gleam	Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
Neck	Ukhel Ancestry Beads	The Nokhud Offensive
Shoulders	Scaled Commencement Spaulders	Algeth'ar Academy
Cloak	Soot-Scarred Longcloak	Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
Chest	Morningscale Chestguard	Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
Wrists	Shikaar Ranger Bracers	The Nokhud Offensive
Gloves	Galerattle Gauntlets	Ruby Life Pools
Belt	Azure Belt of Competition	Algeth'ar Academy
Legs	Tideskorn Leggings	Halls of Valor
Boots	Lightning-Charged Striders	The Nokhud Offensive
Ring #1	Band of Growing Leaves	Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
Ring #2	Crystallized Droplet	Temple of the Jade Serpent
Weapon	Koroleth's Crackling Dagger	The Nokhud Offensive
Shield	Drake Rider's Stecktarge	Ruby Life Pools

Below is a sample list of recommended Vault of the Incarnates items. As usual, prioritize Leech / Avoidance pieces and the highest item level equipment you have regardless of its secondary stat distribution.

Also, feel free to mix and match this gear with the Mythic+ best in slot gear, and to fill in any gaps with powered-up crafting gear.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Eranog's Adorned Sallet	Eranog
Neck	Eye of the Vengeful Hurricane	Dathea, Ascended
Shoulders	Calderas of Infused Earth	Broodkeeper Diurna
Cloak	Acid-Proof Webbing	Sennarth
Chest	Robe of Infused Earth	Kurog Grimtotem
Wrists	Surging-Song Conductors	Kurog Grimtotem
Gloves	Calamitous Shockguards	Raszageth
Belt	Unnatural Dripstone Cinch	Sennarth
Legs	Leggings of Infused Earth	Sennarth
Boots	Kurog's Thunderhooves	Kurog Grimtotem
Ring #1	Seal of Filial Duty	Broodkeeper Diurna
Ring #2	Seal of Diurna's Chosen	Eranog
Weapon	Stormlash's Last Resort	Raszageth
Shield	Broodsworn Legionnaire's Pavise	Broodkeeper Diurna