Restoration Shaman Healing Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Restoration Shaman, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within Pre-Patch.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Restoration Shaman gems and enchants.
Enchants, Gems and Consumables for Restoration Shaman
This guide covers the best enchants, gems, and consumables you can currently use.
To better understand why these specific enchants and gems are recommended, check out the detailed stats guide below.
Best Gems for Restoration Shamans
Gems are crafted by Jewelcrafting, and you can use as many as you
have sockets in your gear. You can guarantee sockets in your necklace
with the Tiered Medallion Setting, also crafted by Jewelcrafters.
You will always want to have one Primalist Gem, ideally the maximum
Quality Inscribed Illimited Diamond, but the baseline
Inscribed Illimited Diamond is still worth using over any other gem.
Radiant Alexstraszite is the best gem to stack on the other slots,
especially if you are using the Jewelcrafting-produced trinket
Idol of the Lifebinder, which scales with the amount of Alexstraszite gems
you are using.
Best Enchants for Restoration Shamans
Most enchants are produced by the Enchanting profession and all gear
enchants are affected by Quality, with the best version of each enchant,
such as the three-star Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Leech, being stronger than
lower versions, such as the one-star
Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Leech.
You should also use the Leg enchants from Tailoring, which have
cheap ( Vibrant Spellthread) and expensive (
Temporal Spellthread)
versions, and the
Shadowed Belt Clasp Belt enchants from Blacksmithing.
We will be listing only the best versions of each enchant, but lower versions can be used to save gold.
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Consumables for Restoration Shamans
Best Phials and Potions for Restoration Shamans
Phials are the new Flasks and persist through death for 30 minutes. Potions are short-duration powerful effects. Alchemy crafts both and affected by Quality which increases their effects.
Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage is the best phial for raw throughput but
also has a significant downside which might lead you into using
Phial of Elemental Chaos
instead.
Phial of Tepid Versatility grants a lower throughput benefit but
has a significant damage reduction component, which is excellent in a progress or
high-key scenario where your survivability is critical.
Use Potion of Frozen Focus to regenerate Mana if you can afford the
downtime. Otherwise
Aerated Mana Potion or
Potion of Chilled Clarity
(with heavy
Chain Heal /
Healing Surge usage) are better.
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power or the cheaper
Elemental Potion of Power
can be used for throughput if you are fine on Mana.
Residual Neural Channeling Agent and
Delicate Suspension of Spores
can be used while dead and be the difference between victory and defeat in an
encounter.
Dreamwalker's Healing Potion does not share the same cooldown as
Healthstones and should be used for emergency self-healing.
Best Food for Restoration Shamans
Food is crafted by Cooking and has no Quality, which means all versions of a food item are equal.
Eat from the Dragonflight feasts, Hoard of Draconic Delicacies
or
Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak, if possible. Otherwise, eat
Deviously Deviled Eggs,
Fated Fortune Cookie,
Revenge, Served Cold, or the cheaper
Filet of Fangs.
Other Consumables for Restoration Shamans
If you are not using Earthliving Weapon, use the
Buzzing Rune
Fauna Rune, crafted by Inscription, on your weapon.
Augment Runes for Restoration Shamans
Draconic Augment Rune, or the infinite
Dreambound Augment Rune,
can be used for an additional stat boost during progression raiding or the toughest
Mythic+ keys.
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 18 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Explained the Onyx Annulet nerfs and its new status as a decent, but not great, ring.
- 10 May 2023: Added the new waist enchant, Shadowed Belt Clasp.
- 09 May 2023: Adjusted for Corrupting Rage May 9th bug fix.
- 05 May 2023: Adjusted Spore Tender recommendation post 72% nerf and for Corrupting Rage bugged state.
- 01 May 2023: Added Spore Tender enchant, Phial of Corrupting Rage, and Deviously Deviled Eggs.
- 24 Mar. 2023: Further Onyx Annulet updates.
- 23 Mar. 2023: Updated post multiple gem buffs for the Onyx Annulet making it worth using.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated with the Onyx Annulet for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 30 Nov. 2022: Added leg enchants from Tailoring Spellthreads.
- 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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