Restoration Shaman Healing Mythic+ Tips — Shadowlands 9.2.5

Mythic+ Dungeons, especially high ones, are the highest level of competitive PvE content that WoW has to offer aside from Mythic raiding. As the group's healer, their survival is in your hands, and fortunately Restoration Shamans are great at healing through unexpected damage and recovering from mistakes.

Besides Healing, you can also contribute to your group by dealing high damage with Kyrian's Vesper Totem and Raging Vesper Vortex, as well as by interrupting, removing buffs on enemies, and crowd controlling enemies. Situations where you can make good use of your utility kit are more common in Mythic+ than raiding, providing an interesting change of pace.

We would also recommend using the M+ Timer weak aura if you want to improve on the default UI run tracker, and a Spiteful tracker to help you dodging the ghosts on Spiteful weeks.

Encrypted spawns enemies in the dungeon that provide powerful buffs depending on which enemy is killed first. The buffs that are obtainable are:

• Decrypted Vy Cypher grants 15% Haste and a chance to do extra damage or healing for 45 seconds;
• Decrypted Urh Cypher increases your cooldown recovery rate by 200% and restores 10% Health and Mana per second for 10 seconds;
• Decrypted Wo Cypher increases movement speed by 150% and grants 15% damage reduction for 45 seconds. It also stealths the group when out of combat, similar to Shroud of Concealment.

Most groups should get the Haste increase or cooldown reduction, depending on the situation and group composition. While Haste is straightforward, cooldown reduction will enable you to use your short cooldowns more, and deal even more damage with Vesper Totem and Earth Elemental / Deeptremor Stone combo.

Whether from doing the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid or from the Mythic+ friendly weekly Great Vault and new Creation Catalyst system, Restoration Shamans can get a new tier set in Patch 9.2 with the following bonuses:

• Restoration Shaman 2-Piece — Your critical healing increases the critical chance of your next Chain Heal by 2%, stacking up to 50 times.
• Restoration Shaman 4-Piece — Your Chain Heal critical hits reduce the remaining cooldown of one of your totems by 2 seconds. Your Healing Stream Totem, Healing Tide Totem, Mana Tide Totem, and Spirit Link Totem cast a free, instant Chain Heal when you drop them.

Chain Heal is not a particularly strong spell in Mythic+ but, once you have any of the set bonuses, you will be looking to use it a lot more whenever there are multiple injured party members in close proximity of each other.

Once the 4-piece bonus is unlocked this will be particularly important, as you can gain a lot of cooldown reduction for Vesper Totem while healing your party, thus also increasing your DPS for free. Make sure to keep using your damage and single-target healing spells, as Chain Heal is neither Mana efficient nor has any damage component attached.

We go into more detail on how the tier set affects your rotation and how to obtain the set pieces, including info on the new tier set crafting system in the guides linked below.

When participating in a level 10 or higher Legion Timeworn Keystone you will encounter the new affix: Infernal, which adds Infernal Beacons near some bosses. Activating a Beacon or engaging a nearby boss will trigger a Legion invasion, which consists of multiple Legion-themed enemies for your group to deal with.

While Mythic+ demands more out of your single-target healing kit than raids, your spell priority does not change in Mythic+ content. For more information, check out the full Restoration Shaman Healing Rotation.

Note that the talents recommended below are specifically for Mythic+. If you wish to see a more general overview of Restoration talents, you can check our main page below.

Below are the suggested talents for Mythic+.

Level	Choices
15	✗ Torrent	✓ Undulation	? Unleash Life
25	✓ Echo of the Elements	? Deluge	✗ Surge of Earth
30	? Spirit Wolf	? Earthgrab Totem	✓ Static Charge
35	✓ Ancestral Vigor	✓ Earthen Wall Totem	? Ancestral Protection Totem
40	✓ Nature's Guardian	✓ Graceful Spirit	? Wind Rush Totem
45	? Flash Flood	✗ Downpour	✓ Cloudburst Totem
50	? High Tide	✗ Wellspring	✓ Ascendance

There are a few talent builds you can run, with all of them giving out similar results.

A popular talent combination is Undulation, Cloudburst Totem, and Ascendance. With these talents, you will constantly have single-target healing boosts, big Cloudbursts, and Ascendance as a powerful extra party cooldown for emergencies.

Deluge can be an option if you need extra healing, but we would generally recommend using Echo of the Elements for extra damage and healing flexibility.

While the recommendations here apply to Mythic+, feel free to check out our Covenant page for the full details on everything this system has to offer.

Overall, the best Covenant for Mythic+ is Kyrian due to Vesper Totem's huge damage potential, especially when combined with Elysian Dirge. Venthyr is also strong, with balanced damage and healing output, and is very easy to use.

Necrolord is the most defensive option, and does not provide any damage boosts. Finally, Night Fae is damage-focused like Kyrian, but lacks scaling area-of-effect damage, which makes it weaker in Mythic+.

These are the recommended Soulbinds for each Covenant:

Covenant	Soulbind	Recommended Tree
Kyrian	Forgelite Prime Mikanikos	Mikanikos Tree
Venthyr	Theotar the Mad Duke	Theotar Tree
Necrolord	Emeni	Emeni Tree
Night Fae	Niya	Niya Tree

Each of these soulbinds offers the best throughput and / or survivability in their respective Covenants, and they do it mostly through non-Mastery secondary stat increases, which will also increase your DPS potential!

Conduits-wise, Swirling Currents and either your Covenant ability Conduit or Heavy Rainfall are your best options for Potency, Refreshing Waters, Vital Accretion, or Condensed Anima Sphere are your best options for Endurance, and Totemic Surge is your best Finesse Conduit for the added Capacitor Totem cooldown reduction.

Heavy Rainfall is especially useful when dealing with high-area-damage enemy abilities, as it will allow you to output huge healing by the time the party damage starts to get out of hand.

While healing is your main role in Mythic+, dealing high damage is what sets Shamans apart from other healers. Thus, we will want to boost our damage further by using damage legendaries such as Raging Vesper Vortex, Elemental Conduit, Deeptremor Stone, and Elemental Equilibrium.

1. Raging Vesper Vortex (Kyrian)
2. Elemental Conduit (Venthyr)
3. Deeptremor Stone
4. Elemental Equilibrium

Raging Vesper Vortex, the Kyrian Legendary, makes Vesper Totem deal extra bursts of damage and healing once its healing or damage charges are spent. As long as you use all charges and hit players and enemies with the totem, this is an extremely strong Legendary.

Elemental Conduit, the new Venthyr Legendary, applies Riptide to all friendly targets hit by Chain Harvest and Flame Shock to all enemy targets. It also reduces the cooldown of Chain Harvest by 1 second for each Flame Shock critical strike. You can combine it with Skybreaker's Fiery Demise for maximum cooldown reduction, but it is usually best to just use a damage Legendary instead.

Deeptremor Stone is a pure damage Legendary, and also very strong for that purpose. The Earthquake effect makes your Earth Elemental cooldown be a strong contributor to your group's damage, especially when its use is planned ahead of time in a coordinated group.

Elemental Equilibrium also adds extra damage, but does it in a more steady and safe way. It does require you to use Frost Shock occasionally, which you would otherwise not use, but is the logical choice if your Earth Elemental keeps dying.

For extra alternatives and full descriptions, be sure to check out all the Legendaries on our guide below!

As this is the Mythic+ section, we will be listing trinkets with strong single-target healing effects, strong stat increases, or strong damage effects below.

• Unbound Changeling (Ingra Maloch in Mists of Tirna Scithe);
• So'leah's Secret Technique (So'leah in Tazavesh, the Veiled Market)
• Elegy of the Eternals (Prototype Pantheon in Sepulcher of the First Ones)
• Resonant Reservoir (Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle in Sepulcher of the First Ones)
• Grim Eclipse (Rygelon in Sepulcher of the First Ones)
• Soulletting Ruby (Kul'tharok in Theater of Pain);
• Auxillary Attendant Chime (Lords of Dread in Sepulcher of the First Ones)
• Titanic Ocular Gland (The Eye of the Jailer in Sanctum of Domination);
• Shadowed Orb of Torment (Remnant of Ner'zhul in Sanctum of Domination);
• Carved Ivory Keepsake (Fatescribe Roh-Kalo in Sanctum of Domination);
• Inscrutable Quantum Device (Dealer Xy'exa in De Other Side).
• First Class Healing Distributor (P.O.S.T. Master in Tazavesh, the Veiled Market);

You can change the stat increased by Unbound Changeling by eating stat food, the workings of which is also explained in the gear page. Consult it for extra information, gearing tips and the dungeon BiS list:

Restoration Shaman provides support for the party through healing, damage, and other additional effects such as dispels and crowd control.

• Shamans are great at dealing with Grievous, as each bounce on Chain Heal counts as a direct heal and will remove a grievous stack from any players hit.
• Purify Spirit removes all Curse and Magic effects from a friendly target on a 8-second cooldown. This can often allow the purified ally to survive otherwise deadly situations and usually lowers the damage intake of that ally.
• Purge removes one beneficial Magic effect from an enemy target. This is very useful in Mythic+, as there are a lot of enemies with very powerful Magic buffs that we can remove immediately.
• Wind Shear interrupts an enemy target and prevents spells of the interrupted school from being cast for 3 seconds on a 12-second cooldown. Restoration Shaman is the only healer that can interrupt and Wind Shear has the shortest cooldown out of all ranged interrupts. As interruptible enemy casts are, often, some of the most dangerous abilities you will face in Mythic+, you should try to interrupt enemies as much as possible, prioritizing the most dangerous casts / ranged enemies that are hard for melee allies to interrupt.
• Capacitor Totem allows you to place a totem up to 30 yards away that, 2 seconds after being placed, explodes to stun a group of enemies in a 16-yard diameter for 3 seconds, on a 1-minute cooldown. When facing dangerous trash packs, 3 seconds can easily be the difference between victory and defeat, especially against Raging / Necrotic. Be careful not to stun enemies on top of Sanguine pools.
• Earthgrab Totem and Earthbind Totem allow you to root / slow enemies in an area. This is very useful whenever your group has to crowd control powerful enemies, for example when facing Spiteful / Raging or Necrotic.
• Tremor Totem places a totem beneath you that periodically removes Fear, Charm, and Sleep effects from allies within 30 yards. It lasts for 10 seconds on a 1-minute cooldown. This should be used whenever enemies are casting Fear, Charm, or Sleep effects on your group.
• Hex disables a non-boss humanoid or beast enemy for 1 minute. It has a 10-second cooldown but only one enemy can be hexed at a time. This allows you to disable especially powerful enemies ahead of a pull.
• Earth Elemental summons an elemental with a large health pool and good non-boss tanking capabilities — its taunt does not work on bosses — for 1 minute on a 5-minute cooldown. Since it costs no Mana, it can be used for a minor DPS increase or as an emergency cooldown capable of distracting dangerous non-boss enemies.
• Bloodlust and Heroism increase Haste by 30% for 40 seconds for all group members within 100 yards. This ability applies a debuff to everyone in the group which prevents them from benefiting from other casts of this ability or other classes' equivalent abilities for 10 minutes.