Restoration Shaman Healing Mythic+ Tips — Dragonflight 10.2.5

Last updated on Feb 10, 2024 at 21:00 by Seksixeny 46 comments
General Information

In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Restoration Shaman in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.5.

1.

Restoration Shaman in Mythic+

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.

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 Skittish Icon Spiteful weeks.

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+, you can read more on general concepts and systems on our Dragonflight Mythic+ Season 3 guide:

2.

Mythic+ Talents for Restoration Shamans

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.

The main talent build has some of the utility points in the class tree allocated by default and takes most damage talents in the specialization tree, with the notable exception of Lava Surge Icon Lava Surge and Master of the Elements Icon Master of the Elements to simplify gameplay and free globals for healing or extra area damage with Chain Lightning Icon Chain Lightning.

As Restoration Shamans has many situational talents, make sure to adapt your general tree talents from dungeon to dungeon to include situational utility such as Tremor Totem Icon Tremor Totem for Fears, Improved Purify Spirit Icon Improved Purify Spirit (curse dispel) and Poison Cleansing Totem Icon Poison Cleansing Totem (poison dispel) for Afflicted Icon Afflicted, Hex Icon Hex for the new Incorporeal Icon Incorporeal, Thunderous Paws Icon Thunderous Paws for Entangling Icon Entangling, Capacitor Totem Icon Capacitor Totem for added CC, or even Spirit Wolf Icon Spirit Wolf for the extra damage reduction against one-shot mechanics!

We provide detailed dungeon-by-dungeon and affix-specific talent pick tips at the bottom of this page, so make sure to scroll down or click the linked text above if you are interested in those!

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2.1.

Mythic+ Talents for Restoration Shaman

2.2.

Restoration Shaman Mythic+ Rotation

While Mythic+ demands more out of your single-target healing kit and DPS kit than raids, your spell priority does not change in Mythic+ content. For more information, check out the full guides for healing and DPS rotations in the links below:

3.

Mythic+ Restoration Shaman Tier Set

Restoration Shamans gain a new set from the Amirdrassil raid with the following bonuses:

  • Shaman Restoration 10.2 Class Set 2pc Icon Shaman Restoration 10.2 Class Set 2pc causes your Chain Heal Icon Chain Heal, Healing Surge Icon Healing Surge, and Healing Wave Icon Healing Wave casts to mark their initial targets as a Tidal Reservoir, which causes them to receive 15% of your total Riptide Icon Riptide healing for 15 seconds;
  • Shaman Restoration 10.2 Class Set 4pc Icon Shaman Restoration 10.2 Class Set 4pc increases the healing of Riptide Icon Riptide by 25% and causes its ticks to have a 6% chance to create a new Riptide on a nearby ally if its ticking on a person marked by Tidal Reservoir.

Besides getting Tier pieces from doing the raid, you can also turn any non-profession piece of gear into a Tier piece with the Revival Catalyst, which starts with one charge in Season 3 and will gain a new one every other week.

While it is not the most impactful set in Mythic+ (and provides no damage benefits), it still creates a decent amount of healing for free. This makes it worth using in all but the lowest of keys where you barely need to heal, in which case an argument could be done for respeccing into DPS instead!

4.

Best Trinkets for Restoration Shamans in Mythic+

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.

More useful gear for and from Mythic+ can be found on our specialized gear guide:

5.

Restoration Shaman Utility

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

  • Thunderstorm Icon Thunderstorm is great to push enemies away from ground effects, such as Sanguine Icon Sanguine pools or Skittish Icon Spiteful shades. It can also be used with Thundershock Icon Thundershock for added crowd control that does not send enemies flying all over the place;
  • Purify Spirit Icon Purify Spirit removes all Magic (and Curse, when talented) effects from a friendly target on an 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 Icon 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 Icon Wind Shear interrupts an enemy target and prevents spells of the interrupted school from being cast for 3 seconds on a 12-second cooldown, which is 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 Icon 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 Icon Raging. Be careful not to stun enemies on top of Sanguine Icon Sanguine pools;
  • Earthgrab Totem Icon Earthgrab Totem and Earthbind Totem Icon 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 Skittish Icon Spiteful or Raging Icon Raging;
  • Tremor Totem Icon 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 Icon Hex disables a non-boss humanoid or beast enemy for 1 minute. This allows you to disable especially powerful enemies ahead of a pull, or the mobs spawned by Incorporeal Icon Incorporeal;
  • Earth Elemental Icon 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. It can be used for a minor DPS increase or as an emergency cooldown capable of distracting dangerous non-boss enemies;
6.

Specific Affix and Dungeon Recommendations

While most affixes and dungeons do not need any specific advice, Shaman has unique tools to easily deal with tricky situations, as long as you know how to adapt your talent tree to each particular week or dungeon.

6.1.

Dragonflight Season 3 Dungeon Talent Adaptations for Restoration Shamans

As Wind Shear Icon Wind Shear and Capacitor Totem Icon Capacitor Totem are assumed baseline, the main utility talents you should be swapping in and out of depending on the dungeon are Tremor Totem Icon Tremor Totem, Improved Purify Spirit Icon Improved Purify Spirit, Purge Icon Purge, Stoneskin Totem Icon Stoneskin Totem, and Poison Cleansing Totem Icon Poison Cleansing Totem. Check the image below, by Shamrocked to learn more about which utility is useful in each dungeon:

Resto Shaman Utility Chart for Mythic Plus Click the image to see it whole
6.2.

Affix Talent Adaptation

6.2.1.

Sanguine

During Sanguine Icon Sanguine weeks, make sure to use Thunderstorm Icon Thunderstorm without Thundershock Icon Thundershock, as that will enable you to push enemies away from the sanguine pools and stop some of the healing from happening!

6.2.2.

Bursting

This affix can cause a massive amount of damage if many enemies die at the same time or high amounts of sustained damage if the debuffs keep being refreshed by enemies dying slowly over time. You should dispel on cooldown when Bursting Icon Bursting stacks are high, and the tank is a particularly great target for it, as the damage dealt is a percentage of the player's Health. Dispelling the tank also allows for its massive health pool to serve as a pool for Spirit Link Totem Icon Spirit Link Totem to draw from.

6.2.3.

Spiteful

Skittish Icon Spiteful makes dead enemies spawn Spiteful Shades, which fixate players in your group. They have a large amount of Health but lose 8% of it every second. They also hit hard, often for over half the Health of anyone nearby.

While running away from them is a perfectly acceptable option, using Earthgrab Totem Icon Earthgrab Totem is a useful tech to have in Spiteful weeks, as it will automatically root any shades that spawn in place for long enough for them to die without requiring repositioning.

6.2.4.

Incorporeal

This affix spawns mobs that count as any type, making them easy to disable with Hex Icon Hex, which should be specced into in weeks where it is active. Alternatively, their cast can be interrupted by regular means or short-duration CC, but you will have to do that multiple times, as the mobs last for 20 seconds and their cast time is 8 seconds long

6.2.5.

Afflicted

In order to stop the casts from the mobs spawned by this affix, you need to remove one of their (curse, poison, disease) debuffs or heal them fully. They have a large amount of Health, making the dispel option much easier. You can single dispel them with Improved Purify Spirit Icon Improved Purify Spirit or dispel every mob at once by yourself with Poison Cleansing Totem Icon Poison Cleansing Totem, which is highly recommended for Afflicted weeks!

6.2.6.

Entangling

While this is one of the easiest affixes to deal with by default, taking Thunderous Paws Icon Thunderous Paws for Entangling Icon Entangling weeks makes it even easier, as will cause Ghost Wolf Icon Ghost Wolf to instantly remove the affix in most situations.

7.

Changelog

  • 10 Feb. 2024: Typo fix on the description of Wind Shear.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 24 Nov. 2023: Updated and added big on-click version of the utility per dungeon picture.
  • 15 Nov. 2023: Added image on how to spec utility talents for each dungeon.
  • 09 Nov. 2023: Typo fixes.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Added a new talent build for Patch 10.2 and new Season information.
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
  • 31 Jul. 2023: Adjusted talents to the current Season 2 dungeon meta.
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
  • 06 Jun. 2023: Added Thundering Paws as anti-Entangling tech.
  • 01 May 2023: Updated with new talents, affixes and tips for Season 2 of Dragonflight (Patch 10.1.0).
  • 20 Mar. 2023: Updated talents for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 10 Mar. 2023: Cloudburst Totem is now the default recommendation.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 13 Dec. 2022: Changed talent build to include Acid Rain.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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