Restoration Shaman Healing Mythic+ Tips — Shadowlands 9.2.5
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Restoration Shaman in World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.2.5.
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.
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.
Season 3 Mythic+ Affix: Encrypted
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.
Mythic+ Restoration Shaman Tier Set in Patch 9.2
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.
Legion Timeworn Keystone Affix: Infernal
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.
Restoration Shaman Mythic+ Rotation
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.
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.
Below are the suggested talents for Mythic+.
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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.
Best Mythic+ Covenant and Soulbinds for Restoration Shamans
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 |
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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.
Best Mythic+ Legendaries for Restoration Shamans
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.
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!
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.
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 Utility
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.
Changelog
- 31 May 2022: Page reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 07 Mar. 2022: Added and adjusted trinket recommendations.
- 06 Mar. 2022: Adjusted the new seasonal affix information.
- 22 Feb. 2022: Added Tier set thoughts, more Legendaries, and more trinkets.
- 21 Feb. 2022: Page reviewed and approved for Patch 9.2.
- 06 Nov. 2021: Changed the recommended Kyrian Soulbind.
- 01 Nov. 2021: Added information about the new Infernal affix.
- 02 Oct. 2021: Small typo fix.
- 27 Aug. 2021: Reworked trinket section.
- 15 Jul. 2021: Added tips on which Anima Powers to choose in Shadowlands Season 2 and mini-boss abilities.
- 29 Jun. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
- 28 Jun. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1 with new Legendaries, Covenants, and Soulbinds.
- 13 Jun. 2021: Revamped the Legendary priority based on the current meta.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Updated for the Patch 9.0.5 changes.
- 24 Jan. 2021: Added Weak Aura for tracking Spiteful ghosts.
- 29 Dec. 2020: Added a Mythic+ timer Weak Aura.
- 22 Dec. 2020: Fleshed out the best trinket list.
- 20 Dec. 2020: Adjusted talent and Legendary recommendations and their justification text.
- 08 Dec. 2020: Adjusted Legendary priority slightly.
- 05 Dec. 2020: Added more information on how to deal with Grievous in Shadowlands.
- 24 Nov. 2020: Page updated for Shadowlands launch.
- 22 Oct. 2020: Updated the page for Shadowlands Season 1.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands 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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