Restoration Shaman Healing Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (Season 1)

While these are the baseline recommended talents, feel free to swap to different utility talents to suit your group composition, target dungeon, and active weekly affixes.

The idea behind these talents is to give you high baseline healing and utility, including many DPS talents, such as Acid Rain and the reworked Master of the Elements, which allows you to seamlessly alternate between healing and DPS with Healing Surge and Lava Burst, while skipping on casting Flame Shock altogether.

Undulation works well in small group settings, where single target heals are much more used than in raids, but Chain Heal and its support talents can also be useful in a Totemic shell as you will be able to have a very strong Healing Stream Totem with Lively Totems, Reactivity, Supportive Imbuements, Living Stream, and Elemental Resistance to carry your healing on most pulls.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

While these are the baseline recommended talents, feel free to swap to different utility talents to suit your group composition, target dungeon, and active weekly affixes.

The idea behind these talents is to give you high baseline healing and utility, including many DPS talents, such as Acid Rain and the reworked Master of the Elements, which allows you to seamlessly alternate between healing and DPS with Healing Surge and Lava Burst, while skipping on casting Flame Shock altogether.

Undulation works well in small group settings, where single target heals are much more used than in raids, and also has significant synergy with the Primordial Wave talent. You will also have access to the maxed-out Preeminence Ascendance Plus, the Deeply Rooted Elements combo is usually enough to carry healing on its own whenever used or when it procs, allowing you to do more damage in the remainder of the pull.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

The following cheatsheet, by ShamrockedGuides, explains what specific utility to talent into for each Season 1 dungeon:

Click the image to also see the reasoning behind picks

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

• Thunderstorm is great for pushing enemies away from ground effects. It can also be used with Thundershock for added crowd control that does not send enemies flying all over the place or with Traveling Storms to knock from an ally's position instead;
• 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 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, 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 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;
• 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;
• 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. 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. It can be used for a minor DPS increase or as an emergency cooldown capable of distracting dangerous non-boss enemies. It also serves as a powerful personal defensive since it grants you 15% extra maximum health and -5% damage taken with Primordial Bond;

Shamans are absolutely fantastic at dealing with this affix with Thunderstorm and Capacitor Totem being able to knock out multiple orbs at once and Purge plus Wind Shear handling the rest. You will probably not need all of these tools, but all work on the orbs, so make sure to use them when they start landing!

You might want to swap talents into Wind Rush Totem and / or Thunderous Paws for extra movement speed to soak Shattered Essence crystals more easily, especially when you need to do so in the middle of chaotic situations or while slowed.

Poison Cleansing Totem is next to mandatory against Void Rift and one of the best tools for it, as it will dispel all the debuffs on its own with a single key press! If you are still struggling or have it on cooldown, make sure to use your single target dispel followed by a healing cooldown to help remove the debuffs as quickly as possible.