Restoration Shaman Healing Mythic+ Tips — Midnight 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, and we include the Ancestral Vigor talent for its ability to make one-shot mechanics at high key levels survivable with little effort.

Under the current tuning, healers deal extremely low damage, leading to Healing Rain being mostly forgettable, even when specced alongside Acid Rain, but you can use both to great effect when playing with a full melee group.

Unleash Life allows for near-permanent uptime of one Ancestor, and is a mandatory talent in Farseer builds, which tend to have better spread and spot healing due to stronger Healing Wave casts with Maelstrom Supremacy and Windspeaker.

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.

Healing Tide Totem works better with Totemic than Ascendance due to the new additional effect of Splitstream and new Primal Catalyst talent but Deeply Rooted Elements still activates Ascendance, which is the main reason for picking Preeminence, as the extra Haste is critical in order to make the most out of each random proc.

The higher Ascendance uptime also has great synergy with Ancestral Awakening through the guaranteed Healing Wave crits and with Oversurge which increases your Surging Totem healing massively whenever Ascendance is active.

Chain Heal and its support talents combo well with Totemic Hero talents as you will be able to cast many of them for free with Lively Totems whenever you use Healing Stream Totem, which has a reduced cooldown thanks to the new Totemic Momentum talent.

Finally, Improved Earthliving Weapon combos well with Earthsurge and is a much stronger talent now, as it will always apply the Earthliving heal over time effect with Healing Wave, which should be your number one cast, even as Totemic.

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

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

• 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 is the only healer interrupt and prevents spells of the interrupted school from being cast for 4 seconds on a 30-second cooldown. 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 can also be turned into a powerful personal defensive since it grants you 15% extra maximum health with Primordial Bond

Shamans have a lot of tools to deal with this affix:

• Wind Shear
• Purge
• Capacitor Totem, which is available more often if specced into Static Charge

Mobility tools are great for helping soak your party's Void Pulsars:

• Wind Rush Totem to help your entire party soak them
• Spiritwalker's Grace so you can keep casting and gain movement from Graceful Spirit
• Gust of Wind or Spirit Walk
• Ghost Wolf especially with Thunderous Paws. Winds of Al'Akir can make you even faster, if you really need it

While your role at dealing with the Voidbound affix is limited, make sure to Flame Shock and deal damage to the Void Emissary as a priority while it is active!

Poison Cleansing Totem will remove all Void Rift debuffs on its own, and you can get a second one if needed with Totemic Recall.

Alternatively, you can also simply heal through the debuff, as it is not a healing absorb and you will still be able to heal your targets fully while they are affected, with any left-over debuffs being easily removed by your Cleanse Spirit.