Restoration Shaman Healing Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

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 general idea behind these talents is to give you high baseline healing and utility, including picking Acid Rain for high passive DPS. Ancestral Vigor is a good alternative talent for high keys where one shots become a recurring issue, but can otherwise be safely swapped out for healing talents when doing weekly keys.

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

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 general idea behind these talents is to give you high baseline healing and utility, including picking Acid Rain for high passive DPS. Ancestral Vigor is a good alternative talent for high keys where one shots become a recurring issue, but can otherwise be safely swapped out for healing talents when doing weekly keys.

Healing Tide Totem works better with Totemic also, due to the new additional effect of Splitstream and new Primal Catalyst talent. First Ascendant is the favored way to boost it in this talent build, as we are skipping Deeply Rooted Elements in favor of Downpour since relying on random healing procs for healing checks can be deadly when you are solo healing the key.

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.

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;

For a quick guide of which utility talents are needed in each dungeon, use the tool below to select a dungeon. Any relevant utility talents will be highlighted below.

Based on the selections above, you should run the following class talents:

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• Cleanse Spirit
• Purge
• Tremor Totem
• Earthgrab Totem
• Poison Cleansing Totem

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Tremor Totem
• Poison Cleansing Totem

• Against the last boss Ki'katal the Harvester make sure to drop Poison Cleansing Totem to remove Cultivated Poisons.

• It can be a good idea to have Tremor Totem ready in case no one is able to kick one of the initial mini bosses, Ixin's Horrifying Shrill.
• Poison Cleansing Totem will help relieve the healer when the group is struggling with interrupting Bloodstained Webmages' Revolting Volleys and Blood Overseers' Venom Volleys.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Purge
• Earthgrab Totem

• On the first boss Azhiccar, Earthgrab Totem can be used to control the Frenzied Mites during Devour, as this is the only problematic thing in the fight.

• Purge can get rid of the shield cast by K'aresh Elemental, Embrace of K'aresh, and possibly the Alacrity buff cast by Wastelander Phaseblade if it feels necessary.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Earthgrab Totem
• Tremor Totem

• Against the first boss Halkias, have Tremor Totem to rescue anyone leaving the circle around the boss from Sinlight Visions

• Use Earthgrab Totem to prevent the Toiling Groundskeeper from pulling additional enemies.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Nothing here is particularly required.

• Be ready to kick and focus the adds as they spawn when fighting Big M.O.M.M.A.. Make sure to hold your healing cooldowns for the Jumpstart phases.

• Be careful when fighting the combination of Shreddinator 3000 and Venture Co. Architect not to get rooted in sawblades.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Earthgrab Totem

• On the last boss Prioress Murrpray, use Wind Rush Totem to get up the stairs quickly, and when they spawn Earthgrab Totem on one of the sides will most likely cause the adds to die before they get to do anything.

• Use crowd control to interrupt the defend channel from Footmen enemies, Wind Rush Totem when dodging ground effects on the right side mini boss and save healing cooldowns for fighting the final mini boss as he does massive pulsing area damage.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Purge
• Cleanse Spirit

• Make sure to use Wind Rush Totem to get to the boss through the portals as quickly as possible on the final boss and use your interrupt even if other people reached it already, as its deadly cast requires multiple interrupts to stop.

• There are a few annoying buffs that can be Purged here, most notably the two different shields used by Support Officers, especially Refraction Shield. Overloaded Mailementals also have one called Spam Filter which should be purged.
• If not interrupted, Ancient Core Hound's Ancient Dread nasty curse can be dispelled with Cleanse Spirit. But really, interrupt this please.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Nothing is particularly useful here.

• Wind Rush Totem and Earthgrab Totem are both extremely useful against Timecap'n Hooktail, to dodge the avoidable swirlies and prepare enemies for being hit with the breath from the boss, respectively.

• Save healing cooldowns for the final trash packs of the dungeon, as the orbs they create pulse massive area damage to the group until killed.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Cleanse Spirit (optional)
• Purge

• Make sure to use Gust of Wind and Spiritwalker's Grace to maximize damage while doing mechanics against Rasha'nan.

• Cleanse Spirit can be used to get rid of Ensnaring Shadows cast by Nightfall Shadowmage, if it proves necessary.

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.