Restoration Shaman Healing Simulations — Dragonflight 10.1
On this page, you will find a number of useful simulation results for your Restoration Shamans in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.1.
Healing Simulations for Restoration Shamans
While healing is, essentially, impossible to simulate properly, what you can do is analyze your logs in order to understand where you made mistakes and improve as a player.
With the advent of certain tools such as Warcraft Logs, WoW Analyzer, and QE Live, understanding your healing logs has now become simple enough that we can recommend that even the average player combat log and analyze their performance.
Restoration Shaman Racial Comparisons
Note that the difference from worst to best race is very small. Your gear and talent choices also change the value of those racials. Basically, pick a race for how it looks, feels, and the utility it brings.
Alliance Races
For both PvE and PvP content, Dwarf or Dark Iron Dwarf are the
overall strongest, due to Stoneform /
Fireblood and
Might of the Mountain /
Dungeon Delver, which are all great in all
types of content!
Horde Races
In PvE content, Goblins have Rocket Jump, which allow you to
avoid or ignore knockback mechanics and can be a deal-breaker in some encounters.
Alternatively, Tauren has
Brawn, which is a strong throughput
increase.
For PvP, Orc is great to reduce stun durations through
Hardiness and can increase its healing and damage throughput at will
every 2 minutes through
Blood Fury.
Combat Logging / Analysis Resources
Warcraft Logs
Warcraft Logs is one of the most important tools to use when trying to improve your gameplay in World of Warcraft. You can use it to compare yourself to other players of your specialization in the same encounters, to review how a given pull went for you or other players in your group, or as an input to other tools that will do some of that analysis for you.
WoW Analyzer
WoW Analyzer uses Warcraft Logs
reports to give you an in-depth analysis of how you performed in a given
encounter. It can show you the benefit of things that do not show up directly
in Warcraft Logs, such as Mastery: Deep Healing's effectiveness,
Ancestral Vigor life saving moments, and other interesting
information.
Questionably Epic Live
Questionably Epic Live is a healing simulations tool developed by the community healing theorycrafter Voulk.
The tool contains a trinket power chart for the current tier and allows you to import your character, a SimulationCraft string and your combat logs in order to get a personal recommendation for gear upgrades or what to pick from your weekly Vault.
If you are having trouble using this tool and its features, MadSkillzzTV has a helpful video on the subject.
Changelog
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight 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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