Restoration Shaman Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — 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 general idea behind these talents is to give you high baseline healing and utility, including picking Acid Rain for extra 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. Flow of the Tides works well in keys as you will generally have Riptides to spare since there are only 5 targets for them, allowing you to always buff your Chain Heal without losing a lot of potential Riptide healing.

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.

The choice between Preeminence and First Ascendant comes down to whether the key route you planned requires you to press Ascendance more often than 3-minutes or not, but by default Preeminence has better synergy with Deeply Rooted Elements which we also spec.

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 raid setup and boss-by-boss needs.

This build aims to maximize Riptide casts to get as many Deeply Rooted Elements and Stormstream Totem procs as possible, using talents such as Rip Current and Ancient Fellowship for this purpose. Multiple Riptide healing support talents are also taken to increase the value of the high amount of casts done.

The higher Ascendance uptime thanks to Deeply Rooted Elements has great synergy with Ancestral Awakening and Resurgence through the guaranteed double Healing Wave crits on every cast, which are extra strong due to Farseer Hero Talents such as Maelstrom Supremacy and Windspeaker.

The choice between Preeminence and First Ascendant comes down to whether the healing cooldown plan for the boss you are doing requires you to press Ascendance more often than 3-minutes or not, but by default Preeminence has better synergy with Deeply Rooted Elements which we also spec.

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 the kind of Delve you are entering and its specific challenges.

While Restoration is not particularly fast at clearing Delves in general, it has the advantage of being able to do it while keeping itself healthy without much effort through beefy self-healing with Healing Wave and multiple cooldowns that work surprisingly well when healing only yourself, and perhaps also a handful of allies such as your Delve companion.

For advanced players, swapping to Reactive Warding is actually very strong because in a very small group setting Earth Shield is a major source of healing and thus this talent accrues a lot of value from low count shield refreshes. It is also much easier to refresh with the new Instinctive Imbuements, which refreshes all of your shields and buffs whenever you refresh Water Shield.

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 extra 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. Flow of the Tides works well in keys as you will generally have Riptides to spare since there are only 5 targets for them, allowing you to always buff your Chain Heal without losing a lot of potential Riptide healing.

While Healing Tide Totem works well with Totemic due to the new additional effect of Splitstream and new Primal Catalyst talent, Ascendance allows for very high single target healing when active, while HTT is a pure raid healing cooldown, making it a more flexible option.

The higher Ascendance uptime thanks to Deeply Rooted Elements has great synergy with Ancestral Awakening and Resurgence through the guaranteed double Healing Wave crits on every cast (which are made faster by Preeminence) 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.

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 raid setup and boss-by-boss needs.

While Healing Tide Totem works well with Totemic due to the new additional effect of Splitstream and new Primal Catalyst talent, Ascendance has higher potential healing and allows for very high single target healing when active, while HTT is a pure raid healing cooldown, making it a more flexible option.

The higher Ascendance uptime thanks to Deeply Rooted Elements has great synergy with Ancestral Awakening and Resurgence through the guaranteed double Healing Wave crits on every cast (which are made faster by Preeminence) 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.

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