Restoration Shaman Healing The Eternal Palace Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5

In this section, you will find information and guidance for healing Eternal Palace raid as a Restoration Shaman. These are not complete encounter guides, but rather provide specific tips for healing as a Restoration Shaman.

The tips on this page are based on PTR testing alone and may not reflect the state of encounters on live servers. This page will be updated with new information once the encounters have been experienced and killed on their respective difficulties.

We advise you to use the following essences against Abyssal Commander Sivara.

• Major Slot
  • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
• Minor Slots
  • The Well of Existence — Rank 3: The Well of Existence
  • The Ever Rising Tide — Rank 3: The Ever-Rising Tide

If you get targeted with Overflow, run to the edges of the room to drop the pool that spawns when the debuff expires. You may want to use Ghost Wolf if you have high stacks of Frost Mark, and use Astral Shift to survive through the damage on higher difficulties. You can also use Ancestral Protection Totem to guarantee a resurrection on someone who cannot immune their Overflow debuff.

Soak Crushing Reverberation with your assigned group, if tanks are not soloing it, and be ready to quickly heal the damage from it with a timely Cloudburst Totem pop.

Overwhelming Barrage is likely to cause high raid damage, from the bolts themselves and from the inevitable Unstable Mixture explosions that ensue. Make sure to have healing cooldowns set ahead of time for this ability.

There are no significant changes to the fight for Restoration Shamans in Mythic difficulty.

For more information, please refer to our Abyssal Commander Sivara strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Blackwater Behemoth.

• Major Slot
  • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
• Minor Slots
  • The Well of Existence — Rank 3: The Well of Existence
  • The Ever Rising Tide — Rank 3: The Ever-Rising Tide

Darkest Depths reduces all healing by 100%, so make sure to track it on your raid frames so that you do not waste Mana healing debuffed players. Also, make sure to avoid positioning mistakes that will lead to your death through Gaze from Below / Bioelectric Feelers.

In Mythic difficulty, Piercing Barb is often not worth soaking as a group, due to the danger of multiple people dying if Bioelectric Feelers is activated due to the group's movement. What you can do, instead, is resurrecting its target with Ancestral Protection Totem if it is on a person who lacks immunities / strong defensives, or use Artifice of Time's major power, Standstill to ensure the target survives.

For more information, please refer to our Blackwater Behemoth strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Radiance of Azshara.

• Major Slot
  • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
• Minor Slots
  • The Well of Existence — Rank 3: The Well of Existence
  • The Ever Rising Tide — Rank 3: The Ever-Rising Tide

Dispel Arcane Bomb only when the player is in a place where the bomb will not hit anyone or clog the raid's way through the encounter area.

During Ancient Tempest, make sure to be close to your raid group, as vision is reduced and you will not be able to heal or dispel anyone that is not close to you. You can use Wind Rush Totem to help the raid get past the intermission faster, minimizing the risk of deaths.

Use Wind Shear to help interrupt the Stormling adds as they cast.

There are no significant changes to the fight for Restoration Shamans in Mythic difficulty.

For more information, please refer to our Radiance of Azshara strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Lady Ashvane.

• Major Slot
  • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
• Minor Slots
  • The Well of Existence — Rank 3: The Well of Existence
  • The Ever Rising Tide — Rank 3: The Ever-Rising Tide

Rippling Wave will cause a large burst of damage to the raid whenever it is cast, no matter how well your group soaks it. Be prepared for this damage with healing cooldowns and Chain Heal / Cloudburst Totem as required, and keep in mind that the damage grows as the encounter progresses, due to scaling with the amount of Coral Growths area.

Stand between the boss and the Coral Growths to help soak Rippling Wave bubbles before they heal the boss. During intermissions, if targeted by Arcing Azerite, position yourself such that you will destroy as many Coral Growths as possible. Wind Rush Totem can help your group get to far away corals quickly.

In Mythic difficulty, Empowered Rippling Wave has equivalent power to three Rippling Wave, and Waterlogged lasts for the whole encounter, and is not reset upon death. To help deal with this mechanic, use Ancestral Protection Totem to resurrect your primary (tank-spec) soaker so that they can soak another wave once deadly amounts of stacks (15+) are reached.

Also, once the carapace is gone and you can damage the boss, Regenerative Coral will limit the amount of Coral Growths you want to destroy with each application of Arcing Azerite to your group, as you might not have enough soakers, otherwise. Because the boss enrages after its carapace regenerates for the third time, you will want to contribute as much damage as possible while its health pool is vulnerable.

For more information, please refer to our Lady Ashvane strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Orgozoa.

• Major Slot
  • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
• Minor Slots
  • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
  • The Ever Rising Tide — Rank 3: The Ever-Rising Tide

Tanks will take massive damage in this fight, and are required to be topped up in order to soak Amniotic Splatter, which deals a massive amount of damage, even considering Desensitizing Sting's damage reduction.

Position yourself away from the rest of the raid if Arcing Current is cast while you are affected by Incubation Fluid, as this debuff will spread to people who are hit by its chain lightning effect. Raid healing will get progressively more intensive as more targets are affected by the debuff.

You can use Wind Rush Totem during the intermission to boost the raid's movement speed down the ramp. Due to the stacked healing nature of the fight, Worldvein Resonance is a great minor essence for the whole raid on this boss, especially in Mythic.

For more information, please refer to our Orgozoa strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against The Queen's Court.

• Major Slot
  • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
• Minor Slots
  • The Well of Existence — Rank 3: The Well of Existence
  • The Ever Rising Tide — Rank 3: The Ever-Rising Tide

Zealous Eruption deals a huge amount of damage to anyone outside the bubble area around Silivaz, so make sure you are inside and focus healing into anyone who is forced to be outside, such as the tank who is on the other boss.

Potent Sparks deal a large burst of damage to the raid when they die, and slowly lose health over time. This means you should be prepared to quickly heal the raid back to full whenever one detonates, so that no one will die from the next detonation. Beware of overlaps between detonations and Violent Outburst (Pashmar's maximum energy ability), as this can deal massive burst damage to the raid, requiring healing / damage reduction cooldowns, if deaths are to be avoided.

Obey or Suffer causes Suffering whenever a player is damaged, which cuts off all healing done to that player for 5 seconds. Make sure to track this on your raid frames, so that you do not waste Mana healing these targets, and so that you can queue up heals to hit as soon as the debuff drops.

In Mythic difficulty, make sure to slowly run around the room with the raid to avoid Sphere of Influence and make sure to deal good damage, keeping Flame Shock on both bosses and using Lava Burst whenever possible, to make it before the tight enrage timer.

For more information, please refer to our The Queen's Court strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Za'qul, Harbinger of Ny'alotha.

• Major Slot
  • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
• Minor Slots
  • The Well of Existence — Rank 3: The Well of Existence
  • The Ever Rising Tide — Rank 3: The Ever-Rising Tide

Dread will be causing massive damage to the raid whenever it is dispelled, but the player is also running around in fear (quite possibly leading them to their death) which means it should be dispelled as fast as possible, but not instantly, as that will likely cause deaths due to the burst damage, so avoid using Tremor Totem just as the ability is coming out. Save healing cooldowns, Cloudburst Totem explosions and plenty of Mana to quickly heal through this burst damage between dispels.

Players inside the Delirium Realm cannot be healed, which means healers are of limited usefulness inside. Focus on keeping people in the other realm healthy instead, and on dispelling Shattered Psyche from whoever dies inside the Delirium realm.

Meanwhile, players inside the Fear Realm will take increasingly high damage from stacking Hysteria debuffs, requiring high healing towards the end of the phase.

In Mythic, due to the immense burst damage caused by Dread, you might want to run Ascendance to compensate. Make sure to help damage as much as possible, keeping Flame Shock on the boss and his adds whenever possible, which will grant you a lot of instant Lava Bursts, allowing you to help finish off any Horrific Vision near 0 stacks of Gathering Nightmare and also helping with the tight enrage timer.

For more information, please refer to our Za'qul, Harbinger of Ny'alotha strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Queen Azshara.

• Major Slot
  • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
• Minor Slots
  • The Well of Existence — Rank 3: The Well of Existence
  • The Ever Rising Tide — Rank 3: The Ever-Rising Tide

Drained Soul will be applied to players whenever they grant / remove energy from the glowing circles on the ground (Wards), and is deadly when the debuffed players take damage from other sources. Make sure to track this debuff and keep these players very healthy all the time.

Once Azshara comes out personally, you will probably need to dispel the Arcane Burst debuffs on some players (who should only be in your line of sight to avoid needless raid damage) before the debuff runs out on the remaining players, as space can be limited for all debuffs to expire naturally.

Help interrupt the various Chain Lightning casts from the mini-bosses with your Wind Shear and help the quick enforcement of Azshara's decrees with Wind Rush Totem.

In the final phase, Void Touched will cause tanks to be increasingly hard to heal, and Controlled Burst will deal significant raid damage, on top of causing the occasional System Shock, which also needs to be outhealed. This makes this phase pretty hectic, as it will be a race against time as your group is slowly overwhelmed by the console mechanics.

Mythic Azshara is a fight with very low healing requirements for a final boss, and almost all of it is burst / cooldown healing. Therefore, your best bet for this boss in the current meta is to focus on DPS with the usual Flame Shock and Lava Burst combo. Make sure to use your cooldowns when assigned, and best of luck!

For more information, please refer to our Queen Azshara strategy guide.