Restoration Shaman PvP Guide — Midnight Season 1

Due to the size of the changes we have broken it up into sections to make it easier to digest how Restoration Shaman was tuned throughout Season 1.

• March 31st Class Tuning:
  
  • Lightning Lasso damage increased by 450% in PvP combat.
  • Electrocute damage increased by 35% in PvP combat.
  • Farseer: All Ancestor healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Farseer: Elemental Reverb now increases Riptide healing by 25% in PvP combat (was 10%).

• March 24th Class Tuning:
  
  • All healing increased by 3%.
• For the Season 1 launch, Restoration Shaman received a few changes that leads to higher throughput of healing.
  
  • Healing Rain healing increased by 45%.
  • Chain Heal healing increased by 20%.
  • All healing done increased by 8% in PvP combat.
  • Healing Tide Totem healing increased by 75% in PvP combat.

• Additions:
  • Stormstream Totem Apex Talents increase sustained healing throughput.
  • Call of Al'Akir allows for instant casting Hex making Restoration Shaman more valuable and dangerous as a healer.
  • Totem of Wrath which is proc'd from Ancestral Swiftness / Nature's Swiftness, working well with Call of Al'Akir to add higher critical damage of team members spells by 15%.
  • Encasing Cold enabling more root crowd-control of the enemy team.
• Removals:
  • Earthen Wall Totem, Stone Bulwark Totem and Totemic Recall, Deeply Rooted Elements among others have been removed.
  • Talents removed: Deeply Rooted Elements.
• Changes:
  • Defensive options have been reduced with the removal of Stone Bulwark Totem and Totemic Recall, affecting totem reset strategies.

Important Note

Midnight also introduces Apex talents, with Restoration Shaman getting Stormstream Totem, which provides enhanced passive healing sustained healing throughput.