Restoration Shaman PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight 10.2)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Restoration Shaman and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Restoration Shaman PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Restoration Shaman
While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.
Talents Summary
Shaman Tree Talent Highlights
Totemic Recall allows you to reset the cooldown on your
Earthen Wall Totem.
Nature's Swiftness is now available, giving the Shaman a free casted heal or damaging ability.
Earthgrab Totem gives more crowd-control against double melee teams.
Stoneskin Totem providing physical damage reduction against melee cleave teams.
Lightning Lasso and
Thunderstorm is now available to all Shaman specializations.
Restoration Shaman Tree Talent Highlights
Tide Turner makes
Healing Tide Totem a significant 'smart' single target healing cooldown as well.
Earthliving Weapon has returned, providing increased passive healing.
Earthen Harmony give
Earth Shield more value.
Ancestral Awakening and
Living Stream give increased passive healing through existing abilities of the Restoration Shaman.
Ascendance and
Deeply Rooted Elements gives a fun proc-based playstyle for using
Riptideon cooldown.
PvP Talents for Restoration Shaman
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Living Tide makes
Healing Tide Totem do significant healing.
This is often top healing now and allows Restoration Shaman to have a healing
cooldown that heals the whole team during burst or even during crowd-control
if placed beforehand. This is a default choice.
Grounding Totem summon an Air Totem with 5 Health at the feet of
the caster that will redirect all harmful spells cast on a nearby party or raid
member to itself. It will not redirect area of effect spells and lasts 3
seconds. This
talent is important to help you avoid incoming crowd control. You can also use
this to stop some incoming spell damage.
Static Field Totem allows you to restrict player movement, and
move them using
Totemic Projection.
Situational PvP Talents
Burrow is an immunity defensive which can also deal moderate damage.
Unleash Shield provides situational utility for the Restoration
Shaman,
specifically the
Water Shield benefit dropping a puddle reducing healing
and damage done by 50%. Using this on the healer in a root or on enemies
bursting
allows for a lot of fun gameplay.
Rain Dance makes
Healing Rain viable if your team stays within
the circle, and deals moderate pulsing damage to the enemy team.
Skyfury Totem summons a Fire Totem with 5 Health at the feet of
the caster that lasts for 15 seconds and increases the critical effect of
damage and healing spells of all nearby allies within 40 yards for 15 seconds.
This is helpful if you are playing with two caster DPS.
Seasoned Winds provides 15% damage reduction against possibly
multiple schools of magic when interrupting the enemy. This effect can stack
up to 3 times. This promotes the use of
Wind Shear, which is critical
to the utility of the Elemental Shaman. This is a solid choice against any
teams with casters. When interrupting some casters like a
Chaos Bolt
the Shaman will gain a 15% damage reduction for all schools of magic, which
is a significant defense to maintain throughout the match.
Rarely selected PvP Talents
Electrocute causes your enemy to suffer damage over 3 seconds
when you successfully
Purge a beneficial effect. If your team's
strategy is to play aggressively, this is an important talent to have. You
can replace
Ancestral Gift with this talent.
Traveling Storms is a situational PvP talent to use with
Earthgrab Totem
to reduce the pressure melee teams have on your teammates.
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.5.
- 23 May 2023: Updatedfor Dragonflight 10.1 start of season.
- 07 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.0.7.
- 04 Feb. 2023: Updated for 10.0.2 updates.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight post-launch.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 31 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 27 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2 of Shadowlands
- 17 Nov. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.5 of Shadowlands.
- 04 Jul. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1 of Shadowlands.
- 19 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 02 Dec. 2020: Revised to prepare for Shadowlands first PvP Season.
- 29 Nov. 2020: Removed Azerite mentions.
- 20 Nov. 2020: Updated for Covenants and Legendaries for Shadowlands.
- 19 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands Pre-Patch 9.0.1, and new author.
- 02 Mar. 2020: Updated PvP Talents.
- 20 Jan. 2020: This page was checked for Patch 8.3 and no update was deemed necessary.
- 16 Dec. 2019: Page added.
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