Restoration Shaman PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight 10.2)

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.