Restoration Shaman PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight / 10.0.7)
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.
Gust of Wind gives mobility to dive into combat, or get away.
Improved Lightning Bolt increases
Lightning Bolt damage for more offensive playstyles.
Earthgrab Totem gives more crowd-control against double melee teams.
Planes Traveler gives a reduced cooldown for
Astral Shift
Elemental Warding gives more defense against magic damage.
- Many new utility totems which will be situationally useful like:
Stoneskin Totem,
Tranquil Air Totem,
Poison Cleansing Totem.
Lightning Lasso and
Thunderstorm is now available to all Shaman specializations.
Restoration Shaman Tree Talent Highlights
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
Riptide on cooldown.
Stormkeeper gives an offensive cooldown option for Restoration Shaman to burst with your team. Along with
Call of Thunder and
Improved Lightning Bolt this can result in a lot of damage.
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 which 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.
Swelling Waves is a great talent for passive healing.
This is also increased through the 20% benefit if
Earth Shield is on
the target will provide significant side healing.
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.
Situational 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.
Precognition can be useful if you can juke the enemy team
interupts, even though Haste is not a primary stat for Restoration Shaman.
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.
Traveling Storms is a situational PvP talent to use with
Earthgrab Totem
to reduce the pressure melee teams have on your teammates.
Spectral Recovery is a great PvP talent when you will be the main
target for the other team. This, in combination with
Spirit Wolf, makes
you a very hard target to kill.
Tidebringer reduces the cast time of
Chain Heal every 8
seconds. This is great for when you need to heal through spread pressure or
cleave damage. This PvP talent is very situational and build dependent.
Changelog
- 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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