Shaman Restoration guide
How to play Restoration in WoW: Forever: what to press, which stats to chase, the talent build level by level, and the gear and dungeons to aim for.
Overview
Restoration is the shaman's healing spec. You heal with Healing Wave and support the group with totems. The build here makes Healing Wave faster, cheaper and more likely to crit, which is all a group healer needs at this level.
Good at
- Mail armor and a shield
- Totems help the whole group
- Fast Healing Wave with the talent
- Can deal damage solo with shocks
Watch out for
- No big group heal before 30
- Slow solo leveling
- Totems need to be close to the group
How to play it
In order of priority for levels 20 to 30, on one target:
- Healing WaveYour main heal. Improved Healing Wave makes it faster.
- Lesser Healing WaveFast heal for spikes.
- Healing Stream TotemSteady healing for everyone near it.
- Mana Spring TotemExtra mana for casters on long fights from level 26.
- Earth ShockInterrupt a dangerous cast when you have the mana.
Stat priority
- Healing
- Spell crit
- Spell damage
- Intellect
- Mana per 5 sec
This is the order ONN ranks gear by for Restoration. Your weapon matters more than anything for melee.
Talents
0 / 0 / 21 at level 30. One point every level from 10. Take them in this order:
- 10
Improved Healing Wave1/5 - 11Improved Healing Wave2/5
- 12Improved Healing Wave3/5
- 13Improved Healing Wave4/5
- 14Improved Healing Wave5/5
- 15
Tidal Focus1/5
- 16Tidal Focus2/5
- 17Tidal Focus3/5
- 18Tidal Focus4/5
- 19Tidal Focus5/5
- 20
Healing Focus1/3
- 21Healing Focus2/3
- 22Healing Focus3/3
- 23
Ancestral Healing1/3 - 24Ancestral Healing2/3
- 25
Tidal Mastery1/5
- 26Tidal Mastery2/5
- 27Tidal Mastery3/5
- 28Tidal Mastery4/5
- 29Tidal Mastery5/5
- 30
Healing Way1/3
Gear at level 30
The best item for each slot. Hover for the full tooltip.
- Head
Holy Shroud - Neck
Kaleidoscope Chain - Shoulders
Bloodmage Mantle - Back
Battle Healer's Cloak - Chest
Beguiler Robes - Wrists
Glowing Magical Bracelets - Hands
Truefaith Gloves - Waist
Highlander's Cloth Girdle - Legs
Abomination Skin Leggings - Feet
Acidic Walkers - Ring 1
Advisor's Ring - Ring 2
Lorekeeper's Ring - Trinket 1
Rune of Perfection - Two-hand
Kam's Walking Stick
Dungeons to run
Where most of your best gear drops, best first.
- Shadowfang Keep levels 22 to 301 best-in-slot item: Abomination Skin Leggings
- Scarlet Monastery: Graveyard levels 26 to 361 best-in-slot item: Bloodmage Mantle
- Gnomeregan levels 29 to 381 best-in-slot item: Acidic Walkers
- The Stockade levels 24 to 321 best-in-slot item: Kam's Walking Stick
Tips
- Healing Focus stops damage from interrupting your heals, which helps when mobs turn to you.
- Ancestral Healing gives the tank more armor after a crit heal, and Tidal Mastery adds crit.
- Call of the Elements at 20 lets you drop a set of 4 totems with one cast.
- Totems that buff the group last 5 minutes now, so you drop them less often.
- Totemic Projection at 22 moves all your totems, which helps when the tank moves.
Macros
Make a macro with /macro in game, paste the text, and drag it to your bar.
Heals your mouseover, then your target, then yourself.
#showtooltip Healing Wave /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Healing Wave
Same idea for Lesser Healing Wave.
#showtooltip Lesser Healing Wave /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Lesser Healing Wave
Sources
Written by ONN for the WoW: Forever beta (level 30 cap). Talents, stats and gear update from the live data; the beta is still changing, so details may be different at launch on November 4. Something wrong? Tell us in #help.