Restoration Shaman Leveling Guide
Restoration Shaman Leveling Guide
11.0.7 - The War Within
Last Updated:January 10, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Restoration Shaman leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
It is highly recommended to level as Elemental Shaman or Ehancement Shaman!
Talents
Restoration Shaman
Farseer
Spec Tree
- Acid Rain
- Your Healing Rain does damage, increasing your AoE capability.
- Master of the Elements
- Allows you to spread your Flame Shock.
- Unleash Life
- Only use this to summon an Ancestor, as they cast similar damage spell whenever you cast a damage spell.
Class Tree
- Frost Shock
- Great spell for targeting mobs quickly.
- Wind Shear
- 12 seconds cooldown interrupt, which is very nice to constantly interrupt mobs that cast on you.
- Thunderstorm
- If you pick Thundershock, this becomes a nice disrupt to stop mobs from casting on you.
- Refreshing Waters
- Increases Healing Surge healing on yourself by 25%.
- Spiritwalker's Grace
- Allows you to cast while moving for 15 seconds.
Hero Talents
- Farseer is more specialized in damage and therefore outperforms Totemic when leveling. Consider respeccing to Elemental for an even faster leveling experience!
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Farseer as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Heed My Call.
- Pick Primordial Capacity.
- Pick Maelstrom Supremacy.
- Pick Ancestral Swiftness.
- Pick Latent Wisdom.
- Pick Offering from Beyond.
- Pick Elemental Reverb.
- Pick Spiritwalker's Momentum.
- Pick Final Calling.
- Pick Natural Harmony.
Rotation
Restoration Shaman
Single-Target
- Make sure to apply Flame Shock to guarantee crit with your Lava Burst.
AoE
- Pull as many mobs you can survive/need.
- Your Healing Rain will do the most damage when it comes to AoE, so make sure to place it down.
- Only use Lava Burst if there is a mob that will live longer than the other ones.
- Use your defensives and healing cooldowns aggressively in these pulls.
Shopping List
Restoration Shaman
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Velo
Reviewed by: Thaner