Restoration Shaman Mythic+ Guide

Welcome to the Restoration Shaman Mythic+ guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.1! This guide covers everything you need to know to understand your character! Are you starting out and leveling up from 70? Check out the leveling guide!

Restoration ShamanMythic+

Overall Healing

Average

Damage

Average

Utility

Strong

Survivability

Strong

Mobility

Strong

• In a Mythic+ environment Totemic outperforms Farseer in the majority of scenarios, Therefore this guide focuses solely on the better option.
• Farseer focuses on Single Target healing and provides a significant single target damage increase compared to Totemic, While Totemic focuses on AoE healing and Cooldown strength.

Tier Set

• 2-Set: Your healing spells have a chance to apply Insurance! to their targets that heals them over 15 sec. Insurance! is consumed if an ally drops below 40% health to heal them.
• 4-pc: When you cast Healing Rain, 1 ally will get Insurance!, when Insurance! is consumed you get 10% bonus healing to your Chain Heal, Healing Surge and Healing Wave.

This set further emphasizes on Tidal Waves and you have to ensure to always have Tidal Waves up before using your affected healing spells.

Priority List

For Healing - Totemic

1. Cast High Tide buffed Chain Heals if 3+ allies require healing.
2. Cast Surging Totem on cooldown.
3. Cast Downpour if your allies are injured.
4. Cast Riptide on cooldown for Tidal Waves.
5. Cast Healing Stream Totem to avoid overcapping on charges.
6. Cast Chain Heal if 3+ allies are missing health.
7. Cast Healing Wave.
8. Refresh Earth Shield.

For Damage

1. Maintain Healing Rain to make use of Acid Rain.
2. Cast Chain Lightning if there are 2+ enemies.
3. Maintain Flame Shock.
4. Cast Lava Burst.
5. Cast Lightning Bolt.

Cooldowns

Cloudburst Totem

• This totem accumulates a portion of your healing while it's up and should nearly always be used on cooldown unless you need to delay its use for specific timing or a damage event.
• You can read more about Cloudburst Totem in the Deep dive section below.

Ascendance

• Use Ascendance when your party is dying as it's your strongest healing cooldown as there is a strong intial heal, followed up by duplicating all healing you deal by 70%, split evenly among allies within 40 yards.

Healing Tide Totem

• This totem is one of your baseline throughput cooldowns and it heals all allies within 40 yards. It's a great cooldown to use when your globals are tight and the HPS requirements are high, or during heavy movement.

Spirit Link Totem

• This totem is one of the most unique cooldowns in the game with the power to redistribute your allies' health to have the same percentage of maximum health every second. It also grants your allies a 15% damage reduction for whoever is within the radius.
• Spirit Link Totem is an extremely powerful cooldown to counter overwhelming damage on your party and also has great synergy with Darkness.

Min maxing Deluge

• Deluge is one of your early Restoration talents and is crucial to consider when you need that extra throughput. Placing a good Healing Rain can save you from spending more globals than necessary while maintaining high uptime of Deluge.
• If it is not possible to stay stacked for Healing Rain, prioritize to use Riptide on range players to fully utilize Deluge.

Min maxing Tidal Waves

• While Tidal Waves is almost always up due to Riptide being a short cooldown spell, it is important to stack up your Tidal Waves before a lethal damage event, allowing you to spam cast your strong healing spells without having to worry about using Riptide in between.
• It buffs your next Healing Wave, Chain Heal or Healing Surge.

Min maxing Call of the Ancestors

• Your main goal with the Hero Talent Farseer, is to call Ancestors to your side to aid you. In Mythic+, you spend the majority of the dungeon doing damage rather than healing, and all DPS you provide will have a positive impact on the Mythic+ timer.
• Use Unleash Life and Ancestral Swiftness on cooldown to ensure you don't miss out on the bonus damage they provide.
• You can play Undulation instead of Unleash Life, but it is not recommended as you would have to constantly overheal your allies to proc Ancestors.

Min maxing Cloudburst

• Cloudburst is one of your strongest tools. Being able to make full use of Cloudburst is extremely important and helps with any throughput issues you might encounter.
• Before you place Cloudburst, there are a few things you can prepare. Spread out Riptide, placing down Healing Rain, right before Cloudburst.
• Your Cloudburst also interacts with Ascendance. Both abilities are extremely powerful when combined, and thanks toFirst Ascendant, they both share the same cooldown of 2 minutes, any extra healing is transferred to your Cloudburst.
• If you play with Healing Stream Totem instead of Cloudburst, You don't have to think about this at all and should use Healing Stream Totem when someone in your party is injured.

Understanding Mechanics

Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.

• Pandemic
• Spell Queue Window
• Stat Diminishing Returns

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Affixes

The Affix system got revamped going into The War Within Season 1 retiring most Affixes as well as introducing new kiss-curse ones while also changing on which key level these appear.

• +4 Affixes -- Rotates on a weekly basis
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Oblivion
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar
• +7 Affixes -- Alternates between each other on a weekly basis
  • Tyrannical
  • Fortified
• +10 Affixes -- Alternates between each other on a weekly basis, is always the opposite of the +7 Affix
  • Tyrannical
  • Fortified
• +12 Affix
  • Xal'atath's Guile -- Replaces the +4 Affix

Following you get some useful tips for handling different Mythic+ Affixes as a Restoration Shaman.

• Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
  • You can use Thunderstorm and Capacitor Totem for this affix.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
  • Make sure to target this and use your DPS abilities, if no healing is required.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Oblivion
  • Utilize Wind Rush Totem and Spiritwalker's Grace to make it easier to soak these, without loosing uptime.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
  • Poison Cleansing Totem is great for dealing with this affix.

Understand your secondary stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Mythic+ dungeons as a Restoration Shaman. For more detailed information, visit the Stats and Attributes guide.

Blizzard introduced Stat DRs that you need to be aware of. To get to know what those are and why you have to care about them click here to get to our detailed stat DR resource post!

Tertiary

• Avoidance - Reduces damage taken from AoE effects.
• Leech - Returns a portion of your damage and healing done as healing to you. (Excludes self healing)
• Speed - increases movement speed. (Does stack with other movement speed abilities)

The only time you should think about picking a lower item level is if it has Leech or Avoidance. Speed is nice to have, but you should generally ignore that stat.

Here is a showcase of how powerful Leech is for a Healer:

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to our recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the dungeon.

Active Trinket alternatives

• Funhouse Lens
  • A delve trinket that is a good on-use alternative at an equal item level.

Passive Trinket alternatives

• Suspicious Energy Drink
  • Strong stat stick that can proc Mastery after casting harmful spells, farmable through Delves.
• Mug's Moxie Jug
  • Strong stat stick as well, gives your spells a chance to grant you some Crit that stacks up but doesn't refresh the duration.
• Reverb Radio
  • Strong stat stick, that gives you a high average of your preferred secondary stat.

Embellishments

• Duskthread Lining 2x
  • Increases your Versatility by a small amount, while above 80% HP

Remaining Sparks

• Crafted items are 675 item level and regular items are 678 at max item level, therefore it is not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your 2x embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.

• Phials
  • Flask of Tempered Swiftness or Flask of Tempered Versatility
• Food
  • Feast of the Divine Day
• Combat Potion
  • Algari Mana Potion -- Recommended
  • Potion Bomb of Recovery
• Health Potion
  • Algari Healing PotionHealing Rain
• Weapon Oil
  • Earthliving Weapon --- Default
  • Algari Mana Oil -- If you play without Earthliving
• Augment Rune
  • Crystallized Augment Rune
• Sockets
  • Versatile Emerald
  • Elusive Blasphemite -- Unique, use one of each gem colour to enhance your Blasphemite.
    • Versatile Ruby
    • Quick Sapphire
    • Versatile Onyx

Enchantments

For min-maxing a Restoration Shaman in Mythic+ Dungeons, different racial traits can provide a tremendous benefit to your characters. If this is not your top goal, picking a race that fits your style works just as well.

• Rocket Jump -- Goblin
  • Do a small jump in the direction your character is facing.
  • While you're in the Rocket Jump animation you are placed on a global cooldown until your character lands.
• Stoneform -- Dwarf
  • Removes all magic, bleed, poison, and disease effects and reduces physical damage taken
• Ancestral Call -- Mag'har Orc
  • 2 minute cooldown that gives you a high amount of secondary stats.

Recommendation:

It is recommended to play Dwarf as it is the strongest option for Mythic+ if you are trying to push higher key levels as a Restoration Shaman

Discover recommended macros for Restoration Shaman during Mythic+ dungeons and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

Mouseover Macros

All spells in this Restoration Shaman Raid Guide are available as mouseover macros for your convenience!

Chain Heal

/cast [@mouseover, help] Chain Heal; Chain Heal

Riptide

/cast [@mouseover, help] Riptide; Riptide

Healing Wave

/cast [@mouseover, help] Healing Wave; Healing Wave

Healing Surge

/cast [@mouseover, help] Healing Surge; Healing Surge

Unleash Life

/cast [@mouseover, help] Unleash Life; Unleash Life

Recommended Macros

Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Restoration Shaman, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Mythic+ Dungeons to make your life easier.

Addons

WeakAuras

Patch 11.1

Q: How does Earth Shield and Chain Heal interact?

Credits

Written By: Velo

Reviewed By: Thaner