Restoration Shaman
Healer Totem-based healer. Riptide adds the first real instant heal-over-time.
Best in slot
Head Holy Shroud World drop 9
- 2 Embalmed Shroud Fallen Champion · Scarlet Monastery
- 3 Sorrow's Shroud Source not listed
- 4 Filigreed Pristine Circlet Tailoring · Crafted
- 5 Wisdom's Leather Helm Leatherworking · Crafted
- 6 Geomancer Headdress Roogug · Razorfen Kraul
- 7 Pristine Circlet Tailoring · Crafted
- 8 Wild Headdress Source not listed
- 9 Wisdom's Leather Hood Leatherworking · Crafted
- 10 Whisperwind Headdress Earthcaller Halmgar · Razorfen Kraul
Neck Guardian's Emblem Source not listed 9
- 2 Stygian Bone Amulet Blind Hunter · Razorfen Kraul
- 3 Giantstone Medallion Source not listed
- 4 Explorers' League Commendation Mythology of the Titans · Quest (Alliance)
- 5 Kaleidoscope Chain World drop
- 6 Crystal Starfire Medallion World drop
- 7 Essene's Hope Source not listed
- 8 Thermaplugg Medal of Honor Source not listed
- 9 Pendant of Myzrael World drop
- 10 Glowing Green Talisman World drop
Shoulder Bloodmage Mantle Bloodmage Thalnos · Scarlet Monastery 9
- 2 Naga Priestess's Mantle Source not listed
- 3 Berylline Pads The Crone of the Kraul · Quest (Alliance)
- 4 Death Speaker Mantle Death Speaker Jargba · Razorfen Kraul
- 5 Batwing Mantle Blind Hunter · Razorfen Kraul
- 6 Magician's Mantle World drop
- 7 Invoker's Mantle Tailoring · Crafted
- 8 Ghostly Mantle Deathstalkers in Shadowfang · Quest (Horde)
- 9 Raptorclaw Shoulders Source not listed
- 10 Feline Mantle Wolf Master Nandos · Shadowfang Keep
Back Glowing Thresher Cape Old Serra'kis · Blackfathom Deeps 9
- 2 Red Wool Cloak Bazil Thredd · The Stockade
- 3 Thornweaver Drape Source not listed
- 4 Repairman's Cape Data Rescue · Quest (Alliance)
- 5 Brilliant Cloak Source not listed
- 6 Prelacy Cape Researching the Corruption · Quest
- 7 Windsong Drape Free at Last · Quest (Horde)
- 8 Heavy Woolen Cloak Tailoring · Crafted
- 9 Expeditionary's Cape Theramore Expeditionary Force - Honored · Reputation
- 10 Darkspear Raider's Cloak Darkspear Raiders - Honored · Reputation
Chest Civinad Robes Rig Wars · Quest 9
- 2 Pristine Gown Tailoring · Crafted
- 3 Death Speaker Robes Death Speaker Jargba · Razorfen Kraul
- 4 Doomsayer's Robe Solution to Doom · Quest
- 5 Wisdom's Leather Tunic Leatherworking · Crafted
- 6 Robes of Arugal Archmage Arugal · Shadowfang Keep
- 7 Wisdom's Leather Armor Leatherworking · Crafted
- 8 Beguiler Robes Trash drop · Scarlet Monastery
- 9 Ceremonial Gown Source not listed
- 10 Zealot's Robe An Unholy Alliance · Quest (Horde)
Wrist Spidertank Oilrag Electrocutioner 6000 · Gnomeregan 9
- 2 Arcane Runed Bracers Wanted! Marez Cowl · Quest (Alliance)
- 3 Bridgebreaker Bindings Kam Deepfury · The Stockade
- 4 Knife-Polishing Rag Open the Maw · Quest (Horde)
- 5 Graveweave Bindings Atrexis the Grave Knight · City of Dalaran
- 6 Witherbite Bracers Witherfang · Ruins of Lordaeron
- 7 Silkstream Cuffs Book of the Ancients · Quest
- 8 Nightsky Wristbands World drop
- 9 Mindthrust Bracers Trash drop · Shadowfang Keep
- 10 Glowing Magical Bracelets World drop
Hands Truefaith Gloves Tailoring · Crafted 9
- 2 Restorer's Fine Gloves Agmond's Fate · Quest (Alliance)
- 3 Naga Battle Gloves Lady Sarevess · Blackfathom Deeps
- 4 Prospector Gloves Agmond's Fate · Quest
- 5 Pristine Gloves Tailoring · Crafted
- 6 Wisdom's Leather Gloves Leatherworking · Crafted
- 7 Oilrag Handwraps The Lost Pages · Quest (Horde)
- 8 Tattered Mittens Source not listed
- 9 Gloves of Meditation Tailoring · Crafted
- 10 Jutebraid Gloves Horde Presence · Quest (Horde)
Waist Mender's Leather Belt Leatherworking · Crafted 9
- 2 Skycaller's Leather Belt Leatherworking · Crafted
- 3 Budding Leaf Belt Source not listed
- 4 Pristine Sash Tailoring · Crafted
- 5 Belt of Arugal Archmage Arugal · Shadowfang Keep
- 6 Highlander's Cloth Girdle The League of Arathor - Honored · Reputation
- 7 Defiler's Cloth Girdle The Defilers - Honored · Reputation
- 8 Blightleaf Rope Fel Ancient · City of Dalaran
- 9 Wisdom's Leather Belt Leatherworking · Crafted
- 10 Daewyn's Girdle Fallen in the Fen · Quest
Legs Pristine Leggings Tailoring · Crafted 9
- 2 Wisdom's Leather Leggings Leatherworking · Crafted
- 3 Wisdom's Leather Pants Leatherworking · Crafted
- 4 Filigreed Pristine Leggings Tailoring · Crafted
- 5 Violet Sorcerer's Leggings Source not listed
- 6 Earthen Leggings Tailoring · Crafted
- 7 Ogre Loincloth Rhahk'Zor · The Deadmines
- 8 Gaze Dreamer Pants Twilight Lord Kelris · Blackfathom Deeps
- 9 Kodohide Legguards Source not listed
- 10 Stormrider's Leather Pants Leatherworking · Crafted
Feet Gilded Slippers Tailoring · Crafted 9
- 2 Roused Nature Footwraps Source not listed
- 3 Frostbane Treads Rath'mael · Ruins of Lordaeron
- 4 Everlast Boots Power Stones · Quest
- 5 Wisdom's Leather Boots Leatherworking · Crafted
- 6 Gnomebot Operating Boots Crowd Pummeler 9-60 · Gnomeregan
- 7 Black Whelp Slippers Leatherworking · Crafted
- 8 Acidic Walkers Viscous Fallout · Gnomeregan
- 9 Wingborne Boots Malin's Request · Quest
- 10 Pristine Boots Tailoring · Crafted
Finger 1 Sea Giant's Toe Ring Booty Bay - Friendly · Reputation 9
- 2 Solid Gold Band Opportunistic Education · Quest (Horde)
- 3 Electrocutioner Lagnut Electrocutioner 6000 · Gnomeregan
- 4 Philanthropist's Ring Greater Friend of the Library · Quest
- 5 Snake Hoop Willix the Importer · Quest
- 6 Ring of Forlorn Spirits The Legend of Stalvan · Quest (Alliance)
- 7 Ladimore Heirloom Ring Source not listed
- 8 Ring of Power Regulation Relic Guardian · Excavation Site: Wetlands
- 9 Reedknot Ring Jarl Needs a Blade · Quest
- 10 Sacristan Band Source not listed
Finger 2 Solid Gold Band Opportunistic Education · Quest (Horde) 9
- 1 Sea Giant's Toe Ring Booty Bay - Friendly · Reputation
- 3 Electrocutioner Lagnut Electrocutioner 6000 · Gnomeregan
- 4 Philanthropist's Ring Greater Friend of the Library · Quest
- 5 Snake Hoop Willix the Importer · Quest
- 6 Ring of Forlorn Spirits The Legend of Stalvan · Quest (Alliance)
- 7 Ladimore Heirloom Ring Source not listed
- 8 Ring of Power Regulation Relic Guardian · Excavation Site: Wetlands
- 9 Reedknot Ring Jarl Needs a Blade · Quest
- 10 Sacristan Band Source not listed
Trinket 1 Cursed Murloc Eye Gelihast · Blackfathom Deeps 10
- 2 Roogug's Severed Head Roogug · Razorfen Kraul
- 3 Worgenbane Talisman Commander Springvale · Shadowfang Keep
- 4 Lookie's Spyglass Cookie · The Deadmines
- 5 Defiler's Talisman The Defilers - Friendly · Reputation
- 6 Talisman of Arathor The League of Arathor - Friendly · Reputation
- 7 Satchel of Potions Changing Tastes · Quest (Horde)
- 8 Dog Whistle Houndmaster Loksey · Scarlet Monastery
- 9 Transformative Cocoon Source not listed
- 10 Minor Recombobulator Engineering · Crafted
- 11 Gnomish Universal Remote Engineering · Crafted
Trinket 2 Roogug's Severed Head Roogug · Razorfen Kraul 10
- 1 Cursed Murloc Eye Gelihast · Blackfathom Deeps
- 3 Worgenbane Talisman Commander Springvale · Shadowfang Keep
- 4 Lookie's Spyglass Cookie · The Deadmines
- 5 Defiler's Talisman The Defilers - Friendly · Reputation
- 6 Talisman of Arathor The League of Arathor - Friendly · Reputation
- 7 Satchel of Potions Changing Tastes · Quest (Horde)
- 8 Dog Whistle Houndmaster Loksey · Scarlet Monastery
- 9 Transformative Cocoon Source not listed
- 10 Minor Recombobulator Engineering · Crafted
- 11 Gnomish Universal Remote Engineering · Crafted
Main Hand Tidebringer's Claw Source not listed 9
- 2 Wind Spirit Staff Earthcaller Halmgar · Razorfen Kraul
- 3 Royal Diplomatic Scepter Dark Iron Ambassador · Gnomeregan
- 4 Healer's Staff Earthen Echo · Quest (Horde)
- 5 Death Speaker Scepter Death Speaker Jargba · Razorfen Kraul
- 6 Bottle of Powderfuse Port Source not listed
- 7 Staff of the Friar Trash drop · Blackfathom Deeps
- 8 Odo's Ley Staff Odo the Blindwatcher · Shadowfang Keep
- 9 Staff of Westfall The Defias Brotherhood · Quest (Alliance)
- 10 Lightning's Grasp Source not listed
Off Hand Forcestone Buckler Compendium of the Fallen · Quest (Horde) 9
- 2 Orb of Souls Enchanting · Crafted
- 3 Heart of Agamaggan Charlga Razorflank · Razorfen Kraul
- 4 Salve and Salvation Source not listed
- 5 Painwalker Buckler Source not listed
- 6 Eye of Paleth Cleansing the Eye · Quest
- 7 Alliance Outrunner Healing Rod Hannah Bladeleaf · Rare Spawn (Horde)
- 8 Orb of Mistmantle World drop
- 9 Omega Orb Compendium of the Fallen · Quest (Horde)
- 10 Raptor's Gaze Shadetooth · Excavation Site: Wetlands
Ranged Polished Driftwood Icon Enchanting · Crafted 2
- 2 Firestorm Totem Source not listed
- 3 Windcarved Effigy Source not listed
Where the list sends you
- 5 Crafted of 33 on the list
- 2 Quest (Horde) of 13 on the list
- 2 Blackfathom Deeps of 6 on the list · 15 quests
- 1 Quest of 15 on the list
- 1 Razorfen Kraul of 11 on the list · 8 quests
- 1 Reputation of 10 on the list
- 1 World drop of 9 on the list
- 1 Gnomeregan of 6 on the list · 20 quests
- 1 Scarlet Monastery of 5 on the list · 7 quests
Alternatives only: Quest (Alliance), Shadowfang Keep, The Deadmines, Excavation Site: Wetlands, The Stockade, City of Dalaran, Ruins of Lordaeron, Rare Spawn (Horde).
Talents
49 points, all of them spent by level 58.
Elemental
0Enhancement
15Restoration
3444 points, which is everything the beta's level 30 cap allows.
Elemental
24Enhancement
9Restoration
11Rotation
In priority order: the first line that applies is the one you press. Hover a spell for what it does.
- Maintain totems that will benefit your group the most via Call of the Elements .
- Maintain
Water Shield . - Maintain
Ancestral Healing on the tank if assigned and needed. - Use Mana Tide Totem when everyone in your group will benefit the most from it.
- Use
Nature's Swiftness with Healing Wave or Chain Heal for an instant emergency heal. - Maintain Riptide on the tank and players taking constant damage.
- Cast Chain Heal for AoE healing. Prioritize targets with a Riptide buff.
- Cast Healing Wave or Lesser Healing Wave for single-target healing.
Races
Ranked by how many of a race's racials touch what this spec does, read out of the game's own wording and out of the weapon its gear list aims for. Those are lit; the number on the right is the count. It is a measure, not a verdict: nothing in the beta has been parsed yet, so anything stronger would be a guess.
Alliance
- 1 Dwarf Big Game Hunter Stoneform Find Treasure Earth Fury 1
Horde
- 1 Troll Rapid Regeneration Berserking Regeneration Beast Slaying 2
- 2 Tauren Plainsrunning Cultivation Endurance War Stomp 1
- 3 Orc Shatter Curse Blood Fury Hardiness Savage 0
- 4 Skyborne Elemental Insight Skysight Walk on Air Wind Blessed 0
What Forever changed
8 new, 29 rewritten, 2 no longer taught, across the whole class. Every ability, rank by rank.
In the Restoration tree
- RiptideRestoration gets an instant heal with a heal-over-time attached, widening a toolkit that was almost entirely direct heals in Classic.
Elsewhere in Shaman
- Shamans are no longer Horde-onlyDwarves can play Shaman for the first time, and Horde-aligned Skyborne join the existing roster. This is the largest identity change the class has had since Vanilla.
- Lava BurstElemental gains a Fire nuke that interacts with Flame Shock, giving the tree a hard-hitting button it never had.
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Maelstrom WeaponMelee hits reduce the cast time of your next spell, finally connecting Enhancement's melee and casting halves instead of leaving them separate. - Two-handed weapons are baselineTwo-handed axes and maces no longer cost a talent. Dual wield was not available in the level 38 BlizzCon build.
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Enhancement can tankSpirit Weapons raises threat while Rockbiter is active and lowers it without, and other talents add parry and threat generation. There is no separate tank spec, but the support is deliberate. -
Improved StormstrikeA chance to reset Stormstrike's cooldown on dodge or parry, which pushes further toward defensive melee builds. - Ghost Wolf indoorsImproved Ghost Wolf makes the form usable indoors, and instant at two points invested.
- Totemic ProjectionA new ability that relocates all of your totems at once.
New abilities
- Totemic ProjectionRelocates your active totems to the specified location.
- RiptideHeals a friendly target for 613 to 678, an additional 575 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.
- Fire NovaInstantly inflicts 53 to 62 fire damage to enemies within 10 yd of your active Fire totem.
- Call of the ElementsSimultaneously places up to 4 totems specified in the Totem Bar.
- Totemic RecallReturns your totems to the earth, giving you 25% of the mana required to cast each totem destroyed by Totemic Recall.
- Call of the AncestorsSimultaneously places up to 4 totems specified in the Totem Bar. Can call different totems than Call of the Elements.
- Call of the SpiritsSimultaneously places up to 4 totems specified in the Totem Bar. Can call different totems than Call of the Elements or Call of the Ancestors.
- Lava BurstYou hurl molten lava at the target, dealing 164 to 212 Fire damage. If your Flame Shock is on the target, Lava Burst deals 20% increased damage.
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