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This restoration shaman guide for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands covers all the basic and advanced combos for the resto shaman in Mythic+ and raids, focusing around the basic resto gameplay, cool mechanics from the covenants, new legendaries, conduits, skill expression, doing Torghast, gear stats as well as some general tips and tricks. I go in depth about the basic skills and then also delve deep into some of the resto intricacies.
TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction: 0:00
The basic skills: 0:58
Basic healing rotations: 3:18
Heavy Rainfall Combo: 5:28
Necrolord Combo: 6:42
Ascendance Combo: 9:16
Spirit Link: 11:45
Damage basics: 13:53
AoE damage setup: 14:57
Skill expression – important skills: 16:58
Tips and tricks: 21:31
Talents: 23:53
Gear and stats as resto: 28:30
Legendaries: 30:55
Covenants: 34:00
Conduits: 35:50
Torghast: 38:22
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Here are the details written down:
Spell discussion:
The routine at the start of every fight:
1) Make sure your tank has Earth Shield on and you have your Water Shield on
2) Drop your Cloudburst
3) Drop your Capacitor Totem
4) Flame shock the target that is least likely to die in the next 18 seconds;
REMEMBER YOU HAVE HEROISM – use it during boss encounters, usually done at the start of the fight since there is a short window at which boss is not a big threat at the start
Important passives:
Tidal Waves – Stacks up to 2 via riptide, 1 stack used per healing surge or wave (this is why it’s a good idea to combo riptide with healing wave/surge
Undulation – 3 casts of healing surge/wave give you bonus 50% healing on your next surge/wave
Lava Surge – 15% chance per flame shock proc to give you free, instant lava burst
Spell discussion:
The routine at the start of every fight:
1) Make sure your tank has Earth Shield on and you have your Water Shield on
2) Drop your Cloudburst
3) Drop your Capacitor Totem
4) Flame shock the target that is least likely to die in the next 18 seconds;
REMEMBER YOU HAVE HEROISM – use it during boss encounters, usually done at the start of the fight since there is a short window at which boss is not a big threat at the start
How to play:
Basic healing pattern:
1) Riptide (for the Healing Surge crit chance) – Healing Surge
2) with Undulation on: Riptide – Healing Wave
Powerful AoE healing combos when things go wrong:
1) Healing Tide Totem (if you are using the Heavy Rainfall Conduit) – Rainfall
2) Cloudburst – Riptide on 2+ people – Primordial wave – Healing Wave – Pop your cloudburst
3) Ascendancy and roll your face over keyboard
4) Someone drops super low and you know more dmg is coming: Spirit link – spam chain heals or do any of the above
5) Just Chain heal lul – useful when you just want to heal someone up a little bit!
Nice opener with heavy Rainfall Conduit in M+ trash packs:
Capacitor Totem – Heavy Rainfall when mobs are stunned – Healing Tide Totem – Spam chain lighting
Remember, if your healing is high and you have the time to deal damage, help your team with that!
Rule of thumb:
1 or 2 enemies: Flame shock – Lava Burst – Lava Burst – Lightning Bolt
3+ enemies: Flame Shock – Chain lightning spam – Lava Burst on proc
TIPS FOR FIGHTS:
1) Track your cloudburst to ensure it is ALWAYS up; I use a Weakaura for that!
2) Track your Earth Shield to ensure your tank always has it; same for water shield
I use a Weakaura for that!
3) Track your mana, if it is dipping below 70%, use your Mana Tide Totem;
4) If someone gets feared, or an AoE fear is coming, drop your Tremor Totem;
5) Use Purify Spirit to remove dangerous debuffs from allies (DBM helps with that a lot);
6) Spend your Lava Burst when you don’t need to be healing someone ASAP;
7) Keep your flame shock on to allow for the Lava Burst procs
8) If no healing is to be done, you can always pre-heal your tank if you predict the damage well!
9) If in AoE, use Ghost Wolf to move out of AoE
10) Use Earthbind Totem to allow your tank to kite if the fight requires that
SKILL EXPRESSION:
Spirit link totem to salvage fights/save players
Astral shift BEFORE you take damage (can’t dodge AoE, unavoidable damage soak)
Wind Shear on trash and bosses
Using Ghost Wolf and jumping forward to move out of AoE
Spiritwalker’s Grace timing
Covenant Choice – Necrolords have the most satisfying combo AND a really great Signature for healers for both PvP and PvE!
There is a HUGE synergy for necrolord covenant and Primal Core legendary
Gear and stats: ALWAYS use a shield.
It doubles your armor, giving you 10% extra phys damage reduction AND a chance to block
Balance Crit, Haste and Versatility
Crit is great for all content, Versatility is good for raids and haste is better for M+ (you don’t run oom in M+ since fights are shorter)
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You really are the best bro thank you so much!!!
Love you man! Thanks a lot, hope you keep going
Guys , I do not get why everyone under plays the venthyr chain harvest. It heals for 10k each , 5 players and it had no set up as opposed to necro where you have to spent 4 globals and a healing wave cast time to be efficient. Plus chain harvest adds dps and venthyr comes with a mobility cd which is awesome in mythic + and raids. I literally see 0 reason why necro became the meta.
Grateful to the one above, for having found this video in recommended. Excellent guide <3
earthen wall is sooo strong, i would suggest that you take that for both m+ and raiding
This feels more like a mythic+ guide, not really raiding as stated in the title. Great mythic guide, but there are other talents I'd choose for raiding
Only using Ascendance is very poor advice, in raiding both Wellspring and High Tide are invaluable and will outperform Ascendance 9/10 times.
EDIT: I felt I was being too harsh only criticizing the single large issue I found. This is a great and comprehensive video, keep it up! 🙂
I always hate that delay with capacitor totem. I kinda want it to be able to be cast within healing rain, and if it goes off while rain is still up, it will ReStun everything IN the rain for 1 second when rain ends.
Rsham season 1 guide?
No love for venthyr? 😕
Thank you so much. This was great!
Thank you very much for this guide…really good and a really good timing…just hit 60 and was wondering what and how to do it.
Would you mind, telling me, how you setup up your UI? It looks great.
WRONG… unleash life is the first talent you want guys dont listen to this guy
u explained the rote realy realy nice best explanaition on yt so far
i like those addons!
You can actually fit three Riptides into the Primodial Wave combo. Just go Riptide > Cloudburst > Riptide > Primordial wave > Riptide > Healing Wave.
Amazing vid you got a new subscriber!
One thing I have noticed is that it is a little easier to do Torghast as resto due to the scaling (even though they just changed that in the last patch.)
it is obligatory to go Necrolord as a Shaman? i picked Kyrian because i love that covenant.
I much rather have double riptide (torrent) than undulation.
Makes it much easier to swap targets.
By casting healing surge and riptide right after it you get 2 heals in one gcd. So I get 4 heals out in 2gcds instead of just 3 when I want them, and I also don't have to count my casts…
Also: I only cast healing wave when I know I might run into mana problems (prolongued fights). The time saved goes into hardcasting lava and LB if lava in on cd. Hits like a truck too!
this is the best video for players who are new to resto shaman. thanks
fantastic video! I just have one question and that is what are you using to show the healing text? I cannot find an addon that shows healing like that. thanks in advance
Great guide! I do Torghast as Resto. This week, I cleared layers 8 in Fractured Chambers and Upper Reaches. Both, Goxul the Devourer and Synod died in 30 seconds. I was doing 12-15K dps. This was after they increased enemy health for healer specializations doing Torghast. I would definitely recommend Restoration in Torghast.
This is a really good video, I have been a resto druid for awhile and and havn't healed since TBC on a shaman. I am still in the process of figuring things out and this was a great boost to my knowledge. Thanks