Restoration Shaman Healing Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.1.0)

While these are the baseline recommended talents, feel free to swap to different utility talents to suit your group composition, target dungeon, and active weekly affixes.

The idea behind these talents is to give you high baseline healing and utility, including many DPS talents, such as Acid Rain and Master of the Elements, which allows you to seamlessly alternate between healing and DPS with Healing Surge and Lava Burst, while skipping on casting Flame Shock altogether.

Undulation works well in small group settings, where single target heals are much more used than in raids, but Chain Heal and its support talents can also be useful in a Totemic shell as you will be able to have a very strong Healing Stream Totem with Lively Totems, Reactivity, Supportive Imbuements, Living Stream, and Elemental Resistance to carry your healing on most pulls.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

While these are the baseline recommended talents, feel free to swap to different utility talents to suit your group composition, target dungeon, and active weekly affixes.

The idea behind these talents is to give you high baseline healing and utility, including many DPS talents, such as Acid Rain and Master of the Elements, which allows you to seamlessly alternate between healing and DPS with Healing Surge and Lava Burst, while skipping on casting Flame Shock altogether.

Unleash Life allows for permanent uptime of one Ancestor, which is more reliable than having to cycle through Undulation, and having the full Chain Heal package allows for easy area healing, even in spread out situation where Totemic struggles. With the high amount of Riptides available as Farseer in a 5-man setting, Flow of the Tides is also a great pick.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

Restoration Shaman provides support for the party through healing, damage, and other additional effects, such as dispels and crowd control, as detailed below:

• Thunderstorm is great for pushing enemies away from ground effects. It can also be used with Thundershock for added crowd control that does not send enemies flying all over the place or with Traveling Storms to knock from an ally's position instead;
• Purify Spirit removes all Magic (and Curse, when talented) effects from a friendly target on an 8-second cooldown. This can often allow the purified ally to survive otherwise deadly situations and usually lowers the damage intake of that ally;
• Purge removes one beneficial Magic effect from an enemy target. This is very useful in Mythic+, as there are a lot of enemies with very powerful Magic buffs that we can remove immediately;
• Wind Shear interrupts an enemy target and prevents spells of the interrupted school from being cast for 3 seconds on a 12-second cooldown, which is the shortest cooldown out of all ranged interrupts. As interruptible enemy casts are, often, some of the most dangerous abilities you will face in Mythic+, you should try to interrupt enemies as much as possible, prioritizing the most dangerous casts / ranged enemies that are hard for melee allies to interrupt;
• Capacitor Totem allows you to place a totem up to 30 yards away that, 2 seconds after being placed, explodes to stun a group of enemies in a 16-yard diameter for 3 seconds on a 1-minute cooldown. When facing dangerous trash packs, 3 seconds can easily be the difference between victory and defeat;
• Earthgrab Totem and Earthbind Totem allow you to root / slow enemies in an area. This is very useful whenever your group has to crowd control powerful enemies;
• Tremor Totem places a totem beneath you that periodically removes Fear, Charm, and Sleep effects from allies within 30 yards. It lasts for 10 seconds on a 1-minute cooldown. This should be used whenever enemies are casting Fear, Charm, or Sleep effects on your group;
• Hex disables a non-boss humanoid or beast enemy for 1 minute. This allows you to disable especially powerful enemies ahead of a pull.
• Earth Elemental summons an elemental with a large health pool and good non-boss tanking capabilities — its taunt does not work on bosses — for 1 minute on a 5-minute cooldown. It can be used for a minor DPS increase or as an emergency cooldown capable of distracting dangerous non-boss enemies. It also serves as a powerful personal defensive since it grants you 15% extra maximum health and -5% damage taken with Primordial Bond;

The following cheatsheet, by Laren, shows at a glance what specific utility to talent into for each Season 2 dungeon:

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• Cinderbrew Meadery:
• Purge
• Earthgrab Totem
• Darkflame Cleft:
• Thunderous Paws and/or Spirit Walk
• Tremor Totem
• Priory of the Sacred Flame:
• Purge
• Earthgrab Totem
• The Rookery
• Cleanse Spirit
• Purge
• Operation: Floodgate:
• Purge
• Poison Cleansing Totem
• Theater of Pain:
• Purge
• Cleanse Spirit
• Operation: Mechagon:
• Purge
• The Motherlode!!:
• Purge
• Poison Cleansing Totem
• Earthgrab Totem

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Purge
• Earthgrab Totem

• Earthgrab Totem is great to stop the slow moving oozes that will heal the I'pa boss and deal massive damage if they reach it.

• Purge can be used to remove Rejuvenating Honey cast by Flavor Scientist, as it heals for up to 45% of their Max Health in 18 seconds.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Thunderous Paws and/or Spirit Walk
• Tremor Totem

• Tremor Totem can be used against the Candle King's Paranoid Mind AoE fear.

• Thunderous Paws and/or Spirit Walk can be used to remove Flaming Tether cast by Sootsnout. This is interruptible.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Purge

• Earthgrab Totem should be used to stop the adds that rush over to the party on the final boss after phasing, and they might even kill themselves before getting out of roots if no additional damage is done!

• Purge can be used to remove Templar's Wrath from Zealous Templar (30% damage for 10 seconds).

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Purge
• Cleanse Spirit

• Range on the final boss can be a massive issue, make sure to tell your group to hug the boss closely whenever they are not soaking, and try to run out before dispelling yourself if afflicted with the puddle dropping debuff.

• Purge can be used to remove the Lightning-Infused buff that all Cursed Thunderers have(1st boss room).
• It is not really necessary, but you could help a bit by using Cleanse Spirit, to remove Seeping Corruption, inflicted by Corrupted Oracle, otherwise the target will drop damaging circles for 8 seconds.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Purge
• Poison Cleansing Totem

• Make sure to save cooldowns for the high damage phases of the bosses, especially the Jumpstart! intermission on Big Momma and Awaken the Swamp on Swampface.

• Purge can be used to remove the Restorative Algae HoT cast by Disturbed Kelp.
• Poison Cleansing Totem can be used against Undercrawlers' Lethargic Venom ability

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Purge
• Cleanse Spirit

• Cleanse Spirit can be used to rescue people hit by Mordretha, the Endless Empress' Grasping Rift ability (the black hole), as it applies a long stun that also does damage.

• Purge should be used to remove Bone Shield from Bone Magus.
• Cleanse Spirit can be used against Nefarious Darkspeakers' Curse of Desolation.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Purge

• The two big bots after Garden boss deal extreme area damage to the group so make sure you save all healing cooldowns for them, as Garden is a relatively easy to heal fight.

• Purge can be used against Defense Bot MK III's Defensive Countermeasures and if necessary against Mechagon Mechanic's Overclock ability.

In this dungeon, we recommend getting the following talents in order to help deal with specific mechanics:

• Purge
• Poison Cleansing Totem

• Earthgrab Totem can be useful to help kite the elemental adds on the Azerokk boss, as their bleeds are dangerous and having your ranged DPS be busy running around wastes DPS.

• Purge should used to remove Tectonic Barrier from Stonefuries
• Poison Cleansing Totem can be helpful against the stacking DoT from Hired Assassins' Toxic Blades, as well as against Venture Co. Alchemists' Caustic Compound.

Shamans have a lot of tools to deal with this affix:

• Wind Shear
• Purge
• Thunderstorm
• Capacitor Totem potentially twice in a row with Totemic Recall, and available more often if specced into Static Charge

Mobility tools are great for helping soak your party's Void Pulsars:

• Wind Rush Totem to help your entire party soak them
• Spiritwalker's Grace so you can keep casting and gain movement from Graceful Spirit
• Gust of Wind or Spirit Walk
• Ghost Wolf especially with Thunderous Paws. Winds of Al'Akir can make you even faster, if you really need it

While your role at dealing with the Voidbound affix is limited, make sure to Flame Shock and deal damage to the Void Emissary as a priority while it is active!

Poison Cleansing Totem will remove all Void Rift debuffs on its own, and you can get a second one if needed with Totemic Recall.

Alternatively, you can also simply heal through the debuff, as it is not a healing absorb and you will still be able to heal your targets fully while they are affected, with any left-over debuffs being easily removed by your Cleanse Spirit.