Restoration Shaman PvP Talents and Builds — Midnight Season 1
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Restoration Shaman and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Restoration Shaman PvP Guide.
Midnight PvP Talent Builds for Restoration Shaman
Farseer - Restoration Shaman
Farseer Restoration Shaman depends on using
Unleash Life on cooldown
to benefit from
Call of the Ancestors to increase healing throughput.
The objective with this aggressive build is to be able to use
Nature's Swiftness
to instant cast
Hex crowd control, along with
Lightning Lasso to control the
enemy team while your team bursts one target.
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Mandatory PvP Talents
Grounding Totem summon an Air Totem with 5 Health at the feet of
the caster that will redirect all harmful spells cast on a nearby party or raid
member to itself. It will not redirect area of effect spells and lasts 3
seconds. This
talent is important to help you avoid incoming crowd control. You can also use
this to stop some incoming spell damage.
Call of Al'Akir allows for instant cast
Hex using
Nature's Swiftness
, even though increasing the cooldown by 30-seconds, this can be valuable
for crowd control on the other team for burst damage. Note, this does mean you will not
be using
Nature's Swiftness on a healing spell.
Lightning Lasso (available as a PvP talent) is a 5-second non-dispellable stun
that does moderate damage each second. This is great for locking down an enemy to allow
your team to burst or to crowd control a healer. Note that you will not be able to heal
while channeling the stun, and you can be interrupted.
Situational PvP Talents
Static Field Totem allows you to restrict player movement, and
move the enemy players trapped within the totem using
Totemic Projection.
Burrow is an immunity defensive which can also deal moderate damage.
Totem of Wrath summons a Totem, when using
Nature's Swiftness, which
increases the critical effect of damage and healing spells by 15% of all nearby
allies within 40 yards for 15 seconds. This is helpful if you are playing with
two caster DPS.
Rarely selected PvP Talents
Electrocute causes your enemy to suffer damage over 3 seconds
when you successfully
Purge a beneficial effect. If your team's
strategy is to play aggressively, this can be an important talent to have.
Rain Dance makes
Healing Rain viable if your team stays within
the circle, and deals moderate pulsing damage to the enemy team.
Changelog
- 16 Mar. 2026: Midnight Season 1 Launch Update
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight Launch.
- 19 Jan. 2026: Updated for Patch 12.0.1 (Midnight Prepatch).
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for TWW Launch.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for TWW pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.6.
- 24 Jan. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.5, talent page.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.5.
- 23 May 2023: Updatedfor Dragonflight 10.1 start of season.
- 07 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.0.7.
- 04 Feb. 2023: Updated for 10.0.2 updates.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight post-launch.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 31 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 27 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2 of Shadowlands
- 17 Nov. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.5 of Shadowlands.
- 04 Jul. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1 of Shadowlands.
- 19 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 02 Dec. 2020: Revised to prepare for Shadowlands first PvP Season.
- 29 Nov. 2020: Removed Azerite mentions.
- 20 Nov. 2020: Updated for Covenants and Legendaries for Shadowlands.
- 19 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands Pre-Patch 9.0.1, and new author.
- 02 Mar. 2020: Updated PvP Talents.
- 20 Jan. 2020: This page was checked for Patch 8.3 and no update was deemed necessary.
- 16 Dec. 2019: Page added.
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