Restoration Shaman PvP Talents and Builds — Midnight Season 1

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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.

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Midnight PvP Talent Builds for Restoration Shaman

Farseer - Restoration Shaman
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Farseer - Restoration Shaman

Farseer Restoration Shaman depends on using Unleash Life Icon Unleash Life on cooldown to benefit from Call of the Ancestors Icon Call of the Ancestors to increase healing throughput.

The objective with this aggressive build is to be able to use Nature's Swiftness Icon Nature's Swiftness to instant cast Hex Icon Hex crowd control, along with Lightning Lasso Icon Lightning Lasso to control the enemy team while your team bursts one target.

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

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Mandatory PvP Talents

Grounding Totem Icon 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 Icon Call of Al'Akir allows for instant cast Hex Icon Hex using Nature's Swiftness Icon 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 Icon Nature's Swiftness on a healing spell.

Lightning Lasso Icon 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.

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Situational PvP Talents

Static Field Totem Icon Static Field Totem allows you to restrict player movement, and move the enemy players trapped within the totem using Totemic Projection Icon Totemic Projection.

Burrow Icon Burrow is an immunity defensive which can also deal moderate damage.

Totem of Wrath Icon Totem of Wrath summons a Totem, when using Nature's Swiftness Icon 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.

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Rarely selected PvP Talents

Electrocute Icon Electrocute causes your enemy to suffer damage over 3 seconds when you successfully Purge Icon Purge a beneficial effect. If your team's strategy is to play aggressively, this can be an important talent to have.

Rain Dance Icon Rain Dance makes Healing Rain Icon Healing Rain viable if your team stays within the circle, and deals moderate pulsing damage to the enemy team.

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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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