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Restoration Shaman Review - Battle for Azeroth Community Opinions
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Throughout the pre-patch, we'll be launching a community opinions article for every class and spec. We're continuing our Battle for Azeroth Class Reviews and in this post, we'll be taking a look at the state of Resto Shaman. See if this spec appeals to you in Battle for Azeroth!
We reached out to the Restoration Shaman community to give their thoughts and opinions on the changes and current state of the spec.
If this spec appeals to you after reading this article, check out our
Battle for Azeroth Restoration Shaman Guide
.
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Assassination
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Subtlety
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Outlaw
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Fury
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Arms
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Ret
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Windwalker
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Feral
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Enhancement
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Havoc
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Survival
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Beast Mastery
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Marksmanship
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Fire
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Frost
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Arcane
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Boomkin
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Elemental
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Demonology
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Destruction
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Affliction
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Unholy
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Frost
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Holy Paladin
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Disc
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Holy
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Restoration Druid
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Restoration
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Mistweaver
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Blood
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Brewmaster
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Guardian
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Protection Warrior
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Vengeance
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Protection Paladin
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Positives Going into BFA:
Our base toolkit has been expanded to include
Totem condensateur
baseline as well as adding in
Totem de séisme
. So far Tremor has only been useful against fear and sleep effects as most charm effects are full on mind controls which Tremor does not break.
Écho des éléments
has been shifted in talent tiers allowing a bit more flexibility in play without being punished by missing out on a massive throughput talent.
Shaman still has some of the most powerful raid cooldowns in the game (
Totem de lien d'esprit
,
Totem de protection ancestrale
) and may continue to see progression spots as long as those cooldowns have a place in overcoming the difficulties of encounters.
Lastly, the removal of the artifact improves talent viability significantly by shifting talents that weren’t affected by any artifact traits into a relatively stronger spot.
Negatives going into BFA:
The removal of Ancestral Guidance as a talent option basically removes most raid viability of taking
Ascendance
as pairing the two abilities together created a very degenerate burst playstyle. There are also some backend changes to
Totem d’explosion nuageuse
that make it no longer able to collect healing from anything except the base spells of a Restoration Shaman and any talents that provide healing. Overall our throughput is significantly lower than any other healer outside of Holy Paladin which bring better damage reduction tools as well as significantly better single target utility.
The pacing of the class has been reduced dramatically with the removal of Queen’s Ascendant being a passive way of reducing casting speed of spells especially with a high amount of critical strike. With haste not having too much of an impact on healing per mana and mana costs being very high on our AoE abilities, it is a less desired secondary stat and the spec will continue to have slow pacing.
Tuning
Currently most of our healing comes from healing over time effects such as
Remous
and
Totem guérisseur
as well as our stacked AoE tools like
Salve de guérison
and
Pluie guérisseuse
. Even after significant buffs to
Vague de soins
and
Afflux de soins
, these spells are still significantly weaker than most other healers single target healing abilities.
Salve de guérison
is currently very impactful when used in conjunction with
Marée haute
. At the moment
Marée haute
and
Afflux
are very competitive with one another while
Ascendance
has low impact in raid encounters but remains strong in small group content.
Pluie guérisseuse
is significantly weaker than it was in Legion but still continues to be one of the most mana efficient healing spells in our toolkit. Overall, restoration shaman is well behind top throughput healers based on the latest testing on July 27th.
Talents
Level 15
All three options are viable with
Déchaînement de la vie
pulling ahead of the other two when used with
Marée haute
Salve de guérison
s.
Ondulation
helps slightly in our lack of sustained single target healing.
Torrent
remains powerful when spot healing targets with damage over time effects.
Level 30
This tier primarily revolves around
Écho des éléments
and
Bouclier de terre
.
Écho des éléments
is a nice quality of life talent that allows some buffering on spells such as
Remous
and
Totem guérisseur
by not requiring you to use them exactly on cooldown and pool charges for a more opportune moment to prevent overhealing.
Bouclier de terre
aids in sustained single target healing with its 10% healing increase to the target it is applied to.
Déluge
remains a lackluster option due to the positional requirements it imposes to gain the most benefit (having your entire raid stacked in
Pluie guérisseuse
).
Level 45
Esprit du loup
will be the pick in this row of talents the majority of the time due to the other talents having no real impact on your performance as a healer.
Esprit du loup
can be utilized as a damage reduction if you decide to sit in
Loup fantôme
for a few seconds or just helps you move around by giving you a slight movement speed increase while in
Loup fantôme
.
Totem de poigne de terre
and
Charge statique
can be useful in content where crowd control is desired.
Level 60
This row remains unchanged from Legion with all three options maintaining a similar power level to the presquish Legion versions.
Vigueur ancestrale
is nice for providing a health buffer to targets of direct healing spells.
Totem de protection ancestrale
provides the effect of
Vigueur ancestrale
to everyone in a large area as well as acting as an extra battle rez on a 5 minute cooldown (this is a key talent to look at when progression raiding).
Totem de mur terrestre
remains as a nice counter to area of effect ticking damage or a significant shield on a Brewmaster Tank as their stagger synergizes well with the small absorb shield provided by the totem.
Level 75
Gardien de la nature
is a new talent that provides us with a way of healing up after we receive damage that sets our health below a certain threshold. The way this works is if any hit were to reduce your current health below 35% of you maximum health, you will heal for up to 20% of your maximum health. This heal happens before the damage event. This means that if you are above 80% health and an ability brings you below 35% health, you will not heal for the full 20% health but rather the difference between your current life when you take the hit of damage and full health. This ability can also save you from dying because the heal happens before the damage event brings your health to 0 or below.
Esprit gracieux
enhances our ability to be mobile while healing by reducing the cooldown of
Grâce du marcheur des esprits
by a minute.
Totem de bouffée de vent
is a niche ability that can assist in raid wide mobility if the raid is stacked.
Level 90
This talent tier saw the most shaking up in the transition from Legion to Battle for Azeroth with the removal of
Écho des éléments
and Bottomless Depths and the additions of
Crue subite
and
Giboulée
.
Crue subite
is a new talent that reduces the cast speed of your next healing spell by 20% after consuming a stack of
Raz-de-marée
. This promotes a weaving playstyle where you ideally want to use
Raz-de-marée
on mana efficient
Vague de soins
s or critical
Afflux de soins
s and use the
Crue subite
buffs you gain from those casts on spells such as
Salve de guérison
,
Afflux
, or
Pluie guérisseuse
.
Giboulée
is the artifact ability from Legion (Gift of the Queen) redesigned slightly to have a slightly punishing effect when used improperly.
Giboulée
excels when your raid is stacked and taking heavy raid wide damage. Ideally you always want to effectively heal all 6 targets to get the most healing for mana value out of this spell.
Totem d’explosion nuageuse
has been gutted. Not just because of the loss of Ancestral Guidance, it replacing
Totem guérisseur
, but also due to some back end changes that targeted spells that are % increases to certain specs throughput. What this means is that anything that isn’t a baseline spell, or talent for Restoration Shamans will NOT feed cloudburst. This hinders the overall potential of
Totem d’explosion nuageuse
and results in this talent generally not being a healing increase. The only upside to this talent is if you can make it to comparable healing to
Totem guérisseur
and then some by casting spells you would’ve casted during an encounter, it will save you a slight amount of mana. Overall
Crue subite
is generally a better pick in this row if your raid is spread, and
Giboulée
for when your raid is stacked.
Level 100
Marée haute
returns as a powerful option in enhancing
Salve de guérison
by over 46% when only considering the value of the extra bounce as well as the bounce falloff reduction it provides. In fights where
Salve de guérison
is one of your main spell casts, take this talent.
Afflux
returns as a middle of the road option between sustained healing and burst healing. On any raid encounters that you find yourself not casting
Salve de guérison
, look to this talent for a slight boost on AoE burst mechanics that are infrequent. Typically this talent will perform better than
Ascendance
in a
Salve de guérison
-less build.
Ascendance
is only really useful in 5 man content at the moment due to the changes stated prior in this article. The removal of Ancestral Guidance as well as incredible healing multipliers provided by the Tier 21 set bonuses reduce the power of this talent down to being only a 100% healing increase for 15 seconds on a 3 minute cooldown. It helps that the healing increase is split evenly among nearby injured allies, but is limited heavily by its 20 yard range. While raiding we highly recommend taking either
Marée haute
for sustained healing,
Afflux
to counter bursts of damage, and lastly only take
Ascendance
when an encounter calls for a large healing increase during a very specific window and almost no healing outside of that window.
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