RESTORATION SHAMAN
Restoration Shaman is built on the Restoration talent tree and plays as a healer in raids. The tree has 16 talents: 3 new in Forever, 10 changed from Classic.
RESTORATION GUIDE
We'll write the Restoration Shaman rotation, stat priority and recommended build as the beta data settles. For now, see the talent tree below, the talent calculator and the class discussions on the forum.
WHAT IT BRINGS TO A RAID
Only with the Restoration spec (its talents):
BUFFS (1)
- Inspiration / Ancestral HealingSingle target
Critical heals raise the target's armor by 25% (for tanks).
Ancestral HealingTalent: Ancestral Healing · RestorationIncreases your target's armor value by 25% for 15 sec after getting a critical effect from one of your healing spells.
COOLDOWNS (1)
- Mana Tide TotemParty
Mana for the party over 12 sec.
Mana Tide TotemTalent: Mana Tide Totem · RestorationSummons a Mana Tide Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 12 sec that restores 290 mana every 3 seconds to group members within 30 yards.
EVERY SHAMAN BRINGS
Strength of Earth TotemGrace of Air TotemWindfury TotemFlametongue TotemMana Spring TotemHealing Stream TotemStoneskin TotemFire resistanceFrost resistanceNature resistancePoison cleanseDisease cleanseOffensive dispelInterruptFear protectionOut-of-combat resurrection
DETAILS ON THE CLASS PAGE →TALENTS
Hover or tap a talent to read it below. Text is for the final rank.
5Improved Healing Wave
5Totemic Focus
3Mindfulness
3Natural Grace
5Tidal Focus
2Improved Reincarnation
3Ancestral Healing
3Healing Focus
1Water Shield
5Tidal Mastery
5Restorative Totems
1Mana Tide Totem
3Healing Way
1Nature's Swiftness
5Purification
1Riptide- Improved Healing WaveRow 1 · 5 rank
Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.5 sec.
- Totemic FocusRow 1 · 5 rankChanged
Reduces the Mana cost of your totems and any spells that summon or move them by 25%.
- MindfulnessRow 2 · 3 rankNew
Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
- Natural GraceRow 2 · 3 rankChangedClassic name: Healing Grace
Reduces the threat generated by your spells by 15%.
- Tidal FocusRow 2 · 5 rankChanged
Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 5% and improves your chance to hit by 5%.
- Improved ReincarnationRow 2 · 2 rankChanged
Reduces the cooldown of your Reincarnation spell by 20 min, increases your maximum health by 4%, and increases the amount of health and Mana you reincarnate with by an additional 20%.
- Ancestral HealingRow 3 · 3 rankChanged
Increases your target's armor value by 25% for 15 sec after getting a critical effect from one of your healing spells.
- Healing FocusRow 3 · 3 rankChanged
Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting any healing spell.
- Water ShieldRow 3 · 1 rank · activeNew
The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water. When a spell, melee, or ranged attack hits the caster or when one of the caster's healing spells gets a critical result, 2% of maximum mana is restored to the caster, expending one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
- Tidal MasteryRow 4 · 5 rankChanged
Increases the critical effect chance of your healing spells by 5%.
- Restorative TotemsRow 4 · 5 rankChanged
Increases the effect of your Mana Spring Totem by 25% and increases the effect of your Healing Stream Totem by 50%.
- Mana Tide TotemRow 4 · 1 rank · activeChanged
Summons a Mana Tide Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 12 sec that restores 88 mana every 3 seconds to group members within 30 yards.
- Healing WayRow 5 · 3 rankChanged
Increases the amount healed by your Healing Wave spell by 25%.
- Nature's SwiftnessRow 5 · 1 rank · active
When activated, your next Nature spell with a casting time less than 10 sec. becomes an instant cast spell.
- PurificationRow 6 · 5 rank
Increases the effectiveness of your healing spells by 10%.
- RiptideRow 7 · 1 rank · activeNew
Heals a friendly target for 485 to 533, an additional 445 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.
Removed from Classic: Nature's Guidance, Totemic Mastery
Talent, spell, race and raid data: talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), from the WoW Forever beta client; data date 2026-10-14. Numbers can lag live tuning. Spell names, icons and tooltip text belong to Blizzard Entertainment. Shaman talent calculator.