WoW Forever Restoration Shaman PvE Guide

• 2 November 2026 development notes. Riptide now heals over time only, with no initial heal. It costs about 40% less mana, and its cooldown is 12 seconds (was 6).
• October 15, 2026 patch notes. Water Shield now triggers from any critical spell (was critical heals only), and Mana Tide Totem gains a rank at level 38. Grace of Air, Strength of Earth, Windfury and Flametongue totems now reach the whole raid. Full list: October 15 patch notes. On our tier list Restoration holds A for healers.

Restoration is the raid healer Shaman. Chain Heal on stacked melee, Healing Wave on the tank, Spirit mana in combat (Blizzard line, rates still provisional). Hub for totems: Shaman hub. Flags: Restoration PvP. Alliance: Dwarf Shaman.

Blizzard published the Shaman kit on 7 October 2026. Talents keep 3 trees of 7 rows with 1-point gold talents at 11, 16, 21 and 31 points, and Restoration’s are named. Water Shield is the new 11-point gold: 3 globes that return mana when you are hit. Since the 15 October notes they also return mana when any of your spells crits (was critical heals only). Mana Tide Totem moves down to 16 points and gains a rank at level 38, so you learn ranks at 25, 38, 48 and 58. Riptide at 31 points heals over 15 seconds with a cooldown of 12 seconds, and makes Chain Heal 25% stronger on that target. Since the 2 November notes it has no initial heal and costs about 40% less mana. Restorative Totems now scales the whole Healing Stream Totem (was the base value only), and Healing Way now raises Healing Wave healing. Point-by-point spends follow Blizzard's notes up to 2 November, and exact Spirit-to-mana rates stay provisional.

Stay Restoration. A few Elemental points for mana tools show up in community trees. Call them optional.

5-man healing is lighter than Hyjal 20. Practice Chain Heal bounce on dungeon melee before raid week.

Restoration wants Spirit, mp5 and +healing. Spell hit is for your rare shock. Healing power now includes 1/3 of bonus spell damage, so caster pieces heal too. Blizzard has not published the raid loot tables yet, so the dungeon healer set is BiS until 9 December.

Week 1. Quest +healing pieces. Healer blues.

Weeks 2 to 3. dungeons +healing. Dungeon healer set.

From 9 December. Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit, Onyxia. Raid carries.

Every other spec, and the 18 tier 1 sets: BiS lists for every spec.

Long Hyjal nights want Alchemy. Ultimate Restoration PvE on the live offer is Alchemy + Herbalism. Balanced is Alchemy + Enchanting. Open a card to land on Shaman Restoration. Tauren or Dwarf on the builder.

Healing UI. BG frames live on Restoration PvP.

• Grid2 / VuhDo: Chain Heal bounce targets.
• Clique: click-cast Healing Wave.
• HealComm-style incoming: stop overheal on the tank.
• DBM / BigWigs: raid-wide damage from 9 December.

BattlegroundTargets stays on Restoration PvP.

Restoration still quests with shocks, then heals instances. Since the 1 October beta build dungeon quests pay 50% less bonus XP, so the route stays quest-led in the open world. 1 booster is $399 in about 14 days. 2 boosters in shifts is $599 in about 7 days. A human Pro plays your Shaman in our own gaming hubs, on a PC dedicated to your account and a residential IP address in your city, so it looks exactly like you playing from home. Preselect Tauren or Dwarf. Route. Skip the grind.