Restoration in battlegrounds and small-group PvP
Restoration PvP is not Hyjal assignments. You Earthbind, Purge, Healing Wave the flag carrier. Hub: Shaman hub. Raid healing: Restoration PvE.
The 1st big stage for Shaman PvP is the Forever Open on 17 and 18 October: a 1v1 duel tournament on the beta PvP ruleset with level 30 Horde characters, a 100,000-dollar prize pool and 5,555 dollars for the best player of each class, the Shaman included.
Resto Shaman PvP at 60 before Rank week 7
Engineering + Enchanting on the Starter Pack, PvP ruleset set before the 1st session.
WoW Forever Power Leveling & Gearing
Restoration spend for BG survival
Blizzard named the Restoration golds in the 
Shaman kit on 7 October 2026: Water Shield at 11 points returns mana when you are hit or land a critical heal, Mana Tide Totem sits at 16, and Riptide at 31 heals at once and over 15 seconds on a 6-second cooldown, with Chain Heal 25% stronger on that target. Riptide on the flag carrier is your burst save, and Water Shield turns the hits you take into mana. Spirit-in-combat is a Restoration class line, and point spends and rates stay provisional while the beta runs. If heal or shock crits look low on the beta, Blizzard confirmed on 29 September that the lower PvP crit damage is a bug, not a nerf.
Do not spend Enhancement for Stormstrike on this page. A few Elemental points for Purge range is a community read.
Honor healer sets and Rank 10 / Rank 13
BG Restoration wants resilience-style PvP stats when they exist, plus +healing. Rank pieces beat dungeon cloth for the flag room.
How rank gear works (Blizzard, 7 October 2026). Honor buys a blue and an epic PvP set, and every epic upgrade needs an Emboldened Seal with a rank requirement. Rank Points come from battlegrounds and PvP quests with a weekly cap, so the 14 ranks are a weekly climb: a tabard at Rank 1, a mount at Rank 11 and epic weapons at Rank 14. Since the 1 October beta build Honor prices are about 50% higher and the Honor cap is 25,000.
Week 1. Quest +healing. Early healer.
Rank weeks. Rank 10 week 7, Rank 13 week 9. Battle for the Darkspear Islands, the new 15v15 battleground for levels 30 to 60 (4 capture points, a central flag, first to 2,000 points), feeds honor next to the classic BGs, and its 2 reputations sell gear. Rank 14 offer.
From 9 December. Raid +healing only if it beats rank. Raid carries.
Open Rank 14 →Restoration on the PvP ruleset.
Engineering for Restoration PvP
BG Restoration wants Engineering gadgets. Ultimate PvP on the live offer is Engineering + Enchanting. Open a card to land on Shaman Restoration on the PvP ruleset.
PvP Basic
Engineering
Mining
- Engineering is the PvP profession
- Mining feeds bombs, scopes, gadgets
- Self-sufficient on the PvP ruleset
- Grenades and nets decide world PvP
- Levels with you on the route
- No gatherer partner required
PvP Max
- Engineering
Enchanting
- Gadgets plus permanent enchants
- Partner gathers ore; buy greens for dust
- Gadgets plus lasting weapon enchants
- Worth it if you live in world PvP
- Mats bought or a gatherer partner
- Both crafts levelled on the route
PvE Basic
Alchemy
Herbalism
- Your own pots, flasks, and mana oils
- Herbs while questing feed every flask
- Raid consumable gold sink avoided
- Forever First Aid pots stack with this
- Levels with you on the route
- No gatherer partner required
PvE Max
- Alchemy
- Enchanting
- Flasks plus weapon and gear enchants
- Raid-ready without auction markup
- Needs a herb partner or auction greens
- Mail/plate healers skip Tailor priority
- Mats bought or a gatherer partner
- Both crafts levelled on the route
Gold farming
- Mining
- Herbalism
- Classic dual-gather gold meta
- Nodes while questing; stack for launch
- Funds rides, enchants, and flasks
- Drop one gather when you add a craft
- Nodes while you quest
- Stack for the launch AH
Battleground healer UI for Restoration
Who is dying on the flag.
- BattlegroundTargets: incoming on your carrier.
- Grid2 compact: 15-man BG frames. 40-man raid frames live on Restoration PvE.
- LoseControl: your lockouts.
- Clique: click-heal while moving.
DBM stays on Restoration PvE.
Leveling hours and the 2 speeds
Restoration PvP still quests, then heals BGs. 1 booster is $299 in about 14 days on the PvP ruleset, at the same price as Normal. 2 boosters in shifts is $420 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 the climb looks exactly like you playing from home. Route. Skip the grind.
FAQ
Open Starter Pack →$299 with 1 booster or $420 with 2. A human Pro plays every hour by hand.
- October refresh: the Restoration golds from Blizzard's 7 October Shaman kit (Water Shield, Mana Tide Totem, Riptide), the 7 October rank system and the Honor changes, Darkspear Islands, the Forever Open, the PvP crit-damage bug note, a Shaman PvP build FAQ and a corrected Earthbind answer.
- Rewrote mode-specific overview, talents, addons, FAQ and leveling for uniqueness vs sibling megas.
- Published the Restoration Shaman PvP mega: boards, provisional talents, BiS by week, profession tiers, addons and leveling hours.
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