Restoration Shaman Gearing Guide

Farseer Restoration Shaman Tier Set

Farseer 11.2 Tier set bonuses:

• 2 Piece - Ancestral Swiftness summons an empowered Ancestor for 15 sec that deals 10% increased damage and healing.
• 4 Piece - Ancestral Swiftness reduces the cast time of your spells by 25%, the mana cost of your spells by 25%, and increases the recharge rate of Riptide by 50% for 8 sec.

Summoning an extra strong Ancestor is a good 2p bonus, making every global inside our Ancestral windows even stronger, it’s a 5-10% increase.

The 4p is harder to get a value on, but reducing the cost of our spells is huge; it’s a good tier set that gives us what we want!

Totemic Shaman Tier Set

Totemic 11.2 Tier set bonuses:

• 2 Piece - After you consume all of the Whirling Elements you cast Downpour at 200% effectiveness at the location of your Surging Totem.
• 4 Piece - After casting Surging Totem, your next Chain Heal, Healing Wave, or Healing Surge casts again at 150% effectiveness.

This tier bonus significantly impacts how you play a Totemic Restoration Shaman. Both the 2pc and 4pc are strong, so timing your Surging Totem placement is important. Whirling Air and Whirling Earth are often consumed passively via Lively Totems, downpour wont cost any mana.

The 4pc adds more depth to the Resto playstyle: each Downpour (cast or proc) causes your next Chain Heal, Healing Wave, or Healing Surge to echo. This creates powerful healing chains like: Downpour, Chain Heal, Healing Wave then Downpour. And with Totemic Recall resetting Surging Totem, managing spell sequences becomes even more strategic.

Here are two lists of the optimal gear set-up for Restoration Shaman you want to reach, either for M+ or for raids.

Do note that these lists include every item that will fit the stats priority (covered in this guide) depending on the content you’re aiming for, including specific items (mainly trinkets, or some Use weapons if applicable).

For every raid trinket, I’ll list an alternative which you can obtain in M+, as raids are not something you can farm over and over during a said day.

There sometimes can be alternatives, especially depending on which stats you already have on your character, or for some very specific purposes, so keep in mind that you don’t necessarily always want to match this exact list. Most of the time, ilevel will be the biggest factor, and some stats, such as Mastery in M+, can have a relatively different value depending on what you’ll need (since this one won’t provide any DPS gain, but ONLY healing).

• Raiding
• Mythic+

There are a number of powerful Season 3 trinkets for Resto Shaman. The Trinkets outlined below are great choices for which to use, they would be considered the best trinkets, but there are many other viable trinkets this Season, so make sure to sim your character to find other shorter-term upgrades.

Best Restoration Shaman Trinkets for Season 3:

• Araz’s Ritual Forge: Very strong 2 min trinket. We pair this up with Ascendance for big healing bursts during our cooldowns. A 46k intellect on-use is just unbeatable and a trinket every restoration shaman wants in their kit.
• Astral Antenna: Strong passive Intellect + Crit proc trinket, from the second boss of the raid. The proc has a high uptime and with us loving crit, this trinket really fits our class perfectly, playing on-use / passive trinkets are fine.
• Azhiccaran Parapodia: Strong Int trinket from the new Dungeon Eco-Dome. This trinket has moderate to high uptime with a stacking Intellect buff. Definitely a trinket we want to look for, but Mythic+ this season brings a lot of strong trinkets.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood: Returning stat-stick from Season 1. It procs main-stat, a little better than Anub Crystal, but still very close and overall a solid trinket, can't go wrong using it.
• Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj: Returning stat-stick from Season 1. It procs all secondary stats, which makes it good since we like 3 out of the 4 secondary stats; it’s only really Mastery we’re not too happy about. Making this trinket is a solid pickup.

The best Embellishments for Restoration Shaman currently are:

• Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension with Writhing Armor Banding.
• Dawnthread Lining

You should focus on getting Darkmoon Sigil on your Off-Hand First. After that, getting the Writhing Armor Banding is the best choice.

If you for some reason are “forced” to equip a Two-Hander and cant craft an off-hand, you will want to Craft 2x Dawnthread Lining instead.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is a new Cloak released in Patch 11.2 and will be the only cloak you use (and the only one that can drop from any content in Season 3). You gain access to it via a quest chain and completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline.

The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers require a work-order to a Tailor.

I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat (and therefore Fibre) for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Precise Fiber (Crit).

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

For your Durable Information Securing Container, the recommended Titan Disc powers as a Restoration Shaman are:

• Raid: Critical Chain
• Mythic+: Critical Chain (Charged Bolts can be considered for extra damage)
• Damage-Focused Builds: Charged Bolts

Critical Chain offers the best overall performance in both raid and dungeon healing scenarios, thanks to its reliable critical strike scaling. If you're aiming to contribute more DPS in Mythic+, Charged Bolts is a viable alternative.

For more information about unlocking the DISC belt and the different Miniature Titan Disc effects available, check out Method's D.I.S.C Belt Guide.