Restoration Shaman Midnight Gearing Guide

Patch 12.1 Last Updated: 11th Aug, 2026
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Tier Sets

Midnight Season 2 Restoration Shaman Tier Set Bonuses:

  • (2) Set Bonus: Chain Heal and Healing Wave have a chance to create a Healing Rain at the target’s Location for 8s.
  • (4) Set Bonus: Every 1sec, 1 ally inside of Healing Rain gains a watery shield that absorbs 9,688 damage for 10s.

Tier Set Discussion:

This tier set screams Totemic!

Whilst the absorb amount seems small, getting it every second for 24s (Surging Totem duration) results in a lot of passive HPS.

It’s very easy to play around, just place down your Healing Rain (Surging Totem) and press your Chain Heal and Healing Wave buttons to spawn an extra Healing Rain (which has a separate cooldown to your regular Healing Rain).

restoration shaman Best in Slot Gear

The lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Restoration Shaman, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot. I’ve included an overall BiS Gear list and two other lists of the optimal gear set-up for Restoration Shaman that drops from Mythic+ or from raids.

Overall Best Gear for Restoration Shaman

Slot Item Source
Head Serpent Crown Of The Ophidian Oracle The Twin Fangs
Neck Aqirbane Reliquary Ula’tek
Shoulders Jangling Felpaulets Murder Row
Cloak Adherent's Silken Shroud Crafted
Chest Awoken Dreadfang Cuirass (Tier set) Ula’tek (Catalyst)
Wrist Farstrider's Plated Bracers Crafted
Gloves Hexing Grips Of The Ophidian Oracle Entombed Sentinels
Belt Cursed Reliquary Cincture Nek’zali the Soulcoiler
Legs Leggings Of The Ophidian Oracle Sszorak
Boots Scaled Shoes Of The Ophidian Oracle Catalyst
Ring Apex Brute's Claw Ring Sszorak
Ring Pilfered Precious Band Den of Nalorakk
Trinket Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel Nek’zali the Soulcoiler
Trinket Wavecaller's Seastone Nymrissa Wavecaller
Main Hand Jan'thrazet, The Soul Fang Ula’tek
Off Hand Venom-Slashed Scuteward The Lost Explorers

Best Gear from the Raid for Restoration Shaman

Slot Item Source
Head Serpent Crown Of The Ophidian Oracle The Twin Fangs
Neck Aqirbane Reliquary Ula’tek
Shoulders Hissing Mantle Of The Ophidian Oracle The Lost Explorers
Cloak Adherent's Silken Shroud Crafted
Chest Awoken Dreadfang Cuirass (Tier set) Ula’tek (Catalyst)
Wrist Farstrider's Plated Bracers Crafted
Gloves Hexing Grips Of The Ophidian Oracle Entombed Sentinels
Belt Cursed Reliquary Cincture Nek’zali the Soulcoiler
Legs Leggings Of The Ophidian Oracle Sszorak
Boots Scaled Shoes Of The Ophidian Oracle Catalyst
Ring Apex Brute's Claw Ring Sszorak
Ring Masterwork Sin'dorei Band Crafted
Trinket Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel Nek’zali the Soulcoiler
Trinket Wavecaller's Seastone Nymrissa Wavecaller
Main Hand Jan'thrazet, The Soul Fang Ula’tek
Off Hand Venom-Slashed Scuteward The Lost Explorers

Best Gear from Mythic+ for Restoration Shaman

Slot Item Source
Head Serpent Crown Of The Ophidian Oracle Catalyst
Neck Strand Of Warding Fangs Altar of Fangs
Shoulders Jangling Felpaulets Murder Row
Cloak Adherent's Silken Shroud Crafted
Chest Fanged Raiment Of The Ophidian Oracle Catalyst
Wrist Farstrider's Plated Bracers Crafted
Gloves Hexing Grips Of The Ophidian Oracle Catalyst
Belt Belt Of The Consecrated Tomb Kings’ Rest
Legs Leggings Of The Ophidian Oracle Catalyst
Boots Scaled Shoes Of The Ophidian Oracle Catalyst
Ring Pilfered Precious Band Den of Nalorakk
Ring Band Of The Amani Warlord Altar of Fangs
Trinket Freightrunner's Flask Murder Row
Trinket Ruby Whelp Shell Ruby Life Pools
Main Hand Gilded Serpent's Tooth Kings’ Rest
Off Hand Teldrassil's Sacrifice The Blinding Vale

Trinkets

There are a number of trinkets that are looking good for Restoration Shaman in Midnight Season 2.

Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel - On-use that grants a decently sized Absorb to your party/raid members, that during the absorb reduced damage taken by 50%, also has an extra affect that when someone dies the cooldown gets reduced and you spawn a shield. Very strong numbers on the trinket and just a overall good Progression/Mythic+ Trinket.

Wavecaller's Seastone - Passive trinket thats somewhat Similar to last tiers “Alnseer” Procs give you intellect going from 0 to 6 stacks, then goes down from 6 to 0. Strong trinket with High uptime, equip and forget kind of trinket!

Freightrunner's Flask - On-use that give you a good chunk of Crit, Shaman loves crit because not only do we crit for more then usual (215% instead of 200%) we also regain mana on crit from the “Resurgence” Talent, so a good trinket that we can macro into HTT/Ascendance for easy usage.

Ruby Whelp Shell - Passive trinket from M+, Sadly there are not too many good options for passive trinkets this tier, so you are becoming a Dragon Trainer! Make sure to “train” the trinket daily for 7 days to prefer the Stat proc.

Embellishments

Crafting is a bit tricky on Resto Shaman this Patch, because we really want to use a 1H+Shield.

Last patch we could just craft a 2H weapon, but now we need to craft a 1H with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt as our first craft and grab the best shield we can.

Our second craft will be a Arcanoweave Lining piece, Preferably on a low stat piece (Wrists/Cloak).

Once we have gotten Mythic-Tier weapon and Shield we move the second Embellishment slot to the other low stat piece (leaving us with both Wrists/Cloak with Arcanoweave Lining).

Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcores)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from week 2 of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

Source / Drop Difficulty Target Item
Nek’Zali the Soulcoiler Heroic/Mythic Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel
Ula’Tek Heroic/Mythic Awoken Dreadfang Cuirass
Ula’Tek Heroic/Mythic Aqirbane Reliquary
Nymrissa Wavecaller Heroic/Mythic Wavecaller's Seastone
Sszorak Heroic/Mythic Apex Brute's Claw Ring
Nek’Zali the Soulcoiler Heroic/Mythic Crown Of The Eternal Fang
Nek’Zali the Soulcoiler Heroic/Mythic Cursed Reliquary Cincture

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Restoration Shaman:

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.