Restoration Shaman Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Restoration Druid Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Unleash Life's cooldown is reduced by 3.0 sec and its direct healing is increased by 100%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Unleash Life affects an additional spell cast at 100% effectiveness.

Tier Set Discussion:

While this tier set might look a little bit strange, as unleash life has always (when played) been more of a button that you only really click in order to make your next heal do more healing, now with this tier set it actually does a decent amount of healing! Make sure to use it as an additional Riptide charge, before juicing up your upcoming Chain Heal and Healing Wave.

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
• Raiding
• Mythic+

There are a number of trinkets that are looking good for Restoration Shaman in Midnight Season 1.

Gaze Of The Alnseer - Your spells have a chance to grant you a 12s duration buff, while having this buff up casting spells has a chance to increase your intellect by a small amount, this buff can stack. Make sure to get as many casts in as possible in this window, stacking the buff up.

Locus-Walker's Ribbon - Very similar to “Eye Of Kezan” from the last expansion. It’s a trinket that scales over the duration of the fight, making it stronger later on. Your spells have a chance to increase your intellect by a moderate amount over 10 seconds, every time this happens you gain another stack that increases the amount of int you get from this buff in the future by 5%, stacking up to 10 times. It’s a very strong trinket that scales with time. Basically, equip this trinket and don't think about it, it's just a very nice power increase.

Whisper Of The Duskwraith - Intellect stat stick with a proc, that has a chance on your healing spells to heal for a small amount; which then in return, if the target is lower then 40% health gives them a small amount of versatility, sadly not the strongest trinket for us, but there are no good healer trinkets available in Mythic+ only.

Heart Of Wind - A decent Stat trinket that comes from Mythic+. It has an Intellect baseline, with a 10s Haste proc with a 1.5ppm. Another simple trinket, the haste makes you cast faster and the trinket is a solid all-around option, especially if you haven't gotten to get the slightly stronger trinkets yet.

Your first craft should be used on either a one-hand or two-hand weapon:

• If you care about early power, I'd craft a staff, Aln'hara Cane.
• If you prefer to not “waste” a craft id craft a one-hand “Magister's Cleaver”.

Regardless of which you chose to craft, these should have the embellishment Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt.

Your second craft should be put on any non-tier armour piece, in the BiS list section of the guide I have given the advice that you should craft Boots, but you can swap this to some other non-tier gear slot if you for example got boots from your first vault.

The secondary embellishment is a lot weaker than the first one. Arcanoweave Lining is a good option.

After crafting your first 2 items, with embellishments, then crafting rings or a shield is a good option. Making sure you get the best value from your crests is the most important part after getting your first two crafts.

Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcores)

I recommend targeting Trinkets with your Nebulous Voidcore bonus rolls, focusing on raid trinkets since their power is a lot higher then M+ trinkets. Gaze Of The Alnseer being the highest priority, and also the easier of the two to achieve on Mythic, even if you don't have a raid guild and need to PUG the boss!

Then after Gaze, I would roll for Locus-Walker's Ribbon.

After getting your desired Trinkets from bonus rolls, I would focus on upgrading your “overall gear” starting with big gear pieces and going down the list of upgrades.

A very good dungeon to use your rolls on is Magister’s terrace as it comes with 3 high intellect gear items (Helm, Chest and Legs). And on top of that a Dagger/Shield combo which is something we want to transition into later in the patch!

Ascendant Voidcores

When Ascendant Voidcores become available, you get the option to upgrade your trinkets and weapons, similar to “turbo boost” of previous patches, with the focus of your upgrading generally being Weapons and then Trinkets.Even though, as stated in the crafting guide, we early craft a staff and later on want to swap to a 1 hander with a Shield setup, upgrading the staff first is a big damage upgrade and should be prioritized.

The recommended order to use Ascendant Voidcores:

1. 2 Handed Weapons
2. Trinkets (Priority: Gaze Of The Alnseer > Locus-Walker's Ribbon > Other)
3. 1 Handed Weapon + Shield setup for later