Restoration Shaman Gearing Guide

Midnight Pre-Patch Restoration Shaman Tier Set:

• 2-Set Bonus - Healing increased by 6%.
• 4-Set Bonus - Healing increased by 10%.

With the release of Midnight Pre-patch, Blizzard has made the decision to simplify and change all the existing tier sets bonuses to a flat Healing increase (and Damage Done for Tanks and DPS). This is likely to let us explore the new talents and playstyles without being forced into specific playstyles with old tier sets, so it's easy and simple.

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 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, so make sure to sim your character to find other shorter-term upgrades.

Best Restoration Shaman Trinkets:

• 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: Ascension 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.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

All options from the raid are assuming you can take the Mythic version. If you can't, then consider moving down the list in terms of priority, or to take your items from keys.

Raid Priority:

• Voidglass Kris
• Astral Antenna
• Band Of The Shattered Soul

Mythic+ Priority:

• Loom'ithar's Living Silk
• Voidglass Kris / Voidglass Spire
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood

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.