Restoration Shaman Midnight Playstyle and Rotation Guide

General Rotation:

Single Target Damage opener:

1. Pre Lava burst into instant Flame shock
2. Lava Burst
3. Place Healing Rain / Surging Totem
4. Lightning Bolt until Lava Burst becomes available

Totemic Playstyle

Resto Shaman is all about keeping your abilities on cooldown as much as possible.

Use Healing Rain on cooldown (can buff it with Unleash Life).

Use Riptide on cooldown.

1. Use Healing Rain
2. Use Wellspring if talented
3. Use Downpour if talented
4. Cast Chain Heal or Healing Wave depending on situation

Keep Earth shield up on a tank if talented.

Cast Chain heal or Healing Wave as filler depending on damage intake.

Weave in instant Lava Bursts through Lava Surge whenever you can spare the GCD on damage.

Use your big CDs like Healing Tide Totem or Spirit Link Totem where assigned (try not to overlap with other healers if not needed).

Farseer Playstyle

In Raid, our rotational spells are very easy to play with, I will give an example of how to play for a damage event as follows:

1. Riptide on cooldown (important to not overcap this ability)
2. Ancestral Swiftness
3. Riptide x2
4. Healing Wave spam on people that don't have full health

Very easy and very simple. Of course, depending on how much damage your raid is about to take, weaving in Ascendance and/or Healing Tide Totem is good; and Spirit Link Totem if you are about to die.

Keep abilities on cooldown - Use all your short cooldowns as much as possible. How many of them you have depends on the build. The main short-cooldown abilities are Riptide, Unleash Life, and Healing Stream Totem.

Pick your targets correctly - Target selection with Riptide and Healing Wave is important because of Whispering Waves, Undercurrent, and Mastery: Deep Healing.

Use your cooldowns - As a healer, your major cooldowns need careful timing. For raids, pre-plan when to use Spirit Link Totem, Ascendance, and Healing Tide Totem.

Don't forget your buffs - You have several long-term buffs that should always be active during combat, like Water Shield, Earth Shield, Skyfury, and Earthliving Weapon.