Restoration Shaman State in Shadowlands Alpha - Battle Shaman, Earth Shield, Covenant Abilities

어둠땅 2020/06/18 시간 02:07에 Jaydaa에 의해 작성됨

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This article is written by Jaydaa a veteran healer and contributing writer to both World of Warcraft content and other Blizzard games content here on Wowhead. I've been raiding in WoW for almost 15 years at various levels of progression. I've contributed to the theorycrafting of multiple healing classes, notably Mistweaver Monks and Restoration Druids. Find me on Twitter or on the Wowhead Discord.

Ancestral GuidanceDiscord ServerShaman Class DiscordWoWAnalyzerSimulationcraftRestoration Shaman화성암의 잠재력불꽃의 도가니뒤틀린 신체 부위상처 출혈Baseline Toolkit Changes

원시의 일격, 불꽃혓바닥 무기, 냉기 충격, and 번개 보호막 - While it's nice to receive some additional tools for dealing damage, none of these are particularly that impactful. 원시의 일격 and 불꽃혓바닥 무기 require you to be in melee and do very minimal damage. 번개 보호막 requires you to be melee'd to provide damage which is very unlikely outside of solo content and as a Restoration Shaman you'll most likely run 물의 보호막 for the mana regen. 냉기 충격 is probably the most useful of the returning damaging abilities due to the added utility of a 50% slow. While the damage of 냉기 충격 recently received a buff on Alpha, it's likely only going to be used when you either need the slow or when you're moving and 화염 충격 is on cooldown.

대지의 보호막 - This talent will be nice to have baseline for the passive healing and 10% healing increase on a single target; however, all the issues that made this a rarely picked talent still remain even as a baseline ability. With BFA, 대지의 보호막 was put on the GCD making this already low impact ability and maintenance buff feel even worse to maintain on your tank. Where before you could quickly put it up between spell casts, you're now having to expend the GCD to do so. With a 3s internal cooldown and 9 stacks, you're looking at recasting 대지의 보호막 every 24s or so for normal play or even more often if using the new 쇄도하는 대지. If this ability is returning baseline, please make it more impactful for the GCDs spent to maintain. Increase the stacks, give an upfront benefit, increase the healing.

NEW - The mana totem returns for Shadowlands albeit with a 15 yd range. While I don't mind the range restriction to differentiate it from 희망의 상징, 마나 해일 토템 needs a visual indicator otherwise it'll likely be completely lost during an encounter for other healers. As an interesting and possibly unintended interaction, multiple 마나 해일 토템s currently stack multiplicatively with each other on Alpha. This means having multiple shamans pop 마나 해일 토템 at the same time will yield higher mana returns. For one shaman that's 2x normal mana regen; two shaman 4x normal mana regen; and three shaman 8x normal mana regen and so on and so forth. For a single shaman, 마나 해일 토템 is pretty weak only generating 6.4% max mana with each use compared to the 144% of max mana that you regen every 3 mins between 마나 해일 토템 casts. Fairly weak overall so could use a small buff.

NEW - The mana regen elemental shield returns. As added flair of encircling watery orbs, the ability definitely encapsulates the class fantasy of a Restoration Shaman, but it does little to provide any sort of meaningful gameplay. Yes, the passive mana regen is nice but the mana gained from taking melee hits is likely to be very rare outside of solo content. It's sorta this set and forget buff that doesn't have any real player interaction.

Shadowlands Leveling Perks

NEW (Level 28) Reincarnation now revives you with an additional 20% health.

A nice addition to 윤회 to help ensure that you're not instantly killed after reincarnating. Not huge but I'll take it.

Reworked Restoration Shaman Abilities

굽이치는 물결 & 굽이치는 물결 Rank 2 (Level 27) Casting Chain Heal or Riptide reduces the cast time of your next Healing Wave by 30%20% or increases the critical effect chance of your next Healing Surge by 40%. Stacks up to 2 times.

While the nerf to the cast time reduction of a 굽이치는 물결 buffed 치유의 물결 doesn't seem that huge, it seems unnecessary to do this especially for a class that already struggles to find footing in the heavy single-target healing situations of Mythic+. Perhaps this nerf is to better differentiate 치유의 물결 and 치유의 파도, but just seems odd but not too impactful.

Flat Healing Increases and Mana Cost Changes

*연쇄 치유 ~25% Healing Increase & Cost changed from 25% to 30% of base mana

*치유의 물결 ~33% Healing Increase & Cost changed from 9% to 14% of base mana

*치유의 파도 ~8% Healing Increase & Cost changed from 18% to 23% of base mana

*치유의 비 ~20% Healing Increase

복원 주술사

Flat Damage Changes

화염 충격 ~37% Damage Decrease

연쇄 번개 ~21% Damage Decrease

용암 폭발 ~36% Damage Increase

정신의 고리 토템선조의 보호 토템선조의 활력날카로운 바람정화바람 질주 토템진동의 토템축전 토템대지의 보호막치유의 물결치유의 파도화성암의 잠재력특화: 깊은 치유특화: 깊은 치유특화: 깊은 치유Talent Changes

만조 Every 0 mana you spend brings a High Tide, making your next 2 Chain Heals heal for an additional 20%10% and not reduce with each jump.

As the always taken talent for raiding Restoration Shamans, it's no surprise to see this talent nerfed and some of the power directly baked into 연쇄 치유. This will likely mean 샘솟는 물살 and 승천 will see more play but will largely depend on final tuning.

대지의 보호막

This talent isn't bad, but it's not great either. The problem is 쇄도하는 대지 as an AoE heal doesn't really do much to solve shaman issues. For reference, 쇄도하는 대지 does a little less than the upfront healing of 성난 해일 on 6 nearby targets for the cost of 3 대지의 보호막 charges and a little more mana than the cost of a 성난 해일. This in total is a bit less than a 연쇄 치유 worth of throughput albeit at a slightly cheaper price and limited to allies near your 대지의 보호막 on a 20s cooldown. The only real benefit is the instant cast and lower mana cost compared to 연쇄 치유. Easy way to fix this talent is to just allocate all or some of the healing as a single target heal on the 대지의 보호막 target turning the ability into a 신속한 치유-like ability allowing Restoration Shamans a way to quickly recover and respond to incoming single target burst damage.

Covenant Abilities

Kyrian:
만과 토템 - Versatile and powerful ability with a lot of control. This cheap 1 min cooldown ability comes with a ton of AoE healing and damage. The damage and healing components are separate meaning you'll get 3x healing activations and 3x damage activations. The only real downside is the small 8 yd range for the pulses, but because relocating the totem is off the GCD it makes it easy to reposition to maximize output. The damage is a little lackluster single target, but on multiple targets in Mythic+ this ability will be strong. Ideally, I'd like the activator for the damage to be healing as well since passive damage tends to be more highly valued, but others might also like the control so perhaps a way to choose whether active or passive damage would be nice. Overall a strong covenant ability that will be hard to beat.

청지기 소환 - The steward offers some quality of life options like free talent changes or a vendor to sell things, but it essentially boils down to 평온의 약병, a glorified healthstone for all intents and purposes. The healing will be nice and contribute albeit minimally to throughput, and the personal bleed, disease, and poison dispel for Restoration Shamans could come in handy as you can't normally dispel those; however, the circumstances where the phial will be invaluable will be few and far between compared to other covenant abilities which are more universally valuable.

Venthyr:
연쇄 수확 - Think of this as a free dual 연쇄 치유 plus 연쇄 번개 combo with a variable cooldown based on crit. With a 20yd jump range, players can be a bit more spread out with 연쇄 수확 compared to 연쇄 치유's 15yd jump range. The problem with this ability is it doesn't really have many pros in the way of throughput except for the fact that it's free. The actual healing is very similar to 연쇄 치유 without a lot of the extra tie-ins like 만조 or building stacks of 굽이치는 물결. Even if all hits crits reducing the cooldown to 40s, the throughput just doesn't compare to that of 만과 토템. The only significant benefit 연쇄 수확 has over 만과 토템 is allies can be significantly more spread out.

어둠의 문 - Quite possibly the star of the covenant signature abilities, it's hard to say no to a 35yd teleport with a minute cooldown even if it has a 1.5s cast time. This type of movement is almost universally valuable and it's hard to think of an occasion where it'd be useless. Full Venthyr dungeon groups can plan skips around this ability. As a Restoration Shaman, I can't turn down additional mobility.

Necrolord:
태고의 파도 - This covenant ability comes with a lot of setup. Because this healing is tied directly 성난 해일, you'll need to make good use of your 성난 해일 to ensure that you're maximizing the throughput on targets that will actually need the healing. The upfront healing is significantly less than a 치유의 물결 to start even when factoring in the applied 성난 해일 but also can't be buffed via 생명 폭발. Only your cast of 치유의 물결 benefits from 생명 폭발 and 기복 not the copied casts. At a 45s cooldown, the healing throughput on this one is comparable with 만과 토템 especially when you take 정기의 메아리 and can achieve 5 성난 해일 out at a time. It's also fairly cheap for the extra throughput. The problem comes when you're also not getting any damage out of the ability and only healing. It would be nice if the ability also triggered 용암 폭발 on our 화염 충격 targets when we used 치유의 물결 and rewarded multitasking 성난 해일 and 화염 충격. I think allowing the additional 치유의 물결s to interact with the rest of our toolkit via 기복 and 생명 폭발 would go a long way in rewarding an even higher skill ceiling.

살덩이창조 - This extra self survivability will be nice and as an absorb will contribute minimally to overall throughput, but where this one loses me is the 4s channel. . I would really like to see the channel time reduced or allowing this ability to channel while moving would go a long way to making this ability more palatable. Even with those changes it's a bit of a hard sell against the other movement oriented covenant signature abilities.

Night Fae:
페이 수혈 - While this covenant ability has an interesting damage to healing mechanic, the fact that the healing throughput scales based on the number of targets means that when you're only facing significantly fewer targets the healing will be much less. Unfortunately, at fewer enemy targets, which is the norm in a lot of PvE content, the healing just can't compete with other covenants. Now throw in a 8yd radius for both the damage and the healing, a 3s channel, and a 2min cooldown and you'll begin to understand why this ability feels like a less versatile 만과 토템.

영혼형상 As someone who adored 야수 탈주, it's nice to see this come back as an option although more watered down. Blinks and teleports are universally valuable and while it might not be the Venthyr ability this is a strong second place option. You likely won't be coming up with skips for such a limited 10 yard blink, but you get 3 in the 12s duration so you may have some opportunities to blink over some particularly nasty mechanics. It should be noted that you can cast while shapeshifted and you gain the 늑대 정령 if you started out in 늑대 정령. Comes with a cosmetic collecting minigame which is fantastic.

Kyrian만과 토템Kyrian만과 토템Lackluster GCDs

대지의 보호막 - As I mentioned earlier this low impact ability feels more like a maintenance buff especially while on the GCD. Adding something upfront like a small heal would go a long way to making this ability feel better. Alternatively, increasing the number of stacks so fewer refreshes are necessary would limit the impact these GCDs have on your rotation.

마나 해일 토템 - The extra mana is nice, but it's sorta this set and forget type ability. The trickling of mana regen you have normally you get more of but I'm not sure you'll notice the difference. Maybe making the first cast after gaining 마나 해일 토템 free at least gives players some interaction with the totem.

Mythic+ Viability - While there are a lot of factors that determine how well a spec performs in Mythic+ (utility, damage, single target throughput, etc.), I'd really appreciate if future development could be focused on helping Restoration Shamans become stronger and more relevant in dungeon content. I know it's a big ask and there isn't an exact solution, but perhaps the additional systems of Shadowlands could really offer some more tools for Restoration Shamans. For a lot of players the spec tends to let them down in dungeon content causing players to feel forced to class swap to feel more viable. Outside of spamming 치유의 파도, Restoration Shamans feel like they don't have the tools to handle the incoming damage of higher Mythic+.

용솟음치는 영혼 - This Azerite Trait for 정신의 고리 토템 took an already outstanding ability raised it to another level by adding a throughput component. This made timing the 정신의 고리 토템 an added skill component to dealing with incoming damage. I'm not sure how this functionality could fit in, but I welcome this addition to the toolkit going forward.

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