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Restoration Shaman Review - Battle for Azeroth Community Opinions
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05/08/2018 a las 17:14
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Throughout the pre-patch, we'll be launching a community opinions article for every class and spec. We're continuing our Battle for Azeroth Class Reviews and in this post, we'll be taking a look at the state of Resto Shaman. See if this spec appeals to you in Battle for Azeroth!
We reached out to the Restoration Shaman community to give their thoughts and opinions on the changes and current state of the spec.
If this spec appeals to you after reading this article, check out our
Battle for Azeroth Restoration Shaman Guide
.
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Assassination
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Subtlety
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Outlaw
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Fury
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Arms
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Ret
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Windwalker
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Feral
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Enhancement
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Havoc
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Survival
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Beast Mastery
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Marksmanship
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Boomkin
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Demonology
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Destruction
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Affliction
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Unholy
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Frost
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Holy Paladin
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Holy
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Restoration Druid
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Restoration
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Mistweaver
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Blood
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Brewmaster
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Guardian
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Protection Warrior
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Vengeance
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Protection Paladin
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Positives Going into BFA:
Our base toolkit has been expanded to include
Tótem capacitador
baseline as well as adding in
Tótem de tremor
. So far Tremor has only been useful against fear and sleep effects as most charm effects are full on mind controls which Tremor does not break.
Eco de los elementos
has been shifted in talent tiers allowing a bit more flexibility in play without being punished by missing out on a massive throughput talent.
Shaman still has some of the most powerful raid cooldowns in the game (
Tótem Enlace de espíritu
,
Tótem de Protección ancestral
) and may continue to see progression spots as long as those cooldowns have a place in overcoming the difficulties of encounters.
Lastly, the removal of the artifact improves talent viability significantly by shifting talents that weren’t affected by any artifact traits into a relatively stronger spot.
Negatives going into BFA:
The removal of Ancestral Guidance as a talent option basically removes most raid viability of taking
Ascensión
as pairing the two abilities together created a very degenerate burst playstyle. There are also some backend changes to
Tótem de Ráfaga de nubes
that make it no longer able to collect healing from anything except the base spells of a Restoration Shaman and any talents that provide healing. Overall our throughput is significantly lower than any other healer outside of Holy Paladin which bring better damage reduction tools as well as significantly better single target utility.
The pacing of the class has been reduced dramatically with the removal of Queen’s Ascendant being a passive way of reducing casting speed of spells especially with a high amount of critical strike. With haste not having too much of an impact on healing per mana and mana costs being very high on our AoE abilities, it is a less desired secondary stat and the spec will continue to have slow pacing.
Tuning
Currently most of our healing comes from healing over time effects such as
Mareas vivas
and
Tótem Corriente de sanación
as well as our stacked AoE tools like
Sanación en cadena
and
Lluvia de sanación
. Even after significant buffs to
Ola de sanación
and
Oleada de sanación
, these spells are still significantly weaker than most other healers single target healing abilities.
Sanación en cadena
is currently very impactful when used in conjunction with
Marea alta
. At the moment
Marea alta
and
Manantial
are very competitive with one another while
Ascensión
has low impact in raid encounters but remains strong in small group content.
Lluvia de sanación
is significantly weaker than it was in Legion but still continues to be one of the most mana efficient healing spells in our toolkit. Overall, restoration shaman is well behind top throughput healers based on the latest testing on July 27th.
Talents
Level 15
All three options are viable with
Desatar vida
pulling ahead of the other two when used with
Marea alta
Sanación en cadena
s.
Ondulación
helps slightly in our lack of sustained single target healing.
Torrente
remains powerful when spot healing targets with damage over time effects.
Level 30
This tier primarily revolves around
Eco de los elementos
and
Escudo de tierra
.
Eco de los elementos
is a nice quality of life talent that allows some buffering on spells such as
Mareas vivas
and
Tótem Corriente de sanación
by not requiring you to use them exactly on cooldown and pool charges for a more opportune moment to prevent overhealing.
Escudo de tierra
aids in sustained single target healing with its 10% healing increase to the target it is applied to.
Inundación
remains a lackluster option due to the positional requirements it imposes to gain the most benefit (having your entire raid stacked in
Lluvia de sanación
).
Level 45
Espíritu de lobo
will be the pick in this row of talents the majority of the time due to the other talents having no real impact on your performance as a healer.
Espíritu de lobo
can be utilized as a damage reduction if you decide to sit in
Lobo fantasmal
for a few seconds or just helps you move around by giving you a slight movement speed increase while in
Lobo fantasmal
.
Tótem Pillaterra
and
Carga estática
can be useful in content where crowd control is desired.
Level 60
This row remains unchanged from Legion with all three options maintaining a similar power level to the presquish Legion versions.
Vigor ancestral
is nice for providing a health buffer to targets of direct healing spells.
Tótem de Protección ancestral
provides the effect of
Vigor ancestral
to everyone in a large area as well as acting as an extra battle rez on a 5 minute cooldown (this is a key talent to look at when progression raiding).
Tótem Muro de tierra
remains as a nice counter to area of effect ticking damage or a significant shield on a Brewmaster Tank as their stagger synergizes well with the small absorb shield provided by the totem.
Level 75
Guardián de la Naturaleza
is a new talent that provides us with a way of healing up after we receive damage that sets our health below a certain threshold. The way this works is if any hit were to reduce your current health below 35% of you maximum health, you will heal for up to 20% of your maximum health. This heal happens before the damage event. This means that if you are above 80% health and an ability brings you below 35% health, you will not heal for the full 20% health but rather the difference between your current life when you take the hit of damage and full health. This ability can also save you from dying because the heal happens before the damage event brings your health to 0 or below.
Espíritu grácil
enhances our ability to be mobile while healing by reducing the cooldown of
Gracia del caminaespíritus
by a minute.
Tótem de Carga de viento
is a niche ability that can assist in raid wide mobility if the raid is stacked.
Level 90
This talent tier saw the most shaking up in the transition from Legion to Battle for Azeroth with the removal of
Eco de los elementos
and Bottomless Depths and the additions of
Crecida relámpago
and
Chaparrón
.
Crecida relámpago
is a new talent that reduces the cast speed of your next healing spell by 20% after consuming a stack of
Maremotos
. This promotes a weaving playstyle where you ideally want to use
Maremotos
on mana efficient
Ola de sanación
s or critical
Oleada de sanación
s and use the
Crecida relámpago
buffs you gain from those casts on spells such as
Sanación en cadena
,
Manantial
, or
Lluvia de sanación
.
Chaparrón
is the artifact ability from Legion (Gift of the Queen) redesigned slightly to have a slightly punishing effect when used improperly.
Chaparrón
excels when your raid is stacked and taking heavy raid wide damage. Ideally you always want to effectively heal all 6 targets to get the most healing for mana value out of this spell.
Tótem de Ráfaga de nubes
has been gutted. Not just because of the loss of Ancestral Guidance, it replacing
Tótem Corriente de sanación
, but also due to some back end changes that targeted spells that are % increases to certain specs throughput. What this means is that anything that isn’t a baseline spell, or talent for Restoration Shamans will NOT feed cloudburst. This hinders the overall potential of
Tótem de Ráfaga de nubes
and results in this talent generally not being a healing increase. The only upside to this talent is if you can make it to comparable healing to
Tótem Corriente de sanación
and then some by casting spells you would’ve casted during an encounter, it will save you a slight amount of mana. Overall
Crecida relámpago
is generally a better pick in this row if your raid is spread, and
Chaparrón
for when your raid is stacked.
Level 100
Marea alta
returns as a powerful option in enhancing
Sanación en cadena
by over 46% when only considering the value of the extra bounce as well as the bounce falloff reduction it provides. In fights where
Sanación en cadena
is one of your main spell casts, take this talent.
Manantial
returns as a middle of the road option between sustained healing and burst healing. On any raid encounters that you find yourself not casting
Sanación en cadena
, look to this talent for a slight boost on AoE burst mechanics that are infrequent. Typically this talent will perform better than
Ascensión
in a
Sanación en cadena
-less build.
Ascensión
is only really useful in 5 man content at the moment due to the changes stated prior in this article. The removal of Ancestral Guidance as well as incredible healing multipliers provided by the Tier 21 set bonuses reduce the power of this talent down to being only a 100% healing increase for 15 seconds on a 3 minute cooldown. It helps that the healing increase is split evenly among nearby injured allies, but is limited heavily by its 20 yard range. While raiding we highly recommend taking either
Marea alta
for sustained healing,
Manantial
to counter bursts of damage, and lastly only take
Ascensión
when an encounter calls for a large healing increase during a very specific window and almost no healing outside of that window.
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