Restoration Shaman PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight 10.2.7) (2024)

Last updated on May 07, 2024 at 11:20by Tiqqle5 comments

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of theviability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections thatfollow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

• Totemic Recall allows you to reset the cooldown on your Earthen Wall Totem.
• Nature's Swiftness is now available, giving the Shaman a free castedheal or damaging ability.
• Earthgrab Totem gives more crowd-control against double melee teams.
• Stoneskin Totem providing physical damage reduction against melee cleaveteams.
• Lightning Lasso and Thunderstorm is now available to allShaman specializations.

• Tide Turner makes Healing Tide Totem a significant 'smart' single targethealing cooldown as well.
• Earthliving Weapon has returned, providing increased passive healing.
• Earthen Harmony give Earth Shield more value.
• Ancestral Awakening and Living Stream give increased passivehealing through existing abilities of the Restoration Shaman.
• Ascendance and Deeply Rooted Elements gives a funproc-based playstyle for using Riptideon cooldown.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each ofthem has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others.The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvPtalents, depending on your team's goal.

Living Tide makes Healing Tide Totem do significant healing.This is often top healing now and allows Restoration Shaman to have a healingcooldown that heals the whole team during burst or even during crowd-controlif placed beforehand. This is a default choice.

Grounding Totem summon an Air Totem with 5 Health at the feet ofthe caster that will redirect all harmful spells cast on a nearby party or raidmember to itself. It will not redirect area of effect spells and lasts 3seconds. Thistalent is important to help you avoid incoming crowd control. You can also usethis to stop some incoming spell damage.

Static Field Totem allows you to restrict player movement, andmove them using Totemic Projection.

Burrow is an immunity defensive which can also deal moderate damage.

Unleash Shield provides situational utility for the RestorationShaman,specifically the Water Shield benefit dropping a puddle reducing healingand damage done by 50%. Using this on the healer in a root or on enemiesburstingallows for a lot of fun gameplay.

Rain Dance makes Healing Rain viable if your team stays withinthe circle, and deals moderate pulsing damage to the enemy team.

Skyfury Totem summons a Fire Totem with 5 Health at the feet ofthe caster that lasts for 15 seconds and increases the critical effect ofdamage and healing spells of all nearby allies within 40 yards for 15 seconds.This is helpful if you are playing with two caster DPS.

Seasoned Winds provides 15% damage reduction against possiblymultiple schools of magic when interrupting the enemy. This effect can stackup to 3 times. This promotes the use of Wind Shear, which is criticalto the utility of the Elemental Shaman. This is a solid choice against anyteams with casters. When interrupting some casters like a Chaos Boltthe Shaman will gain a 15% damage reduction for all schools of magic, whichis a significant defense to maintain throughout the match.

Electrocute causes your enemy to suffer damage over 3 secondswhen you successfully Purge a beneficial effect. If your team'sstrategy is to play aggressively, this is an important talent to have. Youcan replace Ancestral Gift with this talent.

Traveling Storms is a situational PvP talent to use with Earthgrab Totemto reduce the pressure melee teams have on your teammates.