Reviewing Restoration Shaman from Dragonflight Launch to 10.0.7 - A Talent Tree in Need of Help
Our Restoration Shaman Writer, Niseko, reviews all the changes to the spec since Launch to 10.0.7. While our our aqueous healers are in a better spot than ever, they're Talent Tree still needs significant changes to take it to the next level. About the Author This page is maintained by Niseko, Restoration Shaman for CyaThursday on Stormscale-EU, co-creator, author and theorycrafter for Ancestral Guidance, admin in its Restoration Shaman specific Discord Server and Moderator in the Shaman Class Discord. Also responsible for the Restoration Shaman sections of WoWAnalyzer and contributed towards Simulationcraft to make simming Restoration Shaman DPS possible. For questions you can find me on the aforementioned discord servers or during my mute streams on Twitch.
Restoration Shaman and the Dragonflight LaunchOnce again, Shaman launched in a rough state at the start of an expansion. The early preview of out new talent tree showed a lot of promise and much potential to become great — but afterwards was left untouched for almost the entire Beta cycle, leaving it feeling a bit unfinished and lacking any real number tuning. With only one iteration on the Spec Tree and largely ignored community feedback, Restoration Shaman ultimately launched in what I'd still consider an unfinished state, lacking both healing and damage in all types of content. Unless otherwise noted, when it comes to talents I will be talking about the Restoration talent tree for the rest of this article.
Patch 10.0.5 — Tuning Up DamageWith 10.0.5 the damage was tuned up quite a bit, especially of Acid Rain (which was already buffed multiple times before this point). Now you can be contributing decent and consistent passive damage in raid fights by using
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