Restoration Shaman Talents

Restoration Shaman
Midnight Pre-Patch

Talents in World of Warcraft define your character's gameplay. They offer active abilities for offense and defense, major cooldowns, or passive enhancements to your stats and spells. Here are the current Restoration Shaman talents for Midnight Pre-Patch.

Where to Find Talents

Talents can be found in the talent menu, which is accessible by pressing the N key (default) or by clicking the target icon in the micro menu:

Screenshot of the talents button in the micro menu

Class Talents

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Shaman specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Shaman class, offering a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Shaman's overall capabilities.

Name	Cast	Effect
Chain Heal	2 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Heals the friendly target for 891, then jumps up to 20 yards to heal the 3 most injured nearby allies. Healing is reduced by 30% with each jump.
Lava Burst	2 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Hurls molten lava at the target, dealing 525 Fire damage. Lava Burst will always critically strike if the target is affected by Flame Shock and its damage is increased by your critical strike chance.
Chain Lightning	2 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing 278 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets
Earth Shield	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Protects the target with an earthen shield, increasing your healing on them by 20% and healing them for 341 when they take damage. This heal can only occur once every 3 sec. Maximum 9 charges. Earth Shield can only be placed on one target at a time. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman.
Ancestral Wolf Affinity	Passive	Cleanse Spirit, Wind Shear, Purge, and totem casts no longer cancel Ghost Wolf.
Fire and Ice	Passive	Increases all Fire and Frost damage you deal by 3%.
Spirit Wolf	Passive	While transformed into a Ghost Wolf, you gain 5% increased movement speed and 5% damage reduction every 1 sec, stacking up to 4 times.
Thunderous Paws	Passive	Ghost Wolf removes snares and increases your movement speed by an additional 25% for the first 3 sec. May only occur once every 20 sec.
Frost Shock	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Chills the target with frost, causing 272 Frost damage and reducing the target's movement speed by 50% for 6 sec.
Elemental Orbit	Passive	Increases the number of Elemental Shields you can have active on yourself by 1. You can have Earth Shield on yourself and one ally at the same time.
Spirit Walk	Instant - 1 Min Cooldown	Removes all movement impairing effects and increases your movement speed by 60% for 8 sec.
Gust of Wind	Instant - 20 Sec Cooldown	A gust of wind hurls you forward.
Astral Shift	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Shift partially into the elemental planes, taking 40% less damage for 12 sec.
Nature's Guardian	Passive	When your health is brought below 35%, you instantly heal for 20% of your maximum health. Cannot occur more than once every 45 sec.
Encasing Cold	Passive	Increases the cooldown of Frost Shock by 15 sec, but Frost Shock now freezes targets in place for 4 sec.
Arctic Snowstorm	Passive	Enemies within 10 yds of your Frost Shock are snared by 30%.
Healing Stream Totem	Passive
Winds of Al'Akir	Passive	Increases your movement speed by 6% and the movement speed bonus of Ghost Wolf by an additional 10%.
Planes Traveler	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Astral Shift by 30 sec.
Astral Bulwark	Passive	Astral Shift reduces damage taken by an additional 20%.
Brimming with Life	Passive	Stamina increased by 10%. While you are at full health, Reincarnation cools down 100% faster.
Wind Shear	Instant - 30 Yd Range - 12 Sec Cooldown	Disrupts the target's concentration with a burst of wind, interrupting spellcasting and preventing any spell in that school from being cast for 4 sec.
Elemental Resistance	Passive	Healing from Healing Stream Totem reduces Fire, Frost, and Nature damage taken by 6% for 3 sec.
Earthgrab Totem	Instant - 35 Yd Range - 30 Sec Cooldown	Summons a totem at the target location for 20 sec. The totem pulses every 2 sec, rooting all enemies within 8 yards for 8 sec. Enemies previously rooted by the totem instead suffer 50% movement speed reduction.
Capacitor Totem	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 1 Min Cooldown	Summons a totem at the target location that gathers electrical energy from the surrounding air and explodes after 2 sec, stunning all enemies within 8 yards for 3 sec.
Spiritual Awakening	Passive	Mastery increased by 3%.
Enhanced Imbues	Passive	The effects of your weapon and shield imbues are increased by 30%.
Windveil	Passive	Interrupting a spell with Wind Shear reduces all spell damage taken by 15% for 12 sec.
Refreshing Waters	Passive	Your Healing Surge is 25% more effective on yourself.
Improved Purify Spirit	Passive	Purify Spirit additionally removes all Curse effects.
Static Charge	Passive - 1 Min Cooldown	Reduces the cooldown of Capacitor Totem by 20 sec.
Wind Rush Totem	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 2 Min Cooldown	Summons a totem at the target location for 15 sec, continually granting all allies who pass within 10 yards 40% increased movement speed for 5 sec.
Earth Elemental	Instant - 3 Min Cooldown	Calls forth a Greater Earth Elemental to protect you and your allies, generating high threat and taunting enemies periodically for 30 sec.
Purge	Instant - 30 Yd Range	Purges the enemy target, removing 1 beneficial Magic effect.
Greater Purge	Instant - 30 Yd Range - 12 Sec Cooldown	Purges the enemy target, removing 2 beneficial Magic effects.
Nature's Fury	Passive	Increases the critical strike chance of your Nature spells and abilities by 4%.
Ascending Air	Passive	Wind Rush Totem's cooldown is reduced by 30 sec and its movement speed effect lasts an additional 2 sec.
Jet Stream	Passive	Wind Rush Totem's movement speed bonus is increased by 10% and now removes snares.
Primordial Bond	Passive	Your Earth Elemental no longer taunts nearby enemies or generates threat and instead increases your maximum health by 15% while active.
Hex	1.7 Sec Cast - 30 Yd Range - 30 Sec Cooldown	Transforms the enemy into a frog for 1 min. While hexed, the victim is incapacitated, and cannot attack or cast spells. Damage may cancel the effect. Limit 1. Only works on Humanoids and Beasts.
Spiritwalker's Grace	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Calls upon the guidance of the spirits for 15 sec, permitting movement while casting Shaman spells. Castable while casting.
Totemic Projection	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 10 Sec Cooldown	Relocates your active totems to the specified location.
Elemental Warding	Passive	Reduces all magic damage taken by 6%.
Totemic Focus	Passive	Increases the radius of your totem effects by 15%. Increases the duration of your Earthbind and Earthgrab Totems by 10 sec. Increases the duration of your Healing Stream, Tremor, Poison Cleansing, and Wind Rush Totems by 3.0 sec.
Graceful Spirit	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Spiritwalker's Grace by 30 sec and increases your movement speed by 20% while it is active.
Spiritwalker's Aegis	Passive	When you cast Spiritwalker's Grace, you become immune to Silence and Interrupt effects for 5 sec.
Mana Spring	Passive	Your Lava Burst casts restore 22 mana to you and 4 allies nearest to you within 40 yards. Allies can only benefit from one Shaman's Mana Spring effect at a time, prioritizing healers.
Tremor Totem	Instant - 1 Min Cooldown	Summons a totem at your feet that shakes the ground around it for 10 sec, removing Fear, Charm and Sleep effects from party and raid members within 30 yards.
Poison Cleansing Totem	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 2 Min Cooldown	Summons a totem at your feet that removes all Poison effects from a nearby party or raid member within 30 yards every 1.5 sec for 6 sec.
Therazane's Resilience	Passive	Earth Shield no longer loses charges and is 115% effective.
Reactive Warding	Passive	When refreshing Earth Shield, your target is healed for 830 for each stack of Earth Shield they are missing. Additionally, Earth Shield can consume charges 1.0 sec faster.
Voodoo Mastery	Passive	Your Hex target is slowed by 70% during Hex and for 6 sec after it ends. Reduces the cooldown of Hex by 15 sec.
Nature's Swiftness	Instant - 1 Min Cooldown	Your next healing or damaging Nature spell is instant cast and costs no mana.
Totemic Surge	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of most totems by 5 sec.
Instinctive Imbuements	Passive	Lightning Shield increases your Intellect by 3%. Casting Lightning Shield also applies Earth Shield to yourself and any weapon imbuements if known.

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Restoration Shamans with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. These talents differentiate Restoration Shamans from other Shaman specializations, maximizing effectiveness in combat.

Name	Cast	Effect
Riptide	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Restorative waters wash over a friendly target, healing them for 1,677 and an additional 925 over 18 sec.
Healing Rain	2 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range - 18 Sec Cooldown	Blanket the target area in healing rains, restoring 1,587 health to up to 5 allies over 18 sec.
Healing Stream Totem	Passive
Soothing Rain	Passive	Increases the healing done by Healing Rain by 10% and reduces its cast time by 0.5 sec.
Acid Rain	Passive	Deal 251 Nature damage every 1 sec to up to 5 enemies inside of your Healing Rain.
Ascendance	Instant - 3 Min Cooldown	Transform into a Water Ascendant for 15 sec, immediately healing for 4,862. While ascended, casting Riptide causes your next Healing Wave or Chain Heal to be instant, Healing Wave and Chain Heal apply Riptide to your target, and all healing done is increased by 30%.
Healing Tide Totem	Instant - 3 Min Cooldown	Summons a totem at your feet for 10 sec, which pulses every 1.8 sec, healing all party or raid members within 40 yards for 2000.1. Healing reduced beyond 5 targets.
Water Totem Mastery	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Healing Stream Totem by 5 sec.
Overflowing Shores	Passive	Healing Rain instantly restores 287 health to 5 allies within its area, and its radius is increased by 2 yards.
Ancestral Vigor	Passive	Targets you heal with Healing Wave, Chain Heal, or Riptide's initial heal gain 10% increased health for 10 sec.
First Ascendant	Passive	The cooldown of Ascendance is reduced by 60 sec.
Preeminence	Passive	Your haste is increased by 25% during Ascendance and its duration is increased by 3 sec.
Resurgence	Passive	Your direct heal criticals refund a percentage of your maximum mana: 0.80% from Healing Wave, 0.48% from Riptide, and 0.20% from Chain Heal.
Living Stream	Passive	Healing Stream Totem heals for 100% more, decaying over its duration.
Current Control	Passive	Reduces the mana cost of Healing Wave by 15%.
White Water	Passive	Your critical heals have 215% effectiveness instead of the usual 200%.
Calm Waters	Passive	Reduces the mana cost of Chain Heal by 15%.
Quickstream	Passive	Healing Stream Totem heals 15% more often.
Rip Current	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Riptide by 1.0 sec.
Crashing Waves	Passive	Healing Wave's critical strike chance is increased by 12%.
Unleash Life	Instant	Unleash elemental forces of Life, healing a friendly target for 2,292. Increases the healing of your next Riptide, Chain Heal, or Healing Wave by 25% and reduces its cast time by 30%.
Torrent	Passive	Riptide's initial heal is increased 20% and has a 10% increased critical strike chance.
Earthliving Weapon	Instant	Imbue your weapon with the element of Earth for 1 hour. Your Riptide, Healing Wave, and Chain Heal healing has a 20% chance to trigger Earthliving on the target, healing for 591 over 6 sec.
Earthweaver	Passive	Increases Earth Shield healing by 40%.
Deluge	Passive	Healing Wave and Chain Heal heal for an additional 15% on targets affected by your Healing Rain or Riptide.
Earthen Accord	Passive	Unleash Life heals for 30% more and its bonus healing effect is increased by 20%.
Echo of the Elements	Passive	Lava Burst has an additional charge.
Improved Earthliving Weapon	Passive	Earthliving receives 150% additional benefit from Mastery: Deep Healing. Healing Wave always triggers Earthliving on its target.
Ancestral Reach	Passive	Chain Heal bounces an additional time and its healing is increased by 8%.
Flow of the Tides	Passive	Chain Heal bounces an additional time and casting Chain Heal on a target affected by Riptide consumes Riptide, increasing the healing of your Chain Heal by 30%.
Downpour	Passive	Casting Healing Rain grants a use of Downpour for 16 sec. Downpour A burst of water at your Healing Rain's location heals up to 5 injured allies within 12 yards for 1,253.
Primal Tide Core	Passive	Every 4 casts of Riptide also applies Riptide to another friendly target near your Riptide target.
Spirit Link Totem	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Summons a totem at the target location for 6 sec, which reduces damage taken by all party and raid members within 10 yards by 10%. Immediately and every 1 sec, the health of all affected players is redistributed evenly.
Earthen Harmony	Passive	Earth Shield reduces damage taken by 3% and its healing is increased by up to 150% as its target's health decreases. Maximum benefit is reached below 50% health.
Water Expulsion	Passive	Increases Downpour healing by 20%.
Ancestral Awakening	Passive	When you heal with your Healing Wave or Riptide you have a 30% chance to summon an Ancestral spirit to aid you, instantly healing an injured friendly party or raid target within 40 yards for 50% of the amount healed. Critical strikes increase this chance to 60%.
Tidewaters	Passive	When you cast Healing Rain, each ally with your Riptide on them is healed for 1,005.
Undercurrent	Passive	For each Riptide active on an ally, your heals are 1.0% more effective.
Spouting Spirits	Passive	Spirit Link Totem reduces damage taken by an additional 5%, and it restores 4,357 health to all nearby allies 1 second after it is dropped. Healing reduced beyond 5 targets.
Wavespeaker's Blessing	Passive	Increases Riptide's duration by 6.0 sec and its healing over time by 20%.
Double Dip	Passive	Healing Rain grants an additional use of Downpour.
Whispering Waves	Passive	10% of Healing Wave's healing from you and your ancestors is duplicated onto each of your targets with Riptide.
Coalescing Water	Passive	Healing Wave and Chain Heal increase the initial healing of your next Riptide by 30%, stacking up to 2 times.
Deeply Rooted Elements	Passive	Each stack of Maelstrom Weapon consumed has a 0.6% chance to activate Ascendance for 6.0 sec. Ascendance Transform into an Air Ascendant for 15 sec and unleash Doom Winds, reducing the cooldown and cost of Stormstrike by 60%, and transforming your auto attack and Stormstrike into Wind attacks which bypass armor and have a 30 yd range.

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow for deeper customization of the Restoration Shaman class fantasy, further enhancing its combat effectiveness.

Totemic

Name	Cast	Effect
Surging Totem	Passive
Totemic Rebound	Passive	Chain Heal now jumps to a nearby totem within 20 yards once it reaches its last target, causing the totem to cast Chain Heal on an injured ally within 30 yards for 852. Jumps to 2 nearby targets within 20 yards.
Amplification Core	Passive	While Surging Totem is active, your damage and healing done is increased by 3%.
Oversurge	Passive	Surging Totem deals 50% more damage while Ascendance or Healing Tide Totem is active.
Lively Totems	Passive	When you summon a Healing Tide Totem, Healing Stream Totem, or Spirit Link Totem you cast a free instant Chain Heal at 100% effectiveness.
Totemic Momentum	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Healing Stream Totem by 3 sec.
Oversized Totems	Passive	Increases the size and radius of your totems by 15%, and the health of your totems by 30%.
Swift Recall	Passive	Successfully removing a harmful effect with Tremor Totem or Poison Cleansing Totem, or controlling an enemy with Capacitor Totem or Earthgrab Totem reduces the cooldown of the totem used by 5 sec. Cannot occur more than once every 20 sec per totem.
Wind Barrier	Passive	If you have a totem active, your totem grants you a shield absorbing 1,833 damage for 30 sec every 30 sec.
Splitstream	Passive	Your Healing Stream Totems heals an additional ally at 30% effectiveness. Healing Tide Totem healing increased by 25%.
Elemental Attunement	Passive	Mastery increased by 2%.
Imbuement Mastery	Passive	Increases the duration of your Earthliving effect by 3 sec.
Pulse Capacitor	Passive	Increases the healing done by Surging Totem by 25%.
Supportive Imbuements	Passive	Learn a new weapon imbue, Tidecaller's Guard. Tidecaller's Guard Imbue your shield with the element of Water for 1 hour. Your healing done is increased by 2.0% and the duration of your Healing Stream Totem is increased by 3.0 sec.
Totemic Coordination	Passive	Chain Heals from Lively Totem and Totemic Rebound are 25% more effective.
Earthsurge	Passive	Allies affected by your Earthliving effect receive 15% increased healing from you.
Primal Catalyst	Passive	Healing Stream Totem and Healing Tide Totem healing has a 20% chance to apply Earthliving to allies it heals.
Whirling Elements	Passive	Elemental motes orbit around your Surging Totem. Your abilities consume the motes for enhanced effects. Water: Your next Healing Wave also heals an ally inside of your Healing Rain at 50% effectiveness. Air: The cast time of your next healing spell is reduced by 40%. Earth: Your next Chain Heal applies Earthliving at 150% effectiveness to all targets hit.

Farseer

Name	Cast	Effect
Call of the Ancestors	Passive	Unleash Life calls an Ancestor to your side for 12 sec. Whenever you cast a healing or damaging spell, the Ancestor will cast a similar spell.
Latent Wisdom	Passive	Your Ancestors' spells are 25% more powerful.
Ancient Fellowship	Passive	Ancestors have a 20% chance to call another Ancestor for 8 sec when they depart.
Heed My Call	Passive	Ancestors last an additional 4 sec.
Routine Communication	Passive	Riptide has a 15% chance to call an Ancestor to your side for 8 sec.
Elemental Reverb	Passive	Lava Burst gains an additional charge and deals 10% increased damage.
Ancestral Influence	Passive	Your Intellect is increased by 1.0% for each Ancestor active.
Offering from Beyond	Passive	When an Ancestor is called, they reduce the cooldown of Riptide by 2 sec.
Primordial Capacity	Passive	Increases your maximum mana by 10%.
Spiritwalker's Momentum	Passive	Using spells with a cast time increases the duration of Spiritwalker's Grace and Spiritwalker's Aegis by 1 sec, up to a maximum of 4 sec.
Windspeaker	Passive	The cast times of Healing Surge, Chain Heal and Lava Burst are reduced by 10%.
Natural Harmony	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Nature's Guardian by 15 sec and causes it to heal for an additional 10% of your maximum health.
Earthen Communion	Passive	Earth Shield has an additional 3 charges and heals you for 25% more.
Maelstrom Supremacy	Passive	Increases the healing done by Healing Wave, Downpour, and Chain Heal by 25%.
Final Calling	Passive	When an Ancestor departs, they cast Hydrobubble on a nearby injured ally. Hydrobubble Surrounds your target in a protective water bubble for 15 sec. The shield absorbs the next 1,795 incoming damage, but the absorb amount decays fully over its duration.
Mystic Knowledge	Passive	Increases the chance for Lava Surge to occur by 20%.
Ancestral Swiftness	Passive	Your next healing or damaging spell is instant, costs no mana, and deals 10% increased damage and healing. If you know Nature's Swiftness, it is replaced by Ancestral Swiftness and causes Ancestral Swiftness to call an Ancestor to your side for 8 sec.

PvP Talents

PvP talents are tailored for player-versus-player combat scenarios. Activated in arenas, battlegrounds, and the open world with War Mode enabled, these talents optimize a Restoration Shaman 's performance in PvP encounters. They provide specialized enhancements that give players an edge in combat against other players.

Name	Cast	Effect
Counterstrike Totem		Summons a totem at your feet for 15 sec. Whenever enemies within 20 yards of the totem deal direct damage, the totem will deal 100% of the damage dealt back to attacker.
Electrocute		When you successfully Purge a beneficial effect, the enemy suffers 1,596 Nature damage over 3 sec.
Grounding Totem		Summons a totem at your feet that will redirect all harmful spells cast within 30 yards on a nearby party or raid member to itself. Will not redirect area of effect spells. Lasts 3 sec.
Rain Dance		Healing Rain is now instant, 50% more effective, and costs 60% less mana.
Master of the Elements		Casting Lava Burst increases the healing of your next Healing Wave by 30%, stacking up to 2 times. Healing Wave applies Flame Shock to a nearby enemy when empowered by Master of the Elements.
Static Field Totem		Summons a totem with 4% of your health at the target location for 6 sec that forms a circuit of electricity that enemies cannot pass through.
Burrow		Burrow beneath the ground, becoming unattackable, removing movement impairing effects, and increasing your movement speed by 50% for 5 sec. When the effect ends, enemies within 6 yards are knocked in the air and take 2,508 Physical damage.
Storm Conduit		Casting Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning reduces the cooldown of Astral Shift, Gust of Wind, Wind Shear, and Nature Totems by 1.0 sec. Interrupt duration reduced by 65% on Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning casts.
Totem of Wrath		Primordial Wave summons a totem at your feet for 15 sec that increases the critical effect of damage and healing spells of all nearby allies within 40 yards by 15% for 15 sec.
Call of Al'Akir		Nature's Swiftness now also affects Hex, but its cooldown is increased by 30 sec.
Lightning Lasso		Grips the target in lightning, stunning and dealing 2,660 Nature damage over 5 sec while the target is lassoed. Can move while channeling.