Restoration Shaman
Restoration Shaman — Healer
Chain Heal, totems, and the strongest scheduled raid cooldowns.
Last updated 8/28/2026 by Guild guides
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Overview
Restoration Shaman excels at healing grouped players through Chain Heal and at covering scheduled damage with powerful cooldowns like Spirit Link Totem and Healing Tide. It is efficient, flexible, and brings utility no other healer can replicate.
How this spec operates
Riptide before 
Chain Heal is a meaningful throughput increase — get into that habit.- Chain Heal excels when three or more players are stacked and hurt.
- Totems (
Healing Stream Totem, 
Cloudburst Totem) provide efficient background healing. 
Spirit Link Totem redistributes health — one of the best scheduled raid cooldowns.- Weak when spread out — Chain Heal bounces matter more than raw cast speed.
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
Weaknesses
- Outstanding raid cooldowns, especially Spirit Link Totem
- Very efficient group healing when players are stacked
- Unmatched utility — Bloodlust, totems, and dispels
- Weaker single-target emergency healing
- Chain Heal falls off badly when the raid is spread out
- Totem placement takes practice
Damage while healing
Priority order
Left to right — use the first ability that is ready. Detailed notes for each step are below.
- 1
Flame Shock and 
Lava Burst on the boss during calm stretches. - 2
Lightning Bolt as filler.
What top logs actually run
Sampled from Warcraft Logs via Archon · updated 2026-08-27T12:00:00Z · 231927 parses
Spec & Hero Popularity
22.6%
Keystone Level
+17
HPS
122.5k
DPS
40.6k