How to Play Restoration Shaman in Midnight Season 2

By Harreks Updated: 2026/08/18

Midnight Season 2 Restoration Shaman Cheat Sheet Restoration Shaman Changes in Midnight Season 2

Riptide's instant healing has been increased by 25%, and its heal over time has been increased by 100%.

Unleash Life's healing has been increased by 100%.

Healing Wave's healing has been increased by 10%.

The healing of Healing Rain has been increased by 20% and it now heals 6 targets (up from 5).

Earthen Accord's increase to the bonus healing effect of Unleash Life has been modified to be additive instead of multiplicative. This means that Unleash Life with Earthen Accord will now increase your next healing ability by 45%, rather than 30%.

Calm Waters has been removed, and its effect has been added to Current Control.

Wavespeaker's Blessing has been moved in the talent tree to where Calm Waters used to be.

A new talent, Swelling Tides, has been added where Wavespeaker's Blessing used to be.

's Surging Totem bonus healing has been reduced from 20% to 10%.

's Pulse Capacitor bonus healing has been reduced from 25% to 10%.

's Healing Rain cooldown has been reduced to 12 seconds. Casting a new Healing Rain will cancel the old one.

ancestor's Chain Heal has been improved: Its healing has been increased by 50%, it heals a maximum of 5 targets (up from 3), every jump reduces the healing done by 10% (down from 30%), and the maximum jump distance has been increased to 20yds (up from 15yds). These changes combined increase the total healing of the spell by 180%.

ancestor's Chain Lightning now hits a maximum of 5 targets (up from 3).

ancestor's Lava Burst now also does more damage by a percentage equal to your critical strike.

Restoration Shaman Gameplay in Midnight Season 2Riptide

Pick Your Targets Correctly: Effects like Undercurrent, Deluge, Flow of the Tides, and Tidewaters greatly benefit from having as many Riptides active as possible so you should always aim to put Riptide on people that don't already have it. Mastery: Deep Healing and our casted heals being directly targeted also means that correctly picking people that need the most healing and are at the lowest health percentage will increase the value of everything you do.

Use Your Short Cooldowns On Cooldown: Restoration Shaman has a wide list of short cooldown spells that do a variety of different things, but they all have in common that the best way to use them is to press them early and often if any healing is needed. Unleash Life, Healing Rain, Surging Totem, Downpour, Nature's Swiftness, Ancestral Swiftness, and Healing Stream Totem and its Stormstream Totem procs all are more valuable if you use them as many times as possible during combat and focus on not missing out on casts of them.

Manage Your Mana: The amount of mana you use can vary a lot depending on what spells you choose to cast outside of cooldowns: Healing Wave is very cheap but only heals a single target and is a bit more likely to overheal while Chain Heal is much more expensive but spreads the healing across multiple target picked in the best possible way. How much do you value each of these things can vary depending on the content you're doing and for how long you need to keep healing without running out of mana. Talents like Resurgence and Current Control can aleviate issues but at the cost of losing other alternatives. Pick the correct tool for the job at any given moment and understand the flow of your mana so you can keep healing for as long as it is needed.

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Best Restoration Shaman Talent Builds for Midnight Season 2

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Impact of Midnight Season 2 Tier Set for Restoration Shaman

The season two Restoration Shaman tierset bonus is a very powerful effect that heavily interacts with a lot of our talents. Every time you generate a Healing Rain from the 2-piece bonus you will activate effects like Overflowing Shores and Tidewaters, and can even use these extra rains to get extra Downpours. Players inside your healing rains benefit from Deluge and are also constantly being shielded by the set 4-piece bonus, as each rain generates its own shields

Ophidian Oracle's Prophecy

Shaman Restoration 12.1 Class Set 2pc - Healing Wave and Chain Heal have a chance to create a Healing Rain at the target's location for 8.0 sec.
Shaman Restoration 12.1 Class Set 4pc - Every 1 sec, 1 ally inside of Healing Rain gains a watery shield that absorbs damage for 10 sec.

Best Restoration Shaman Stats for Midnight Season 2

Your stat priorities are the same for and . Your most important stat is Intellect. For secondaries you want as much Critical Strike as possible, then Haste and Versatility are of similar value, and finally Mastery come last.

Critical Strike is your strongest secondary in all situations due to very good interactions with your spells and talents like Resurgence, White Water, and Ancestral Awakening. You want to get as much as possible of it but that doesn't mean you should ignore the other stats either.

Haste's value can vary a lot depending on how well you can handle your mana. It is the only stat that makes you spend more mana, but also you gain a lot of healing from it due to a lot of your spells scaling well with Haste. It also heavily synergizes with the Shaman Restoration 12.1 Class Set 2pc, as more Haste makes it spawn more Healing Rains that also tick faster.

Versatility presents a similar value to Haste but in a different format. While Haste improves your ability to quickly deliver healing in the windows where you need it the most, Versatility offers a more passive and consistent increase over long periods of time.

The balance between Haste and Versatility can be a tricky one: More Versatility will make it easier to make your mana last on longer fights due to casting less spells overall, and more Haste will allow you to burst much higher amounts of healing when the group needs it the most. This is further complicated by the existence of Innervate. With access to enough Innervates, the mana advantage from Versatility is almost completely erased and Haste pulls ahead considerably, but this is not the reality for the majority of people.

The best way to find this balance point for yourself is to sim your gear in Questionably Epic Live. There are extra settings to account for the fight length and how many innervates you have available so you can find the best possible combination for your specific case.

Finally, Mastery is performing historically bad this season, to the point where you might want to drop into lower item level items to avoid it. It is the worse stat by a considerable margin, but you should sim your gear to make sure you are still properly valuing big item level upgrades.

Farseer Stat Priority

Intellect
Critical Strike
Haste = Versatility
Mastery

Totemic Stat Priority

Intellect
Critical Strike
Haste = Versatility
Mastery

Restoration Shaman Stats Guide

Best Restoration Shaman Consumables for Midnight Season 2

Below, we highlight the best consumables to use during for both Raiding and Mythic+ for Restoration Shaman in Midnight Season 2.

Slot	Best Enchant
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei
Helm	Enchant Helm - Empowered Hex of Leeching
Shoulders	Enchant Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister
Legs	Arcanoweave Spellthread
Boots	Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots
Ring	Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle
Dazzling Diamond	Indecipherable Eversong Diamond Telluric Eversong Diamond
Other Gems	Flawless Versatile Garnet Flawless Deadly Peridot Flawless Deadly Lapis Flawless Deadly Amethyst

Type	Best
Flask	Flask of the Shattered Sun
Combat Potion	Lightfused Mana Potion Potion of Recklessness
Health Potion	Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion
Weapon Buff	Earthliving Weapon
Augment Rune	Void-Touched Augment Rune
Food	Silvermoon Parade Royal Roast Sanguithorn Tea

Restoration Shaman Consumables Guide

Best Raid and Mythic+ Gear for Restoration Shaman in Midnight Season 2

For Restoration Shaman, these are the best pieces of gear to get from content.

Very strong cantrip effect on a high item level item.
Best in slot trinket.

Ring with good stats.
Good trinket option from M+.

Restoration Shaman Gear Guide

How to Play Restoration Shaman in Midnight Season 2

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