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Restoration Shaman: First Impression of the New Shaman Talent Trees in Dragonflight
Dragonflight
Criado
07/8/2022 em 10:00
por
Niseko
With the reveal of the Dragonflight Shaman talent trees, our Restoration Shaman writer Niseko provides initial reactions and thoughts on this revamped system. We break down the Restoration Shaman talent trees, discussing the new talents and providing some sample builds. Join us as we predict how this class could play in Dragonflight!
To learn about the best PvE talent builds in Dragonflight for this class, and export these builds into the game, please check out our Elemental, Enhancement, and Restoration Shaman class guides:
Elemental Shaman Talent BuildsEnhancement Shaman Talent BuildsRestoration Shaman Talent Builds
Shaman Dragonflight Class Talent Tree
Shaman Dragonflight Talents - What’s New?
Dragonflight introduces a new talent system that allows for more choice and flexibility depending on your current needs. We will receive two talent trees, a class tree which is shared between all Shaman specs, and a Restoration specific tree. The class tree mostly focuses on utility with some damage and healing nodes in between, while our Restoration tree focuses purely on heal and damage abilities. This is now the way of how you obtain new abilities while leveling too.
The Shaman class tree gives us a lot of new and interesting abilities and unique utility, but also strips us of a lot of the existing ones which we can pick back up if we so want. Here are a few of the notable ones:
Vendaval
as a short cooldown but high distance movement ability is a great tool, and I've missed it ever since it was removed from our toolkit. Many players will be able to finally swap away from Goblin to any other race since
Salto do Foguete
loses its appeal. Fantastic for fights like
Artífice da Dor Raznal
where you're almost required to have an ability like this, but a quick gap closer can come in clutch all of the time.
Conselho dos Ancestrais
: Same as
Vendaval
, lost for a long time but finally it is back. Quite strong on its own and can be combined with other cooldowns such as
Ascendência
to create very powerful burst healing. Very potent for healing something like the
Dilaceração Cardíaca
from Stone Legion Generals which used to be a very strong DoT on 4 people when dispelled.
Projeção Totêmica
: Another one of the very old spells. It's a bit situational but an easy pickup when needed. The ability to pick up and relocate your totems could come in handy for using
Totem de Vento Súbito
on 2 groups, or replacing it midway through to gain the speed twice and similar things with
Totem do Vínculo do Espírito
and the other ground based totems.
Percepção Concentrada
is an entirely new ability to my knowledge, although the concept of weaving a damage spell for healing gain isn't new. Its very akin to
Liberar Vida
where you spend a GCD to empower another spell. Definitely nice to gain something from keeping your DoT up.
Fonte de Mana
: Looks like a lil' brother of
Totem de Vagalhão de Mana
but only for your group and very fiddly to use.
Totem do Ar Sereno
|
Totem Litopele
: These are a bit more on the PvP side, although
Totem Litopele
might see use for physical damage heavy fights or dungeons, be it on specific targets (tanks) or your whole group like on Sludgefist.
Concentração Totêmica
increases the reach of your totems and the duration of some of them. Having a 46 yard
Totem de Maré Curativa
definitely nice but it affects all other totems as well for some great quality of life. Extra duration on
Totem de Torrente Curativa
|
Totem da Explosão Nebulosa
makes this something you really want to pick up too.
Revocação Totêmica
is a cool idea and can create some high uptimes on totems like
Totem de Vento Súbito
. Neat but unsure if you'll ever actually have use for it.
Totem Antiveneno
: Quite niche, only dispels 6 or 7 debuffs total but its great to be able to pick up for when it's relevant.
Rapidez da Natureza
enables an infrequent free instant cast (ideally on an expensive spell), great for some small movement instead of using
Graça do Andarilho Espiritual
. It's really easy to grab and the mana saved is pretty good as well.
Tempestade Relampejante
+
Choque Trovejante
gives us the option of another strong crowd control in dungeon pulls.
Shaman Dragonflight Talent Tree - First Impressions
The Shaman class tree seems to give a monstrous amount of utility options with not too many nodes that are required to take; at least for raiding. Here is a talent tree that tries to take every essential node for a typical raid encounter and we're left with 6 points to spare:
View in Dragonflight Talent Calculator
Now its not too difficult to fit in 6 more points, these are just the ones that I figure to be unlikely to ever spec out of. There's a few more very useful talents that are easy grabs like
Rapidez da Natureza
,
Transbordamento de Vida
,
Elemental da Terra
and
Escudo da Terra
and even that would leave us with a few points which gives us the option to pick up whichever utility we need for the encounter. That is accomplished due to the multitude of branching paths making almost anything an easy pick. As long as you don't need all of the utility you're well off.
Well, that's where we get to Mythic+ where this turns on its head. In Mythic+ you want most of this utility all the time, with random stuff like Frost Shock for Explosives too - here it becomes very easy to get point starved and something like
Vendaval
with its 3-5 points of investment suddenly becomes a lot less attractive to be able to grab everything you need. This can be seen as a good thing however as you need to put actual thought into what trade-offs you're picking for each dungeon and affix instead of having a default setup that works most of the time.
We have a lot of defensive node options, which is always good to see:
Elemental da Terra
,
Viajante dos Planos
or
Baluarte Astral
,
Lobo Espiritual
,
Defesa do Ancestral
,
Proteção Elemental
,
Transbordamento de Vida
, technically even
Órbita Elemental
and
Totem Litopele
.
Restoration Shaman Dragonflight Spec Talent Tree
Restoration Shaman Dragonflight Talents - What’s New?
Looking at these talents, what I find interesting that you can now pick
almost
every single of the old talents at the same time, creating new combinations. There is a few Azerite traits coming back as well, like
Costas Transbordantes
which was very popular.
Alcance Ancestral
was datamined a bunch of times but never actually added to the game, until now. Two of the more compelling Shadowlands powers made it into the tree with
Onda Primordial
and its conduit as well as the legendary
Núcleo Marítimo Primevo
.
Other notable new talents:
Easy to pick up damage options
Chuva Ácida
: Taken right out of Torghast this is a very interesting damage option should you opt into taking
Chuva Curativa
into M+.
Guardião da Tempestade
is great, sadly its a bit less great on our 3-Target
Cadeia de Raios
.
Mestre dos Elementos
buffs healing spells as well, but probably won't be picked up for that purpose.
Torrente de Lava
and
Chamado do Trovão
Totem de Proteção Ancestral
and
Fortitude Ancestral
together: Neither of these are new but the combination of them is fantastic in my opinion. They're two very strong and impactful progress talents bringing lots of stability into the health pools.
Mar Revolto
: Also not new, no, but the rework does deserve a mention. Taking
Cura Encadeada
and moving it as a spender instead of a generator of this resource makes a lot of sense and brings it back into relevance after being mostly ignored for a while. Now the attached
Maestria Totêmica da Água
seems a bit more random and low impact, not sure how well this one will work out.
Torrente de Vida
|
Totem da Explosão Nebulosa
: Giving the option to buff your
Totem de Torrente Curativa
instead of picking
Totem da Explosão Nebulosa
in that node is quite interesting and along with the nerf to
Totem da Explosão Nebulosa
might make us favor
Torrente de Vida
in some content.
is unexpected to say the least as we never really used the essence, and I'm not sure yet what to make of it without properly playtesting. It's roughly the cost of a
Cura Encadeada
for a short duration 10% Haste/Healing buff, but it's competing against a lot of strong and mana efficient options in the bottom row.
Restoration Shaman Dragonflight Talent Tree - First Impressions
This talent tree is exceedingly branched with the majority of the talents having 4 connections. Dropping out of specific talents and just going around them is often really easy, even for something like
Totem de Maré Curativa
or
Chuva Curativa
as you usually will take all points around them anyway. Picking up 3 of the 4 last talent points (capstones) is also possible if you're willing to sacrifice some other strong abilities. It seems very well designed and thought out, forcing you to make hard choices.
Contracorrente
is in its center and our core ability, which is reflected in a lot of the talent options as well. The only way to generate
Mar Revolto
is now through
Contracorrente
as mentioned earlier, as well as talents such as
Maestria Totêmica da Água
,
Cabeça d'Água
and
Elementos Profundamente Enraizados
. Any content with low utilization of
Chuva Curativa
the only real way to use
Dilúvio
will be the
Contracorrente
buffs.
Onda Primordial
,
Correnteza Submersa
and
Núcleo Marítimo Primevo
are intertwined with it, all being stronger the more buffs you have out - basically no matter what talent setup you go
Contracorrente
will be a very important button, making
Eco dos Elementos
almost a required pickup. It is far from a Resto Druid gameplay though and doesn't make you feel like a HoT based healer as it's the interactions that make
Contracorrente
so interesting. Also the cooldown on it won't allow for any HoT spam regardless :)
When it comes to actual concerns about the tree it's rather small stuff:
Escudo de Água
blocking your path to
Ressurgência
basically makes
Ressurgência
a 2-Point talent. Doesn't feel too great as
Escudo de Água
almost never contributes more than its meager passive mana regen, but
Ressurgência
is strong enough to be worth that extra point.
The
Alcance Ancestral
|
Fluxo das Marés
choice node doesn't seem like much of a choice with how much more versatile
Alcance Ancestral
is.
Fluxo das Marés
restricts your
Cura Encadeada
targeting options hard whether you try to aim for a low running
Contracorrente
or try to avoid eating a
Contracorrente
when it isn't needed. The 30% buff is similar in power to
Alcance Ancestral
too when you add the extra jump so it's not quite clear when you'd take the
Fluxo das Marés
node instead.
I did feel bad about the idea of having to take two
Harmonia Terrana
talent point in order to reach
Ascendência
, but after some more time thinking about it, it's probably fine. When you actually need
Ascendência
in a raid you won't really be bothered by having to use 3 points, and picking up
Escudo da Terra
in the class tree is very easy. For dungeons both
Escudo da Terra
and
Ascendência
are very desired so it is great for that, since
Harmonia Terrana
is a massive quality of life buff.
Torrente
being a 2-Point talent does discourage the jump from
Totem da Explosão Nebulosa
to
Totem de Proteção Ancestral
|
Totem de Muralha Terrana
. With a 1-Pointer there instead I'd love to go that path instead of picking up
Totem de Vagalhão de Mana
in some situations. We use
Contracorrente
a lot so buffing it sounds like a good idea, but again it's more about the interactions that come with it and less about its healing throughput.
Fonte de Mana
is annoying to make proper use of. It has a very low cooldown and low impact but requires a lot of button presses. With some tuning however this could become something you want to pick, maybe with a higher cooldown and higher impact or something that is up all the time.
Arma Terraviva
seems a bit odd. Its passive extra healing out of the way of everything, you never really have a reason to pick it unless it does a ton of healing. Same with
Concentração da Natureza
although that one is just straight up bad and might as well not be there at all. Buffing the target of
Cura Encadeada
without it affecting any of the chain doesn't accomplish much.
Restoration Shaman Dragonflight Talents for Raiding - How Strong is It?
Trying to build a somewhat balanced raid build right now while trying to be as point efficient as possible could look something like:
View in Dragonflight Talent Calculator
The gameplay loop would play similar to live servers with some rather small changes.
Liberar Vida
works on quite a few more spells and we will try to use it on
Chuva Curativa
whenever possible, otherwise it's the same priority.
Maré Alta
and
Núcleo Marítimo Primevo
are very interchangeable,
Núcleo Marítimo Primevo
works better against rot damage and buffs
Onda Primordial
and
Correnteza Submersa
while a unleashed
Maré Alta
will hit 6 targets without drop off which is powerful burst healing unless you target a Hunter. Using
Contracorrente
on cooldown (with a lot of lenience due to
Eco dos Elementos
) is more important due to taking
Mar Revolto
,
Maestria Totêmica da Água
,
Onda Primordial
and
Correnteza Submersa
.
Conselho dos Ancestrais
from the class tree wants to be combined with pretty much any of the lower talent options, like
Maré Alta
,
Nascente
,
Borrasca
and/or
Onda Primordial
.
The new build features a lot less utility, almost none even. But most of the time the utility is unused regardless, and you often know ahead of ever pulling the boss whether you need, say, a
Totem Sísmico
for example. This might lead to a lot more talent swapping to grab the proper utility spells for each encounter but that seems like a fine tradeoff, especially as you can just use the talent loadout feature to save a set for each boss.
The build is just an all around decent raiding setup as it has everything you need. Lets compare how this would translate to the old talent tree:
Of course this is a bit different as we have no borrowed power on top, but it highlights what we have gained pretty well.
Ignoring balancing and the proposed talent build there's a ton of flexibility here.
Ascendência
is worth a lot more as a raid cooldown due to
Conselho dos Ancestrais
dealing with its overhealing well, spreading it out instead. You can grab 3 capstones if you so wish and use
Maré Alta
,
Ascendência
and
Nascente
at the same time, or drop one to buff
Onda Primordial
. You can drop abilities like
Chuva Curativa
,
Totem de Maré Curativa
and similar entirely and pick up spells that suit the fight more, be it a couple of damage options or maybe something that helps more in single target healing like
Cabeça d'Água
.
Conclusion
We have gained a lot with the transition to this new type of talent system in my opinion and we should be able to fit into pretty much any healing composition and adjust for what is needed. Evaluating how strong this tree truly is is difficult. It heavily depends on how the other healers are tuned as well and what kind of utility they will bring but I do feel that this gives us some long needed options to get a bit out of our niche and hopefully work well on rather spread out encounters too. Restoration Shaman very often had a safe spot in your healing rosters, and I am certain that this will continue in Dragonflight.
I honestly didn't expect such a well designed talent tree while at the same time also bringing back some of my favourite shaman abilities. The trees and some abilities have minor issues but that really isn't the end of the world. All shaman specs seem excited about the new utility options in the class tree and I'm definitely enthused to have
Conselho dos Ancestrais
and
Vendaval
back from the dead. As a raider the new talent combinations are fantastic and being able to go heavier into damage without having to abuse some elemental / general legendary or Azerite trait is great for Mythic+.
The designers did a stellar job on the shaman tree and the changes that have been done during the Alpha cycle have all been in a good direction as well. I'm looking forward to further improvements to our and other classes talent trees. I wouldn't be surprised if people come up with nifty talent setups that I haven't even thought of yet, and am excited to see them.
Interested in playing Restoration Shaman now? Check our out live guide for this spec!
Restoration Shaman Guide
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