Welcome to Skill Capped’s Restoration Shaman PvP Guide for The War Within 11.2.0

All sections for Restoration Shaman PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Restoration Shamans in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section provides a brief overview of Restoration Shamans in The War Within.

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What’s New for Restoration Shamans in The War Within?

Overall the identity of Restoration Shaman in 11.2 has not changed structurally but has one specific addition that make their healing throughput a lot better; a buff to Healing Tide Totem. Its healing has now doubled in effectiveness as long as its not healing a bunch of minions or pets. This is a dramatic quality of life improvement to Restoration, allowing them to use their utility more often during their burst healing windows.

Now, it’s important to uncover all the generic changes introduced in The War Within in order to help you understand the current identity of the spec. As for our class tree, we are able to pick up talents that weren’t as obtainable before in Dragonflight. More specifically, Totemic Surge, Totemic Focus, and Nature’s Guardian all require one talent point instead of two without any change to their effects. Also, our choice node with Gust of Wind and Spirit Walk is now positioned at the beginning of our Shaman tree without having to sacrifice a lot of talent points to get it.

There are some new talents we receive that change up our playstyle quite a bit, such as Stone Bulwark Totem, providing us with another defensive totem that we can place down for some nice absorb action on ourselves, Therazane’s Resilience which requires us to reapply Earth Shield only when we need to swap it on another ally or when it gets purged, and lastly Spiritwalker’s Tidal Totem to supply us with 3 instant cast Healing Surges that cost half their normal amount after pressing Mana Tide Totem.

Aside from these changes, it’s important to cover the focal point of The War Within and where most of the new stuff really comes from; Hero Talents. With each specialization having two to choose from, as a Restoration Shaman you have the option to select Farseer or Totemic.

All in all, Restoration Shaman tends to be a strong competitor as we enter into the new season, granting us a bit more variance on how we can sustain our teammates.

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