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How the 0/3/48 build works
Restoration to Riptide, Forever's new 31-point talent, with Mana Tide Totem, Nature's Swiftness, Healing Way, Purification and Tidal Mastery. Water Shield and Mindfulness are new and taken too.
The last three points sit in Ancestral Knowledge. The two alternatives are the sim's tank-healing build (all 51 in Restoration) and a raid-healing build with Enhancement points.
Leveling a Restoration Shaman
We don't give Restoration its own leveling route: most players level as another Shaman spec and switch at 60. Level with one of these, one talent point a level from 10, then respec into the build above:
Every talent in the Restoration Shaman build
Each talent with its Forever tooltip at the rank the build takes.
Enhancement· 3 points
Ancestral Knowledge 3/5
Increases your Intellect by 6%.
Restoration· 48 points
Improved Healing Wave 5/5
Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.5 sec.
Totemic Focus 5/5
Reduces the Mana cost of your totems and any spells that summon or move them by 25%.
Mindfulness 3/3New in Forever
Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Natural Grace 2/3New in Forever
Reduces the threat generated by your spells by 10%.
Tidal Focus 5/5
Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 5% and improves your chance to hit by 5%.
Ancestral Healing 3/3
Increases your target's armor value by 25% for 15 sec after getting a critical effect from one of your healing spells.
Healing Focus 3/3
Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting any healing spell.
Water Shield 1/1New in Forever
The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water. When a spell, melee, or ranged attack hits the caster or when one of the caster's healing spells gets a critical result, 2% of maximum mana is restored to the caster, expending one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
Tidal Mastery 5/5
Increases the critical effect chance of your healing spells by 5%.
Restorative Totems 5/5
Increases the effect of your Mana Spring Totem by 25% and increases the effect of your Healing Stream Totem by 50%.
Mana Tide Totem 1/1
Summons a Mana Tide Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 12 sec that restores 88 mana every 3 seconds to group members within 30 yards.
Healing Way 3/3
Increases the amount healed by your Healing Wave spell by 25%.
Nature's Swiftness 1/1
When activated, your next Nature spell with a casting time less than 10 sec. becomes an instant cast spell.
Purification 5/5
Increases the effectiveness of your healing spells by 10%.
Riptide 1/1New in Forever
Heals a friendly target for 480, an additional 445 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.
New Restoration talents in WoW Forever
The 4 talents in Forever's Restoration tree that Classic does not have, shown at full rank. Another 10 carry over from Classic with different ranks, positions or numbers.
Mindfulness · row 2, 3 ranks
Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Natural Grace · row 2, 3 ranks
Reduces the threat generated by your spells by 15%.
Water Shield · row 3, 1 rank
The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water. When a spell, melee, or ranged attack hits the caster or when one of the caster's healing spells gets a critical result, 2% of maximum mana is restored to the caster, expending one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
Riptide · row 7, 1 rank
Heals a friendly target for 480, an additional 445 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.
Questions
What are the best Resto Shaman talents in WoW Forever?
Our recommended Restoration Shaman build is 0/3/48: Restoration to Riptide, Ancestral Knowledge from Enhancement. It is one of the Forever sim's preset builds. Nobody has played a level 60 yet, so treat it as a starting point until launch on 4 November.
Are WoW Forever's Restoration talents the same as Classic's?
No. Forever's Restoration tree has 16 talents, and 4 of them do not exist in Classic: Mindfulness, Natural Grace, Water Shield and Riptide. Another 10 have different ranks, positions or numbers. The tree is still seven rows deep, and each row still needs five points spent above it.
What is the Restoration 31-point talent in WoW Forever?
Riptide, which is new in Forever. Heals a friendly target for 480, an additional 445 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.
How should I level a Restoration Shaman in WoW Forever?
Level as Elemental Shaman or Enhancement Shaman, then respec to Restoration at 60. Few players level as Restoration, so we give the leveling routes on those pages: one talent point a level from 10, with no respec on the way.
How many talent points do you get in WoW Forever?
51 at level 60, one per level from level 10, as in Classic. The Legacy perk Talented starts them at level 5 instead, which matters for alts while levelling.
Where does this talent data come from?
From the WoW Forever beta client's own talent tables (build 1.60.1.70338), not from Classic. Every tooltip on this page is rendered from the client's spell data, and we checked them against the numbers the beta's own tooltips show. The trees can still change before launch.
