Restoration Shaman Healing Gear and Best in Slot — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Restoration Shaman for Midnight. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Restoration Shaman, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

In Midnight, all item levels were squished, which means the numbers on all items and their item level was massively reduced, allowing for all numbers to grow again throughout the expansion and future content without becoming too large to understand.

Upgrading gear in Midnight continues to use the Crest system which lets you increase the item level of gear along tracks that relate to where you obtained the item, which harder content dropping gear that can be upgraded to higher Item Levels. For more information, read up on our dedicated page on how the gearing system works and what has changed in the Midnight expansion.

OverallMythic+Raid

As usual, prioritize Leech / Avoidance pieces and the highest item level equipment you have, regardless of its secondary stat distribution.

The crafted items you should use depends on what loot you have, as it always better to craft on your weakest slots in order to get a massive item level bonus, but you will eventually want to have Arcanoweave Lining crafted on the lowest stat budget items, wrist and cloak, as crafted items have a slightly lower maximum item level limit than looted items.

If you start with a weapon craft, use Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt on it until you can get two Arcanoweave Lining items crafted.

FAQAre Two-Handed weapons viable?

While using a Shield is typically better due to the armor benefits, and certainly mandatory in PvP, in PvE you will rarely be taking damage that can be mitigated by armor. This makes using two-handed weapons completely viable, as long as they have high item level and good secondary stats, or a powerful unique effect.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 1, Restoration Shamans want to try and prioritize getting the Shoulder, Chest, Legs, and Gloves set pieces. This enables you to grab Oblivion Guise as the off-set piece, which is extremely powerful for us due to its massive Critical Strike budget and guaranteed Leech.

Early on in the tier nothing beats crafting a two-handed weapon to save Myth crests, followed by crafting your off-tier slot to gain as many stats as quickly as possible for early progression! The list below assumes an end of tier situation where crests and sparks to craft with are unlimited.

Restoration Shaman

1.1.

Overall Best in Slot

Oblivion Guise Helm

Midnight Falls Empowered Hex of Leeching

Earthgrips of the Primal Core Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Ribbon of Coiled Malice Neck

Fallen-King Salhadaar

Waistcord of the Judged Waist

Lightblinded Vanguard

Tempests of the Primal Core Shoulders

Catalyst or Fallen-King Salhadaar Silvermoon's Mending

Leggings of the Primal Core Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Arcanoweave Spellthread

Adherent's Silken Shroud Cloak

Crafted by Tailoring

Sabatons of Obscurement Feet

Imperator Averzian Shaladrassil's Roots

Embrace of the Primal Core Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Magister

Sin'dorei Band of Hope Ring

Belo'ren Nature's Fury

Shirt

Signet of the Starved Beast Ring

Vorasius Nature's Fury

Tabard

Light of the Cosmic Crescendo Trinket

Midnight Falls

Farstrider's Plated Bracers Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Weight of Command Main Hand

Imperator Averzian Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Thalassian Dawnguard Off Hand

Belo'ren

This list contains only items available in Mythic+ dungeons in Midnight. As usual, prioritize Leech / Avoidance pieces and the highest item level equipment you have, regardless of its secondary stat distribution.

Adherent's Silken Shroud and Farstrider's Plated Bracers are your end game best in slot embellishments, but until you get them you can use the items listed below for the cloak and wrist slots.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

We recommend you farm the following dungeon:

• Skyreach: Multiple best in slot loot drops here, such as Viryx's Indomitable Bulwark, Rigid Scale Boots, Sharpeye Gleam, and Rigid Scale Greatcloak as well as various decent pieces for other slots. Seat of the Triumvirate is also great, especially for its special rings.

Restoration Shaman

1.2.

Best Mythic+ Gear

Sharpeye Gleam Helm

Skyreach Empowered Hex of Leeching

Earthgrips of the Primal Core Hands

Catalyst

Barbed Ymirheim Choker Neck

Pit of Saron

Scabrous Zombie Leather Belt Waist

Pit of Saron

Tempests of the Primal Core Shoulders

Catalyst Silvermoon's Mending

Leggings of the Primal Core Legs

Catalyst Arcanoweave Spellthread

Rigid Scale Greatcloak Cloak

Skyreach

Rigid Scale Boots Feet

Skyreach Shaladrassil's Roots

Embrace of the Primal Core Chest

Catalyst Mark of the Magister

Purloined Wedding Ring Ring

Pit of Saron Nature's Fury

Shirt

Eredath Seal of Nobility Ring

Seat of the Triumvirate Nature's Fury

Tabard

Radiant Sunstone Trinket

Skyreach

Darkfang Scale Wristguards Bracers

Seat of the Triumvirate

Heart of Wind Trinket

Windrunner Spire

Ceremonial Hexblade Main Hand

Maisara Caverns Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Viryx's Indomitable Bulwark Off Hand

Skyreach

This list contains only items from the current raid. As usual, prioritize Leech / Avoidance pieces and the highest item level equipment you have, regardless of its secondary stat distribution.

Adherent's Silken Shroud and Farstrider's Plated Bracers are your end game best in slot embellishments, but until you get them you can use the items listed below for the cloak and wrist slots.

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

If you need to submit a list of highly-important items to your raid leader, or simply want to focus on the most important bosses and items, we have you covered!

• Locus-Walker's Ribbon: A very strong passive trinket, which drops from the Crown of the Cosmos encounter and is stronger on longer encounters with healing checks at the end.
• Light of the Cosmic Crescendo: Another passive trinket which drops from Midnight Falls and was buffed to the point where it one of the best healing trinkets available, while also doing some damage.
• Oblivion Guise: An unique helmet that has all of its stat budget allocated to Critical Strike and a lot of Leech on top, making it extremely good for Restoration!
• Weight of Command: Notable for being the best in slot weapon, and also coming from the first boss of the raid, making it extremely easy to obtain early on, which could be a good strategy in order to skip crafting a weapon in favor of the crafted Root Warden's Regalia set.

Restoration Shaman

1.3.

Best Raid Gear

Oblivion Guise Helm

Midnight Falls Empowered Hex of Leeching

Earthgrips of the Primal Core Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Ribbon of Coiled Malice Neck

Fallen-King Salhadaar

Waistcord of the Judged Waist

Lightblinded Vanguard

Tempests of the Primal Core Shoulders

Catalyst or Fallen-King Salhadaar Silvermoon's Mending

Leggings of the Primal Core Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Arcanoweave Spellthread

Adherent's Silken Shroud Cloak

Crafted by Tailoring

Sabatons of Obscurement Feet

Imperator Averzian Shaladrassil's Roots

Embrace of the Primal Core Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Magister

Sin'dorei Band of Hope Ring

Belo'ren Nature's Fury

Shirt

Signet of the Starved Beast Ring

Vorasius Nature's Fury

Tabard

Light of the Cosmic Crescendo Trinket

Midnight Falls

Farstrider's Plated Bracers Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Weight of Command Main Hand

Imperator Averzian Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Thalassian Dawnguard Off Hand

Belo'ren

Itemization

Enchants and Stat Priority

Looking to optimize your character? Check out our Enchant and Stat Priority guides for more information!

EnchantsStats

These are generally the strongest on-use and passive trinkets available, with passive trinkets being favored for ease of use:

Restoration Shaman Trinkets

On-Use - Litany of Lightblind Wrath or, alternatively, Vaelgor's Final Stare
Passive - Crucible of Erratic Energies for now, and Light of the Cosmic Crescendo or Locus-Walker's Ribbon

Below we will provide a rough tier list of available trinkets. This can help you to make quick decisions as to which trinkets are worth farming or what you want to roll need on.

Click for Restoration Shaman Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Trinket
S Tier	Crucible of Erratic Energies - Click for Details Better than any trinket in the game currently once you unlock the four topmost nodes in the Voidstorm research console and incredibly easy to get, so make use of it before it is nerfed! Light of the Cosmic Crescendo - Click for Details Excellent passive trinket which contributes some damage and procs its effect healing on low health targets, making it better than raw numbers would suggest. Locus-Walker's Ribbon - Click for Details Its Intellect proc grows in power over time, making it amazing for long raid encounters that have high healing requirements at the end. Gaze of the Alnseer - Click for Details Especially good for Restoration due to rapidly stacking when allies stand in your Healing Rain. Drum of Renewed Bonds
A Tier	Litany of Lightblind Wrath - Click for Details The on use effect of this trinket is very powerful but requires you to dedicate some time to dealing damage to activate it, so make sure to remember to do so if you are using it. Glorious Crusader's Keepsake - Click for Details A fantastic trinket that cannot be obtained as Myth track, but is well worth using early on, even if you are the only player with it in the group. Vaelgor's Final Stare Emerald Coach's Whistle - Click for Details Most of the value from this trinket is tied to the Mastery buff given to the chosen ally, making it a great pseudo-DPS trinket. Whisper of the Duskwraith Nevermelting Ice Crystal
B Tier	Echo of L'ura Heart of Wind Refueling Orb Radiant Sunstone Emberwing Feather - Click for Details Due to its 2-minute cooldown, heavily recommended to be used with the First Ascendant talent. Volatile Void Suffuser
C Tier	Primal Philosopher's Stone Gift of Light Consecrated Chalice Lightspire Core Any other unmentioned trinket is equal to this tier or worse.

Midnight's patch 12.0.5 introduces two new yet familiar systems:

• Nebulous Voidcore can be used to acquire specific items from specific bosses or dungeons by letting you gain a guaranteed, but random, piece of loot from that source when you complete the associated content. To prevent bad luck streaks, once an item has been acquired in this way, your next use of a Voidcore will grant one of the remaining items you have not yet acquired.
• Ascendant Voidcore can be used to further increase the item level of Hero or Myth track Weapons or Trinkets if they have reached the highest possible item level of their track already, as well as Radiance-Crafted items at max quality. This will further boost their power, similar to the additional upgrade from previous Turbo Boost events.

Seasonal Mechanics

Voidforge and Voidcores

Check our our guide on the Voidforge to learn how to acquire this powerful upgrades!

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Which item you want to chase after depends heavily on the items you have already acquired through the Great Vault and other high-end sources, or whether you expect to down key bosses on Mythic difficulty, as you do not want to waste your Voidcores on items you may be able to get on a higher difficulty track quickly. The priority is as follows:

Voidcore (Bonus Roll) Priority

1. Myth Track Weapon unless you already have one Myth crest crafted
2. Mythic Locus-Walker's Ribbon and Light of the Cosmic Crescendo
3. Remaining best in slot items

Using your Ascendant Voidcores follows a similar priority list as using your Crests:

1. Your Weapon is the highest priority
2. Your best trinket
3. Your other trinket

You will also want to prioritize Myth track items over Hero track ones, unless you do not expect to get a Myth track variant of said item. Upgrading best in slot hard to get items such as rare trinkets like Gaze of the Alnseer is fine if you do not expect to get them on Mythic anytime soon.

Embellishments are special effects that are either found on crafted pieces by default or can be added to crafted pieces during the crafting process. A character can have two embellishments equipped at any time.

You can find the full Embellishment sims at QuestionablyEpic Live, but essentially we recommend crafting the following gear:

Restoration Crafted Gear Priority

• Farstrider's Plated Bracers with Arcanoweave Lining
• Adherent's Silken Shroud with Arcanoweave Lining
• Any item you do not have on Myth track yet.

Arcanoweave Lining is a flexible Embellishment which can go into any crafted armor piece and grants a strong power up to yourself and a nearby ally when it procs. Because it cannot be crafted on a weapon, you should use Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt instead on your crafted weapon, if you are below the 2 Embellishment limit.

Finally, the Root Warden's Regalia crafted set is also a strong option, and while it has three pieces we recommend using the Waist, World Tender's Barkclasp, and Feet, World Tender's Rootslippers as they still allow you to use your tier set chest and the uniquely powerful Oblivion Guise helm if you are crafting the set.

For more information about crafting gear you can visit our Professions page.

You can add sockets to Helmets, Belts, and Bracers with the Radiant Jewelbinder consumable obtained from the Great Vault vendor when you choose the currency reward.

You will usually want to start with upgrading your weapon, followed by trinkets, and then any leech/avoidance pieces or items you won't be replacing for a long time or pieces with large stat allocations such as helms or legs. These would be great choices, for example:

Restoration Shaman Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon (Mainhand) ➜ Trinkets ➜ Helmet/Chest/Legs ➜ Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

Optimization

Simulations and Tools

For further reading on how to truly maximize your character's potential, check out our guide on Raidbots!

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This guide has been written by Seksi, member of Cursed Gifts and healing aficionado. You can find him answering questions and discussing Restoration Shaman gameplay on the Ancestral Guidance and Earthshrine Discords.