Restoration Shaman Healing Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

You will always want to have one Diamond gem, ideally a maximum Quality Indecipherable Eversong Diamond if it is your only gem socket, or a Telluric Eversong Diamond once you have 4+ sockets available to get the maximum benefit out of it. When switching to the max-Mana diamond, make sure to have at least one gem of each type in the other sockets to max out the Mana gain effect, ideally one Flawless Versatile Garnet, Flawless Deadly Lapis, Flawless Deadly Peridot, and Flawless Deadly Amethyst.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

Thalassian Phoenix Oil is the best temporary oil, but you will usually be using the Earthliving Weapon talent instead.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

You will generally want to be using Flask of the Shattered Sun in raids, as Critical Strike is a favored stat for all talent builds, while swapping to Flask of Thalassian Resistance in Mythic+ for its defensive benefits.

Light's Potential is your best combat potion option, and should be paired with major cooldowns during moments of high group damage. You can also obtain Fleeting Light's Potential from Voidlight Potion Cauldron provided by Alchemists.

Silvermoon Health Potion is the current best healing potion, which should be used in emergencies or whenever you do not have the time to heal yourself. It does not share a cooldown with the combat potion, and using potions has a 5-minute cooldown, allowing you to use multiple in long encounters.

While Mana-restoring potions do exist, they are very low value compared to Light's Potential, and therefore not worth using in almost all scenarios. You may want to keep a stack of them at hand for absolute emergencies, but it is generally better to simply use a stat-potion alongside your cooldowns.

You should be eating from the Silvermoon Parade or Harandar Celebration feasts whenever possible, but can also use Royal Roast in solo and small group scenarios.

Hearty versions of all foods can be created by the Cooking profession by combining 5 to 10 regular foods and, once eaten, provide their benefit for a full hour, even if you die midway through.

Void-Touched Augment Rune grant a decent amount of Intellect and come from many sources, including NPC crafting orders for the various professions.

As they tend to be very expensive for the stats granted, use these only in high-stakes situations!

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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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.