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Restoration Shaman: First Impression of the New Shaman Talent Trees in Dragonflight
Dragonflight
Опубликовано
07.08.2022 в 10:00
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:
Порыв ветра
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
Реактивный прыжок
loses its appeal. Fantastic for fights like
Кузнец боли Разнал
where you're almost required to have an ability like this, but a quick gap closer can come in clutch all of the time.
Наставления предков
: Same as
Порыв ветра
, lost for a long time but finally it is back. Quite strong on its own and can be combined with other cooldowns such as
Перерождение
to create very powerful burst healing. Very potent for healing something like the
Разрыватель сердец
from Stone Legion Generals which used to be a very strong DoT on 4 people when dispelled.
Проецирование тотемов
: 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
Тотем ветряного порыва
on 2 groups, or replacing it midway through to gain the speed twice and similar things with
Тотем духовной связи
and the other ground based totems.
Точное озарение
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
Высвободить чары жизни
where you spend a GCD to empower another spell. Definitely nice to gain something from keeping your DoT up.
Источник маны
: Looks like a lil' brother of
Тотем прилива маны
but only for your group and very fiddly to use.
Тотем безветрия
|
Тотем каменной кожи
: These are a bit more on the PvP side, although
Тотем каменной кожи
might see use for physical damage heavy fights or dungeons, be it on specific targets (tanks) or your whole group like on Sludgefist.
Тотемное средоточие
increases the reach of your totems and the duration of some of them. Having a 46 yard
Тотем целительного прилива
definitely nice but it affects all other totems as well for some great quality of life. Extra duration on
Тотем исцеляющего потока
|
Тотем разразившегося ливня
makes this something you really want to pick up too.
Возвращение тотемов
is a cool idea and can create some high uptimes on totems like
Тотем ветряного порыва
. Neat but unsure if you'll ever actually have use for it.
Тотем противоядия
: Quite niche, only dispels 6 or 7 debuffs total but its great to be able to pick up for when it's relevant.
Природная стремительность
enables an infrequent free instant cast (ideally on an expensive spell), great for some small movement instead of using
Благосклонность предков
. It's really easy to grab and the mana saved is pretty good as well.
Гром и молния
+
Громовой удар
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
Природная стремительность
,
Переполняющая сила жизни
,
Элементаль земли
and
Щит земли
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
Порыв ветра
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:
Элементаль земли
,
Между мирами
or
Астральный бастион
,
Дух волка
,
Защита предков
,
Защита от стихий
,
Переполняющая сила жизни
, technically even
Кружащие стихии
and
Тотем каменной кожи
.
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
Хляби небесные
which was very popular.
Устремление предков
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
Первозданная волна
and its conduit as well as the legendary
Изначальное сердце волн
.
Other notable new talents:
Easy to pick up damage options
Кислотный дождь
: Taken right out of Torghast this is a very interesting damage option should you opt into taking
Целительный ливень
into M+.
Хранитель бурь
is great, sadly its a bit less great on our 3-Target
Цепная молния
.
Властелин стихий
buffs healing spells as well, but probably won't be picked up for that purpose.
Волна лавы
and
Призыв грома
Тотем защиты Предков
and
Энергия Предков
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.
Приливные волны
: Also not new, no, but the rework does deserve a mention. Taking
Цепное исцеление
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
Повелитель тотемов воды
seems a bit more random and low impact, not sure how well this one will work out.
Живой поток
|
Тотем разразившегося ливня
: Giving the option to buff your
Тотем исцеляющего потока
instead of picking
Тотем разразившегося ливня
in that node is quite interesting and along with the nerf to
Тотем разразившегося ливня
might make us favor
Живой поток
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
Цепное исцеление
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
Тотем целительного прилива
or
Целительный ливень
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.
Быстрина
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
Приливные волны
is now through
Быстрина
as mentioned earlier, as well as talents such as
Повелитель тотемов воды
,
Стремительные волны
and
Укоренившиеся стихии
. Any content with low utilization of
Целительный ливень
the only real way to use
Наводнение
will be the
Быстрина
buffs.
Первозданная волна
,
Подводное течение
and
Изначальное сердце волн
are intertwined with it, all being stronger the more buffs you have out - basically no matter what talent setup you go
Быстрина
will be a very important button, making
Эхо стихий
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
Быстрина
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:
Водный щит
blocking your path to
Упоение
basically makes
Упоение
a 2-Point talent. Doesn't feel too great as
Водный щит
almost never contributes more than its meager passive mana regen, but
Упоение
is strong enough to be worth that extra point.
The
Устремление предков
|
Приливные течения
choice node doesn't seem like much of a choice with how much more versatile
Устремление предков
is.
Приливные течения
restricts your
Цепное исцеление
targeting options hard whether you try to aim for a low running
Быстрина
or try to avoid eating a
Быстрина
when it isn't needed. The 30% buff is similar in power to
Устремление предков
too when you add the extra jump so it's not quite clear when you'd take the
Приливные течения
node instead.
I did feel bad about the idea of having to take two
Земная гармония
talent point in order to reach
Перерождение
, but after some more time thinking about it, it's probably fine. When you actually need
Перерождение
in a raid you won't really be bothered by having to use 3 points, and picking up
Щит земли
in the class tree is very easy. For dungeons both
Щит земли
and
Перерождение
are very desired so it is great for that, since
Земная гармония
is a massive quality of life buff.
Поток
being a 2-Point talent does discourage the jump from
Тотем разразившегося ливня
to
Тотем защиты Предков
|
Тотем земляной стены
. With a 1-Pointer there instead I'd love to go that path instead of picking up
Тотем прилива маны
in some situations. We use
Быстрина
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.
Источник маны
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.
Оружие жизни земли
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
Средоточие природы
although that one is just straight up bad and might as well not be there at all. Buffing the target of
Цепное исцеление
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.
Высвободить чары жизни
works on quite a few more spells and we will try to use it on
Целительный ливень
whenever possible, otherwise it's the same priority.
Прилив
and
Изначальное сердце волн
are very interchangeable,
Изначальное сердце волн
works better against rot damage and buffs
Первозданная волна
and
Подводное течение
while a unleashed
Прилив
will hit 6 targets without drop off which is powerful burst healing unless you target a Hunter. Using
Быстрина
on cooldown (with a lot of lenience due to
Эхо стихий
) is more important due to taking
Приливные волны
,
Повелитель тотемов воды
,
Первозданная волна
and
Подводное течение
.
Наставления предков
from the class tree wants to be combined with pretty much any of the lower talent options, like
Прилив
,
Родник
,
Ливневый дождь
and/or
Первозданная волна
.
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
Тотем трепета
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.
Перерождение
is worth a lot more as a raid cooldown due to
Наставления предков
dealing with its overhealing well, spreading it out instead. You can grab 3 capstones if you so wish and use
Прилив
,
Перерождение
and
Родник
at the same time, or drop one to buff
Первозданная волна
. You can drop abilities like
Целительный ливень
,
Тотем целительного прилива
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
Стремительные волны
.
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
Наставления предков
and
Порыв ветра
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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