DragonBruu Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 (edited) Well, first of all i’ll introduce myself. I like to be called Imb since it’s the name of my main and it was the name of the first rsham I ever had. Been playing rsham since patch 3.3.5 over 7 years ago and been always in love with it though I started playing pvp in early MoP. Had few high rated rshams in servers like firestorm and few other servers, and right now I’m playing PandaWoW with 2 shamans: Imb (2.4 cr) and Imbtwo (2.7 cr 2s and 2.4 cr at 3s) Ye it might sound pretty weird but got more rating with alt than with main. STRUCTURE 1. Introduction to Restoration Shaman 2. Gems and Enchants 3. Reforge 4. Talents 5. Glyphs 6. Macros you’ll need for arenas 7. Tips against different comps 8. Good 2s and 3s comps Introduction to Restoration Shaman Okay, so first of all you should need that Restoration Shaman is a “sustain” healer because with totems, Riptide, Healing Rain and Earth Shield you’ll be healing even while cc’ed or pillar hugging, or if you’re getting trained hard and you can’t cast. So, you always need to keep earth shield on the teammate they’re targeting, keep riptide up, and unless your teammates are fully hp, almost always you’ll have Healing Stream Totem down. Remember you have your Grounding Totem to avoid getting cc’ed against Druids, Mages, Shamans, Paladins, etc. Gems I’ve tried everything to gem, since this patch crit is broken af I used to stack crit like a warrior, but lately been using this gems: Red: +80 Intellect +160 Critical Strike Yellow: +320 Critical Strike Blue: +160 Spirit + Critical Strike Meta: +432 Critical Strike +1% Spell Reflect or +665 PvP Power +775 PvP Resilience Enchants: Shoulders: +200 Intellect +100 Critical Strike Back: +180 Critical Strike Chest: +80 All Stats Wrist: +180 Intellect Weapon: Jade Spirit Shield: +165 Intellect Hands: +170 Mastery Legs: +285 Intellect +165 Critical Strike Boots: +140 Mastery & Minor Speed Increase Reforge Stat priority is Intellect > Crit > Spirit > Mastery > Haste. So always try to reforge crit when an item doesn’t have it, after that get some spirit or mastery, up to you. Talents [ATTACH=CONFIG]104885[/ATTACH] Most of the time you'll be using this talents. The ones you can swap are earthgrab for windwalk, atm i pref using windwalk over earthgrab, but earthgrab is rly good vs warriors or any class that can't take the slow out. Windwalk is very useful against cleaves that depend on the slow, and the cc, for example against a TSG, when they stun burst you, your partners should peel and as soon as you get out of cc you just windwalk, earthbind (the slow one), wolf form and run from them. Another change you can make is between Totemic Projection and Call of the Elements. In 3s you can never use Totemic Projection since most of the time you'll be casting, cc'ing, running or purging, so now time to use projection, plus vs cleaves that have many fears and they depend on them, or with fears that can't be dispelled, such as WLS, you can have 2 tremors in a row pretty much, plus 2 windwalks, 2 groundings to avoid more cc, for example if you ground a poly, you don't have shear and another one is coming and you know that if you get poly'd you loose the game 100%, you can use Call of the Elements and grounding to avoid it, since CotE isn't in the GCD. Glyphs: Major Glyphs: Glyph of Ghost Wolf – It’s your only mean of escape, good against train comps like warriors, dks, ww's, etc. Glyph of Healing Stream Totem – Reduces the damage done while your Stream Totem is up, really good. (This doesn't work against melee cleaves like warrior, dk, hunter, etc.) Glyph of Totemic Vigor – Mandatory, only way to not get your totems one shotted. Glyph of Hex - Always good to have less cooldown on the main cc, it's ussually swapped with Glyph of Healing Stream Totem vs comps with a mage or boomie, since they can dispell hex and you get that 10% dmg reduction. Glyph of Purge - Good against comps with rdruid so you can purge easier the HoTS. Minor Glyphs: Glyph of Totemic Encirclement: This glyph is a must, cancels totally the use of Tab to swap to a totem to kill because each time you place a totem other 3 will appear. Macros Wind shear to focus: /cast [target=focus] Wind Shear Arena kicks (currently using these ones): /cast [target=arena1] Wind Shear /cast [target=arena2] Wind Shear /cast [target=arena3] Wind Shear Hex to focus: /cast [target=focus] Hex Same here with arena hex, currently using these ones: /cast [target=arena1] Hex /cast [target=arena2] Hex /cast [target=arena3] Hex Another good macro, but that i personally don't use is: /cast Ancestral Swiftness /cast Hex And also: /cast Ancestral Swiftness /cast Healing Surge Tips: Against Restoration Druids: Just spam purges everywhere, so your dps will find easier to kill the druid or the other dps, grounding totem when cyclone is coming, save Ancestral Swiftness to insta hex when he gets out of shapeshift. Against Mage: Pick Windwalk, grounding on sheep, keep purging too so u get out shields and shit. Against dk’s: Get Windwalk, use it mainly when you get a root from Chiblains, against this just try to kite, pillar hug, and stay in wolf form as much as you can so the slow isn’t that big. Against Warriors: I like getting Earthgrab against them, but it’s up to you, just kite, run around pillar, hex if needed, just like every healer. Against Affliction Warlocks: Here’s the big problem for us xD. What I like doing is dispell the first dots, so the pressure he has got is not that big and he has to reapply, wasting soul shard or wasting time, save tremor for when you need it more, grounding on fear, keep riptide and earth on the dps usually, since he’ll be doing damage to both of you, every time you can dispell the dots. Arena Compositions: 2v2: Rsham/Alock Rsham/Awarr Rsham/Spriest Rsham/Feral Druid Rsham/Windwalker Monk Rsham/Dk 3v3: Alock/Boomie/Rshaman (LSD2) Warrior/Alock/Rshaman (WLS) Warrior/Mage/Rshaman (WMS) Ret/Hunter/Rshaman (PHS/Cupid) Warrior/DK/Rshamn (TSG) Warrior/Hunter/Rshaman (KFC) Mage/Lock/Rshaman (MLS) Hunter/Feral/Rshaman (Jungle Cleave) Frost Mage/Boomie/Rshaman (Frozen Chicken) Fire Mage/Boomie/Rshaman (Spicy Chicken/BK) Rogue/Spriest/Rshaman (RPS) Feral/Spriest/Rshaman (FPS) Rogue/Hunter/Rshaman (Thug Cleave) (There are plenty more but this ones are the best ones for me) Well thank you for reading, this is my first guide I’ve ever made so any recomendation, or tip, or something would be really appreciated, Cya around :D (btw writing this at 6 am so prolly missed some things, let me know and i'll change them) Edited November 30, 2016 by DragonBruu 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldprince Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Nice guide dude! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemifest Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Nice guide :) Yet I'm a bit concerned about the gems/reforge etc. I'm all going crit on gems, my reforge is Crit>Spirit/Haste>-- You don't really have to get the socket bonuses etc, since PvP power has been reduced couple of patches ago. Also about talent choices, in 30. You should explain the situational choices there, so players know what talent will give your partner/s best support they need. And, major glyphs. Explain the situational choices there too, since for example Glyph of Healing Stream Totem is useless against melee etc. Yet greatly done :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiggar47 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Nemifest's Shaman Guide is Better, but he made Ench but still better. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonBruu Posted February 20, 2016 Author Share Posted February 20, 2016 ty for the tips dude, i'll try to update it now, im reading it again and i realize that i missed few things, but was really tired when writed it, gonna write down more things later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemifest Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 ty for the tips dude, i'll try to update it now, im reading it again and i realize that i missed few things, but was really tired when writed it, gonna write down more things later If there's anything you're in concerned about, I have my Enhancement guide, the talents are nearly the same as resto: http://forum.pandawow.ru/showthread.php?t=166021 etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonBruu Posted February 20, 2016 Author Share Posted February 20, 2016 sure, ty :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djmonstertwo Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 gd. some points: blue gems are spirit and crit not crit/pvp power. where is kfc as 3s comp . you should post a macro such ns heal; on use/racial, lifestone affli locks doesnt count rsham, rsham counts affliction. anyways good guide, btw r u brazilian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivandorn Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 warrior+hunter+shaman = kfc hunter+balance/feral druid+shaman rogue+hunter+shaman = thug cleave mage+warlock+shaman = mls mage+balance/feral druid+shaman mage+shadow priest+shaman = shatter enh/elem shaman + warrior + shaman also viable comps ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonBruu Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 i don't really like playing kfc and in this server is not one of the best ones, i pref getting pvp power as blue gems with crit and then reforge some to spirit, i don't use ns heal macro since i've got ns in a pretty good spot binded so i can do it fast, and i didn't say affli locks are counter of rsham, i said its pretty hard to play vs them, because of the pressure they've got on your whole team, but it's hard as any healer though lol. No, i'm not brazilian, why? ty for the tips :D - - - Updated - - - - - - Updated - - - warrior+hunter+shaman = kfc hunter+balance/feral druid+shamanhttp://forum.pandawow.ru/post_thanks.php?do=post_thanks_add&p=1038799&securitytoken=1456066491-b50e09f10126388626931558516e7d1a4f156174 rogue+hunter+shaman = thug cleave mage+warlock+shaman = mls mage+balance/feral druid+shaman mage+shadow priest+shaman = shatter enh/elem shaman + warrior + shaman also viable comps ^^ didn't post kfc cuz it's not one of the bests here, and i don't like it that much xD. Same for jungle comp, there are no good ferals around at 3s, forgot about thug, you're right, same for mls. Shatter is pretty shit here, only god comp is viable as mage+sp, and playing double sham is pretty bad, enh/elem+war is only good with rdru as turbo or thunder. Ty for the help cuz forgot some of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djmonstertwo Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 kfc is not good here? are you kidding me? this is post is more about what you prefer instead of what is really good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonBruu Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 kfc is not good here? are you kidding me? this is post is more about what you prefer instead of what is really good... It's not compared to wls, lsd2, wms. At all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonBruu Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 Testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flow Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 there are no good kfcs* fixed it 4u ive been playing for 2-3 years on this server and i still havent seen a kfc that knows how to cover for trap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegari Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 there are no good kfcs* fixed it 4u ive been playing for 2-3 years on this server and i still havent seen a kfc that knows how to cover for trap Aquavit KFC was really good they got r1 in 3s playing it. Also Torpus was good on it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonBruu Posted May 17, 2016 Author Share Posted May 17, 2016 Aquavit KFC was really good they got r1 in 3s playing it. Also Torpus was good on it too Not really, though this post was posted before bm got bugged, so now kfc is one of the strongest comp you'll find, almost unbeatable cuz just 1 2 3 spam and gg. But i haven't seen a really great kfc here though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markzxy_ Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Cringe ... makes me wanna kill myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonBruu Posted May 20, 2016 Author Share Posted May 20, 2016 Cringe ... makes me wanna kill myself Again this demonstrates how childish you are hahahha, commenting all my posts around, kek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 u forgot races Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Nice guide the only thing I used to do when I mained resto shaman was if I was low gear so grevious or less then I would go Intellect>crit>spirit>mastery>haste but If full prideful I got better results from Intellect>Mastery>crit>spirit>haste. Personal preference but just try it out you may be surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonBruu Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Updated some stuff in macros, talents and arena comps ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegariy Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 nice guide dude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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