Restoration Shaman PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets — The War Within (11.0.5)
Choosing your gear carefully is important for your Restoration Shaman in PvP. We give you a stat priority to help you choose items with the right stats, followed by advice on how to choose the rest of your gear and your trinkets.
This page is part of our Restoration Shaman PvP Guide.
Stat Priority for Restoration Shaman in PvP
The stat priority for Restoration Shaman in PvP is as follows:
- Intellect;
- Versatility;
- Mastery;
- Haste;
- Critical Strike;
Intellect is the best stat in all situations. Versatility is the strongest secondary stat at all times due to it reducing the damage you take and increasing your healing output. You also want to focus on getting Mastery. This increases the effectiveness of your Mastery: Deep Healing.
Mastery is very important for healing throughput, after focusing on Versatility.
General Guidelines
In general, Restoration Shaman wants to focus on stacking Versatility stat.
Recommended Embellished PvP Gear:
Energy Redistribution Beacon which will provide healing when you direct heal your teammates. You can equip two crafted items both with this embellishment.
Recommended Items
Forged Gladiator's Medallion is required for PvP since this is how you can free yourself from any crowd-control. This also is one of the two PvP trinkets that are part of a set, which will increase Intellect and Stamina.
In general, Restoration Shaman wants to get the not-on-use trinket Forged Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity for consistent Intellect increases.
Forged Gladiator's Emblem is a trinket that provides a temporary health buff, which can be used when you believe the team will be focusing you in big burst windows.
- Boots: Enchant Boots - Scout's March
- Bracer: Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed
- Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity
- Chest: Enchant Chest - Council's Intellect
- Legs: Daybreak Spellthread
- Rings: Enchant Ring - Cursed Versatility
- Weapon Enchant: Enchant Weapon - Stonebound Artistry
Algari Gems
You can use one Algari Diamond gem in The War Within:
- Cognitive Bloodstone giving crowd-control and interupt immunity when an opponents failed attempt to interupt the Restoration Shaman.
Regular Gems
Your other gems should be selected based on your stat needs.
- For Versatility, use Quick Sapphire or Masterful Sapphire
- For Mastery, use Quick Onyx or Versatile Onyx
- For Haste, use Versatile Emerald or Masterful Emerald
Changelog
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for TWW Launch.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for TWW pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.5.
- 07 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.0.7.
- 25 Dec. 2022: Updated for season one Dragonflight.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight post-launch.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 31 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 27 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2 of Shadowlands
- 17 Nov. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.5 of Shadowlands.
- 04 Jul. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
- 19 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 02 Dec. 2020: Updated in preparation for Shadowlands PvP Season 1.
- 29 Nov. 2020: Removed old Azerite mentions.
- 19 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands Pre-Patch 9.0.1, and new author.
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