Timeless Azeroth

Gear & Stats

Restoration gearing is about maximizing raw +Healing while staying comfortable on Mana for the length of your raid’s fights. In short fights, Spell Healing dominates. As fights extend, MP5 climbs rapidly in value. Intellect remains excellent throughout because it increases your Mana pool, contributes to crit, and converts into additional healing through Nature’s Blessing. Spell Haste is strong whenever you can afford the extra casts, especially for long cast-time heals like Chain Heal and Healing Wave.

Restoration Shaman Pre-Raid BiS

Restoration PvE BiS (Phase 1)

Stat Priority

Spell Healing → MP5 → Intellect → Spell Haste → Spell Crit → Stamina → Spirit Fight length matters. If your fights are short, stack as much Spell Healing as possible and treat MP5 as secondary. If your fights are long or progression is messy, MP5 rises sharply in value. Spirit is consistently low value because Restoration cannot bypass the 5-second rule while continuously casting.

Stat Breakdown

Spell Healing — Primary Throughput Stat

Spell Healing directly increases every heal you cast and scales exceptionally well with Restoration talents. Purification increases overall healing done, and Improved Chain Heal further amplifies your best AoE tool. Because Restoration is built around flexible downranking and efficient casts, +Healing remains the best all-around stat in most PvE situations.

MP5 — Best In-Combat Sustain

MP5 is constant Mana regeneration while you are casting. Its value increases with fight duration and heavy healing demand. If you are running out of Mana in longer encounters, MP5 is the cleanest way to stabilize your performance.

Intellect — Mana Pool + Bonus Healing

Intellect increases your Mana pool and grants spell crit. It also converts into additional healing through Nature’s Blessing, which increases the overall value of Intellect compared to other healers. Intellect tends to be strongest in shorter fights where total Mana pool matters more than long-term regen.

Spell Haste — More Casts, More Throughput

Spell Haste speeds up Chain Heal and Healing Wave, letting you respond faster and fit more healing into burst windows. It becomes even more impactful later in the expansion as haste appears more frequently on gear, but Phase 1 already offers meaningful haste pieces.

Spell Crit — Useful, Not a Focus

Crit increases healing done by 50% on the crit event and also helps activate Ancestral Healing for extra armor on targets. It is valuable when it appears on strong items, but generally not worth chasing at the expense of +Healing, MP5, and Intellect.

Stamina — Survive to Keep Healing

Heavy raid-wide damage and Heroic dungeon mechanics can punish low health pools. Stamina is never your primary gearing goal in PvE, but it becomes important anytime survival is a limiting factor.

Spirit — Lowest Value

Spirit only meaningfully regenerates Mana when you have not cast for 5 seconds. Restoration spends most fights continuously casting, which makes Spirit far less reliable than MP5 for actual in-combat sustain.

Gearing Notes

Do not downgrade overall gear quality just to chase a single stat. Restoration gains the most from balanced items that combine Spell Healing with MP5 and Intellect. If you are stable on Mana in your raid, prioritize Spell Healing and Haste for higher throughput. If you are struggling to finish fights, prioritize MP5 and Intellect until your sustain is consistent.