Restoration Shaman Levelling Build (Level 10-60) — WoW Forever Talents & Order

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The Restoration Shaman, from level 10 to 60

From level 10 to level 60 you place 51 talent points, one per level. For the Restoration Shaman, who levels as a healer, the first thirty-six points stay in the Restoration tree: Tidal Focus and Mindfulness first, Water Shield at level 20, Mana Tide Totem at level 25, Nature’s Swiftness at level 30 and Riptide at level 40. The last fifteen points take Thundering Strikes, Restorative Totems and Ancestral Knowledge.

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In total 41 points go into Restoration and 10 points go into Enhancement.

Talent calculator and levelling order

The calculator below loads the level 60 build with its levelling order. The « Levelling order » panel lists the 51 points, level by level; « Replay » replays the climb, and the slider steps forward or back one point at a time.

Talent calculator

Talents and levelling order taken from the Icy Veins levelling guide.

Talents by level range

  • Levels 10 to 19 : Tidal Focus ×5, Mindfulness ×3, Improved Healing Wave ×2
  • Levels 20 to 29 : Water Shield, Improved Healing Wave ×3, Healing Focus, Mana Tide Totem, Tidal Mastery ×4
  • Levels 30 to 39 : Nature’s Swiftness, Healing Way ×3, Tidal Mastery, Purification ×5
  • Levels 40 to 49 : Restoration — Riptide, Healing Focus ×2, Ancestral Healing ×3 ; Enhancement — Thundering Strikes ×4
  • Levels 50 to 60 : Restoration — Restorative Totems ×5 ; Enhancement — Thundering Strikes, Ancestral Knowledge ×5

At level 60, switch builds

This build is for levelling, not for playing at max level. Once you reach level 60, respec with our end-game Restoration Shaman build.

The camp: the rested XP bonus you should never skip

Always level with a camp. The Basic Campfire Kit only needs Cooking 1, so anyone can set it up: it builds a campfire that cooks food and holds up to 3 camp features around it. A character who sits or crafts near the fire for a minute gets the effects of those features.

For levelling, the one to place is the Camp Tent: it gives characters sitting nearby 5% of a level in rested experience, unless their reserve already exceeds that. It needs a campfire close by, and all camp effects share a one-hour cooldown.

So set up the fire and the tent at the start of every session, again once the hour is up, and think of it before you log out. The tent is crafted with Leatherworking 20: if that is not your profession, ask a leatherworker in your guild for one. The other camp features of each profession are detailed in the camp section of our professions by class article.

Recommended professions for the Shaman

Two combos work for levelling this spec: each pairs a crafting profession with the gathering profession that feeds it. Every name opens its full guide.

Pick ONE combo, not two crafting professions. You get two main professions: while levelling, give them to one crafting profession and the gathering profession that feeds it. With two crafting professions you would have to buy every material, and you would struggle to level them.

Combo 1 · our pick

LeatherworkingCrafting · read the guide →

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SkinningGathering · read the guide →

The Shaman relies on professions more than any class: 15 of the class crafted pieces are leather. Skinning supplies the leather, from the beasts you kill while levelling.

Combo 2

TailoringCrafting · read the guide →

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HerbalismGathering · read the guide →

Tailoring makes the other pieces of our selection. Cloth drops from the humanoids you kill, so the second slot goes to Herbalism, whose herbs sell to alchemists.

On top, at no cost: the secondary professions do not take a main slot. Cooking 1 sets up the camp fire, First Aid makes bandages between fights.

These picks also aim at level 60 before the raids; the class-by-class detail is in our professions by class article.

Going further

See also our Elemental Shaman, Enhancement Shaman and Elehance Shaman pages to compare the class trees, and all the WoW Forever builds on the section hub.