Introduction
Hello, my name is Theun and most people know me from my activity in the Earthshrine and Ancestral Guidance discord communities which are focused on Shaman. I have played Restoration Shaman since Nighthold and have been helping theorycraft for the spec since BfA. My highest ranking with the spec was with BDGG in Shadowlands where we got World 4th in Sanctum of Domination.
What has changed
- All specs of Shaman now bring a new Raid Buff called Skyfury! This gives your entire party/raid Windfury and also gives everyone 2 Mastery Points (a small amount of mastery that’s unaffected by diminishing returns).
- Many 2-point nodes in the top half of our spec tree are now only 1-point.
- The Class tree had many point reductions and some talents moved around. We can now get everything that we need quite easily!
- Many of our cooldowns have new or better upgrades. For example, you can now take Spouting Spirits as an upgrade to Spirit Link Totem.
- Downpour was redesigned, making it a much better choice in both Raid and Mythic+
- Tidewaters is back as a talent (it was our S2 2pc bonus in Dragonflight).
- We gained additional defensives, such as Stone Bulwark Totem and Primordial Bond
- Gust of Wind is much easier to talent now.