Curated for raid healing — Healing Tide Totem timed to unavoidable raid-wide damage, Spirit Link Totem coordinated with your healing team's cooldowns, and Bloodlust called at the right phase for the kill window. Reviewed 28 Jun 2026.
Recommended raid build — Totemic with Healing Tide Totem aligned to unavoidable raid-wide damage. The default choice for most raid encounters and the build used by the majority of top Restoration Shamans.
Alternative raid build — Farseer with Ancestral Guidance converting your damage into healing during Bloodlust burn phases. Strong on fights with sustained high-damage windows where the ancestor echoes can heal multiple players simultaneously.
Record your own talent build alongside your addons — it's included when you share your setup. Get a talent string from the Wowhead talent calculator or export directly from the in-game talent tree (press N → share icon). Paste the URL or the raw string — both work.
613.5M downloads
Boss timers tell you exactly when to drop Healing Tide Totem so it lands on the heaviest unavoidable raid damage window. Spirit Link timing also benefits — cast bars show when forced-spread mechanics will push players apart so you don't drop it into an empty cluster.
95.9M downloads
Healers are often heads-down on raid frames — the audio alarm gives you a cue to move without requiring you to look away from the group's health bars. For Restoration Shaman this is especially useful since Healing Rain placement requires you to be positioned before the ground effect fires. Install knowing it's significantly more limited than pre-Midnight — it covers specific tracked boss mechanics only, not general ground effects.
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Per-spell breakdown of your healing output for the fight. Chain Heal should be your highest-throughput spell in AoE situations — if Healing Surge is dominating, you're burning mana on emergency single-target heals instead of using Tidal Waves procs to make Healing Wave efficient.
87.3M downloads
Healer-focused raid frames with built-in click-casting — bind Riptide to left-click and Chain Heal to right-click so every GCD is a mouse click on a frame. Also tracks Earth Shield charge count and flags Purify Spirit-able debuffs with a coloured border.
42.1M downloads
Compact, modular raid frames that pair with the Clicked addon for mouseover click-casting. Displays Earth Shield charges, Riptide HoT presence, and Purify Spirit-able debuffs as coloured indicators; choose this over VuhDo if you want more frame customisation.
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Most of what ElvUI covers for Restoration Shaman is better handled by VuhDo or Grid2 (raid frames), Dominos (action bars), and Platynator (nameplates). Only install if you want a fully unified UI aesthetic and are prepared for the significant configuration overhead — VuhDo alone handles the healer-critical setup faster.
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Enemy cast bars on nameplates show incoming damage before it lands, so you can position Healing Rain, start a Chain Heal cast, or pre-apply Riptide to the tank before the spike. In M+, the gap between anticipating damage and reacting to it is the difference between smooth pulls and scrambling.
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Visual and audio alert the moment a dangerous cast is aimed specifically at you, giving you time to pop Astral Shift (40% damage reduction) or move with Spirit Wolf before the hit lands. Losing the healer to a targeted mechanic mid-chain pull is one of the most preventable wipes.
33.4M downloads
Tracks cross-character cooldown state from the combat log — see whether the other healer's Tranquility, Barrier, or Aura Mastery is available before you burn or hold your own Healing Tide Totem. Bloodlust and interrupt cooldowns are also tracked so you know when Heroism will be called and when to cover a kick.
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Configurable timers for your major cooldowns on screen. Tracks Healing Tide Totem (3 min), Spirit Link (3 min), Ancestral Guidance (2 min), and Bloodlust so you know at a glance what's available without scanning your action bars mid-pull.
6.1M downloads
Coordinates healer cooldown assignments on-screen so you know which unavoidable damage window your Healing Tide Totem covers and when Bloodlust will be called. Spirit Link Totem placement is also assignable for fights with a specific stacking moment.
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Raider.IO adds every player's Mythic+ score and best key completions to their tooltip. For Restoration Shaman, it helps you set expectations before accepting a key invite — a healer's score shows how high they've pushed and what content they've cleared, so you can calibrate how proactively to use Bloodlust and coordinate Healing Tide Totem with the group's existing cooldown plan.
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Only needed if you use Grid2 — bind Riptide, Chain Heal, and Earth Shield to mouse button and modifier combinations on any frame for mouseover click-casting. VuhDo has this built in, so skip it if you use VuhDo.
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Healing Tide Totem drop macro, Spirit Link Totem placement, Bloodlust on raid marker, Ancestral Protection Totem emergency macro
Intellect › Mastery (Riptide scaling) › Haste › Crit › Versatility — Mastery is strongest in raid where multiple players are consistently damaged; Haste improves Healing Tide Totem pulse frequency when talented
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