Restoration Shaman raid healing build (5/15/31)

How to play it

• Riptide is a heal over time now with no up-front heal, on a 12-second cooldown; keep it rolling on the tank and let it boost Chain Heal on that target.
• Water Shield plus Mindfulness for regeneration; Mana Tide every 5 minutes; Nature's Swiftness plus Healing Wave for emergencies.

Talents taken

Elemental (5)

• Convection 5/5: Reduces the mana cost of your Shock, Lightning Bolt, and Chain Lightning spells by 10%.

Enhancement (15)

• Thundering Strikes 5/5: Improves your chance to get a critical strike with all spells and attacks by 5%.
• Ancestral Knowledge 5/5: Increases your Intellect by 10%.
• Mental Dexterity 3/3: Increases your Attack Power by an amount equal to 150% of your Intellect.
• Improved Lightning Shield 2/3: Increases the damage done by your Lightning Shield orbs by 10%.

Restoration (31)

• Improved Healing Wave 5/5: Reduces the casting time of your Healing Wave spell by 0.5 sec.
• Tidal Focus 5/5: Reduces the Mana cost of your healing spells by 5% and improves your chance to hit by 5%.
• Mindfulness 3/3: Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
• Totemic Focus 2/5: Reduces the Mana cost of your totems and any spells that summon or move them by 10%.
• Water Shield 1/1: The caster is surrounded by 3 globes of water. When a spell, melee, or ranged attack hits the caster or when one of the caster's spells gets a critical result, 2% of maximum mana is restored to the caster, expending one water globe. Only one globe will activate every few seconds. Lasts 10 min. Only one Elemental Shield can be active on the Shaman at any one time.
• Tidal Mastery 3/5: Increases the critical effect chance of your healing spells by 3%.
• Restorative Totems 1/5: Increases the effect of your Mana Spring Totem by 5% and increases the effect of your Healing Stream Totem by 10%.
• Mana Tide Totem 1/1: Summons a Mana Tide Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 12 sec that restores 88 mana every 3 seconds to group members within 30 yards.
• Healing Way 3/3: Increases the amount healed by your Healing Wave spell by 25%.
• Nature's Swiftness 1/1: When activated, your next Nature spell with a casting time less than 10 sec. becomes an instant cast spell.
• Purification 5/5: Increases the effectiveness of your healing spells by 10%.
• Riptide 1/1: Heals a friendly target for 445 over 15 sec, and increases the effectiveness of your Chain Heal casts directly on that target by 25%.

Point order by level

First point at level 10 (set the Talented perk in the calculator if you start earlier).