Shaman Restoration Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Riptide 2 Riptide 3 Surging Totem 4 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 5 Riptide 6 Flame Shock 7 Flame Shock 8 Stormstream Totem 9 Chain Heal 10 Healing Stream Totem 11 Chain Heal 12 Lightning Bolt 13 Riptide 14 Lightning Bolt 15 Lightning Bolt

1 Surging Totem 2 Healing Stream Totem 3 Chain Heal 4 Riptide 5 Flame Shock 6 Flame Shock 7 Lava Burst 8 Lava Burst 9 Lightning Bolt 10 Lightning Bolt 11 Riptide 12 Riptide 13 Healing Stream Totem 14 Chain Heal 15 Lightning Bolt

1 Flame Shock 2 Flame Shock 3 Healing Stream Totem 4 Chain Heal 5 Riptide 6 Healing Stream Totem 7 Chain Heal 8 Lava Burst 9 Lava Burst 10 Lightning Bolt 11 Riptide 12 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 13 Chain Heal 14 Riptide 15 Chain Heal

#showtooltip Riptide
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Riptide

Ability	Top-player CPM
Chain Heal	17.5
Riptide	11.5
Healing Wave	4.8
Healing Stream Totem	3.6
Surging Totem	2.2
Stormstream Totem	1.7
Flame Shock	1.4
Totemic Projection	1.1
Nature's SwiftnessOff-GCD	1.0
Lava Burst	0.8
Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.6
Purify Spirit	0.6
Spiritwalker's GraceOff-GCD	0.6
Ghost Wolf	0.6

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Ghost Wolf 2 Gust of Wind 3 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 4 Totemic Projection 5 HeroismOff-GCD 6 Surging Totem 7 Healing Stream Totem 8 Chain Heal 9 Astral ShiftOff-GCD 10 Riptide 11 Unleash Life 12 Chain Heal 13 Riptide 14 Chain Heal 15 Chain Heal

1 Gust of Wind 2 Totemic Projection 3 Riptide 4 Riptide 5 HeroismOff-GCD 6 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 7 Surging Totem 8 Healing Wave 9 Unleash Life 10 Riptide 11 Healing Stream Totem 12 Chain Heal 13 Totemic Projection 14 Healing Stream Totem 15 Chain Heal

1 Healing Stream Totem 2 Chain Heal 3 HeroismOff-GCD 4 Surging Totem 5 Riptide 6 Healing Wave 7 Nature's SwiftnessOff-GCD 8 Healing Wave 9 Healing Wave 10 Riptide 11 Stormstream Totem 12 Chain Heal 13 Healing Wave 14 Riptide 15 Light's PotentialOff-GCD

#showtooltip Ghost Wolf
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/cast Ghost Wolf

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,nodead,help] Chain Heal; Flame Shock

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Healing Wave

#showtooltip
/cast [known:Unleash Life] Unleash Life; Healing Stream Totem

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Healing Rain

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,exists][] Wind Shear

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,exists][] Purge

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@player] Wind Rush Totem

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@cursor] Wind Rush Totem

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Chain Heal	17.5
2	Riptide	11.5
3	Healing Wave	5.3
4	Healing Stream Totem	3.6
5	Chain Lightning	2.9
Z	Lava Burst	2.4
X	Surging Totem	2.2
C	Unleash Life	1.9
V	Flame Shock	1.8
R	Stormstream Totem	1.7
F	Totemic Projection	1.2
T	Nature's SwiftnessOff-GCD	1.0
G	Ghost Wolf	0.7
Shift+1	Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.6
Shift+2	Purify Spirit	0.6
Shift+3	Spiritwalker's GraceOff-GCD	0.6
Shift+4	Lightning Bolt	0.6