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 HeroismOff-GCD 2 Riptide 3 Flame Shock 4 Flame Shock 5 Lava Burst 6 Riptide 7 Healing Wave 8 Healing Wave 9 Healing Wave 10 Riptide 11 Healing Wave 12 Lava Burst 13 Surging Totem 14 Riptide 15 Healing Wave

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

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

Ability	Top-player CPM
Chain Heal	17.4
Riptide	11.5
Healing Wave	3.6
Healing Stream Totem	3.6
Surging Totem	2.2
Stormstream Totem	1.7
Totemic Projection	1.5
Nature's SwiftnessOff-GCD	1.0
Purify Spirit	0.9
Ghost Wolf	0.9
Lava Burst	0.8
Flame Shock	0.6
Lightning Bolt	0.6
Spiritwalker's GraceOff-GCD	0.5

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 Riptide 2 Surging Totem 3 Unleash Life 4 Flame Shock 5 Flame Shock 6 Spiritwalker's GraceOff-GCD 7 Chain Lightning 8 Healing Wave 9 Riptide 10 Lava Burst 11 Totemic Projection 12 Stormstream Totem 13 Chain Heal 14 HeroismOff-GCD 15 Healing Stream Totem

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 Unleash Life 2 Wind Rush Totem 3 Healing Stream Totem 4 Chain Heal 5 HeroismOff-GCD 6 Surging Totem 7 Liquid Luster 8 Nature's SwiftnessOff-GCD 9 Healing Wave 10 Chain Heal 11 Chain Lightning 12 Stormstream Totem 13 Chain Heal 14 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 15 Riptide

#showtooltip Riptide
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/cast Riptide

The Patch 12.1 Omnium Folio has five rune rows. This is what the sampled top logs actually run in each row, read from the runes' own damage, healing and buff traces. Bold = most picked. Rows 1 and 5 are procs, so their share is inferred from the traces they leave.

Row	Raid	Mythic+
Row 1	Rune of Unleashed Fire 98% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 2%	Rune of Unleashed Fire 98% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 2%
Row 2	Rune of Self-Mending 82% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 12%	Rune of Self-Mending 75% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 20% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 5%
Row 3	Rune of Lingering 100%	Rune of Lingering 100%
Row 4	Rune of Critical Power 95% Rune of the Versatile Warrior 5%	Rune of Critical Power 90% Rune of the Versatile Warrior 8% Rune of Masterful Cunning 2%
Row 5	Rune of Overload 100%	Rune of Overload 98% Rune of Echoes 2%

The GearInsight addon shows the same table next to your own current runes and can switch every row to the recommended one in one click.

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	17.4
2	Riptide	11.5
3	Healing Wave	4.7
4	Healing Stream Totem	3.6
5	Chain Lightning	2.3
Z	Surging Totem	2.2
X	Lava Burst	2.2
C	Unleash Life	2.1
V	Stormstream Totem	1.7
R	Totemic Projection	1.6
F	Flame Shock	1.5
T	Nature's SwiftnessOff-GCD	1.0
G	Purify Spirit	0.9
Shift+1	Ghost Wolf	0.9
Shift+2	Lightning Bolt	0.6
Shift+3	Spiritwalker's GraceOff-GCD	0.5