World of Warcraft: Forever · class guide

Restoration Shaman: Macros

Keys for Restoration, ready to paste into the game's macro window: the spec's own, then the ones every Shaman shares.

Type /macro in chat to open the macro window, make a new macro, and paste the body in. #showtooltip gives the button the spell's icon. A macro holds 255 characters. Each says whether it has been tested in WoW Forever; most have not yet.

A good first macro

Healing Wave on mouseover, target or youFrom level 1

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

Heals the friend under your cursor, then your target, then you. Your basic heal for the whole of levelling. Untested

Uses: Healing Wave

Healing and support

Lesser Healing Wave on mouseover, target or youFrom level 20

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

The fast, smaller heal for when the damage cannot wait. It costs more mana for what it heals than Healing Wave. Untested

Uses: Lesser Healing Wave

Riptide, Ctrl for Chain HealFrom level 40

#showtooltip [mod:ctrl] Chain Heal; Riptide
/cast [mod:ctrl,@mouseover,help,nodead][mod:ctrl,help,nodead][mod:ctrl,@player] Chain Heal; [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Riptide

Put Riptide on the tank first, then Ctrl for Chain Heal: it heals that friend 25% more. Riptide has a 6 second cooldown, so Ctrl is the key to press while it recovers. Untested

Needs Riptide.

Uses: Chain Heal, Riptide

Nature's Swiftness into an instant healFrom level 40

#showtooltip Healing Wave
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/cast [mod:shift,@mouseover,help,nodead][mod:shift,help,nodead][mod:shift,@player] Chain Heal; [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Healing Wave

Emergency key: an instant Healing Wave, or Chain Heal with Shift. Nature's Swiftness has a three minute cooldown, so save it for when a friend would die. Untested

Needs Nature's Swiftness.

Uses: Healing Wave, Nature's Swiftness, Chain Heal

Heal what the enemy is hittingFrom level 20

#showtooltip Lesser Healing Wave
/cast [help,nodead][@targettarget,help,nodead][@player] Lesser Healing Wave

Select the enemy and the heal goes to whoever it is attacking. Select a friend instead and it heals that friend. Untested

Uses: Lesser Healing Wave

Utility

Healing Stream, Mana Spring or Mana TideFrom level 26

#showtooltip Healing Stream Totem
/cast [mod:shift] Mana Spring Totem; [mod:ctrl] Mana Tide Totem; Healing Stream Totem

Healing Stream normally, Shift for Mana Spring, Ctrl for Mana Tide Totem. Mana Tide has a five minute cooldown, so keep it for when you are low on mana. Untested

Needs Mana Tide Totem.

Uses: Healing Stream Totem, Mana Spring Totem, Mana Tide Totem

Every Shaman

Earth Shock rank 1 interruptFrom level 4

#showtooltip Earth Shock
/stopcasting
/cast [mod:ctrl,@focus,harm,nodead][@mouseover,harm,nodead][harm,nodead] Earth Shock(Rank 1)

Interrupts the caster under your cursor, or your target; Ctrl aims at your focus. Rank 1 costs the least mana and locks the spell school for the same two seconds. It cancels your own cast even if Earth Shock is on cooldown. Untested

Uses: Earth Shock

Grounding Totem, Ctrl for TremorFrom level 30

#showtooltip [mod:ctrl] Tremor Totem; Grounding Totem
/cast [mod:ctrl] Tremor Totem; Grounding Totem

Grounding Totem takes one hostile spell and is destroyed by it; Ctrl drops Tremor Totem against fear and charm instead. Drop it before the caster starts, because it cannot catch a spell that has landed. Untested

Uses: Tremor Totem, Grounding Totem

Call of the Elements, Alt for Totemic RecallFrom level 20

#showtooltip
/cast [nomod] Call of the Elements; [mod:alt] Totemic Recall

Drops your whole totem set from the Totem Bar in one press; Alt picks the totems back up and returns some mana. Fill the Totem Bar first, because the call only drops what is set there. Untested

Uses: Call of the Elements, Totemic Recall

Call of the Ancestors, Shift for SpiritsFrom level 40

#showtooltip [mod:shift] Call of the Spirits; Call of the Ancestors
/cast [mod:shift] Call of the Spirits; Call of the Ancestors

Drops the Call of the Ancestors set, or the Call of the Spirits set with Shift. Each set needs its own totems chosen on the Totem Bar. Untested

Uses: Call of the Spirits, Call of the Ancestors

Totems before level 20From level 10

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=combat/30 Stoneskin Totem, Searing Totem

Drops Stoneskin Totem, then Searing Totem on the next press. It only helps until you learn Call of the Elements, which does the same in one press. Untested

Uses: Stoneskin Totem, Searing Totem

Purge or Cure PoisonFrom level 16

#showtooltip
/cast [harm,nodead] Purge; [help,nodead][@player] Cure Poison

Aimed at an enemy it purges a beneficial effect; aimed at a friend, or at nothing, it cures poison on you. The enemy has to be selected, because the cursor is not read. Untested

Uses: Purge, Cure Poison