Restoration

Shaman Hotfix For Restoration

After Patch 4.0.6 it came to the attention of most player as well as the Blizzard team that Restoration Shamans where still lacking that healing punch that other classes have. With that they have said “they plan to make changes during the next content patch” but have dropped in a quick hotfix to boost healing.

Shaman

• Purification (Restoration passive) now grants a 25% bonus to healing effects, up from 10%. More information can be found below (view original post here).

Shaman
We are also applying a hotfix for Purification for the Restoration shaman passive from 10% to 25%. We think that shaman healing per second is not as competitive with other healers and while we hoped to bring down Holy priest and Holy paladins (in particular) in 4.0.6, which we did, shaman still appear to be behind. In this case, it is simply easier to buff Restoration shaman rather than nerf everyone else or rebalance the encounters.

So in the short term there has been a buff to one of restorations passive abilities with plans in the works to bring them back into the healing game