World of Warcraft Dragonflight: at Restoration Druid Guide

World of Warcraft Dragonflight: Restoration Druid Guide

As the dedicated healer class in World of Warcraft, Restoration Druid has access to some very powerful healing spells in the game. This specialization has consistent healing output and can even give out a massive burst of healing to deal with tankbusters or any particularly dangerous raidwides. They can be a tank player’s best friend with their dedicated heals. Their most common skills to cast are Tranquility, Convoke the Spirits, and Flourish. Restoration Druids have excellent cooldowns with the aforementioned skills and spells with a large radius for healing. However, they do not have any damage mitigation spells that cover the entire team and require extensive management of their healing cooldowns as they fall off on their power should all their cooldowns be down. In this guide, we will be detailing a guide to playing Restoration Druid as efficiently as possible and ensuring that this class will remain effective in Mythic content.  Mastering Restoration Druid is bound to help you conduct some Mythic carries and even earn yourself a hefty amount of WoW gold.

Restoration Druid Leveling Guide

When picking out talents for the leveling process, put your points in the following skills in this order: 

• Lifebloom 

• Nature's Swiftness 

• Passing Seasons 

• Cenarion Ward 

• Improved Regrowth 

• Ysera's Gift

• Grove Tending

• Omen of Clarity 

•  Efflorescence

• Tranquility 

• Ironbark 

• Soul of the Forest 

• Cultivation

• Harmonious Blooming 

• Rampant Growth 

• Improved Ironbark 

• Unstoppable Growth 

• Verdancy 

•  Adaptive Swarm

• Convoke the Spirits

• Verdant Infusion 

• Unbridled Swarm 

• Deep Focus 

• Master Shapeshifter 

• Photosynthesis 

• Cenarius' Guidance 

• Undergrowth

• Spring Blossoms

• Budding Leaves 

Restoration Druid Rotation Guide

Use Incarnation: Tree of Life into Pair a Flourish once you have HoT coverage, and use one charge Grove Guardians for sustain or multiple charges for burst healing. Once you have 2 stacks of Reforestation, delay your cast a bit to wait for your next Flourish. Then, proc your 3rd stack of Reforestation (don’t forget to pair Swiftmend with Wild Growth mostly each time), which will activate your mini-Incarnation: Tree of Life into Pair a Flourish during it. Keep casting Grove Guardians on a regular basis. After a bit, your second Incarnation: Tree of Life will be available, and repeat the rotation until the encounter is cleared.

Basic fillers for this rotation should be Lifebloom for good single-target healing, Efflorescence for AoE healing, Rejuvenation for tankbusters and raidwides, and Regrowth for emergency healing. Restoration Druids also have useful non-healing utility skills like Ironbark with a self-buffing 20% damage reduction bonus and Stampeding Roar for extra movement speed.

Even as a healer. You are expected to do at least some damage when you dont need to heal anyone. Wrath and Shred are great damage filler spells in quieter moments of an encounter as any damage you deal is better than nothing at all. Moonfire, Starsurge and Sunfire deal even more damage but be careful about casting those too much as these might leave you with not enough Mana to heal the rest of the team with. 

Best in Slot Gear

No raider is complete without their best in slot gear for that class. The Tier set for Restoration Druid is the Benevolent Embersage set. The bonuses per set are the following: 

2 pieces: You and your Grove Guardian's Nourishes now heal 2 additional allies within 40 yards at 40% effectiveness and at 4 pieces: Consuming Clearcasting now causes your Regrowth to also cast Nourish onto a nearby injured ally at 200% effectiveness, preferring those with your heal over time effects.

For your absolute best gear, get the following items from these sources:

• Dreambinder, Loom of the Great Cycle: From Mythic Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle in Amirdrassil

• Benevolent Embersage's Casque: From the Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Tindral Sageswift in Amirdrassil

• Elemental Lariat: Crafted by Jewelcrafting

• Benevolent Embersage's Wisdom: From the Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Smolderon in Amirdrassil

• Drape of the Loyal Vassal: From the Great Vault 

• Benevolent Embersage's Robe: From the Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Mythic Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle

• Needlessly Complex Wristguards: Crafted by Engineering

• Benevolent Embersage's Talons: From the Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Igira the Cruel in Amirdrassil

• Benevolent Embersage's Sagacious Sash: From the Revival Catalyst or any Myth track belt.

• Galakrond's Voracious Hide: From Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond's Fall or Great Vault from Dungeons

• Vigorous Sandstompers: From the Great Vault 

• Band of Burning Thorns: From Mythic Larodar, Keeper of the Flame in Amirdrassil

• Ring of Contempt: From the Great Vault 

• Amalgam's Seventh Spine: From the Great Vault 

• Pip's Emerald Friendship Badge: From Mythic Council of Dreams in Amirdrassil