Restoration Druid Dragonflight Class Guide

General Information

Welcome to our Restoration Druid Guide for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. We will help you to learn and master Restoration Druids in either Raids or Mythic Keystone Dungeons.

Last Update: 16-03-2023

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Basics of Restoration Druid

With most of your spells being cast instantly, Restoration Druids can keep up with healing and even damage on the move. With extremly strong cooldowns, Restoration Druids can keep up in large Raidgroups, and even small dungeon groups.

Stat Choice for Restoration Druid

General Stat Priority for Restoration Druids with our Build is:

Intellect
Haste
Mastery = Versatility
Critical Strike

Basic Rotation

Read the Rotation and Cooldowns section for more in-depth information.

Use Sunfire
Use Moonfire
Use Starsurge on cooldown
Cast Wrath as filler
Maintain Efflorescence
Maintain Regrowth, Rejuvenation, Lifebloom on your primary target
Use Swiftmend for quick heal

Builds and Talents

General Talent Tree

Most Notable Talents

Killer Instinct grants 6% more Physical damage, and Nurturing Instinct grants 6% more Magical damage and healing. Nature’s Vigil and Protector of the Pack are granting significant passive Heal to your party. Heart of the Wild empowers all other abilities not associated with your specialization.

Other Damage Talents

Feral abilities and Physical damage notes are located on the left side, while Moonkin abilities like Sunfire and Starsurge are located on the right side. In the middle, you find Healing and Tanking abilities.

Crowd Control & Utility

Typhoon, Cyclone, Mass Entanglement, Ursol’s Vortex, Mighty Bash, Maim and Incapacitating Roar are strong Utility abilities. Remove Corruption cleanses Curses and Poisons. Stampeding Roar grants Movement speed to all party members. Innervate grants Mana regeneration to your healer.

Defensive Talents

Thick Hide reduces all damage taken, Well-Honed Instincts grants Frenzied Regeneration when falling below 40% health, Matted Fur and Improved Barkskin, Verdant Heart and Ursine Vigor are all granting more Survivability.

Specialization Talent Tree

Single Target Talents

Inner Peace reduces the cooldown of Tranquility by 60 seconds.
Improved Iron Bark reduces its cooldown, while Stonebark causes the effects from your heal over time to be 20% more efficient.
Regenerative Heartwood causes the target of your Iron Bark to receive 75% of the healing of each of your active Rejuvenations.
Natural Wisdom grants you 100% of the effect of Innervate when applied to somebody else.
Reforestation grants you 9 seconds of Tree of Life after using Swiftmend three times.

Multi Target Talents

Convoke the Spirits grants you a 1-minute cooldown which can be used in different shapeshifts, therefore can boost your damage in Cat form.
Adaptive Swarm increases your heal-over-time effects or damage-over-time effects on your target.
Flourish extends the duration of all heal-over-time effects on all targets.
Circle of Life and Death causes your periodic damage and heal abilities to take less time.
Improved Wild Growth increases the maximum number of party members affected by Wild Growth, while Unstoppable Growth lets it fall of 30% less over time.

Mythic+ Talents For Restoration Druid

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Aberrus, The Shadowed Crucible

Kazzara, the Hellforged

Molgoth

The Forgotten Experiments

Assault of the Zaqali

Rashok, the Elder

The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn

Magmorax

Echo of Neltharion

Scalecommander Sarkareth

Aberrus, The Shadowed Crucible

Kazzara, the Hellforged

Molgoth

The Forgotten Experiments

Assault of the Zaqali

Rashok, the Elder

The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn

Magmorax

Echo of Neltharion

Scalecommander Sarkareth

Rotation and Cooldowns

Basic Rotation for Restoration Druids in Single Target

Use Sunfire
Use Moonfire
Use Convoke the Spirits (if skilled)
Use Starsurge on cooldown
Cast Wrath as filler

Maintain Efflorescence
Maintain Regrowth on your primary target
Maintain Rejuvenation on your primary target
Maintain Lifebloom on your primary target
Use Swiftmend for quick heal
Spam Regrowth if consistent heal is needed

Basic Rotation for Restoration Druids in Multi Target

Use Sunfire
Use Adaptive Swarm
Use Convoke the Spirits
Use Swipe to gain Combo Points
Maintain Rake
Maintain Thrash
Spend Combo Points with Rip

Maintain Efflorescence
Maintain Regrowth on your primary target
Maintain Rejuvenation on your primary target
Maintain Lifebloom on yourself (if Photosynthesis is skilled, otherwise on your primary target)
Use Wild Growth
Use Swiftmend for quick heal

Use Tranquility
Use Wild Growth
Use Convoke the Spirits
Use Flourish before the buff from Tranquility runs out

To use Nature’s Vigil:

Cast Efflorescence
Apply Lifebloom on two Targets
Apply Rejuvenation on atleast 4+ Targets
Cast Regrowth on a Target without Lifebloom
Use Wild Growth
Use Flourish and Nature’s Vigil simultaniously

Stat Priority

Stat Choice for Restoration Druid

General Stat Priority for Restoration Druids with our Build is:

Intellect
Haste
Mastery = Versatility
Critical Strike

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Intellect is your primary stat, meaning that Itemlevel is superior in most cases. Higher Itemlevel will also increase your Stamina and Armor that you gain.

Critical Strike increases the chance for your abilities and spells to deal double damage.

Haste reduces your global cooldown, your time to cast spells, and reduces the cooldown of many abilities.

Versatility grants you a flat damage and healing increase, but also a damage decrease for half of its value.

Mastery increases your healing done on your target for each of your heal over time effects on them.

The further we are getting into the expansion, the effects of diminishing returns start to limit your effective gain of your secondary stats. After reaching 30% (by rating) of any given stat, you will start to receive a penalty that reduces the gain from more of the same stat over this treshold.

Stat priority can differ on every character. Make sure to simulate yourself on Raidbots get the perfect results for you.

Gear and Trinkets

Best In Slot Gear for Restoration Druid

This List shows the current Best-In-Slot Gear for Dragonflight Season 1. Many Items can be potentially substituted with any Profession Gear, especially early on into the Season.

Additionally, there is the option for Profession Gear to be crafted with additional Buffs/Perks, which can benefit your character in certain situations.

Slot	Item
Head	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Necklace	Eye of the Vengeful Hurricane
Shoulders	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Cloak	Acid-Proof Webbing
Chest	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Wrists	Loyal Flametender’s Bracers
Hands	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Belt	Fused Shale Waistband
Legs	Lost Landcaller’s Leggings
Boots	Ice-Climber’s Cleats
Ring 1	Seal of Diurna’s Chosen
Ring 2	Seal of Filial Duty
Weapon 1	Stormlash’s Last Resort
Weapon 2	Icewrath’s Channeling Conduit