Introduction to the Restoration Druid

Druids call upon the nature itself to aid in their spells of healing. They are also able to utilize their shapeshift capabilities to gain a upper hand in a dire situation. Restoration Druids specialise in maintaining a steady stream of healing on a few targets in the raid and offer strong bursts of healing after using cooldowns. Restoration Druids also do well when healing a small amount of targets for a prolonged period of time(such as players with debuffs).

Below you will find a beginners guide to the Restoration Druid, you can click on highlighted abilities, for a more in depth description of them.

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Restoration Druid

Talents

Level	Choices
15	Abundance	Prosperity	Cenarion Ward ✅
30	Tiger Dash	Renewal	Wild Charge ✅
45	Balance Affinity	Feral Affinity	Guardian Affinity ✅
60	Mighty Bash	Mass Entanglement ✅	Typhoon
75	Soul of the Forest	Cultivation	Incarnation: Tree of Life ✅
90	Inner Peace	Stonebark	Spring Blossoms ✅
100	Photosynthesis	Germination	Flourish ✅

Rotation of the Restoration Druid

The basic rotation of the Restoration Druid is as follows:

• Keep  Efflorescence under a group of players, usually melee

• Keep  Lifebloom on an active tank

• Use  Innervate during low to moderate damage moments and try to fit both  Efflorescence and  Wild Growth in the duration

• Cast  Clearcasting procs as soon as possible to avoid wasting them

• Use  Cenarion Ward on cooldown, if you are using the talent

• Keep  Rejuvenation on an active tank and any players with debuffs

• Use  Swiftmend liberally to spot-heal

• Start casting  Rejuvenations about 10 seconds before you plan on
• Use  Regrowth as an emergency heal

• During downtime, use  Moonfire and  Sunfire on enemies to help with the damage

• You should be filling your free global cooldowns with  Solar Wrath.

Healing Cooldowns

•  Tranquility is a channeled spell that heals all raid members for a large amount of health over 8 seconds and leaves a stackable HoT.

•  Flourish increases the frequency of healing from your HoTs by 100% for 8 seconds and extends the duration of all currently active HoTs by 8 seconds

•  Ironbark reduces all damage taken by the target by 20% for 12 seconds

Stat Priority

The stat priority for the Restoration Druid is

1. Mastery = Haste
2. Versatility
3. Critical Strike
4. Intellect

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