Continuity 110 Night Elf Restoration Druid Sargeras

General Information

Welcome to our Restoration Druid guide for World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.2.5. Here, you will learn how to heal as a Restoration Druid in both raids and Mythic+ dungeons. We cover everything from the basics all the way to min-maxing techniques to optimize your output.

If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Restoration Druid guide.

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Restoration Druid Overview

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).

Restoration Druids suffer in general when they have to react to damage for which they were not prepared and when they did not have the time to set up their HoTs ahead of time. Tranquility and Flourish offer strong burst healing when needed.

In order to properly play a healing role, you will need more than just class-specific information. To better understand healing in general, we recommend that you read our healing guide.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

3.

Patch 9.2.5 Changes for Druids

We are maintaining a list of changes for Druids, so you can see what changes with every patch of Shadowlands. Be sure to also check out Restoration's specific changes from the previous patch, 9.2, to hear our thoughts on the tier set bonuses that arrived at that time.

From Patch 9.1.5 onward, both Legion Timewalking and the Mage Tower have returned. As such we have created a separate guide detailing what you can expect from the Mage Tower challenge available to Restoration Druids.

4.

Leveling and Getting Started as a Restoration Druid

Before you start leveling your Druid, we suggest you to take a look at our Addons page, as setting up your UI before you begin will allow you to get more comfortable with playing your character on max level.

Unfortunately, leveling as a Restoration Druid is not very optimal, unless you have a group and plan on doing it in dungeons. But if you decide to do it anyway, refer to our leveling guide:

Restoration Druid is all about using your abilities strategically. Rather than a fixed rotation, you will be using your flexible spell kit to adapt and overcome whatever the game throws at you.

There are two abilities that require constant maintenance throughout the combat: Efflorescence and Lifebloom. Wild Growth has relatively low cooldown, high Mana efficiency, and high group wide healing. Using these 3 spells often is one of the basic things to learn as a Restoration Druid. Rejuvenation will be used as a filler spell for as much as your Mana will allow, but preferably concentrated around heavy group damage and coupled with your cooldowns such as Incarnation: Tree of Life, Innervate, Flourish.

If you are an absolute beginner to the spec, but would like to learn the basic fundamentals of the class, recommend looking through the Spell Summary first, as well as the Easy Mode page linked below.

If you are already somewhat familiar with Restoration Druid, you can head straight to the Talents and Rotation pages for more detailed information.

5.

How to Gear Up a Restoration Druid

Gearing can get quite complicated as a healer due to many variables and multiple group sizes available. You can find information on how best to gear a Restoration Druid on the gearing page linked below, which includes Best in Slot recommendations from this tier.

After acquiring gear, you will want to make sure that you have the best consumables, gems, and enchants. You can also find more information about the role of each stat for a Restoration Druid, which one you should be stacking and why.

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Restoration Druid End-Game

End-game content can be very daunting right after leveling. Our Mythic+ Dungeon, Torghast, Raiding, and PvP guides can guide you to performing as well as possible, regardless of your content preference.

Another important aspect of end game as a Restoration Druid is dealing damage. You can check in-depth guide here.

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Improving as a Restoration Druid

If you are finding your performance lacking and you are not sure what you are doing wrong, you can check out the pages below that will help you improve.

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Source: https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/restoration-druid-pve-healing-guide

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