Restoration Druid Healing Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — 12.1

Apex talents are new to Midnight. They are a special type of spec-talent that you can put up to four points into. Ours is called Everbloom and it focuses on enhancing Lifebloom. Putting points into the node unlocks the following benefits:

• First Point: Your Lifebloom stacks up to 3 times, automatically stacking every 5 seconds.
• Second and Third Points: Your Lifebloom cleaves 20/40% of its "bloom" healing to up to 6 nearby allies.
• Fourth Point: When you press Swiftmend, your Lifebloom blooms 3 times in quick succession.

Our Apex node is incredibly powerful, offering near-immortality to one target and very decent cleave healing to the rest of the party. It is well worth the investment and you will even take synergistic talents like Photosynthesis to enhance it further.

Your Mastery, Mastery: Harmony, increases your healing done to a target for each HoT that you have on that target at the time. Each HoT's healing is updated dynamically as soon as you apply another and it applies from your first heal-over-time effect. With 20% Mastery, a single Rejuvenation will do 20% extra healing. The value of Mastery decreases the more HoTs you have. The second HoT will only provide 70%, third 60%, fourth 50% and so on. Regardless, the more HoTs you have on average, the better Mastery is.

There are currently 7 HoTs that count towards our Mastery:

• Rejuvenation
• Germination
• Wild Growth
• Regrowth's HoT portion
• Lifebloom
• Frenzied Regeneration
• Symbiotic Blooms ( Wildstalker HoT)

It is important to note that this list is exhaustive. No trinket effect interacts, contributes, or otherwise benefits from Mastery.

Pandemic is what players call an in-game mechanic where casting a heal-over-time effect on a player that already has that one will both refresh its duration and add some of the remaining duration to the new heal-over-time effect. The general rule is you can add up to 30% of the original HoTs duration.

Tranquility should be used during heavy raid damage or when you are assigned to use it by your raid leader. Tranquility extends the duration of all your heal-over-time effects on the group by a massive 10 seconds which means it is a best used during the most dangerous moments of each fight. We mentioned this briefly above, but your rotation around Tranquility will look something like the following:

You will want to get several Rejuvenation buffs out, a Wild Growth and a few Regrowth HoTs, in order to maximise the value of the Tranquility extension. This enables a very long Abundance window, and the long Regrowth HoTs will give us even more value from subsequent casts via the Nature's Bounty talent.

This Tranquility "Ramp" as we will call it is one of the most powerful healing cooldowns in the game. It's best if you plan out its usage before every fight, since as you can see it is much more powerful if you can cast a lot of spells before you press it.

In Dungeon content like Mythic+, Tranquility is similarly powerful, and you can keep the same concept as the ramp above but it'll be a faster process. You'll just try and get out as many Rejuvenation as you can but it'll number closer to 5-6 rather than the 12+ you can aim for in raid. The Tranquility heal itself is also much more potent in dungeon content.

Convoke the Spirits is a powerful healing cooldown on a short cooldown. It casts random Druid spells over 3-4 seconds. It's mostly random what spells it casts but there is a little bit of logic in how many healing and damage spells it will cast. Roughly 50% of casts will include a mini- Tranquility if you have the Cenarius' Guidance talent (a default in the Icy Veins builds).

You will also usually get 0-2 Wild Growth casts, 2-4 Swiftmends and a handful of Rejuvenations. It will usually cast 2-4 Wrath and these can proc associated talents like Master Shapeshifter.

Convoke the Spirits should be used often during the most dangerous moments of each fight.

Incarnation: Tree of Life is a choice-node alternative to Convoke the Spirits. It focuses on healing over a longer period of time. It can be useful for longer phases of healing in raid like a 30 second burn phase near the end of a fight. It has a longer cooldown than Convoke the Spirits but a very high overall uptime (60-70%).

You get the following bonuses when Incarnation: Tree of Life is active:

• All of your healing is 10% stronger.
• Wild Growth heals an additional 2 targets.
• Regrowth cast time reduced to 0 (it still costs you one global cooldown though).
• Wrath damage increased by 20%.

While Incarnation: Tree of Life is active your Rejuvenation casts are extremely cheap, and very powerful. Wild Growth also becomes an even higher priority spell. The other advantage to it is that it lets you cast Regrowth while on the move. It's a potent choice for ultra-high movement fights.

Innervate restores 25% of your mana on a 3-minute cooldown. It can be cast on yourself or another healing spec, however, I recommend self-casting it in most situations. You should use Innervate as often as possible during a fight, starting at around 75% mana.

Nature's Swiftness makes your next Regrowth instant cast and increases the amount of healing it does. You will mostly use it when people drop low to save them.

Ironbark reduces the damage a target takes by 20% for 12 seconds. You should use it on anyone about to take heavy damage. It is available very often so you are usually better off using it often rather than saving it for a special occasion.