Mists of Pandaria Classic Restoration Druid Guide

Restoration is a flexible healer with tools to handle all types of damage at all ranges, making it one of the few Mists of Pandaria healers capable of good spread raid healing through their heal over time effects, such as Rejuvenation. Given that this ability also does not have a cast, Restoration Druids are able to move around constantly, staying in range and out of danger while still outputting very high healing. They also have powerful cooldowns to help them heal better with Tranquility and Incarnation, and are the only healer capable of combat resurrecting allies with Rebirth.

Restoration Druid finds itself in an interesting spot when it comes to viability in Mists of Pandaria. While not being as strong as Restoration Shaman or Discipline Priest, Druid remains ahead of the remaining healers, providing very strong overall throughput, great tank healing, and high utility through Rebirth. Restoration Druid will shine in heavy movement, spread fights, and fights that deal heavy damage over time. Lower damage situations where absorbs from Discipline Priest shine will mean that Restoration Druid suffers. That being said, Druid still remains a top healer throughout Mists of Pandaria and a great choice for anyone looking to heal.

Strengths

• Core abilities such as Rejuvenation, Wild Growth, and Wild Mushroom can be used while moving, allowing you to reposition easily and always stay in range of players;
• In addition to instant cast spells, Druid offers high mobility abilities such as Displacer Beast and Dash;
• Shared gear with Balance allows for easy swapping between healing and damage between encounters;
• Extremely Mana efficient tank healing through applying and refreshing Lifebloom and using Omen of Clarity procs;
• Heals-over-time such as Rejuvenation can be spread across raid members within 40 yards, making Druid an excellent spread raid healer;
• Only healer who can resurrect a party member in combat;
• Strong raid cooldowns through Tranquility and Incarnation.

Weaknesses

• Suffers in low damage windows where other healers can absorb most of the damage;
• Very easy to dump mana quickly, without being careful you can OOM extremely fast;
• Specializing in Heal-over-Time effects, Druid suffers at dealing with very quick and spiky damage.

Trolls are the best Horde race, bringing Berserking which has no equivalent counterpart on Taurens.

Alliance Druids should roll Worgen as they are vastly superior to Night Elf due to Darkflight and Viciousness.

All professions are viable for healers, but if you want to go the extra mile, we recommend taking the best DPS professions for when you need to off-spec Balance or Feral: Engineering and Leatherworking.

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