Mists of Pandaria Classic Restoration Druid Rotation and Cooldowns

If you have not already, we recommend going through the Spell Summary guide first. Knowing how each spell and ability works in detail will greatly increase your understanding of the rotation suggestions below.

When healing on Restoration Druid, your goal will be to keep your party and raid members healthy through your various heal-over-time effects. Your priority will look like this:

1. Maintain 3 stacks of Lifebloom at all times. You should keep this ability on a tank or player who will be consistently taking damage for an extended period of time.
2. Consume Omen of Clarity procs as much as possible with Regrowth.
3. Keep Wild Mushroom active at all times to not only collect healing, but to also keep Efflorescence active.
4. Cast Wild Mushroom: Bloom during heavy damage windows.
5. Use Wild Growth as much as possible. This is your best way of dealing with AoE damage.
6. Cast Rejuvenation on as many players as possible when healing is needed, overdoing this can be extremely taxing on your mana which will require means you only want to cast it when damage is occurring or about to occur, spamming it will leave you OOM quickly.
7. Cast Swiftmend as necessary to deal heavy single-target healing.

Healing Touch will almost never be used due to the long cast time. Similarly, Nourish does not provide enough healing to justify casting it, even when attmepting to refresh Lifebloom. When you do need to refresh stacks, you are better off recasting Lifebloom. Finally, Genesis should only be used when mana permits and during extremely spiky damage intakes. Given that it will cause your Rejuvenations to fall off quicker, you can waste a lot of mana if you don't use this strategically.

Use your cooldowns Nature's Swiftness, Tranquility, and Incarnation (details on Tree rotation further below) as needed to respond to incoming bursts of damage or Mana sustain requirements.

When using Incarnation, your rotation will change slightly.

1. Use Wild Growth on cooldown, as it will hit 2 extra targets for a total of 8 during Incarnation;
2. Cast Lifebloom on as many different damaged players as possible to maximize Omen of Clarity procs, but remember to refresh your main triple stack whenever close to expiring;
3. Use Regrowth (instant during Tree of Life) on damaged allies whenever Omen of Clarity procs, preferably also refreshing a Lifebloom in the process.

While you can use Rejuvenation during Tree of Life, it only benefits from the healing increase provided to every spell during Tree, and is extremely mana inefficient compared to spamming Lifeblooms.

Remember to use your utility abilities as well:

• Rebirth to combat ress anyone who dies;
• Innervate to recover Mana once you are at 80% or less;
• Swap to Cat Form and Stampeding Roar to increase movement speed during heavy movement mechanics;
• Swap to Cat Form and Skull Bash to help interrupt critical casts if no one else can do it.

Symbiosis can be placed on an ally, granting you both a unique bonus. The player who receives this buff will be granted a Druid specific ability while you will be granted an ability from their class. Below we will breakdown what each class gets.

Class	Ability Granted to Target	Ability Granted to Druid
Death Knight	Blood: Might of Ursoc ‐ Frost/Unholy: Wild Mushroom: Plague	Icebound Fortitude
Hunter	Dash	Deterrence
Mage	Healing Touch	Ice Block
Monk	Brewmaster: Survival Instincts ‐ Mistweaver: Entangling Roots ‐ Windwalker: Bear Hug	Fortifying Brew
Paladin	Holy: Rebirth ‐ Protection: Barkskin ‐ Retribution: Wrath	Cleanse
Priest	Discipline/Holy: Cyclone ‐ Shadow: Tranquility	Leap of Faith
Rogue	Growl	Evasion
Shaman	Elemental/Enhancement: Solar Beam &dash Restoration: Prowl	Spiritwalker's Grace
Warlock	Rejuvenation	Demonic Circle: Teleport
Warrior	Arms/Fury: Stampeding Shout ‐ Protection: Savage Defense	Intimidating Roar

When choosing the best target to give Symbiosis to, it will largely come down to the situation you are in and what form of utility is needed. Generally you will use the buff based on what the target receives as those abilities tend to be much more useful than what the druid receive. Spiritwalker's Grace is a nice personal choice as it will allow you to cast Tranquility while moving, but providing your tank with an extra defensive cooldown tends to be the higher value and overall best choice.