Restoration Druid Healing Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight Season 1

A strict Best-in-Slot list is not really possible due to how stats work for Restoration Druids. Secondary stats are extremely close to each other (excluding Crit, which is very bad in raids), with Intellect increasing the most with item level. The optimal gearing strategy, in this case, would be to equip the highest item-level pieces whenever possible, excluding trinkets and tier, preferring items with Haste and Mastery.

The Crest upgrade system remains, and is a useful way to upgrade lower-item level gear to higher versions that can be quite useful in maximizing your power. We recommend that you check out our dedicated page for more information on this gear upgrade system if you are not yet familiar with it. It has changed a bit in Midnight so it is worth refreshing your knowledge:

You can read more about the changes Midnight brought to the game, including Stat Squish, item level changes, new zones and more in our dedicated Midnight hub:

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Best-in-Slot (BiS) Gear for Restoration Druids

Overall BiS List Raid Gear BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List

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Overall BiS List

This list contains your theoretical best-in-slot gear from all content in the game including raids, dungeons, crafts and more. Best-in-slot lists are useful for finding pieces to aim for, but use QE Live in order to determine which of your items to actually equip.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Helm	Branches of the Luminous Bloom	Lightblinded Vanguard - The Voidspire
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls - March on Quel'Danas
Shoulders	Seedpods of the Luminous Bloom	Fallen-King Salhadaar - The Voidspire
Cape	Draconic Nullcape	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - The Voidspire
Chest	Maledict Vest	Nexus-Point Xenas
Bracers	Frenzyroot Cuffs	Algeth'ar Academy
Gloves	Arbortenders of the Luminous Bloom	Vorasius - The Voidspire
Belt	Twisted Twilight Sash	Fallen-King Salhadaar - The Voidspire
Legs	Phloemwraps of the Luminous Bloom	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - The Voidspire
Boots	Eclipse Espadrilles	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls - March on Quel'Danas
Ring	Bifurcation Band	Magister's Terrace
Trinkets	Locus-Walker's Ribbon	Crown of the Cosmos - The Voidspire
Trinkets	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus - Dreamrift
1h Weapon	Belo'melorn, the Shattered Talon	Belo'ren - March on Quel'Danas
Offhand	Tome of Alnscorned Regret	Chimaerus - Dreamrift

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Raid BiS List

This list contains your theoretical best-in-slot gear from Raid content. As a healer, you are often lower priority for a lot of drops so it can be very useful to supplement your raid gearing with Mythic+ - particularly early in the season. Best-in-slot lists are useful for finding pieces to aim for, but use QE Live in order to determine which of your items to actually equip.

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

If you need to submit a list of key items to your raid leader, or simply want to focus on the most important bosses and items, we have you covered.

• Gaze of the Alnseer: The best passive trinket in the game. Drops from Chimaerus.
• Locus-Walker's Ribbon: Our other best-in-slot trinket. Drops from Crown of the Cosmos.
• Eye of Midnight: Drops from Midnight Falls along with many other great items like Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Helm	Mask of Darkest Intent	Midnight Falls - March on Quel'Danas
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls - March on Quel'Danas
Shoulders	Seedpods of the Luminous Bloom	Fallen-King Salhadaar - The Voidspire
Cape	Draconic Nullcape	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - The Voidspire
Chest	Trunk of the Luminous Bloom	Chimaerus - Dreamrift
Bracers	Bindings of the Luminous Bloom	Lightblinded Vanguard - The Voidspire
Gloves	Arbortenders of the Luminous Bloom	Vorasius - The Voidspire
Belt	Twisted Twilight Sash	Fallen-King Salhadaar - The Voidspire
Legs	Phloemwraps of the Luminous Bloom	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - The Voidspire
Boots	Void-Claimed Shinkickers	Imperator Averzian - The Voidspire
Ring	Bond of Light	Lightblinded Vanguard - The Voidspire
Ring	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls - March on Quel'Danas
Trinkets	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus - Dreamrift
Trinkets	Locus-Walker's Ribbon	Crown of the Cosmos - The Voidspire
1h Weapon	Belo'melorn, the Shattered Talon	Belo'ren - March on Quel'Danas
Offhand	Tome of Alnscorned Regret	Chimaerus - Dreamrift

2.3.

Mythic+ BiS List

This list contains your theoretical best-in-slot gear from Mythic+ content. Note that the raid has a lot of special effect items that are much better than anything you can get in dungeons this season. Best-in-slot lists are useful for finding pieces to aim for, but use QE Live in order to determine which of your items to actually equip.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Nexus-Point Xenas: Your best-in-slot Chest drops here.
• Windrunner Spire: A great trinket drops here ( Heart of Wind).
• Algeth'ar Academy: Multiple above-average drops like Final Grade and Emerald Coach's Whistle.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Helm	Branches of the Luminous Bloom	Lightblinded Vanguard - The Voidspire
Neck	Pendant of Aching Grief	Windrunner Spire
Shoulders	Seedpods of the Luminous Bloom	Fallen-King Salhadaar - The Voidspire
Cape	Potion-Stained Cloak	Algeth'ar Academy
Chest	Maledict Vest	Nexus-Point Xenas
Bracers	Frenzyroot Cuffs	Algeth'ar Academy
Gloves	Arbortenders of the Luminous Bloom	Vorasius - The Voidspire
Belt	Falconer's Cinch	Maisara Caverns
Legs	Phloemwraps of the Luminous Bloom	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - The Voidspire
Boots	Domanaar's Dire Treads	Magister's Terrace
Ring	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring	Bifurcation Band	Magister's Terrace
Trinkets	Emerald Coach's Whistle	Algeth'ar Academy
Trinkets	Heart of Wind	Windrunner Spire
2h Weapon	Final Grade	Algeth'ar Academy

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 1 as a Restoration Druid, you will want to try and prioritize getting the Helmet, Shoulder, Legs, and Gloves set pieces. There is a similar setup that uses the special Leech helm Mask of Darkest Intent and the Chest tier piece instead. This is slightly worse and more difficult to put together. Your #1 priority is to just equip four pieces of tier.

Restoration Druid BiS Trinkets

Best-in-Slot - Gaze of the Alnseer and Locus-Walker's Ribbon.
Honorable Mention - Vaelgor's Final Stare.

For direct trinket comparison, use QELive. We will list a few special trinkets here with comments on their power level.

Restoration Druid Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Trinket
S Tier	Gaze of the Alnseer Vaelgor's Final Stare Locus-Walker's Ribbon
A Tier	Volatile Void Suffuser Heart of Wind Emerald Coach's Whistle Glorious Crusader's Keepsake Litany of Lightblind Wrath
B Tier	Emberwing Feather Crucible of Erratic Energies Light of the Cosmic Crescendo
C Tier	Seed of Radiant Hope Vessel of Tortured Souls
D Tier	Whisper of the Duskwraith Mycolic Medicine Cosmic Bell
F Tier	Magister's Alchemist Stone

In general, there are quite a few trinkets on a similar power level. Any of the trinkets in A tier will be roughly equal to each other, while trinkets in S tier will be only slightly ahead. This means that item level on trinkets is quite important. F-tier trinkets are there because they are only better than an empty trinket slot.

Crafting is an essential way of getting high-item-level gear. You can get one naturally every two weeks. You generally want to be very particular about what you craft. We do not recommend crafting anything in the potential tier slots (Head, Shoulders, Chest, Gloves, Legs). Another factor to remember is Embellished items. You can only wear two items with these effects. They contribute about 1% healing each.

Restoration Crafted Gear Priority

• Magister's Valediction with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt (These are identical so make whichever is cheaper).
• Silvermoon Agent's Utility Belt or Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers with Arcanoweave Lining
• Any item you do not have on Myth track yet.

• If you get a Myth-track 2-handed weapon in your first vault, you can skip step one. If you get a Hero-track or below weapon, then you will craft one as above.
• The Leather 2-pc Embellishment set is not very good. Avoid it.

Up to two of your crafted items can be Embellished. This is a similar concept as Unique-Equipped, as you can only wear two items that have the Embellished tag. Most crafted items with effects are Embellishments. You can also add Embellishments from a variety of professions to any crafted item, adding the effect to this item either when creating it or at a later stage.

Since you can only pick two, it's important you craft the correct ones since some are quite poor. The two best choices for this are:

• For Raid: Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt on a weapon and Arcanoweave Lining on another crafted item like Wrists. Later in the tier you can swap your weapon Embellishment for another Arcanoweave Lining.
• For Mythic+: Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt on a weapon and Arcanoweave Lining on another crafted item like Wrists. Later in the tier you can swap your weapon Embellishment for another Arcanoweave Lining.

It is recommended to use QE Live to find out what might be best for your particular gearset, and if you also play the other 2 Druid specs, you might want to pick Embellishments that work well for all of them.

You can add sockets to Helmets, Belts, and Bracers with the Radiant Jewelbinder consumable item that you can choose instead of a Great Vault item. You will generally not have any of these until later in the season.

Early into the season, or if you have just started playing an alt, you will have limited access to upgrading-crests such as Myth Dawncrest. These can be used to upgrade gear to higher item levels. Since crests are limited each week and upgrading different items costs the same amount of crests regardless, you will want to prioritize your usage of them on items that have the most stats on them, and those that you won't replace soon.

Restoration Druid Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon Slots ➜ Helmet/Chest/Legs ➜ Trinkets ➜ Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots ➜ The Rest

Eventually, you will be able to upgrade all of your items, this priority order is only for early on when you are limited in crests.