WotLK Classic Restoration Druid Spec, Builds, Talents, and Glyphs
On this page, you will find out the best PvE talent choices and builds for your Restoration Druid in WotLK Classic, as well as advised glyphs.
Restoration Leveling Talents
Restoration has several viable builds for endgame PvE content, as you can
opt into a pure heal-over-time-focused Celestial Focus build with a lower
Haste cap for your
Rejuvenation blanketing or a build that invests more
into the Restoration tree to empower
Nourish with talents such as
Empowered Touch and
Living Seed.
If you were looking for leveling builds, please refer to our leveling guide for Druids.
Wrath Restoration 25-man PvE Talent Build
This build takes Celestial Focus and is ideal for the pure
Rejuvenation
and
Wild Growth rotation that is often performed in 25-man raiding.
Some single-target talents and
Glyph of Nourish is also taken to cover the
high tank damage in Ulduar hard-modes.
Wrath Restoration 10-man and Dungeon PvE Talent Build
With less healers in your group, you will need to use Nourish more often.
This build drops
Celestial Focus for
Empowered Touch and
Living Seed,
making it much stronger in single-target, but weaker at
Rejuvenation blanketing.
Wrath Restoration PvP Talent Build
This spec is similar to the 10-man Raid build, but skips some of
the least impactful Nourish-related talents to pick up multiple PvP-oriented
talents such as
Subtlety,
Natural Perfection,
Improved Barkskin,
and
Nature's Reach.
Wrath Restoration Glyphs
In Wrath you will be able to unlock Glyphs that improve your abilities and can be swapped around freely as long as you have the consumable glyph item on your bags.
As a Restoration Druid in PvE you will want to be using Glyph of Wild Growth,
Glyph of Swiftmend, and
Glyph of Nourish for maximum healing.
For PvP, keep using Glyph of Swiftmend, but swap Nourish and Wild Growth
for
Glyph of Barkskin for more survivability and either
Glyph of Rejuvenation
for more healing or
Glyph of Innervate for more Mana sustain.
For minor glyphs, the best quality of life options are three out of
Glyph of Unburdened Rebirth,
Glyph of Dash,
Glyph of the Wild,
and
Glyph of Thorns.
Notable Restoration Druids Talents
Balance Tree
The Balance Tree is mostly used for Moonglow,
Nature's Splendor,
Celestial Focus, and
Nature's Reach in PvP.
Moonglow is a major Mana-saving talent, as it affects some of your
most-used spells, especially
Rejuvenation.
Nature's Splendor increases the duration of your most used
heals-over-time, being especially valuable due to affecting
Rejuvenation.
Nature's Grace increases your casting speed by 20% when you critically
hit with a non-periodic spell, but only for 3-seconds. This can occasionally be
useful for single-target heal spamming.
Nature's Reach affects
Cyclone and
Entangling Roots,
which gives it some PvP value, as you will be able to crowd control from a
longer distance, which is especially valuable for Cyclone due to its 20 yards
baseline range.
Celestial Focus gives you 3% Haste, making you need less Haste from
gear to reach global cooldown breakpoints for fitting in more
Rejuvenation
casts in between
Wild Growths when raiding.
Feral Tree
The Feral Tree provides no real benefits to Restoration and should be ignored.
Restoration Tree
The Restoration Tree carries most of the power of a Restoration Druid, as would be expected. It also has a lot of PvP utility, which you can learn more about in our Wrath Restoration Druid guide.
Omen of Clarity is a good Mana-saving talent, especially as you can use
it to cast the expensive
Lifebloom and still get 50% of its original Mana
cost! Try to melee enemies when you can do so safely for extra procs.
Nature's Swiftness causes your next Nature spell to become instant.
This is great for emergency healing with
Healing Touch.
Swiftmend consumes a
Rejuvenation or
Regrowth effect
on the target (unless you have
Glyph of Swiftmend) to do a large burst of
healing and should be used on cooldown for emergency healing.
Natural Perfection increases your Critical Strike chance and makes you
take less damage for 8 seconds after you take a Critical Strike, stacking up to
a total of 12% damage reduction, which makes it great in PvP.
Revitalize helps the targets of your heals by granting up to 15% chance
that your
Rejuvenation and
Wild Growth will restore their class
resources (1% Mana, 4 Rage, 8 Energy or 16 Runic Power) on each healing tick.
Tree of Life is your main shapeshift form and reduces the Mana
cost of heal-over-time spells by 20%, as well as granting a 6% healing taken
buff to everyone around you.
Improved Barkskin is a strong PvP talent that makes
Barkskin
have a stronger damage reduction effect and be more difficult to dispel. It also
increases your Armor when in
Travel Form or not in a form.
Wild Growth is a smart heal that hits the most damaged allies near
the target you cast on with a powerful heal-over-time effect that diminishes in
potency over time.
Changelog
- 19 Feb. 2023: Updated 25-man talents to be more tank-healing friendly for Ulduar HMs.
- 18 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Phase 2 release ahead of Ulduar raid release.
- 20 Sep. 2022: Page added.
This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Shaman and Druid, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.
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