Season of Discovery Restoration Druid Healer Talents and Runes

As the current maximum level is only 50, the talents you can pick from are limited, but expect this page to expand as the level cap increases.

Druids are meant to heal with healing over time effects (HoTs) such as Lifebloom and Wild Growth. These are great at level 50 and worth pressing within their niches of single and area healing, respectively.

Unfortunately, the current WoW Classic Restoration Druid talents mostly support Healing Touch instead of individual heals over time like Rejuvenation, making it still the primary way to single target heal in all PvE situations, but with the removal of the player buff limit and new skill book Leaflet of Enhanced Restoration it is possible to also use Rejuvenation and Regrowth to smooth out damage intake on tanks and other focused targets.

Many of your Healing Touches will be cast instantly through the effect of the Fury of Stormrage rune, which causes Wrath to be free and proc instant Healing Touches, justifying picking up Improved Wrath.

Meanwhile, a very viable alternative to the healing-focused tree presented above is to simply spec Balance instead, but rune Wild Growth and Improved Barkskin instead of Sunfire and Gale Winds (which can still be good in fights with a lot of adds to kill). This will enable high area healing and good DPS in a single package. Remember to move the point in Moonkin Form to Improved Starfire, as you will want to use Wild Growth on cooldown and doing so will take you out of Moonkin Form.

• Gloves — Wild Growth
• Pants — Lifebloom
• Chest — Fury of Stormrage
• Waist — Nourish
• Feet — Dreamstate
• Head — Improved Barkskin
• Wrist — Efflorescence

One interesting thing about Restoration Druid in Season of Discovery is that you can actually DPS quite a bit with very cheap Starsurge and free Wraths by taking the Fury of Stormrage rune, and that will keep your Mana regeneration active as well as give you instant Healing Touches, which are great fillers in the low intensity healing present in leveling groups and early dungeons!

Regardless, as we are focusing on the pure healer version of Restoration here, we will be suggesting a healing-focused rune setup with Nourish, which is a fast option to Healing Touch that benefits from the same talents and is especially strong on targets with at least one of your healing over time effects active, making it a great spot healing follow up to Wild Growth.

Living Seed is unfortunately still too weak to justify using, but Lifebloom (for single target) and Wild Growth (for party healing) will do the majority of your healing and are thus great rune options. Also, while Balance DPS runes are very strong for Restoration as well, we detail them in the Balance guide instead for hybrid builds, as explained above.

Dreamstate provides a nice damage and Mana regen bonus, which will now also be enabled by healing critical strikes once you get the new Sunken Temple healing tier set 3-piece bonus ( Exiled Prophet's Jerkin).

Finally, Improved Barkskin converts your Barkskin into an external cooldown and Efflorescence converts your Swiftmend into a powerful area heal, provided allies stay within its radius for the duration.

More Engravings are likely to come out as we reach higher level caps, so make sure to keep a tab on our general Druid Rune guide below to learn what they do, and where to find them: