World of Warcraft: Forever Restoration Druid - Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities

Welcome to our Rotation page for Restoration Druid. On this page you will find everything you need to know about playing a Restoration Druid; how to pick which spells to cast, and tips to improve your performance. The guide is mostly focused on max level, though much of the advice will also be useful to you while dungeoneering before and at Level 60.

Restoration is an extremely flexible healing spec that can offer a group consistent tank healing, and powerful raid healing - often at the same time! Restoration is also a very heal-over-time focused spec, so in the guide below we will focus on when to cast which. This dynamism makes Restoration an extremely fun spec since there is almost always something to improve about your play.

In addition to powerful healing capabilities, Restoration Druid also brings a large amount of utility to the group, like buffs, debuffs, crowd control and more.

Healing has a much more flexible rotation than DPS specs, since you are dynamically adjusting what you press based on your Mana pool and the state of the raid.

• Keep Rejuvenation and Regrowth on any active tanks at all times. This will smooth out their damage intake. If they require more healing than that, and you don't have another tank healer in your group, then you can follow up with lower rank Regrowth casts. These won't overwrite your high rank Regrowth heal-over-time effect.
• Cast Regrowth on anyone who has taken damage, ideally quite a bit of it.
• Cast Rejuvenation on targets with Regrowth if they are taking sustained damage. You can also cast Rejuvenation preemptively on targets who are likely to take damage soon.
• Cast Wild Growth if a full party is heavily damaged. Remember that Wild Growth only heals the group you target with it. Ideally you will also do so with an Omen of Clarity proc, since it is an expensive spell.
• Keep Insect Swarm active on the boss. It will add a little bit of damage, and also provide a valuable -hit buff. Moonfire can be cast but it is very expensive, so we would only recommend doing so if your group is struggling with damage.
• Cast Wrath during downtime, or pause to regenerate Mana via the 5-second rule. Wrath is very cheap and will add ok damage over an entire fight.

In addition to the above abilities, you have Tranquility as a Mana efficient, but small party-wide heal. Expect this to be more interesting in dungeons rather than raids, especially as we will not be taking many talents that help improve it.

You will have noticed that Regrowth has quite a dominant placement in our priority above. That is because it is both one of our most powerful and also one of our most efficient heals. You still do not want to cast it into full health targets, but you can otherwise use it quite freely. While efficient, it does still use a decent amount of Mana, so consider also keybinding a lower rank of Regrowth (like Rank 7) and casting the lower rank on targets in less danger.

Healing Touch is not very good, and you should not expect to cast it much unless it gets significant support from endgame relics or tier sets.

Forever healer gameplay focuses heavily on efficiency. If you want your Mana pool to last a full fight, then you need to make sure you are casting spells that do a lot of healing for their mana costs.

Casting a spell that is 1-2 ranks below maximum can be even more Mana efficient. Consider adding Regrowth rank 7 to your bars at the very least.

Restoration also brings a bunch of utility, some of which you will use every single fight and others only in specific situations.

Make sure you cast the following before every fight:

• Cast Mark of the Wild on everyone. Gift of the Wild is much faster once you have unlocked it.
• Cast Thorns on the tanks.

You will also have plenty of abilities you will cast in-combat.

• Innervate is a massive Mana regeneration ability. By default, you should cast it on yourself when you are a decent portion through your Mana pool. You could also work with your raid team to gift it to someone else.
• Remove Curse and Abolish Poison can be used to remove curses and poisons from your party or raid. These tend to be used on a fight-by-fight basis, but make sure both are on your bars.
• Rebirth is an in-combat resurrection. It is exclusive to Druid in Forever and is very powerful.
• Faerie Fire is a debuff that you can put on an enemy that will increase the damage they take from physical abilities. It is not a priority while levelling, but if you are the only source of it in your raid group then you should definitely keep it active. It can also be worthwhile in dungeon groups with a lot of Warriors, Rogues, or Hunters.
• Entangling Roots is a single-target crowd control ability that stops the enemy in its tracks, though it will break if they take too much damage. Expect to cast it somewhat rarely.
• Hibernate is an even rarer crowd control ability that only works on Beasts and Dragonkin. You might find niche use of it to reduce the number of enemies in a pack.

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