World of Warcraft: Forever Restoration Druid - Spec, Builds, and Talents

About 85% of your talents in Forever will be locked in as a Restoration Druid since there is quite a gulf between the good Resto specialization talents and the bad ones. The flexibility and variation in our builds will then come from where we choose to spend the final 10 talent points in the non-restoration trees.

The key talents in the Restoration tree are Gift of the Earthmother, Swiftmend, Reflection and Wild Growth. Your points in this tree are fairly fixed.

In the Balance and Feral trees, Nature's Splendor is mandatory, but most other talent points are quite flexible. Heart of the Wild is quite valuable for its massive 10% intellect boost, and Genesis is an alright talent as well. The default build takes Improved Wrath so that you can DPS during downtime (and fish for Omen of Clarity procs), but this is not mandatory.

Our default build gives us extremely flexible options for healing content. It has plenty of points for both enhancing the powerful Regrowth, and the extremely fast and great-scaling Rejuvenation. We also have enough points to take the emergency heal, Nature's Swiftness, and all generic stat and healing increases. You will be able to heal single targets, like the tank, very well without sacrificing any AoE healing output.

The above build is good for all content, but there are a few talent swaps you can make:

• You can trade points in Genesis for Moonglow if you want to more efficiently DPS during downtime without it eating into the Mana you have available to heal. The swap is a somewhat minor healing loss.
• You can drop the points in Improved Wrath altogether if you do not plan on pressing any DPS spells in raid, though you will not be able to trade them for much, if any, healing value.

If you are interested in learning more about how different talents interact, then you can click to expand the section below. None of this information is essential, though you might find it very interesting.

Haste Interactions

• Gift of the Earthmother reduces the global cooldown of Rejuvenation, Wild Growth and Swiftmend to 1 second, which is also the GCD cap in Forever, which means haste will have no impact on these spells.
• All healing increases are multiplicative with each other, including generic healing increases like Gift of Nature and spell-specific ones like Improved Rejuvenation.
• You can Swiftmend any Druid Regrowth / Rejuvenation, it does not have to be one that you cast yourself.
• Improved Regrowth increases the crit chance of both your Regrowth direct heal, and also the heal-over-time effect.

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