Restoration Druid Battleground Blitz Guide — The War Within (Season 1)

Last updated on Sep 18, 2024 at 18:00 by Mysticall 14 comments

This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about playing Restoration Hunter in Battleground Blitz, including specific playstyle tips, talent builds, and much more.

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Restoration Druids in Battleground Blitz

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Playstyle as Restoration Druid

In Battleground Blitz, the primary role of Restoration Druid is to support your team with incredible healing output and help your team win team fights. There will be maps where you focus on healing, but you also have opportunities to capture nodes with Cyclone Icon Cyclone. If you are not healing or capturing nodes, you are quickly moving from node to node if your teammates need help. With spells like Ironbark Icon Ironbark and Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life, you have multiple ways to help your team recover when you start to fall behind in healing.

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Talent Choices for Restoration Druid

Here is the talent build you will be using to maximize your damage output:

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  • Preserve Nature Icon Preserve Nature
  • Focused Growth Icon Focused Growth
  • Early Spring Icon Early Spring

These are the 3 PvP talents you should be using in battleground blitz. Focused Growth Icon Focused Growth reduces the mana cost of your Lifebloom Icon Lifebloom and Lifebloom now increasing its healing by 8%, up to 3 stacks on your target. This is great for single-target healing when your role is to keep a flag carrier alive. Preserve Nature Icon Preserve Nature makes Tranquility Icon Tranquility protect you from all harm while it is channeled. This is a crucial PvP talent that will increase your survivability when teams try to swap to you. Finally, Early Spring Icon Early Spring makes Wild Growth Icon Wild Growth instant and heal 6 allies. It will also heal all targets with Lifebloom Icon Lifebloom on them. Because there are so many players in battleground blitz, there will also be many kicks to deal with. Making Wild Growth instant increases your overall healing output.

For an in-depth guide to Restoration Druid talents, read here:

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Crowd Control as Restoration Druid

In Battleground Blitz, without the Arena Dampening effect, healers, when left alone, are able to sustain against many players with relative ease. The way to counter the high throughput of healers in Battleground Blitz is with the effective use of crowd control.

Druid has many tools in its kit to aid with this:

  • Cyclone Icon Cyclone
  • Mighty Bash Icon Mighty Bash
  • Typhoon Icon Typhoon
  • Mass Entanglement Icon Mass Entanglement
  • Rake Icon Rake
  • Entangling Roots Icon Entangling Roots
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Restoration Druid Defensives

You have several defensive abilities you can use to help keep you and your team alive.

  • Bear Form Icon Bear Form is going to be your main defensive ability. With talents like Guardian Affinity Icon Guardian Affinity to buff it, it becomes even more powerful. If an enemy team is focusing you, be sure to use Rejuvenation Icon Rejuvenation, Lifebloom Icon Lifebloom, and Cenarion Ward Icon Cenarion Ward and then sit in Bear Form. Use the ability Frenzied Regeneration Icon Frenzied Regeneration to get even more health back.
  • Cyclone Icon Cyclone is a good defensive if the enemy team does not have any interrupts remaining. This stops a player from doing anything and is especially impactful when an enemy is trying to use their burst cooldowns. If the enemy does have interrupts available, try juking them first.
  • Ursol's Vortex Icon Ursol's Vortex is great when trying to get away from melee DPS. It is also important to remember that it can be used when in other forms. If you are taking heavy damage in Bear Form Icon Bear Form, you can use Ursol's Vortex Icon Ursol's Vortex and Dash Icon Dash away.
  • Use Druid mobility as a defensive. We mentioned earlier that Restoration Druids have great mobility. They have spells like Travel Form Icon Travel Form and Dash Icon Dash to break snares and get away from enemies. Remembering that shifting between forms also breaks roots.
  • Preserve Nature Icon Preserve Nature is a PvP talent that makes you immune to all harm when channeling Tranquility Icon Tranquility. This is perfect for before or after you leave a stun and need to get your health to a safe spot.
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Restoration Druid Stat Priority and Gear

  1. Intellect;
  2. Versatility;
  3. Mastery;
  4. Haste;
  5. Critical Strike.

The stat priority for Restoration Druid is the same in Battleground Blitz and Arena. If you want an in-depth explanation and suggestions on gear, read our gearing section here:

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The Role of Restoration Druids in Battlegrounds

8.1.

Capture the Flag (Warsong Gulch, Twin Peaks)

If you get either Warsong Gulch or Twin Peaks as a map, you will likely be defending the flag carrier, unless there is a Holy Paladin on your team. You want this role because of your strong single-target healing and cooldowns, such as Ironbark Icon Ironbark.

If you do find yourself healing offense you can still make crucial decisions by using Cyclone Icon Cyclone and Entangling Roots Icon Entangling Roots to control the enemy team. Cyclone should be used on the enemy healer if your team is using offensive cooldowns and trying to get a kill. If you are not, use Cyclone on the DPS you are not focusing to stop damage. If you are playing against melee, Entangling Roots can stop them in their tracks. You also have access to Hibernate Icon Hibernate and Soothe Icon Soothe. Hibernate can be used on Druids that are in animal form or Hunter pets to stop their damage. You can use Soothe to dispel Fury Warrior enrage effects.

8.2.

Resource Race (Arathi Basin, Battle for Gilneas, Deepwind Gorge)

On resource race maps, your primary goal is to keep your team alive at whichever base is decided to be fought over. However, you also have the opportunity to capture nodes if there is only one person there. You can do this by doing the following:

  • Enter Cat Form Icon Cat Form and Prowl Icon Prowl.
  • Use Rake Icon Rake/Mighty Bash Icon Mighty Bash on the target to stun them.
  • Immediately start casting Cyclone Icon Cyclone.
  • Start capturing the node.

Ideally, you force the enemy player to use their Trinket. Enter Prowl Icon Prowl again and wait until you can get a full stun/cyclone combination.Once you can, do the above rotation and you should be able to cap the node.

If you do not want to capture nodes or your team needs your help at another base, that is okay. You can focus on healing and keeping your team alive in team fights. There will normally be a large team fight at one of the nodes that you can be a part of. For an in-depth guide to Restoration Druid healing rotations, read here:

8.3.

Hybrid (Eye of the Storm)

Similar to resource race maps, your goal is to keep your team alive in the big team fights. The goal on this map, unlike normal Rated Battlegrounds, is to team fight at one node and try to cap both bases. This results in long 7v7 team fights, and the winner will more than likely pull ahead quickly. Trade Tranquility Icon Tranquility when your team gets low, use Ironbark Icon Ironbark on a teammate that drops low, and dispel crowd control with Nature's Cure Icon Nature's Cure. Use Mighty Bash Icon Mighty Bash on a healer when your team wants to land a kill.

Note: Capping the flag will make the inactive bases active, and both teams will have to recap the nodes. Use this tactic if your team is falling behind on points or lost the team fight.

8.4.

King of the Hill (Temple of Kotmogu)

Ranged DPS specializations will always be the best orb carriers on Temple of Kotmogu, so do not grab the flag unless it is a dire situation and you have to. The most important part about this map is to win the initial team fight and quickly gain momentum by grabbing 3 orbs and standing in the middle of the map. When the enemy team starts to resurrect, leave middle and kite around the center. Here are some tips for this map:

  • Players take more damage the longer they hold the orb. This means that, eventually, the Orb carriers will die. Ideally, your team will only hold 2-3 orbs at a time so that you do not easily wipe when you have high stacks.
  • Make sure you die on the correct side of the map! You and your team will resurrect depending on where you died. If you die on purple side, you will resurrect on blue side and vise versa. Ensuring you and your team resurrect together is crucial, this will allow you to regroup faster and quickly wipe the enemy team that will be weak.
  • There are leaves at every orb; if you are low on Mana, make sure you grab one!
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Changelog

  • 15 Sep. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
  • 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for The War Within Season 1.
  • 29 Aug. 2024: Page added.
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