Restoration Druid Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Shadowlands 9.0.2

After heading into Torghast, you will be able to create gear with Legendary Powers through the new Runecarving system. You can craft and upgrade multiple Legendaries, however you can only wear 1 at a time, so it is a good idea to find out which are the best and focus on upgrading those first. Below, we will go into detail about which are the best Legendary Powers to craft and why.

Focus	Legendary	Slots	Source
Raiding: raid healing	Vision of Unending Growth	Head or Boots	Torghast (Fracture Chambers, Layer 3+)
Mythic+: pure healing	The Dark Titan's Lesson	Neck or Back	Lord Chamberlain (Halls of Atonement dungeon)
Mythic+: pure healing	Memory of the Mother Tree	Legs or Bracers	Lady Inerva Darkvein (Castle Nathria)
Torghast	Circle of Life and Death	Head or Shoulders	Stone Legion Generals (Castle Nathria)

We will explain each choice in more detail later in the guide, but we can offer quick recommendations for each type of content.

Vision of Unending Growth is the best Legendary for raiding.

The Dark Titan's Lesson and Memory of the Mother Tree provide the highest healing in dungeon content, but add zero damage. If you are looking for a more damage-oriented option for Mythic+ or Torghast, you should be using Circle of Life and Death or even Memory of the Balance of All Things.

If you are looking for a more well-rounded Legendary, you should craft Memory of the Mother Tree as a decent option for both. It is not far behind Vision of Unending Growth in raids and provides very good healing for Mythic+. It is not the best for raid content, but it is roughly equal to The Dark Titan's Lesson in dungeons, the major difference being the way these two deliver healing.

1. Vision of Unending Growth provides the highest amount of throughput. It gives 2.5% per each full Rejuvenation tick, and partial ticks in the end add a chance proportional to their power. This ensures that there are no Haste breakpoints. The more Haste you have, the better this Legendary becomes. This Legendary makes Incarnation: Tree of Life a much better talent due to not only buffing Rejuvenation, but also by saving Mana that you can use on even more Rejuvenation casts throughout the fight. Germination still remains a bad talent for raiding, due to Flourish being too strong and the inability to realistically hit a "cap" on the amount of Rejuvenations you have on people.
2. Memory of the Mother Tree is not that far behind. The difference will depend on your Haste, the amount of Wild Growth casts, and the amount of Rejuvenation casts per minute. In most scenarios, Vision of Unending Growth will provide slightly higher amount of extra Rejuvenations, but the difference will be very small.
3. Verdant Infusion extends all HoTs on the target. This Legendary provides heavy tank healing, but basically locks you into Cenarion Ward and using Swiftmend on cooldown. This can be awkward for Soul of the Forest usage. While theoretically it is more than decent, on practice you will overheal a lot and give up certain global cooldowns and talents to playing around this Legendary.
4. The Dark Titan's Lesson has very good synergy with Photosynthesis. With this talent specced, the Legendary is actually quite strong. The unfortunate reality is that Flourish is too good for raid content and you will probably never spec out of it. Without Photosynthesis, this is a very mediocre Legendary throughput wise and makes you use too many global cooldowns on casting Lifebloom and Regrowth.
5. Lycara's Fleeting Glimpse every 45 seconds automatically casts Wild Growth (no form), Primal Wrath (Cat Form), Barkskin (Bear Form), Starfall (Moonkin Form), or Stampeding Roar (Travel Form) based on your form. The 45-second timer starts as soon as you pull the boss. You will always want to proc Wild Growth, but it might not line up with damage events. It is not far behind 2 best Legendaries theoretically, but timing of these Wild Growths makes it a lot weaker in reality.
6. Circle of Life and Death makes your HoTs deal their healing in 15% less time. The damage portion is mostly useless in raids, so we will focus on the healing part. The way Restoration Druid works in raids is by concentrating large portion of healing into big damage events. With Circle of Life and Death you will have fewer HoTs to use Flourish on, and it does not inherently increase overall healing from them. The end result is that you are likely looking at an HPS loss with this Legendary. It is probably a better idea to use no Legendary than to equip this one in raid content.

Mythic+ generally involves more active damage participation from you and way fewer amount of targets to heal. This will affect Legendary selection.

Depending on the level of the key and affixes for the week, you may choose to switch up to a more healing-oriented Legendary, rather than those focused on doing more damage.

1. The Dark Titan's Lesson this is one of the best Legendaries for pure healing. Both effects of Photosynthesis can work at the same time. This provides an incredible throughput increase, despite the 10% healing reduction on all parts of Lifebloom. While the healing seems good, Druids generally do not struggle with healing power in dungeons. Unless you do, you should look at picking more damage-oriented Legendaries.
2. Memory of the Mother Tree is a very good throughput Legendary for Mythic+ with the added benefit of being able to use it on Regrowth. Extra Rejuvenations and Regrowths will not be affected by Soul of the Forest, Nature's Swiftness, or Flash of Clarity Conduit. Only one of Rejuvenation or Regrowth will. Memory of the Mother Tree and The Dark Titan's Lesson are both extremely competitive. You can safely craft either one of them. The Dark Titan's Lesson will provide a steadier, less random throughput, while Mother Tree will add a lot more burst, albeit a bit random at times.
3. Circle of Life and Death negatives in raids are reversed in Mythic+. Having HoTs do their healing in less time is actually a positive, since they are your most efficient healing spells and the amount of targets will not allow you to cast more than 5 of them. In heavy healing scenarios, this results in a very minor HPS increase with faster delivery. The biggest portion of the value comes from DPS. Just like with HoTs, DoTs are your most efficient damage spells. Being able to cast more of them increases your damage significantly. Overall, this Legendary amplifies Druid's strengths in Mythic+ and somewhat negates a minor weakness in burst healing power.
4. Verdant Infusion is basically a tank-healing Legendary. It is nothing spectacular, but it allows you to provide a lot more tank healing. It provides decent overall throughput, although it is still significantly worse than The Dark Titan's Lesson and instead of focusing on AoE, this one focuses on single target.
5. Lycara's Fleeting Glimpse can be a good DPS Legendary with Balance Affinity, but it is a bit unreliable with timings of the pulls. Avoid using it unless you have nothing else.
6. Vision of Unending Growth is a terrible dungeon Legendary. You will only have 5 Rejuvenations up at any time, unless you spec Germination. Even with Vision of Unending Growth, Photosynthesis is still a better talent. Unless this is your only Legendary, do not use it.

Torghast Legendary choice will basically come down to picking your best damage power.

1. Stable Phantasma Lure is a special Legendary that increases the Torghast-only currency you get by a significant amount. It is great if you are really trying to push high into the Torghast layers, as the powers you can unlock are incredibly strong.
2. Circle of Life and Death is the best Legendary otherwise. It provides you significant throughput increase as well as good damage increase with a lot of Anima powers.