Restoration Druid Healing Easy Mode — The War Within (11.1.7)

This page is intended for players who are new to the game or class, have no intentions of raiding Mythic difficulty, or want a more straightforward way to play their specialization without being overwhelmed by the numerous subtleties and active abilities that need to be taken into consideration for optimal play.

Restoration Druids rely on HoTs to set up strong bursts using Flourish in raids or have strong and steady output in dungeons using Photosynthesis, and Undergrowth. They do good healing on single targets but require some time to set up their HoTs. They require knowledge of the encounter to prepare for the incoming damage.

If you are completely new to Restoration and need more information on your abilities, check out our Spell Summary page.

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Best Talent Builds for Restoration Druid

Keeper of the Grove Raid Wildstalker Mythic+

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Raid Healing Talents

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Dungeon Healing Talents

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For more in-depth explanation of all talent choices you can check Builds and Talents page.

Intellect is stronger than all secondary stats, thus making virtually any higher item level item an upgrade. The only exceptions are rings and necks. You generally want to equip higher item level ones, but there might be small exceptions for those within 5 item levels. Gem sockets are worth 10 item levels. You can also drop 5 item levels for a piece with Leech; doing more is too much of a survivability loss to be worth it.

Generally, you will want to use items with Haste at equal item levels. Make sure to check our BiS list page since there are quite a few items with special effects that will not follow these general guidelines.

Haste and Mastery are the strongest secondaries for pure healing. However, some players prefer to run as close to 0 Mastery as possible in dungeons. This is mainly done due to Mastery not contributing to your damaged output. You should run as much Mastery as needed to heal and invest in other stats. If your priority is healing and nothing else matters, then just equip Mastery because it is by far the strongest healing stat in small group content.

If you want to see the full explanation of the stat priority and the absolute top choices for the priority, head to our full stats page below.

• Tranquility should be used during heavy raid damage or when you are assigned to use it by your raid leader.
• Innervate should be used as often as possible during the fight. Refresh Efflorescence, cast Wild Growth, and spam Rejuvenations during Innervate. The basic idea is to use Innervate as often as possible, while preferably not doing so in Tree of Life.
• Convoke the Spirits in raids should be used right before using Flourish.
• Flourish should be used during heavy raid damage. Ideally, you should use it together with Wild Growth or right after Convoke. Make sure you are prepared for the damage event. Flourish should be used when great damage happens; your HoTs should be ready. Do not use Flourish just because you have a lot of HoTs up.
• Ironbark should be used to reduce the damage a tank takes during critical moments (such as when important boss abilities are about to be cast). In the absence of such situations, you should use it on players who are taking damage. You may be assigned to use it at a specific time as part of a rotation with other healers and the tanks' cooldowns.

The Combat Assistant feature introduced in Patch 11.1.7 does not work for healing. Both Combat Assistant and One-Button will only make you use caster damage spells. They will also not work at all when you are in Cat Form or Bear Form.