Restoration Druid Healing Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.2.5

We do not believe a strict Best in Slot list is possible to make due to way stat weights work for Restoration Druids. Secondary stat are extremely close to each other with Intellect increasing the most per each item level. The optimal gearing strategy in this case would be to just equip highest item level pieces whenever possible, excluding trinkets.

Your first priority should be equipping tier set items as both the Restoration Druid 2-Piece bonus and Restoration Druid 4-Piece bonus are incredibly strong in raids. For Mythic+ you can skip the 4-piece bonus, only using 2-piece and using normal gearing methods elsewhere.

Having said all that, there will be a few situations where item level upgrades will not be actual upgrades. Sockets are usually worth a bit more than 10 item levels, Leech on the first 2-3 pieces is worth about 15 item levels, Avoidance is worth around 5. Due to Leech providing so much power, we will not be giving a definite BiS list for any slots unless the gains from effects on them are better than a random piece with Leech in that slot.

For now, the only slots for which we can provide definite Best in Slot recommendations are listed below. For the rest, you will have to use whichever items you have available with highest item level, Leech, and sockets.

Slot	Item	Source
1H Weapon	Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos	Rygelon
Ring #1	Logic Loop of Recursion	Operation: Mechagon - Junkyard
Ring #2	Rebooting Bit Band	Operation: Mechagon - Workshop
Trinket #1	Amalgam's Seventh Spine	Blackrook Hold (Legion Timewalking)
Trinket #2	Shadowed Orb of Torment	Remnant of Ner'zhul (Sanctum of Domination)

Keep in mind that the Legion Timewalking event will only be available on the reset starting on 16th (NA) or 17th (EU) of August. Until then you will have to use other trinkets. Rankings of them are outlined below.

Slot	Item	Source
1H Weapon	Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos	Rygelon
Trinket #1	Resonant Reservoir	Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle (Sepulcher of the First Ones)

Make sure to check our Stats and Enchants pages to check how to fill the rest of your slots and what consumables you need.

Puzzling Cartel Dinars, a new Season 4 currency, is a quest reward for killing a number of Fated Raids raid bosses. The first Dinar is acquired after 30 weekly unique boss kills on any difficulty, the second quest needs 20 more, and the final quest requires only 10 more boss kills. Killing Heroic and Mythic Fated bosses provides you another currency, Confounding Cypher. Combining 20 Heroic or Mythic Confounding Cyphers awards a Creation Impetus, which upgrades any Fated items to Heroic or Mythic quality.

Keep in mind, that you can only acquire a total of 3 Dinars on any character. You can never get more and you cannot get them back at any point.

Each Dinar allows you to purchase a raid weapon, off-hand, or trinket of your choice from vendors behind the Great Vault in Oribos. None of the Mythic+ are available.

Your priority should be the following:

1. Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos.
2. Shadowed Orb of Torment (Raid) or Resonant Reservoir (Mythic+).

It is extremely important to buy Antumbra as soon as possible and use the first upgrade on it. This dagger is incredibly strong in raids and provides a moderate upgrade for Mythic+. Your second pick should be either one of the trinkets, depending on which content you focus more on. For the third item you can either pick the trinket you have not picked as your second choice or run Scars of Fraternal Strife as a second trinket for Raiding.

Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos is by far your best weapon. In raids the strategy to play it involves stacking the buff to 19 by casting any damage spells. After that you should stop casting damage spells altogether. Neither Convoke the Spirits, nor healing spells will give a stack. Optionally you can choose to proc the 20 stack effect for your last ramp of the fight.

Until you get Antumbra, you should be picking whichever combination will give you the most Intellect. It does not matter whether you use a 1-Handed weapon with an Off-Hand or a 2-Handed weapon; only the total amount of stats matters.

Genesis Lathe from Lihuvim, Principal Architect in Sepulcher of the First Ones raid is roughly equal to weapons of the same item level. The effect is not too strong, so you should probably prioritise different weapons to it.

For direct trinket comparison, use QELive made by Voulk. We will list a few notable trinkets here with some comments on their power level.

1. S-tier — Amalgam's Seventh Spine and Shadowed Orb of Torment are by far the best trinkets. Scars of Fraternal Strife can be used instead of Amalgam's Seventh Spine if you did not manage to get it during Legion Timewalking.
2. A-tier — So'leah's Secret Technique, Elegy of the Eternals, Titanic Ocular Gland, Cabalist's Hymnal are weaker than the S-tier trinkets, but still provide solid throughput increase otherwise.
3. B-tier — Flask of the Solemn Night is a decent trinket, but falls behind A-tier trinkets. Cosmic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity is also not bad, but unfortunately is not available at Mythic raid item level and remains slightly behind others even at equal item levels.
4. C-tier — The Lion's Roar is another trinket that you do not want to use due to its mechanics and power level.
5. D-tier — The other trinkets either have poor numbers, are hard to use, or both. Avoid using them unless they are significantly higher item level than anything you have. Considering you can spend Dinars only on weapons and trinkets, it should be not too hard to avoid using any of the worse trinkets.

When choosing trinkets for the raid, keep in mind that Amalgam's Seventh Spine is only good when you actually spend all your Mana. If you end the fight at 20.000 Mana, while the trinket gave you 25,000, then you effectively gained only 5,000, which makes the effect horrible. For encounters like these you should be using trinkets listed in the S- or A-tiers.

Due to the nature of Mythic+ healing, players usually run at least one damage trinket and sometimes even two. If you run only one damage trinket or even zero, your other options are generally going to be stat trinkets.

1. S-tier — Resonant Reservoir.
2. A-tier — Infinitely Divisible Ooze, any of the passive stat trinkets listed in A-tier for raid BiS.
3. B-tier — Satchel of Misbegotten Minions, Miniscule Mailemental in an Envelope.

Patch 9.0.5 introduced a new gearing system accessible via Valor. There are not any particularly strong items you would want to upgrade, but there are some you should prioritize over other.

1. Weapon — If you have a weapon below the highest item level, you should get one, then upgrade it. It does not matter too much which you choose, but try to pick one with Haste.
2. Trinkets — The only two trinkets you should ever upgrade are S- and A-tier ones.
3. Any item that is far below Heroic raid item level — Prioritize slots with a higher budget if all other things are equal: any of the tier pieces, Mechagon rings, then other slots where you do not use a legendary.

In the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid, every specialization will be able to get a tier set with its own two- and four-piece bonuses. For Restoration Druid, these set bonuses are:

• Restoration Druid 2-Piece — Healing from Rejuvenation has a 25% chance to grant Renewing Bloom, healing the target over 8 seconds. Swiftmend can consume Renewing Bloom.
• Restoration Druid 4-Piece — Every 3 casts of Swiftmend grants you Incarnation: Tree of Life for 9 seconds.

Both tier bonuses are extremely strong for raiding. The 4-piece bonus is not that good for dungeons, so you can safely skip grinding it if you are only doing Mythic+. The estimated power of 2-piece is around 7-10% more healing. 4-piece is harder to give an approximation of because so much of it depends on individual play, but it should provide at least 7% and as high as 10% additional healing.

Since tier has 5 possible slots, but you only need 4 to activate bonuses, you should plan on using those that have higher item level, do not interfere with your Legendaries, and possibly provide sockets or Leech. You can use the Creation Catalyst to make tier pieces out of non-tier items, retaining sockets and tertiaries. You can pick Great Vault items with Leech, save them, and transform them into tier pieces.