Restoration Druid Healing Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (Season 1)
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for your Restoration Druid in World of Warcraft The War Within (Season 1).
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Restoration Druid gear and best in slot.
Best in Slot for Restoration Druids
We do not believe a strict Best in Slot list is possible due to how stat weights work for Restoration Druids. Secondary stats 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 equip the highest item-level pieces whenever possible, excluding trinkets and tier, preferring items with Haste.
Best-in-Slot (BiS) Gear for Restoration Druids
Overall Raid BiS
This list contains the theoretically best items for raiding gathered from all possible sources. We will provide gearing options more suited toward healing.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
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Weapon | Melodious Iron Songspire | Great Vault |
(Alternative) Weapon | Takazj's Entropic Edict | Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace |
Helm | Mask of the Greatlynx | Silken Court/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Neck | Sureki Zealot's Insignia | Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace |
Shoulder | Maw of the Greatlynx | Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace |
Chest | Hide of the Greatlynx | Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Bracers | Polluted Spectre's Wraps | The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace |
Gloves | Eviscerators of the Greatlynx | Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Belt | Rune-Branded Waistband | Crafted — Leatherworking |
Legs | Leggings of the Greatlynx | Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Boots | Treads of the Greatlynx | Matrix Catalyst |
Ring #1 | Key to the Unseeming | The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace |
Ring #2 | Writhing Ringworm | Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace |
Trinket #1 | Spymaster's Web | >Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace |
Trinket #2 | Gale of Shadows | Great Vault/Grim Batol |
Overall Mythic+ BiS
This list contains the theoretically best items for Mythic+ gathered from all possible sources. We will provide gearing options more suited towards healing, only some of the options will pick more damage stats over Mastery.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
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Weapon | Melodious Iron Songspire | Great Vault |
(Alternative) Weapon | Takazj's Entropic Edict | Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace |
Helm | Mask of the Greatlynx | Silken Court/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Neck | Sureki Zealot's Insignia | Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace |
Shoulder | Maw of the Greatlynx | Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace |
Chest | Hide of the Greatlynx | Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Bracers | Polluted Spectre's Wraps | The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace |
Gloves | Eviscerators of the Greatlynx | Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Belt | Rune-Branded Waistband | Crafted — Leatherworking |
Legs | Leggings of the Greatlynx | Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Boots | Waders of the Unifying Flame | Crafted — Leatherworking |
Ring #1 | Key to the Unseeming | The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace |
Ring #2 | Binding of Binding | Crafted — Jewelcrafting |
Trinket #1 | Ara-Kara Sacbrood | Great Vault/Ara-Kara, City of Echoes |
Trinket #2 | Gale of Shadows | Great Vault/Grim Batol |
Only Raid Gear BiS
This list contains the theoretically best items for raiding gathered only from Raid or using Matrix Catalyst.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
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Weapon | Takazj's Entropic Edict | Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace |
Helm | Mask of the Greatlynx | Silken Court/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Neck | Sureki Zealot's Insignia | Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace |
Shoulder | Maw of the Greatlynx | Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace |
Chest | Hide of the Greatlynx | Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Bracers | Polluted Spectre's Wraps | The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace |
Gloves | Eviscerators of the Greatlynx | Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Belt | Behemoth's Eroded Cinch | Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace |
Legs | Leggings of the Greatlynx | Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Boots | Treads of the Greatlynx | Matrix Catalyst |
Ring #1 | Key to the Unseeming | The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace |
Ring #2 | Writhing Ringworm | Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace |
Trinket #1 | Spymaster's Web | >Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace |
Trinket #2 | Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg | Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace |
Only Mythic+ Gear BiS
This list contains the theoretically best items for Mythic+ gathered only from the dungeons themselves, Great Vault, or from Matrix Catalyst. We will provide gearing options more suited towards healing, only some of the options will pick more damage stats over Mastery.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
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Weapon | Melodious Iron Songspire | Great Vault/The Stonevault |
Helm | Mask of the Greatlynx | Silken Court/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Neck | 'Emergency Stop' Keychain | Great Vault/The Stonevault |
Shoulder | Maw of the Greatlynx | Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Cloak | Anvilhide Cape | Great Vault/The Stonevault |
Chest | Hide of the Greatlynx | Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Bracers | Risen Monstrosity Cuffs | Great Vault/The Necrotic Wake |
Gloves | Eviscerators of the Greatlynx | Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault |
Belt | Sapgorger Belt | Mists of Tirna Scithe/Great Vault |
Legs | Glimmerthread Pantaloons | Great Vault/Grim Batol |
Boots | Treads of the Greatlynx | Matrix Catalyst |
Ring #1 | Experiment 08752's Band | Great Vault/City of Threads |
Ring #2 | Stitchflesh's Misplaced Signet | Great Vault/The Necrotic Wake |
Trinket #1 | Ara-Kara Sacbrood | Great Vault/Ara-Kara, City of Echoes |
Trinket #2 | Gale of Shadows | Great Vault/Grim Batol |
Crafted gear in The War Within
Crafting is an essential way of getting high-item-level gear. You can get one naturally every 2 weeks unless you pick half of the spark from your weekly vault.
Since there are only a few crafts you can make at these item levels, it is important to choose the slots wisely. We do not recommend crafting anything in the potential tier slots (Head, Shoulders, Chest, Gloves, Legs). Another factor to remember is Embellished items. You can only wear two items with these effects, similar to legendaries in previous expansions. These effects will not do nearly as much, but they still can add some healing or damage.
Embellished gear
Crafting choices are a bit complicated. Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension is a bit better than others, but it can only go on weapons. Since this is a Nerubian Embellishment, you can use Writhing Armor Banding on another slot (for example, bracers) and gain the most power. If you are not using a weapon craft, then you will probably want to go for Waders of the Unifying Flame and Duskthread Lining.
Crafting Recommendations
First of all, make sure you do not craft anything until after you do the raid or clear at least a few Mythic dungeons. It will be even better to wait until week 2 of the season and loot the first vault before crafting anything. Especially if you are able to clear higher levels of Mythic+ and acquire Gilded Harbinger Crest. In that case, we recommend using the first craft on Vagabond's Bounding Baton with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. Your second craft will only happen on week 3 of the season and will probably be bracers with Writhing Armor Banding.
Raid BiS List
Having said all that, there will be a few situations where item-level upgrades will not be actual upgrades. Sockets are usually worth more than 10 item levels, Leech on the first 2-3 pieces is worth about 5 item levels, and Avoidance around as much. Due to Leech providing a bit of power, we will only give a definite BiS list for any slots if the gains from effects on them are better than a random piece with Leech in that slot.
Mythic+ BiS List
For Mythic+ gearing, you will generally want to equip Mastery until you are comfortable with healing requirements. Some play with 0 Mastery on gear to deal more damage, and some go into it more heavily. There will be no magic number we can give you.
Weapons
No special weapons will make you drop item levels. Equip whatever combination of Two-Handed or One-Handed plus Off-Hand that gives you more Intellect and Leech.
Trinkets
For direct trinket comparison, use QELive made by Voulk. We will list a few special trinkets here with comments on their power level.
The following list ranks trinkets for raid purposes. Trinkets in the same tier are listed in the order of their power.
- S-tier — Spymaster's Web.
- A-tier — Gale of Shadows, Ara-Kara Sacbrood.
- B-tier — Unbound Changeling, Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj, Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg.
- C-tier — Creeping Coagulum, Mereldar's Toll, Viscous Coaglam, Scrapsinger's Symphony.
- D-tier — Siphoning Phylactery Shard, Treacherous Transmitter, Gruesome Syringe.
High Speaker's Accretion and Corrupted Egg Shell at 639 item level are worse than Darkmoon Deck: Ascension (577) and Darkmoon Deck: Symbiosis (577).
It is hard to provide the list for Mythic+ trinkets due to the nature of healing there. You can get a general sense of their relative power from the raid list. However, keep in mind that it does not take damage into account. As such, for Mythic+, you might want to use both Gale of Shadows and Ara-Kara Sacbrood over Spymaster's Web. The throughput they provide is not as bursty, and they do not have Mastery as a passive stat.
Changelog
- 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for TWW Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within pre-patch.
- 14 May 2024: Updated Mythic+, embellishment and trinket recommendations.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 20 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated trinket list with Spark of Hope and updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- 26 Nov. 2023: Updated BiS list and trinket recommendations for raids.
- 11 Nov. 2023: Updated gear recommendations for Amirdrassil.
- 07 Nov. 2023: Updated embellishment and trinket recommendations.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7.
- 12 Jul. 2023: Updated trinket recommendations.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- 07 May 2023: Updated trinket recommendations.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.0.
- 24 Mar. 2023: Updated Onyx Annulet recommendations.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated with crafting recommendations and tier set analysis.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated with Vault of the Incarnates and Mythic+ loot.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been reviewed and approved by Torty, one of the main Restoration Druid theorycrafters. He is an author of the Twig It spreadsheet and DPS action priority list. He currently raids in Pure.
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