Restoration Druid Healing Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0.1)

In general, you should be using Haste enchants for pretty much all content. For the purpose of gaining more stats, we recommend using mixed stats gems since they provide slightly more than single stat ones.

You will be able to use one Blasphemite gem. Its main purpose is to provide Intellect, the secondary effects are not that important. The three possible options are Culminating (Critical effect), Elusive (Movement Speed), and Insightful (maximum Mana). Critical effect only provides half the benefit for heals; maximum Mana is not useful because we have no Mana scaling at all. Therefore, we recommend using Elusive Blasphemite.

For the other gems, you should try to maximise the movement speed effect while not sacrificing too much. Because Crit is not good for either Mythic+ or raiding, you should only use 3 different types of gems. Masterful Emerald, Quick Onyx and Quick Sapphire are the ones to pick. After you have these 3 and Blasphemite, you can continue using Masterful Emerald.

Slot	Enchantment
Necklace	Magnificent Jeweler's Setting (adds up to 2 sockets to a Ring or Neck)
Cloak	Enchant Cloak - Chant of Leeching Fangs
Chest	Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance
Bracers	Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Leech
Legs	Sunset Spellthread
Feet	Enchant Boots - Defender's March
Rings	Enchant Ring - Radiant Haste
Rings	Magnificent Jeweler's Setting (adds up to 2 sockets to a Ring or Neck)
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Stormrider's Fury

Enchant Weapon - Stormrider's Fury is a better choice for all types of content.

To better understand why these specific enchants and gems are advised, use our Stats page.

Flask of Tempered Swiftness or Flask of Tempered Mastery should be used for raids along with Algari Mana Potion as your potion of choice. If the fights are short or you have access to a lot of external Mana, you can pop Tempered Potion.

For Healing Potions, you will mainly use Invigorating Healing Potion. Avoid the old Algari Healing Potion. Also, do not forget Healthstones for emergency healing.

Use a personal food Beledar's Bounty. This is your best food, because it provides more Haste. To make it proc Haste you can unequip some heavy Mastery items. The buff will not update in combat and stay at Haste. You can eat large feast ( Feast of the Midnight Masquerade) if it is provided for free and you want to save money, but it will generally be worse.

Make sure you apply Algari Mana Oil to your weapon.

Crystallized Augment Rune is the only other consumable worth mentioning. Use it whenever possible for extra stats.

To level fast, you will want to focus on minimizing downtime and increasing damage as much as possible. You will also want to take advantage of your powerful healing capabilities by pulling as many enemies at a time as possible. You do not need any special items to level, but picking up a few of these beforehand might hasten your journey:

Flasks are a decent way to add damage without having to pay a high price. Haste is a great choice.

Combat potions can speed up big pulls or difficult mobs.

You do not really need healing potions when levelling as a healing spec, but these are very good and can be used from level 81 onwards.