Restoration Druid Healing Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight (12.0.1)

This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks to use for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Restoration Druid, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

Many consumables, like enchants, gems, or potions, are available at multiple different ranks. If you are unable to afford the highest rank for any of them, you can safely choose a lower rank one instead, at the cost of some DPS.

You are able to socket a single Eversong diamond into your gear. It provides Intellect and sometimes a secondary effect which is less important. The three possible options are:

• Powerful Eversong Diamond (Critical effect)
• Stoic Eversong Diamond (Armor)
• Telluric Eversong Diamond (Maximum Mana)
• Indecipherable Eversong Diamond (No effect, more intellect)

The Critical effect gem only provides half the benefit for healing; maximum Mana is not useful because we have no Mana scaling at all. Therefore, we recommend using Indecipherable Eversong Diamond.

For your other gem slots, we're able to just socket our preferred gem in every slot because we are not gaining any benefits from socketing unique gem types. Therefore, socket each slot with Flawless Quick Amethyst (Mastery / Haste). Flawless Masterful Peridot is also very competitive and a fine choice if you'd prefer slightly more Haste.

Slot	Enchantment
Helm	Enchant Helm - Empowered Hex of Leeching
Shoulders	Enchant Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Legs	Arcanoweave Spellthread
Feet	Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots
Rings	Enchant Ring - Zul'jin's Mastery
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

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

Flask of the Magisters or Flask of the Blood Knights should be used in both content types. You will also use Potion of Recklessness as your default potion. Mana potions are very weak currently and burst healing cooldowns have been nerfed so it is very appealing to use your potion cooldown to better cover the most difficult parts of the fight.

For Healing Potions, you will mainly use Silvermoon Health Potion. Also, do not forget Healthstones for emergency healing.

The different intellect Feast options are all very good ( Silvermoon Parade, Quel'dorei Medley, Harandar Celebration). Impossibly Royal Roast is a fine personal food choice if a Feast is not available. The secondary stat food options are a lot worse.

Make sure you apply Thalassian Phoenix Oil to your weapon.

Void-Touched Augment Rune is the only other consumable worth mentioning. Use it whenever possible for extra stats though they can be expensive - especially early in the expansion.