Restoration Druid Healing Mythic+ Tips — Dragonflight 10.1
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Restoration Druid in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.1.
Restoration Druid in Mythic+
Restoration Druid is one of the better healing specializations for Mythic+. It has enough throughput to get through almost any healing situation, good crowd control, and the best tank cooldown in the game.
If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.
Restoration Druid Mythic+ Rotation
While there is no specific rotation you should follow in Mythic+ content, it is important to know which spells are most efficient to cast or do the most healing so that you can make better-informed decisions.
First thing you need to do to be effective in Mythic+ healing and damage is
to
master Adaptive Swarm usage. The easiest way to do that is to install
Adaptive Swarm WeakAura. Your goal will
be to stack Swarm higher so that splits also give more stacks, thus increasing
the total number of stacks long term, improving your heavily DoT and HoT
oriented
playstyle significantly.
- Prioritise casting
Adaptive Swarm. Very important to keep this cooldown as much as possible.
- Keep
Efflorescence down. This is by far the best spell both in terms of Mana efficiency and healing output per global spent. This is especially important with
Verdancy.
- Keep
Lifebloom on a tank by default. Put it on yourself during group damage; otherwise, put your second Lifebloom on whoever is taking damage.
- Use
Cenarion Ward on cooldown if you are using the talent. Use it on the tank since it is a poor method of catching up.
- Use
Swiftmend to activate
Soul of the Forest. Most of the time, you will be using this to buff
Wild Growth. However, do not be afraid to use it on
Regrowths to keep your group alive.
- Keep
Rejuvenation on an active tank and any players with debuffs. Avoid casting too many unnecessary Rejuvenations. A lot of small damage can be healed passively by your AoE healing or even self-healed by players themselves.
- Use
Regrowth as an emergency heal.
If you look at the priority, you should notice how far down both
Rejuvenation and
Regrowth are. Your first instinct in most
situations should be to use more efficient healing spells, which are listed at
the top. Once all of them are on cooldown, you can go back to Rejuvenations and
Regrowths. Your overall recap from any dungeon should never feature these two
spells at the top by healing done.
During downtime from healing, you should be actively looking to deal as much damage as you can. The rotation might be complicated to master fully, but you should still learn which spells to prioritize to time more keys.
For more information about the Restoration Druid spell priority in Raids, refer back to the Rotation page.
Restoration Druid Utility
Restoration Druid provides much more to the group than just healing. Due to the nature of dungeon content, you will be expected to do damage, crowd control, and heal all at the same time.
Typhoon knocks enemies in front of you away in the direction the cast was aimed. Use this to knock enemies away from the tank, yourself, or away from special mob-specific mechanics such as
Sanguine pools. Keep in mind that you only have access to it through class talents.
Soothe dispels all enrage effects from the target. It removes various strong buffs from enemies in dungeons, including
Raging. It is available from your class talent tree; however, it is positioned in a way you basically can not skip it.
Entangling Roots can be used to root patrols. If you apply them to the leading mob in the group, the entire patrol will stop moving. It is useful in tight quarters or to skip certain packs altogether.
Hibernate puts enemy Beast or Dragonkin to sleep for up to 40 seconds. Any damage will awaken the target. Hibernate works in the same way as
Entangling Roots for stopping patrolling packs in dungeons without pulling them. It can also be used to interrupt casts of NPCs without removing DoTs from the target. This spell should only be taken for Incorporeal weeks.
Ursol's Vortex conjures a ground zone for 10 seconds that will slow all enemies affected by 50%. It will also pull them to the center after the first time they attempt to leave the circle. It is an extremely powerful tool for kiting. You can pair Ursol's Vortex with
Typhoon to group packs on top of each other for better AoE.
Cyclone can be used to make certain enemies immune to everything for 6 seconds. You can avoid mobs getting
Bolstering stacks or delay them from dying and refreshing
Bursting. Make sure you use it with caution because you will also make them immune to taking damage, which might slow your group down instead of helping. This is another talent that will probably never be taken.
Mythic+ Talents for for Restoration Druids
Below are the suggested talents for Mythic+; these talents are focused more
on healing than damage. We advise Thick Hide path over Cat
side talents. You can change the build if you feel like your healing is good
enough but you are lacking damage.
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Refer to the Talent page for descriptions of all talents, their strengths and weaknesses.
Gear and Best in Slot for Restoration Druids for Dungeons
There is no obvious Best in Slot list possible due to the varying nature of damage intake in different dungeons, but you can get a general direction running mostly Haste and Mastery pieces in the slots with similar item level. Replace Mastery with Versatility and Crit as you feel necessary. Basically, run Mastery up until you do not need more of it to heal damage. Most Druids at higher levels aim to have as close to 0 Mastery from gear as possible.
Make sure you check the Gear page for trinket and significant item recommendations.
Specific Affix Recommendations
While most affixes do not need any specific advice, there are some that can be abused by a Restoration Druid toolkit or pose a lot more threat than others. We will try to provide some examples and advice here.
Bursting
This affix usually provides the most problems to all healers. Make sure you
are keeping an eye on enemies dying and prepare accordingly with
Rejuvenations on the entire group. If you notice some mobs dying later,
start dispelling
Bursting early to get another dispel later.
Most often, you should dispel the tank since they have higher total Health and
are going to require more healing.
Spiteful
Spiteful will spawn Spiteful Shades from dead enemies,
which will fixate on players in your group. They have a decent amount of Health
but lose 8% of it every second. They also hit very hard, often nearly
killing everyone they come in touch with. Make sure you use all forms of
crowd control on them. The best ability for that is
Ursol's Vortex since
it does not interfere with anything else. If you are not already specced into
Typhoon, it is probably a good idea to do that just to stay in range
and safely use it on Spiteful Shades without hitting mobs positioned for
melee players by the tank.
Incorporeal
This affix spawns mobs that count as any type, which means you can use
Hibernate on them. It is extremely easy to deal with as long as you
spend one extra talent point.
Afflicted
This affix spawns shades that start a cast that will debuff your group after
it finishes. You need to cast Nature's Cure with
Improved Nature's Cure talent. It is pretty easy to deal with as long as
multiple do not spawn. In that case, you will have to heal them up.
Changelog
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.0.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.5.
- 29 Dec. 2022: Changed talent build advice.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 30 Oct. 2022: Changed talent build recommendation. .
- 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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