Restoration Druid Healing Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Restoration Druid has enough throughput to get through almost any healing situation, good crowd control, and one of the best tank cooldowns 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 specialises in steady AoE healing, burst single target healing, and high damage output (for a healing spec).

We do not recommend using Keeper of the Grove, because of the massive healing difference. This tree just does not keep up healing wise and has no clear benefits. If you do not want to use Cat Form then simply spec caster talents while still playing Wildstalker.

For a more general overview of Talents for Restoration Druid, please visit our dedicated Talents page.

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Best Mythic+ Talent Builds for Restoration Druid

Optimal Mythic+ Talent Build — Wildstalker

Wildstalker is recommended mainly for healing purposes. If you do not care about damage, you will still want to pick this hero talent tree.

The type of builds being recommended in the spec tree revolve around Lifebloom and Regrowth. Those two and their flow on effects will make up quite a lot of your healing and even more so once Midnight itself launches.

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.

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.

1. Keep Efflorescence down. This is by far the best spell both in terms of Mana efficiency and healing output per global spent and it is especially important with Verdancy. If you have the Lifetreading talent then keeping Lifebloom active will do this for you.
2. Keep Lifebloom on a tank by default. If you have Lifetreading then consider keeping it on yourself or a ranged DPS player if the tank is standing too far away.
3. Use Regrowth with Rampant Growth talent to put three Regrowth HoTs up.
4. Use Swiftmend to activate Soul of the Forest and Grove Guardians. Follow the cast with Rejuvenation if the party is lighty damaged or if damage is coming up, and Regrowth if the group needs immediate healing.
5. Use Wild Growth often since it procs several talents and takes care of minor to moderate AoE damage.
6. 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.
7. Use Regrowth to mop up any damage or to handle dangerous AoE or single target healing challenges.

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.

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. We will cover this in depth on the Rotation page.

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 but this is not practical advice for the general playerbase.

Make sure you check the Gear page for trinkets and significant item recommendations.

While most affixes do not need any specific advice, some 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.

This affix will spawn 10 NPCs (small orbs) that start casting. The idea is to use AoE crowd control to interrupt the cast and gain the buffs. Incapacitating Roar or Typhoon are perfect for this.

This affix will spawn a rift that you will have to dispel and heal off. Dispel whoever either cannot dispel themselves, or who do not have your Lifebloom up. This is a very good spot to use Soul of the Forest coupled with Nature's Swiftness and Regrowth.

If you dispel instantly on application, you will be able to dispel once more towards the end. Keep this in my mind and do not heal the second target you are planning to dispel needlessly.

This is not necessarily a healer affix, because it is just an NPC your group needs to kill as soon as possible. You can at the very least apply DoTs to it and possibly use Ferocious Bite.

Each player spawns a rotating orb around them for 15 seconds. When other players come into contact with this orb, they get a stacking Mastery and Leech buff. If 15 seconds expire with no player picking an orb up, enemies gain a +10% damage and +20% damage reduction buff per orb. Pretty straightforward. You probably almost never want to pick these orbs up and let DPS or tanks do it, because they will do a lot more damage with them.