Restoration Druid Healing Spell List and Glossary — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

If you are new to Restoration, this is a great place to start to get an understanding of how the spec works. On this page we will discuss what abilities you have, what they are used for within the specialization, how they interact with each other and also with important cooldowns. If you already have experience with Restoration and are comfortable with it in the current expansion, it is recommended you skip this section and move on to the rest of the guide.

If you are leveling a Restoration Druid, you will not have access to every ability on this page, nor will they have all their effects. However, our leveling guide will offer you a way to learn the spec as you go.

Mana is your primary resource as a Restoration Druid. All of your healing abilities cost Mana, so managing it so that you do not run out throughout each encounter is crucial to being able to heal competitively.

As part of the Dragonflight overhaul to the talent system, every specialization received numerous new passive effects and active abilities. They are listed and categorized below, but keep in mind some require a specific talent point to access.

If you would like to know more about which of these talents to select for your Restoration Druid, please see the builds and talents section of our guide.

Restoration Druid healing abilities are often heal-over-time based, since that is our specialty. All active healing abilities are listed below.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Rejuvenation	RJ	An instant-cast HoT, which also provides a small initial heal. This is your most frequently used spell.
Regrowth	RG	Direct heal with a smaller heal-over-time portion. Also has a 40% increased critical chance when cast on a target with a Regrowth HoT if you are specced into Improved Regrowth. The HoT effect will also benefit from the increased critical strike chance.
Wild Growth	WG	Places a HoT on up to 6 lowest health raid members around the target you cast it on. The HoT heals for more initially, then for less and less as it continues. Wild Growth is costly yet very Mana efficient. You should be casting this spell whenever 6 people need healing, and plan your Mana usage around it.
Swiftmend	SM	Consumes a Regrowth, Wild Growth, or Rejuvenation effect to heal the target for a moderate amount. It is instant cast, and it has a 15-second cooldown. Enables many talents such as Soul of the Forest. Swiftmend follows a simple priority list for which HoT it consumes: Regrowth, Wild Growth, then Rejuvenation. It does not matter which of them has a lower duration or any other factors.
Lifebloom	LB	Lifebloom is a HoT that can only be on one target at the same time. You should always keep Lifebloom up on a target that is taking constant damage, such as the tank. When Lifebloom expires, it Blooms — heals its target for a large amount. This also happens if you refresh it with 4.5 seconds remaining or less, which you should aim for to not waste any uptime.
Efflorescence	Efflo	Creates a healing zone that lasts for 30 seconds, healing up to 3 players standing in it every 2 seconds. Efflorescence is the most efficient healing spell outside of Tranquility. Unlike Wild Growth, Efflorescence is not a fully smart heal, which means it will pick a random injured player within its radius to heal. Spring Blossoms makes your Efflorescence prioritize targets that do not have Spring Blossoms HoT on them and ignore the injured player rule.
Tranquility	Tranq	Channeled spell that heals all raid members for a large amount of Health over 5 seconds and leaves a stackable HoT. Heals for 100% more if you are not in a raid group.
Incarnation: Tree of Life	Incarn / ToL	Shapeshift into the Tree of Life, increasing healing done by 10%, increasing Armor by 120%, and granting protection from Polymorph effects. Rejuvenation healing increased by 40%, Mana cost reduced by 30%. Wild Growth affects 2 additional targets. Regrowth and Entangling Roots become instant casts. Wrath deals 20% more damage and is instant cast. It lasts 30 seconds. 3-minute cooldown. You may shapeshift in and out of this form for its duration.
Convoke the Spirits	Convoke	Convoke will cast 8-9 healing spells and 3-4 damage spells. It will try not to overwrite existing DoTs or HoTs. It will only be able to cast Wild Growth and Swiftmend in caster form, Shred and Ferocious Bite in Cat form, Ironfur in Bear form, Starfall and Starsurge in Moonkin form. Other than these form-appropriate spells, it can also cast Moonfire, Wrath, Thrash, Rake.
Nature's Swiftness	NS	Makes your next Regrowth, Rebirth, or Entangling Roots instant, free, castable in all forms, and heal for 200% more. This is an incredible ability that will improve your spot healing. Often, you will use this spell with Regrowth. However, you can also use it before Convoke the Spirits to buff all Regrowths cast by it.
Symbiotic Relationship	-	Form a bond with an ally. Your self-healing also heals your bonded ally for 10% of the amount healed. Your healing to your bonded ally also heals you for 8% of the amount healed.

Restoration Druid generally has two different ways of dealing DPS. The first is via Cat Form abilities that require you shapeshift first. The other is by casting spells like Moonfire and Sunfire in either Moonkin Form or in caster form. Cat Form tends to be more damage but both will pop up as part of your rotation in various content types.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Sunfire	SF	A caster form damage over time spell. Applies the DoT in AoE.
Starfire	-	A ranged damaging ability cleaves some portion of the damage on all targets within 5 yards of the target.
Starsurge	SS	A hard-hitting instant ranged damaging ability. 10-second cooldown.
Rip	-	Another Cat Form-only ability that deals damage over time but costs combo points.
Rake	-	A Cat Form-only ability that deals damage over time. Stuns and deals increased damage if used from Prowl or Shadowmeld.
Wrath	-	Low damage single target damage spell.
Swipe	-	Deals damage to enemies in an 8-yard radius. It costs 35 energy and deals damage to all targets in range. It does not cost or generate any Rage in Bear Form.
Ferocious Bite	FB	Potent single target ability that costs up to 50 energy and up to 5 combo points.
Shred	-	A Cat Form-only ability that deals damage over time and generates Combo Points.
Moonfire	MF	Arcane damage DoT.
Heart of the Wild	HotW	5-minute cooldown and 45-second duration active ability. It reduces the cast time of Balance spells by 30% and increases their damage by 20%, increases Physical damage by 20%, generates 1 Combo Point per 2 seconds, while in Cat Form, gives you 20% extra Stamina in Bear Form and makes Frenzied Regeneration have 2 charges.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Barkskin	-	Barkskin reduces the damage you take by 20% for 12 seconds and prevents damage from delaying your casts. It is a powerful ability, especially when coupled with Bear Form. It has a 1-minute cooldown and is usable in any form, even while stunned, incapacitated, or asleep.
Frenzied Regeneration	-	Heals you for 32% maximum Health over 3 seconds while you are in Bear Form. 36-second cooldown, reduced by Haste.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Mark of the Wild	MotW	Buffs yourself and your group for 60 minutes, increasing Versatility by 3%.
Rebirth	CR / BR / Bres	Resurrects a friendly player. Usable in combat. Cooldown is shared between the entire group in raids and Mythic+ dungeons. You will accumulate one charge at the rate of 90/Group Size during raid encounters and every 10 minutes in Mythic+ dungeons, shared between everyone in the group. In any other content, Rebirth has a personal 10-minute cooldown, not shared with anyone else.
Ironbark	Bark / IB	Places a buff on the target, reducing their damage taken by 20% for 12 seconds.
Innervate	Vate	A buff you can place on yourself or on an allied healer, which allows them to cast spells free of Mana cost for 8 seconds.
Entangling Roots	Roots	Root the target in place for 30 seconds. Almost any damage will quickly remove the effect. The ability is useful for various skips in dungeons. Usually, each trash pack has a leading mob, and all other mobs will stop moving when it is rooted. Remember that Entangling Roots has a 35-yard cast range, which is 5 less than most of your healing and damage spells.
Revive	Res	Resurrects a friendly target. Only usable out of combat.
Wild Charge	WC	>An active ability that is off the global cooldown and which differs based on the shapeshift form you are in. 15-second cooldown.
Tiger Dash	-	Replaces Dash with a 45-second cooldown, 200% movement speed sprint that decays over 5 seconds when activated.
Cyclone	Clone	Makes your target invulnerable for 5 seconds. You can use this potent ability to lock enemies from doing anything and prevent them from receiving healing or buffs, such as Bolstering.
Soothe	-	Dispels all enrage effects on a target.
Typhoon	-	An active ability with a 30-second cooldown. It knocks back all targets within 15 yards in a cone in front of you, dazing them for 6 seconds. It is usable in all shapeshift forms.
Stampeding Roar	Roar	Increases the movement speed of you and your allies within 15 yards by 60% for 8 seconds. It puts you into Bear Form unless you are in Cat Form. This is a tremendously powerful raid cooldown, especially on encounters that require coordinated raid movement.
Incapacitating Roar	Incap	Puts you into Bear Form and disorients all enemies within 10 yards for 3 seconds. It is a compelling way to interrupt multiple mobs at the same time.
Mighty Bash	Bash	An active ability with a 1-minute cooldown, which stuns the target for 4 seconds. It is usable in all shapeshift forms.
Prowl	Stealth	Activates Cat Form and places you into Stealth. Important to note that Prowl can be cast in your caster form and does not require Cat Form. It is often used to evade certain packs in dungeons or to take shortcuts. It can be coupled with Night Elf's racial Shadowmeld to escape combat in open-world and dungeons.
Ursol's Vortex	-	Creates a vortex that will suck mobs back into the first time they attempt to leave.
Mass Entanglement	Mass Roots	An active ability with a 30-second cooldown, which roots the target and all enemies within 15 yards of them in place for 30 seconds. Damage done to rooted targets may break the effect. Mass Entanglement is usable in all shapeshift forms.
Hibernate	-	Puts enemy Beast or Dragonkin to sleep for up to 40 seconds. Any damage will awaken the target. It works the same way as Entangling Roots for stopping patrolling packs in dungeons without pulling them. Hibernate can also interrupt NPCs' casts without removing DoTs from the target. The range of Hibernate is only 30 yards.
Maim	-	A Cat Form ability that stuns the target and deals damage based on Combo Points spent.

Our talent tree contains over fifty passive abilities that range in value from small passive healing increases to those that significantly impact our rotation. I've listed some of the most crucial ones below.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Flourish	-	Extends the duration of all of your HoTs on friendly targets within 60 yards by 10 seconds when you cast Tranquility.
Lycara's Teachings	-	Gain 3%/6% of a stat while in each form. Without any form, you will gain Haste.
Fluid Form	--	Shred and Rake can be used in any form and shift you into Cat Form. Mangle can be used in any form and shifts you into Bear Form.
Verdant Infusion	VI	Swiftmend no longer consumes a HoT but instead extends the duration of all HoTs on the target instead.
Master Shapeshifter	-	Ironfur grants 30% additional armor and generates Mana. Wrath, Starfire, and Starsurge deal 30% additional damage and generate Mana. Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Maim deal 60% additional damage and generate Mana when cast with 5 combo points. Keep in mind, that these effects work when cast in respective forms during Convoke the Spirits.
Power of the Archdruid	PotA	When you consume Soul of the Forest your next Rejuvenation or Regrowth will apply to 2 other allies within 20 yards of the target.
Soul of the Forest	SotF	Swiftmend increases the healing of your next Regrowth or Rejuvenation by 150%, or your next Wild Growth by 50%.
Grove Guardians	-	Summons a Treant when you cast Wild Growth or Swiftmend, which will immediately cast their own version of Swiftmend on your current target. The Treant will then cast Nourish on random injured allies until it expires.
Abundance	-	For each Rejuvenation you have active, Regrowth's cost is reduced by 8%, and Critical chance is increased by 8%. Maximum 12 stacks.

Druid is a shapeshifting class and so we have access to multiple different forms. We won't use these to heal but they are useful for moving around quickly, dealing damage and surviving particularly dangerous damage.

Ability	Abbreviation	Description/Effect
Bear Form	Bear	Shapeshifts you into a Bear, greatly increasing your Armor and Stamina. Allows you to use Bear Form abilities.
Cat Form	-	Shapeshifts into a Cat, increasing your movement speed and allowing access to Cat Form only abilities.
Travel Form	-	This is a shapeshift that increases your movement speed massively, equivalent to mounted movement speed when out of combat.
Moonkin Form	-	Shift into Moonkin Form. Increases the damage of your spells by 10%, armor by 125%, and restricts your ability to cast healing spells. Only Regrowth out of all heals is castable while in Moonkin Form.

For a full overview of the spells Restoration Druids get from talents, check our talent page link below.

Using cooldowns effectively is a core component of Restoration Druid's throughput in a raid environment. Check the Rotation and Cooldowns page to understand how to use them fully.

Rotation and Cooldowns