Restoration Druid PvP Guide — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Restoration Druids are the jack-of-all-trade healers. With high mobility, strong single target, spread healing, and powerful defensives, they are unmatched. With all of these tools, they are also the hardest healer to master. It is not a healing spec that can be learned in a day.

Strengths

• Great control and crowd control
• Good mobility
• Ancient of Lore is one of the best cooldowns in the game
• The only healer with every DR, every global matters

Weaknesses

• Runs out of Mana quickly
• Hard to heal against teams with strong spread damage
• Struggle against teams with a Purge ability
• Easy to kill if you do not pre- Bear Form stuns

• New talents/spells: Gift of the Wild, Nature's Bounty, Lifetreading, Intensity, and Improved Swiftmend. All of these new talents will help with your overall healing output.
• Removed talents/spells: Nature's Vigil, Renewal, Cenarion Ward, Dreamstate, and Overgrowth. Restoration Druids lost quite a few tools, Overgrowth, Cenarion Ward, and Renewal were all important parts of your rotation and now they have been removed.
• Changed talent/spells:
  • Flourish no upgrades Tranquility, causing it to extend your HoTs by 2 seconds each time it heals.
  • Cultivation now makes Rejuvenation instantly heal targets below 60% health.
  • Power of the Archdruid makes Soul of the Forest cause your next Rejuvenation or Regrowth to apply to two additional allies.
• PvP Talent Changes:
  • Ancient of Lore has been removed.
  • Call of Ohn'ahra makes Nature's Swiftness also affect Cyclone, but the cooldown is icnreased by 10 seconds.