Restoration Druid Torghast Guide and Best Anima Powers — Shadowlands 9.0.2

This page will guide you on how to get the most out of your Restoration Druid in Torghast, Tower of the Damned. For more information about Torghast in general, check out our dedicated page:

Level	Choices
15	✗ Abundance	✗ Nourish	✓ Cenarion Ward
25	✗ Tiger Dash	✗ Renewal	✓ Wild Charge
30	✗ Balance Affinity	✓ Feral Affinity	✗ Guardian Affinity
35	? Mighty Bash	✗ Mass Entanglement	✓ Heart of the Wild
40	✓ Soul of the Forest	✗ Cultivation	✗ Incarnation: Tree of Life
45	✗ Inner Peace	? Spring Blossoms	✓ Overgrowth
50	? Photosynthesis	✓ Germination	✗ Flourish

✘ Abundance

✘ Nourish

✔ Cenarion Ward

There is not much choice here, you will not have enough targets for Abundance to work and Nourish takes too long to cast.

✘ Tiger Dash

✘ Renewal

✔ Wild Charge

You will mainly be taking Wild Charge to speed up going through the tower. The other options are not particularly impressive. You can pick Renewal instead if you decide to go slower.

✘ Balance Affinity

✔ Feral Affinity

✘ Guardian Affinity

Feral Affinity has the best synergy with Anima Powers and provides the highest damage potential.

? Mighty Bash

✘ Mass Entanglement

✔ Heart of the Wild

Mighty Bash can be a strong choice for solo play to control certain caster NPCs, because Restoration Druids do not have an interrupt otherwise. For group play, you should use Heart of the Wild. Roots from Mass Entanglement provide only a fraction of damage normal Entangling Roots will give. The talent is still decent if you want to do more AoE damage via Root Anima powers, but otherwise it is very unimpressive.

✔ Soul of the Forest

✘ Cultivation

✘ Incarnation: Tree of Life

Pick Soul of the Forest on this row for increased burst healing. Neither of the other two options really do anything useful in Torghast.

✘ Inner Peace

? Spring Blossoms

✔ Overgrowth

Both Inner Peace and Spring Blossoms are not going to do anything for solo play. Pick Overgrowth to save time on healing yourself. Spring Blossoms should only be used in 4- or 5-man group runs.

? Photosynthesis

✔ Germination

✘ Flourish

Germination can offer an extra healing cushion when doing any solo content and Torghast is not an exception. Consider using Photosynthesis when playing in groups of 4 or 5 players.

Torghast is a rogue-like dungeon crawl where you gain additional powers to help you tackle the challenges inside the tower. Here we will go over some of the Anima Powers to keep a look out for.

Not all powers will be listed, just those that have been tested or those that seem like they would synergize well with the class. Those not listed have either little information surrounding them or are too poor to use. If you are interesting in a full list, please refer to the buttons below.

Keep in mind that this is a very loose and subjective tier-list of items and that different playstyles will prefer different powers and some powers activate others.

• Orbit Breaker
• Lycara's Twig
• Coalesced Spirit Droplet (Night Fae)
• Lycara's Bargain
• Cilice of Denathrius

• Oath of Druids
• Draught of Waning Twilight
• Draught of Midnight Blazes
• Circlet of Weeds
• Energy Focusing Crystal (Night Fae)
• Dried Blood of the Beast (Venthyr)
• Erratic Howler
• Silent Spirit

• Affinity Stones
• String of Fangs and Talons
• Writings of Lycara
• Curious Bramblepatch

• Finger of Frozen Fury
• Flame Jet
• Steelwood Slab
• Shard of Silvered Glass (Venthyr)
• Gaze of Death

Elethium Powers are strong buffs that come with drawbacks that can range from healing losses to loss of some character control. The ones with the healing reduction passives only reduce your healing if they specifically state "Nature healing", all of the rest will not reduce your healing at all and are thus safe to pick. Make sure you do not pick damage reductions on Nature and Physical schools, because those are important to your clear speeds.

Restoration Druid is a decent spec to do Torghast as. All enemies will have less Health to compensate for you being a healer. Below we will list a few tips that might help you decide on which powers to pick and which to skip.

• As a Restoration Druid, you are not overly concerned with survivability, but you might lack damage to beat certain elites. One of the best tactics is to take it slow early and kill every enemy you can find to maximize your Anima Powers for later levels. It might not seem necessary, but it will help you later.
• Overall, almost every power in Torghast will increase your damage in one way or another. Do not be afraid to pick some defensive powers here and there.
• If you have bad gear or decide to take it very safe, you can wait for Convoke the Spirits cooldown before pulling anything that looks dangerous. Pick powers for Convoke whenever possible and try to separate enemies from each other using Entangling Roots.
• Do not pick too many Curious Bramblepatch Anima powers. While it is nice to kill enemies without them touching you, this does not work on last boss of the layer. One or two are fine to kill particularly annoying enemies in big packs, but more of those will slow you down by a lot.