Restoration Druid Leveling Guide
Restoration Druid Leveling Guide
11.0.5 - The War Within
Last Updated:October 24, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Restoration Druid leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
It is highly recommended to level as Balance Druid!!!
Talents
Restoration Druid
Wildstalker
Spec Tree
- Master Shapeshifter
- Increases the base damage of most of your relevant spells.
- Call of the Elder Druid
- Allows you to have a "burst" window every minute.
Class Tree
- Astral Influence
- Allows you to pull mobs from further away.
Hero Talents
- Wildstalker is more specialized in damage and therefore outperforms Keeper of the Grove when leveling. Consider respeccing to Balance for an even faster leveling experience!
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Wildstalker as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Strategic Infusion.
- Pick Flower Walk.
- Pick Bursting Growth.
- Pick Vigorous Creepers.
- Pick Wildstalker's Power.
- Pick Harmonious Constitution.
- Pick Twin Sprouts.
- Pick Hunt Beneath the Open Skies.
- Pick Lethal Preservation.
- Pick Root Network.
Rotation
Restoration Druid
Single-Target
- Start casting spells from range, don't waste your time not doing anything while walking into melee range!
- Cast your finisher moves at 4 or more Combo Points.
AoE
- Pull at least 4-5 Mobs every time to get value from your DoTs.
- While the pull is stacking up apply your single target DoTs on as many targets as possible, as soon as multiple mobs are on top of each other apply Sunfire and Thrash.
- Only use Rip on Mobs that will survive for a while.
- Use your defensives aggressively in these pulls.
Shopping List
Restoration Druid
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Rycn
Reviewed by: Miniaug