Restoration Druid Raid Guide

11.1 - Undermine(d)

Last Updated:March 23, 2025|Changelog|FAQ

Welcome to the Restoration Druid Raid guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.1! This guide covers everything you need to know to understand your character! Are you starting out and leveling up from 70? Check out the leveling guide!

Overview

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Restoration DruidRaid
Overall Healing
Strong
Cooldown Strength
Strong
Utility
Average
Survivability
Strong
Mobility
Strong
Restoration Druid Raid Best in Slot Gear

Hero Talents

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  • Keeper of the Grove focuses on AoE healing and Cooldown strength, while Wildstalker focuses on Single Target healing and damage done in Cat Form.
  • In a Raid environment Keeper of the Grove outperforms Wildstalker in any scenario. Therefore this Guide focuses solely on the better option.
Keeper of the Grove
Wildstalker
  • Every time you summon a Grove Guardian you gain all of the following benefits:
    • Harmony of the Grove
      • 3% healing done increase per active Grove Guardian.
    • Power of Nature
      • Rejuvenation, Efflorescence, and Lifebloom healing is increased by 5% per active Grove Guardian.
    • Treants of the Moon
      • Your Grove Guardians do damage passively.
    • Dream Surge
      • Your next direct heal creates 3 Dream Petals that each heal up to 3 Allies. These direct heals scale with your Mastery.
      • Further enhanced by Power of the Dream.
  • Wild Growth, Regrowth, and Efflorescence healing has a chance to spawn a Symbiotic Blooms on the target, greatly increasing your healing done to that target.
  • Symbiotic Blooms is enhanced by the following nodes:
    • Vigorous Creepers
      • 20% increased healing done to targets with Symbiotic Blooms.
    • Resilient Flourishing
      • Increases the duration of Symbiotic Blooms by a third of its total duration.
    • Bursting Growth
      • Small AoE healing is triggered if you cast Rejuvenation on a targets with Symbiotic Blooms or Symbiotic Blooms expires.

Talents

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General Raid Talents
Restoration Druid General Raid Talents

When to use this Spec

  • This is the default loadout going into any boss unless specified otherwise. You have to adjust the class talent tree based on the utility needed for the encounter. To make your life easier, boss-specific talent loadouts are available in the Liberation of Undermine section.

Gameplay Altering Talents

  • Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

  • Verdant Infusion
    • Your Swiftmend does no longer consume one of your HoTs
  • Abundance
    • This talent greatly improves your mana efficiency by reducing the cost of your Regrowth by 8% and increasing its critical chance by 8% for each active Rejuvenation, up to a maximum of 96%.
  • Germination
    • The ability to place a second Rejuvenation on a target and increase its base duration by 2 seconds is extremely powerful, significantly enhancing your healing capabilities. Any increase in Rejuvenation duration greatly boosts your effectiveness.
  • Rampant Growth
    • Applies Regrowth to all active Lifebloom targets, allowing you to apply multiple Regrowth HoTs with a single cast. Also the increased hot duration increases the value you get out of your mastery a lot.
  • Cenarius' Guidance
    • This talent allows you to drastically reduce the cooldown of Incarnation: Tree of Life, giving you greater flexibility and more frequent access to your most powerful healing cooldown.
  • Dreamstate
    • Channeling Tranquility reduces the cooldown of all your druid spells by up to 20 seconds, fundamentally changing how you pre-plan your cooldowns and significantly improving your flexibility to respond to critical moments.
  • Nurturing Dormancy
    • Increases the duration of your Rejuvenation by up to 4 seconds if it heals targets at full health, drastically increasing your average number of active Rejuvenation HoTs.
  • Soul of the Forest
    • Empowers your core healing abilities after every Swiftmend cast, making it a versatile and very powerful talent that greatly increases your healing capabilities.

Class Tree

  • Astral Influence
    • Increases the range of all your abilities by 5 yards, providing a powerful tool for remaining in range of your group.

Hero Talents

  • Power of Nature + Harmony of the Grove
    • Picking these talents drastically changes how important optimizing your Grove Guardians becomes, as they become one of the main contributing factors to your ramp.
  • Cenarius' Might
    • Adds another modifier to min-max for your ramp, which is triggered after using Swiftmend.
  • Protective Growth
    • Adds another small defensive to your arsenal.
  • Blooming Infusion
    • This proc synergizes exceptionally well with Master Shapeshifter.

Rotation

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Tier Set

  • 2-Set: Your healing spells have a chance to apply Insurance! to their targets that heals them over 15 sec. Insurance! is consumed if an ally drops below 40% health to heal them.
  • 4-SetLifebloom's bloom has a 30% chance to apply Insurance! to its target for 10 sec. When Insurance! is consumed or removed, it leaves a missing Rejuvenation, Regrowth, or Wild Growth heal over time effect for 15 sec on its target.

This set doesn't change your Gameplay at all, apart from the fact that it is even more important to keep Lifebloom on a target.

Priority List

  1. Keep Efflorescence active at stack points, keep your Raid's movement in mind since this is your most expensive spell.
  2. Keep Lifebloom on a tank, refreshing it no earlier than 4.5 seconds left.
  3. Cast Regrowth with any Omen of Clarity procs you get.
  4. Cast Swiftmend followed by Wild Growth (skip this if your next Flourish is within 15 seconds).
  5. Cast Rejuvenation if there's damage incoming within the next 20 seconds.
  6. Use Nature’s Swiftness + Regrowth if anyone seems to be in danger; be very generous with this.
  7. Cast Regrowth on anyone taking damage, prefer targets with hots already present but no Regrowth hot.
  8. Send some Wraths if there is any free time.

Cooldowns

Incarnation: Tree of Life

  • The most iconic cooldown in World of Warcraft, Incarnation: Tree of Life, is also very powerful as it interacts with your tier set bonus and spawns extra Grove Guardians. You should always combine this with Flourish; details in the Deep Dive section.

Flourish

Restoration Druid Flourish Ramp
  • The bread-and-butter cooldown for a Restoration Druid, Flourish, extends all your active HoTs and increases their tick rate for a brief period. Optimal use of this cooldown involves combining different healing cooldowns and managing your Reforestation. Details on how to do this are explained in the Deep Dive section.

Tranquility

Restoration Druid Flourish + Tranq Ramp
  • Before channeling Tranquility, ensure all your other major cooldowns are on cooldown due to Dreamstate, which reduces their cooldown while channeling Tranquility. For the healing aspect, Tranquility is a strong cooldown that you should either use after Flourish or completely on its own.

Deep Dive

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Cooldown Management

  • As Keeper of the Grove you have two different one minute cooldowns that you always want to use together: Flourish and Grove Guardians. Also to boost these even more you need to ensure to always have Reforestation prepared, if the talent is chosen, for your one minute pop.

Symbiotic Relationship

  • This newly added spell this patch is like a weak version of a Holy Paladin's Beacon of Light. Put it on a Balance Druid, any type of Hunter, or a DPS Evoker, and forget about it. This does not affect your gameplay at all.

Heart of the Wild

  • With the addition of Master Shapeshifter, Heart of the Wild becomes a great cooldown for any downtime, as it allows you to restore a massive amount of mana due to its cast time reduction for Wrath.
  • Heart of the Wild is also a great defensive to survive one shot mechanics while learning the fight by turning into an enhanced Bear Form.

Understanding Mechanics

Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.

Liberation of Undermine

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The following tips are mainly applicable to Heroic Bosses. Mythic tips will be released after our progression finishes.

Vexie
Cauldron
Rik
Sprocketmonger
Stix
One-Armed Bandit
Restoration Druid Vexie Raid Talents

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

  • These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

  • Defensives
    • Use Barkskin when targeted by Incendiary Fire.
  • Externals
    • Use Ironbark as a personal defensive.
  • Paradox
    • Other healers make better use of Spatial Paradox.
  • General
    • Only go into bikes at the start of phases as Exhaust Fumes becomes stronger each time.
Restoration Druid Cauldron Raid Talents

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

  • These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

  • Defensives
    • Use Barkskin during Colossal Clash to survive being hit by waves.
  • Externals
    • Use Ironbark as a personal defensive.
  • Paradox
    • Other healers make better use of it in this encounter.
  • General
    • Use Stampeding Roar during Colossal Clash to make dodging waves easier.
Restoration Druid Rik Raid Talents

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

  • This boss got reworked after testing. Cooldowns will be provided after the race is finished!

Boss Tips

  • Defensives
    • Use Barkskin when targeted by Sound Cannon.
  • Externals
    • Use Ironbark as a personal defensive.
  • Paradox
    • Other healers make better use of it in this boss encounter.
  • General
    • Cast Stampeding Roar in the intermission to help people reaching the overloaded amplifiers.
Restoration Druid Sprocketmonger Raid Talents

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

  • Defensives
    • Rotate your defensives when Sonic Ba-Boom overlaps with Foot-Blasters at the start and at the end of each phase.
  • Externals
    • Use Ironbark as a personal defensive.
  • Paradox
    • Other healers make better use of it in this encounter.
  • General
    • Use Stampeding Roar during the intermission to help your team reach the boss quicker.
Restoration Druid Stix Raid Talents

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

  • This boss got reworked after testing. Cooldowns will be provided after the race is finished!

Boss Tips

  • Defensives
    • Use Barkskin when targeted with Incinerator.
  • Externals
    • Use your Ironbark on people targeted with Experimental Dosage.
  • Paradox
    • Other healers make better use of it in this encounter.
  • General
    • Coordinate your AoE Sprints like Stampeding Roar to ensure one is active for each Incinerator.
Restoration Druid One-Armed Bandit Raid Talents

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

  • This boss got reworked after testing. Cooldowns will be provided after the race is finished!

Boss Tips

  • Defensives
    • Rotate through your defensive arsenal when Foul Exhaust overlaps with another mechanic.
  • Externals
    • Use Ironbark as a personal defensive.
  • Paradox
    • Other healers make better use of it in this encounter..

Stat Priority

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Understand your secondary stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Raid boss fights as a Restoration Druid. For more detailed information, visit the Stats and Attributes guide.

Restoration Druid Stat Priority in Raid

The Conclusion here is that you want to equip the highest item level generally.

  • All secondary stats are affected by diminishing returns. Click here to learn more!

Tertiary

  • Avoidance - Reduces damage taken from AoE effects.
  • Leech - Returns a portion of your damage and healing done as healing to you. (Excludes self healing)
  • Speed - increases movement speed. (Does stack with other movement speed abilities)

The only time you should think about picking a lower item level is if it has Leech or Avoidance. Speed is nice to have, but you shouldn't consider this stat when choosing between two items.

  • Here is a showcase of how powerful Leech is for a Healer: Breakdown of Mythic Fyrakk
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Restoration Druid healing breakdown from Warcraftlogs

Gear

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Best in Slot
Farmable Alternatives

Due to the way stat weights work for Restoration Druids, there isn't a strict best-in-slot list. Although it is theoretically possible to obtain items with all the correct Tertiaries, doing so requires extraordinary luck or several human lifespans because of the weekly reset system in World of Warcraft.

SlotItemLocation
HeadBranches of Reclaiming BlightTier/Catalyst
NeckStrapped Rescue-KegCinderbrew Meadery
ShoulderJaws of Reclaiming BlightTier/Catalyst
CloakTest Pilot's Go-PackSprocketmonger
Chest"Streamlined" Cartel UniformGallywix
WristRune-Branded ArmbandsCrafting
GlovesGrips of Reclaiming BlightTier/Catalyst
BeltRune-Branded WaistbandCrafting
LegsMoccasins of Reclaiming BlightTier/Catalyst
BootsStalwart Guardian's BootsPriory of the Sacred Flame
Ring 1The Jastor DiamondGallywix
Ring 2Cyrce's CircletSiren Island
Trinket 1Eye of KezanGallywix
Trinket 2House of CardsThe One-Armed Bandit
WeaponBest-in-SlotsOne-Armed Bandit

Authors Note:

This list shows the best items for healing in Raids from all sources. Keep in mind that getting different tier pieces with Leech / Avoidance changes which off-piece is best for you. Likewise, any other non-trinket item with Leech / Avoidance replaces the one suggested here.

Below you are presented with a good list of farmable alternatives that are obtainable outside of WoW’s weekly lockout system. While replaced in time as you progress, these offer immediate character power.

SlotItemLocation
HeadMekgineer's Mindbending HeadgearOperation: Mechagon
NeckStrapped Rescue-KegCinderbrew Meadery
ShoulderFireproof Cinderbee PerchCinderbrew Meadery
CloakElectrician's Siphoning FilterOperation: Floodgate
ChestSeraphic Wraps of the OrdainedPriory of the Sacred Flame
WristDisturbed Kelp WrapsOperation: Floodgate
GlovesShimmering GlimclawsDarkflame Cleft
BeltBrewery Toiler's WaistbandCinderbrew Meadery
LegsFlame-Seared LeggingsOperation: Mechagon
BootsStalwart Guardian's BootsPriory of the Sacred Flame
Ring 1Footbomb Championship RingThe Motherload!!
Ring 2Wick's Golden LoopDarkflame Cleft
Trinket 1Signet of the PrioryPriory of the Sacred Flame
Trinket 2Carved Blazikon WaxDarkflame Cleft
Two-Hand WeaponNeural Synapse EnhancerOperation: Mechagon
One-Hand WeaponElectrifying Cognitive AmplifierOperation: Mechagon
Off-HandDeathwalker's PromiseTheater of Pain

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to our recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the scenario.

Passive Trinket alternatives

  • Reverb Radio
    • Strong stat stick, that gives you a high average of your preferred secondary stat.
  • Mister Pick-Me-Up
    • Does a decent amount of healing, this will be better when you are still uncomfortable with the spec.

Active Trinket alternatives

  • Signet of the Priory
    • Not only very good for you, but also very good for your team if they are using this trinket!

Embellishments

  • Duskthread Lining
    • Very strong vers stat stick.

Remaining Sparks

  • Crafted items are 675 item level and regular items are 678 on max item level, therefore, it's not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your 2x embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.

Consumables

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  • Phials
    • Flask of Tempered Swiftness
  • Food
    • Feast of the Divine Day
  • Combat Potion
    • Algari Mana Potion -- Recommended
    • Potion Bomb of Recovery
  • Health Potion
    • Algari Healing Potion
  • Weapon Oil
    • Algari Mana Oil
  • Augment Rune
    • Crystallized Augment Rune
  • Sockets
    • Masterful Emerald
    • Elusive Blasphemite -- Unique, use one of each gem colour to enhance your Blasphemite.
      • Quick Ruby
      • Quick Onyx
      • Quick Sapphire

Enchantments

HelmNerubian Gemweaver
NeckMagnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
CloakEnchant Cloak - Chant of Leeching Fangs
ChestEnchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance
WristEnchant Bracer - Whisper of Armored Leech
Nerubian Gemweaver
BeltNerubian Gemweaver
LegsDaybreak Spellthread
BootsEnchant Boots - Scout's March
Ring 1Enchant Ring - Radiant Haste
Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
Ring 2Enchant Ring - Radiant Haste
Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
Weapon Enchant Weapon - Stormrider's Fury
Restoration Druid Enchantments

You buy S.A.D. from the Great Vault Vendor to add sockets to your Helm, Wrists and Belt.

Races

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For min-maxing a Restoration Druid in Mythic Raiding, different racial traits can provide a tremendous benefit to your characters. If this is not your top goal, picking a race that fits your style works just as well.

  • Berserking -- Troll
    • Increases your haste by 10% for 12 sec.

Recommendation:

While Trolls' Berserking theoretically offers the highest output bonus in Raids, it is recommended to pick Tauren for a small survivability bonus. These bonuses are very minor, so you shouldn't worry about them at all.

Macros

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Discover recommended macros for Restoration Druid during Raid encounters and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

All spells in this Restoration Druid Raid Guide are available as mouseover macros for your convenience!

Rejuvenation

/cast [@mouseover, help] Rejuvenation; Rejuvenation

Regrowth

/cast [@mouseover, help] Regrowth; Regrowth

Swiftmend

/cast [@mouseover, help] Swiftmend; Swiftmend

Lifebloom

/cast [@mouseover, help] Lifebloom; Lifebloom

Grove Guardians

/cast [@mouseover, help] Grove Guardians; Grove Guardians

Wild Growth

/cast [@mouseover, help] Wild Growth; Wild Growth

Wild Charge

/cast [@mouseover, help] Wild Charge; Wild Charge

Ironbark

/cast [@mouseover, help] Ironbark; Ironbark

Rebirth

/cast [@mouseover, help] Rebirth; Rebirth

Addons

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Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Restoration Druid, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Raids to make your life easier.

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Restoration Druid Raid

Changes this Patch

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FAQ

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Credits

Written By: Rycn

Reviewed By: Zhatzi

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