Restoration Druid Guide

Primary stat — always prioritize item level. Higher ilvl means more Intellect and stronger heals.

Reduces GCD and cast times. Increases HoT tick rates for Rejuvenation, Wild Growth, and Lifebloom. Your best secondary stat.

Increases healing on targets with your HoTs (Harmony). Excellent for raid healing where HoTs are always active on targets.

Flat healing increase and damage reduction. Provides defensive benefit for high Mythic+ keys alongside throughput.

Provides chances to double healing done by spells. Lowest priority secondary stat for Resto Druid.

Keep active at all times. With the Lifetreading talent, Efflorescence automatically drops under your Lifebloom target, so maintaining Lifebloom keeps this up for you.

Crucial to maintain at all times due to the Everbloom apex talent. Swiftmending your Lifebloom target refreshes it via Verdant Infusion, so you rarely need to manually refresh. Check your uptime if healing is struggling.

Use on cooldown, even if the party is reasonably healthy. Procs Grove Guardians (buffing all your healing), Power of the Archdruid (two free Rejuvenations), and Verdant Infusion (extends HoTs on target). Follow with Rejuvenation. Your biggest priority spell.

Use on cooldown when the raid or group has taken any damage. Automatically procs Grove Guardians. Very GCD-efficient and adds a Mastery stack to everyone hit. Fine to hold if no damage is going out.

The heart of the Resto Druid playstyle via Abundance. Spread on the group before or as damage hits so follow-up Regrowths become free and always crit. In raids, ramp with 10-12 seconds of Rejuvenation casts before big damage windows.

Your primary direct heal. With high Abundance stacks from Rejuvenation, Regrowth costs no mana and has 100% crit chance. Nature's Bounty also makes each Regrowth heal everyone else who has Regrowth. Avoid casting with low Abundance stacks.

Short-cooldown burst heal that casts 12-16 random Druid abilities. Ramp with Rejuvenation beforehand. Has ~50% chance to proc a mini-Flourish extending your HoTs. Procs multiple Grove Guardians. In M+, cast in Cat Form for DPS or caster form for healing.

Most powerful healing cooldown. Extends all HoTs by 2 seconds per tick (10s total via Flourish). Ramp with Rejuvenation and Wild Growth before casting, then follow with free Regrowth spam. Incarnation duration pauses during the channel. In M+, use for emergency group healing.

Cast before your Rejuvenation ramp to benefit from the 30% mana discount. Rejuvenation healing +40%, Regrowth becomes instant, all healing +10%, lasts 30 seconds. Combines well with Tranquility (pauses Incarnation duration). Alternative to Convoke.

Filler spell for downtime. Restores significant mana over a fight via Master Shapeshifter. Always be casting — any idle time is wasted mana regeneration. Cast during periods of low damage.