Restoration Druid Leveling Guide - Midnight

By Voulk Updated: 2026/08/12

Restoration Druid Leveling in Cat Form Level 80 to 90 Talent Order

(Spec) Everbloom
(Class) Astral Influence
(Hero) Strategic Infusion
(Spec) Everbloom
(Class) Primal Fury
(Hero) Entangling Vortex
(Spec) Everbloom
(Class) Maim
(Hero) Patient Custodian
(Spec) Everbloom

Restoration Druid Leveling Tips

Make sure Travel Form is bound to your keys and being used frequently. Moving between quests quickly is just as important as killing enemies.

Aim to spend as few GCDs healing yourself as possible. Prioritize higher value casts like a Lifebloom between packs. Use Regrowth if you drop low.

While it's risky and not for everyone, enabling War Mode gives an experience bonus. Restoration Druid is also extremely difficult for enemy players to kill, so you're an unappetizing target. I'd only recommend this for either experienced players or those that enjoy a bit of PvP.

Healers often get much faster dungeon queues than DPS and Tanks. You can take advantage of these even if you end up playing Feral or Balance while questing, since if you queue as a Healer the system will automatically swap you to Restoration when it teleports you into the dungeon.

Best Restoration Druid Talent Builds for LevelingUse the copy button below for a level 80 talent build to start leveling in Midnight

Restoration - 80+

The War Within Restoration Spec Tree

Pathing Notes

As a Healer, your spec tree isn't too important while leveling. We're going to build out what is effectively a modified version of the Mythic+ tree with a slight priority toward things that are also very good for us out in the open world. We have very few damage-oriented nodes in our spec tree, which means you won't hurt your leveling speed much if you'd like to pick different talents.

The War Within Druid Class Tree

Pathing Notes
The Druid class tree does have some big impact talent nodes, and you'll want to decide early on whether you want to invest in Cat Form abilities or not. Cat Form deals significantly more damage and is also used at maximum level, so I'll be recommending you do that. If not, path to Sunfire early on instead of Rip but you can otherwise keep most nodes identical:

Start with the Cat portion of the tree and take Rake, Rip, and Swipe. Grievous Wounds is our last damage node for now, and then we'll path to some good healing stuff like Nurturing Instinct. There are also plenty of defensive nodes in the class tree like Thick Hide.
Next we'll grab a lot of our utility nodes like Ursol's Vortex (which you can use to kite), Stampeding Roar (a powerful AoE movement speed increase), and Soothe (which we mostly take for pathing but also removes somewhat rare Enrage effects). We're setting up a lot of pathing here for the third section of the tree.
Grab Heart of the Wild to give yourself another DPS cooldown. In Cat Form, it'll inflict a big single-target bleed. You'll also grab Gift of the Wild, which gives you 3% Versatility. Pick up Fluid Form also since it really improves your rotation by allowing Rake to be cast outside of Cat Form.

Restoration Druid Leveling Rotation

Tag enemies with Moonfire.

Go into Cat Form and use Rake followed by Shred for single-target mobs. When fighting multiple mobs, apply Rake to each, then cast Swipe. Cast Rip when you are at 5 combo points if the enemy will live for a while, and Ferocious Bite if you think they will die soon.

Drop healing on yourself between pulling enemies, or even during pulls if you're falling low.

If you are not interested in Cat Form-based gameplay then you will mostly just make sure each mob has Moonfire and Sunfire on them, then cast Wrath. It will be quite a lot slower.

Restoration Druid Cooldown Usage While Leveling

Use Convoke the Spirits in Cat Form. It is well worth the press.

Cast Heart of the Wild every time it's up. You will need to be in Cat Form for it.

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Comments

Comment by PriestessAur

The talent tree is for level 60, if you try to export after that it will leave you with points to spend.

Comment by rich8n

Your Restoration Druid Leveling Rotation in Dragonflight rotation list ends with Starsurge, but Starsurge is not in your suggested Druid tree under Best Restoration Druid Talent Builds for Leveling in Dragonflight

Restoration Druid Leveling Guide - Midnight

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