Why You Should & Shouldn't Play Restoration Druid in Dragonflight Season 2 - Patch 10.1

Posted 2023/05/06 at 2:41 AM by Voulk

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Blood DK
Frost DK
Unholy DK
Havoc DH
Vengeance DH
Balance Druid
Feral Druid
Guardian Druid
Restoration Druid
Devastation Evoker
Preservation Evoker
Beast Mastery Hunter
Survival Hunter
Arcane Mage
Fire Mage
Frost Mage
Brewmaster Monk
Mistweaver Monk
Windwalker Monk

Holy Paladin
Protection Paladin
Retribution Paladin
Discipline Priest
Holy Priest
Shadow Priest
Assassination Rogue

Outlaw Rogue
Subtlety Rogue
Elemental Shaman
Enhancement Shaman
Affliction Warlock
Demonology Warlock
Destruction Warlock
Arms Warrior
Fury Warrior
Protection Warrior

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Why You Should

Why You Shouldn't

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Mark of the Wild: A very powerful raid or party wide 3% versatility increase. One of the strongest raid buffs.

Stampeding Roar: Having a few movement speed buffs in a raid is often mandatory. Stampeding Roar is one of the better ones and can be reduced to a 1 minute cooldown.

Rebirth: A battle res is a key Mythic+ tool that every group brings in some form. Resto Druid has one of the best available.

Innervate: A noticeable mana increase to a healer of your choice (or yourself). Almost a key enabler of Disc Priest and Mistweaver Monk.

Soothe: Very useful dungeon utility on a short cooldown. Just as good in Season 2 with the revamped Raging affix.

Ursol's Vortex: A key kiting tool in dungeons. Can be combined with Typhoon (if talented) to interrupt most enemies without throwing them everywhere. Limited but occasionally good in raid.

Incapacitating Roar: An AoE interrupt on a short cooldown. In a difficult place in the talent tree but powerful.

Skull Bash: One of the weaker utilities in our kit. It's in a difficult place in our tree and requires you to be in melee in Cat Form to use it. Often skipped but available if absolutely required.

2pc Bonus: Rejuvenation and Lifebloom healing increased by 10%. Regrowth healing over time increased by 50%.
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Comments

Comment by minka25

Cause its the only healer that recieve buffs in every hotfix cycle and has the far strongest tier set :)

Comment by Kamerion

Cause its the only healer that recieve buffs in every hotfix cycle and has the far strongest tier set :)

The resto druid tier provides the same healing output increase overall that the preservation evoker tier provides. Impossible for it to be the far strongest when it is tied with prez evoker.

Comment by KnewOne

Cause its the only healer that recieve buffs in every hotfix cycle and has the far strongest tier set :)

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/31#metric=hps&dataset=95

Comment by Morrdd

Excellent analysis as always, thank you Voulk!

Comment by Jako

With how strong druid is looking and the new season coming up for mythic + they seem to be the obvious choice for dungeons. They will more then likely be Meta. Not surprising

Comment by onefishbluefish

Why you should: It's fun.

Why you shouldn't: You don't want to.

Comment by Scaryfox

That's an interesting set tier bonus. And both sections were an interesting read.

Comment by Laptican

Cause its the only healer that recieve buffs in every hotfix cycle and has the far strongest tier set :)

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/31#metric=hps&dataset=95

So you're linking statistics from VOTI which is utterly useless because that's not the tier set we're talking about.
That being said, with our new tier set we will 100% be at the top 3rd or maybe even 2nd among all of healers (taking from a non burst healing perspective because we don't have burst healing like evoker or even paladins).