Restoration Druid Rotation Guide - Midnight Pre-Patch

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Restoration Druid Rotation in Midnight PrepatchВосстановление

Use your short cooldowns frequently - Буйный рост and Быстрое восстановление should be cast as they come off cooldown.

Utilize Изобилие - Put Омоложение out on the group before or as damage hits so that your follow-up Восстановление casts are free and will always Crit.

Use your Major Cooldowns - Cast Созыв духов and Спокойствие very often. Pre-plan them before tough fights.

Manage Mana - Make use of Озарение, Изобилие and Ловкий оборотень to ensure you're still blasting when the boss dies.

Hero Talent Choices Быстрое восстановлениеБуйный ростI recommend Keeper of the Grove in raid for Prepatch.Цветы-симбионтыI recommend Wildstalker in Mythic+ for Prepatch and in all general world or delve content.The current recommendations in are:

Situation

Hero Talent

Link

Raid

Keeper of the Grove

Delves/Open World

Wildstalker

Best Restoration Druid Healing Priority and Rotation

Both Restoration hero trees have a place where they are best and while we have a selector here, you will mostly find the Mythic+ section to focus on Wildstalker play and the raid section to focus on Keeper of the Grove play. You do not need to DPS in Облик кошки to play Wildstalker. This is a common misconception.

Hero Talent Master Switches

You can use the master switches below to flip the entire page's options to your selected choice.

Keeper of the Grove
Wildstalker

Keeper of the Grove Raid

Wildstalker Raid

I strongly recommend not playing Wildstalker in raid. Both are largely passive trees with identical playstyles but Keeper of the Grove offers superior burst healing.

The Druid raid strategy focuses on building large windows of burst healing by stacking healing increase talents like Гармония рощи and Сила природы with our healing cooldowns like Созыв духов.

Restoration Druid cooldowns are built into what we call a "ramp", where we combine our spells and cooldowns to create massive peaks of healing. A ramp is a commonly used term in the WoW community to refer to a healing pattern where you combine spells in such a way that there is a "build-up" phase and a "payoff" phase. By combining our spells in this way, we are able to get more value out of each of them, while also creating powerful burst windows that we can line up against the damage of a fight. These high-damage phases tend to be the most dangerous and likely to kill someone, and Restoration Druid has great counters to them. In Midnight, your rotation will be slightly less bursty than in recent expansions as the game turns to more consistent healing patterns.

For the Keeper of the Grove build, our "build-up" phase consists mostly of Омоложение casts. We'll prepare by making sure Период цветения was refreshed recently, and then we'll hit the raid with as many Омоложениеs as we can fit 10-12 seconds before we're expecting heavy damage. You'll then move to the "payoff" phase by dropping Буйный рост and big cooldowns like Созыв духов. You can also hit Озарение early in your ramp to make the entire thing free. After you've hit your big cooldowns, you can complete the "payoff" phase by casting as many Восстановлениеs as are necessary. We're taking Изобилие and have a lot of Омоложениеs out, so these will actually be almost free.

Begin your Омоложение ramp ~15 seconds before damage hits.
Hit Быстрое восстановление followed by Омоложение. The Быстрое восстановление procs Душа леса, which will give you two free superpowered Омоложение buffs on the follow-up cast.
The Быстрое восстановление and Буйный рост casts automatically proc Стражи рощи which will significantly buff your healing.
Convoke is your short-cooldown burst heal, and it has about a 50% chance to proc a mini-Расцвет which will extend your Омоложение buffs.

Cast Восстановление until your Изобилие stacks wear off. These will have a 100% Crit chance and cost basically no mana. We'll be tracking Изобилие with the cooldown manager.

Ramp Timing

Ramp timing depends heavily on the specifics of the fight but there are a few general rules:

Maximize how often you can cast your big cooldowns.
Try not to use them during periods of low damage.

You also have some flexibility around how you combine your cooldowns. Each is often weaker alone, but sometimes you'd prefer to hit more frequent damage windows even if it's less overall HPS.

Keep Период цветения active as frequently as possible. Our default build will take Поступь жизни which means you will automatically keep Период цветения active by keeping Жизнецвет up.
4Жизнецвет is not a fantastic spell during Prepatch but we'll use it to keep Период цветения active so it's worth the global cooldown. If you Быстрое восстановление your Жизнецвет target then you won't need to refresh it manually very often (due to Живительное насыщение).
8Cast Восстановление with any Знамение ясности procs that you get. These are free, so they're good for keeping your Mana steady. You can skip this step if you're actively ramping to a mechanic.
2Cast Быстрое восстановление and Буйный рост on cooldown if the raid has taken any damage. Follow Быстрое восстановление with Омоложение.
In between short cooldowns and maintenance spells rotate Омоложение and Восстановление in cycles. Cast Омоложение until your Изобилие stacks are high and then swap to Восстановление until they are low again. Mix in Гнев casts as required for mana. Try to avoid casting Восстановление with low Изобилие stacks.
7Fill any free time with Гнев. This restores quite a lot of Mana over an average fight due to Ловкий оборотень.

I'm having mana trouble

You can never really run out of mana with the Ловкий оборотень talent since you always have a way to regenerate it. However, there is still major value in getting as much healing out of your mana as possible so that you don't have to spend as much time casting Гнев. Here are some tips to improve your mana:

Avoid casting too many Восстановлениеs with low Изобилие stacks.
Make sure you cast Озарение on cooldown. Cast your first when you're at 80% mana and then whenever it comes back. You'll want to cast Озарение when you do not have high Изобилие stacks, and you'll mostly cast Омоложение during it.
Avoid any gaps in your rotation. You should always be casting a spell and Restoration is a very high APM healing spec. Any wasted time is time you could have spent casting Гнев to regenerate mana.

Further Explanation

Keeper of the Grove Mythic+

Wildstalker Mythic+

I strongly recommend not playing Keeper of the Grove in Mythic+. The playstyle is not much different to Wildstalker, you just do less healing. You do not need to play in Облик кошки to play Wildstalker. That is a common misconception.

In dungeon content, you will heal a combination of unavoidable and avoidable damage. The former you will be expected to heal through, the latter you will do what you can but ultimately aren't always responsible for. Restoration brings significant healing in Mythic+ which means you can heal through more mistakes than most other specs. Let's look at the healing abilities available to us:

Keep Период цветения active at all times. If you are running Поступь жизни (and the default build does) then keeping Жизнецвет up does this for you.
4Keep Жизнецвет up at all times. This is moderately important now but will be crucial in Midnight so start practicing now.
Cast Быстрое восстановление on cooldown, even if the party is reasonably healthy. It'll proc Сила верховного друида which will put out two Омоложениеs, and Живительное насыщение will extend HoTs on your target.
2Cast Буйный рост during moderate damage periods, or to top the group up after minor damage. It's extremely GCD efficient, and also adds a Mastery stack to everyone in your group.
6React to anyone dropping very low with Природная стремительность + Восстановление, or just Восстановление depending on what is available.
7Fill any free time by contributing DPS. We'll cover that in detail below.

Breakdown & Explanation
Your key takeaway should be to take care of your maintenance tasks at all times (cooldown usage and uptimes mentioned above), and then use Восстановление as your primary healing button when people take damage. If you have time it's best to cast Омоложение on a few people prior to damage to make the group safer but this is very dependent on the scenario you find yourself in. Let's look through a few common dungeon scenarios.

Mythic+ often has a lot of short bursts that you'll have to handle as the Healer. Abilities like Alerting Shrill in Ara-kara where the damage is sharp and occurs over 3-6 seconds. These abilities are very telegraphed, so you'll know they're coming and have an opportunity to prep for them. Consider the following advice when countering them, and note that you'll only get 2-3 casts inside the actual damage windows:

Start prepping your party for the damage 5-6 seconds in advance. Eventually, as you grow more confident, you'll get away with committing fewer GCDs to each big damage event, but when starting out, play safe. Make sure Период цветения is down, and that Жизнецветs is active.
Continue prepping by putting Омоложение on the group, prioritizing your DPS since Tanks aren't often phased by this type of AoE damage.
Cast Буйный рост as the boss begins its cast.
With Жизнецвет on allies A, cast Быстрое восстановление on B, and then cast Восстановление on whoever is most injured. Follow with further Восстановление casts to stabilize the group's Health.

You'll also have to handle a range of different, dangerous DoTs, but this section can also extend to Tank damage. With some mechanics, you'll get a few seconds to prepare but that's not guaranteed. If you're in a section of the dungeon with these, then it is worth keeping Жизнецвет and Период цветения active the entire pull.

Cast 1-2 Омоложение on the target. If you get advanced notice, then swap Жизнецвет to them before the DoT starts ticking. If not, don't worry about it.
As the damage starts to tick, cast Быстрое восстановление followed by Восстановление.
Follow up with more Восстановлениеs, and use Природная стремительность if required.

Here's what you should do before every raid or dungeon:

Cast Знак дикой природы (our raid buff) - every pull.
Make sure Симбиотическая связь is active on another player. Any squishy DPS player is a fine choice.
Make sure you have a Flask on - applied every 1-2 hours.
Make sure you have a Food buff - either every pull or every hour depending on the food.
Make sure you have a Алгарийское масло маны on your weapon - applied every two hours.
(Optional) Make sure you have a Кристаллизованная руна усиления on - every pull.
Start casting Омоложение a few seconds before the fight begins if there is relevant damage at the start.

You can read about the best Flask and food buff to use in the Restoration Consumables guide.

Is The Single Button Rotation Assistant Good for Restoration Druid?

For all healers, the Rotation Assist performs a pure DPS rotation - with no healing abilities included. For Restoration specifically, it'll pick DPS abilities based on what form you are in, however it's only really good at spamming Гнев, in which case you should just cast that yourself.

Restoration Druid Cooldowns Not Used by Rotation Assist

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Restoration Druid Major Cooldowns

Restoration has access to some of the most powerful healing cooldowns in the game. Let's go through them and discuss where we might use them. Aim to pre-plan cooldowns as often as possible. Avoid scenarios where you're saving them "just in case", since this can cost you a lot of Mana through a fight and will increase the chance your raid suffers a death. Layer your raid's defensive cooldowns over the most dangerous moments of each fight to ensure you're covered.

Tranquility

Спокойствие is our most powerful healing cooldown. It heals the entire raid or group for a significant amount and then extends all HoTs on the target by 2 seconds per Спокойствие tick (10s overall - via the Расцвет talent). You'll want to line up Спокойствие with the most dangerous moments of the fight. You might even be assigned to use it at specific moments.

Playstyle-wise, you will want to change how you play in the lead-up to using Спокойствие. Because the extension mechanic is so powerful we'll want to maximize how many effects we're extending. The most valuable heal-over-time effect to extend is Омоложение. It'll look a little something like this:

We will put out a Буйный рост and as many Омоложение buffs as possible, then extend them with Спокойствие. That'll give us a wider window to spam cast free Восстановлениеs afterwards with a 100% Crit chance. This is about a 20-25s window of healing in total and it is one of the biggest healing cooldowns in the game.

In Dungeons, Спокойствие is used more for the healing it does by itself rather than its ramp / combo potential. Use it whenever the group is in danger.

Convoke the Spirits

Созыв духов is a unique ability that casts 12-16 Druid abilities at random targets. The spells chosen have some logic to them but will mostly feel random. You can roughly expect:

0-2 Буйный рост casts
2-4 Быстрое восстановление casts
4-5 non-resto casts like Гнев
A handful of Омоложение and Восстановление
A 50% chance of casting a single-tick-Спокойствие (if you have the Наставления Кенария talent - this procs a two-second HoT extension as well if you have Расцвет).

Convoke will also change its spells if you cast it in a different form. In Облик кошки you will mostly get Cat-abilities, in Облик лунного совуха balance-abilities and so on.

How to use it
In raid, we will always cast it in our regular caster form. We'll want to cast Омоложение beforehand since if we get the Расцвет-extension then we'd like to get as much value out of that as possible. As mentioned in the rotation section above, a lot of our gameplay will revolve around ramping into these Созыв духов or Спокойствие casts. Follow Convoke with Восстановление casts regardless of whether you procced an extension or not. Convoke also gives us a lot of Стражи рощи because each Буйный рост or Быстрое восстановление it includes will drop one. Our Convoke cast is a big healing moment.

In Mythic+, we'll cast Convoke in caster form if we need healing, and in Облик кошки if we want to contribute more DPS. Its low cooldown gives us a lot of flexibility in our usage!

Incarnation: Tree of Life

Incarnation is our alternative to Созыв духов and it focuses around increasing your healing for a longer period of time since Incarnation lasts a masssive 30 seconds. You also get cooldown reduction for every Grove Guardian dropped so while it'll always be a longer cooldown than Созыв духов, you can cast it about every 1:40 with good play.

Воплощение: древо жизни gives the following benefits while active, and any Омоложениеs you had out before you cast Incarnation will also benefit:

All healing increased by 10%.
Омоложение healing increased by 40%. Mana cost reduced by 30%.
Буйный рост hits 2 additional targets.
Гнев damage increased by 20%.
Восстановление is now instant-cast.

That's a decent package of power overall - particularly to Омоложение.

How to use it
You'll generally want to use Incarnation 10-12 seconds before major damage hits. That way you can take advantage of the massive discount to Омоложение. You can otherwise do your standard rotation while Incarnation is active. Note that its duration is paused while you're channeling Спокойствие and combining the two is a good idea. Be careful that you do not overvalue the small Восстановление bonus - making it instant only front-loads the heal since its cast time is already equal to the global cooldown.

Druid Deep Dives

In this section, we'll cover different aspects of the spec in a little more depth. These are optional reads, but can be useful in increasing your overall understanding of the class. If you're brand new to the spec, I'd recommend getting some practice in first and then revisiting.

Catweaving

Catweaving is a way for us to contribute DPS where we swap to our Облик кошки shapeshift and cast Облик кошки abilities like Глубокая рана and Разорвать. It tends to be the highest DPS playstyle available to us in both raid and Mythic+, but it has a bit more complexity than just pressing Гнев with downtime so it gets its own section instead. You can generally master Restoration Druid healing first, and then start to incorporate Cat-gameplay once you're comfortable with the spec.

Your DPS is not that important. At all times, make sure the party is comfortable first.

Cast Крадущийся зверь before combat to get into stealth. This will also greatly buff our first ability cast.
Open with a Глубокая рана on the highest health enemy.
Continue applying rake to different enemies in the pack. When you have 5 combo points press Разорвать instead.
Once everyone has Глубокая рана, cast Размах (3+ targets) or Полоснуть (1-2 targets) instead.
On a single target, cast Свирепый укус instead of Разорвать if the target already has one.

Catweaving really boils down to "Apply Глубокая рана and Разорвать to as many targets as you can". You will want to have Глубокая рана (and optionally Полоснуть) on your caster-form bar since that'll let you enter Облик кошки automatically without spending a global cooldown (via Изменчивый облик). This also makes the playstyle flow much better.

Our Restoration Druid guides are always updated with the latest information from in-game experience, simulations, and logs. Make sure to check our changelog for this page by clicking on View Changelog in the Quick Facts column or on the book icon at the top of the page. If you are interested in more in-depth Restoration Druid guides for , make sure to browse the Navigation Bar below, along with our list of Related Guides just beneath the Table of Contents.

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It's very convenient for your Период цветения to automatically drop under your Жизнецвет target but if you're putting Жизнецвет on the tank then you need to be slightly wary of where they are to make sure three+ people are in the Период цветения. Feel free to place it on yourself for greater control if it's an issue.
You can refresh Жизнецвет any time in the last 4.5 seconds of the buff to get the "bloom" effect, so you don't have to let it drop to maximize its healing.

Теги: PvE

Wild Growth, useless, Regrowth nerfed into uselessness, rejuv useless unless you have Soul of the forest talent, Life Bloom useless, none of these spells are the same spells are what they originally was. Im was amazed they brought back Nourish and Mark of the Wild, i truly was, then only to my disdain, i realize ITS ONLY FOR PVP/WARMODE. Good Job Blizzard You brought back the Only buff druids had, then completely changed it and locked it behind a pvp wall, where its is A useless REDUCTION TO DOT DAMAGE? REALLY! But GJ on removing Healing Touch then bring Nourish back amazing truly amazing.

Комментарий от wowqueen

Excellent guide, thank you @Jaydaa. I would like to ask for more info on the Rotation page on the spells that should be used together, particularly the Covenant abilities. A guildie told me I should always use Convoke with Flourish and I came here to find out more, but didn't.

Комментарий от farble1670

"Passive Abilities" section has some copy-paste problems.

Комментарий от rndzm451

I’d love to see some guide like this for M+. I’ve just decided to go Resto Druid on DF and this guide was pretty descriptive and insightful . I just loved it!
Anyways tips about M+ will come on handy for the future :)

Комментарий от parawoo

In this section:

Ramp Timing

Ramp timing depends heavily on the specifics of the fight. When Dragonflight comes out we'll have boss by boss advice, but there are a few general rules:

Maximize how often you can cast your big cooldowns.

Try not to was them during periods of low damage.

"Try not to ?was? them during periods of low damage."

I am thinking the word, use, should be used instead.

Комментарий от ChaosMonkey

Where is the information relevant to M+?

Комментарий от AllBeardNoName

The guide says it will be updated with a kitty dps rotation for M+ in a few days but its been a couple months from what I can tell, I would love to get that information

Комментарий от wakeofchaos

For the people wanting kitty dps, the guide writer put one up on their site but it's basically maintain kitty dots, rip, thrash, rake at all times on as many targets as possible, along with sunfire/moonfire. Here's the link https://questionablyepic.com/restodruid-catweaving/
Some of the stuff is outdated but it's generally pretty useful

Комментарий от Hitotsuki

Very lovely guide, thank you.

Комментарий от Morrdd

Needs updating for 11.0.5 to account for Reforestation now being every 4 swiftmends, not every 3.

Комментарий от upachko

Outdated rotation with build errors is simply awful and disgraceful.

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