Restoration Druid Healing Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.0.5)

Restoration Druid has enough throughput to get through almost any healing situation, good crowd control, and one of the best tank cooldowns in the game.

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.

Restoration Druid specialises in steady AoE healing, burst single target healing, and high damage output.

For a more general overview of Talents for Restoration Druid, please visit our dedicated Talents page.

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Best Mythic+ Talent Builds for Restoration Druid

Optimal Mythic+ Talent Build — Wildstalker Casual Mythic+ Talent Build — Keeper of the Grove

Restoration Druid provides much more to the group than just healing. Due to the nature of dungeon content, you will be expected to do damage, crowd control, and heal all at the same time.

While there is no specific rotation you should follow in Mythic+ content, it is important to know which spells are most efficient to cast or do the most healing so that you can make better-informed decisions.

1. Keep Efflorescence down. This is by far the best spell both in terms of Mana efficiency and healing output per global spent. This is especially important with Verdancy.
2. Keep Lifebloom on a tank by default. There will be a lot of situations where keeping it on 2 DPS players will be optimal. Try to never keep it on yourself.
3. Use Grove Guardians often. Do not sit on 3 charges.
4. Use Regrowth with Rampant Growth talent to put 3 Regrowth HoTs up.
5. Use Swiftmend to activate Soul of the Forest. You should only be using this to buff Wild Growth when your entire group is damaged. Otherwise, use it on Regrowths or even Rejuvenation if you are specced into Thriving Vegetation.
6. Keep Rejuvenation on an active tank and any players with debuffs. Avoid casting too many unnecessary Rejuvenations. A lot of small damage can be healed passively by your AoE healing or even self-healed by players themselves.
7. Use Regrowth as an emergency heal.

You should almost never keep Lifebloom on yourself because the bloom portion of Photosynthesis is stronger than the tick rate on HoTs. Place it on some DPS player, preferably ranged. The only exception would be only you taking damage.

If you look at the priority, you should notice how far down both Rejuvenation and Regrowth are. Your first instinct in most situations should be to use more efficient healing spells, which are listed at the top. Once all of them are on cooldown, you can go back to Rejuvenations and Regrowths.

Grove Guardians is a good spell to have for low to medium damage. You can use them in any form, and the cast itself is off global cooldown

During downtime from healing, you should be actively looking to deal as much damage as you can. The rotation might be complicated to master fully, but you should still learn which spells to prioritize to time more keys.

For more information about the Restoration Druid spell priority in Raids, refer back to the Rotation page.

There is no obvious Best in Slot list possible due to the varying nature of damage intake in different dungeons, but you can get a general direction running mostly Haste and Mastery pieces in the slots with similar item level. Replace Mastery with Versatility and Crit as you feel necessary. Basically, run Mastery up until you do not need more of it to heal damage. Most Druids at higher levels aim to have as close to 0 Mastery from gear as possible.

Make sure you check the Gear page for trinkets and significant item recommendations.

While most affixes do not need any specific advice, some can be abused by a Restoration Druid toolkit or pose a lot more threat than others. We will try to provide some examples and advice here.

This affix will spawn 10 NPCs that start casting. The idea is to use AOE crowd control to interrupt the cast and gain the buffs. Incapacitating Roar or Typhoon are perfect for this.

This affix is quite simple; you just need to soak the small crystals moving toward enemies. You can utilise Stampeding Roar to buff your group's movement speed when they spawn, but it really should not be needed.

This affix will spawn a rift that you will have to dispel and heal off. Dispel whoever either cannot dispel themselves, or who do not have your Lifebloom up. This is a very good spot to use Soul of the Forest coupled with Nature's Swiftness and Regrowth.

If you dispel instantly on application, you will be able to dispel once more towards the end. Keep this in my mind and do not heal the second target you are planning to dispel needlessly.

This is not necessarily a healer affix, because it is just an NPC your group needs to kill as soon as possible. You can at the very least apply DoTs to it and possibly use Ferocious Bite.