Restoration Druid Guide — Class Guides · WoW Burning Crusade

Healing over time with Rejuvenation and Regrowth, and healing that keeps up while moving.

A leather-wearing shapeshifter who heals in caster form, tanks in Bear Form, deals melee damage in Cat Form, and casts Balance spells. Druids can fill any role in a group. More about the druid

Class: Druid
Roles: Healer
Used for: Raids and dungeons, Player versus player
Top talent: Tree of Life
Popular builds: 2
Version: WoW Burning Crusade

How to play

Restoration in The Burning Crusade heals in Tree of Life form, which raises healing received by your party and makes heals over time cheaper but locks you out of most damage spells. Lifebloom stacks three times on a target and blooms when it ends; Rejuvenation, Regrowth and Swiftmend round out the kit.

Typical raid duty: keep three Lifeblooms rolling on each tank, Rejuvenation on players taking damage, and Regrowth or Swiftmend for spikes. Empowered Rejuvenation makes every heal over time gain more from +Healing.

In arenas Restoration druids are very hard to kill, healing on the move and shifting out of crowd control.

At a glance

Single-target healing
Group healing
Survivability
Utility for the group
Solo play and leveling
Ease of play

Rated 1 to 5 against the other specs in WoW Burning Crusade.

Rotation and priorities

1Tree of Life form.
2Three stacks of Lifebloom on each tank, refreshed before they bloom.
3Rejuvenation on players taking damage.
4Regrowth for a bigger heal; Swiftmend for emergencies.
5Nature's Swiftness and Healing Touch for the worst moments.
6Innervate a healer who runs low.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

Excellent tank and raid healing over time.
Heals while moving.
Innervate and Rebirth.

Weaknesses

Heals over time can't save a target from a sudden spike.
Little damage in Tree form.
Leather healing gear is sometimes scarce.

Stats and gear

Stat priority

Most valuable first. Bars compare each stat with the best one; a cap in the note means the stat drops off once you reach it.

1
+Healing
2
SpiritTree of Life and Living Spirit
3
Intellect
4
Mana per 5 sec
5
Spell haste
6
Critical strikeheals over time can't crit

What to look for

+Healing first; Spirit is strong with Tree of Life and Living Spirit.
Idols in the relic slot strengthen Lifebloom and Rejuvenation.
A healing staff, or a mace with an off-hand.

Items worth chasing

Eye of GruulCheaper heals from a healing trinket proc.
Essence of the Martyr+Healing on use.
Memento of TyrandeMana returns while you cast.

Builds

Each bar splits the build's talent points by tree.

Balance
Feral Combat
Restoration

Tree of Life Grovekeeper
HealerPvE
1645
16/0/45
Restoration for raids: Tree of Life boosts healing for the party, Swiftmend and Nature's Swiftness for emergencies, and Balance's Insect Swarm for utility.
- Living Spirit 3/3
- Swiftmend 1/1
- Natural Perfection 3/3
- Empowered Rejuvenation 5/5
- Tree of Life 1/1
Open in the talent calculator Theorycrafting Talent order by level
Swiftmend Arena Healer
HealerPvP
131137
13/11/37
Restoration for arenas and battlegrounds: Swiftmend and Nature's Swiftness for burst healing, Feral Charge to interrupt, and Insect Swarm to slow attacks.
- Nature's Swiftness 1/1
- Living Spirit 1/3
- Swiftmend 1/1
- Natural Perfection 3/3
- Empowered Rejuvenation 2/5
Open in the talent calculator Theorycrafting Talent order by level

Key talents

Tree of Life · top talent, up to 1
Shapeshift into the Tree of Life. While in this form you increase healing received by 25% of your total Spirit for all party members within 45 yards, your movement speed is reduced by 20%, and you can only cast Swiftmend, Innervate, Nature's Swiftness, Rebirth, Barkskin, poison removing and healing over time spells, but the mana cost of these spells is reduced by 20%. The act of shapeshifting frees the caster of Polymorph and Movement Impairing effects.
Improved Rejuvenation · tier 4, up to 3
Increases the effect of your Rejuvenation spell by 15%.
Nature's Swiftness · tier 5, up to 1
When activated, your next Nature spell becomes an instant cast spell.
Gift of Nature · tier 5, up to 5
Increases the effect of all healing spells by 10%.
Empowered Touch · tier 6, up to 2
Your Healing Touch spell gains an additional 20% of your bonus healing effects.
Improved Regrowth · tier 6, up to 5
Increases the critical effect chance of your Regrowth spell by 50%.
Living Spirit · tier 7, up to 3
Increases your total Spirit by 15%.
Swiftmend · tier 7, up to 1
Consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect on a friendly target to instantly heal them an amount equal to 12 sec. of Rejuvenation or 18 sec. of Regrowth.
Natural Perfection · tier 7, up to 3
Your critical strike chance with all spells is increased by 3% and critical strikes against you give you the Natural Perfection effect reducing all damage taken by 4%. Stacks up to 3 times. Lasts 8 sec.
Empowered Rejuvenation · tier 8, up to 5
The bonus healing effects of your healing over time spells is increased by 20%.

Restoration abilities by level

When each ability arrives: trained abilities at the level a trainer first teaches them, talent abilities (gold frame) at the first level the talent can be taken.