Restoration Druid Gearing Guide

Patch 11.0.2 Last Updated: 29th Aug, 2024
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Tier Sets

Season 1 Tier Set (Nerub’ar Palace):

  • (2) Set Bonus: Regrowth, Wild Growth, and Swiftmend healing increased by 10%.
  • (4) Set Bonus: Your healing is increased by 8% when consuming Soul of the Forest’s bonus and for 6 sec afterward.

The 2 set is a pretty straightforward (and boring) bonus, increasing your throughput overall (single target healing being buffed with Regrowth & Swiftmend, and raid-wide healing buffed by Wild Growth).

The 4 set bonus is a good match for your gameplay, since it’ll increase your healing at the end of your ramp, for your Flourish use.

restoration druid Best in Slot Gear

Here are two lists of the optimal gear set-up you want to reach, either for M+ or for raids.Do note that these lists include every item that will fit the stats priority (covered in this guide) depending on the content you’re aiming for, including specific items (mainly trinkets, or some Use weapons if applicable).

For every raid trinket, I’ll list an alternative which you can obtain in M+, as raids are not something you can farm over and over during a said day.

There sometimes can be alternatives, especially depending on which stats you already have on your character, or for some very specific purposes, so keep in mind that you don’t necessarily always want to match this exact list. Most of the time, ilevel will be the biggest factor, and some stats, such as Mastery in M+, can have a relatively different value depending on what you’ll need (since this one won’t provide any DPS gain, but ONLY healing).

Best Gear for Raid

Slot Item Source
Head Mask of the Greatlynx The Silken Court (Nerub-ar Palace)
Neck Sureki Zealot’s Insignia Sikran (Nerub-ar Palace)
Shoulders Maw of the Greatlynx Rasha’nan (Nerub-ar Palace)
Cloak Anvilhide Cape The Stonevault
Chest Hide of the Greatlynx Ovi’nax (Nerub-ar Palace)
Wrist Polluted Spectre’s Wraps The Bloodbound Horror (Nerub-ar Palace)
Gloves Eviscerators of the Greatlynx Sikran (Nerub-ar Palace)
Belt Behemoth’s Eroded Cinch Rasha’nan (Nerub-ar Palace)
Legs Glimmerthread Pantaloons Grim Batol
Boots Chitin-Spiked Jackboots Sikran (Nerub-ar Palace)
Ring Key to the Unseeming The Bloodbound Horror (Nerub-ar Palace)
Ring Circle of Bone Grim Batol
Trinket Unbound Changeling Mists of Tirna Scithe
Trinket Empowering Crystal of Anub’Ikkaj or Gale of Shadows The Dawnbreaker or Grim Batol
Main Hand Takazj’s Entropic Edict (two-hands) The Silken Court (Nerub-ar Palace)

Best Gear for Mythic+

Slot Item Source
Head Mask of the Greatlynx The Silken Court (Nerub-ar Palace)
Neck Silken Advisor’s Favor The Silken Court (Nerub-ar Palace)
Shoulders Maw of the Greatlynx Rasha’nan (Nerub-ar Palace)
Cloak Wings of Shattered Sorrow Rasha’nan (Nerub-ar Palace)
Chest Hide of the Greatlynx Ovi’nax (Nerub-ar Palace)
Wrist Risen Monstrosity Cuffs The Necrotic Wake
Gloves Eviscerators of the Greatlynx Sikran (Nerub-ar Palace)
Belt Sapgorger Belt Mists of Tirna Scithe
Legs Glimmerthread Pantaloons Grim Batol
Boots Viscera-Stitched Footpads The Necrotic Wake
Ring Seal of the Poisoned Pact or Experiment 08752’s Band Queen Ansurek (Nerub-ar Palace) or City of Threads
Ring Stitchflesh’s Misplaced Signet The Necrotic Wake
Trinket Unbound Changeling Mists of Tirna Scithe
Trinket Gale of Shadows Grim Batol
Main Hand Krix’vizk’s Speech Rod (two-hands) City of Threads

Trinkets

Gale of Shadows: A pretty strong trinket (especially in M+) that’ll provide you with a great amount of Intellect, thanks to its stacking proc with your DoTs & HoTs.

Unbound Changeling: This fan favorite from Shadowlands is back for Season 1, as any stats stick is always a pretty solid choice for a healer, especially if you’re lucky enough to proc your daily multi-stats Changeling.

Spymaster’s Web: An interesting trinket in raid, granting you passive intellect & mastery, and allowing you to empower it greatly during your ramps, when you’ll have a high number of stacks.

Empowering Crystal of Anub’Ikkaj: A pretty solid stats trinket thanks to its great uptime (1.55 RPPM as of now).

Embellishments

Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension: Currently the strongest embellishment overall, granting you one stack of a random secondary stat (rotating) every 8 seconds.

Duskthread Lining: An embellishment granting you Versatility while above 80% health. A classic effect, even though not very exciting, but still quite valuable (especially as a healer, since you’ll keep your health up as much as possible in any case). Worth crafting after your Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension.

The other pieces of crafted gear you can make, after these two embellishments, are very classic, and the choice of which one to craft will only consist of you filling the gap for a slot you were quite unlucky with; whether it’s bad secondary stats that you want to swap, especially on jewelry, or a bigger piece of gear with a hefty pool of Intellect (weapon, chest, helm, legs, shoulders, etc.) where your craft will improve the overall item level.

Regarding the stats you want to have on your crafted gear:

  • For any raid craft, you’ll want to choose Haste & Mastery as secondary stats.
  • For any M+ craft, you’ll mostly want to choose Haste & Versatility.