Restoration Druid Gearing Guide

Midnight Pre-Patch Tier Set Bonuses:

• 2 Set - Healing is increased by 6%.
• 4 Set - Healing is increased by 10%.

We’re trading our existing tier set bonuses for new ones, with all TWW Season 3 Tier Set items automatically swapping to the new ones.

The previous bonuses were thoughtfully infused into talents, whereas the new set takes a more straightforward, less nuanced approach and doesn’t affect your gameplay at all.

Here are the overall best-in-slot gear lists, including options from Mythic+ and 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).

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

There 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, item level 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).

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Below are a few interesting trinkets from the raid Manaforge Omega. These are, in my opinion, some of the strongest options available.

Nexus-King's Command - A pairing trinket that applies a debuff to an ally every 30 seconds. When you directly heal that target, any overhealing from that specific heal is converted into a damage absorption shield. This trinket is considered a powerful option for players comfortable with the additional gameplay complexity.

Diamantine Voidcore - A high-frequency rate stat stick trigger that gives you baseline mastery. Paired with Voidglass Spire, you will always want this equipped.

Loom'ithar's Living Silk - A strong and unique trinket that grants a substantial damage-absorption shield to you and up to four nearby allies, making it especially effective in Mythic+.

And below, you’ll find a few dungeon-drop trinkets that we particularly like:

Ara-Kara Sacbrood - A very nice trinket with a good uptime main stat proc. Will be a solid choice for both m+ and raiding. The only downside is that for raiding, you cannot control when it procs, and you would really like either passive stats or a strong on-use trinket.

So’leah’s Secret Technique - Our most powerful trinket drops from dungeons. Will be the go-to choice for all content. You will gain secondary stats from an ally based on their highest secondary stat for an hour. A very solid stat stick trinket that passively gives us the best HPS throughput in any situation.

Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj - Similar to Ara-Kara Sacbrood, this trinket has a main stat passive statline with a proccing secondary effect. It has a very high proc rate, but you cannot control which stat you are receiving. Better for raiding than m+ overall. Still a decent choice.

Embellishments & Crafted Gear

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.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is a new Cloak released in Patch 11.2 and will be the only cloak you use (and the only one that can drop from any content in Season 3). You gain access to it via a quest chain and by completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline.

The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps, you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Chronomatic Fiber (Haste).

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

Restoration Druids are spending the coins in the following order:

1. Nexus King’s Command
2. Diamantine Voidcore/Voidglass Kris/Voidglass Spire.
3. Interloper's Reinforced Sandals
4. So’leah’s Secret Technique

Depending on what items you need and what you find dropping for yourself, you wanna target to get the weapon/trinket set in combination with Nexus King’s Command. So’leah’s Secret Technique is a viable option for all content, so getting that one first isn’t too bad either.