Restoration Druid Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Restoration Druid Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Rejuvenation has a 15% chance, and Nature's Swiftness has a 100% chance to grant Genesis, causing all your heal over time effects to heal for 15% more for 12 seconds. Multiple applications may overlap.
• (4) Set Bonus: ‍Nature's Swiftness, ‍Tranquility, and ‍Incarnation: Tree Of Life or ‍Convoke The Spirits have a 100% chance to grant Genesis, and Genesis duration is increased by 4 seconds.

Tier Set Discussion:

The new set takes a straightforward approach and does not alter your gameplay a lot since we are already incentivized to use Rejuvenation frequently, the set naturally aligns with your existing rotation without requiring any adjustments.

You just get more value out of things you were already pressing.

The overall BiS list below is built as a general purpose loadout that performs best in both raid and Mythic+ content, so you don't need to maintain two separate gear sets.

Do note that these lists include every item that will fit the stats priority (covered in this guide)

For every raid trinket, I’ll list an alternative you can obtain in M+ in the Trinket section, since raids aren't something you can farm over and over in 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).

The lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Restoration Druid, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

Below are a few interesting trinkets suitable for both types of content listed from best to worst:

Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel: Is an on use trinket with a potent and interesting effect that packs a lot of value, it grants a pretty sizable shield for 5 allies.

For raiding it’s specially good for early progression when you have people die early and can help extend some of the pulls and even in scenarios where nobody dies, it's still very strong.

It’s also a standout pick for Mythic+ where its defensive utility can be especially impactful. It is highly recommended especially since it's relatively easy to obtain, dropping from the very first boss of the raid.

Wavecaller's Seastone: Is a quite strong trinket that offers a flat haste increase and grants you a stacking Intellect proc that builds up over time before gradually diminishing and resetting, repeating the cycle anew.

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag: This trinket comes with heavy RNG attached to it, when it procs it pulls one of six possible effects at random some are positives, some are negatives, so you're rolling the dice a bit here:

• Crit buff paired with a bleed effect
• Versatility buff that diminishes over time
• Crit buff that diminishes over time
• Haste buff paired with movement speed
• A buff to all stats at once
• A debuff lowering all secondary stats at once

Tuning on this trinket will make the difference between it being good or bad, it’s worth holding onto, at the moment this trinket seems decent.

Hex Lord's Dooming Idol: Comes with a standard haste stat stick ,it applies a debuff over time that steadily drains your Intellect, you'll want to use this trinket regularly, especially once the debuff builds up to full stacks (big int payoff ) ,if you hold it for long periods of time you’re putting yourself at a disadvantage.

Lightspire Core: Is an Intellect trinket with passive flat amount of mastery. Casting spells has a high chance to call a beam of light nearby. Standing in the beam grants an additional increase to mastery. While positioning yourself in the beam isn’t always practical, this isn’t a major drawback, as the passive stat increase is already very strong on its own.

Stormbound Emblem of Dazar: Is an on use haste trinket suitable for both raiding and mythic+.

Crafting items with Embellishments grants them unique effects and bonuses beyond their standard stats. Keep in mind that you can only equip two Embellished pieces at a time. With this limitation in mind, aim to craft the following items at the highest item level available to you. The recrafting system allows you to upgrade their item level later, so you can always improve them over time if needed.

You’ll want to secure a strong weapon as early as possible. Here are some recommended options for early into Midnight Season 2:

• Aln'hara Lantern with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt if you're able to get Jan'thrazet, the Soul Fang early through a lucky bonus roll, otherwise Aln'hara Cane is a solid alternative for crafting avoiding the risk of running heroic weapons for 2-3 weeks.
• Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors / Silvermoon Agent's Mantle with Arcanoweave Lining

Once your strongest pieces are crafted, use your Spark of Tides to upgrade the slots with your lowest item level gear. Focus on raising weaker pieces first to increase your overall average item level efficiently.

Your early game crafts will differ from the optimal late game setup, you’ll want to run two armor pieces, both with Arcanoweave Lining Embellishments and they are likely to be shoulders with either wrists or boots.

Regarding the stats you want to have on your crafted gear: For any raid /M+ craft, you’ll want to choose Haste & Mastery as secondary stats (Thalassian Missive of the Feverflare).

Bonus Rolls:

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

• Gaze of the Coiled Watcher and Jan'thrazet, the Soul Fang are the highest priority since the weapon is very rare and the helm will be competitive to get.
• The Coiled Altar is a safe boss to roll for Legs, Waist, Back, and Trinket.
• Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel and Vestment of the Awakening are good options but I will rate them “low priority” as they drop from the first boss of the raid and are relatively easy to obtain.The same goes for Wavecaller's Seastone that drops from Nymrissa Wavecaller in the The Tidebound Grotto raid.

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Restoration Druid:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune Of Void-Tainted Shell
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of Burning Haste
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.