Welcome to our Restoration Druid healing guide for World of Warcraft MoP 5.3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Restoration Druid in a raid environment, though most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Celece, a Restoration Druid who raids in Midwinter, one of the best guilds in the world. You can watch her stream on Twitch.

Restoration Druids are an interesting healing class. They cannot be easily classified as either tank healer or raid healer. Rather, they perform a sort of hybrid role of blanketing the raid with HoTs while providing good assistance on the main tank.

Restoration Druids are also reliant on keeping up several refreshable buffs and HoTs.

Currently, Restoration Druids provide very solid healing overall and also bring several useful buffs and cooldowns to your raid, making them a very good choice.

In order to properly play a healing role, you will need more than just class-specific information. To better understand healing in general, we recommend that you read our healing guide.

To make it easy to bookmark the specific sections you are interested in, we have split the guide into 7 pages:

• Builds, Talents, and Glyphs: learn what the best talent trees are and how to customise them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: understand how to play your class in an optimal way;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Professions: choose the best gems, enchantments, and consumables;
• Macros and Addons: benefit from useful macros and addons to step up your game;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.