Restoration Druid Healing Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.0.5)

We do not believe a strict Best in Slot list is possible due to how stat weights work for Restoration Druids. Secondary stats are extremely close to each other, with Intellect increasing the most per each item level. The optimal gearing strategy, in this case, would be to equip the highest item-level pieces whenever possible, excluding trinkets and tier, preferring items with Haste.

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Best-in-Slot (BiS) Gear for Restoration Druids

Overall Raid BiS Overall Mythic+ BiS Only Raid Gear BiS Only Mythic+ Gear BiS

2.1.

Overall Raid BiS

This list contains the theoretically best items for raiding gathered from all possible sources. We will provide gearing options more suited toward healing.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Scepter of Manifested Miasma	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Off-hand	Vagabond's Torch with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension	Crafted — Enchanting
Helm	Hood of the Hidden Path	Mists of Tirna Scithe/Great Vault
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	Maw of the Greatlynx	Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Chest	Hide of the Greatlynx	Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Polluted Spectre's Wraps	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Gloves	Eviscerators of the Greatlynx	Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Rune-Branded Waistband with Writhing Armor Banding	Crafted — Leatherworking
Legs	Leggings of the Greatlynx	Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Treads of the Greatlynx	Matrix Catalyst
Ring #1	Key to the Unseeming	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Writhing Ringworm	Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1	Spymaster's Web	Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #2	Gale of Shadows	Great Vault/Grim Batol

2.1.

Overall Mythic+ BiS

This list contains the theoretically best items for Mythic+ gathered from all possible sources. We will provide gearing options more suited towards healing, only some of the options will pick more damage stats over Mastery.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Melodious Iron Songspire	Great Vault
(Alternative) Weapon	Takazj's Entropic Edict	Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
Helm	Hood of the Hidden Path	Mists of Tirna Scithe/Great Vault
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	Maw of the Greatlynx	Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Chest	Hide of the Greatlynx	Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Polluted Spectre's Wraps	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Gloves	Eviscerators of the Greatlynx	Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Rune-Branded Waistband	Crafted — Leatherworking
Legs	Leggings of the Greatlynx	Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Waders of the Unifying Flame	Crafted — Leatherworking
Ring #1	Key to the Unseeming	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Binding of Binding	Crafted — Jewelcrafting
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood	Great Vault/Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket #2	Gale of Shadows	Great Vault/Grim Batol

2.1.

Only Raid Gear BiS

This list contains the theoretically best items for raiding gathered only from Raid or using Matrix Catalyst.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Takazj's Entropic Edict	Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
Helm	Mask of the Greatlynx	The Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	Maw of the Greatlynx	Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Chest	Hide of the Greatlynx	Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Polluted Spectre's Wraps	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Gloves	Eviscerators of the Greatlynx	Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Behemoth's Eroded Cinch	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Legs	Leggings of the Greatlynx	Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Treads of the Greatlynx	Matrix Catalyst
Ring #1	Key to the Unseeming	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Writhing Ringworm	Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1	Spymaster's Web	>Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #2	Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg	Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace

2.1.

Only Mythic+ Gear BiS

This list contains the theoretically best items for Mythic+ gathered only from the dungeons themselves, Great Vault, or from Matrix Catalyst. We will provide gearing options more suited towards healing, only some of the options will pick more damage stats over Mastery.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Melodious Iron Songspire	Great Vault/The Stonevault
Helm	Hood of the Hidden Path	Mists of Tirna Scithe/Great Vault
Neck	'Emergency Stop' Keychain	Great Vault/The Stonevault
Shoulder	Maw of the Greatlynx	Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Anvilhide Cape	Great Vault/The Stonevault
Chest	Hide of the Greatlynx	Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Risen Monstrosity Cuffs	Great Vault/The Necrotic Wake
Gloves	Eviscerators of the Greatlynx	Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Sapgorger Belt	Mists of Tirna Scithe/Great Vault
Legs	Glimmerthread Pantaloons	Great Vault/Grim Batol
Boots	Treads of the Greatlynx	Matrix Catalyst
Ring #1	Experiment 08752's Band	Great Vault/City of Threads
Ring #2	Stitchflesh's Misplaced Signet	Great Vault/The Necrotic Wake
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood	Great Vault/Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket #2	Gale of Shadows	Great Vault/Grim Batol

Crafting is an essential way of getting high-item-level gear. You can get one naturally every 2 weeks unless you pick half of the spark from your weekly vault.

Since there are only a few crafts you can make at these item levels, it is important to choose the slots wisely. We do not recommend crafting anything in the potential tier slots (Head, Shoulders, Chest, Gloves, Legs). Another factor to remember is Embellished items. You can only wear two items with these effects, similar to legendaries in previous expansions. These effects will not do nearly as much, but they still can add some healing or damage.

Crafting choices are a bit complicated. Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension is a bit better than others, but it can only go on weapons. Since this is a Nerubian Embellishment, you can use Writhing Armor Banding on another slot (for example, bracers) and gain the most power. If you are not using a weapon craft, then you will probably want to go for Waders of the Unifying Flame and Duskthread Lining.

First of all, make sure you do not craft anything until after you do the raid or clear at least a few Mythic dungeons. It will be even better to wait until week 2 of the season and loot the first vault before crafting anything. Especially if you are able to clear higher levels of Mythic+ and acquire Gilded Harbinger Crest. In that case, we recommend using the first craft on Vagabond's Bounding Baton with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. Your second craft will only happen on week 3 of the season and will probably be bracers with Writhing Armor Banding.

Having said all that, there will be a few situations where item-level upgrades will not be actual upgrades. Sockets are usually worth more than 10 item levels, Leech on the first 2-3 pieces is worth about 5 item levels, and Avoidance around as much. Due to Leech providing a bit of power, we will only give a definite BiS list for any slots if the gains from effects on them are better than a random piece with Leech in that slot.

For Mythic+ gearing, you will generally want to equip Mastery until you are comfortable with healing requirements. Some play with 0 Mastery on gear to deal more damage, and some go into it more heavily. There will be no magic number we can give you.

No special weapons will make you drop item levels. Equip whatever combination of Two-Handed or One-Handed plus Off-Hand that gives you more Intellect and Leech.

For direct trinket comparison, use QELive made by Voulk. We will list a few special trinkets here with comments on their power level.

The following list ranks trinkets for raid purposes. Trinkets in the same tier are listed in the order of their power.

1. S-tier — Spymaster's Web.
2. A-tier — Gale of Shadows, Unbound Changeling, Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg, Ara-Kara Sacbrood.
3. B-tier — Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj, Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife, Creeping Coagulum.
4. C-tier — Mereldar's Toll, Viscous Coaglam, Scrapsinger's Symphony.
5. D-tier — Siphoning Phylactery Shard, Treacherous Transmitter, Gruesome Syringe.

High Speaker's Accretion and Corrupted Egg Shell at 639 item level are worse than Darkmoon Deck: Ascension (577) and Darkmoon Deck: Symbiosis (577).

It is hard to provide the list for Mythic+ trinkets due to the nature of healing there. You can get a general sense of their relative power from the raid list. However, keep in mind that it does not take damage into account. As such, for Mythic+, you might want to use both Gale of Shadows and Ara-Kara Sacbrood over Spymaster's Web. The throughput they provide is not as bursty, and they do not have Mastery as a passive stat.