WotLK Classic Restoration Druid Guide

Druids are the only class in the game capable of fulling all four roles: tank, healer, ranged DPS, and melee DPS.

Restoration Druids focus on heal over time effects such as Rejuvenation. Their many instant-cast healing spells allow them to do most of their healing while moving, and they bring multiple support abilities, such as Revitalize, Innervate, and Rebirth.

In PvP, Resto Druids keep the same mobility and heal-over-time-heavy style, but are also expected to use their crowd control tools, such as Cyclone, to steer the match into their favor. They also have strong defensive and kiting abilities, and their forms break roots and Polymorph effects.

If you would like to see where Restoration Druids fall in the overall rankings among healer specs for both PvE and PvP in Wrath Classic, we have created pages dedicated to explaining what classes and specializations are the best of the best through multiple factors. However, ultimately, you should not let these lists dissuade you from playing what you enjoy.

Strengths

• Excellent mobility as you can do most of your healing while moving.
• Multiple heals-over-time can be stacked on the tank to cushion against incoming damage.
• Strong area healing-over-time with Rejuvenation and Wild Growth blanketing, which procs Revitalize.

Weaknesses

• Burst healing is low as Druid mostly relies on heals-over-time.
• Hard to sustain Mana until multiple cost reduction items can be obtained.
• Utility brought tends to either be weak or able to be brought by more meta classes.

Unlike other classes, Druids do not have a choice when it comes to race. If you want to go Alliance, you must be Night Elf. If you want to go Horde, you must be Tauren. Thus, your only choice is which faction you want to choose, which you should make based on your guild, friends, or cosmetic and lore preferences.

• Nature Resistance reduces the chance you are hit with Nature spells by 2%.
• Quickness reduces the chance you are hit by melee and ranged attacks by 2%.
• Shadowmeld is an ability that allows you to become stealthed while standing still when used, on a 2-minute cooldown. It can be used in combat.
• Wisp Spirit causes you to transform into a wisp upon death, increasing your movement speed by 75% while dead.

Shadowmeld is a powerful ability which allow you to instantly drop threat (temporarily) in PvE or cancel enemy casts on you in PvP. Nature Resistance and Quickness are also very useful defensively.

• Cultivation increases your Herbalism skill by 15.
• Endurance increases your total health by 5%.
• Nature Resistance reduces the chance you are hit with Nature spells by 2%.
• War Stomp is a 2-minute cooldown that stuns up to 5 enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds, with a 0.5-second cast time.

War Stomp is quite reliable in PvP, often allowing for a surprise Cyclone cast, but has little PvE uses. The 5% increased health from Endurance is minor, but often useful, as is Nature Resistance.

Most specializations benefit highly from the burst of stats offered by Tailoring's Lightweave Embroidery and Engineering's Hyperspeed Accelerators tinker, but Restoration Druid is mostly interested in flat stats, which offer their benefit all the time. Spell Power is especially good as it scales all spells and has no caps to worry about.

Fortunately, all professions offer similar levels of Spell Power when fully leveled, and as such you can pick from any profession knowing it will grant similar benefits. Although it grants less Spell Power than most alternatives, Engineering still has its explosives, Nitro Boosts' burst of speed, and Haste on-demand glove enchant, making it a strong profession.

Using macros and addons makes your life significantly easier when playing Wrath Classic, and they can improve your experience a lot, depending on how skilled you are at customizing them.

If you are interested in learning more about addons and macros suited to Restoration Druids, check out our guides below: