Restoration Druid PvP Guide for WotLK Classic

Restoration Druids have a unique healing style that relies on instant heals over time which act slowly, but also carry more potential healing in them than most casted heals of other classes.

Heals over time allow the Druid to heal on the move and keep healing even while the Druid is crowd controlled or temporarily out of line-of-sight or range of their targets, enabling safe windows where crowd control such as Cyclone and Entangling Roots can be used, or for drinking.

Ultimately, Restoration Druids can struggle against teams with high burst damage and target swapping potential, especially if they can also remove their healing over time effects, but they also excel against damage-over-time compositions and when facing low mobility melee, which they can pin down with their multiple root effects.

The PvP build skips some of the least impactful Nourish-related talents to pick up multiple PvP-oriented talents such as Subtlety, Natural Perfection, Improved Barkskin, and Nature's Reach.

Due to 2v2 only having two players to keep healed, Wild Growth is mostly a waste of Mana, thus this build skips it and Revitalize in favor of more damage with Insect Swarm, the Haste provided by Celestial Focus and the damage / kiting utility of Brambles.

Glyph of Swiftmend, Glyph of Barkskin and either Glyph of Rejuvenation for more healing or Glyph of Innervate for more Mana sustain are your best PvP Major Glyphs.

For minor glyphs, the best quality of life options are Glyph of Dash, Glyph of the Wild, and Glyph of Thorns.

Rather than a fixed rotation, Druid gameplay is about treading a fine balance between healing, drinking, and crowd controlling. In a nutshell:

• Keep yourself alive with Dire Bear Form and Barkskin;
• Stay in control of the match with Entangling Roots and Cyclone;
• Heal through enemy damage with Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Wild Growth, Regrowth, and also Nature's Swiftness in emergencies;
• Keep your Mana topped with Innervate and by tactically slipping away to drink when allies are safe.

You can find our recommended gear, gems, and enchants for PvPing as a Restoration Druid in the link below.

These are some of the strongest Restoration Druid compositions in each Arena bracket:

In 2v2, Druid + Destruction Warlock, Druid + Warrior, and Druid + Rogue are your best compositions, and all play differently, with the strongest one being with a Destruction Warlock, as the crowd control ability of both classes combined keeps melee enemies away from the Warlock and ranged enemies in line-of-sight of Chaos Bolt.

In 3v3, LSD (Druid + Elemental Shaman + Destruction Warlock) is your best composition and sports extremely high burst damage which can be timed to land just as Cyclone ends, as well as a lot of crowd control designed to keep enemies in check and away from your caster partners.

In 5v5, Eurocomp (Rogue + Frost Mage + Warlock + Discipline Priest + Druid) is an ideal Restoration Druid composition that has all the tools for success.