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If you want to level as Restoration, we recommend investing into some basic caster talents from the Balance tree first to help you through the first levels where healing is very easy even without healing talents. Eventually you will to swap to the Restoration tree, where you can pick up Insect Swarm for the damage and Reflection for the Mana efficiency.

Nature's Swiftness is also a critical pickup since it is an incredibly powerful cooldown for both utility and healing, and you can go down the tree until you unlock the strong final healing talents.

1. Cast one Wrath;
2. Moonfire;
3. Insect Swarm;
4. Wrath.
5. Melee if you run out of Mana.

Early levels as Restoration can be quite slow, so consider finding someone to level with for 1-10 or even 1-20.

Entangling Roots will be your best friend while leveling. You can use it to control a second enemy while killing the first, or even to keep something still while you get a cast off onto it, like Starfire, to limit your damage taken. Use it frequently while leveling.

Do your class quest to get Bear Form. Bear Form will be a huge power spike, significantly speeding up your leveling. Beat form will be more damage until Level 20 or so, and you will be much safer while leveling.

The quest for Aquatic Form is available at this level, but you should hold off. It is a very long quest that will be significantly easier once you have Travel Form or a mount.

As a Restoration Druid, do not forget that your main goal is to heal; it is your job to keep your party members alive. There are three main healing spells that you will use as you level: Regrowth, Rejuvenation, and Healing Touch. For Mana efficient healing when the damage is not that high, you should mainly be using Rejuvenation and rank 1 Healing Touch. When damage is high, you can start using Regrowth more. Keeping Rejuvenation and Regrowth up on people will be lots of healing, but will burn through your Mana quickly. Resto Druids have some of the highest HPS in the game early on through keeping Regrowth and Rejuvenation on a target while using Healing Touch, so keeping tanks alive through periods of high damage should not be an issue as long as you have the Mana. The best healers are the ones who plan for when they will need their Mana, and will prepare accordingly by conserving their Mana during periods of low damage by limiting over-healing. You will want to get a feel for how much each spell and rank heals for so you know which to use depending on the situation.

Druid-specific quests are an important part to the class as a whole, as it will unlock certain animal forms that you won't have access to otherwise.

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Below is a list of skills to upgrade as you level. With more gold you can buy more skills, but this list is meant to be an optimal point where you buy what helps you most while saving as much money as possible for your mount at level 40.

• Moonfire
• Wrath
• Thorns
• Entangling Roots
• Hibernate
• Barkskin
• Bash
• Cat Form
• Prowl
• Dash
• Challenging Roar
• Travel Form
• Track Humanoids
• Pounce
• Dire Bear Form
• Feline Grace
• Mark of the Wild
• Hurricane
• Rejuvenation
• Regrowth
• Healing Touch
• Innervate

Choosing what gear to wear is usually pretty straightforward since upgrades will be obvious most of the time. However, when given the choice, you should always go for Nature Damage. Your basic priority will be:

1. Nature Damage
2. Intellect
3. Spirit
4. Stamina

Nature damage will be your primary damage increase. After that you will want Intellect for more Mana and spell crit, Spirit for better regeneration rates, and finally Stamina for more health. In addition to these, you could choose to keep some Healing Power pieces around for dungeons, but it should not be necessary since healing dungeons pre-60 usually does not take much healing. Mana efficiency is more important than stronger heals.

Endgame Information

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Finished Leveling? Check out the rest of our Restoration Druid Guide to learn how to maximize your gameplay!

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This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Warrior, Mage and Shaman Discords, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.

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