Druid Hero Talents — The War Within (11.1.0)
This guide will walk you through the best Hero Talents for Restoration Druid for Raiding and Mythic+, how they impact your gameplay, and more.
Best Hero Talents for Restoration Druid in The War Within
This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Restoration Druid, check out our Talents page:
Raiding Hero Talents for Restoration Druid
Keeper of the Grove
Keeper of the Grove is the strongest Hero Talent for all scenarios
in raids. It provides the most steady healing, the most passive damage, and,
more importantly, by far the most burst healing. It also has better defensive
nodes.
Wildstalker
Wildstalker is terrible in raids. The extra HoTs it provides
only affect a few players at a time, barely enhance your ramps, and the
DoT requires shifting into
Cat Form. There is nothing this Tree
offers that is better than what
Keeper of the Grove offers. The
HoT provided by this tree is also still bugged and does not get extended
by
Flourish.
Mythic+ Hero Talents for Restoration Druid
Keeper of the Grove
Keeper of the Grove is currently not recommended for optimal dungeon
healing. It provides a lot less active damage but gives a better defensive
through
Protective Growth. It is also much less reliant on doing
damage in
Cat Form. In general, the healing provided by this tree
is moderately behind
Wildstalker and is harder to execute on top.
Wildstalker
Wildstalker is a much better damage choice and a better healing
choice for Mythic+. It can provide good, steady
healing often.
Implant combined with
Vigorous Creepers gives
a lot of healing on demand. It also has good synergy with
Convoke the Spirits because each
Swiftmend cast by Convoke will
also put Vigorous Creepers on the target (assuming
Implant is chosen).
Keep in mind that this Tree relies heavily on doing damage in
Cat Form,
but if you are looking only for healing, you can just ignore the damage part.
Best Hero Talent Builds for Restoration Druid
Best
Keeper of the Grove Raiding Talents Build for Restoration Druid
First of all, one of the most important talents to pick here is
Power of Nature. You need this talent to improve your ramps. This
provides 30-40% increased healing to your
Rejuvenations if you
plan your
Grove Guardians usage to have full 3 stacks for
Flourish. The fourth stack is achieved by using
Incarnation: Tree of Life a few seconds in advance.
On the right side, there is a choice between Potent Enchantments and
Grove's Inspiration. Grove's Inspiration is better because 3 extra
seconds on Tree of Life really do not add much. Also,
Wild Growth
and
Regrowth are prominently featured in your ramp window.
Between Bounteous Bloom and
Early Spring, you should pick
based on the encounter timers. When you are using
Flourish on
cooldown or very close to on cooldown, the 3-second cooldown reduction on
Grove Guardians will not do anything because you will still want
to use all 3 charges for your ramp. If you delay Flourish to the point where
you can squeeze an extra usage between them, then pick
Early Spring; otherwise,
Bounteous Bloom is a safer choice.
Control of the Dream is incredibly strong if you need a specific timer
for your
Incarnation: Tree of Life. It will reduce the cooldown of your
first usage, which will allow the second one to be popped quite a bit earlier.
There might be situations where you will delay one Tree and still be able to
pop the next one at the proper time. If neither of these situations apply, pick
Power of the Dream. It will slightly improve the power of your ramps.
Best
Keeper of the Grove Mythic+ Talents Build for Restoration Druid
First of all, one of the most important talents to pick here is
Power of Nature. You want to pick this talent to improve healing
when you need it.
Durability of Nature is a really poor option.
On the right side, there is a choice between Potent Enchantments and
Grove's Inspiration. Grove's Inspiration is better because 3 extra
seconds on Tree of Life really do not add much. Also,
Wild Growth
and
Regrowth are some of your better healing spells in Mythic+, and
they also buff the damage of
Wrath and
Starfire.
Between Bounteous Bloom and
Early Spring, you should pick
Early Spring. Having access to more
Grove Guardians is always going
to be better in dungeons.
Now for Control of the Dream and
Power of the Dream in dungeons,
you should pick Control of the Dream because it will give you more
Convoke the Spirits and make it a bit more flexible.
Best
Wildstalker Mythic+ Talents Build for Restoration Druid
Implant is the only way you can guarantee
Symbiotic Bloom to apply to the target. This makes your
Swiftmend an insanely strong spot-healing tool. Combined with
Vigorous Creepers you will be able to do a lot of healing to that
target very fast.
Twin Sprouts is a much better choice for damage, because it can
spread both damage portion and healing one. You will lose a guaranteed
way of applying
Symbiotic Bloom to the target, but it will
provide a ton of passive healing, assuming you have good
Efflorescence
and
Wild Growth usage.
Between Resilient Flourishing and
Root Network, you will
always pick Resilient Flourishing. 2-second increase to a 6-second HoT is very strong
and will significantly increase the uptime of your 20% healing increase on
the group.
Changelog
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Updated for TWW Season 1.
- 29 Aug. 2024: Minor updates.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 02 Aug. 2024: Page added.
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This guide has been reviewed and approved by Torty, one of the main Restoration Druid theorycrafters. He is an author of the Twig It spreadsheet and DPS action priority list. He currently raids in Pure.
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