Restoration Druid Leveling Guide from 1 to 90 — Midnight Season 1

Leveling as a healer is quite a lot slower than DPS or tank specs since we do not kill things very quickly. It is still more than fine to do so, just expect a longer journey. You can also take advantage of dungeon content to put your healing abilities to use. It is quite common to level as one of the Druid DPS specs LinkEngineering Balance or Feral and then swap to Restoration at max level but it is your choice.

If you do persist as a healer then you will want to take advantage of your amazing survivability by pulling a lot of enemies at once - particularly once you have picked up a few talent points. As a Druid you also have access to Prowl which allows you to skip some enemies entirely since it puts you in "stealth" where enemies are much less likely to detect you. You can use this ability to skip past tricky mobs to get quest items.

If this is your first character, or you simply want to find out more about leveling in WoW in general, we got you covered with our general leveling guide!

While leveling, equip the highest item level items possible. You will replace items quickly and secondary stats are not relevant, so try not to go too out of your way for a single piece of equipment while levelling. Try to avoid Mastery on gear since it does not provide any damage benefit. If you have two items at equal item level, equip the one with Haste on it since it is a good damage and healing stat that also improves the feel of your rotation.

When using Heirloom items, we recommend using those with Haste and any other secondary stat, as they will slightly improve your gameplay hile leveling. Find out more about Heirlooms in our dedicated guide!

If you are just starting your journey into Midnight, we have a Level 80 import string for you. You can follow the point-by-point allocation of the below tree once you start gaining levels in Midnight.

You unlock the talent system at level 10, and gain a point in one of the three trees every level. Talents are bonuses for your character and some are even active abilities. The "Class Tree" focuses on abilities and passives that all Druid specs can use, whereas the "Restoration Tree" focuses on giving you healing abilities.

Our talent selections will mostly focus on giving you as much damage as possible, while still ticking off major healing talents in case you do group content. While our max level dungeon and raid builds will look a little different, you are still picking up most of the same tools so playing at max level should be quite familiar to you.

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Starting at Level 1, you only have one main attack ability: Wrath.

1. Convoke the Spirits is a great spell to damage an enemy and heal your group quickly. Use it as often as possible.
2. Moonfire is a damage over time spell that you should use against any enemy you are fighting. It's particularly good at pulling new enemies into combat with you.
3. Ferocious Bite deals damage based on the amount of combo points spent. The damage is increased further for each Energy point used beyond 25, up to 25 extra.
4. Use Rip instead of Ferocious Bite if you expect the enemy to live long enough for the DoT to do all the damage.
5. You gain your first talent point, spend it on Rake. Use Rake and Moonfire to DoT up multiple enemies.
6. Cat Form. You move 30% faster in Cat Form. This also unlocks Shred, a single target attack only usable in Cat Form and awards 1 Combo Point. Use Rake instead most of the time.

Keep in mind that most of your abilities for leveling come in the form of talents, and you should path towards them specifically.

If you want an in-depth overview of all your abilities, click on the button below.

To level fast, you will want to focus on minimizing downtime and increasing damage as much as possible. You will also want to take advantage of your powerful healing capabilities by pulling as many enemies at a time as possible. You do not need any special items to level, but picking up a few of these beforehand might hasten your journey:

Flasks are a decent way to add damage without having to pay a high price. Haste is a great choice.

Combat potions can speed up big pulls or difficult mobs.

You do not really need healing potions when levelling as a healing spec, but these are very good and can be used from level 81 onwards.