Restoration Druid Healing Easy Mode — 12.1

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The following rotation is a rough idea of what you should prioritize when playing. It does not include deeper details, and there are many small ways you could improve your gameplay, but it will give you a general idea.

• Maintain Efflorescence under the melee group. Ignore if running Lifetreading.
• Keep Lifebloom on yourself.
• Use Swiftmend on cooldown. Follow it up with Rejuvenation.
• Use Wild Growth whenever the raid is heavily injured. It is expensive but heals for a lot..
• Cast Rejuvenation in order to keep your Abundance active (5 active).
• Cast Regrowth with Abundance active. This will be your most common cast.
• Cast Wrath to regenerate Mana (via Master Shapeshifter).

The Restoration Druid tier set is completely passive, and increases the amount your heal-over-time-effects heal. The buff is a rare proc on Rejuvenation cast, and you will get a guaranteed stack on Tranquility, Convoke the Spirits and Nature's Swiftness casts.

• Maintain Efflorescence under the tank and melee. Ignore this if running Lifetreading (it's in the default build).
• Keep Lifebloom on the tank. If they are standing away from the group then it is ok to put it on a DPS.
• Use Swiftmend and follow it up with either Regrowth or Rejuvenation, depending on whether you need healing now or over the next 20 seconds.
• Cast Wild Growth during light to moderate damage.
• Keep Rejuvenation on the tank and on members of the group that just took damage or are about to take damage.
• During downtime, use Moonfire, Sunfire and Wrath on enemies to help contribute damage.

The new talent addition in Midnight is the "Apex Talent" Node. It acts as a tier 3 spec talent node, but you can put up to 4 points in it. Ours is called "Everbloom", and it has the following effects.

• Point 1 ( Everbloom): Lifebloom stacks up to 3 times, stacking every 5 seconds.
• Points 2 and 3 ( Everbloom): Your Lifebloom cleaves 20/40% of its "bloom" healing to up to 6 nearby allies. This includes talents that generate more blooms like Photosynthesis
• Point 4 ( Everbloom): When you cast Swiftmend, your Lifebloom blooms 3 times in quick succession.

Our builds all take the Apex talent so you will want to really emphasize keeping Lifebloom active on a target at all times.

• Tranquility should be used during heavy raid damage or when you are assigned to use it by your raid leader. Make sure you cast Rejuvenation beforehand since Tranquility will extend them all.
• Innervate should be used as often as possible during the fight. Use your first when you are at about 75% mana.
• Convoke the Spirits in raids should be used often. Cast some Rejuvenation beforehand and try and line it up with the most dangerous moments of the fight.
• Ironbark should be used to reduce the damage a tank takes during critical moments (such as when important boss abilities are about to be cast). In the absence of such situations, you should use it on players who are taking damage. You may be assigned to use it at a specific time as part of a rotation with other healers and the tanks' cooldowns.

Intellect is stronger than all secondary stats, making most item level increases an upgrade. The only exceptions are rings and necks. You generally want to equip higher item level ones, but there might be small exceptions for those within 5 item levels.

Haste and Mastery are the strongest secondaries for pure healing. If your priority is healing, then just equip Mastery and Haste because they are by far the strongest healing stats in small group content. This also aligns your raid and dungeon stat priorities which can be very useful.

For more information on what's presented on this page, check out our main Stat Priority page.

The Combat Assistant feature introduced in Patch 11.1.7 does not work for healing. Both Combat Assistant and One-Button will only make you use damage spells but you are better off just casting Wrath. They will also not work at all when you are in Bear Form.