Restoration Druid Healing Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Restoration Druid for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.0).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Restoration Druids and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Restoration Druid
Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Restoration Druid
Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use
Barkskin when targeted by 
Incendiary Fire.
-
On top of Barkskin, consider popping
Ironbark or
Bear Form when targeted by Incendiary Fire and
Exhaust Fumes is about to happen.
Cooldown Usage
- Use first
Flourish when the first Bikes start hitting the boss. Do
not overcommit to this. - Save
Incarnation: Tree of Life for Phase 2. It is an ideal place for
it, because it lasts for quite some time.
- Use
Tranquility towards the end of this phase to reset your cooldowns
for the next Phase 2.
Mechanical Tips
- You can use crowd control spells on Pit Mechanics in Phase 2, such as
Typhoon, 
Ursol's Vortex, or even 
Mass Entanglement. - Use Ironbark on players targeted by Incendiary Fire
when Exhaust Fumes is about to happen.
Best Talents
There are quite a few flex points for this boss. We recommend using 
Incarnation: Tree of Life
over 
Convoke the Spirits on this boss, but Convoke can also work depending on your
cooldown assignments.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- You will want to save Barkskin for the end of Phase 1. You will
have the highest stacks of stacking debuffs and
Colossal Clash
will happen shortly.
Cooldown Usage
- The biggest damage on this fight will happen in a relatively short burst. Your raid will also be split in 2 groups, so your ramp ability will be limited by the number of targets in range.
- Start ramping in the end of Phase 1. As phase is about to end,
use
Convoke the Spirits and then Flourish.
Mechanical Tips
- Use crowd control spells on
Voltaic Image.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rik Reverb for Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use Barkskin when you are draining an Amplifier.
Cooldown Usage
- Use Flourish for
Static Jolt triggers. They will happen
very often. - Use Convoke the Spirits together with Flourish on Heroic and Mythic
difficulties. It is probably a better idea to split them on Normal and just rotate usage.
- Try to use Tranquility for cooldown reduction between your Flourishes.
Mechanical Tips
- Pop
Stampeding Roar for movement in the intermissions. - Both
Wild Charge and 
Tiger Dash are good on this boss.
Pick whichever you prefer.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
Prototype Powercoil is the most dangerous moment for you personally,
so only use it for when you get it.
Cooldown Usage
- Use Convoke the Spirits and Flourish on
Electromagnetic Sorting.
Just keep using them every single time they are up. - Use Tranquility right after Flourish, when the next
Electromagnetic Sorting is going to be less than a minute away.
Mechanical Tips
- A lot of targeted healing will be needed on players affected
by Prototype Powercoil. If someone is close to death,
pop Ironbark on them.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use your Barkskin when
Pyro Party Pack and 
Sonic Ba-Boom
overlap. It will happen on second and third casts of Pyro Party Pack.
Cooldown Usage
- Intermissions are ideal for Incarnation: Tree of Life. The first
one will happen 2 minutes in, so you can pop Incarnation on pull.
- Use Flourish on pull for damage (through
Nature's Vigil),
it will be back up on the second Pyro Party Pack and then
in the intermission. - Your cooldowns will naturally align after that.
Mechanical Tips
- Intermissions require a lot of movement, which means you should
have a Stampeding Roar rotation. They are every 2 minutes,
so you will not need to spec into cooldown reduction.
- It is a good idea to save Ironbark for the intermissions
as an extra ramp target.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for One-ARmed Bandit for Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use Barkskin on overlaps of raid damage from
Pay-Line and 
Foul Exhaust.
Cooldown Usage
- Save your cooldowns for the end of the fight. Your planning should go from back to front and will heavily depend on your raid damage.
- The basic idea is to use Flourish as often as possible
without sacrificing usage in Phase 2.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Mug'Zee for Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- There was not enough PTR testing to offer advice here.
Cooldown Usage
- You will sometimes be locked inside cages with a small group of players.
If you decide to use a cooldown there, it can be Tranquility, because
it ignores line of sight restrictions.
- Use Flourish as often as possible.
Mechanical Tips
- There was not enough PTR testing to offer advice here.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Restoration Druid
This boss was not testable on the TWW Alpha/Beta servers. Information will be forthcoming once it is available on Live servers.
Defensive Tips
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Cooldown Usage
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Offensive Cooldown Usage
Restoration Druid has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Liberation of Undermine:
- Flourish - Our main, 1-minute cooldown. You will use it
as damage starts and then follow up with a bunch of
Regrowth
casts (the burst phase). - Incarnation: Tree of Life - Our ~2-minute cooldown. You will
always pair it with Flourish.
- Convoke the Spirits - Our 1-minute cooldown. You will
always pair it with Flourish, just like Incarnation.
Make sure to use your cooldowns on cooldown as much as possible. There will
be situations where you need to sit on them for a bit, but you cannot be doing
it for longer than the cooldown itself. 
Flourish in particular is a
major source of Mana management due to its interactions with 
Abundance.
Using Flourish only, for example, every 1:30 will almost guarantee that your
Mana will be expended too fast. In that case you will have to cast way more
Wrath. So not only will you have much less healing due to
not using cooldowns, you will also have less healing spell casts in general,
further reducing your healing. The same goes for Incarnation: Tree of Life,
which reduces 
Rejuvenation cost, and Convoke the Spirits,
which generates free healing spells and casts Wraths that give you Mana.
The knock-on effects can be pretty massive.
General Defensive Cooldown Usage
If you want to mitigate damage during some of the harder hitting moment of
any given encounter, just 
Barkskin before the damage hits. If you get
low from damage, you can always pop 
Renewal. In general you should not
be in danger of dying when your healing cooldowns are running due to self-healing
from Leech.
Changelog
- 03 Mar. 2025: Added some boss recommendations for Normal and Heroic.
- 20 Feb. 2025: Guide 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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