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 on
Exhaust Fumes. On Normal and Heroic you can split
Convoke the Spirits and Flourish, on Mythic the timings of Phase 2 will be more strict, so you will have to plan.
- If you do a late Phase 2 push, you can use 2 sets of cooldowns and
Tranquility. If you do an early push, you will do one set and then use Tranquility in Phase 2.
Mechanical Tips
- You can use crowd control spells on Pit Mechanics in Phase 2, such as
Typhoon,
Ursol's Vortex,
Entangling Roots, or even
Mass Entanglement.
- Use
Ironbark on players targeted by
Incendiary Fire when
Exhaust Fumes is about to happen.
Raid frames debuff tracking:
Bomb Voyage! - ID 459978
Incendiary Fire - ID 468216
Oil Slick - ID 459683
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.
- If you start on the fire side, you can ramp for the first bomb,
then use
Tranquility later to have both
Convoke the Spirits and
Flourish back for the intermission.
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 3 times per each Phase 1.
- Use
Convoke the Spirits together with Flourish. Since the boss is on a 2 minute cycle, you will be able to use cooldowns on the first and the third
Static Jolt, then rolling some healing into Phase 2.
- Try to use
Tranquility between your Flourishes. The cooldown reduction part will not be very important.
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.
Raid frames debuff tracking:
Faulty Zap - ID 467044 / 467108
Entranced - ID 1214598
Sound Cannon - ID 469380
Resonant Echoes - ID 468119
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.
Raid frames debuff tracking:
Incineration - ID 472893
Rolling Rubbish - ID 461536
Infected Bite - ID 466748
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
- 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
- You can use
Convoke the Spirits and
Flourish on both sets of bombs in Phase 1, then reset CDs with
Tranquility for Phase 2.
- After the first rotation, you will have to skip the first set of bombs in Phase 1 and then do the second bombs plus intermission until the end of the fight.
- It is a good idea to save
Ironbark for the intermissions as an extra ramp target.
Raid frames debuff tracking:
Screwed! - ID 1217261
Screw Up - ID 1216509
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
Flame and Coin. Do not bother using it on healing absorbs, because Barkskin will not reduce the amount and the damage itself from it is pretty low.
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.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Ironbark on targets affected by
Withering Flames.
- You may want to spec into
Tiger Dash to quickly reposition with various debuffs.
Raid frames debuff tracking:
Withering Flames - ID 471927
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
- Use
Barkskin on Phase transitions.
Renewal is good for healing absorbs after bomb soaks.
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. The ideal ramp target is bomb soaks, because they are the most dangerous. Also, people with the healing absorb debuff (
Searing Shrapnel) will continue taking damage while the debuff is up, so your priority should be to heal this up as soon as possible.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Ironbark on targets affected by
Stormfury Finger Gun or
Spray and Pray. They will take heavy single target damage and will require a lot of attention.
Raid frames debuff tracking:
Searing Shrapnel - ID 469052
Stormfury Finger Gun - ID 466509
Spray and Pray - ID 466545
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
Defensive Tips
- Use
Barkskin on any of the soaks. They will not do too much damage, but they will bring you low enough that further damage might kill you.
Cooldown Usage
- Rotate
Convoke the Spirits and
Flourish between soaks.
- Use
Tranquility when you have both Convoke and Flourish on CD, and the soak is not on your group.
- Keep using
Convoke the Spirits and
Flourish for healing absorbs.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Wild Charge or
Tiger Dash to quickly reposition.
Typhoon and
Ursol's Vortex can be very helpful to keep the adds grouped.
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
- 16 Mar. 2025: Updated boss recommendations for Heroic and Mythic.
- 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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