Restoration Druid Healing Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)

Last updated on Mar 16, 2025 at 12:00 by Torty 73 comments
General Information

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).

1.

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.

2.

Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Restoration Druid

2.

Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Restoration Druid

Vexie Fullthrottle Cauldron of Carnage Rik Reverb Stix Bunkjunker Sprocketmonger Lockenstock One-Armed Bandit Mug'Zee Chrome King Gallywix
3.

Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Restoration Druid

2.1.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin when targeted by Incendiary Fire Icon Incendiary Fire.
  • On top of Barkskin Icon Barkskin, consider popping Ironbark Icon Ironbark or Bear Form Icon Bear Form when targeted by Incendiary Fire Icon Incendiary Fire and Exhaust Fumes Icon Exhaust Fumes is about to happen.
2.2.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use first Flourish Icon Flourish on Exhaust Fumes Icon Exhaust Fumes. On Normal and Heroic you can split Convoke the Spirits Icon 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 Icon Tranquility. If you do an early push, you will do one set and then use Tranquility in Phase 2.
2.3.

Mechanical Tips

  • You can use crowd control spells on Pit Mechanics in Phase 2, such as Typhoon Icon Typhoon, Ursol's Vortex Icon Ursol's Vortex, Entangling Roots Icon Entangling Roots, or even Mass Entanglement Icon Mass Entanglement.
  • Use Ironbark Icon Ironbark on players targeted by Incendiary Fire Icon Incendiary Fire when Exhaust Fumes Icon Exhaust Fumes is about to happen.
2.4.

Raid frames debuff tracking:

  • Bomb Voyage! Icon Bomb Voyage! - ID 459978
  • Incendiary Fire Icon Incendiary Fire - ID 468216
  • Oil Slick Icon Oil Slick - ID 459683
2.5.

Best Talents

There are quite a few flex points for this boss. We recommend using Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life over Convoke the Spirits Icon 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!

3.

Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Restoration Druid

2.6.

Defensive Tips

  • You will want to save Barkskin Icon Barkskin for the end of Phase 1. You will have the highest stacks of stacking debuffs and Colossal Clash Icon Colossal Clash will happen shortly.
2.7.

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 Icon Convoke the Spirits and then Flourish Icon Flourish.
  • If you start on the fire side, you can ramp for the first bomb, then use Tranquility Icon Tranquility later to have both Convoke the Spirits Icon Convoke the Spirits and Flourish Icon Flourish back for the intermission.
2.8.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use crowd control spells on Voltaic Image Icon Voltaic Image.
2.9.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for Rik Reverb for Restoration Druid

2.10.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin when you are draining an Amplifier.
2.11.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Flourish Icon Flourish for Static Jolt Icon Static Jolt triggers. They will happen 3 times per each Phase 1.
  • Use Convoke the Spirits Icon 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 Icon Static Jolt, then rolling some healing into Phase 2.
  • Try to use Tranquility Icon Tranquility between your Flourishes. The cooldown reduction part will not be very important.
2.12.

Mechanical Tips

  • Pop Stampeding Roar Icon Stampeding Roar for movement in the intermissions.
  • Both Wild Charge Icon Wild Charge and Tiger Dash Icon Tiger Dash are good on this boss. Pick whichever you prefer.
2.13.

Raid frames debuff tracking:

  • Faulty Zap Icon Faulty Zap - ID 467044 / 467108
  • Entranced Icon Entranced - ID 1214598
  • Sound Cannon Icon Sound Cannon - ID 469380
  • Resonant Echoes Icon Resonant Echoes - ID 468119
2.14.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Restoration Druid

2.15.

Defensive Tips

  • Prototype Powercoil Icon Prototype Powercoil is the most dangerous moment for you personally, so only use it for when you get it.
2.16.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Convoke the Spirits Icon Convoke the Spirits and Flourish Icon Flourish on Electromagnetic Sorting Icon Electromagnetic Sorting. Just keep using them every single time they are up.
  • Use Tranquility Icon Tranquility right after Flourish Icon Flourish, when the next Electromagnetic Sorting Icon Electromagnetic Sorting is going to be less than a minute away.
2.17.

Mechanical Tips

  • A lot of targeted healing will be needed on players affected by Prototype Powercoil Icon Prototype Powercoil. If someone is close to death, pop Ironbark Icon Ironbark on them.
2.18.

Raid frames debuff tracking:

  • Incineration Icon Incineration - ID 472893
  • Rolling Rubbish Icon Rolling Rubbish - ID 461536
  • Infected Bite Icon Infected Bite - ID 466748
2.19.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Restoration Druid

2.20.

Defensive Tips

  • Use your Barkskin Icon Barkskin when Pyro Party Pack Icon Pyro Party Pack and Sonic Ba-Boom Icon Sonic Ba-Boom overlap. It will happen on second and third casts of Pyro Party Pack Icon Pyro Party Pack.
2.21.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Flourish Icon Flourish on pull for damage (through Nature's Vigil Icon Nature's Vigil), it will be back up on the second Pyro Party Pack Icon Pyro Party Pack and then in the intermission.
  • Your cooldowns will naturally align after that.
2.22.

Mechanical Tips

  • You can use Convoke the Spirits Icon Convoke the Spirits and Flourish Icon Flourish on both sets of bombs in Phase 1, then reset CDs with Tranquility Icon 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 Icon Ironbark for the intermissions as an extra ramp target.
2.23.

Raid frames debuff tracking:

  • Screwed! Icon Screwed! - ID 1217261
  • Screw Up Icon Screw Up - ID 1216509
2.24.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for One-Armed Bandit for Restoration Druid

2.25.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin on Flame and Coin Icon 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.
2.26.

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 Icon Flourish as often as possible without sacrificing usage in Phase 2.
2.27.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Ironbark Icon Ironbark on targets affected by Withering Flames Icon Withering Flames.
  • You may want to spec into Tiger Dash Icon Tiger Dash to quickly reposition with various debuffs.
2.28.

Raid frames debuff tracking:

  • Withering Flames Icon Withering Flames - ID 471927
2.29.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for Mug'Zee for Restoration Druid

2.30.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin on Phase transitions.
  • Renewal Icon Renewal is good for healing absorbs after bomb soaks.
2.31.

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 Icon Tranquility, because it ignores line of sight restrictions.
  • Use Flourish Icon 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 Icon Searing Shrapnel) will continue taking damage while the debuff is up, so your priority should be to heal this up as soon as possible.
2.32.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Ironbark Icon Ironbark on targets affected by Stormfury Finger Gun Icon Stormfury Finger Gun or Spray and Pray Icon Spray and Pray. They will take heavy single target damage and will require a lot of attention.
2.33.

Raid frames debuff tracking:

  • Searing Shrapnel Icon Searing Shrapnel - ID 469052
  • Stormfury Finger Gun Icon Stormfury Finger Gun - ID 466509
  • Spray and Pray Icon Spray and Pray - ID 466545
2.34.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

3.

Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Restoration Druid

2.35.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon 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.
2.36.

Cooldown Usage

  • Rotate Convoke the Spirits Icon Convoke the Spirits and Flourish Icon Flourish between soaks.
  • Use Tranquility Icon Tranquility when you have both Convoke and Flourish on CD, and the soak is not on your group.
  • Keep using Convoke the Spirits Icon Convoke the Spirits and Flourish Icon Flourish for healing absorbs.
2.37.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Wild Charge Icon Wild Charge or Tiger Dash Icon Tiger Dash to quickly reposition.
  • Typhoon Icon Typhoon and Ursol's Vortex Icon Ursol's Vortex can be very helpful to keep the adds grouped.
2.38.

Best Talents

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

2.39.

General Offensive Cooldown Usage

Restoration Druid has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Liberation of Undermine:

  • Flourish Icon Flourish - Our main, 1-minute cooldown. You will use it as damage starts and then follow up with a bunch of Regrowth Icon Regrowth casts (the burst phase).
  • Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life - Our ~2-minute cooldown. You will always pair it with Flourish.
  • Convoke the Spirits Icon 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 Icon Flourish in particular is a major source of Mana management due to its interactions with Abundance Icon 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 Icon 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 Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life, which reduces Rejuvenation Icon Rejuvenation cost, and Convoke the Spirits Icon Convoke the Spirits, which generates free healing spells and casts Wraths that give you Mana. The knock-on effects can be pretty massive.

2.40.

General Defensive Cooldown Usage

If you want to mitigate damage during some of the harder hitting moment of any given encounter, just Barkskin Icon Barkskin before the damage hits. If you get low from damage, you can always pop Renewal Icon Renewal. In general you should not be in danger of dying when your healing cooldowns are running due to self-healing from Leech.

3.

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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