Restoration Druid PvP Best Races and Racials — The War Within (11.1.0)
Racial bonuses can provide interesting PvP benefits. Here are the best races to choose for each faction. The races are sorted from highest impact in arena to lowest. However, all races below have their own unique ways of making an impact in a PvP match.
This page is part of our Restoration Druid PvP Guide.
Best Alliance Races for Restoration Druid PvP
- Night Elf
Night Elf Racials
The Night Elf racial bonus ( Shadowmeld) is always a strong
choice. This race has a high skill cap, but using it to avoid crowd
control can be very powerful. For example, if a Mage is casting
Polymorph on you, use Shadowmeld to avoid it. If you use
Shadowmeld at the same time that a Priest uses their
Psychic Scream, you will not be feared. You can also use it to
leave combat in case you need an emergency drink to replenish your Mana.
Being a Night Elf also provides you with two noteworthy passive abilities:
Quickness, which grants you 2% extra movement speed and 2% dodge
chance, and
Touch of Elune that increases either your Haste or
Critical Strike by 1% depending on whether it is night or day.
Best Horde Races for Restoration Druid PvP
- Tauren
- Troll
Tauren Racials
The Tauren racial bonus ( War Stomp) provides an additional
way to interrupt or setup crowd control on an enemy player. For example, if you
are playing with a Survival Hunter, you can use War Stomp
and follow up with your own crowd control or the Hunter can use their
Freezing Trap. The additional health from
Endurance will also
help with your survivability.
Troll Racials
The Troll racial bonus ( Berserking) grants you a large amount
of Haste. You should activate this ability right before you are using important
cooldowns or to cast crowd control faster. Another racial to note is
Da Voodoo Shuffle. This significantly reduces the duration of slows on
you and will help when kiting enemy players that are focusing you.
Changelog
- 24 Feb. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.7.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 07 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 21 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 01 Aug. 2022: Reviewed for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
- 02 Jul. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.1.
- 08 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
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