Easy to Play Hard to Master Resto Druid
General Information
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Restoration Druid in World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.2.5.
1.
Restoration Druid in Mythic+
Restoration Druid is one of the better healing specialisations for Mythic+. It has enough throughput to get through almost any healing situation, good crowd control, and the best tank cooldown in the game. The weakness is a pretty low damage output during heavy healing portions of dungeons.
If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.
1.1.
Restoration Druid Mythic+ Rotation
While there is no specific rotation you should follow in Mythic+ content, it is important to know which spells are most efficient to cast or do the most healing so that you can make better informed decisions.
- Keep
Efflorescence down. This is by far the best spell both in terms of Mana efficiency and healing output per global spent. - Keep
Lifebloom on a tank by default. Swap it to yourself during group damage if you are playing 
Photosynthesis. - Use
Cenarion Ward on cooldown, if you are using the talent. Use it on the tank since it is a poor method of catching up. - Keep
Rejuvenation on an active tank and any players with debuffs. Avoid casting too many unnecessary Rejuvenations. A lot of small damage can be healed passively by your AoE healing or even self-healed by players themselves. - Use
Swiftmend to activate 
Soul of the Forest. Most of the time you will be using this to buff 
Regrowth, but in any scenario where multiple people are taking damage you should use it on 
Wild Growth. - Use Regrowth as an emergency heal.
During downtime from healing you should be actively looking to deal as much damage as you can. The rotation might be complicated to master fully, but you should still learn which spells to prioritise to time more keys.
For more information about the Restoration Druid spell priority in Raids, refer back to the Rotation page.
1.2.
Restoration Druid Utility
Restoration Druid provides much more to the group than just healing. Due to the nature of dungeon content, you will be expected to do damage, crowd control, and heal all at the same time.
2.
Mythic+ Talents for for Restoration Druids
Below are the suggested talents for Mythic+, these talents are recommended for all groups and keys at the current time.
| Level | Choices | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 |  ✗ Abundance |  ✗ Nourish |  ✓ Cenarion Ward |
| 25 |  ✗ Tiger Dash |  ? Renewal |  ? Wild Charge |
| 30 |  ✗ Balance Affinity |  ✓ Feral Affinity |  ✗ Guardian Affinity |
| 35 |  ✗ Mighty Bash |  ✗ Mass Entanglement |  ✓ Heart of the Wild |
| 40 |  ✓ Soul of the Forest |  ✗ Cultivation |  ✗ Incarnation: Tree of Life |
| 45 |  ✗ Inner Peace |  ✓ Spring Blossoms |  ✗ Overgrowth |
| 50 |  ? Photosynthesis |  ✗ Germination |  ✓ Flourish |
The default talents to play are Cenarion Ward, 
Feral Affinity, Soul of the Forest, 
Spring Blossoms, and 
Flourish.
Flourish or Photosynthesis are both fine choices to take. Flourish will provide more burst healing when needed while Photosynthesis will give you significantly more tank healing and in general passive healing.
Refer to the Talent page for descriptions of all talents, their strengths and weaknesses.
3.
Gear and Best in Slot for Restoration Druids for Dungeons
There is no obvious Best in Slot list possible due to the varying nature of damage intake in different dungeons, but you can get a general direction running mostly Haste and Mastery pieces in the slots with similar item level. Replace Mastery with Versatility and Crit as you feel necessary. Basically, run Mastery up until you do not need more of it to heal damage. Most Druids at higher levels aim to have as close to 0 Mastery from gear as possible.
Make sure you check the Gear page for trinket and significant item recommendations.
4.
Specific Affix Recommendations
While most affixes do not need any specific advice, there are some that can be abused by a Restoration Druid toolkit or pose a lot more threat than others. We will try to provide some examples and advice here.
At the start of the dungeon, you can choose a bounty reward for defeating Dreadlords. Depending on the bounty you will receive the following:
In most cases you should be picking 
Bounty: Haste. This buff is multiplicative with your Haste, making it extremely strong. 
Bounty: Mastery gives rating, which means it will be affected by Diminishing returns. 
Bounty: Versatility is simply half the value of Crit and Haste bounties. Unless you can not survive certain mechanics it is advised to never pick this one either.
Normally you will fight Nathrezim Infiltrators, which are not a big deal and do not do much. Avoid standing in front of them and dodge sleep clouds. They are not much more dangerous than normal packs you usually see in packs. Defeating an Infiltrator will grant you 1 stack of the secondary stat.
Once per dungeon you will have to fight a bigger Dreadlord: Zul'gamux. She will apply a stacking Magic debuff on the tank called 
Shadow Claws. It is dispellable. Zul'gamux will also do significant group wide damage, so be prepared to heal it. Killing this one will grant you 3 stacks of the bounty.
4.2.
Legion Timewalking Affix: Infernal
During Legion Timewalking Events introduced in Patch 9.1.5, you are given the option to experience a number of Legion Mythic+ dungeons which also include the unique 
Infernal affix. This affix adds three Legion Beacons placed near specific bosses of each dungeon that will spawn a commander along with waves of additional enemies from the Burning Legion when activated. Each commander brings with it a set of unique abilities and reinforcements to fight.
As playing around these seasonal affixes applies to more than just Restoration Druids, please feel free to consult our larger guides about Mythic+ affixes below.
This affix usually provides the most problems to all healers. Make sure you are keeping an eye on enemies dying and prepare accordingly with Rejuvenations on entire group. If you notice some mobs dying later, start dispelling 
Bursting early to get another dispel later. Most often you should dispel the tank, since they have higher total Health and are going to require more healing. You can consider using 
Cyclone to make sure one enemy will not die, but keep in mind that it is a last resort option. The goal is to go through the dungeon as fast as possible, making enemies immune does not help with that.
Spiteful will spawn Spiteful Shades from dead enemies, which will fixate on players in your group. They have a decent amount of Health, but lose 8% of it every second. They also hit very hard, often nearly killing everyone they come in touch with. Make sure you use all forms of your crowd control on them. The best ability for that is 
Ursol's Vortex, since it does not interfere with anything else. If you are not already specced into 
Balance Affinity for a Spiteful week, it is probably a good idea to do that just to stay in range and safely use 
Typhoon on Spiteful Shades without hitting mobs positioned for melee players by the tank.
- 31 Jul. 2022: Updated for Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Page reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 06 Mar. 2022: Updated with Encrypted affix recommendations and changed talent recommendations.
- 21 Feb. 2022: Page reviewed and approved for Patch 9.2.
- 01 Nov. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.5.
- 08 Aug. 2021: Changed Soggodon Anima Power recommendation.
- 11 Jul. 2021: Updated with Anima Power and Tormented affix recommendations.
- 28 Jun. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Updated talent advice.
- 08 Dec. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2020: Page updated for Shadowlands patch 9.0.2.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands pre-patch.
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