Harthart's Guide to NS Restooo Druids

[Zachariah92]

The Basics: The Talent Tree

Now when choosing which talent is best for you, use your own custom one, or go to Druid builds - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft for some advice. Just remember: Nature's Swiftness is Disabled, and Tree form is useless, unless for the look.

Armor

Now Season 4/Sunwell/T6 gear is the best out there, so I wouldn't go for much less since druids are partially broken.

Benefits of each:

Season 4: Resillence is nice, along with the set bonuses
Sunwell/T6: High amount of healing, higher spirit (which is broken as of right now)

Downsides:

Season 4: If your a lifebloom spammer, like myself, Season 4 is prob. not the best way, as the bonus healing is low, in which your Lifebloom would tick for at most 200.
Sunwell/T6: opponents crits are harder, but you can get around that if your comfortable with restooo druids already.

Gems/Pots

If spirit was working, I would recommend using +11 healing and spirit gems, but using +22 healing gems are nice too. You can also use the spell crit + stam gems, or even use the resillence gems; whatever you feel comfortable with.

Pots, I use Elixir of Draenic Wisdom and Elixir of Healing Power. Also if you have Cooking leveled, the healing food helps.

Spells

Now, a few of the spells you need most:

Lifebloom
Rejuvenation
Regrowth
Swiftmend
Mark of the Wild
Thorns
Barkskin
Abolish Poison
Cyclone

^ These are the basic spells needed.

Lifebloom: is broken for the amount of ticking it does in relation to the bonus healing amount, but if your healing is around 2400-2500, you get about a 220-230 tick, give or take. So don't rely on just spamming lifebloom constantly, especially if you have Mortal Strike on you or Wound Poison(see below)

Rejuvenation: Pop this only when it runs out, it's a good spell to keep on, as it has a long HoT time, usually ticks around 1000 every 3-4 seconds I believe? Lasts a total of 12 seconds.


Regrowth: This is the spell you will use when you need heals about 2k instantly, usually heals for about 2500, can crit anywhere from 3000 to 4500. The HoT lasts 21 seconds, helps a bit.


Swiftmend: Very helpful for getting an instant heal besides your HoT's, you can use within the first few seconds of castin Rejuv. or Regrowth.

MotW/Thorns: pretty self-explanatory, class buffs

Barkskin: Very helpful when you are stunned, reduces all damage by 20%, and also causes no spell-interruption.

Abolish Poison: Very helpful against rogues with Crippling, Wound, Instant, and Mind-Numbing Poison, cast it instantly, removes the first poison stack, then attempts to remove a second one every 2 seconds for 8 seconds.

Cyclone: use it to prevent your target from moving/casting for 6 seconds, it's decent, but I don't use it that often. Try not to use on warriors if you are beating them, as it auto-procs their heal-regen spells.

Frequent Questions

Should I be jumping around as a Resto Druid?
HECK yes, it helps a ton, and makes your target move, spam lifebloom while moving, also while popping rejuvenation; only stop to cast Regrowth.


Why not just use healing touch?:
Casting time is long, you would most likely be interrupted before it finishes casting, and you would be dead probably.


Should I use/stack spell haste?
You can, but I don't recommend it, as the more haste you have, the less +healing you would most likely have.


Hope this helps you all, please leave comments

[Zachariah92]

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[Ryonis]

very nice ill try this. thx

[Zachariah92]

/bumped for someone

[andreasyo]

heh i had a resto druid with 2.7k healing on SB but rogues owned me easily so i turned him to boomkin.

I like resto druids but when you are facing a class that is based on dealing Heavy Damage per hit (like Arcane Mages with Pom/bolt or Pom/pyro and MS warriors) you are going to loose, unless they are some newbie dudes that cant even attack