WotLK Classic Restoration Druid Spec, Builds, Talents, and Glyphs (2024)

Last updated on Jun 23, 2023 at 17:35by Seksixeny6 comments

On this page, you will find out the best PvE talent choices and builds for your Restoration Druid in WotLK Classic, as well as advised glyphs.

Restoration has several viable builds for endgame PvE content, as you canopt into a pure heal-over-time-focused Celestial Focus build with a lowerHaste cap for your Rejuvenation blanketing or a build that invests moreinto the Restoration tree to empower Nourish with talents such asEmpowered Touch and Living Seed.

If you were looking for leveling builds, please refer to our leveling guidefor Druids.

In this phase it is easy to get 856 Haste required to be capped due to theincreased overall power of gear and availability of epic gems.

Thus, as soon as you hit this threshold, consider swapping to this build whichdrops Celestial Focus for Empowered Touch and Living Seed,making it much stronger in single-target with Nourish.

If your gear has not hit 856 Haste yet, you might want to stay with this buildwhich picks up Celestial Focus in order to hit a lowered Haste cap of 735where you can optimally spread out Rejuvenation and Wild Growth.

Regardless, Glyph of Nourish is still taken to cover the high tank damagein Wrath PvE content.

In Wrath you will be able to unlock Glyphs that improve your abilitiesand can be swapped around freely as long as you have the consumable glyph itemon your bags.

As a Restoration Druid in PvE you will want to be using Glyph of Wild Growth, Glyph of Swiftmend, and Glyph of Nourish for maximum healing.

For minor glyphs, the best quality of life options are three out of Glyph of Unburdened Rebirth, Glyph of Dash, Glyph of the Wild,and Glyph of Thorns.

The Balance Tree is mostly used for Moonglow, Nature's Splendor,Celestial Focus, and Nature's Reach in PvP.

Moonglow is a major Mana-saving talent, as it affects some of yourmost-used spells, especially Rejuvenation.

Nature's Splendor increases the duration of your most usedheals-over-time, being especially valuable due to affecting Rejuvenation.

Nature's Grace increases your casting speed by 20% when you criticallyhit with a non-periodic spell, but only for 3-seconds. This can occasionally beuseful for single-target heal spamming.

Nature's Reach affects Cyclone and Entangling Roots,which gives it some PvP value, as you will be able to crowd control from alonger distance, which is especially valuable for Cyclone due to its 20 yardsbaseline range.

Celestial Focus gives you 3% Haste, making you need less Haste fromgear to reach global cooldown breakpoints for fitting in more Rejuvenationcasts in between Wild Growths when raiding.

The Feral Tree provides no real benefits to Restoration and should be ignored.

The Restoration Tree carries most of the power of a Restoration Druid, as wouldbe expected. It also has a lot of PvP utility, which you can learn more about inour Wrath Restoration Druid guide.

Omen of Clarity is a good Mana-saving talent, especially as you can useit to cast the expensive Lifebloom and still get 50% of its original Manacost! Try to melee enemies when you can do so safely for extra procs.

Nature's Swiftness causes your next Nature spell to become instant.This is great for emergency healing with Healing Touch.

Swiftmend consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth effecton the target (unless you have Glyph of Swiftmend) to do a large burst ofhealing and should be used on cooldown for emergency healing.

Natural Perfection increases your Critical Strike chance and makes youtake less damage for 8 seconds after you take a Critical Strike, stacking up toa total of 12% damage reduction, which makes it great in PvP.

Revitalize helps the targets of your heals by granting up to 15% chancethat your Rejuvenation and Wild Growth will restore their classresources (1% Mana, 4 Rage, 8 Energy or 16 Runic Power) on each healing tick.

Tree of Life is your main shapeshift form and reduces the Manacost of heal-over-time spells by 20%, as well as granting a 6% healing takenbuff to everyone around you.

Improved Barkskin is a strong PvP talent that makes Barkskinhave a stronger damage reduction effect and be more difficult to dispel. It alsoincreases your Armor when in Travel Form or not in a form.

Wild Growth is a smart heal that hits the most damaged allies nearthe target you cast on with a powerful heal-over-time effect that diminishes inpotency over time.