Tier Sets
Season 1 Tier Set (Nerub’ar Palace):
- (2) Set Bonus: Regrowth, Wild Growth, and Swiftmend healing increased by 10%.
- (4) Set Bonus: Your healing is increased by 8% when consuming Soul of the Forest’s bonus and for 6 sec afterward.
The 2 set is a pretty straightforward (and boring) bonus, increasing your throughput overall (single target healing being buffed with Regrowth & Swiftmend, and raid-wide healing buffed by Wild Growth).
The 4 set bonus is a good match for your gameplay, since it’ll increase your healing at the end of your ramp, for your Flourish use.
restoration druid Best in Slot Gear
Here are two lists of the optimal gear set-up you want to reach, either for M+ or for raids.Do note that these lists include every item that will fit the stats priority (covered in this guide) depending on the content you’re aiming for, including specific items (mainly trinkets, or some Use weapons if applicable).
For every raid trinket, I’ll list an alternative which you can obtain in M+, as raids are not something you can farm over and over during a said day.
There sometimes can be alternatives, especially depending on which stats you already have on your character, or for some very specific purposes, so keep in mind that you don’t necessarily always want to match this exact list. Most of the time, ilevel will be the biggest factor, and some stats, such as Mastery in M+, can have a relatively different value depending on what you’ll need (since this one won’t provide any DPS gain, but ONLY healing).
Best Gear for Raid
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Mask of the Greatlynx | The Silken Court (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Neck | Sureki Zealot’s Insignia | Sikran (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Shoulders | Maw of the Greatlynx | Rasha’nan (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Cloak | Anvilhide Cape | The Stonevault |
| Chest | Hide of the Greatlynx | Ovi’nax (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Wrist | Polluted Spectre’s Wraps | The Bloodbound Horror (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Gloves | Eviscerators of the Greatlynx | Sikran (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Belt | Behemoth’s Eroded Cinch | Rasha’nan (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Legs | Glimmerthread Pantaloons | Grim Batol |
| Boots | Chitin-Spiked Jackboots | Sikran (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Ring | Key to the Unseeming | The Bloodbound Horror (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Ring | Circle of Bone | Grim Batol |
| Trinket | Unbound Changeling | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
| Trinket | Spymaster’s Web or Gale of Shadows | The Silken Court or Grim Batol |
| Main Hand | Takazj’s Entropic Edict (two-hands) | The Silken Court (Nerub-ar Palace) |
Best Gear for Mythic+
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Mask of the Greatlynx | The Silken Court (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Neck | Silken Advisor’s Favor | The Silken Court (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Shoulders | Maw of the Greatlynx | Rasha’nan (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha’nan (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Chest | Hide of the Greatlynx | Ovi’nax (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Wrist | Risen Monstrosity Cuffs | The Necrotic Wake |
| Gloves | Eviscerators of the Greatlynx | Sikran (Nerub-ar Palace) |
| Belt | Sapgorger Belt | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
| Legs | Glimmerthread Pantaloons | Grim Batol |
| Boots | Viscera-Stitched Footpads | The Necrotic Wake |
| Ring | Seal of the Poisoned Pact or Experiment 08752’s Band | Queen Ansurek (Nerub-ar Palace) or City of Threads |
| Ring | Stitchflesh’s Misplaced Signet | The Necrotic Wake |
| Trinket | Unbound Changeling or Gale of Shadows | Mists of Tirna Scithe or Grim Batol |
| Trinket | Gale of Shadows | Grim Batol |
| Main Hand | Krix’vizk’s Speech Rod (two-hands) | City of Threads |
Trinkets
Gale of Shadows: A pretty strong trinket (especially in M+) that’ll provide you with a great amount of Intellect, thanks to its stacking proc with your DoTs & HoTs.
Unbound Changeling: This fan favorite from Shadowlands is back for Season 1, as any stats stick is always a pretty solid choice for a healer, especially if you’re lucky enough to proc your daily multi-stats Changeling.
Spymaster’s Web: An interesting trinket in raid, granting you passive intellect & mastery, and allowing you to empower it greatly during your ramps, when you’ll have a high number of stacks.
Empowering Crystal of Anub’Ikkaj: A pretty solid stats trinket thanks to its great uptime (1.55 RPPM as of now).
Embellishments
Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension: Currently the strongest embellishment overall, granting you one stack of a random secondary stat (rotating) every 8 seconds.
Duskthread Lining: An embellishment granting you Versatility while above 80% health. A classic effect, even though not very exciting, but still quite valuable (especially as a healer, since you’ll keep your health up as much as possible in any case). Worth crafting after your Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension.
The other pieces of crafted gear you can make, after these two embellishments, are very classic, and the choice of which one to craft will only consist of you filling the gap for a slot you were quite unlucky with; whether it’s bad secondary stats that you want to swap, especially on jewelry, or a bigger piece of gear with a hefty pool of Intellect (weapon, chest, helm, legs, shoulders, etc.) where your craft will improve the overall item level.
Regarding the stats you want to have on your crafted gear:
- For any raid craft, you’ll want to choose Haste & Mastery as secondary stats.
- For any M+ craft, you’ll mostly want to choose Haste & Versatility.