Restoration Druid Raid Guide & Uldir Raid Tips - Battle for Azeroth 8.1 - Tides of Vengeance

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This guide is currently updated and maintained by Jaydaa. I've been raiding in WoW for almost 15 years at various levels of progression. I've contributed to the theorycrafting of multiple healing classes, notably Mistweaver Monks and Restoration Druids. Find me on Twitter or on the Wowhead Discord username Jaydaa#2814.

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Taloc

MOTHER

Fetid Devourer

Zek'voz

Vectis

Zul

Mythrax

G'huun

Restoration Druids in RaidingPrimary Raiding BuildUldirReverdissementRêve éveillé

Talents:

Primarily focuses on sustained healing through Récupération and Reverdissement. The build cuts out as many extraneous HoTs allowing to Reverdissement to boost the healing of Récupération, but with the nerf to the healing component and increased Récupération duration you aren't quite as constrained in terms of talent choice.

Rêve éveillé provides a nice boost to your overall Don d’Ysera healing especially during high damage periods.

Archive des Titans is a nice stat bonus and activates Matrice de réorigination.

Stat priority will shift to a more Haste/Crit focused one for pieces of similar item level.

Do note that this build allows you to pickup a large number of cooldowns: Epanouissement, Incarnation : Arbre de vie, and 2-minute Tranquillité via Paix intérieure. Using these frequently and during periods of high incoming damage will be key to optimizing your healing.

ReverdissementArchive des TitansReverdissementArchive des TitansRaiding Azerite section of this guideTier 1 Class S+:

Archive des Titans - Found on Uldir Azerite Armor. The stacking primary stat buff encourages a fast-paced stay-in-combat environment. Excels especially in longer raid encounters. With the September 18th 20% buff to Archive des Titans, this is the best trait currently available for Restoration Druids and gives greater talent flexibility in comparison to Reverdissement.

Reverdissement - An excellent trait for raiding Restoration Druids. Makes up about 2-4% of your healing per trait depending on the raid encounter. In raids it's much more likely that a target will only have Récupération on them so you'll see a much greater uptime of this trait. Please note: has significant anti-synergy with many talents

Rêve éveillé - Frequency increase provides a 25% increase to Don d’Ysera healing. The additional healing per Récupération is moderate but helpful. The trait doesn't increase the frequency beyond every 4s, so additional Rêve éveillé traits provide much less value.

Azerite Armor List for Raiding

Slot

Name

Drop Location

Azerite Traits Chosen

Helm

Turban de haute altitude

Nabab Razzbam in Le Filon

Rêve éveillé, Esprit décidé, Siphon de sang, and Protection résonnante

Shoulders

Mantelet de Gorak Tul

Gorak Tul in Manoir Malvoie

Récolte précoce, Infusion chancre-née, En route, and Guérison autonome/Régénérescence

Chest

Protège-torse de maître-espion

Yazma in Atal’Dazar

Reverdissement, Croissance rampante, Croissance synergiste, and Protection résonnante

Slot

Name

Boss

Azerite Traits Chosen

Helm

Chaperon d’ichor pestilentiel

Vectis

Archive des Titans/Rêve éveillé (if first), Frisson tonifiant, and Protection résonnante

Shoulders

Spallières couvertes de sang de l’usurpateur

Zul

Archive des Titans/Reverdissement (if first), Croissance synergiste, and Régénérescence

Chest

Pourpoint de la chimère absurde

Dévoreur fétide

Archive des Titans, Récupération éphémère, and Protection résonnante

Raid Strengths for Restoration Druids

High Mobility - Restoration Druids can reposition quickly while still retaining a large portion of their overall throughput. If an encounter requires players to be on the move for a large portion of the fight, then Restoration Druids tend to excel.

Flexible Healing - Because we heal primarily through HoTs, we can heal a large number of people for a considerable amount or we can focus a large number of HoTs on a single player for some truly inspiring single target healing.

Constant Sustained AoE Raid Healing - While we can be quite flexible, we truly excel above and beyond when the damage pattern is raid wide and sustained.

Multiple Strong Healing Cooldowns - Between Tranquillité (especially with Paix intérieure), Incarnation : Arbre de vie, and Epanouissement, Restoration Druids have a lot of answers for bursty incoming damage that causes healers to fall significantly behind if not managed correctly. Tranquillité is arguably the strongest raid cooldown in Battle for Azeroth, especially when taking prolonged damage.

Strong Defensive Cooldowns - Restoration Druids have a strong personal defensive toolkit including the on-demand Forme d'ours. Additionally, we have an exceptional and readily available external defensive cooldown of Ecorcefer.

Battle Resurrection - Restoration Druids are the only healer and only one of three classes that can provide a battle resurrection.

Raid Weaknesses for Restoration Druids

Mana Management - Restoration Druids tend to have a more difficult time with mana management than other healers. While trying to pre-empt incoming damage, Restoration Druids can sometime over pre-HoT, resulting in healing that is less than effective and generally a waste of mana. Combine that with generally high mana costs and this can be quite the issue for rookie healers. Striking a good balance between mana efficiency and preparing for incoming damage will be key to success.

Requires Preparation - In order to not be caught off guard by high incoming damage, Restoration Druids need to adequately prepare for damage by applying HoTs in advance. This proactive healing style requires excellent encounter knowledge. It is possible to recover from a lack of preparation, but you'll likely expend additional mana and cooldowns to do so.

Damage - While we can provide damage during downtime, the damage is minor at best.

Unpredictable Spot Healing - While our healing can be quite flexible, we struggle the most with random spot healing that needs to be healed quickly. Because we rely on HoTs, time is a key factor to getting the most out of our healing and being able to predict the damage is key to giving us that time. While we have a few tools like Prompte guérison to bridge the gap, this damage pattern is a Restoration Druid's achilles heel.

General Raid Tips

Do your fight research beforehand. Watch videos, watch streams, go over logs, all to recognize damage patterns. Restoration Druid is all about proactively pre-HoTing before incoming damage and then reacting with Croissance sauvage and other abilities.

Plan out your CDs ahead of time when possible. Try not to overlap large healing CDs (Tranquillité, Regain, Hymne divin, Totem de marée de soins, etc.) with your other healers, unless absolutely necessary to progress further in the encounter.

Reduce your damage taken and the overall encounter healing requirement by maximizing the effectiveness of your defensives. Forme d'ours and Régénération frénétique is a very unique survivability combination that provides excellent damage reduction and throughput. Don't forget to utilize Ecorce with such a short CD.

While your role in a raid is primarily healing, don't be afraid to cast Éclat lunaire, Éclat solaire, and Colère in your downtime. It might not seem like much but healer DPS can mean the difference between a kill and a wipe in progression.

Encounter Specific Raid TipsUldir

Taloc

MOTHER

Fetid Devourer

Zek'voz, Herald of N'zoth

Vectis

Zul, Reborn

Mythrax the Unraveler

G'huun

UldirRecommendations

Heal players afflicted with Décharge de plasma as they'll be taking moderate damage. Be prepared to heal those hit by the Sang statique cone if they failed to avoid it.

Tranquillité and other CDs will be used for Taloc's Broyeur de sang ability which has high AoE damage that falls off the further you are away from the point of impact. Be sure to be 30 yards away to avoid the knockback or don't Tranquillité early if you have any concerns about being interrupted.

Mythic

Artères durcies and Cœur hypertrophié explosions will be another period of high burst damage that you'll likely want to use CDs and prepare for in advance.

You can Célérité or Célérité du tigre to more quickly spread out for Artères durcies ensuring you don't get hit by more than one of these explosions.

After ensuring you don't have Artères durcies, you can quickly Charge sauvage to the tank afflicted with Cœur hypertrophié.

If you think you'll be taking excessive damage from either ability, then be sure to utilize Forme d'ours and Ecorce to ensure you survive.

Recommendations

Rayon défensif d’Uldir, Tunnel de vent, and to a lesser extent Flamme purificatrice require you to be positioned correctly in order to avoid high damage or even death. As a Restoration Druid, use your mobility and full toolkit of mobility skills (Célérité, Célérité du tigre, and/or Charge sauvage) to avoid mechanics and keep your healing high.

Tranquillité and other CDs will be used for players passing through Grille de défense as that will be the bulk of the damage throughout the encounter. The pacing of how many and how quickly players cross the Grille de défense will be dictated by your raid leader.

Mythic

Healers when passing through the Grille de défense spawn a Contagion virale that will afflict random players with Virus endémique. Dispel this debuff once the player has moved 10yds away from other allies otherwise it will inflict Épidémie contagieuse. Waiting for the player to call the dispel tends to work out the best rather than just gauging it yourself.

Recommendations

Heal players afflicted with Miasme malodorant as they'll be taking moderate damage. When Miasme malodorant expires, it'll mutate into Paroxysme putride which deals even higher amounts of damage over 6s. Keep players healthy to ensure you're prepared for the increased damage of Paroxysme putride.

Tranquillité and other CDs will be used for the Piétinement de choc ability which inflicts high AoE damage and knocks players back. Don't use Tranquillité till after the knockback has gone out.

Do not forget your tanks as they'll both be taking high damage throughout the encounter especially from Terreur ravageuse.

Keep in mind that after Dévoreur fétide reaches 50% health, he gains Frénésie fétide. This means the final part of the fight will be the most difficult to heal. Save CDs if necessary.

Contributing some DPS during this encounter can be helpful especially with tight checks on killing adds at higher difficulties.

Mythic

Miasme malodorant and Paroxysme putride can spread to players around the afflicted target. This is especially dangerous after the Piétinement de choc. Utilize your mobility toolkit to allow for constant throughput and allowing other players to pass by you with ease.

If you have more than one stack of Paroxysme putride, then be sure to utilize Forme d'ours and Ecorce to ensure you survive.

Recommendations

Utilize your mobility toolkit to allow for constant throughput, avoid Déferlante ténébreuse, spread for Rayon accablant, and drop Tromperie frémissante at the far reaches of the room when possible.

Typhon and Vortex d’Ursol are exceptional for keeping the Guerrier silithides grouped up for optimal damage and away from players.

Shapeshift the Guerrier silithide's Mandibules incisives to avoid the 50% slow and additional damage.

Mythic

Both phase 1 and 2 will happen from 100% to 40%, meaning you'll have to deal with Déferlante ténébreuse, Rayon accablant, Tromperie frémissante, Guerrier silithide, and Tisse-Vide nérubien all at the same time. Generally this doesn't have too much effect on Restoration Druids.

Recommendations

Heal players afflicted with Vecteur Oméga as they'll be taking high damage until Vecteur Oméga jumps. This is your #1 priority. Combined with Immunosuppression, Contagion and high stacks Infection rémanente, these are the players you'll most likely lose if you're not paying attention.

Tranquillité and other CDs will be used for Vectis's Contagion combined with the Amalgame de peste's Immunosuppression ability which is a high AoE damage ability with a large healing absorb. Keeping topped up and without the healing absorb is imperative to managing Vecteur Oméga.

During Intermission phases, you'll need to keep players healthy in order to soak Bombe de peste. Don't be afraid to soak some yourself with Forme d'ours, Ecorce, and Régénération frénétique.

During Intermission phases, utilize your mobility toolkit to allow for constant throughput and avoid Geyser de sang lines radiating from Vectis.

Keep Efflorescence under as many groups in your raid as possible to help heal off Immunosuppression.

Abilities will hit harder as the fight progresses due to the ever increasing number of Infection rémanente. Make sure you have CDs and some mana for the later parts of the encounter.
Finding time to down a Potion de requinquage can be difficult. I highly recommend nabbing a drink just as Vectis casts Liquéfaction but before Bombe de pestes go out. Trust me you'll need the extra mana in later difficulties.

Mythic

In addition to another Vecteur Oméga, Contagion will cause additional effects based on the number of Infection rémanente stacks you currently have. Keeping stacks low is imperative.

Recommendations

Heal players soaking the Nappe de ténèbres as they'll be taking moderate to heavy damage. Don't be afraid to soak some yourself with Forme d'ours, Ecorce, and Régénération frénétique.

Tranquillité and other CDs will be used for Zul's Sombre révélation in Phase 1 and Désir de mort dispels in Phase 2. Both abilities deal high AoE damage that falls off the further you are away from the point of impact.

DO NOT INSTANTLY DISPEL Désir de mort. Wait for players to be near the edge of the platform to minimize the incoming AoE damage.

In Phase 2, tanks will take large amounts of damage from stacks of Dégorgement sanguin. Watch them carefully.

In Phase 2, there will be constant ticking damage from stacks of Sang vicié, so be prepared to heal it.

Typhon and Vortex d’Ursol are exceptional for keeping the Crogg assoiffé de sangs grouped up for optimal damage.

Mythic

Nappe de ténèbres applies stacks of Sang vicié. Be especially vigilant with soakers.

Adds will need to be killed in a certain order thanks to Rappel du sang and Chair en putréfaction. Overall this won't have a major impact on healing.

Recommendations

Due to Sphère d’oublis and Arme vivante (Mythic Only), the entire raid must be spread out. Try to be close to the center of the room to ensure you have range on the entire raid.

Most abilities will apply Annihilation causing them to take minor damage and have their max health lowered. Players with high stacks of Annihilation are priority to keep topped as they're more likely to die. Tell them to collect Fragment d’existence to reduce their overall stacks.

Tranquillité and other CDs will be used for Mythrax le Disloqueur's Réveil de Xalzaix ability which inflicts high unavoidable AoE damage. Additionally, you can use CDs when multiple players trigger Déferlante d’oubli or on Mythic when Xalzaix casts multiple Échos du Vide.

Typhon is exceptional for knocking players out of Sphère d’oublis without dealing damage to them.

Vision de folie cast Fouet mental Mindflays that don't deal a lot of damage but reduce a players movement speed below 50% making it difficult to dodge mechanics. This can be dispelled if necessary.

Mythic

Xalzaix is in play on Mythic causing additional raid damage via Arme vivante and Échos du Vide. Be prepared to handle these.

Rayon d’oblitération and Choc oblitérateur destroy any Fragment d’existence they contact. As such Annihilation will be generally higher overall. Be sure to gather the orbs quickly and be prepared to heal players with significantly higher stacks in the later part of the fight.

Recommendations

Be sure to pick up the Sombre marché buff provided by the Sombre rejeton, but avoid getting two stacks as you'll become mind controlled.

You can quickly hop up to upper platforms to help with Matrice de puissance transports by utilizing Charge sauvage and a nearby player or Invocation d’une statue du Serpent de jade.

Tranquillité and other CDs will be used for Explosion de réorigination or high stacks of Sanie. Watch for the Horreur bredouillante's Bavardage assommant to avoid being interrupted midcast of Tranquillité.

Avoid using Tranquillité during Effondrement as you'll likely be knocked back and have Tranquillité interrupted.

Nearly all healing spells can be cast while turned away from G'huun, so in Phase 3 you can stay completely turned around to never be caught off guard by the Regard de G’huun. Just be sure to still avoid the Corruption virulente orbs spawned from Corruption explosive.

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Commentaire de Yrayl

I'm really hoping the 30, 45, and 60 tier talents for this raid build were just filled in for the sake of filling in, and are not your actual suggestions....However, I notice that on the Mythic+ guide you left them blank...so if this is serious...

For the most part the utility talents are user's choice, but I'm really curious as to why would you have a raid build include Typhon...You're suggesting a knock-back ability in a raid setting? I can understand the utility of keeping an add away from you, and giving you a chance to relocate...but there are less dangerous ways to accomplish that.

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