T19: Restoration Druid Best In Slot (Part I)

September 20, 2016 · by Lavathing

Welcome to Lavathing’s Tier 19 (Part I) Best in Slot guide for Restoration Druids. This guide only accounts for gear that can be obtained from the Emerald Nightmare raid. This guide does not include The Nighthold raid or any content released in 7.1 or later. Additionally, this is an absolute best in slot list. This means there is no consideration of which boss each item drops from or potential “loot competition.” We will be releasing a progression best in slot list soon, which will prioritize gear off earlier/easier encounters.

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T18: Restoration Druid Best in Slot List

July 29, 2015 · by Lavathing

Welcome to Healcraft.net’s T18 Best in Slot guide for Restoration Druids! Remember, many of the choices below come down to very minor mathematical differences and in some cases small personal discretion. Additionally, this is just an absolute best in slot list. This means there is no consideration of what boss each item drops from or potential “loot competition.” We will be releasing a progression best in slot list soon, which will prioritize gear off earlier/easier encounters.

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Restoration Druid Guide for 6.1 is Live!

February 23, 2015 · by Lavathing

We’ve just published the update to our restoration druid guide for patch 6.1! This is our most comprehensive class guide yet and we hope you enjoy our efforts. We’ll be keeping the guide up to date with the latest hofixes and patches. If you have any questions or comments feel free to comment on the guide’s page or tweet us @Healcraft. Thanks for checking us out, happy healing!

Click here for the guide!

T17: Restoration Druid Best in Slot List

February 19, 2015 · by Lavathing

Welcome to Healcraft.net’s Restoration Druid Best in Slot Gear List! My name is Lavathing, and I will be this guide’s author. As always, some of the selections below come down to very small mathematical differences, so some of the choices are based on gear availability and my personal discretion.

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Theorycraft: WoD T17 Raid Trinket Spreadsheet

November 12, 2014 · by Lavathing

Figuring out which trinket is the best can be confusing. Especially considering that there are several types of trinkets: Static, RPPM, ICD, On Use, etc. How do you compare them to each other easily? Our spreadsheet makes it easy for anyone to compare the approximate stats of each trinket.

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Theorycraft: WoD Pre-Raid Trinket Spreadsheet

November 1, 2014 · by Lavathing

With raid preparation quickly creeping up, it’s time again for gear spreadsheets and theorycraft! We’ve made an easy to use trinket spreadsheet that you can use to compare the stat gains from all of the pre-raid trinkets. Hit the jump to learn more!

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Offspec: Feral Druid Alpha Notes Breakdown

April 18, 2014 · by badzerath

Offspec is a new column that will feature information for non-healing specializations. Currently, Offspec is not on a set release schedule. However, our ever expanding staff hopes to produce more articles at an increased frequently. Offspec articles are written by freelance contributors who specialize in high-end theorycraft for a non-healing spec.

Hi, I’m Badzerath and I play feral for <Adapt> on Spirestone (US). I have been playing feral for two and a half years and really enjoy the play style. With 6.0, Blizzard is bringing some changes to feral that are great, and some that are not so great. Keep in mind that this is just my personal opinion and nothing is set in stone. This breakdown will go point-by-point for each major change and will assume you have a basic understanding of feral druid abilities and mechanics.

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T16 Normal Mode Raid Guides (That You Can Read in 5 Minutes)

February 18, 2014 · by Lavathing

Welcome to a new article series on Healcraft.net! Rather than writing large text guides for encounters, we will be doing a very brief overview of fights each tier. We realized that text guides are a dime-a-dozen and writing another carbon-copy guide will not really contribute anything meaningful to the community. So, we are going to try to steal some of the thunder from the “Raid Guide in 60 Seconds” videos on youtube. Essentially, we will try to mimic the premise of 60 second raid guides in a text format. Finally, we already cover a lot of detailed encounter-specific stuff in our popular Tips & Tricks series (long text guides for each encounter would contain a lot of overlap). We hope our readers enjoy this new format, but it is not set in stone. Let us know what you think! Great idea, or cop out? Comment below or tweet us @Healcraft.

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Theorycraft: T15vsT16 Set Bonuses, Continued Analysis

November 13, 2013 · by Lavathing

Our previous restoration druid set-bonus theorycraft post has received a lot of positive feedback, due to this we are going to be doing analysis for every heroic encounter this tier. We will break down the spell mixes, gains/losses from bonuses, and stat differences for all 14 heroic encounters. Hopefully this will help your raid team figure out when, or if, you want to give your restoration druid any tier gear. Additionally, if the druid has access to both T15 and T16 four piece, they can choose which fights to run which set bonus. This week we have analyzed the Heroic Galakras, Sha of Pride, and Iron Juggernaut encounters. We will hopefully be posting approximately three new encounter analysis articles a week, so feedback or comments on the format, content, or accuracy of these articles are welcomed! Feel free to comment below or shoot us a quick tweet. Finally, we recommend you read the aforementioned post before reading this one, as it is largely a continuation of the analysis.

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Theorycraft: Restoration T15 vs T16 Tier Pieces

October 17, 2013 · by Lavathing

Restoration Druid has been subject to a lot of number crunching and debate this tier. There are advocates for keeping the Throne of Thunder 4 set bonus, despite the stat loss, and there are advocates to the contrary. Below I have some statistics and data to show the quantifiable effects of the different set bonuses, stat gains/losses, and a general analysis of restoration druid gearing in Siege of Orgrimmar.

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