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
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.
Summon Stone | Plans for Healcraft.net!
UPDATE (7/28/15): Due to Summon Stone’s impending closure, I’ve completely moved over my Summon Stone restoration druid guide back to here! Check it out by clicking here.
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I have not posted here in quite awhile, and I’ve recieved some questions as to if I am no longer producing content for Healcraft. Thankfully, this is not the case. I still plan to produce quality content and theorycraft here as well as maintaining my guide on Summon Stone. For more information, keep reading!
Theorycraft: T15vsT16 Set Bonuses, Continued Analysis
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.
Theorycraft: Restoration T15 vs T16 Tier Pieces
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.
Patch 5.3 Release Date Confirmed!
Blizzard just confirmed the release date of patch 5.3 via their WoW twitter account! Tuesday, May 21st (This Tuesday!) will be the date that Escalation drops onto the live servers.
Druid: Thoughts on Expected 5.3 Changes
With 5.3 on the horizon, I thought it was time to write about the expected Resto Druid changes. All of the changes will have a net positive effect on our healing (nothing is getting nerfed); however, are these buffs enough to make druids competitive with the other classes? In addition, please be aware that all the topics below are based on PTR patches, and thus can be changed or removed at any time. Pay attention to the date that this post was published and keep that in mind when reading. Also, I’m very interested in talking with the healing and druid community, so please comment below with your thoughts!
We are on Twitter!
Healcraft has joined the twitterverse! Be sure to follow us @Healcraft to get all of our tweets! Below we have potential ideas for our twitter account, let us know what you think!