Overview of Resto Druid talents, stats, rotation and more

The Earth Shields and HoTs blog has compiled an extensive overview of the Resto Druid class for anyone looking to get an overview of what’s involved. They cover talent selection, important stats, healing rotations, gems & enchants, glyph choices and macros & addons. Good stuff for beginners and those switching from another spec.

The pros and cons of using the Grid healing AddOn

The Falling Leaves and Wings Druid blog gave the healing AddOn Grid a spin and lists the pros and cons of using this user interface mod to be a better healer.

How to manually add debuffs to Grid

While there is an extension mod to Grid that shows debuffs, the Dreambound blog writer likes to set their own manually to get it just how the want it. And they posted a tutorial to show you how you to can customize Grid to show the debuffs you want.

Using PowerAuras mod for Resto Tree Druid spell notification

The Dreambound blog has posted about their experiment using the popular PowerAuras mod and customizing it for Resto Tree Druid healing.

How to customize the CowTip tooltip AddOn

The Dreambound druid blog lists the customization they use on the CowTip tooltip mod to make it provide a great deal of information in very little space.

Guide to raiding for Druids

Syll at Rolling Hots has posted a guide to Druids for raiding in Wrath. She covers AddOns, boss guides, group composition and more. Though she frames it for Resto Tree Druids the advice and links are general enough that all specs can get something out of it.

Healbot Resto Druid AddOn explored

Keeva at Tree Bark Jacket continues her comparison of Grid and Healbot. In this installment, she writes her impressions of Healbot as a new user would experience it.

Grid vs. Healbot – The battle of the Healing Addons part 1

Keeva at Tree Bark Jacket starts the first of her comparison of two popular healer AddOns Grid and Healbot. In this first installment she goes over the basic features of Grid.

Restoration Tree Druid Resource Page is up

I’ve posted my first pass of my Restoration Tree Druid Resource page. It collects all of the Resto guides I’ve found around the net. If you know of one I don’t have listed, leave a comment and I’ll check it out. Here’s a list of everything on the page now:

General Information

• Popular Restoration Tree Druid Talent Builds:
  • 11/0/60 – Most Popular Healing Spec
  • 28/0/43 – Dreamstate Spec for more mana regen, but no Wild Growth
    
    • Dreamstate Spec explored
  • Non-standard healing specs explored
  • 5-Man Resto Healing Spec
• A Feral’s guide to Healing
• WoW-Pro’s Tree Healing guide
• Druid Heal!’s Druid Resto Mega Guide

AddOns

• Pawn – item comparison tool
  • Pawn set-up tutorial
• Grid
  • Grid set-up tutorial
  • Using Grid to track HoTs
• Healing meters demystified

Consumables

• Potions and Food for Resto Druids in Wrath

Gear Guides

• Best in Slot for Resto Druids
  • World of Matticus’ guide
• Pre-Naxx gear guides
  • Resto4Life’s Pre-Naxx gear guide
    • Part 1 – Head, Shoulder, Chest, Hands, Legs and Feet
    • Part 2 – Back, Waist, Wrist, Neck and Fingers
  • WoW Insider’s Gearing Your Resto Druid at 80 guide
• Druid Heal!’s pre-raid and raid cloak plus trinket recommendations
• Naxx-25 Resto Gear recommendations
• Glyph Recommendations
  • Resto4Life’s Restoration Glyph guide
  • CasualWoW’s Swiftmend Glyph analysis
    
  • 4Healz Major Glyph guide
  • TreeBarkJacket’s Major Glyph guide

Professions

• Leatherworking vs. Tailoring in Wrath

Healing Mechanics explained

• The math behind Int, Spirit and Mana Regen
• Nourish vs Regrowth
• Direct Healing in Wrath

Raiding

• Raider101 Resto Tree page – Includes recommended build, ability rotation, glyphs, gems, enchants and consumables.
• Minimum stats needed to start Naxx-10
• Healing Assignments for Resto Druids
• Raid Healing Strats
  • Archavon-10
  • Malygos-10
  • Naxx-10: Sapphiron
  • Naxx-10: Maexxna
  • Naxx-10: Gothik the Harvester

Restoration Tree Druid Sites

• Druid Wiki
• Resto4Life
• World of Matticus
• Tree Bark Jacket
• 4 Haelz
• Druid Heal!
• Swiftmend
• Rolling Hots
• Nerf This Druid
• WoW Insider’s Shifting Perspectives (Druid class column)
• WoW Insider’s Raid Rx (Raid Healing column)

 

Delving deeper into item comparison weights

Dave at Passport to Shandris previously posted the Resto and Moonkin scales he devised for the item comparison AddOn Pawn. Today he goes into why he gave weight to some stats over the other for the Resto numbers.

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