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.

Using mouseover macros to deal with poison curing in raids

The Druid Main blog continues its macro series with an explanation of how mouseover macros work and how you can use them to cure poison/curses faster in raids.

Basic macro creation for Druids of all specs part 2

Icedragon at the Druid Main blog continues her series on basic macro creation by showing you how to create a panic button that will activate different emergency abilities depending on what form you are in and more.

Basic macro creation for Druids of all specs

Icedragon of Druid Main breaks down macro creation into very basic, easy to understand terms for any Druid player who wants to try their hand at it.

Wild Growth mouseover bug fix

Lissanna at the Restokin blog has found a macro fix for those of you Resto Tree Druids experiencing out of range errors with Wild Growth when using mouseovers. If you don’t use mouseovers, carry on, you shouldn’t be experiencing this problem.

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)

 

New guide to playing Restoration Tree Druids

WoW-Pro.com, home to the beloved Jame’s free leveling guides, have posted a very extensive guide to understanding the Druid Tree role. Highlights include explanations of spells, talents, glyphs, builds, gear, consumables, gems, enchants, macros, addons, leveling and more.