Keeva at Tree Bark Jacket blog has posted one of the most comprehensive guides to playing a Resto Druid I've seen yet. This extensive guide covers just about everything a Resto Druid needs to know: talent specs (below the haste cap, over the haste cap, raid healing, tank healing, 5-man healing), explanation of Druid talents, overview of healing spell types, healing rotations (raid healing, tank healing, 5-man healing), stats to look for on gear, gems, glyphs, idols, trinkets, consumables, enchants, addons, macros, keybinds and leveling guide. You getting the idea? Current as of WoW Patch 3.3.3.
[Resto 3.3.3] Comprehensive Resto Druid guide
Healing builds and glyphs for levels 40-79
Lissanna at Restokin has updated her dual speccing guide for Resto Tree Druids by listing recommended builds and glyphs for level 40 (when you can first dual spec), 50, 60, 70 & 79. She’s already covered Resto Tree Druid Healing builds, glyphs and strats at level 80.
Leveling as a Resto Druid
Leveling a Resto Druid is not the fastest way to go, but if you can’t afford to Dual Spec at 40 and want to stay Resto for instancing, Syll at Rolling HoTs has some advice on how to accomplish that.
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
- 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
- Grid
- Healing meters demystified
Consumables
Gear Guides
- Best in Slot for Resto Druids
- Pre-Naxx gear guides
- Resto4Life’s Pre-Naxx gear guide
- 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
Professions
Healing Mechanics explained
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
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.