9.2 Resto Druid FAQ

Patch 9.2 is here and brings with it a new raid, new Mythic+ content and a new daily quest zone.

9.2 Tier Set

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• These are extremely strong raid bonuses and you’ll notice large power increases as you collect both bonuses.
• Does the 2pc bonus give a mastery stack while active? Yes and it’ll make up a decent portion of it’s power.
• Do Swiftmends cast during Convoke count toward the 4pc bonus? They dont.

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Analysis

This is a very strong bonus, with the 2pc adding a lot of healing and the 4pc adding a significant amount of Tree of Life uptime (more than double what you’d get without it). Tree of Life as a talent will remain ok, but expect Soul of the Forest to become the new default talent.

In Mythic+ it’s not quite as strong. The 2pc will still add a lot of healing, and the extra mastery stack will provide even more. Mythic+ is a damage-focused environment but free healing is free healing. The 4pc is a little rougher, Tree isn’t of much benefit in a small group environment and the procs are unlikely to be of much value.

Changes in Playstyle

You’ll have already been casting a lot of Swiftmend, but now it’s a part of your core rotation. You’ll aim to cast Swiftmend three times a minute, lining up your 9 second Tree of Life proc with Convoke the Spirits. This is a ridiculous amount of healing every single minute. You’ll otherwise mostly play as you have been already.

• You don’t necessarily have to track Renewing Bloom on your raid frames, however you should have some way of knowing that a target can be swiftmended. Most raid frames can do this in one spot, but if you don’t have that functionality then you should track it individually.
• Swiftmend will take Renewing Bloom as priority when a target has multiple hots.
• Renewing Bloom has extremely high uptime and you don’t have to think too much about the 25% proc rate.
• You have a lot of flexibility in when you hit Swiftmend, so long as you have your third in each sequence ready for Convoke. Remember that you’re playing around Soul of the Forest a little bit too.

Weakauras to help you manage

• https://wago.io/cursorcombo: Cursor based weak aura that tracks your low cooldown spells. Updated with Swiftmend.
• https://wago.io/ZWQq40WU3: Basic weak aura to track 4pc stacks. You can repurpose it to suit your UI.

Spell Changes

• Major Buff: +10% to all healing spells.
• Major Buff: 9.6% increase to all non-Sunfire damage sources. 11% increase to Sunfire damage.
• Minor Buff: An additional +15% buff to the Lifebloom HoT, 20% to the Bloom portion.
• Minor Buff: Germination now causes Rejuvenation to last an extra 2 seconds (a good change, but not enough to displace Flourish).
• Minor Buff: Inner Peace now gives the caster 20% damage reduction while channeling and immunity to knock backs (the talent will stay niche but is a bit more useful).
• Inconsequential Buff: Overgrowth mana cost reduced. Nourish buffed.

Legendary Combinations

Our 2pc tier set adds extra value to free rejuvs and so the dominant raiding combination is Celestial Spirits and Vision of Unending Growth. The alternatives are almost universally weaker though for very small raid sizes you could swap in Memory of the Mother Tree instead. In Mythic+ you will combine your covenant legendary with Draught of Deep Focus (for DPS) most of the time.

Covenants in 9.1

Healer Mace: Genesis Lathe

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Here are the possible effects:

• If the target is >90% health: A small absorb + a Speed buff.
• If the target is between 40 and 90% health: A small HoT + a Leech buff.
• If the target is below 40% health: A flat heal + an Avoidance buff.

The weapon trades secondaries for a bit of an odd effect. Given Regrowth is a strong spell for us, we’ll naturally proc this frequently enough for it to justify it’s place against equal item level weapons but it falls behind if there’s a gap. As always you can confirm with your specific character in QE Live.

It’s unfortunate that we ended up with a somewhat dinky effect as our endgame healer weapon but it’s usable for Resto Druid.

Quickfire Questions

• Will we still be wearing Domination Socket gear in 9.2? Domination Sockets don’t work in any 9.2 content.
• Which Trinkets are good? There’s a full graph on QE Live. Soulletting Ruby, Unbound Changeling, So’leah’s and even Elegy are all competitive trinkets.
• Which slot do I craft my legendaries in? This question is asked a lot but is actually a very low impact one and you shouldn’t stress too much about it. Helm is a great slot choice for Vision of Unending Growth due to it being high budget and giving a free socket in a tier with potentially no socket-adding items. Celestial Spirits (through the new Unity legendary) can be put in the belt slot but you have flexibility here. The priority is to not overlap any slots with tier pieces you own while you build your 4pc set. That might mean that the min-max decision is to craft them multiple times which is expensive. Focus on wearing the right legendaries and avoiding ultra low value slots like Cape and Bracers.
• Which stats should I put on my new legendaries? Haste + Mastery for raid. Haste + Crit or Haste + Vers for Mythic+.

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Mistweaver Monk | Resto Druid