Restoration Druid Healing Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

You are able to socket a single Eversong diamond into your gear. It provides Intellect and sometimes a secondary effect which is less important. The fourt possible options are:

• Powerful Eversong Diamond (Critical effect)
• Stoic Eversong Diamond (Armor)
• Telluric Eversong Diamond (Maximum Mana)
• Indecipherable Eversong Diamond (No effect, more intellect)

The Critical effect gem only provides half the benefit for healing; maximum Mana is not useful because we have no Mana scaling at all. Therefore, we recommend using Indecipherable Eversong Diamond.

For the other gem slots, you're able to just socket our preferred gem in every slot because you are not gaining any benefits from socketing unique gem types. Therefore, socket each slot with Flawless Quick Amethyst (Mastery / Haste). Flawless Masterful Peridot is also very competitive and a fine choice if you'd prefer slightly more Haste.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

Make sure you apply Thalassian Phoenix Oil to your weapon for all content.

Slot	Enchantment
Helm	Enchant Helm - Empowered Hex of Leeching
Shoulders	Enchant Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Legs	Arcanoweave Spellthread
Feet	Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots
Rings	Enchant Ring - Zul'jin's Mastery
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

Flask of the Magisters or Flask of the Blood Knights should be used in both content types, with the better flask depending on the stat you have the least of from your current gear.

In raids you will generally want to run Flask of the Blood Knights, while Mythic+ favors Flask of the Magisters.

You will also use Potion of Recklessness as your default potion. Mana potions are very weak currently and burst healing cooldowns have been nerfed, so it is recommended to use your stat-potion to better cover the most difficult parts of the fight by using them with your cooldowns.

For Healing Potions, you will mainly use Silvermoon Health Potion. Also, do not forget Healthstones for emergency healing.

The different intellect Feast options are all very good ( Silvermoon Parade, Quel'dorei Medley, Harandar Celebration). Impossibly Royal Roast is a fine personal food choice if a Feast is not available. The secondary stat food options are a lot worse.

Void-Touched Augment Rune is the only other consumable worth mentioning. Use it whenever possible for extra stats though they can be expensive - especially early in the expansion.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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