Restoration Druid Shopping List

[Sorcha'Rei]

((The third in a series of four postings on pre-MC equipment for level 60 druids. Totally OOC.))

Ljanna's Restoration Druid Shopping List

I did not include the Abyssal Leather X of Restoration items. These are good for restro druids, but since some are green and they carry no set bonuses, they are mostly useful for place holding until you get Wildheart. Some are BoP, some are BoE. You get them directly in Silithus, as drops off the Dukes.

(Note about the Abyssal set: You don't see a lot of mana regen build restro druids, since they all have Innervate. However, if you are a combination build of some kind with Nature's Swiftness but not Innervate, you might want to consider a mana regen build, in which case, The Abyssal set with the Archivist Cloak of either Healing or the Owl would probably be your best bet for pre-epic gear. I'm not sure whether this would be better than WH, but it might be worth a try.)

Wildheart is designed to suppoort healing and casting, although the 8-piece set bonuses actually support feral more than restro. Most restro druids shuld probably be wearing as much WH as they can get their hands on. (The only exception to this, depending on how many pieces you already have, is that you might want to stay in Ironfeather until you can replace both pieces at once. That is a very fine set bonus to lose to a WH piece if you don't pick up a good WH bonus at the same time.) In a sense, this list addresses the question of what cloak to wear with your WH, as well as the question of what pieces to wear while you wait for WH to drop for you. Alternatively, you might want to do 6 pieces of WH and 2 others, which can be a good build, too.

Unless otherwise noted, World Drops are BoE, so you can sometimes buy them in the AH if you have a lot of money.

No MC, ZG, BWL or PvP pieces here.


Cloak:

Hide of the Wild
www.thottbot.com/?i=36157
Crafted by a Tribal LW from a pattern that is found in the goblin chest in DM North. There is no better cloak for a restoration druid, so focus on getting this. (Sorcha and Ljanna can both make this, btw.)

Archivist Cloak of Whatever
www.thottbot.com/?i=39029
Shockingly, this drops off the Archivist in Strat.


Leather Gear:

Bracers of Prosperity
www.thottbot.com/?i=35753
King Gorduk, DM North.

Cinderhide Armsplints of Whatever
www.thottbot.com/?i=24419 (for example)
Healing, Owl, or Intellect. Incendius in BRD.

Crystalized Girdle
www.thottbot.com/?i=21417
Solakar Flamewreath in UBRS.

Cyclone Spaulders
www.thottbot.com/?i=36021
Tribute chest in DM North. Also dropped by one of the named bosses in DM North if you are doing a boss run instead of a tribute run.

Demonic Runed Spaulders
www.thottbot.com/?i=18043
Vosh'gajin in LBRS.

Eyestalk Cord
www.thottbot.com/?i=35835
Immol'thar in DM West.

Feathermoon Headdress
www.thottbot.com/?i=36024
World drop.

Ghostloom Leggings
www.thottbot.com/?i=23232
An intersting mana regen piece. Falls off Jandice in Scholo.

Ghoulskin Leggings
www.thottbot.com/?i=37182
Dropped by all the bosses in the latter part of Scholo.

Girdle of Insight
www.thottbot.com/?i=36156
Crafted by a LW who got the BoP pattern out of the goblin chect in DM North.

Gloves of Restoration
www.thottbot.com/?i=35613
Alzinn Wildshaper in DM East.

Halcyon's Muzzle
www.thottbot.com/?i=6427
The restro leather quest reward from Maxwell's Mission.

Insightful Hood
www.thottbot.com/?i=35647
Cho'rush in DM North (easiest way to get Cho'rush is a tribute run where you kill Cho'rush as well. Boss run is a lot harder, in my experience.)

Ironfeather Armor set
www.thottbot.com/?set=144
Crafted by Tribal LW. Plans drop off trolls in the Hinterlands, but sell for reasonable prices in Hyjal AH, too. This set got a nice buff to its set bonus in the 1.8 patch, and now you frequently see even 60 druids wearing it until they get WH.

Living Breastplate, Leggings and Shoulders
www.thottbot.com/?i=27867 and www.thottbot.com/?i=23745 and www.thottbot.com/?i=18162
Crafted by Elemental LW off plans that drop randomly in WP. I'm not a fan, but if you are a spirit build, you might like this a lot.

Mar Alom's Grips
www.thottbot.com/?i=25490
Random BRD drop.

Sandals of the Insurgent
www.thottbot.com/?i=5046
Spirit build. World drop.

Sandstorm Boots
www.thottbot.com/?i=52052
Druid quest reward from a quest in Silithus. (http://www.thottbot.com/?qu=8315)

Sedge Boots
www.thottbot.com/?i=35829
Quest reward from The Madness Within in DM West. www.thottbot.com/?q=15931

Songbird Blouse
www.thottbot.com/?i=8173
Best blue all-around druid chest in the game, once you have WH shoulders and can't get the Ironfeather set bonus anymore. Drops off Hearthsinger Forestten in Strat (rare spawn). It used to be possible to stealth/solo to get this, but that was trashed in the 1.7 patch when the mobs in Strat suddenly became able to detect Sneaky Kitties.

Tanglemoss Leggings
www.thottbot.com/?i=35594
Really moonkin gear, but can be nice if you are having trouble getting the WH kilt to drop. Warpwood in DM West.

Tressermane Leggings
www.thottbot.com/?i=5348
Omokk in LBRS.

Verdant Footpads
www.thottbot.com/?i=11919
Whacked out boots with no stats but bonzo healing bonuses. Put Stamina on them, and hope Mother Smolderweb drops the WH boots for you soon.

Waterspout Boots
www.thottbot.com/?i=39091
Toss up for me which of these or Verdant are better until WH drops. I usually ended up wearing Verdant, though. Hydrospawn in DM East.