Restoration has been absolutely the worst class I’ve ever played for PvP. It’s more fun than my MW granted every minute you can NS heal a target but not enough defense or counter against double dps teams or even against is single dps that can just kill you in 2-3 hits (rogues, shaman, paladin to name a few). Yesterday, I tried guardian affinity (like I’m supposed to trying to be a good dwuid ) for pvp over my usual balance affinity is even that is not reliable however i did survive some crazy encounters one where fenzy regeneration was my top heal by an insane margin. I also end up feeling like i should play balance for the range extension so i can stay away more easiler, and push dps when i need. I’m not a fan of the poll hugging class druid is forced to be . look at priest how often is a priest hugging the poll or even now shaman dont really poll hug. I understand emergency use of hugging a pole. But the current status of druid if two dps want to kill you, they will kill you, especially if they out gear you, which has been a big problem in the arena. ( 30k hp vs 40k-45k hp)
As MW i played crane style. im up front and personal the entire time. I can teleport away from that trouble and even bubble the damage. Tranquility is a channeled ability as a major cd makes me cry also. I like that i can get an extra hot but its not worth the 3 minute cd.
You’re definitely doing something wrong, as resto druid is currently the most unkillable healer in the game. You should be easily facetanking DPS during their CDs
Some tips:
Guardian affinity
Shift bear often and use FR whenever in danger
Use the FR conduit that procs it when you are at 40% HP
Be necrolord
When using necro shield, you want to be in bear form, then swap conduits to the one that gives you increased HP in bear. Use shield, then swap back to the right conduits (only in the starting room)
Play plague deviser marileth soulbind, for the extra 15% HP shield proc at low HP and also to make your necro shield unkickable
Don’t use ironbark before CDs
Don’t press this in arena, its a raid CD
Don’t do this, you have too much defensive capability to be doing this
Also, if this is your character, dont play incarn in arena, soul of the forest is far too good. Also, prob take bash over HoTW
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Thank you Corbe.
I don’t press the full tranquility unless they allow me too i will only go for 1-2 stacks,
and i was playing incarn to try to get of from fast roots for my partner (a lock) but i usually go run SOTF. I think my survivability will probably increase even i leave kyrian convenant.
i am going back to guardian aff though
Oh ya don’t be kyrian…
Unfortunately if you’re not a necrolord rdruid rn you’re pretty much just trolling yourself
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Wrong… you press it to heal while not having to be in LOS, not to mention it does good healing.
Wrong again… you pillar hump to avoid cc, having defensives has nothing to do with it.
Yeah you’re right… I was referring to him casting it in regular combat though, and since the topic of the discussion was living when trained, I was referring to him not casting in that situation.
Once again, the topic of the post was being able to survive while being trained. You do not need to pillar hump while to avoid cc while being trained, and actually it’s probably a negative since you’re most likely LoSing your teammates heals and peels
The title of the post is “I need tips for resto in pvp” and the OP mentions nothing about being trained. At best, there is hyperbole about being 2-3 shot, which isn’t happening unless you’re sitting down or after you’ve used every defensive you have (or aren’t paying attention).
As such, don’t try to change the point just to fit the ill-formed advice you provided. If you’re properly positioning and using pillars they’re going to have a hard time getting to you in the first place. Every high rated healer uses pillars/LOS to avoid cc. It’s telling that the OP thinks certain classes don’t.
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This post is clearly about surviving while being trained. And since that was the object of the post, my advice remains sound
This is untrue.
This should be a no brainer…
This is basic, standard resto play.
This isn’t true, in that two dps will kill any healer if they aren’t getting help from teammates. Healers aren’t surviving 2v1s unless the 2 dps are terrible.
Yes, let’s pretend MW is good in arenas…
Only one of the things you quoted could possibly be looked at as “being trained” and that’s the mention of having 2 DPS on you.
And even so, not all DPS are melee. Pillar humping and breaking LoS to save defensives for when that’s not an option is the correct play. Not “face tank the damage through defensives because you can”.
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Alright if both of you think he wasn’t talking about being trained that’s my bad then. 
you should definitely be LoSing as every healer in the game to avoid cc if the enemy team is going on your DPS.
I am aware that the rest of the statements were untrue/obvious and I was merely using them as a reference to point towards the fact it seemed like he was struggling to live lol. However, this statement made by you is simply unequivocally false currently. Here’s some footage of a rdru running into a wall with full enemy CDs up and living at 3k cr.
You can’t possibly be this daft…
How am I being daft lol? It’s pretty well known that necrolord resto druids are unkillable at the moment, as you can clearly see from the video.
As resto druid currently, you have so much survivability it’s better to stay in the open and facetank double dps than it is to try and run, while LoSing your teammates damage and cc.
Obviously this is only true against double melee - against ranged and if not being trained then yes, you should LoS behind a pillar.