Been thinking about druid lately and also wanted to learn how to heal.
How are they in mythic plus?
My current druid is a zandalari but was also thinking about darkspear troll.
Does it have a fun rotation? Meaningful buttons? Pretty visuals?
I also like to make lots of macros and would also appreciate if u shared some as well.
hi there! I can answer some of these for you:
They are good in m+…Our utility is kind of homogenized now, but we still bring lots of useful tools…soothe, brez and some decent CC options.
Resto druid isn’t about the rotation, but about decision making. As you know, our heals are HoT - so we don’t have as much control over them. You need to gear appropriately, do your research on the encounters (so that you can deal with spike damage), and use your cd’s wisely - as they are limited. It should be worth noting that this is one of the higher APM classes - and you won’t have many free globals (due to shapeshifting)…so hopefully you like that pacing.
Our visuals are pretty if you’re into the nature magic fantasy. Lots of flowers, forest sprites, and animal form options. 
i think you chose a great class tbh…you will need to take time and set your UI up, because there will be multiple stances/buttons for you to use in the kit…this is a class that will keep you learning for a long time, as there’s so much to it, especially in the end-game.
gl!
What do u do with all the high apm skills? Just cast hots over and over?
that’s a great question! It really depends on the encounter, but let’s assume you’re doing some intense gaming like Mythic+:
As a resto druid, you’ll be shapeshifting quite a bit for utility and damage purposes. this will def keep you busier than some of the other healing specs out there!
If you’re a catweaver - for example, the idea is to get your hots out as quickly as possible, then shift into your animal form…so you don’t have to actively be casting healing spells on allies all the time…but it will take some practice to trust/know the power of your healing, so you know when to shift out and start casting again.
also, don’t forget to cast your starsurges, and try to always keep efflorescence up!
What do you keep up baseline so that you can safely spend the gcds to go into cat? I feel like even with Adaptive Swarm, Rejuv, Wild Growth, and efflo up it’s still risky business. Idk if im trying to dps too much or what and need to spend more time attending to the group but once i fall behind it’s hard to catch back up and people die.
Many druids pick up Nourish because it is a direct heal that can recover plenty of health. I’m not really a fan of it since it adds an additional button, but I can see the appeal.
Hello OP,
I have played wow since vanilla Beta and specifically a druid for about 10 years. They are super fun. Dragonflight expansion limits them. You are forced to use a dragon to fly instead of your bird form which really sucks. It is so fun to fly around and then go out of flight firm and drop for awhile then turn back into flight form.
The great thing about a Druid is you can always do something. Tank, Melee, Cast, Heal. The rotations aren’t super crazy and some really easy to learn. Even with for example healer spec you can go Group DoT healer or Tank Healer. They have it all. Even for me as a tank I have an instant regrowth that I can toss on people in bear form. Which I have saved many groups with it when we would have wiped it I was some other tank well besides a pally.
You have speed with travel form and cat form. You have stealth which is amazing when you want to skip entire areas and only want to kill a boss or find a treasure. You almost never die. You have a battle rez. You even have forever underwater breathing. Just kill what you need to then pop back into water form and swim faster than anyone else.
Druids are essentially the perfect class. Depending on how you play you will find macros. However the best macros or whatever is G-Keys on Logitech Gaming Keyboard and Mouse. You can do what I do and set up buttons to click with a super fast cast speed. For example if your a healer you can have one button that casts 3 insta heals within seconds. A tank you can click one button to pop all your cool downs at once. I have one button that puts me into cat form, stealth and then run. I think Razer also has extra macro buttons as well.
Back in the day you could have a one hit smash button but blizzard took those out. So honestly if you can get a gaming keyboard and mouse and set up the macro buttons with those then you will have a much easier time playing. You will be able to transfer mostly everything each expansion. Enjoy the Druid class and have fun. They are the best class out their for those who like doing it all.
I must admit, catweaving isn’t as good as we had it in BFA and SL…but there’s still lots of opportunities to use the form imo…and it has really good utility, including double stuns if you’re a night elf.
I choose primal fury to get combo points quickly, that way i can get more quality bleeds out. It’s a really good talent - because the way tanks pull in m+, you can swipe/thrash your way to really easy 4-5 combo point finishers, which helps, since your time in this form is limited. I also make sure i have lifebloom on myself to make up for the haste loss
I think you’re catweaving correctly - just have to find the windows for it…which tbh depend on the group you’re playing in…if you have less alert players taking dmg all over the place, you won’t get many chances to bite things. just keep practicing and you’ll find a way to go feral! gl friend 
I’ll say this: I keep trying other classes, and I keep coming back to rdruid.
The pros: very mobile. Very robust. Very dynamic. Nothing like a flourish burst to make you feel like a god of healing.
The cons: if you don’t know the damage patterns you will struggle. It’s hard to catch up if you get in over your head.
When I’ve tried other healers, I really miss the mobility (except monk, which I’ve really enjoyed in the past).
In raids this tier its really fun, the damage patterns play pretty well into our cooldown rotation and the mobility + rejuv self spreading build means we handle other mechanics well too; numerically i think we fell off a little after the pally rework but every healer did and we still do good numbers.
In keys I think resto is great if you play with at least a partially steady group. Resto isnt good at unexpected recovery but mana costs are so high keeping everyone perma ready for ramp can oom you pretty quick. Having the consistency dungeon to dungeon of the same people helps with that.
Resto is sounding a lot like disc.
They are both very pro-active healers, but Disc Priests having absorbs gives them a big advantage over Resto Druids.
Have you tried evoker? If so, how did their mobility compare to Druid?
That’s actually one of two I haven’t played at end game (shaman being the other).
Disc is fun. But it’s sooo squishy and slow. Fine for raids, I found, but I just kept dying in Mythic+. Probably could have figured it out eventually with defensives and such, but mobility is so bad.
I wouldn’t say they have an overall advantage. Druids are generally pretty strong.
Having played both, resto is more mobile since the only rotational hard cast is wild growth while pres needs an active button press with hover for high movement and has no option for movement with empowers; they also have the 30yrd range which limits their positioning.
They make up for it with a better balance of premeptive and reactive heals. Anomaly absorbs/echo spread, and stasis gives them good planned ramp like a druid’s but they have things like rewind (which is actually useful in keys unlike tranq most times) and tip + dream breath give them better emergency options.
Utility wise we actually overlap alot.
Pres has tail whip/wing buffet we have ursol/typhoon. They have opressive we have soothe. They have dream walk, we have hibernate. They they have landslide we get mass roots. Hero and brez is a toss up with the rest of your comp. Mark is better then bronze blessing 99% of the time but raids want both.
Been wondering if I should give Resto Druids a go. I’ll be following this topic.
With the flying i can forsure see dragonflight as a form being an option in the future. They are already making animations for other current mounts for use of it 
I don’t main Druid but it was my original class I started in 2006. I also have one of each of the healers at max level and can play them all at a 15 keystone level.
Personally, I don’t think Druid is great to start healing on but is a relatively fun healer just a little complicated in my opinion
-proactive/ramp healer
-spammy
-lack of chunky direct heals
Need to know all the damage patterns and ramp by casting HoT effects prior to damage in order for them to all be active while damage goes out, typically while you channel another spell such as tranquility or Convoke or while spamming with tree.
Druid has an interesting mastery which causes each additional HoT effect to apply the mastery bonus from healing, which can cause some confusion because the spell power coefficients are designed around maximizing the number of HoTs on a target during critical healing moments. Even tiny trickle heals from talent points on their own don’t do much but add an entire stack of mastery bonus healing to all other HoTs so this effect is really important, learning how to stack HoTs on top of eachother efficiently. However, because druid is designed around many HoTs to boost healing, it can be confusing for a new player why things heal for so little on their own (such as spamming regrowth to top someone off — a beginner healer move — but on druid requires 3-4 HoTs to buff regrowth before casting).
Given that you have to apply so many HoTs and then also manage DPS with form shifting (which is cool don’t get me wrong) — it’s just a lot for a new healer and also in these metas there’s a lot of spike damage so if you are stuck in a form and need to reply to that emergency damage it can sometimes be difficult