This is a mastery build I am testing for resto that requires high mastery and haste.
legendary effects recommended - 2.5% chance per rejuvenation tick to add additional rejuvenation.
talents
nourish, Cultivation, spring blossoms, germination
covenants
NL w/ possibly NF if balance affinity
scores other strategy
what’s the responsiveness without (SOTF + nature’s swiftness) - for this build you are trading the fast responsiveness for a slow ramp up but higher healing out put than SOTF + regrowth + natures swiftness and cenarion ward alone.
Each hot is 300% increased healing of the base amount of nourish.
I am 10/10 Heroic CN and I have KSM (so I do a lot of M+14 and M+15) as a resto druid. Nourish in general doesn’t compare well to Regrowth spam IMHO. Once you get a regrowth on a target the massive increase in crit chance for subsequent regrowths means your regrowths are fast and large. Fast is important in M+, as you often have to move regularly to avoid ground effects. I think you can make a high mastery build that works well for M+, as HOT stacking benefits greatly from the high mastery, as does regrowth spam. In raids, haste is king, as you often have to spread your HOTs out on lots of people and don’t benefit as much from mastery. NF is still god mode for Resto in M+ or raid. I started as Necrolord and after switching to Nightfae there is no comparison, and unless 9.1 radically changes things I cannot imagine going back to NL.
Best of luck with your build!
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I really liked Germination play in BFA, but in SL I found that my mana pool couldn’t really support it and so ended up switching out to flourish for raids, and photo (w/ DT) in M+.
I think in M+, a build like this might struggle since you do need that responsiveness. Any mistakes in maintaining your hots will compound I think. In raids, I think it could be a very good support build if your other healers can handle the shock, allowing you to pad out the spaces in between.
That said, a normal build handles that too so it’s tough to say.
Playing with it and seeing how it performs is totally the way to go though 
This build might be viable at end game when you can stack a lot of mastery and haste.
However, this will most likely be suboptimal for m+ as C Ward with swiftmend leggo and flourish will heal more on tanks than a heavy mastery build with nourish. With the amount of hots you’re looking at, you will spend most of your time reapplying hots and won’t be able to spam nourish like you’re wanting to.
Plus regrowth has the extra crit chance and the benefit of clearcasting.
high mastery nourish is really only useful for Sunking tbh.
If you’re doing small Grp healing, Verdant+CW is enough to cover pretty much everything
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