The retained client read adds Gift of the Earthmother, Living Spirit, and Wild Growth. It also reworks talents such as Swiftmend and Improved Tranquility. Blizzard separately confirms that Rejuvenation, Tranquility, and Wild Growth can critically hit in the September 24 beta notes.
Restoration in Forever
The reported Restoration Druid tree has 16 talents: 3 new, 8 reworked, and 5 matching the Classic Era 1.15.9 client table. Wild Growth is the reported 31-point capstone; Blizzard's September 24 beta notes say it can critically hit.
In tree order. Each talent shows its Forever text at full rank beside Classic Era's, and the first rank that differs when full rank reads the same.
Row 1 open from the first point
Nature's Focus
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting Arcane and Nature spells.
Classic, 5/5
Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting the Healing Touch, Regrowth and Tranquility spells.
Furor
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Gives you a 100% chance to gain 10 Rage when you shapeshift into Bear Form or Dire Bear Form. When you shift into Cat Form, you will regain 100% of the Energy you had when you were last in Cat Form, plus 10 Energy for each second you spent not in Bear Form, Cat Form, or Dire Bear Form, up to a maximum of 100 Energy.
Classic, 5/5
Gives you 100% chance to gain 10 Rage when you shapeshift into Bear and Dire Bear Form or 40 Energy when you shapeshift into Cat Form.
Row 2 5 points in Restoration
Naturalist
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.5 sec and increases all damage you deal by 5%.
Classic as Improved Healing Touch, 5/5
Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.5 sec.
Subtlety
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Reduces the threat generated by your Nature and Arcane spells by 30%.
Classic, 5/5
Reduces the threat generated by your Healing spells by 20%.
Natural Shapeshifter
Unchanged
Forever and Classic, 3/3
Reduces the mana cost of all shapeshifting by 30%.
Row 3 10 points in Restoration
Reflection
Reworked
Forever, 3/3
Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Classic, 3/3
Allows 15% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Gift of Nature
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Increases the effect of all your healing spells by 10%.
Classic, 5/5
Increases the effect of all healing spells by 10%.
Gift of the Earthmother
New
Forever, 1/1
Reduces the global cooldown by 0.5 seconds on your Rejuvenation, Swiftmend, and Wild Growth spells.
Row 4 15 points in Restoration
Tranquil Spirit
Unchanged
Forever and Classic, 5/5
Reduces the mana cost of your Healing Touch and Tranquility spells by 10%.
Improved Rejuvenation
Unchanged
Forever and Classic, 3/3
Increases the effect of your Rejuvenation spell by 15%.
Swiftmend
Reworked
Forever, 1/1
Instantly heals a target with an active Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect for an amount equal to the full duration of the periodic effect of one of those spells.
Classic, 1/1
Consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect on a friendly target to instantly heal them an amount equal to 12 sec. of Rejuvenation or 18 sec. of Regrowth.
20% of base mana · 40 yd range · Instant · 15 sec cooldown
Row 5 20 points in Restoration
Nature's Swiftness
Unchanged
Forever and Classic, 1/1
When activated, your next Nature spell becomes an instant cast spell.
Requires 5 points in Naturalist · Instant · 3 min cooldown
Living Spirit
New
Forever, 3/3
Increases your Spirit by 15%.
Improved Tranquility
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
Reduces threat caused by Tranquility by 100% and its cooldown by 60%.
Classic, 2/2
Reduces threat caused by Tranquility by 100%.
Row 6 25 points in Restoration
Improved Regrowth
Unchanged
Forever and Classic, 5/5
Increases the critical effect chance of your Regrowth spell by 50%.
Heals the target and their party for 336 over 7 sec. Party members must be within 43.5 yards of target. The amount healed is applied quickly at first, and slows down as Wild Growth reaches its full duration.
Requires 3 points in Living Spirit · 550 Mana · 40 yd range · Instant · 6 sec cooldown
Every fact, with its source
1 more fact, checked Sep 27, 2026; 1 from Blizzard. The 3 headline changes are above. The tag says how sure each one is.
Healing gear for questingBonus healing now also grants one third as much bonus damageChangedConfirmedBlizzard · Deep Dive recap
TalentsNames, positions, ranks and text from the community WoW Forever Talents dataset, read from WoW Forever beta client build 1.60.1.70009. Reported
Classic EraThe comparison text comes from Classic Era client build 1.15.9.69722, in the same dataset. Unchanged means the same text as that client, not a Blizzard statement.
