Naturalist
Druid · Restoration · opens at 5 points spent · 5 ranks
Naturalist works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Naturalist ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch and Wild Growth spells by 0.1 sec and increases all damage you deal by 2%.
- Rank 2 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch and Wild Growth spells by 0.2 sec and increases all damage you deal by 4%.
- Rank 3 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch and Wild Growth spells by 0.3 sec and increases all damage you deal by 6%.
- Rank 4 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch and Wild Growth spells by 0.4 sec and increases all damage you deal by 8%.
- Rank 5 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch and Wild Growth spells by 0.5 sec and increases all damage you deal by 10%.
What Naturalist does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side. In Classic Era it is called Improved Healing Touch.
- Rank 1 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.1 sec.
- Rank 2 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.2 sec.
- Rank 3 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.3 sec.
- Rank 4 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.4 sec.
- Rank 5 Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.5 sec.
Where Naturalist sits in the Restoration tree
Naturalist is a Restoration talent for Druid. You need 5 points in Restoration before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Nature's Swiftness.
- Unlocks: Nature's Swiftness
- Same row: Reflection, Natural Shapeshifter
How often people take Naturalist
79 of the 148 public Druid builds saved here (53%) put at least one point in Naturalist. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Naturalist
8 of the public Druid builds written up here spend points on Naturalist.
- Druid Restoration 8/0/37 · 5/5 , 127 up
- Druid Restoration 8/0/39 · 5/5 , 21 up
- Druid Balance 26/0/13 · 5/5 , 16 up
- Druid Restoration 12/11/19 · 5/5 , 10 up
- Druid Restoration 14/11/19 · 5/5 , 9 up
- Druid Balance 27/0/10 · 5/5 , 6 up
- Druid Restoration 12/11/24 · 5/5 , 4 up
- Druid Restoration 8/0/39 · 5/5 , 3 up
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)