Naturalist (was Improved Healing Touch): WoW Forever Druid talent

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NaturalistA Restoration Druid talent in WoW Forever: row 2 of the Restoration tree (level 15), 5 ranks, passive. Changed from Classic (renamed from Improved Healing Touch). Read from the WoW Forever beta client, with the server's 3 Nov hotfixes on the Druid trees as other readers logged them from the game's hotfix data, checked against Blizzard's notes where they speak.

Naturalist opens at level 15, after 5 points in Restoration.

Changed from Classic

Row 2 of 7 in the Restoration tree, column 1.

Lv 15the earliest level

5ranks, passive

73%of Druid builds take it

Find Naturalist on the Restoration tree ›Every Restoration talent in words

What it does Restoration row 2

Naturalist5 ranks · passiveRequires 5 points in Restoration Talents (level 15).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%.Changed from Classic (renamed from Improved Healing Touch). Classic rank 1: Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.1 sec.

What changed from Classic

Classic rank 1Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.1 sec.
WoW Forever rank 1Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch and Wild Growth spells by 0.1 sec and increases all damage you deal by 2%.
Alsorenamed from Improved Healing Touch.

Blizzard's notes build by build

NaturalistNaturalist: Now increases all damage by 2/4/6/8/10%, up from 1/2/3/4/5%. Now also reduces the cast time of Wild Growth by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 seconds. Blizzard's development notes for build 70753, 2 Nov 2026.

Who takes it pick rates from this site's builds

73% of Druid buildsTaken in 73% of the 21,235 Druid builds with 41 or more points planned here, since the Oct 30 hotfixes to build 70685.
77% of Balance buildsTaken in 77% of the 3,890 builds that lead in Balance.
62% of Feral Combat buildsTaken in 62% of the 12,299 builds that lead in Feral Combat.
96% of Restoration buildsTaken in 96% of the 5,046 builds that lead in Restoration, its own tree.
How it is countedEach build counts once, the way the calculator's pick-rate badges count. Recounted a few times a day, last on 2026-11-05.

Beta build history

1 change, newest first

Hotfixes to build 1.60.1.70685, 2026-10-30Ranks 1 to 5 text changed. Now: Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch and Wild Growth spells by 0.1 sec and increases all damage you deal by 2%. Was: Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.1 sec and increases all damage you deal by 1%.

Around it in the Restoration tree

UnlocksNature's Swiftness: it needs Naturalist at max rank.
Same row (5 points in Restoration, level 15)Reflection, Natural Shapeshifter.
Row above (level 10)Nature's Focus, Heart of the Wild.
Row below (level 20)Subtlety, Gift of Nature, Bloom.
Gone from Classic RestorationImproved Mark of the Wild, Improved Enrage.

Every Restoration talent 16

Naturalist

Improved Rejuvenation

newchangedmoved since Classic, the dots of the calculator's Compare to Classic. Down the side: the earliest level for each row.

The Restoration talents as a list row by row

The other two trees

From the WoW Forever beta client, with the 3 Nov server hotfixes on the Druid trees as other readers logged them; checked in game with reader reports. Put points in Naturalist in the Druid calculator.