Restoration gear means healing power, Spirit and Intellect, and most of this set is crafted cloth and leather. On a one-minute single-boss fight it averages item level 61.5. Tailoring makes the Mooncloth pieces and the belt, Leatherworking the helm, legs and cloak, and nearly all of them bind on equip, so the auction house works too. The trinkets and the dagger barely change between fights.

Pre-raid gear

Next to each slot are the items the search ranked behind it, with the healing per second each would cost on this fight. "Level" means the gap sits inside the simulation's error, so wear either.

Off hand and idol

The one-minute set holds Lei of the Lifegiver, bought from a vendor for its 40 healing and 5 MP5. Your bar outlasts the fight, so the Tankard's drink would add nothing.

On one minute the idol doesn't matter. All of them score the same, and the Idol of the Moon in this set only adds Moonfire damage. Mystic Mushroom's Spirit buys nothing when mana is spare.

Trinkets

Talisman of Ascendance is a quest reward from the Eastern Plaguelands that binds on pickup. Each minute it can stack up to 75 extra healing on five heals in a row, and losing it costs 24.5 HPS on three minutes. The game ends its buff after six spells, while our simulator lets the stacks run the full 20 seconds, so part of that gap is ours. Rejuvenation ticks don't stack it, which leaves Healing Touch to do the work.

Serenity Field, from Pix Xizzix in Stranglethorn Vale, brings 42 healing and an on-use 72 Spirit for 15 seconds. The next trinket costs 13.5 HPS on three minutes.

Head, legs and back

Every set wears Living Crown, a Leatherworking helm with 73 healing that binds on equip. The next helm costs 11.5 HPS. Leatherworkers also make the cloak, Hide of the Wild, another bind-on-equip piece, and the next cloak costs 5.7 HPS.

Weapon

Princess Theradras in Maraudon drops Charstone Dirk, a dagger with 116 healing that binds on pickup. The best other one-hander is 6.0 HPS behind.

Reputation and quests

Reputation is the slow part. Vigilant Watcher's Signet wants The Watchers at Exalted, though the Revered ring is only a few HPS worse.

The three-minute set's Amulet of the Dawn and Bracers of Hope both come from Eastern Plaguelands quests, and Pix Xizzix sells Blessed Band of Light.

Enchants

• Helm and legs: Arcanum of Focus and Arcanum of Focus. Fight to fight the search switches between Lesser Arcanum of Voracity (8 Intellect) and Arcanum of Focus (8 healing), so the two are close.
• Neck: Healing Power, possible because Forever allows necklace enchants.
• Chest: Mystic Rugged Armor Kit. Wrists: Healing Power.
• Hands: Mystic Rugged Armor Kit. Feet: Mystic Rugged Armor Kit. Forever's Mystic Rugged Armor Kit puts 6 healing and 6 spell damage beside its 40 armor.
• Main hand: left bare. Enchant Weapon - Healing Power comes from a raid, outside the pre-raid pool.

Consumables

Buy mana before anything else. Major Mana Potion is worth 0.9 % of your healing, Flask of Distilled Wisdom 0.8 % and Demonic Rune 0.0 %. The potion and the rune keep separate two-minute cooldowns, so you can use both. A rune also burns 600 to 1,000 health, which nobody has to heal back in our fights.

On a one-minute single target the bar outlasts the fight, so the mana items add little and Brilliant Wizard Oil, at 1.6 %, tops the list.

Then come Brilliant Wizard Oil at 1.6 %, Cerebral Cortex Compound at 0.2 %, Mageblood Elixir at 0.0 % and Runn Tum Tuber Surprise at 0.1 %.