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BALANCE DRUID

DPS

Balance Druid is built on the Balance talent tree and plays as a damage dealer in raids. The tree has 16 talents: 5 new in Forever, 11 changed from Classic.

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ROTATION, STATS, BUILD

BALANCE GUIDE

Guide in progress

We'll write the Balance Druid rotation, stat priority and recommended build as the beta data settles. For now, see the talent tree below, the talent calculator and the class discussions on the forum.

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RAID COMPOSITION

WHAT IT BRINGS TO A RAID

Only with the Balance spec (its talents):

BUFFS (1)

  • Crit aura (LotP / Moonkin)Party

    +3% crit for the party. Leader of the Pack and the Moonkin aura do not stack.

    Moonkin FormTalent: Moonkin Form · Balance

    Shapeshift into Moonkin Form, increasing Omen of Clarity's chance to trigger by 100%, Armor contribution from items by 360%, and all party members within 45 yards have their Critical Strike chance increased by 3%,…

DEBUFFS (1)

  • Hit reductionWhole raid

    Boss hit chance -2% (Insect Swarm / Scorpid Sting).

    Insect SwarmTalent: Insect Swarm · Balance

    The enemy target is swarmed by insects, decreasing their chance to hit with attacks by 2% and causing 186 Nature damage over 12 sec.

EVERY DRUID BRINGS

Mark of the WildFaerie FireAttack power reductionDecursePoison cleanseOut-of-combat resurrectionCC: Beast / DragonkinBattle resurrectionInnervateTranquilityAoE taunt

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BALANCE TREE

TALENTS

Hover or tap a talent to read it below. Text is for the final rank.

5Improved Wrath5Genesis3Moonglow2Improved Moonfire2Nature's Majesty2Nature's Reach3Improved Entangling Roots1Nature's Splendor1Insect Swarm5Vengeance5Improved Starfire2Overgrowth1Nature's Grace3Eclipse5Moonfury1Moonkin Form
  1. Improved WrathRow 1 · 5 rankChanged

    Reduces the cast time of your Wrath spell by 0.5 sec and its Mana cost by 50%.

  2. GenesisRow 1 · 5 rankNew

    Increases the periodic damage and healing done by your spells and abilities by 5%.

  3. MoonglowRow 2 · 3 rankChanged

    Reduces the Mana cost of your damaging spells by 25%.

  4. Improved MoonfireRow 2 · 2 rankChanged

    Increases the damage and critical strike chance of your Moonfire spell by 10%.

  5. Nature's MajestyRow 2 · 2 rankNew

    Increases your critical strike chance with spells and melee attacks by 4%.

  6. Nature's ReachRow 2 · 2 rankChanged

    Increases the range of your offensive Balance spells by 20% and improves your chance to hit by 4%.

  7. Improved Entangling RootsRow 3 · 3 rankChanged

    Increases the damage done by your Entangling Roots spell by 75%, and its victims can take up to 75% more damage without interrupting the effect.

  8. Nature's SplendorRow 3 · 1 rankNew

    Increases the duration of your Moonfire and Rejuvenation spells by 3 sec, your Regrowth spell by 6 sec, and your Insect Swarm spell by 2 sec.

  9. Insect SwarmRow 4 · 1 rank · activeChanged

    The enemy target is swarmed by insects, decreasing their chance to hit with attacks by 2% and causing 48 Nature damage over 12 sec.

  10. VengeanceRow 4 · 5 rankChanged

    Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Arcane and Nature spells by 100%.

  11. Improved StarfireRow 4 · 5 rankChanged

    Reduces the cast time of Starfire by 0.5 sec and Starfire has a 15% chance to stun its target for 3 sec.

  12. OvergrowthRow 5 · 2 rankNew

    Increases the maximum number of targets you may have affected by Entangling Roots by 2.

  13. Nature's GraceRow 5 · 1 rankChanged

    All non-periodic spell criticals grace you with a blessing of nature, increasing your spellcasting speed and reducing your global cooldown by 10% for 3 sec.

  14. EclipseRow 5 · 3 rankNew

    Your Wrath spell reduces the cast time of your next 2 Starfire spells by 0.50 sec. Stores up to 4 charges. Lasts 15 sec.

  15. MoonfuryRow 6 · 5 rankChanged

    Increases the damage done by your Arcane and Nature spells by 10%.

  16. Moonkin FormRow 7 · 1 rank · activeChanged

    Shapeshift into Moonkin Form, increasing Omen of Clarity's chance to trigger by 100%, Armor contribution from items by 360%, and all party members within 45 yards have their Critical Strike chance increased by 3%, exclusive with Leader of the Pack. Also protects the caster from Polymorph effects and prevents the use of healing spells.

Removed from Classic: Nature's Grasp, Improved Nature's Grasp, Natural Weapons, Improved Thorns, Omen of Clarity

Talent, spell, race and raid data: talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), from the WoW Forever beta client; data date 2026-10-14. Numbers can lag live tuning. Spell names, icons and tooltip text belong to Blizzard Entertainment. Druid talent calculator.