Season of Discovery Balance Druid DPS Talents and Runes
On this page, you will find out the best PvE talents for your Balance Druid in WoW Classic — Season of Discovery, as well as advised runes.
Balance Druid Talent Build
High level Druid talents grant significant power with Vengeance, Nature's Grace, and Moonfury all being quite strong. Moonkin Form is also an excellent one-pointer, and Improved Starfire is a decent investment, although not the strongest of the bunch.
Moonglow, Improved Mark of the Wild, and Insect Swarm are also taken, to improve your rotation and ability to support your raid.
Recommended Rune Engravings
- Gloves — Sunfire
- Pants — Starsurge
- Chest — Fury of Stormrage
- Waist — Eclipse
- Feet — Dreamstate
- Head — Gale Winds
- Wrist — Elune's Fires
- Back — Starfall
- Ring — Nature Specialization
- Ring — Arcane Specialization
We recommend making Wrath free with Fury of Stormrage, freeing Mana to use Starfire to activate Eclipse's buff. Sunfire and Starsurge are also taken for extra damage.
Eclipse and Dreamstate drastically increase DPS potential and Mana sustain, with great synergy with Nature's Grace.
Finally, Gale Winds is a great area damage option, and single-handedly converts Druid from one of the worst area damage dealers to one of the best, provided enemies stay inside the Hurricane for its full duration. Elune's Fires provides a lot of extra potential duration for your damage over time effects, allowing you to refresh them later or never at all and gain DPS in the process.
Make sure to check our Druid Rune guide in order to learn where to get all the SoD runes!
Changelog
- 10 Jul. 2024: Updated for Phase 4.
- 04 Apr. 2024: Updated talents, runes and explanation text for Phase 4.
- 27 Feb. 2024: Small adjustments to account for new sim results post Moonkin and Moonfire buffs.
- 07 Feb. 2024: Updated talents, runes and explanation text for Phase 2.
- 14 Dec. 2023: Reworked rune section as all locations are known right now.
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This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Warrior, Mage and Shaman Discords, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.
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