Season of Discovery Balance Druid DPS Talents and Runes

As the current maximum level in Phase 3 is 50, you will be able to have a fleshed out talent build missing only 10 talents when compared to the end game 60 builds.

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 and partial Improved Mark of the Wild can also finally be taken with the amount of talents available at Level 50.

• Gloves — Sunfire or Wild Growth (off-healer)
• Pants — Starsurge
• Chest — Fury of Stormrage
• Waist — Eclipse
• Feet — Dreamstate
• Head — Gale Winds (AoE) or Improved Barkskin (ST)
• Wrist — Elune's Fires

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, although Sunfire in particular is likely to be abandoned in the PvE rotation due to not benefiting from the 30% Eclipse critical strike bonus.

This makes taking Wild Growth instead and moving the point on Moonkin Form to Improved Starfire a very viable alternative that does high area healing in between the regular Balance DPS rotation!

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. Improved Barkskin is a great external cooldown if you do not need the area damage, and Elune's Fires provides a lot of extra duration for your damage over time effects, allowing you to refresh them later and gain DPS in the process.

More Engravings are likely to come out as we reach higher level caps, so make sure to keep a tab on our general Druid Rune guide below to learn what they do, and where to find them.