World of Warcraft: Forever Balance Druid - Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities

Welcome to our Rotation page for Balance Druids. On this page you will find everything you need to know about your rotation as a Balance Druid. The guide is mostly focused on max level, though much of it will apply while levelling too - especially when you are near the end of your journey and have key talents like Eclipse.

Balance Druid brings a mix of damage-over-time and direct damage spells. It can also off-heal in a pinch and has a wide range of utility abilities to help your party or raid.

Balance Druid has a fairly simple but rewarding rotation. Regardless of target count, you will focus on keeping your two DoTs active, and then fill your GCDs with your Eclipse rotation.

• Cast Wrath at the end of the pull timer so that it hits the boss as it is pulled.
• Cast Insect Swarm -> Moonfire. You will keep both of these DoTs active for the entire fight. Try not to refresh them early since that will waste some of their damage.
• Cast Wrath and then two Starfire. Each Wrath cast gives you two Eclipse charges which greatly reduce the cast time of your follow up Starfire casts.

Our AoE rotation is similar to our single-target rotation, unless we are fighting a lot of targets.

• Cast Insect Swarm and Moonfire on each target. Maintain these at all times.
• Against 5+ enemies: Cast Hurricane. It is a channeled ability.
• Against 2-4 enemies: Use your single-target rotation above; One Wrath followed by 2x Starfire, with the major difference being that you will spend more of your time refreshing your two damage-over-time effects.

Aim to avoid ever casting Starfire without an Eclipse charge. Similarly, avoid casting Wrath while you are full on Eclipse charges. A lot of your min-maxing after a fight will be checking your spell usage and potential resource waste, and also checking that you have near 100% uptime on your two damage-over-time spells.

Early on, you might also find you have Mana issues casting your full rotation. This tends to be alleviated as you gear up. If you are ever in a situation where your mana is very low (and you are already using Major Mana Potion on cooldown) then you can change your rotation to be more Wrath-focused outside of Omen of Clarity procs. You can also consider keeping your Innervate for yourself, since it offers a lot of Mana. But it might make your Healers angry.

Balance also offers many utility spells, some of which you should be sure to cast every single fight, while others are a bit more niche.

Make sure you cast the following before every fight:

• Cast Gift of the Wild on everyone. Mark of the Wild is a single-target version that you will unlock first.
• Cast Thorns on the tanks.

You will also have plenty of utility you will cast during a fight:

• Innervate is a massive Mana regeneration ability. By default you will cast it on a healer of your choice. If you are struggling with Mana early in your gearing process at max level, then casting it on yourself can also be an acceptable choice.
• Remove Curse and Abolish Poison can be used to remove curses and poisons from your party or raid. Make sure they are on your bars, but do not expect to cast them every fight.
• Rebirth is an in-combat resurrection. It is exclusive to Druid in Forever and is very powerful.
• Faerie Fire is a debuff that you can put on an enemy that will increase the damage they take from physical abilities. It is not a priority while leveling, but if you are the only Druid in your raid group then you should definitely keep it active. It can also be worthwhile in dungeon groups with a lot of Warriors, Rogues or Hunters.
• Entangling Roots is a single-target crowd control ability that prevents the enemy from moving, though it breaks if they take too much damage.
• Hibernate is a niche crowd control ability that only works on Beasts and Dragonkin. You might find niche use of it to reduce the number of enemies in a pack.

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