Forever Balance Druid Stat Priority

Welcome to the Stats page for Balance Druid. This page is intended for Level 60 players, but it can still be useful to understand what each stat does and how it can contribute to your output while you level. Forever changed a ton of items, and there is still a lot we do not know about most high level gear. This also means we will not be able to be certain of our stat priorities until we can see how everything looks at max level.

Do not take this stat priority too seriously until we have level 60 data to theorycraft with. The gear available can make a big difference to our stat priority.

Each stat provides one or more bonuses to your character:

Stat	Bonus
Hit	Increases your chance to hit with spells and abilities. Missed spells can cost us a lot of DPS so you will look to reduce the chance of this happening. Quite rare on early levelling gear.
Spell Power	Increases the damage of your abilities.
Critical Strike	Increases the critical strike chance of your abilities, including damage-over-time effects.
Haste	Reduces your spell cast times and global cooldowns.
Intellect	Increases your Mana pool by a lot, and your critical strike chance by a little bit.
Spirit	Increases your mana regeneration when you are not casting. Not bad while leveling but ideally we will not spend much time not casting when we are in a higher level raid or dungeon.
MP5	"Mana per 5". Regenerates mana every 5 seconds, regardless of whether you have been casting recently.

Next, we will go into more detail on each stat. If you are new, then you should read through this, play for a while and then return to it to further your understanding.

Spell Power increases the effectiveness of your spells. The specific amount gained depends on what is known as a "spell power coefficient" that differs from spell to spell. A few are listed below.

Healing Power Explained

These are provided without any talents applied, though you will take talents that modify them. They tend to be fairly trivial to add later since they are mostly just percentage increases to each spell. To get the amount of added damage per spell power, we can use the following equation:

Spell Power x Spell Power Coefficient = Damage Gained

Here are some examples - all provided at max rank:

• Wrath – 0.571
• Starfire – 1
• Moonfire – 0.67
• Insect Swarm – 0.948

Remember that spells in Forever have a base damage portion too that does not scale with spell power. So looking at the above coefficients alone will not tell the full story.

Intellect increases your mana pool and spell critical strike chance. It also affects how quickly you level up weapon skills. The mana pool increase can help ensure we have enough mana to last a full fight - even if it runs longer. Once you are higher level, you will find intellect on quite a lot of your gear.

Intellect Scaling

Each point of Intellect will give you the following:

• Mana
  • Each point of Intellect increases your mana pool by 15.
• Critical Strike
  • Each point of intellect will increase your spell crit chance by 0.017% (60 Intellect for +1%).
• Weapon Skill
  • Each point of Intellect will slightly increase your chance to level up a weapon skill when attacking.

All of our spells have a chance to "miss" which means they won't do any damage at all! This chance to miss increases as you fight enemies that are high level than you and all raid bosses you eventually fight will be 3 levels higher than yourself. You can reduce this chance with the "Hit" stat. You will also take the Nature's Reach talent which gives you +4% - that's enough to take care of your hit requirements while levelling but when gearing up for raid, finding items with hit chance on them will be a high priority. You need 17% hit chance total, so 13% of that needs to come from your gear. Once you are are at the "hit cap", any additional hit chance is completely wasted.

Critical Strike increases your chance of getting a "critical hit" with spells and abilities. A critical spell hit is 50% more effective baseline, though it is increased by our Vengeance talent and some racials. We can also increase the crit chance of our via talents like Nature's Majesty, Moonkin Form, and Improved Moonfire and your Nature's Grace talent grants you cast speed whenever you crit.

Spirit increases your health and mana regeneration while not casting. With the Restoration Meditation talent, you will get half of this value while casting too. We are unlikely to take that talent at max level, but it depends a lot on how our mana efficiency goes and the tuning on other mana raid buffs.

MP5, or "Mana per 5" is another regeneration stat that works at full strength regardless of whether or not you have been casting recently. You usually get less MP5 on gear than Spirit though it also does not require you have the Meditation talent to be effective. Expect to get most of your MP5 via raid buffs with it being somewhat rare on gear.

Haste reduces our spells cast times, as well as our global cooldown. You will not find a lot of haste on gear in Forever, though Skyborne Druids will have 2% automatically from Wind Blessed.

Haste Interactions

Haste has the following impacts:

• Reduces your global cooldown to a minimum of 1 second. It is multiplicative with other sources of cast speed like Eclipse.
• Does not affect damage-over-time effects. There are no haste breakpoints of any kind in Forever.
• Does not affect spell cooldowns.

Most of what makes Haste a powerful stat in other versions of the game does not exist in Forever, however any we can obtain will still be of moderate value. Do not expect to see much of it.

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