Balance Druid DPS Gear and Best in Slot — 12.1

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Balance Druid for Midnight Season 2! Check this page to learn everything you need to know to make your character as powerful as they can be!

Upgrading gear in Midnight continues to use the Crest system which lets you increase the item level of gear along tracks that relate to where you obtained the item, which harder content dropping gear that can be upgraded to higher Item Levels. For more information, read up on our dedicated page on how the gearing system works and what has changed in the Midnight expansion.

OverallMythic+Raid

This list contains the best overall items for Balance Druid using all available content including the newly released Sporefall raid. This is gear to chase towards but will not include gear that can not be reliably obtained, such as some gear from the Weekly Vault.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available, your BiS gear might look different in some spots than the below list.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

In Season 2 you will want to try and prioritize getting the Helmet, Gloves, Chest, and Leg set pieces. Completing the bonus is more important than getting the perfect items so take whatever you can get. In the long term, you will want to get the Elevated item level items from Ula'tek and Coiled Altar. The Catalyst will also retain the effect of special items such as Gaze of the Coiled Watcher.

With the Catalyst changes for Season 2 you also retain the secondary stats and any other potential passive effects like damage and stat procs when catalyzing a set piece. This means we want to try and catalyze the items that ensure we get the best possible secondary stats on our gear. Some optimal stat items to catalyze are:

• Helmet: Gaze of the Coiled Watcher from Ula'tek
• Shoulders: Frothing Venom Spaulders from Vashnik
• Chest: Vest of Reverent Adoration from King's Rest
• Gloves: Desiccator's Blessed Gloves from King's Rest
• Legs: Coiled Hex Legguards from The Coiled Altar

TipsWhich Items Do I want the most from all content?

Here are some of the items worth bonus rolling or taking from your Vault if you see them at an appropriate item level.

• Jan'thrazet, the Soul Fang: Our best weapon. It drops from the final boss of the raid at an elevated item level. There is no weapon that could be better.
• Freightrunner's Flask: Our best on-use trinket from Murder Row.
• Gebbo's Bottomless Bag: Our best raid encounter passive trinket.

FAQHow Strong is the Tier Set?

The Balance Druid Midnight Season 2 Tier set extremely powerful. On single target, the 2-piece is approximately 6%-7% DPS and the 4-piece is 11%-13% DPS. The Tier set is even stronger on multi-target with the extra burst damage it adds to Starfall.

Balance Druid

1.1.

Overall Best in Slot

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Somnolent Stare Helm

Catalyst + Ula'tek Empowered Hex of Leeching

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Gauntlets Hands

Catalyst or Entombed Sentinels

Aqirbane Reliquary Neck

Ula'tek

Sash of the Forlorn Vessel Waist

Coiled Altar

Frothing Venom Spaulders Shoulders

Vashnik Amirdrassil's Grace

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Leggings Legs

Catalyst + Coiled Altar Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Silken Voodoo Drape Cloak

Coiled Altar

Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers Feet

Crafted by Leatherworking Shaladrassil's Roots

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Lunar Raiment Chest

Catalyst or Vashnik Mark of the Worldsoul

Vile Alchemist's Band Ring

Vashnik Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Charged Sandstone Band Ring

Temple of Sethraliss Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Freightrunner's Flask Trinket

Murder Row

Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag Trinket

Lost Explorers

Jan'thrazet, the Soul Fang Main Hand

Ula'tek Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Luminescent Sprout Off Hand

Blinding Vale

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Midnight Season 2 Mythic+ Dungeons.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 2 as a Balance Druid, you will want to try and prioritize getting the Helmet, Gloves, Chest, and Leg set pieces. Completing the bonus is more important than getting the perfect items so take whatever you can get. In the long term, you will want to get the Elevated item level items from Ula'tek and Coiled Altar. The Catalyst will also retain the effect of special items such as Gaze of the Coiled Watcher.

With the Catalyst changes for Season 2 you also retain the secondary stats and any other potential passive effects like damage and stat procs when catalyzing a set piece. This means we want to try and catalyze the items that ensure we get the best possible secondary stats on our gear. Some optimal stat items to catalyze are:

• Helmet: Hood of the Slithering Loa from Temple of Sethraliss
• Shoulders: Somber Spaulders from Murder Row
• Chest: Vest of Reverent Adoration from King's Rest
• Gloves: Desiccator's Blessed Gloves from King's Rest
• Legs: Breeches of Deft Deals from Murder Row

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Murder Row: This dungeon has our best on-use trinket, Freightrunner's Flask. Additionally the stats on all the items, including a 2-hand weapon and ring, are really good.
• Voidscar Arena: Drops a good passive trinket in the Mindpiercer's Sigil and a decent weapon but the raid items will be better.

Balance Druid

1.2.

Best Mythic+ Gear

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Somnolent Stare Helm

Catalyst + Temple of Sethraliss Empowered Hex of Leeching

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Gauntlets Hands

Catalyst + King's Rest

Graft of the Domanaar Neck

Voidscar Arena

Primal Dinomancer's Belt Waist

King's Rest

Somber Spaulders Shoulders

Voidscar Arena Amirdrassil's Grace

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Leggings Legs

Catalyst + Murder Row Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Speakeasy Shroud Cloak

Murder Row

Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers Feet

Crafted by Leatherworking Shaladrassil's Roots

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Lunar Raiment Chest

Catalyst + King's Rest Mark of the Worldsoul

Sickening Signet of Atroxus Ring

Voidscar Arena Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Charged Sandstone Band Ring

Temple of Sethraliss Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Freightrunner's Flask Trinket

Murder Row

Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Mindpiercer's Sigil Trinket

Voidscar Arena

Polished Lightwood Channeler Main Hand

Altar of Fangs Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Luminescent Sprout Off Hand

Blinding Vale

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the raids in Midnight Season 2.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 2 as a Balance Druid, you will want to try and prioritize getting the Helmet, Gloves, Chest, and Leg set pieces. Completing the bonus is more important than getting the perfect items so take whatever you can get. In the long term, you will want to get the Elevated item level items from Ula'tek and Coiled Altar. The Catalyst will also retain the effect of special items such as Gaze of the Coiled Watcher.

With the Catalyst changes for Season 2 you also retain the secondary stats and any other potential passive effects like damage and stat procs when catalyzing a set piece. This means we want to try and catalyze the items that ensure we get the best possible secondary stats on our gear. Some optimal stat items to catalyze are:

• Helmet: Gaze of the Coiled Watcher from Ula'tek
• Shoulders: Frothing Venom Spaulders from Vashnik
• Chest: Base Tier item is better.
• Gloves: Ruthless Slaughtergrips from Sszorak
• Legs: Coiled Hex Legguards from The Coiled Altar

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

If you need to submit a list of highly-important items to your raidleader, or simply want to focus on the most important bosses and items, we got you covered!

• Jan'thrazet, the Soul Fang: Our best weapon. It drops from the final boss of the raid at an elevated item level.
• Gebbo's Bottomless Bag: Our best raid encounter passive trinket.
• Venomcursed items such as Aqirbane Reliquary and Gaze of the Coiled Watcher. They offer the same amount of secondary stats as other items as well as additional Critical Strike and Haste procs.

Balance Druid

1.3.

Best Raid Gear

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Somnolent Stare Helm

Catalyst + Ula'tek Empowered Hex of Leeching

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Gauntlets Hands

Catalyst or Entombed Sentinels

Aqirbane Reliquary Neck

Ula'tek

Sash of the Forlorn Vessel Waist

Coiled Altar

Frothing Venom Spaulders Shoulders

Vashnik Amirdrassil's Grace

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Leggings Legs

Catalyst + Coiled Altar Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Silken Voodoo Drape Cloak

Coiled Altar

Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers Feet

Crafted by Leatherworking Shaladrassil's Roots

Enigmatic Dreamwatcher's Lunar Raiment Chest

Catalyst or Vashnik Mark of the Worldsoul

Vile Alchemist's Band Ring

Vashnik Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Apex Brute's Claw Ring Ring

Sszorak Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Fang of Umbral Malignance Trinket

Vashnik

Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag Trinket

Lost Explorers

Jan'thrazet, the Soul Fang Main Hand

Ula'tek Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Spine of the Hissing Abyss Off Hand

Entombed Sentinels

Itemization

Enchants and Stat Priority

Looking to optimize your character? Check out our Enchant and Stat Priority guides for more information!

EnchantsStats

There are many usable trinkets for Balance Druid in Midnight Season 2. The two best overall options are Freightrunner's Flask for an on-use choice and Gebbo's Bottomless Bag for our passive trinket option.

Aim to pick up one trinket from each of these categories as a pair:

Balance Druid Trinkets

On-Use - Freightrunner's Flask or, alternatively, Vile Vial of Volatile Venom
Passive - Gebbo's Bottomless Bag is our primary passive trinket

There are quite a few other valuable trinkets out there, so make sure to click on our ranking chart to see if they are worth equipping.

Click for Balance Druid Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Best Balance Druid Trinkets
S Tier	Gebbo's Bottomless Bag Freightrunner's Flask
A Tier	Mindpiercer's Sigil Sapling of the Dawnroot Vile Vial of Volatile Venom Fang of Umbral Malignance
B Tier	Lightspire Core Vexhul's Everflowing Gland Ruby Whelp Shell Knot of Writhing Serpents
C Tier	Hex Lord's Dooming Idol Stormbound Emblem of Dazar Sethraliss' Defiled Relic Font of Venomous Rage

Midnight's patch 12.0.5 brought back bonus rolls in the form of Nebulous Voidcores:

• Nebulous Voidcore can be used to acquire specific items from specific bosses or dungeons, by letting you gain a guaranteed piece of loot from a specific drop-location. Which item you will receive is random, but once an item has been acquired in this way, your next use of a Voidcore will grant one of the remaining items you haven't yet acquired.

Which item you want to chase after depends heavily on the items you have already acquired through content such as the Great Vault, or whether you expect to down certain bosses on your highest achieveable difficulty, as you do not want to waste your Voidcores on items you may be able to get on a higher difficulty track in a few weeks.

Voidcore (Bonus Roll) Priority

1. Jan'thrazet, the Soul Fang
2. Gebbo's Bottomless Bag
3. Gaze of the Coiled Watcher
4. Aqirbane Reliquary
5. Replace low item level, high stat budget pieces where possible, preferrably elevated items from the final 2 raid bosses.

Because a high item level crafted staff or main-hand with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt is both strong and easy to obtain, you should not need to roll for a weapon unless most of your other gear is already max item level.

Crafting items is entirely determined on both when and what you need at any given time. If you have a max item level Staff, you should definitely not craft a staff. If you have high item level boots and low item level bracers, it would be best to craft your bracers. With that in mind, here are some of the better craftable options for Balance Druid:

• Early on, crafting an Aln'hara Cane can be a huge DPS boost for those without a weapon and for new characters.
• Aln'hara Lantern is an off-hand which can use weapon embellishments. Great for when you have a main-hand but cant find a suitable off-hand to pair with it.
• Low stat budget pieces such as Cloak and Wrists and mid level stat budget pieces such as Belt and Boots are good options to put embellishments on as they do not share slots with tier and since they will be crafted at a lower item level, do not affect you as negatively as losing 4 item levels on a high stat budget piece such as a Chest piece.

In our overall Best in Slot list, we recommend crafting on Bracers and Boots for our embellishments as it is difficult to find high item level pieces with great secondary stats on them. There may be worse items to replace especially early on but in our end-game, max item level setup, we prefer using these slots.

For more information about crafting gear you can visit our Professions page.

Embellishments all provide approximately .5% to 1% DPS increase. There are two good setups for embellishments depending on what slots you are looking to fill first. The two different setups are crafting weapons or crafting low budget, filler pieces.

Early on, crafting an Aln'hara Cane paired with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt can be an easily obtainable DPS boost. Most bosses in the raid provide Haste and Mastery which are good secondary stats for Balance Druid.

If you have a high item level weapon, crafting two low stat budget pieces with Arcanoweave Lining is the overall best Embellishment you can have. It provides consistent primary stat to you and an ally. This sims as the best Embellishment without even considering the group DPS increase.

As always, it is recommended to sim yourself to see what would be best with your gear situation.

You can add sockets to Helmets, Belts, and Bracers with the Miasmic Jewelbinder consumable that you can get if you do not select any of the choices in your Great Vault. Not picking a choice will grant you tokens, six of which can be traded in for the Miasmic Jewelbinder item that allows you to add a socket to the above piece of gear, if you acquired them in Season 2.

Early into the season, or if you have just started playing an alt, you will have limited access to upgrading-crests such as Myth Mistcrest. These can be used to upgrade gear to higher itemlevels. Since crests are limited each week and upgrading different items costs the same amount of crests regardless, you will want to prioritize your usage of them on items you plan on not replacing anytime soon, or that offer the biggest benefits.

1. Weapon and Trinkets often provide the best value for each item level
2. Helm, Chest, and Legs have the highest stat bonuses
3. Shoulders, Boots, Gloves, and Belt have medium stat bonuses
4. Cloak and Bracers have the lowest stat bonuses
5. Jewelry is the lowest priority as it does not have primary stats

As always, it is recommended to sim yourself to see what would be best with your gear situation.

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

Optimization

Simulations and Tools

For further reading on how to truly maximize your character's potential, check out our guide on Raidbots!

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