Balance Druid PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / 9.2.5)

Level	Choices
15	✔ Nature's Balance	✔ Warrior of Elune	✘ Force of Nature
25	✘ Tiger Dash	✔ Renewal	✘ Wild Charge
30	✘ Feral Affinity	✔ Guardian Affinity	✘ Restoration Affinity
35	✔ Mighty Bash	✔ Mass Entanglement	✘ Heart of the Wild
40	✘ Soul of the Forest	✘ Starlord	✔ Incarnation: Chosen of Elune
45	✘ Twin Moons	✔ Stellar Drift	✘ Stellar Flare
50	✔ Solstice	✘ Fury of Elune	✘ New Moon

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

If you are playing against a team with two melee on it, Warrior of Elune is the best choice in this tier. This will allow you to apply pressure even if you are the focus. Against any other team, Nature's Balance is the better choice. This talent gives you a passive way to generate Astral Power, which results in an increase to your sustained damage.

Renewal is the best choice in this tier. With how much damage classes can do it is crucial to have a strong self-heal. It is important to note that you can use Renewal while in Bear Form.

Guardian Affinity is the best choice in this tier. Reducing overall damage dealt to you and having access to abilities like Frenzied Regeneration greatly increases your survivability. This also gives you additional crowd control with Incapacitating Roar.

Mass Entanglement is the best choice in this tier. This gives you reliable crowd control on the enemy healer when used in combination with Solar Beam. If the enemy team has multiple ways to remove roots or has a Restoration Druid on the other team, Mighty Bash is the better choice.

Incarnation: Chosen of Elune is the best choice in this tier. This talent will give you the strongest single-target damage for killing an enemy. Although this has a long cooldown, you will normally get a kill while your Incarnation: Chosen of Elune is active.

Twin Moons is the best choice in this tier. This talent increases your overall sustained damage and makes it easier to place your Moonfire on multiple targets.

Solstice is the best choice in this tier. Because you will be entering Eclipses often, this is a significant increase to your sustained damage and Astral Power generation.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful, but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.

Moonkin Aura affects Starsurge so that when you use it, your teammates have their spell Critical Strike chance increased. This is perfect for increasing you and your teammates' sustained damage.

Owlkin Adept makes it so Owlkin Frenzy stacks to 2 times and reduces the cast time of your next Cyclone or Entangling Roots by 50%. This is another great talent to have versus teams that will be focusing you, as the near-instant Cyclones will help with negating damage.

Thorns should be placed on you or a teammate and any melee strikes will deal Nature damage to the attacker. This will deal a large amount of damage if the melee DPS do not swap off of you. This should be used if the enemy team has 2 melee DPS on it.

Celestial Guardian reduces spell damage you take and increases healing received while in Bear Form. This talent is crucial versus teams with heavy spell damage. While enemy casters are using burst cooldowns, you can stay in Bear Form and drastically reduce the amount of spell damage you are taking.

High Winds makes enemies do less damage once they leave your Cyclone. This should be used if you will not be the target for the enemy team or they have caster DPS on it.