Balance Druid Leveling Guide
Balance Druid Leveling Guide
11.0.2 - The War Within
Last Updated:August 26, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Balance Druid leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
Talents
Balance Druid
Elune's Chosen Level 70
Spec Tree
- Force of Nature
- Helps with tanking mobs.
- Orbital Strike
- Makes you able to 1-shot entire packs of mobs.
- Fury of Elune
- Your first minor cooldown, use when the mobs start gathering.
- Convoke the Spirits
- Great for killing mobs while running and for bursting down higher-health mobs.
Class Tree
- Typhoon
- Helps you keep your distance from the mobs you're fighting.
- Ursol's Vortex
- Helps you keep your distance from the mobs you're fighting.
- Nature's Vigil
- Can be macrod into Orbital Strike. Heals you up quickly when fighting many mobs.
Hero Talents
- Elune's Chosen is the best choice for leveling because it amplifies your dots and AoE spells the most.
- Lunar Insight
- Increases your Moonfire damage by 20%!
- Moondust
- Moonfire now slows by 20%!
- Moon Guardian
- Increases Astral Power generated by Moonfire and Sunfire by 2!
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Elune's Chosen as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Lunar Insight.
- Pick Moon Guardian.
- Pick Atmospheric Exposure
- Pick The Light of Elune
- Pick The Eternal Moon
- Pick Lunar Amplification
- Pick Stellar Command
- Pick Glistening Fur
- Pick Moondust
- Pick Lunation
Rotation
Balance Druid
Single-Target
- Preferably you want to have a burst Trinket like Belor'relos, the Suncaller for any big mobs that you're forced to kill.
- Convoke the Spirits is also another great way to deal with single-target fights, just make sure you have dots up and are in Solar Eclipse before casting it.
AoE
- Most of your damage will come from your Moonfire, Sunfire and Starfall.
- Ensure that you enter Eclipse after you're done dotting up mobs and be ready to use Force of Nature once they stack up to avoid them hitting you.
- If your dots are not enough to kill the mobs, finish them off with Starfire.
Shopping List
Destruction Warlock
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Canexx
Reviewed by: Rycn