Balance Druid Leveling Guide
Balance Druid Leveling Guide
11.0.7 - The War Within
Last Updated:December 18, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Balance Druid leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0.7! 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
Keeper of the Grove 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
- Keeper of the Grove is the best choice for leveling because it amplifies your Force of Nature and gives you strong AOE Burst, making you able to make more frequent large pulls with the safety of your Force of Nature tanking for you.
- Dream Surge
- This will be the brunt of your damage when doing a regular pull, gather the mobs, place treants and continue with normal rotation and this will passively kill all the mobs.
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Keeper of the Grove as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Treants of the Moon.
- Pick Durability of Nature.
- Pick Early Spring
- Pick Harmony of the Grove
- Pick Expansiveness
- Pick Cenarius' Might
- Pick Control of the Dream
- Pick Protective Growth
- Pick Potent Enchantments
- Pick Blooming Infusion
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 since Balance Druids leveling don't generally have strong upfront burst.
- 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