Balance Druid Mythic+ Guide

Incarnation: Chosen of Elune / Celestial Alignment / Orbital Strike Macro - casts Orbital Strike at your cursor, uses potion and on-use trinket. (You can also add Nature's Vigil and Innervate in here but it's not always the best).

#showtooltip Celestial Alignment
/cast Berserking
/use 14
/use Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
/cast [@cursor] Celestial Alignment

Cursor/Mouseover Ursol's Vortex/Mass Entanglement - Casts Ursol's Vortex at your cursor if talented and Mass Entanglement at your mouseover, if no mouseover is available it is instead cast it on your target.

/cast [@cursor] Ursol's Vortex
/cast [@mouseover,exists] [] Mass Entanglement

Force of Nature -- Casts Force of Nature without confirmation click which can save you valuable time.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Force of Nature

Mouseover Focus Macro

/focus [@mouseover]

Mouseover Remove Corruption - Casts Remove Corruption on mouseover > or target > or self.

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,exists][] Remove Corruption

Mouseover Rebirth - Casts Rebirth on mouseover > or target.

/cast [@mouseover][] Rebirth

Mouseover Regrowth - Casts Regrowth on mouseover > or target > or self.

#showtooltip Regrowth
/cast [@mouseover,exists][] Regrowth

Mouseover Swiftmend - Casts Swiftmend on mouseover > or target > or self.

#showtooltip Swiftmend
/cast [@mouseover, exists] [] Swiftmend

[Mouseover Wild Growth - Casts Wild Growth on mouseover > or target > or self.

#showtooltip Wild Growth
/cast [@mouseover, exists] [] Wild Growth

[Mouseover Rejuvenation - Casts Rejuvenation on mouseover > or target > or self.

#showtooltip Rejuvenation
/cast [@mouseover, exists] [] Rejuvenation

Set Innervate Target Macro - For this macro to work you need to create another separate macro called exactly "inv s". If you press this Set Innervate Target Macro then your targeted unit is written into the "inv s" macro, meaning if you press "inv s" macro you're going to innervate that player. Quality of life macro to not have to manually edit your innervate macro.

/run T = UnitName("target")
/run if not InCombatLockdown() then EditMacro('inv s', nil, nil, '#showtooltip Innervate\n/cast [@'.. T ..',exists]Innervate', nil);print('INNERVATE_Macro_Target: ' .. T); end;

Focus Solar Beam

#showtooltip Solar Beam
/cast [@focus] Solar Beam

Cancelaura Starlord Macro - High level minmax, not important for newer players - up to 0.5% dps gain if used optimally.

/cancelaura Starlord

Stopcasting Renewal Macro

/stopcasting
/cast Renewal

Stopcasting Health Potion Macro

/stopcasting
/use Potion of Withering Dreams

Augment Rune Macro -- Refreshes your augment rune whenever you enter Moonkin Form.

/cast Moonkin Form
/use Dreambound Augment Rune

Dynamic Mount Macro - Mounts dragonflying mount if flying mounts are allowed, else Swift Zulian Tiger. (feel free to change mounts)

/cast Highland Drake
/cast [flyable] Highland Drake; Swift Zulian Tiger

Starsurge after Convoke the Spirits Macro - Replaces your Starsurge key and prevents Starsurge from being cast while Convoke the Spirits is being channeled.

#showtooltip Starsurge
/startattack
/cast [nochanneling:Convoke the Spirits] Starsurge

• ElvUI -- Full User Interface replacement
  • A user interface designed around user-friendliness with extra features that are not included in the standard UI.
  • Alternatively, you can also use Shadowed Unit Frames (SUF) and an action bar addon of your choice or of course the stock UI.
• LittleWigs -- Generic Boss Mod
  • BigWigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual encounter scripts, or boss modules; mini add-ons that are designed to trigger alert messages, timer bars, sounds, and so forth, for one specific Raid encounter.
• WeakAuras -- Jack of all trades
  • WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows the display of highly customizable graphics on World of Warcraft's user interface to indicate buffs, debuffs, and other relevant information. This addon was created to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras but has since introduced more functionalities while remaining efficient and easy to use.
• Plater -- Advanced Nameplates
  • Plater is a nameplate addon with an extraordinary amount of settings, out of the box debuff tracking, threat coloring, and support for scripting similar to WeakAuras and wago.io + the WeakAuras-Companion for Mod/Script/Profile updates.
• Details -- In-depth Damage Meter
  • Most powerful, reliable, handsome, damage meter.
• Echo Raid Tools -- Party track addon
  • Helpful addon for Mythic+ to check the available cooldowns of your party.

Shadowmeld Weakaura

• All spell damage increased by 6%.
• Force of Nature melee damage increased by 60%.
• Wild Mushroom damage increased by 20% and it generates up to 20 Astral Power (was 16).
• Umbral Inspiration damage bonus increased to 35% (was 30%).
• Denizen of the Dream damage reduced by 6.5%.
• Denizen of the Dream's attacks are now affected by all abilities that increase all your spell damage or critical strike chance.
• Astral Communion grants 25 Astral Power (was 20).
• Wrath or Starfire cast with Umbral Embrace are now affected by both passive bonuses from Mastery: Astral Invocation.
• Wraths cast by Convoke the Spirits can now trigger Umbral Embrace and Astral Smolder.
• If a player has a free cast available from Touch the Cosmos and Starweaver, only the bonus from Starweaver is consumed on the next cast.
• Touch the Cosmos now highlights Starfall or Starsurge when your next cast will be free.

• All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated.
• New Talent: Oakskin – Survival Instincts and Barkskin reduce damage taken by an additional 10%.
• New Talent: Fluid Form – Shred and Rake can be used in any form and shifts you into Cat Form. Mangle can be used in any form and shifts you into Bear Form. Wrath and Starfire shifts you into Moonkin Form, if known.
• New Talent: Ursoc's Spirit – Stamina in Bear Form is increased by 10%.
• New Talent: Instincts of the Claw – Shred, Swipe, Rake, Mangle, and Thrash damage increased by 5/10%.
• New Talent: Lore of the Grove – Moonfire and Sunfire damage increased by 5/10%. Rejuvenation and Wild Growth healing increased by 3/5%.
• New Talent: Starlight Conduit – Wrath, Starsurge, and Starfire damage increased by 5%. For non-Balance, Starsurge's cooldown is reduced by 4 seconds and its mana cost is reduced by 50%.
• Improved Swipe has been removed from the talent tree and its benefit added to Swipe by default.
• Moonkin Form has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 10 for Balance Druids.
• Swiftmend has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 11 for Restoration Druids.
• Heart of the Wild now reduces the global cooldown of affected Balance cast-time spells.
• Cat Form now increases the range of auto-attacks and melee abilities by 3 yards.
• Feline Swiftness now increases movement speed by 15%. Now a 1-point talent.
• Thick Hide now reduces damage taken by 4%. Now a 1-point talent.
• Natural Recovery now increases healing received by 4% and no longer increases healing done. Now a 1-point talent.
• Astral Influence now increases the range of all your spells by 5 yards and no longer increases auto attack or melee ability range. Now a 1-point talent.
• Primal Fury now also increases critical strike damage of Mangle by 20%.
• Ursine Vigor now increases Stamina and armor in Bear Form by 15% for 4 seconds. Now a 1-point talent.
• Guardian Druid improved Bear Form Stamina bonus decreased to 10% (was 20%).
• Lycara's Teachings is now a 2-point talent that grants 3/6% of various secondary stats.
• Forestwalk now increases your movement speed and healing received by 8% for 6 seconds. Now a 1-point talent.
• Well-Honed Instincts' effect now occurs once every 120 seconds. Now a 1-point talent.
• Mass Entanglement now roots targets for 10 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Tireless Pursuit has been removed.

• New Talent: Greater Alignment – Incarnation: Chosen of Elune/Celestial Alignment lasts 40% longer. During Incarnation: Chosen of Elune/Celestial Alignment, Solar Eclipse increases Nature damage done by an additional 8% and Lunar Eclipse increases Arcane damage done by an additional 8%.
• New Talent: Stellar Amplification – Starsurge increases the damage the target takes from your periodic effects and Shooting Stars by 20% for 5 seconds. Reapplying this effect extends its duration, up to 20 seconds.
• New Talent: Harmony of the Heavens – Starsurge or Starfall increase your current Eclipse's Arcane or Nature damage bonus by an additional 1%, up to 5%.
• New Talent: Touch the Cosmos – Casting Wrath in an Eclipse has an 12% chance to make your next Starsurge free. Casting Starfire in an Eclipse has a 15% chance to make your next Starfall free.
• New Talent: Umbral Inspiration – Consuming Umbral Embrace increases the damage of your Moonfire, Sunfire, Stellar Flare, Shooting Stars, and Starfall by 30% for 6 seconds.
• Umbral Embrace has been redesigned – Wrath and Starfire have a 20% chance to cause the next Wrath or Starfire you cast in Eclipse to become Astral and deal 75% additional damage. Now a 1-point talent.
• Astral Smolder has been redesigned – Wrath and Starfire have a 40% chance to cause their targets to languish for an additional 50% of their damage dealt over 6 seconds. Now a 1- point talent.
• Astral Communion has been redesigned – Increases maximum Astral Power by 20. Entering Eclipse grants 20 Astral Power.
• Nature's Grace has been redesigned – When Eclipse ends or when you enter combat, enter a Dreamstate, reducing the cast time of your next 2 Starfires or Wraths by 20% and increasing their damage by 50%.
• All ability damage increased by 6%.
• Wrath damage increased by 15%.
• Starfire damage increased by 15%.
• Starsurge damage increased by 15%.
• Starfall damage increased by 15%.
• Denizen of the Dream damage increased by 64%.
• Shooting Stars damage increased by 46%.
• Fury of Elune damage increased by 15%.
• Full Moon damage increased by 15%.
• Stellar Flare damage increased by 20%.
• Wild Mushrooms damage increased by 25%.
• Mastery: Astral Invocation value reduced by 17%.
• Astral Power generation reduced for the following abilities:
  • Wrath: 6 (was 8)
  • Starfire: 8 (was 10)
  • New Moon: 10 (was 12)
  • Half Moon: 20 (was 24)
  • Full Moon: 40 (was 50)
  • Fury of Elune: 40 / 2.5 per tick (was 48 / 3 per tick)
• Incarnation: Chosen of Elune duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Celestial Alignment duration reduced to 15 seconds (was 20 seconds).
• Aetherial Kindling now extends during of active Sunfires and Moonfires by 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
• Umbral Intensity now increases Starfire's damage as well as its area-of-effect damage scaling. Solar Eclipse increases the damage of Wrath by an additional 25/50%. Lunar Eclipse increases the damage of Starfire by 25/50% and the damage it deals to nearby enemies by an additional 15/30%.
• Waning Twilight now increases damage you deal to targets with 3 or more of your periodic effects by 6%. Now a 1-point talent.
• Balance of all Things now increases Critical Strike chance by 10/20%, decreasing by 1/2% every second.
• Wild Surges increases Wrath and Starfire critical strike by 10% (was 12%).
• Elune's Guidance reduces the Astral Power cost of Starsurge by 10 (was 8) and Starfall by 12 (was 10).
• Orbit Breaker calls downs a Full Moon every 25 Shooting Stars (was 30).
• Sundered Firmament calls down a Fury of Elune at 25% power (was 20%).
• Convoke the Spirits now prefer to cast Starsurge or Full Moon on your current target, if valid.
• The following talents have been removed:
  • Friend of the Fae
  • Primodial Arcanic Pulsar

A: Balance Druids do proportionally more damage the higher the mythic+ keys go since you have a long ramp up time on packs.