Balance Druid Raid 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 [combat] 16
/use Tempered Potion
/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

Cancelaura Dreamstate Macro - High level minmax, not important for newer players.

/cancelaura Dreamstate

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.
• BigWigs -- 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 Raid to check the available cooldowns of your party.

• New Talent: Grievous Wounds – Rake, Rip, and Thrash damage increased by 10%.
• New Talent: Gale Winds – Increases Typhoon's radius by 20% and its range by 5 yards.
• New Talent: Incessant Tempest – Reduces the cooldown of Typhoon by 5 seconds.
• New Talent: Circle of the Wild – Physical damage dealt by your abilities increased by 5% (25% for Restoration Druids).
• New Talent: Circle of the Heavens – Magical damage dealt by your spells increased by 5% (25% for Restoration Druids).
• New Talent: Lycara's Meditation – You retain Lycara's Teachings' bonus from your most recent shapeshift form for 5 seconds after shifting out of it.
  • Developers’ notes: Lycara’s Meditation is meant to retain some power when you shapeshift. It is not intended as a buff you would want to always maintain, and since Druids can swap into humanoid form instantly at no cost, the humanoid form bonus is not retained. Druids must also stay in Cat Form for 2 seconds to retain the Cat Form bonus if they entered Cat Form by casting Skull Bash with Fluid Form.
• New Talent: Symbiotic Relationship – Form a bond with an ally. Your self-healing also heals your bonded ally for 10% of the amount healed. Your healing to your bonded ally also heals you for 8% of the amount healed.
• New Talent: Aessina's Renewal – When a hit deals more than 12% of your maximum health, instantly heal for 10% of your health. This effect cannot occur more than once every 30 seconds.
• New Talent: Perfectly-Honed Instincts – Well-Honed Instincts can trigger up to once every 90 seconds.
• Ursoc's Spirit has been updated – Stamina increased by 4%. Stamina in Bear Form increased by an additional 5%.
  • Developers' notes: These bonuses multiply together, so Druids' health in Bear Form remains unchanged.
• Light of the Sun replaces Skull Bash for Balance Druids only – The remaining cooldown of Solar Beam is reduced by 15 seconds when it interrupts its primary target.
• Improved Rejuvenation has been changed to Lingering Healing – Rejuvenation's duration is increased by 3 seconds. Regrowth's duration is increased by 3 seconds when cast on yourself.
• Instincts of the Claw is now a 1-point talent (was 2) and has been updated – Ferocious Bite and Maul damage increased by 8%.
• Lore of the Grove is now a 1-point talent (was 2) and has been updated – Moonfire and Sunfire damage increased by 10%.
• Fluid Form has been updated – Skull Bash can now be used in any form and shifts you into Cat Form if necessary.
• Fluid Form causes Wrath and Starfire to transform you into Moonkin Form at the end of their casts, instead of at their starts.
  • Developers' notes: It should always take a global cooldown to transform to a shapeshift form, either from a direct transformation or a Fluid Form ability. Starting a Wrath or Starfire cast and cancelling it allowed Druids to transform into Moonkin without a global cooldown.
• Moonkin Form has been added to the Class talent tree in Sunfire’s previous position.
  • Developers' notes: Restoring Moonkin Form to the class talent tree empowers Restoration Druids to use Convoke the Spirits for magic damage, like they can currently use Cat Form for physical damage.
• Rejuvenation healing increased by 5%.
• Wild Growth healing increased by 5%.
• Rip damage reduced by 9%.
• Shred damage increased by 10%.
• Swipe damage increased by 10%.
• Ferocious Bite damage reduced by 8%.
• Cyclone duration is now 5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Improved Sunfire’s effect is now included in Sunfire.
• Disorienting Roar now breaks based on a small damage threshold instead of any damage.
• Many talents have changed positions in the class tree.
• Rising Light, Falling Night has been removed.
• Balance
  • Balance Druids now learn Moonkin Form in the Class talent tree upon reaching level 10.
  • Light of the Sun has been moved to the Class Talent Tree for Balance Druids.
  • Power of Goldrinn damage increased by 100%.
  • Starsurge damage increased by 5%.
  • Touch the Cosmos chances increased to 18% from Wrath (was 15%) and 25% for Starfire (was 22%).

• Mark of the Wild now costs 1% base mana (was 4%).
• Adaptive Swarm's icon has been updated.
• Convoke the Spirits' icon has been updated.
• Hero Talents
  • Elune's Chosen
    • Arcane spells cast by Convoke the Spirits now trigger Lunation.
• Balance
  • New Talent: Sunseeker Mushrooms – Sunfire damage has a chance to grow a magical mushroom at the target's location. After 1 second, the mushroom detonates, dealing Nature damage and then an additional Nature damage over 10 seconds. Affected targets are slowed by 50%. Generates up to 20 Astral Power based on targets hit.
  • New Talent: Whirling Stars – Celestial Alignment's cooldown is reduced to 100 seconds and it now has two charges, but its duration is reduced by 20%.
  • New Talent: Astronomical Impact – The critical strike damage of your Astral spells is increased by 20%.
  • New Talent: Crashing Star – Shooting Stars has a 15% chance to instead call down a Crashing Star, dealing Astral damage to the target and generating 4 Astral Power.
  • New Talent: Hail of Stars – Casting a free Starsurge or Starfall grants Solstice for 3 seconds. Free spells cast by Convoke the Spirits grant a 1 second version of this effect.
  • Touch the Cosmos has been updated – Casting Wrath in an Eclipse has a 12% chance to make your next Starsurge or Starfall free. Casting Starfire in an Eclipse has an 18% chance to make your next Starsurge or Starfall free.
  • Starfall is learned by all Balance Druids at level 15 (was a talent).
  • Starfall damage increased by 10%.
  • New Moon damage increased by 20%.
  • Half Moon damage increased by 10%.
  • Rattle the Stars increases Starsurge and Starfall damage by 10% (was 12%).
  • Umbral Inspiration increases damage by 30% (was 35%).
  • Wild Mushroom now generates 10 Astral Power upon hitting a single target (was 5).
  • Warrior of Elune increases Astral Power generation of affected Starfires by 30% (was 40%).
  • Nature's Grace no longer increases the damage of affected Wraths and Starfires.
  • Umbral Intensity is now a 1-point talent that increases the damage of Solar Eclipse Wrath by 20% (was 15%), Lunar Eclipse Starfire by 15%, and the damage Starfire does to nearby enemies by 30%.
  • Astral Smolder's chance to trigger is reduced to 35% (was 40%), and it deals 60% of damage dealt (was 50%).
  • Orbit Breaker calls down a Full Moon every 30th Shooting Stars (was 25).
  • Power of Goldrinn is now a 1-point talent (was 2) and its damage has been reduced by 35%.
  • Astral Communion no longer grants Astral Power on entering an Eclipse. Instead, entering an Eclipse causes your next Starsurge or Starfall to cost 15 less Astral Power.
  • Spells cast by Convoke the Spirits now trigger Starlord.
  • Many talents have changed positions in the talent tree.
  • Added a connection between Force of Nature/Warrior of Elune and Celestial Alignment.
  • Added a connection between Umbral Intensity and Starlord.
  • Cosmic Rapidity tooltip description updated for clarity and now says your periodic effects deal damage more frequently.
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Greater Alignment
    • Lunar Shrapnel
    • Starfall (now learned at level 15)
  • Elune's Chosen
    • Lunar Calling increases Starfire damage by 100% (was 80%).
  • Keeper of the Grove
    • Potent Enchantments causes Whirling Stars to reduce the cooldown of Celestial Alignment by an additional 10 seconds.
    • Control of the Dream now reads "are available to be used or at maximum charges." If the player has Whirling Stars, it reduces the cooldown of Celestial Alignment based on time spent at maximum charges.

• 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: While you do have a priority and rotation, fights in this game are not target dummies and require movement. This is where the boys are separated from the men. A good Balance Druid does the proper rotation, a great Balance Druid does the proper rotation while running around doing mechanics.

Planning your movement is equally as important as doing the proper rotation. Canceling spells or using suboptimal spells decreases your damage output tremendously! Use your instant spells for movement in a smart way.