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Introduction
Welcome to the Leveling Guide for Balance Druid DPS in Season of Discovery!
This comprehensive guide will provide you with essential tips and strategies for leveling your Balance Druid DPS character effectively in the Season of Discovery. It will cover general advice, leveling potential, optimal builds, and abilities you can save your gold on by not training.
Talent Builds & Runes
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General Tips and Tricks for Balance Druid DPS Leveling
During Phase 8 of the Season of Discovery, you now have the opportunity to access all runes starting at level 1, significantly enhancing the Balance Druid leveling experience. These runes can be acquired from the Rune Broker located in each starting zone. To fully utilize these runes, it’s essential to purchase gear for each slot where the runes can be activated. For detailed information on vendors available in each starting zone, you can find more details here.
Enhance your leveling journey by considering purchasing gold to ensure you have the resources needed for gear and rune acquisition. Explore the Season of Discovery with your Balance Druid and make the most out of your leveling experience!
Utilize Your Crowd Control Abilities
Make the most of your crowd control skills to tackle challenging mobs, including the possibility of defeating Elites on your own. With patience and strategic use of abilities like [Entangling Roots], you can manage these tough encounters. If you need to eliminate a powerful enemy, apply roots and allow for mana regeneration between each cast. In situations where you’ve attracted too many beasts or dragonkin, employ [Hibernate] to reduce the number of adversaries engaging you.
Shapeshift in a Pinch
Even though your focus is on Balance, don’t hesitate to shift into [Bear Form] when overwhelmed by enemies. The additional armor and health can be a lifesaver and help you avoid an untimely demise. Remember, shapeshifting also removes all slow and root effects, providing a vital escape option if you need to retreat.
Leveling Viability for Balance Druid DPS
Balance Druid: Optimal Damage and Sustainability
Balance Druids offer impressive damage capabilities along with excellent sustainability. With Entangling Roots, you have substantial utility in the open world. The ability to self-heal, enhanced by Fury of Stormrage, ensures minimal downtime. As you level solo in open-world environments, you’ll enjoy a seamless experience due to the significant front-loaded damage from Starfire. This allows you to efficiently cleave multiple enemies using Starfall and swiftly dispatch single targets.
Upon reaching level 40 and obtaining Moonkin Form, your leveling experience will be markedly enhanced due to the scaling benefits embedded within this form.
Optimal Leveling Builds for Balance Druid DPS – Phase 8
- Druid: 38/0/13 Build
- Class Abilities
- Required Level: 60
| Specialization | Points Distribution |
|---|---|
| Balance | 38 |
| Feral Combat | 0 |
| Restoration | 13 |
Talent Order
Begin by focusing on the Balance tree to maximize your damage output and sustainability. Then, invest points in the Restoration tree to further enhance your healing capabilities. This balanced approach ensures that you remain effective in both offensive and defensive situations.
Season of Discovery Runes
– Head: Gale Winds
– Back: Starfall
– Chest: Fury of Stormrage
– Wrist: Elune’s Fires
– Hands: Sunfire
– Waist: Eclipse
– Legs: Starsurge
– Feet: Dreamstate
– Ring 1: Nature Specialization
– Ring 2: Arcane Specialization
Leveling Talent Path
The Improved Wrath talent is exceptionally potent, ensuring Wrath becomes your primary spell for early leveling progression.
Next, allocate points in Natural Weapons. Once maxed out, proceed to acquire Omen of Clarity.
Following that, select Improved Moonfire to pave the way for Vengeance later on.
Continue to choose the most powerful talents in the tree, temporarily bypassing Moonglow in favor of maximizing damage output over minor mana cost reductions. Prioritize obtaining Vengeance before Improved Starfire, as Eclipse isn’t accessible until level 30. Until then, you should focus on casting the mana-free Wraths instead of Starfire.
As you approach level 40, distribute points into Moonfury, and then aim to acquire Moonkin Form before completing its talent points.
Afterward, allocate 3 points into Moonglow, followed by maxing out Improved Mark of the Wild.
Finally, progress down the Restoration tree to obtain Reflection, which will help reduce downtime significantly.
Abilities to Skip While Leveling for Balance Druid DPS
In the early levels, from 1 to 20, most abilities are reasonably priced and generally worth acquiring. While you might not frequently use [Bear Form], it’s beneficial to consider picking up [Bash]. This ability provides your only hard crowd control and is instrumental in interrupting enemy spellcasting.
If you intend to remain exclusively in Balance specialization during your leveling journey, you can largely bypass the [Cat Form] abilities. This decision can help conserve your gold resources. However, [Dash] is a worthwhile exception, offering useful speed enhancement.
