Overview of Balance Druid for PvE content, a quite popular and pretty powerful spec in BFA, what changed in Shadowlands?
How does the new Eclipse work? How does your rotation look like now? Any interesting Legendaries? Let’s go and cover this the spec and see what it has become.
0:00 Intro
0:55 Eclipse&Mastery Goodness
4:40 Rotation
7:15 Talents
13:20 Legendaries
17:15 State of Balance
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Video from October 28th, reuploaded from my alt-account after finally getting acces back here!
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For all druids they need to replace row 2 (25) of talents… they should make wild charge default… and then add 3 tallents that interact with the spec for all 4 druids specs… this would really help all 4 specs and make their playstyle much more interesting
Do you do pvp Izen? I'm trying to pick a non cloth wearer ranged to main. What do you think is the safest of the three? Hunter, druid and ele?
Very underrated channel you can tell you know about class balance from first hand experience over years.
Resto druid or feral next! I’ll send the tip to your only fans
feral!
Demo lock next. It backstabbed me.
I’ve played again my balance druid and it was a little bit clunky and strange at first but finally I prefer how it is right now. There is a real rotation, but unfortunately this rotation allows only a few talents choices.
Also thanks for some tips, I didn’t know that dots should be applied on non eclipse state. I thought eclipses enhanced them respectively.
I just made a druid for the first time today, this is very convenient
is arcane getting one of these?
Just the breakdown I was looking for. thx
Agreed that the talents are underwhelming, but at least they come together to make a coherent kit, unlike BFA where we relied on Azerite and Essences to even make our spec functional. Also, slight correction, but dots do not give AP when they tick. They only give AP when you apply them initially. Shooting stars gives you AP from dots ticking when it procs. I think you know this, but the way you worded it could mislead somebody.
Great vids!
When I´m thinking about my balance druid rotation, i´m going to have a serious headache :-/ Playing since Vanilla almost all classes (priest, monk and war are the only I don´t have on 50 atm), but druid only as feral. If I remember corectly, last time I played balance was in Cata. I ´m trying, but this balance eclipse system is just beyond my understanding. And honestly, after this video I wanna leave my druid alone. And atm it´s my best equipped char. But my results are terrible. Even with my outlaw rogue 30ilvl lower I´m doing better, even after switching to Subtlety I´ve never played. I need to fing a good written guide I can focus on, like Icy-veins and read and read and read. …and than fucked it up again ingame :-/ Balance for me is soooo unintuitive system.
This is a very helpful guide cheers dude
What about ele??
Let's say your group is about to pull a large AOE pack, but you just went through your lunar eclipse on the previous pack. You're now forced to spend the next 15 seconds in solar eclipse. Do you cleave with starfire anyways, or cast wraths to try to make up for it with a bit more damage/astral power?
Nice guide dude! Awesome job, keep i
Up with the good work
Excellent video! I have been playing guardian for a while now and decided to learn this spec, but couldn’t find a good explanation of the synergies and changes in SL. This guide covered all that perfectly.
I have a few questions about the additional spells. In M+ or any pack encounters do you start the fight by casting sunfire and then tabbing or mouse over to apply moonfire to all mobs? Also, when and how many mobs would you use Starfall instead of starsurge to spend astral power?
Moonkin was boring in BFA but in SL it sounds even more dumb. Lets just spam one skill to enter eclipse to cast the other one… and we have another skill that makes the other 2 better! Wow so inventive, such interesting gameplay!
this rotation is so fucking unfun I went to play Hunter instead….
But how do we open up on a trash pack in m+?
noob question: how do you get your character to look like that ? is it some sort of glyph for moonkin
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whats your take on when to use starfall?… with considerations being. number of target, its buffed by both eclipses, Astral Power pooling pre eclipse and Astral Power Building near the end eclipse. also Celestial Drift…. high movement fights
Hey! Is there anyway you can send me a link to your WA? Also, what cast bar is that?
The biggest change, is that it STILL is superior to elemental shaman in every way.
What changed in Shadowlands? They reworked it for no reason to be a complete piece of shit nostalgia grab with that garbage eclipse, that's what happened.
I feel like you said wrath for solar eclipse and star fire for lunar many times and I couldnt follow when which was which
why u playing this game if u reatch max level? and for example you're already payd for subscription for month when reach from 1 to 60lvl is about 24h of playing
Literally the worst designed spec in the game right now imho.
One of the warrior specs now that they just got buffed.
Are you sure you don't want to reapply dots during eclipse? I think they get buffed like starfall