Balance Druid Midnight 12.0.5 Guide

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Balance Druid Overview

Balance Druid is a specialization that takes your classic “builder-spender” model and expands upon it through amplifying your damage through the application of your damage over time effects: Sunfire and Moonfire.

The core of Balance Druid gameplay revolves around maintaining close to 100% uptime on Sunfire and Moonfire abilities on as many targets as possible while spending Astral Power on Starsurge for single target, and Starfall for AoE situations.

Balance Druid uses an Eclipse system to empower your basic generator abilities like Wrath or Starfire. You generally want to enter Solar Eclipse on single target, and enter Lunar Eclipse for AoE situations. However, if you are playing the Elune’s Chosen hero talent, you will enter Lunar Eclipse and press Starfire in all situations.

Patch 12.0.5 Changes for Balance Druid

The only noteworthy change coming into the 12.0.5 patch is to the talent Meteorites. This update doesn’t really change much, but makes you do slightly more damage on low target count fights, like Vaelgor & Ezzorak or Lightblinded Vanguard.

Previously the talent would make a Meteorite hit on any in-combat target for each wave of Starfall damage, which is about 7-8 times each Starfall. After the update it now hits 2 targets instead, but does 30% less damage. This still equates to be a damage gain any content where you were already playing Meteorites.

Patch 12.0.5 also introduced Nebulous Voidcores, a currency that grants you bonus rolls you can use after completing a dungeon or raid boss, and even letting you drop myth track items from Mythic+. They are also introducing the Ascendant Voidcores, letting you upgrade your myth track weapons and trinkets to 298, and your crafted items to 295.

Midnight Changes for Balance Druid

While the Midnight expansion changes some things for Balance Druid, the main identity of the spec remains the same.

The biggest change is the rework on Eclipse, changing it from a passive buff activated by your previous 2 builders to a button that you press. The state of this button is based on your previously cast builder; casting Wrath changes the button to Solar Eclipse, and casting Starfire changes the button to Lunar Eclipse.

Another considerable change is the adjustment to our Mastery, removing the part interacting with your Sunfire and Moonfire, making the damage buff from Mastery permanent. While this can lead to situations where you don’t spread Moonfire above a certain number of targets, it will greatly help Balance in raid content where you need to damage a high-priority add.