Introduction
Welcome to the Method Balance Druid Guide! My name is Gamz. I’ve been playing Balance Druid since Battle for Azeroth and been an active theorycrafter for the spec since Dragonflight. I have been raiding at the Hall of Fame level and writing Balance Druid guides since the end of Dragonflight.
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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.
What has changed
Patch 12.1 Changes for Balance Druid
Balance Druid heading into Patch 12.1 has received a couple changes, with none of them really affecting your gameplay much.
The amount of free spenders you cast with Touch The Cosmos has gone down, Elune’s Chosen got some nerfs and Keeper of the Grove got some buffs. The stated goals for most of the changes were to stabilize the difference between the hero talents, since Elune’s Chosen was ahead for most of the previous season.
Stellar Amplification also got changed to only work on 1 target at a time, eliminating the gameplay loop where you swapped which target you would Starsurge in order to keep the buff up on multiple targets.