Balance Druid Midnight Stats, Races and Consumables Guide

Stat Ranking

Mastery > Haste = Critical Strike > Versatility

Stat Outline

Mastery: Increases your Nature and Arcane damage to the target.

Haste: Makes it so you cast faster, reduces the global cooldown on most abilities, and increases the rate at which your damage over time effects tick. Convoke The Spirits and Starfall do not interact with this.

Versatility: Solid overall stat for increasing damage done and reducing damage taken; making it a nice defensive stat for progress.

Crit: Grants a chance to deal double damage on all spells. Synergizes well with Astral Smolder.

Best Horde Races for Balance Druid:

• Tauren gives you War Stomp which can be situationally useful in mythic+.
• Zandalari Troll has some flexibility depending on your character and may end up simming the highest depending on what your stat weights are.
• Highmountain Tauren is also pretty good due to Bull Rush and the 1% versatility passive. Bull Rush adds another stop that you can use in m+ which makes it pretty good depending on the team composition you are running. It also gives you a bit of extra mobility.
• Troll was previously the highest simming race because of Berserking aligning with Celestial Alignment/Incarnation, but with most people electing for 2min cooldowns, Berserking loses value.

Best Alliance Races for Balance Druid:

• Night Elf is currently the best race for DPS out of all of them. Additionally, Shadowmeld is really good for Mythic+.
• Kul’tiran also sims fairly well and may provide some additional utility through Haymaker.

Head: Enchant Helm - Empowered Rune Of Avoidance or Enchant Helm - Empowered Hex Of Leeching

Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark Of The Worldsoul

Boots: Enchant Boots - Shaladrassil's Roots

Legs: Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Rings: Enchant Ring - Zul'jin's Mastery

Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Acuity Of The Ren'dorei

I strongly advise simming to find out what the current best gems are for you.

You want to have at least one Indecipherable Eversong Diamond, and then fill out the rest of your sockets with whatever gems have the best stats for you. If you want to follow a recommendation, you can probably safely opt into the Flawless Quick Amethyst gem.

Food: Warped Wise Wings

Phials: Flask Of The Magisters

Potions: Light's Potential or Draught Of Rampant Abandon

Health Potions: Silvermoon Health Potion

Weapon Oil: Thalassian Phoenix Oil