Druid specialization

Balance Druid in WoW Forever

Nature and Arcane spellcasting.

  • Your role: Ranged spell damage
  • Advice for every level to 60
  • Class notes checked

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Level 45 · Damage in a group

How to play dungeons at level 45

Your combat loop

Press the first one that is ready.

Balance’s own loop, from level 20. Before that every Druid plays the same loop.

Own loop from: Balance level 20Feral (Cat) level 32

Use Starfire. It does 20% more than Wrath.

  1. Moonfire Rank 7 Keep on target · 15 sec

    Keep it on the target; it lasts 15 sec.

    16% of your damage
  2. Insect Swarm Rank 3 Keep on target · 14 sec

    Keep it on the target; it lasts 14 sec.

    14% of your damage
  3. Starfire Rank 4 Filler

    Cast it whenever nothing above is ready.

    71% of your damage

The first 30 seconds

When to press each one from the pull. The blue line under a press is the global cooldown (1.5 sec) or cast it holds: nothing else on the global cooldown can go until it ends, so of two that are ready together the higher one goes first.

In the gaps
Starfire

How MaxDPS works this out

Talents at level 45

36 points at level 45: the first at level 10, then one every level.

The MaxDPS build at this level, in the game’s talent frame. Click a talent to learn it and right click to unlearn it, as in the game.

Talents
Unspent Talents
Point order: when each point goes in
  1. Improved Wrath 5/5 · levels 10–14 +5.4% damage
  2. Nature's Reach 2/2 · levels 15–16 +4.1% damage
  3. Moonglow 3/3 · levels 17–19 +7.7% damage
  4. Improved Moonfire 2/2 · levels 20–21 +2.3% damage
  5. Nature's Majesty 2/2 · levels 22–23 +4% damage
  6. Nature's Splendor 1/1 · level 24 +2.7% damage
  7. Insect Swarm 1/1 · level 25 +4.5% damage
  8. Vengeance 5/5 · levels 26–30 +6.6% damage
  9. Eclipse 3/3 · levels 31–33 +7.3% damage
  10. Improved Starfire 5/5 · levels 34 and 42–45 +9.7% damage
  11. Moonfury 5/5 · levels 35–39 +10% damage
  12. Moonkin Form 1/1 · level 40 +3% damage
  13. Nature's Grace 1/1 · level 41 +1.2% damage

Every Druid talent

Preliminary item rankings · Dungeons

Balance Druid gear rankings

Nature and Arcane damage · Level 45 · Calculated defaults

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Where it comes from
Auction prices from

Materials: . Each reagent counts at the lower of a vendor’s price and its lowest buyout.

Key stats show the stats behind the three largest score contributions, as the game tooltip states them; open an item’s details for every value and source.

Head items with imported stats, weighted scores and acquisition sources.
Rank Item Score (pts) Where to get it Actions
1 in this filtered list
Dreamweave Circlet Cloth · iLvl 50 · Req. 45 · Crafted Key stats: 21 Spell power10 Intellect12 Spirit
23.76
TailoringCrafted
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house Materials about

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 21 × 1 = 21.00 pts
  • Intellect: 10 × 0.1952 = 1.95 pts
  • Spirit: 12 × 0.0568 = 0.68 pts
  • Armor: 58 × 0.0022 = 0.13 pts

Rare

Source

TailoringCrafted
2 in this filtered list
Red Mageweave Headband Cloth · iLvl 48 · Req. 43 · Crafted Key stats: 19 Spell power20 Intellect51 Armor
23.02
TailoringCrafted
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house Materials about

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 19 × 1 = 19.00 pts
  • Intellect: 20 × 0.1952 = 3.90 pts
  • Armor: 51 × 0.0022 = 0.11 pts

Uncommon

Source

TailoringCrafted
3 in this filtered list
Spellpower Goggles Xtreme Cloth · iLvl 43 · Req. 38* · Crafted · Profession required Key stats: 21 Spell power46 Armor
21.10
EngineeringCrafted
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house Materials about

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 21 × 1 = 21.00 pts
  • Armor: 46 × 0.0022 = 0.10 pts

Uncommon · Profession required — check item requirements

Source

EngineeringCrafted
4 in this filtered list
Magister Cowl Cloth · iLvl 49 · Req. 44* · Quest Key stats: 18 Spell power8 Mana per 5 sec57 Armor
19.41

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 18 × 1 = 18.00 pts
  • Mana per 5 sec: 8 × 0.1601 = 1.28 pts
  • Armor: 57 × 0.0022 = 0.13 pts

Rare

Source

5 in this filtered list
Moonchaser's Headdress Leather · iLvl 46 · Req. 41 · Other drop Key stats: 15 Spell power13 Intellect101 Armor
17.76
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 15 × 1 = 15.00 pts
  • Intellect: 13 × 0.1952 = 2.54 pts
  • Armor: 101 × 0.0022 = 0.22 pts

Uncommon

Source

6 in this filtered list
Cassandra's Grace Cloth · iLvl 47 · Req. 42 · Other drop Key stats: 15 Spell damage7 Stamina9 Spirit
16.56
Emerald Encrusted ChestContainer loot · 2.8%
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 15 × 1 = 15.00 pts
  • Stamina: 7 × 0.1319 = 0.92 pts
  • Spirit: 9 × 0.0568 = 0.51 pts
  • Armor: 55 × 0.0022 = 0.12 pts

Rare

57 sources

Emerald Encrusted ChestContainer loot · 2.8%
Scalebane CaptainNPC drop · <0.1% · Swamp of Sorrows
Spirit of VengNPC drop · <0.1% · Maraudon
Solid ChestObject loot · <0.1%
Nethergarde MinerNPC drop · <0.1% · Blasted Lands
Noxious SlimeNPC drop · <0.1% · Maraudon
Creeping SludgeNPC drop · <0.1% · Maraudon
Atal'ai SlaveNPC drop · <0.1% · Sunken Temple
Slave WorkerNPC drop · <0.1% · Searing Gorge
All 57 sources
7 in this filtered list
Miner's Hat of the Deep Cloth · iLvl 44 · Req. 39 · Dungeon drop Key stats: 12 Spell power17 Intellect7 Stamina
16.44
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 12 × 1 = 12.00 pts
  • Intellect: 17 × 0.1952 = 3.32 pts
  • Stamina: 7 × 0.1319 = 0.92 pts
  • Armor: 52 × 0.0022 = 0.11 pts
  • Bonus armor: 40 × 0.0022 = 0.09 pts

Rare

Source

8 in this filtered list
Strongly Scented Hood Cloth · iLvl 47 · Req. 42 · Other drop Key stats: 15 Spell power21 Spirit55 Armor
16.31
Overlord MuggNPC drop · 9.1%

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 15 × 1 = 15.00 pts
  • Spirit: 21 × 0.0568 = 1.19 pts
  • Armor: 55 × 0.0022 = 0.12 pts

Rare

Source

Overlord MuggNPC drop · 9.1%
9 in this filtered list
Black Mageweave Headband Cloth · iLvl 46 · Req. 41 · Crafted Key stats: 13 Spell power12 Intellect49 Armor
15.45
TailoringCrafted
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house Materials about

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 13 × 1 = 13.00 pts
  • Intellect: 12 × 0.1952 = 2.34 pts
  • Armor: 49 × 0.0022 = 0.11 pts

Uncommon

Source

TailoringCrafted
10 in this filtered list
Twilight Mine Light Cloth · iLvl 45 · Req. 40* · Quest · Alliance only Key stats: 13 Spell power12 Stamina48 Armor
14.69

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 13 × 1 = 13.00 pts
  • Stamina: 12 × 0.1319 = 1.58 pts
  • Armor: 48 × 0.0022 = 0.11 pts

Uncommon

Source

11 in this filtered list
Living Cowl Cloth · iLvl 44 · Req. 39 · Other drop Key stats: 13 Spell power12 Stamina47 Armor
14.69
Tangled HorrorNPC drop · 3.2% · Swamp of Sorrows · also from 1 other creature
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 13 × 1 = 13.00 pts
  • Stamina: 12 × 0.1319 = 1.58 pts
  • Armor: 47 × 0.0022 = 0.10 pts

Uncommon

2 sources

Tangled HorrorNPC drop · 3.2% · Swamp of Sorrows · also from 1 other creature
Molt ThornNPC drop · 0.8% · Swamp of Sorrows
12 in this filtered list
Wild Headdress Leather · iLvl 39 · Req. 34* · Quest · Alliance only Key stats: 12 Spell power11 Intellect88 Armor
14.34

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 12 × 1 = 12.00 pts
  • Intellect: 11 × 0.1952 = 2.15 pts
  • Armor: 88 × 0.0022 = 0.19 pts

Uncommon

Source

13 in this filtered list
Totemic Leather Helm Leather · iLvl 30 · Req. 25 · Dungeon drop Key stats: 12 Spell power13 Stamina84 Armor
13.90
Materials about

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 12 × 1 = 12.00 pts
  • Stamina: 13 × 0.1319 = 1.71 pts
  • Armor: 84 × 0.0022 = 0.18 pts

Rare

16 sources

GelihastNPC drop · <0.1% · Blackfathom Deeps
Lorgus JettNPC drop · <0.1% · Blackfathom Deeps
Old Serra'kisNPC drop · <0.1% · Blackfathom Deeps
Charlga RazorflankNPC drop · <0.1% · Razorfen Kraul
Fallen ChampionNPC drop · <0.1% · Scarlet Monastery
Aggem ThorncurseNPC drop · <0.1% · Razorfen Kraul
Aku'maiNPC drop · <0.1% · Blackfathom Deeps
Baron AquanisNPC drop · <0.1% · Blackfathom Deeps
All 16 sources
14 in this filtered list
White Drakeskin Cap Leather · iLvl 40 · Req. 35* · Quest · Horde only Key stats: 13 Spell power10 Spirit90 Armor
13.77

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 13 × 1 = 13.00 pts
  • Spirit: 10 × 0.0568 = 0.57 pts
  • Armor: 90 × 0.0022 = 0.20 pts

Uncommon

Source

15 in this filtered list
Augural Shroud Cloth · iLvl 39 · Req. 34 · Other drop Key stats: 11 Spell power10 Intellect5 Stamina
13.70
Nether SorceressNPC drop · 1.4% · Desolace
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 11 × 1 = 11.00 pts
  • Intellect: 10 × 0.1952 = 1.95 pts
  • Stamina: 5 × 0.1319 = 0.66 pts
  • Armor: 42 × 0.0022 = 0.09 pts

Uncommon

Source

Nether SorceressNPC drop · 1.4% · Desolace
16 in this filtered list
Big Voodoo Mask Leather · iLvl 44 · Req. 39 · Crafted Key stats: 9 Spell power14 Intellect97 Armor
11.95
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house Materials about

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 9 × 1 = 9.00 pts
  • Intellect: 14 × 0.1952 = 2.73 pts
  • Armor: 97 × 0.0022 = 0.21 pts

Uncommon

Source

17 in this filtered list
Papal Fez Cloth · iLvl 43 · Req. 38 · Dungeon drop Key stats: 8 Spell damage17 Intellect9 Spirit
11.94
Stonevault BrawlerNPC drop · <0.1% · Uldaman
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 8 × 1 = 8.00 pts
  • Intellect: 17 × 0.1952 = 3.32 pts
  • Spirit: 9 × 0.0568 = 0.51 pts
  • Armor: 51 × 0.0022 = 0.11 pts

Rare

3 sources

Stonevault BrawlerNPC drop · <0.1% · Uldaman
Stonevault GeomancerNPC drop · <0.1% · Uldaman
Stonevault MaulerNPC drop · <0.1% · Uldaman
18 in this filtered list
Comfortable Leather Hat Leather · iLvl 40 · Req. 35 · Crafted Key stats: 10 Spell power11 Stamina90 Armor
11.65
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house Materials about

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 10 × 1 = 10.00 pts
  • Stamina: 11 × 0.1319 = 1.45 pts
  • Armor: 90 × 0.0022 = 0.20 pts

Uncommon

Source

19 in this filtered list
Engineer's Guild Headpiece Leather · iLvl 49 · Req. 44* · Quest Key stats: 10 Spell damage22 Spirit117 Armor
11.51

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 10 × 1 = 10.00 pts
  • Spirit: 22 × 0.0568 = 1.25 pts
  • Armor: 117 × 0.0022 = 0.26 pts

Rare

Source

20 in this filtered list
Holy Shroud Cloth · iLvl 32 · Req. 27 · Other drop Key stats: 11 Spell damage6 Spirit40 Armor
11.43
Large Solid ChestObject loot · 0.1%
Alliance: Horde: None on the auction house

Score breakdown

  • Spell power: 11 × 1 = 11.00 pts
  • Spirit: 6 × 0.0568 = 0.34 pts
  • Armor: 40 × 0.0022 = 0.09 pts

Rare

35 sources

Large Solid ChestObject loot · 0.1%
Solid ChestObject loot · <0.1%
Forsaken InfiltratorNPC drop · <0.1% · Ashenvale
Xavian FelswornNPC drop · <0.1% · Ashenvale
Silithid SearcherNPC drop · <0.1% · Thousand Needles
Nightbane Dark RunnerNPC drop · <0.1% · Duskwood
Kolkar DestroyerNPC drop · <0.1% · Desolace
Scarlet ScryerNPC drop · <0.1% · Scarlet Monastery
All 35 sources

Item stats from the WoW Forever game files; sources from data collected from the live game. Auction prices are the lowest buyout on the Americas · Normal auction houses, read from Blizzard every hour; pick another region or ruleset under Filters. Which house is which ruleset is matched by size and still being confirmed in game.

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