Explain like I'm 5 - Balance rotation

Classes Druid
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Hey all! :smiley:

Just to preface, I’m a really casual player, and I’m not looking for raiding or M+ advice. Just a general idea of how to play the spec! I’m generally a feral player but I’m finding feral is a little… lacking, right now!

I haven’t played balance for several expansions - the last time I played, it was kind of a cyclical dance between solar and lunar eclipses and had a sliding scale and you’d go between them. I’ve tried to learn what balance looks like now and I’m just totally overwhelmed!

Can anyone give me a simple overview of what I should be trying to achieve, or link me to any resources?

Thanks so much!

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I think it will be much easier for you to watch a video, or read a guide in wowhead.

I can recommend naguura’s youtube guide.

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Get into eclipse asap, only use moonfire in solar eclipse. Dont overcap astral power unless it’s i believe 8+ targets, at which point just spam starfire while getting into eclipse asap

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To summarize:

  • cast 2 wrath or 2 starfire to get into eclipse
  • apply dots sunfire, moonfire (if talented stellar flare)
  • always try to be in eclipse
  • do not cap astral power
  • use various utility spells as needed

Naguura’s guide is very informative, so recommending that also.

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Could you link the source of information related to snapshotting? I was under the impression that boomkin dots recalculate each tick based on buffs. I asked on Dreamgrove discord and people seem to agree, so I’m keen to learn if what I’ve been thinking is incorrect. Thanks!

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not incorrect; in prolonged aoe you want to be applying moonfire to as many targets as possible during solar eclipse because wrathing into a load of targets during your solar just isnt worth it; then when your eclipse swaps to lunar everything is already dotted with moonfire leading to much more aoe damage

also snapshotting was removed for boomkin; only feral still has that mechanic - your dots will update dynamically depending on your buffs and eclipses. The reason we apply dots during eclipses is so we don’t delay our next eclipse

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Interesting, I’ll have to try this out, I was not aware that the dots did not snapshot anymore.

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No you are correct, I was wrong - it seems only feral dots snap shot, not boomkin!

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What do you mean by that? Right now I’m always refreshing inside pandemic window (<5 seconds) If moonfire runs out within lunar eclipse, I refresh there even if it’s not solar. Is that wrong?

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In AoE yes.
In AoE you want to get as many Starfires off as possible in Lunar eclipse. While still avoiding to overcap resources. When you get to 5 targets you don’t even care about overcapping on Astral power.

At 5+1 per 20% mastery targets you even priotize starfire while in solar eclipse

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