Ever since Eclipse was dumped into this spec in 9.0, its either overtuned (SL 50% balance of all things lego) or straight up sucks when there is nothing to hide how illogical and unfun its rotation really is.
7.0-8.3 Balance druid was vastly superior in practically ever regard except the maybe starfall, but honestly at this point give me the old starfall (in which at very least I could move while casting…) rather than this clunky mess of a rotation with zero identity.
I would gladly take that trade-off.
Also why is the talent tree full of meaningless single digit % buffs instead of actual spells or noticeable passive mechanics?
I mean, for gods sake we could literally cut the talent tree in half just if we got get rid of all these modifiers that should be either baseline or baked into other, actual spells. Thats how bloated it is.
Where is Sylvanas? We could use some experience with tree burning here!
Ah and finally: when did balance druid and mage switch identities? It has literally 0 self sustain, 0 def and consequently is a huge burden on the groups.
Its simply embarrassing how little regrowth heals and that we rather use that to proc the builders than to actually yn, heal ourselves or something…
Frenzied regen is no better either, especially if you account for the penalty we get for even using it. At least it used to heal a decent amount of hp before the tank nerfs that somehow had to hit balance as well…
Its frightening to think about the fact that this spec was recently “redesigned”.