Pls replace balance druid spec designer; it simply sucks for too long now

[Lagrangeféle-ragnaros]

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”.

[Пистолет-deathguard]

I gave up on Balance because of near zero survivability in the delves.

[Kurse-ravencrest]

“…and unfun its rotation really is.”

I’m gonna have to stop you right there!

Playing Feral for hours upon hours where you have to keep track of all this stuff and then changing to Balance where you basically play as a turret is amazing in my opinion.
I could finally relax, lol.

[Lagrangeféle-ragnaros]

Each to their own…but

If we are going to benchmark “the fun factor” with feral as baseline, then I must say the bar is pretty low.
Subjective, but if feral was the only druid dps spec, then I doubt I would have ever leveled it up to begin with.

Balance Druid used to be way better than this fiasco, but ever since SL, blizzard just keep borking it on every occasion they get instead of admitting that Eclipse was a failure and removing the problem as a starter.