Balance Druid DPS Starter Guide - Shadowlands 9.0.5

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Critical Strike: Grants a chance to deal double damage on all spells.

Haste: Reduces spell cast time and increases how fast your dots tick. Also gives GCD reduction as well. Very strong on AOE generally while being pretty serviceable on single target.

Mastery: Increases the damage of your spells while in Eclipse. Our best stat more often than not currently.

Versatility: Increases damage and healing and reduces damage taken.

Balance Druid Enchants and Consumables

Cloak: Increase stamina and tertiary bonuses, which are largely interchangeable. When in doubt, choose extra stamina or avoidance.
Enchant Cloak - Fortified Avoidance, Enchant Cloak - Fortified Leech, Enchant Cloak - Fortified Speed, Enchant Cloak - Soul Vitality

Chest: Intellect - Enchant Chest - Eternal Stats

Wrists: Gives Intellect - Enchant Bracers - Eternal Intellect

Rings: Increases Mastery Enchant Ring - Tenet of Mastery

Weapon: Stats - Enchant Weapon - Celestial Guidance

Best Balance Druid Rotation

Spend Astral Power - don’t let it cap. Use Starsurge on 1 Target or when you have excess Astral Power on AOE and Starfall on 2+ Targets.

Maintain dot uptime - Don’t let Sunfire or Moonfire fall off your target.

Get into eclipse ASAP - Cast Starfire and Wrath to alleviate this while being aware of Eclipse .

Always be casting - Plant your feet and cast, don't move unless you have to.

DoTs can pandemic, so they can be refreshed with up to 30% of the duration remaining without loss. This means up to 7.2 seconds for Stellar Flare, 6.6 seconds for Moonfire, and 5.4 seconds for Sunfire.

Don’t hold your cooldowns, Celestial Alignment and Fury of Elune, for too long. Losing overall uses will lower your damage.

Be economical with movement and try to pool Astral Power beforehand. This will increase your uptime overall and allow you to do more damage.

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