Balance Druid Mythic+ Guide

Elune's Chosen focuses gameplay around casting Starfire as a generator in all scenarios and reducing the cooldown of Fury of Elune as much as possible.

Core Talents

• Boundless Moonlight
  • Works with all versions of your Fury of Elune including Sundered Firmament and The Light of Elune.
  • Works with all versions of your Full Moon including Orbit Breaker and the second Full Moon from Radiant Moonlight.
• Lunar Calling
  • Makes your Starfire hit like a truck on single-target and prevents you from entering Eclipse (Solar).
  • Synergizes with Umbral Intensity, Umbral Embrace, Nature's Grace and Lunation.
  • Great for fights with low movement, but can be tough to get used to in high-movement fights. Luckily most fights in Mythic+ are low movement.
• Lunation
  • Makes all your spells dealing Astral or Arcane damage reduce the cooldown of your Fury of Elune or New Moon.
• Moondust
  • Surprisingly potent in dungeon content, making kiting slightly easier for your tank.

Passive Talents

• Moon Guardian
• Lunar Insight
• Glistening Fur
• Lunar Amplification
• Atmospheric Exposure
• The Eternal Moon

Rarely Talented

• Elune's Grace
  • Mostly a raid specific talent, not as useful as Moondust.
• Stellar Command
  • Rarely talented given how strong Lunar Calling is.
• Astral Insight
  • Not a viable talent if you're using Lunar Calling.
• Arcane Affinity
  • Undertuned.

When to use this Spec

Probably never, Keeper of the Grove is currently too strong to consider Elune's Chosen.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

• Fury of Elune
  • Minor burst cooldown that blasts your target with Astral Damage and nearby enemies for 47%~ of its damage.
  • You can reduce its cooldown through Lunation, a core aspect of this talent build.
  • Damage increased and base cooldown decreased through the Radiant Moonlight talent.
• Warrior of Elune
  • Strong for bursting and avoiding bad movement.

• Nature's Grace
  • Min-max this for a noticeable damage gain, covered in Deep Dive.
• Starfall
  • Your primary spender when fighting 2+ mobs.
• Twin Moons
  • Enables your Moonfire to be applied to another nearby enemy.
  • Prioritizes units without Moonfire already applied.
• Orbital Strike
  • Empowers your Celestial Alignment to blast all enemies in a line and applies Stellar Flare them.
  • Grants both versions of Eclipse and Balance of All Things.
• Starlord
  • Grants you 2% stacking haste buff for 15 seconds when you spend Astral Power.
• Balance of All Things
  • Increases your crit chance of Nature and/or Arcane spells for 10 seconds after entering an Eclipse decaying each second.
  • You gain double the value for Astral Damage when entering Celestial Alignment or Incarnation: Chosen of Elune

Class Tree

• Verdant Heart
  • Increases healing taken while Barkskin is active by 20%.
• Natural Recovery
  • Increases healing taken by 4%
• Forestwalk
  • Increases healing taken by 8% for 6 seconds after casting Regrowth.
• Oakskin
  • Increases the damage reduction granted by Barkskin to 30%.

All of these talents combined grant you strong mitigation and healing amplification, if these are not enough you need to use Bear Form too.

• Ursol's Vortex
  • Great for controlling mobs and can be used with Typhoon for a pseudo-mass grip to stack up mobs.

Core Hero Talents

• Lunar Calling
  • Makes your Starfire hit like a truck single-target and prevents you from entering Eclipse (Solar).
  • Synergizes with Umbral Intensity, Umbral Embrace, Nature's Grace and Lunation.
• Lunation
  • Makes all your spells that deal Astral or Arcane damage reduce the cooldown of your Fury of Elune or New Moon.

Boss Tips

Orator Krix'vizk

• Use your defensives during Vociferous Indoctrination.
• Position yourself behind to the tank when Vociferous Indoctrination happens so you can get ahead on movement.

Fangs of the Queen

• Watch out for Knife Throw. Use defensives if you're targeted by this ability.
• You can use shapeshift to remove Ice Sickles.

The Coaglamation

• Use your defensives for Dark Pulse. This happens at 100 boss energy.

Izo, the Grand Splicer

• Use your Barkskin for every other Splice, when it's down rotate between group wide CDs, Renewal and Health Potion.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Web Bolt from Sureki Silkbinder.
  • Grimweave Blast from Covert Webmancer.
  • Mending Web from Covert Webmancer.
  • Twist Thoughts from Herald of Anurek.
  • Void Wave from Sureki Unnaturaler.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Celestial Alignment before the dungeon starts and fish for a Umbral Embrace proc for the few seconds it's active but this is extremely niche minmax and Umbral Embrace only lasts 15 seconds.

Boss Tips

E.D.N.A.

• Always stack up to spawn Volatile Spikes close together to ensure you can detonate all of them with 1 Refracting Beam.
  • Use Dark Pact whenever it's ready for this ability.
• Rotate Barkskin, Renewal and Algari Healing Potion when the boss casts Earth Shatterer.

Skarmorak

• Use Barkskin on the fortified shell, it should be up for all of them depending on how long it takes to kill the shields.
• Use Starfall to reduce the adds health, but don't kill multiple at the same time because then you will most likely die, therefore it can be risky to dot them up in combination with using Starfall.

Master Machinists Brokk and Dorlita

• Make sure to put Speaker Brokk on your focus frame and interrupt his Molten Metal with Solar Beam whenever he jumps away.
• Use your Barkskin when Exhaust Vents cast is half-way done to carry the defensive into Blazing Crescendo on the first overlap.

Void Speaker Eirich

• Play towards the edges of the room to have quick access to the portals to drop your Void Corruption debuff quickly.

Trash Tips

• Focus down Earth Burst Totem from Cursedforge Stoneshaper. They have a low amount of health but are not affected by AoE abilities.
• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Howling Fear from Ghastly Voidsoul.
  • Censoring Gear from Turned Speaker.
  • Piercing Wail from Void Bound Howler.
  • Restoring Metals from Forgebound Mender and Cursedforge Mender.
  • Arcing Void from Cursedheart Invader.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Celestial Alignment before the dungeon starts and fish for a Umbral Embrace proc for the few seconds it's active but this is extremely niche minmax and Umbral Embrace only lasts 15 seconds.

Boss Tips

Speaker Shadowcrown

• Use Wild Charge to get out of Collapsing Night quickly. Getting out of this quickly is important since it deals a lot of damage every 0.5 seconds.

Anub'ikkaj

• Don't aim the ball into a close wall, fence or pole - your entire team will die.
• Follow the personal rotation below:

Rasha'nan

• Use Stampeding Roar on your team while dealing with Arathi Bomb.
• Be aware of Erosive Spray. It applies Lingering Erosion which is dangerous when combined with other damage events.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Night Bolt from Nightfall Shadowmage.
  • Ensnaring Shadows from Nightfall Shadowmage.
  • Tormenting Beam from Nightfall Darkcaster.
  • Umbral Barrier from Nightfall Darkcaster.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Celestial Alignment before the dungeon starts and fish for a Umbral Embrace proc for the few seconds it's active but this is extremely niche minmax and Umbral Embrace only lasts 15 seconds.

Boss Tips

Ingra Maloch

• Interrupt Spirit Bolt every time a non-tank player is targeted. Preferably right after Repulsive Visage when melee's are not in range and the team is vulnerable.
• Try to line up your cooldowns with Droman Oulfarran's Droman's Wrath to gain a huge DPS boost. This happens when Droman Oulfarran reaches 20% health.

Mistcaller

• Use Entangling Roots on the Illusionary Vulpins to prevent them from reaching their target if it spawns outside of melee. If it spawns in melee use Ursol's Vortex instead.
• Use your defensives during the Guessing Game.

Tred'ova

• Position yourself on the opposite side of the boss to your tank so he can break Mind Link quickly.
• Move as little as possible during Coalescing Poison as further casts copy your movement on previous dodges.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Spirit Bolt from Drust Harvester.
  • Harvest Essence from Drust Harvester.
  • Nourish the Forest from Mistveil Tender.
  • Bramblethorn Coat from Mistveil Shaper.
  • Stimulate Regeneration from Spinemaw Staghorn.
  • Stimulate Resistance from Spinemaw Staghorn.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Celestial Alignment before the dungeon starts and fish for a Umbral Embrace proc for the few seconds it's active but this is extremely niche min-max and Umbral Embrace only lasts 15 seconds.

Boss Tips

Blightbone

• Bear Form if you're targeted by Heaving Retch.
• Always use Ursol's Vortex and Typhoon on Carrion Worms.

Amarth, The Harvester

• Fear either the Reanimated Crossbowman or Reanimated Mage if you're not planning on killing them quickly.
• If any adds are still alive during Final Harvest, use Incapacitating Roar to crowd-control them. With them crowd-controlled, the boss doesn't cast Tortured Echoes even though an add is alive.
• Use the following defensive plan on the Final Harvest casts:

Nalthor the Rimebinder

• Try to save some offensive and defensive cooldowns for the Icebound Aegis if your group is struggling to survive it.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Drain Fluids from Corpse Harvester and Corpse Collector.
  • Necrotic Bolt from Zolramus Sorceror & Zolarmus Necromancer.
  • Rasping Scream from Skeletal Marauder.
  • Frostbolt Volley from Reanimted Mage.
  • Goresplatter from Corpse Collector.
  • Repair Flesh from Flesh Crafter.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Celestial Alignment before the dungeon starts and fish for a Umbral Embrace proc for the few seconds it's active but this is extremely niche minmax and Umbral Embrace only lasts 15 seconds.

Boss Tips

Chopper Redhook

• Line up your cooldowns with the boss walking over Bombs which afflict him with Heavy Ordnance.
• Pre-position behind bombs in case you get the boss-fixate so you don't risk dying from bad kiting. Their spawns are indicated by the hollow blue circles on the ground, not to be confused with the Cannon Barrage swirls that have a blue swirling animation inside them.

Dread Captain Lockwood

• Focus down the Ashvane Cannoneer during the phase change to quickly use Unstable Ordnance to get the boss down from the ship.
• Play far in range in case you get targeted by Fiery Ricochet so that it doesn't bounce to your team.

Hadal Darkfathom

• Avoid baiting Break Water in potential safe spots, generally smart to position towards corner angles of the room.

Viq'Goth

• You should try to shoot the cannonball after each phase as you have great mobility to get to the next platform and can survive decently on your own with Bear Form and Frenzied Regeneration.
• Use Barkskin if you're targeted by Putrid Waters, you can see them flying towards you from the boss before the debuff is applied.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Brackish Bolt from Irontide Waveshaper.
  • Watertight Shell from Irontide Waveshaper.
  • Water Bolt from Bilge Rat Tempest.
  • Choking Waters from Bilge Rat Tempest.
  • Bolstering Shout from Ashvane Commander.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Celestial Alignment before the dungeon starts and fish for a Umbral Embrace proc for the few seconds it's active but this is extremely niche minmax and Umbral Embrace only lasts 15 seconds.

Boss Tips

General Umbriss

• Use Barkskin before Commanding Roar.

Forgemaster Throngus

• Use Barkskin if you're afflicted by Molten Spark as this can overlap with Blistering Heat from Forge Weapon.

Drahga Shadowburner

• Use Barkskin during Twilight Buffet.
  • You can shapeshift to remove the Twilight Wind debuff that is applied by Twilight Buffet.
• Use Ursol's Vortex and Typhoon to prevent the adds from reaching their fixated target.
  • Typhoon should be up for every add wave.

Erudax, the Duke of Below

• Use defensives during Abyssal Corruption and Void Surge.

Trash Tips

• Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
  • Earth Bolt from Twilight Earthcaller.
  • Mass Tremor from Twilight Earthcaller.
  • Shadowflame Bolt from Twilight Beguiler.
  • Sear Mind from Twilight Beguiler.

Pre Dungeon Start

• You can use Celestial Alignment before the dungeon starts and fish for a Umbral Embrace proc for the few seconds it's active but this is extremely niche minmax and Umbral Embrace only lasts 15 seconds.

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