A Look Back at Balance Druid in Dragonflight & War Within Wishlist - Editorial
With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Balance Druid Writer, Tettles, offers a retrospective highlighting Balance's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.
Dragonflight Retrospectives & War Within Wishlists
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Balance Druid Retrospective & War Within Wishlist
Dragonflight
Balance Druid has had an interesting journey over the course of Dragonflight. At the beginning of the expansion the spec tree was incredibly different. You were locked into one specific build for raid and a slightly different build for M+. There was also a major dilemma of not being able to take Solar Beam without incurring a 6%-10% damage loss. Whenever 10.0.5 hit we got a rework of the spec tree. This allowed for far more diverse builds just as a whole. Even with this being the case, there are still a few issues that I would like addressed heading into 11.0.
Tuning wise, Balance has been one of the best M+ DPS for the entire expansion. The very strong sustained AOE while losing minimal amounts of Single Target due to talent changes is incredibly nice. On top of that, the spec is largely plug and play with few requirements of being catered to or played around pull wise. Cooldowns in M+ have largely been non-relevant for Balance the entire expansion as Incarnation: Chosen of Elune is
