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Balance Druid 10.1 Compendium

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Changelog 1. News: 10.1 News In the above link you will find a summary of the changes in Patch 10.1 including new talents, fixes, and balance changes that have been implemented in the latest patch along with some thoughts about the effect on gameplay. 2.Rotation: Precasting Precasting: Cast Wrath twice Cast Stellar Flare Cast Starfire if Stellar Flare is not talented. If you have to stand close enough so that Starfire will finish casting long after the boss is pulled, cast another Wrath instead.
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Balance Druid Raidbots Guide

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1. Introduction: Welcome to the Balance Druid Raidbots Guide. This guide assumes you have zero experience with sims or programming in any way shape or form, so stuff that might seem very basic will also be found here. The information in this documentation is mainly directed towards Balance Druids and not other specs. Please listen to the guide writers that play those specs in what should be followed and what not, as some options that might be accurate for some might not be for others.
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Balance Druid 10.1 News

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News: Summary of changes 2023-05-06 Patch notes can be found here https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/class-tuning-incoming-%E2%80%93-may-9/1582712/1 Wrath Astral Power generation reduced to 8 (was 10). Wrath damage decreased by 5%. Solar Eclipse now increases Wrath damage by 40% (was 20%). Soul of the Forest now increases Wrath’s Astral Power generation while in Solar Eclipse by 60% (was 30%). All of these changes are fine, on Single Target we will always enter Solar Eclipse because of it, it does have a side-effect on AoE.
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Moonkin Feedback - Shadowlands Beta

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This is an article made to give feedback on Moonkins current state in the Shadowlands Beta. It also serves to educate people on many of the common problems Moonkin suffers from currently in Shadowlands. If you disagree with anything said in this article that is completely ok and you should voice your feedback on the forums or anywhere else regardless. All numbers mentioned are backed up using sims found at https://www.
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How to get the help you need, not the help you want

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Over the course of the last two and a half years, I have been asking and answering questions over discord, private messages, and forums. With tens of thousands of messages on both sides of the fence, I have come to be very knowledgeable of my class and look to share that knowledge with others but sometimes it can be difficult to judge the level of player and what they need if they are not asking the correct questions.
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Balance 8.2 Update

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While Moonkin hasn’t received any direct changes in 8.2, there are many things being added to the game that change what you need to know if you wish to keep your character up to date. This 8.2 Guide is going to go over Essences, Professions, Consumables, Trinkets, and Azerite. This includes sims for everything, but be sure to sim your own character for full accuracy. Essences Our best major Essences likely will be Vision of Perfection, Condensed Life-Force and Conflict and Strife (situationally).
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Balance Raiding Guide

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Introduction Progressing new fights and instances is something that many high-end raiders take for granted. Progressing a new encounter outside top 10 world is just problem solving issues that you know the answer to. In this article, we are going to address everything that can be done to best prepare for progress and how to simplify raid encounters as much as possible. This is meant for players that are already familiar with their class as playing without high class knowledge will hinder your progress and your parties progress.
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Balance 8.1 Changes

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Patch 8.1 is coming and with it Balance will see some changes to our Traits, Stats and Talents which I will go over. Traits and Stats: Mastery increased baseline from 11% to 12%, and Starsurge/Solar Wrath now scale fully at that percentage. Overall buff 4-6%, Mastery should now sim roughly equal to other stats. Great change now Mastery is not a dead stat and gearing becomes basically ilvl over all.
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Balance BFA FAQ

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Does ______ trait stack? Yes. The flat damage portions of traits stack like the moonfire increase for potm or streaking. The % chances to proc on others does not. Starlord Optimization? Don’t worry about it too much, just don’t spend astral power with 4 secs left. Optimal Opener: Starting at -2s before pull -> wrath, wrath, dot, dot, wrath to ~40 astral power, CA/Incarn, FoN/FoE/WoE, regular rotation.
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