Preserving the Core, Unleashing the Power
The Druid is the ultimate hybrid, a master of shapeshifting, capable of filling any role. Our design philosophy honors this flexibility while addressing long-standing issues. We aim to make every specialization—Balance, Feral, and Restoration—not just viable, but desirable and deeply engaging, fulfilling the promise of a true master of the wild.
Balance
Target DPS Buff: +16-20%
The sage of sun and stars, commanding celestial fury. No longer will the Moonkin be shackled by a thirst for mana; they will be a relentless torrent of arcane and nature power.
Core Fixes 🔧
Dreamstate and Moonglow are merged into a single, potent talent: 'Lunar Guidance,' providing significant mana regeneration and cost reduction. No more gasping for mana mid-fight.
A simple, low-RNG version of Eclipse is introduced. Casting Starfire or Wrath consecutively empowers the opposite spell, adding a dynamic rhythm to the rotation.
Power Infusions ✨
An instant-cast, high-damage Arcane spell on a short cooldown. It generates 100% threat reduction for the Druid, allowing them to unleash their power without fear.
A powerful channeled AoE spell that calls down a shower of stars, giving Balance Druids a much-needed tool for multi-target encounters.
A frontal cone spell that knocks back enemies and dazes them, providing invaluable utility and control in dungeons and raids.
The Moonkin aura is enhanced to provide a 3% spell haste buff to the entire raid, solidifying their role as essential caster support.
Your periodic damage effects generate an Anointment. Re-applying the DoT erupts the Anointment, healing you for 20% of your max Mana and 5% of your HP.
Feral 🐾
Target DPS Buff (Cat): +0-4%
The primeval shapeshifter, seamlessly adapting between tenacious bear and savage cat. We sharpen both claw and hide, making Feral a master of its chosen form.
Guardian (Bear) Enhancements 🐻
A new baseline Bear ability that deals initial physical damage and applies a bleed to all nearby enemies, generating significant multi-target threat on a short cooldown.
A powerful new talent granting a 50% damage reduction cooldown with two charges. This provides the crucial defensive button Bears need to survive the heaviest blows.
Guardian's Burden: While in Bear Form, 3% of all damage taken by party members within 20 yards is redirected to you (mitigated by armor). This effect does not generate threat and is inactive while under crowd control.
Activating Frenzied Regeneration also grants all nearby allies 10% reduced damage taken for 8 seconds.
Critical strikes in Bear Form have a 20% chance to apply Convergence to yourself and a random ally, granting 5% damage reduction for 6 seconds.
Predator (Cat) Enhancements 😼
The clunky "powershifting" rotation is smoothed out. Shifting into Cat Form now instantly grants 20 energy, making the opener fluid and less punishing.
A new finishing move talent that consumes combo points to grant a 30% physical damage buff. This adds a layer of skilled management to the DPS rotation, rewarding proactive players.
Predator's Rhythm: While in Cat Form, bleed effects from all party members within 45 yards deal 5% increased damage to your targets.
Finishing moves grant a stacking 1.5% physical damage buff for 10 seconds, rewarding sustained combat.
Critical strikes in Cat Form have a 20% chance to apply Convergence to yourself and a random ally, granting 5% increased damage for 6 seconds.
Restoration 🌱
The nurturing guardian of life, cultivating a garden of healing energies. We empower their ability to react to sudden danger, making them masters of both sustained and burst healing.
Core Fixes & Buffs 🌿
Swiftmend's global cooldown is reduced, allowing for quicker reactions. The final bloom from Lifebloom is increased, rewarding the spec's core HoT-stacking gameplay.
This capstone cooldown is reworked into a temporary transformation that makes Healing Touch instant and reduces mana costs, providing a massive healing surge when needed most.
Talents like 'Intensity' and 'Empowered Rejuvenation' have their effects increased, boosting overall healing throughput and mana efficiency from critical heals.
Power Infusions ✨
A new talent that unleashes a powerful "smart" heal, healing up to 5 of the most injured allies over time. This gives Restoration the group-wide burst heal they desperately needed.
Critical heals from Regrowth and Healing Touch now spawn a patch of healing flora at the target's location, healing nearby allies for a percentage of the initial heal over 6 seconds.
A powerful external defensive cooldown that reduces a friendly target's damage taken by 20% and increases healing received from your HoTs by 30% for 12 seconds.
When your Rejuvenation expires, you and that ally gain Symbiosis, increasing healing done to each other by 10% for 10 seconds.
Wild Growth now also applies a Lingering Bloom HoT on the lowest-health ally in range, healing for 40% of a Wild Growth tick over 8 seconds.