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Balance Druid: Reworked Dragonflight Talent Tree Reviewed - Big Improvement, Not Perfect
巨龙时代
由
tettles
发表于
2022/10/19,05:00
With the
design phase over and the tuning phase underway for Dragonflight Talent Trees
, our Balance Druid writer Tettles critically reviews the current state of the Balance Talent Tree as we near Pre-Patch. Join us as we discuss all the Talent changes for Balance in Dragonflight!
To learn about the best PvE talent builds in Dragonflight for this class, and export these builds into the game, please check out our Balance, Feral, Guardian, and Restoration Druid class guides:
Balance Druid Talent BuildsFeral Druid Talent BuildsGuardian Druid Talent BuildsRestoration Druid Talent Builds
Balance Druid Talent Revamp
Over the past few weeks Balance Druid has received a large amount of changes. From a massive overhaul to the spec tree, increase in cost of
星涌术
, to the stackable version of
星辰坠落
that everybody was requesting for ages. These changes have been met with largely positive feedback. A lot of the baggage that was present in Shadowlands and Battle for Azeroth has largely been removed.
The spec tree is not perfect, and it still is likely to see a decent amount of tuning. With this being the case, some stuff absolutely can change in the weeks and days following this as more information is learned, tuning occurs, and bugs are fixed. Sims are still very early in development and things can, and probably will, change drastically from week to week up until expansion launch.
There has been a decent amount of Raid Testing and M+ testing over the past few weeks, and I would highly encourage those who have access to the beta to go test out Balance for themselves. It is a fun spec and I am excited to play it in Dragonflight!
Tier Set
德鲁伊平衡职业套装两件套
-
星涌术
and
星辰坠落
increase the damage of your next
愤怒
or
星火术
by 20%, stacking up to 3 times.
德鲁伊平衡职业套装四件套
- When you enter
日月之蚀
, your next
星涌术
or
星辰坠落
costs no Astral Power and deals 35% increased damage.
The tier bonus implementation for the spec does not dramatically alter the playstyle of the spec, and it requires almost no intentional talent pathing to gain access to the tier set. It does add 2 procs that you need to manage that adds an extra level of management that moonkin has not seen in a while.The 2-set synergizes with nodes that are early on in the tree. The 2 nodes that the 2 set synergizes most with are
星影之拥
and
劲烈星影
. The 4 set synergizes quite well with
原始奥能脉冲星
,
织星者
, and
星辰轰鸣
. Even with the synergies it seems at the current time that the tier set itself will likely not impact your talent choices in any major capacity.
The 2-set at times can be kind of difficult to play around, particularly in AOE situations. Outside of the times it is a bit difficult, I rarely notice the 2-set in any capacity. The 4-set, however, is very enjoyable in my experience playing around it. Getting effectively a free
星辰坠落
that does big damage every time you enter Eclipse is a nice proc to manage.
Sample Raid Tree
There are a few ways that our Class Tree can go. A lot of individual defensive power is baked into
厚皮
and
精确本能
as some of the premiere individual defensive nodes. If you need less group utility or feel like you can skimp out in a few areas, then taking these nodes and going up the left side is really powerful. Generally,
狂奔怒吼
,
自然的守护
,
激活
, and being on the right side makes a lot more sense with some of the stuff that you are able to obtain. Ultimately it will come down to encounter dependencies as to what option you select between right and left, but both are fairly strong.
As for the spec tree in raid, per usual, is very subject to tuning of individual nodes. A lot of the selections here came down to individual power. The big points are
万灵之召
,
星辰轰鸣
, and
原始奥能脉冲星
as the primary 3 nodes that you play around in raid, and they are unsurprisingly the backbone of moonkin on Pure ST.
There are a lot of procs and buffs that playing around as a Balance Druid is very important to be successful in raid style encounters. First and foremost is
星辰轰鸣
. Rattle has somewhere around an 80% uptime in logs on Single Target encounters. This means that to make sure you are realizing the full potential you need to really manage high amounts of uptime with this talent. The
德鲁伊平衡职业套装两件套
and
德鲁伊平衡职业套装四件套
are both buffs as well that you need to focus on utilizing as they appear.
星辰耀斑
is back on the menu as well as a DOT effect that you need to make sure you are juggling in addition to your
月火术
and
阳炎术
.
This sample talent tree has a large amount of long term sustained Single Target damage. In addition to good single target damage, if there is a secondary target that is up for a decent length of time then Moonkin will be fairly potent as well. Additional targets that die pretty quick you are sad to see though as you would like a large amount of ramp time to apply dots and pump a lot of
星辰坠落
s.
Sample M+ Tree
The class tree for M+ is a bit more restrictive than the class tree for raid. With nodes such as
乌索尔旋风
,
强化阳炎术
, and
台风
being seen as near mandatory in almost every M+ dungeon, it is highly likely that you stick to a more right side focused class tree build.
迎头痛击
is not really much of an option to take out of the class tree as you have to pay a LOT of points in order to be able to obtain it. It would be nice to have, but the combination of it being two globals, hard to path to, and how much you give up to take it basically makes it out of the question for Balance.
The sample M+ tree is playing under the assumptions that
自然之力
and
日光术
are talents that you are going to want to select. These talents can be costly (particularly Solar Beam) in regards to per-point damage loss, but ultimately are very helpful in M+ scenarios.
First, yes
星辰耀斑
is likely a thing in M+ as of right now. The amount of damage it does, particularly on single target, coupled with the synergies from
坠星
+
偏轨星月
make it very strong. It likely will not come down to a question of "Should I talent Stellar Flare or not," but the question will rather be "When do I press Stellar Flare?" Right now it is very difficult to play with Flare on AOE, and I have found it quite annoying to get the hang of. It is something that comes with time and mob knowledge as to what targets to put it on in which situations. Generally you're looking for the mobs to live longer than 12s duration but the pull also needs to exceed ~30 seconds for it to be worth pressing. The priorities on Dotting, getting into eclipse, putting starfalls out, dropping mushrooms, and applying Stellar Flare is one that is not super clear at this time for M+.
化身:艾露恩之眷
,
月神的守护
, and
星辰轰鸣
are an interesting trio of nodes that you play in M+. They are all strong on both Single Target and AOE. The cost reduction, particularly when pressing
星辰坠落
is so nice and it allows for a lot of starfalls to be spammed for big damage.
野性蘑菇
in its current state does a large portion of your damage on AOE while generating massive amounts of Astral Power. This is one of my favorite buttons to press and the quick burst of 20 AP is never something to scoff at.
梦境住民
when paired with
法夜之友
is one of the better 2 node combos you can also get in M+. The fae guardians have something like an 80% uptime providing you 6% bonus damage over that duration. I'll never complain about seeing the fae guardians flying around with me for some extra RP points.
The Problems and Feedback
After covering some of the positives from the sample talent builds for both Raid and M+ lets talk about some of the problems that currently face the tree, and give a little feedback on some of the stuff that should be addressed.
Solar Beam
日光术
in its current placement is VERY difficult to take, and many people state it is the worst part of our kit right now. As it stands, it is locked behind 2-point nodes in
星影之拥
and
劲烈星影
. Whenever we talk about Solar Beam it is regularly discussed as a "3-point tax" as you are forced to path through one of two nodes that you seriously do not want to take. While this could be addressed in tuning, by buffing both of them almost mandatory status, it is just an issue of where Solar Beam is placed. The obvious solution is to just make Solar Beam baseline. There is just a fundamental issue when 36 of your 38 nodes are damage and you are being effectively forced to forego pretty large damage gains in order to take an interrupt.
Meanwhile we cannot reasonably take
迎头痛击
as being forced to use 2 GCDs and give up 5 points in the class tree is also a decision that cannot reasonably happen. As it currently stands players are hoping that a healer with a kick is meta so that you can potentially omit the requirement to play a kick in M+.
Stellar Flare in Dungeons
One of the changes to the Balance Druid talent tree a few weeks back added a lot more interconnectivity in the tree. This is ultimately a very positive change, and one of the things accompanying it was the separation of
双月
and
星辰耀斑
. As it currently stands Stellar Flare is tuned to a point to be taken in every situation in every form of content. It is not particularly a playstyle much of the community is fond of and likens it to "Affliction Druid."
I will say that it is not a playstyle that I prefer in M+ specifically, the decision making behind dotting with flare while having to maintain 3 DOTs on 4+ targets at times is cumbersome. When you have so many cool buttons to press on AOE such as
星辰坠落
,
野性蘑菇
, or
艾露恩之怒
feeling religated to juggling 3 DOTs on AOE is something better left for council style fights and single target bosses in raid. The issue is fundamentally that you get GCD locked so heavily at the start of pulls on AOE as is that needing to also hard cast flare on 4-20 mobs becomes incredibly overhwelming. You have to juggle: Applying Moonfire and Sunfire, Going into Eclipse, Using 4-set procs, Dropping Starfalls, Using Fury of Elune, Using Wild Mushrooms, AND THEN you Stellar Flare mobs. At that point you also have to Starfire to consume your 2-set as well and it just becomes an overwhelming mess a bit.
I have no clue how to fix the situation because a lot of it is that there are not many talents better than Flare, especially on AOE. Additionally Stellar Flare synergizes with
坠星
and
偏轨星月
which on Single Target feels great, but whenever you begin to feel forced to Stellar Flare on up to 20 targets if the duration permits you're running into issues.
Bugs
There have been a LOT of bug fixes over the past couple weeks with the spec. As we are getting closer and closer to release these bugs are still pretty worrisome. Members of the Dreamgrove have compiled
this
bug document that has most of the bugs currently affecting moonkin listed. 17 of our spells are still bugged in some capacity and if this could get fixed before pre-patch / launch that would be spectacular.
Conclusion
As I said in the beginning, I really have been enjoying the changes presented to moonkin. There was a lot of baggage from Shadowlands and BFA that has been removed, and I think the spec is in a much more fun direction. There are still some things that I hope get addressed before launch, and if that stuff gets changed the spec will be in a spectacular place.
Interested in playing Balance Druid now? Check our out live guide for this spec!
Balance Druid Guide
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