Balance Druid Mythic+ Build & Gear Guide in Midnight Season 2

Spec Popularity

Overall Played: 12.1%
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Best Team Comps

groups
Blood
+2
Alternatives
Protection 1%
Protection 2%
Guardian 1%
+2 rarer (<1%)
Holy
Alternatives
Restoration 1%
+5 rarer (<1%)
Balance
+9
Alternatives
Subtlety 2%
Demonology 8%
Retribution 8%
Devourer 3%
Windwalker 3%
Shadow 2%
Fury 2%
Frost 2%
Feral 1%
Beast Mastery 1%
+14 rarer (<1%)
Beast Mastery
+6
Alternatives
Demonology 5%
Unholy 2%
Subtlety 1%
Retribution 4%
Devourer 3%
Windwalker 1%
Shadow 2%
+16 rarer (<1%)
Elemental
+7
Alternatives
Arcane 6%
Windwalker 1%
Demonology 3%
Assassination 1%
Havoc 1%
Retribution 3%
Shadow 1%
Devourer 1%
+17 rarer (<1%)
5.4% of Runs 86% Timed Highest Key: +21
Protection
+3
Alternatives
Vengeance 2%
Guardian 2%
Brewmaster 1%
Protection 1%
+1 rarer (<1%)
Holy
+3
Alternatives
Discipline 1%
Preservation 1%
Mistweaver 3%
Restoration 1%
+3 rarer (<1%)
Arcane
+1
Alternatives
Elemental 3%
Beast Mastery 3%
+25 rarer (<1%)
Arms
+9
Alternatives
Windwalker 1%
Elemental 5%
Retribution 4%
Havoc 3%
Enhancement 1%
Devourer 3%
Unholy 2%
Frost 1%
Beast Mastery 4%
Shadow 1%
+16 rarer (<1%)
Balance
+13
Alternatives
Havoc 3%
Destruction 1%
Retribution 8%
Unholy 4%
Devourer 3%
Windwalker 3%
Enhancement 2%
Frost 2%
Subtlety 2%
Feral 1%
Marksmanship 1%
Shadow 2%
Affliction 1%
Arcane 1%
+12 rarer (<1%)
4.4% of Runs 87% Timed Highest Key: +21

Highest Run

+21 Murder Row US
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Talents

Most Balance Druid players build into the Elune's Chosen hero tree. The pick that shifts the most in an individual dungeon is Stellar Amplification, which far more players run in Kings' Rest than anywhere else. Open Talents per Dungeon to see every swap like this. The build list holds the complete builds players run. Click one to see it on the tree.

Builds on Elune's Chosen
Overview Pick rate of every talent
Standard build SIM 77% +21 60% 2 flexible
Alternative 1 <1% +19 12% Stellar Amplification Meteorites Sundered Firmament Sunseeker Mushroom Elune's Guidance 5 flexible
Alternative 2 9% +20 12% Stellar Amplification Meteorites Denizen of the Dream Starweaver Sunseeker Mushroom Nature's Grace Elune's Guidance 4 flexible
Other builds: 16% of runs, each too rare to list
Overview Pick rate of every talent
Stat Priority

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Stat priority is the order in which Balance Druid players value their secondary stats, based on what the highest-key players actually carry on their gear. Most prioritize Mastery, followed by Haste, Crit and Versatility. Intellect is your main stat and comes mostly from item level, so a higher-item-level piece is almost always an upgrade. Use this order as a guide when choosing between similar items, gems and enchants, not as a hard rule.

1 Intellect icon
Intellect
3.2 K
then
2 Mastery icon
Mastery
1 K · 23.5%
then
3 Haste icon
Haste
948 · 21.8%
then
4 Crit icon
Crit
765 · 21.8%
then
5 Versatility icon
Versatility
165 · 3.1%
Tertiary Priority
1 Avoidance icon
Avoidance
156 · 4.2%
then
2 Lifesteal icon
Lifesteal
59 · <1%
then
3 Speed icon
Speed
30
Top Consumables

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The flask, potion, food, weapon enchant and augment rune most used by high-key Balance Druid players, from recorded Mythic+ runs.

Gear Overview

This section lists the gear that Balance Druid players equip most often in those high keys, broken down slot by slot. For each slot the most popular item is shown first with its alternatives underneath, and the percentage next to each item tells you how common that choice is. New tier pieces and legendaries of the current season are listed first and marked New, even while few players run them yet. It is a snapshot of what is being played, not a guaranteed upgrade for your character, so always simulate your own character before committing to gear changes. You can do that with Raidbots Top Gear.

Item
Popularity

SIM

Gaze of the Coiled Watcher

The Venomous Abyss Haste

11 %

+21

1 %

+18

Amulet of the Twin Fangs

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Haste

3 %

+19

1 %

+19

Sentinel's Vitriolic Chain

The Venomous Abyss Haste Crit

1 %

+18

5 %

+21

Frothing Venom Spaulders

The Venomous Abyss Crit Mastery

3 %

+20

Silken Voodoo Drape

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Haste

15 %

+21
SIM

12 %

+20

Adherent's Silken Shroud

Crafted Mastery Haste

12 %

+21

3 %

+19

1 %

+19

Amani Summoning Shawl

The Venomous Abyss Crit Versatility

1 %

+19

1 %

+20

Vestment of the Awakening

The Venomous Abyss Haste Mastery

2 %

+20

Silvermoon Agent's Coat

Crafted Mastery Haste

2 %

+20

Restless Spirit Shackles

The Venomous Abyss Crit Haste

9 %

+20

2 %

+20
Item
Popularity

9 %

+21

Ruthless Slaughtergrips

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Crit

4 %

+20

SIM

Sash of the Forlorn Vessel

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Haste

19 %

+21

15 %

+20

Gravitic Girdle

Voidscar Arena Versatility Mastery

4 %

+20

Slitherscale Girdle

The Venomous Abyss

3 %

+21

4 %

+21

Coiled Hex Legguards

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Haste

3 %

+20

Bespittled Slitherslippers

The Venomous Abyss Crit Haste

11 %

+20
SIM

9 %

+20

Breakwater Boots

The Tidebound Grotto Haste Versatility

6 %

+21

3 %

+20

1 %

+19

SIM

Vile Alchemist's Band

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Crit

21 %

+21

11 %

+21

4 %

+20

Hex Loop

Mastery Crit

3 %

+19

Colubrine Band

Haste Mastery

3 %

+20

Vile Alchemist's Band

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Crit

20 %

+21
SIM

11 %

+21

4 %

+20

Hex Loop

Mastery Crit

3 %

+19

Colubrine Band

Haste Mastery

3 %

+20
Weapon

Aln'hara Cane

Crafted Mastery Haste

29 %

+21

Magister's Ritual Knife

Crafted Mastery Haste

5 %

+19

Malevolent Spiritcudgel

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Crit

4 %

+19

Spine of the Hissing Abyss

The Venomous Abyss Mastery Haste

4 %

+21

Frostscale's Mystic Frond

The Tidebound Grotto Crit Mastery

3 %

+20
Enchants, Gems & Crafting

Expand any panel below for the finer gear choices Balance Druid players make in these high keys. It covers the enchants and gems they run in each slot, the embellishments and missives on their crafted gear, and the combinations they pair together. Each list is ordered by how common the choice is among the sampled characters, over the same rolling two-week window as the gear above.

5x Bark of the Enigmatic Dreamwatcher

32 %

+21
4x Bark of the Enigmatic Dreamwatcher

22 %

+21
4x Bark of the Enigmatic Dreamwatcher
SIM

14 %

+21
4x Bark of the Enigmatic Dreamwatcher

13 %

+21
4x Bark of the Enigmatic Dreamwatcher

11 %

+21
4x Bark of the Enigmatic Dreamwatcher

8 %

+20
Consumables

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Every flask, potion, food, weapon enchant and augment rune seen on sampled high-key players, ranked by how many ran it. Percentages are the share within each category.

How this data is collected

Every talent, stat and gear number on this page is drawn from real Mythic+ runs recorded this season, so it shows what players actually do rather than theory. To keep the picture focused on how Balance Druid is played at the highest level, only the hardest keys are counted. For each dungeon we look up the highest keystone level anyone has completed, across every class and spec, and then include every run from there down to 5 levels below it, giving the 6 highest key levels of that dungeon. The hardest key completed anywhere this season so far is a +23 in Den of Nalorakk, so there every run of +18 and above is counted. Each dungeon uses its own top key, so a quieter one keeps a lower band. In Voidscar Arena, for example, the hardest key so far is a +22, so its runs start from +17 instead. The sample keeps refreshing as new high keys are posted, so the numbers track how the spec is being played right now rather than averaging the whole season. On top of that, the talent, gear and stat breakdowns are built from a rolling window of roughly the last two weeks, so they stay in step with recent tuning and meta shifts. Run totals and key levels still cover the full season.