Balance Druid Levelling Build (Level 10-60) — WoW Forever Talents & Order

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The Balance Druid, from level 10 to 60

From level 10 to level 60 you place 51 talent points, one per level. This levelling order starts with Improved Wrath, then puts five points in Genesis and three in Moonglow before taking Insect Swarm at level 25. Eclipse is completed at level 34, Vengeance at level 39 and Moonkin Form arrives at level 40; the last twenty levels fill Improved Starfire, Moonfury, Nature’s Focus and Naturalist.

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In total 41 points go into Balance and 10 points go into Restoration.

Talent calculator and levelling order

The calculator below loads the level 60 build with its levelling order. The « Levelling order » panel lists the 51 points, level by level; « Replay » replays the climb, and the slider steps forward or back one point at a time.

Talent calculator

Talents and levelling order taken from the Method.gg levelling guide.

Talents by level range

  • Levels 10 to 19 : Improved Wrath ×2, Genesis ×5, Moonglow ×3
  • Levels 20 to 29 : Nature’s Reach ×2, Nature’s Majesty ×2, Nature’s Splendor, Insect Swarm, Improved Moonfire ×2, Improved Entangling Roots ×2
  • Levels 30 to 39 : Improved Entangling Roots, Nature’s Grace, Eclipse ×3, Vengeance ×5
  • Levels 40 to 49 : Moonkin Form, Improved Starfire ×5, Moonfury ×4
  • Levels 50 to 60 : Balance — Moonfury ; Restoration — Nature’s Focus ×5, Naturalist ×5

At level 60, switch builds

This build is for levelling, not for playing at max level. Once you reach level 60, respec with our end-game Balance Druid build.

The camp: the rested XP bonus you should never skip

Always level with a camp. The Basic Campfire Kit only needs Cooking 1, so anyone can set it up: it builds a campfire that cooks food and holds up to 3 camp features around it. A character who sits or crafts near the fire for a minute gets the effects of those features.

For levelling, the one to place is the Camp Tent: it gives characters sitting nearby 5% of a level in rested experience, unless their reserve already exceeds that. It needs a campfire close by, and all camp effects share a one-hour cooldown.

So set up the fire and the tent at the start of every session, again once the hour is up, and think of it before you log out. The tent is crafted with Leatherworking 20: if that is not your profession, ask a leatherworker in your guild for one. The other camp features of each profession are detailed in the camp section of our professions by class article.

Recommended professions for the Druid

Two combos work for levelling this spec: each pairs a crafting profession with the gathering profession that feeds it. Every name opens its full guide.

Pick ONE combo, not two crafting professions. You get two main professions: while levelling, give them to one crafting profession and the gathering profession that feeds it. With two crafting professions you would have to buy every material, and you would struggle to level them.

Combo 1 · our pick

LeatherworkingCrafting · read the guide →

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SkinningGathering · read the guide →

The 4 crafted pieces of our selection are split between leather and Tailoring. Skinning supplies the leather, from the beasts you kill while levelling.

Combo 2

TailoringCrafting · read the guide →

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HerbalismGathering · read the guide →

Tailoring makes the other half of the pieces of our selection. Cloth drops from the humanoids you kill, so the second slot goes to Herbalism, whose herbs sell to alchemists.

On top, at no cost: the secondary professions do not take a main slot. Cooking 1 sets up the camp fire, First Aid makes bandages between fights.

These picks also aim at level 60 before the raids; the class-by-class detail is in our professions by class article.

Going further

See also our Feral Druid, Restoration Druid and Guardian Druid pages to compare the class trees, and all the WoW Forever builds on the section hub.