[Balance] Starfall and Nature’s Grasp buffs on Patch 3.3.3 PTR

Tyler Caraway aka Murmurs has posted an analysis of the new Starfall and Nature's Grasp buffs that just landed on the Patch 3.3.3 PTR. The buff to Starfall is quite massive and the buff to Nature's Grasp is functional, but nothing to write home about. Check out Tyler's article for an in-depth look at both.

[Balance] The basics of Balance for beginners

Tyler Caraway of WoW.com covers basic play for the Moonkin Druid spec. His Balance 101 piece covers pros and cons of the class, stats, talents and leveling, spell rotations, gems, enchants and glyphs. This is an excellent primer for any Druid playing Balance for the first time.

Best DPS spell rotation for Moonkin

Graylo of the Gray Matter balance druid blog has a great post up on spell choices for the best Moonkin dps output. He dismisses the old idea of spell rotation and explains the current concept of spell priority.

Restoration and Moonkin Druid gear from Icecrown: Crimson Halls

Lissanna at Restokin has a list of caster druid gear from the newly released Crimson Halls raid zone. She breaks it down by haste/spirit, haste/crit and crit gear from The Blood Princes and Blood Queen Lana'thel.

WoW Patch 3.3 Moonkin spell rotation, glyphs and AddOns

Altosis is the Druid Officer in his guild and has compiled a list of basics for raiding Balance Moonkin recruits. It covers spell rotation for maximum dps, idols, glyphs, consumables and AddOns. Current for Icecrown Patch 3.3.

WoW Balance Moonkin Druid 4t9 set vs 2t10 bonus

The Random Moonkin Generator blog looks into the dps increase of the Tier 9 4 set bonus vs. the Tier 10 Lasherweave 2 set bonus. They offer advice on whether or not it's worth it to break the T9 bonus for the T10 bonus.

How to use Power Auras addon instead of Squawk And Awe

Many Balance Moonkin Druids have come to rely on the Squawk And Awe Addon to track their cooldowns (specifically for Eclipse), but the Druid Reliquary offers a guide to using Power Auras addon to accomplish the same thing.

Resto Druid and Balance Moonkin gear stat guide

With the advent of dual specs, many of us are looking at leather drops and trying to figure out which spec it's good for. Lissanna at the Restokin blog goes through the major stats on druid spellcaster gear and points out what to look for in terms of hit, haste, intellect, spellpower, etc.

WoW Patch 3.3 Icecrown Frozen Halls guide for all Druid Specs

Allison Robert at WoW.com has devoted this week's Shifting Perspectives druid column to playing well in PuGs and also druid strats for the Icecrown 5-man Frozen Halls instances. She covers tactics for Feral Bear Tanks, Feral Cat druids, Balance Moonkin and Resto Trees for Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron and Halls of Reflection.

WoW Patch 3.3 Icecrown notes for Druids

Druids

• Prowl: This ability no longer has multiple ranks and penalizes movement speed by 30%.
• Rebirth: The cooldown on this spell has been lowered from 20 minutes down to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
• Rejuvenation: The base duration on all ranks of this spell is now 15 seconds.
• Tranquility: The cooldown on this spell has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.
• Talents
  • Balance
    • Eclipse: This effect will not activate again within 15 seconds of either type of Eclipse effect firing, in addition to the existing 30-second cooldown for each type of Eclipse. In addition, Eclipse now grants a 40% critical strike chance to Starfire and 40% increased damage to Wrath, up from 30%.
    • Force of Nature: Health on the treants has been increased.
  • Feral Combat
    • Predatory Strikes: The Predatory Swiftness buff from this talent now has an 8-second duration.
  • Restoration
    • Gift of the Earthmother: Redesigned. This talent now increases spell haste by 2/4/6/8/10% and reduces the base global cooldown of Lifebloom by 2/4/6/8/10% instead of its previous effects.
• Pets
  • Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.
• Glyph of Rapid Rejuvenation: This glyph allows for the druid’s haste to reduce the time between the periodic healing effects of Rejuvenation.

Bug Fixes

• Glyph of Hurricane: Now modifies the spell tooltip on Hurricane to indicate the spell also applies a movement slowing effect.
• Hurricane: When cast from Bear Form, Cat Form, or Dire Bear Form, this spell will now channel properly instead of stopping the channel as soon as the shapeshift is cancelled.
• Infected Wounds: This ability is no longer considered to be in the magical defense category; therefore spell hit no longer applies to its activation. Tooltip error corrected.
• Nature's Grace: The tooltip now correctly indicates that it will not be activated from periodic spell critical strikes.
• Swipe (Bear): Tooltip corrected to display 8 yard range.
• Rejuvenation: Druids will no longer get a more powerful spell error message when attempting to overwrite a Rejuvenation they cast.

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