[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.

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 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.

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.

Moonkin Druid guide Part 4 – Gear and Stats

The Druid Main blog continues their Balance Druid overview series, this time going over what stats affect your performance the most and what stats you should look for when choosing gear.

Druid idol guide for all specs for WoW Patch 3.2

The Altosis Druid blog posts a round up of Druid idols for all specs current up to WoW Patch 3.2. He gives recommendations for each and shows you how you can acquire the high end ones without raiding.

Advice on building multiple gear sets

As the Druid Main blog points out, we Druids have to carry different sets of gear for our different specs. They give advice on how to put those sets together with the assets you have.

When to use the new 4T8 proc in the Eclipse cycle

Relevart at the Druid Reliquary did teh mathz on the best time to use the new 4T8 proc during both the Solar and Lunar eclipse spell rotations. There is a tldr version at the bottom of the post if you want to skip all the numbers.

Moonkin raid gear set bonuses analyzed

Graylo at the Gray Matter Moonkin blog analyzes the DPS increase behind the raid set bonuses for 4T7, 2T8 and 4T8. He gives a recommendation on when to break the old set bonuses and move on to the new ones.

DPS increase of revised Moonkin T8 4 set bonus analyzed

Relevart at the Druid Reliquary did teh mathz on Ghostcrawler’s announced change to the T8 4 set bonus for Moonkin and came out with a rough DPS increase that will result.

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