[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.

The Haste cap explained for Moonkin

Graylo at the Gray Matter Moonkin blog explains how the Haste mechanic currently works for Balance Druids in Wrath. He also explains how it applies to gemming for Moonkin.

Balance Moonkin and Resto Tree Druid gems by stat

Delos at the Laser Chicken Moonkin blog has listed all the spellcaster gems available to Moonkin and Resto Druids by stat. So if you’re trying to find the right Mp5, +hit or +spell gem check out his post.

Balance Moonkin and Resto Tree Druid gems by color

The Laser Chicken blog is trying to get the right gem colors socketed for the Head slot metagem requirement. So they have made a list of all spellcaster gems categorized by color current to patch 3.0.9.

Gemming and Enchants for Balance Moonkin Druids

Macbook at Moonkin.info has listed stat priorities for Balance Moonkin Druids and then lists gems and enchants you can do to hit those goals.

Video: How to raid as a Moonkin part two

Foofy at Foofy’s CupCake Factory has part two of her video series explaning the basic of Moonkin raiding. In this one she covers glyphs, rotations and gemming.

Spell Power vs Haste explored for Moonkin

Grey Matter looks at the Spell Power vs. Haste debate and how it has changed for Balance specced Druid since the Wrath launch. He covers which stat is best for gear, enchants, gemming and food. As usual, there are lots of mathz, but a handy TLDR wrap up at the end for those of us who just want the bottom line.

Moonkin Head meta-gemming debate

Graylo at Gray Matter takes slight umbrage with Allison Robert’s pre-Naxx Moonkin Gear Guide. Specifically with her head slot gem choices. He goes into detail why including lots of math and, fortunately, a TLDR version of his argument at the end of his entry as well.