[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.

Moonkin Druid guide Part 3 – Talents

The Druid Main has posted part 3 of their Moonkin class overview, The Ways of the Talon, with this guide to Balance Druid Talents. Instead of listing a specific talent spec to take, they go through each Talent and list its function and importance.

WoW Patch 3.2 Moonkin Druid leveling guide

Lissanna at Restokin updates her Balance Druid leveling guide to take into account the changes that hit with Patch 3.2. She focuses on what Talents to take as you level.

Innervate changes mean less mana regen talents for Moonkin?

With the recent changes to Innervate, a reader at Moonkin.info questions the need to spend talent points on other mana regen talents. Macbook looks into the answer.

Tips for improving your Moonkin DPS in raids

Macbook at Moonkin.info lists several helpful tips for Moonkin to increase their raid DPS, He links to the build, glyphs and spell rotations you could follow, then reveals tips to push it even further.

3.1 Moonkin build for better mana regen

Macbook at Moonkin.info is finding his mana running low on certain Ulduar-10 encounters. He has tweaked his Balance Druid build for better mana regen, but still maintain high DPS output.

TalentChic lists the most popular Druid specs on the Armory

TalentChic polls the Armory and then lists Druid specs by popularity with links to the WoWHead Talent calculator for specifics. It’s current with Patch 3.1 and can be used to get an idea of what others are doing. For guides to major specs, check the Recommendations links in the sidebar here.

Restokin builds for Restoration Moonkin hybrids

Lissanna at the Restokin blog posts some possible Restokin builds for those druids looking for healing and DPS all in one spec. Builds range from heavy healing with extra dps to traditional Dreamstate high man regen configuratoions.

Moonkin 3.1 build with Improved Faerie Fire

Macbook at Moonkin.info posts his revised Patch 3.1 Balance Druid talent build. He makes an argument for taking Improved Faerie Fire over Gale Winds. Check it out for the whole story as well as the proposed build.

Resto Raid Healing and Moonkin AOE specs for 3.1

Niniel of the Swiftmend druid blog posts the dual spec she’ll be trying out now that Patch 3.1 has gone live. For her Resto Tree spec, she has chosen a build that she hopes works for primarily single tank raid healing. For her alt spec, she’s gong with an AOE Boomkin spec that forgoes +hit.

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