Balance Druid

Elune's Chosen

Not supported in this fight ⓘ

With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Balance Druid (Elune's Chosen) deals 82% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 25 of 51) and 84% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 19 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 4.0% more than SimulationCraft's. These figures use real players' gear and build: SimulationCraft has no profile for this spec.

At a glance

4-piece set · a real player's talents · share of manual DPS kept

Fight	Manual DPS	SBA + cooldown	SBA alone	Assisted Highlight	Rank (SBA + cooldown)
M+ dungeon	277,322	82.2%−17.81%	63.9%−36.12%	91.5%−8.53%	25 of 51
Raid boss	238,785	84.3%−15.74%	61.9%−38.05%	92.2%−7.75%	19 of 51

Against real +15 players

Real dungeons · data from 7 Nov 2026

+4%damage with the button and cooldowns, simulated on real +15 routes, against typical Balance Druid (Elune's Chosen) players, from 792 real runs. With our button talents. With the talents most players use: +1%. Less certain: the simulator does not match real players well for this spec. This spec is not ranked in SimulationCraft's generic M+ fight above, which it does not support; the real routes use another fight style that it does support.

All specs against real players, and how it is measured

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What the assistant costs

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

85%of manual DPS with SBA + cooldown. SBA alone reaches 68%, Assisted Highlight 94%.

Manual279.7Kreference
SBA + cooldown237.1K85% of manual
SBA alone190.3K68% of manual
Assisted Highlight262.8K94% of manual

SimulationCraft does not support this fight for Balance Druid.Its own report says results for this spec in the M+ dungeon are inaccurate and should not be used, so the build is not ranked there. The raid boss figures are not affected.

The assistant uses Starfall 73% less.Starfall: 85.8 casts in manual play (20.4% of its damage), 22.8 with SBA + cooldown. This is a real loss of the assistant: the figure stands.

The assistant keeps casting Starsurge.Starsurge: 0 casts in manual play, 64 with SBA + cooldown. Each extra cast takes a global cooldown from something that does more damage: the figure stands.

Best Mythic+ talents for the button

SimulationCraft has no profile for this spec, so these figures use the median gear of real +15 players, raised to SimulationCraft's item level (338.6), with the most common build in timed +15 runs on Warcraft Logs (151 of 1,276 runs) in M+, and the most common build of top Heroic Sszorak players on Warcraft Logs (16 of 63 on this hero talent) on the raid boss. SimulationCraft's built-in Balance rotation has no list for several targets, only single-target ones, so perfect play may be understated in Mythic+.

For one-button play in M+, import this build: +4.0% damage with SBA + cooldown over the real players' build.

Best of 2 builds tested with the button (the real players' and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io, plus a talent search), 2026-11-07: a talent search for the button, one talent swap at a time from the best of those builds. SimulationCraft does not support the M+ fight for this spec, so treat it as a rough guide.

One-button damage (SBA + cooldown DPS), M+ dungeon, 4-piece

Best M+ build for the buttonRecommended237,146+4.0%
The real players' build227,935

Best M+ build for the button: talent string Recommended for one-button

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The real players' build: talent string

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In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it. The best build we found for the button. Every figure on this page uses it.

Best raid talents for the button

The real players' build is already the best we found for one-button play on a raid boss.

Talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set (2026-11-10): it starts from the real players' build, tries every legal single talent swap, keeps the ones that add damage and repeats, never touching a defensive talent; a build wins only when it beats the real players' build by more than 0.2 %. Perfect manual play keeps the real players' build, so the Ranking compares the button on its best talents with the best manual build.

The real players' build (best on the raid boss for the button): talent string Recommended for one-button

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In game, open the talent window, choose Import and paste it.

Where the damage comes from

M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC

Compare manual play with

Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.

Ability	Manual	SBA + cooldown	SBA + cooldown vs manual
Starfall	57.0K20.4% · 85.8 casts	27.6K11.6% · 22.8 casts	−29.4K
Starfire	34.2K12.2% · 89.1 casts	28.1K11.8% · 77.4 casts	−6,066
Starsurge	–	33.9K14.2% · 64 casts	+33.9K
Moonfire	32.4K11.6% · 34.1 casts	16.9K7.1% · 20.8 casts	−15.5K
Starfire (Umbral)	22.2K7.9% · 18.6 casts	17.0K7.2% · 13.4 casts	−5,176
Astral Smolder	19.6K7.0% · 1712.4 casts	16.3K6.9% · 1197.3 casts	−3,311
Sunfire	18.8K6.7% · 21.5 casts	16.6K7.0% · 20.6 casts	−2,231
Fury of Elune	13.1K4.7% · 15.1 casts	12.7K5.4% · 13.3 casts	−374
Lunar Bolt	10.6K3.8% · 48 casts	8,9653.8% · 43.7 casts	−1,684
Shooting Stars (Moonfire)	10.5K3.7% · 154.5 casts	7,3483.1% · 110.7 casts	−3,137
Shooting Stars (Sunfire)	10.1K3.6% · 147.9 casts	8,5243.6% · 130.8 casts	−1,592
Starsurge (Cascade)	7,8822.8% · 32.3 casts	6,2772.6% · 27.3 casts	−1,605
Starfall (Mid2 Driver)	7,7792.8% · 85.8 casts	4,2801.8% · 22.8 casts	−3,499
Fey Missile	5,6912.0% · 120.4 casts	5,3692.3% · 118.9 casts	−322
Orbit Breaker	4,4881.6% · 8 casts	3,5801.5% · 6.9 casts	−908
Boundless Moonlight	4,4131.6% · 14.9 casts	3,7561.6% · 13.1 casts	−657
Sunseeker Mushroom	3,4461.2% · 9.5 casts	3,5241.5% · 9.8 casts	+78
The Light of Elune	3,4481.2% · 8.7 casts	3,2791.4% · 8.5 casts	−169
Boundless Moonlight	2,6881.0% · 8.7 casts	2,6281.1% · 8.5 casts	−60
Solar Bolt	2,3360.8% · 4.4 casts	2,1730.9% · 4.5 casts	−163
Void Eruption	2,2720.8% · 35.7 casts	2,2731.0% · 35.7 casts	+1
Minor Moon	2,0450.7% · 16.1 casts	1,6810.7% · 13.7 casts	−364
Acidbrood Scourge	2,0420.7% · 23.9 casts	2,0400.9% · 23.8 casts	−2
Fungal Growth	1,4490.5% · 24.8 casts	1,4710.6% · 25.9 casts	+22
Rune of Unleashed Fire	9930.4% · 55 casts	9950.4% · 55.1 casts	+2
Rune of Lingering	3040.1% · 55 casts	3020.1% · 55.1 casts	−2
Total	279.9K	237.6K	−42.2K

A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.

Questions about Balance Druid (Elune's Chosen)

What are the best Mythic+ talents for Balance Druid (Elune's Chosen) with the one-button rotation?

The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant in Mythic+ deals 4.0% more damage with the button than SimulationCraft's build. It was the best of 2 builds tested (SimulationCraft's and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io), plus a talent search for the button. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import. The raid build is searched separately.

How much DPS does Balance Druid (Elune's Chosen) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?

Related builds

Other hero talents of Balance Druid

Balance Druid · Keeper of the GroveM+ −16.48% · raid −26.46%

Other Druid specs

DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking

How it's measured, and its limits

SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route.
Best talents for the button: of SimulationCraft's build, the top 10 Mythic+ players' builds on murlok.io and a talent search for the button, the one that deals the most with SBA + cooldown in the M+ dungeon. Gear and rotation are unchanged.
SimulationCraft ships no profile for some hero talents (9 here). Those use SimulationCraft's gear with a top player's build: a top Mythic+ player's build on murlok.io in M+, and on the raid boss the most played build in top raid kills on Warcraft Logs when there are any, otherwise SimulationCraft's raid talents with that Mythic+ build's hero talents (or the Mythic+ build itself where it deals more). No talent search for the button has been run for them yet.
SimulationCraft ships no profile at all for Devastation Evoker and Balance Druid. Those use the median gear of real +15 players, raised to the item level of SimulationCraft's profiles, with the build most real players use (or a top player's build where too few play that hero talent), and a talent search for the button.

Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.