Balance Druid
Keeper of the Grove
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Balance Druid (Keeper of the Grove) deals 84% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 18 of 51) and 74% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 44 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 1.9% 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 | 246,629 | 83.5%−16.48% | 64.7%−35.26% | 90.2%−9.77% | 18 of 51 |
| Raid boss | 230,879 | 73.5%−26.46% | 59.8%−40.19% | 87.2%−12.78% | 44 of 51 |
What the assistant costs
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC
- Manual234.6Kreference
- SBA + cooldown209.8K89% of manual
- SBA alone170.3K73% of manual
- Assisted Highlight240.4K102% of manual
The assistant uses Moonfire 69% less.Moonfire: 38.7 casts in manual play (5.2% of its damage), 12 with SBA + cooldown. This is a real loss of the assistant: 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 a top Mythic+ player's build on murlok.io (only 10 timed +15 runs on Warcraft Logs, all with different builds) in M+, and the most common build of top Heroic Sszorak players on Warcraft Logs, but a weak pick: only 5 of 37 on this hero talent share it 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: +1.9% damage with SBA + cooldown over the real players' build.
Best of 10 builds tested with the button (the real players' and the top 10 Mythic+ players' on murlok.io, plus a talent search), 2026-11-07: #10 M+ player on murlok.io. 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 buttonRecommended209,808+1.9%
- The real players' build205,988
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Best raid talents for the button
For one-button play on a raid boss, import this build: +6.9% damage with SBA + cooldown over the real players' build.
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.
Talents changed: it drops Astral Communion, Convoke the Spirits, Rattle the Stars and takes Incarnation: Chosen of Elune, New Moon, Starweaver. Defensive talents stay: no build that drops one is offered. The search only counts damage, so check you can do without what it drops (a utility spell, for example).
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Where the damage comes from
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · Best talents for the button · data as of 2026-11-11 08:07 UTC
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 | 48.8K20.8% · 78.4 casts | 24.0K13.1% · 20.1 casts | −24.8K |
| Sunfire | 19.4K8.3% · 21.9 casts | 17.6K9.6% · 20.6 casts | −1,779 |
| Astral Smolder | 15.2K6.5% · 1292 casts | 13.6K7.5% · 1036.6 casts | −1,562 |
| Dream Burst | 12.2K5.2% · 17.1 casts | 12.3K6.7% · 18.7 casts | +129 |
| Wrath | 12.3K5.2% · 88.9 casts | 9,2775.1% · 76.1 casts | −2,974 |
| Moonfire | 12.2K5.2% · 38.7 casts | 3,5201.9% · 12 casts | −8,659 |
| Starfire | 8,5433.6% · 21.2 casts | 11.4K6.2% · 26.2 casts | +2,864 |
| Moonfire (Treants) | 9,0843.9% · 49.5 casts | 10.1K5.5% · 55.3 casts | +1,024 |
| Shooting Stars (Moonfire) | 9,7594.2% · 147.8 casts | 7,4564.1% · 103.4 casts | −2,303 |
| Shooting Stars (Sunfire) | 9,7244.1% · 145 casts | 8,4034.6% · 124.2 casts | −1,321 |
| Starsurge (Convoke) | 8,8723.8% · 12.9 casts | 3,2191.8% · 4.2 casts | −5,653 |
| Wrath (Umbral) | 7,6403.3% · 17 casts | 4,6742.6% · 10.1 casts | −2,966 |
| Starfall (Mid2 Driver) | 7,3293.1% · 78.4 casts | 4,1942.3% · 20.1 casts | −3,135 |
| Lunar Bolt | 6,4972.8% · 24.1 casts | 7,2744.0% · 24.7 casts | +777 |
| Starfire (Umbral) | 5,3042.3% · 4.2 casts | 7,1253.9% · 4.4 casts | +1,821 |
| Solar Bolt | 6,4202.7% · 12.5 casts | 4,7912.6% · 9.3 casts | −1,629 |
| Fey Missile | 5,3172.3% · 123.4 casts | 5,0072.7% · 119.9 casts | −310 |
| Melee | 4,7342.0% · 188.4 casts | 4,9652.7% · 203.6 casts | +231 |
| Sunseeker Mushroom | 3,5021.5% · 9.4 casts | 3,5521.9% · 9.8 casts | +50 |
| Starfall | 3,1941.4% | 2,9441.6% | −250 |
| Goldrinn's Fang | – | 2,9131.6% · 17.7 casts | +2,913 |
| Starsurge | 2,8211.2% · 75.4 casts | 2,2821.2% · 60.6 casts | −539 |
| Wrath (Convoke) | 2,5391.1% · 12.7 casts | 6130.3% · 3.1 casts | −1,926 |
 Void Eruption | 2,2921.0% · 36.2 casts | 2,2891.3% · 35.8 casts | −3 |
 Acidbrood Scourge | 2,0530.9% · 24.2 casts | 2,0291.1% · 23.8 casts | −24 |
| Wrath (Convoke Umbral) | 1,8600.8% · 3.4 casts | 4830.3% · 0.9 casts | −1,377 |
| Sundered Firmament | 1,8450.8% · 10.1 casts | 1,7481.0% · 8.6 casts | −97 |
| Fungal Growth | 1,4720.6% · 24.4 casts | 1,5860.9% · 25.5 casts | +114 |
 Rune of Unleashed Fire | 9900.4% · 54.7 casts | 9960.5% · 54.9 casts | +6 |
| Goldrinn's Fang | 9730.4% · 4.2 casts | 3270.2% · 1.4 casts | −646 |
| Moonfire (Convoke) | 6470.3% · 1.5 casts | 6270.3% · 1.4 casts | −20 |
| Starfall (Convoke) | 530.0% · 0.2 casts | 5920.3% · 1.4 casts | +539 |
| Full Moon | 5780.2% · 0.6 casts | 2150.1% · 0.2 casts | −363 |
 Rune of Lingering | 2990.1% · 54.7 casts | 2900.2% · 54.9 casts | −9 |
| Starfall (Convoke Mid2 Driver) | 290.0% · 0.2 casts | 1690.1% · 1.4 casts | +140 |
| Total | 234.4K | 182.6K | −51.8K |
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 (Keeper of the Grove)
What are the best Mythic+ talents for Balance Druid (Keeper of the Grove) with the one-button rotation?
The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant in Mythic+ deals 1.9% more damage with the button than SimulationCraft's build. It was the best of 10 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.
What are the best raid talents for Balance Druid (Keeper of the Grove) with the one-button rotation?
The best build we found for the Single-Button Assistant on a raid boss deals 6.9% more damage with the button than the raid build we used before. It comes from a talent search for the button on the raid boss, 4-piece set. Its talent string is on this page, ready to import.
How much DPS does Balance Druid (Keeper of the Grove) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Balance Druid (Keeper of the Grove) deals 84% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 18 of 51) and 74% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 44 of 51). In M+, the best build we found for the button deals 1.9% more than SimulationCraft's. These figures use real players' gear and build: SimulationCraft has no profile for this spec.
Related builds
Other hero talents of Balance Druid
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.