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Balance · Feral Combat · Restoration — 52 talents. Roles: Tank; Healer; Melee DPS; Ranged DPS. Hover, focus or tap a talent for its tooltip; click to spend a point. Rows unlock after 5 points per row in that tree.
Official The Sept 24 beta patch renamed Mangle to Primal Bite (debuff removed) and Primal Fury back to Blood Frenzy; Rejuvenation, Tranquility and Wild Growth can now crit. This reference shows the knowledge-base names; the Skyborne Druid guide trees use the patched ones. See the Skyborne Druid build planner →
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Tree positions come from BlizzCon-demo transcriptions cross-checked across community talent sites; each talent's own page lists its sources and how sure its row and column are. Icons © Blizzard Entertainment, from Wowhead's icon CDN.
Every talent, tree by tree
Balance17 talents · 51 ranks
| Row/Col | Talent | Ranks | Effect | vs Classic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/2 | 5 | Reduces the cast time of your Wrath spell by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 sec and its Mana cost by 10/20/30/40/50%. | Reworked Reported | |
| 1/3 | 5 | Increases the periodic damage and healing done by your spells and abilities by 1/2/3/4/5%. | New Confirmed | |
| 2/1 | 3 | Reduces the Mana cost of your spells by 3/6/9%. | Moved Reported | |
| 2/2 | 2 | Increases the damage and critical strike chance of your Moonfire spell by 5/10%. | Reworked Reported | |
| 2/3 | 2 | Increases your critical strike chance with spells and melee attacks by 2/4%. | New Reported | |
| 2/4 | 2 | Increases the range of your offensive Balance spells by 10/20% and increases the chance for all your spells to hit by 2/4%. | Reworked Reported | |
| 3/1 | 3 | Increases the damage done by your Entangling Roots spell by 25/50/75%, and its victims can take up to 25/50/75% more damage before the effect breaks. | Reworked Reported | |
| 3/3 | Requires Nature's Majesty | 1 | Increases the duration of your Moonfire and Rejuvenation spells by 3 sec, your Regrowth spell by 6 sec, and your Insect Swarm spell by 2 sec. | New Reported |
| 3/4 | 5 | Each time you cast a Nature spell, your next Arcane damage spell within 10 sec deals 1/2/3/4/5% increased damage; each Arcane spell cast likewise increases your next Nature damage spell. | New Confirmed | |
| 4/1 | 1 | 45 Mana, 30 yd, instant. The enemy target is swarmed by insects, decreasing their chance to hit by 2% and causing 55 Nature damage over 12 sec (rank visible in level-38 demo). | Moved Reported | |
| 4/2 | Requires Improved Moonfire | 5 | Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Arcane and Nature spells by 20/40/60/80/100%. | Reworked Reported |
| 4/3 | 5 | Reduces the cast time of Starfire by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 sec and gives Starfire a 3/6/9/12/15% chance to stun the target for 3 sec. | Unchanged Reported | |
| 5/1 | 2 | Increases the maximum number of targets you may have affected by Entangling Roots by 1/2. | New Reported | |
| 5/2 | 1 | All non-periodic spell critical strikes grace you with a blessing of nature, increasing your spellcasting speed by 10% and reducing your global cooldown by 10% for 3 sec. | Reworked Confirmed | |
| 5/3 | 3 | Your Wrath spell reduces the cast time of your next 2 Starfire spells by 0.17/0.33/0.5 sec. Stores up to 4 charges. Lasts 15 sec. | New Confirmed | |
| 6/2 | 5 | Increases the damage done by your Arcane and Nature spells by 1/2/3/4/5%. | Reworked Reported | |
| 7/2 | 1 | Transforms the Druid into Moonkin Form. While in this form the armor contribution from items is increased by 360%, and all party members within 45 yards have their critical strike chance increased by 3% (all spell and ability types). Does not stack with Leader of the Pack. | Reworked Confirmed |
Feral Combat19 talents · 51 ranks
| Row/Col | Talent | Ranks | Effect | vs Classic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/2 | 5 | Reduces the cost of your Maul, Mangle, Swipe, Claw, and Rake abilities by 1/2/3/4/5 Rage or Energy. | Reworked Reported | |
| 1/3 | 5 | Increases your Intellect by 2/4/6/8/10%. In addition, while in Bear or Dire Bear Form your Stamina is increased by 4/8/12/16/20%, and while in Cat Form your Strength is increased by 2/4/6/8/10%. | Moved Reported | |
| 2/1 | 2 | Increases your movement speed while in Cat Form by 15/30%, and increases your chance to Dodge by 2/4%. | Reworked Reported | |
| 2/2 | 3 | Increases damage done by your Swipe ability by 10/20/30% and reduces the chance enemies have to detect you while Prowling. | Reworked Reported | |
| 2/3 | 2 | Increases the stun duration of your Bash and Pounce abilities by 0.5/1 sec and reduces the cooldown of Bash by 15/30 sec. | Reworked Reported | |
| 2/4 | 3 | While in Bear Form, Cat Form, Dire Bear Form, or Moonkin Form, you gain 1/2/3 additional base Armor per level (plus additional armor scaling with Defense). | Reworked Reported | |
| 3/2 | 2 | Increases the damage caused by your Claw, Rake, Shred, Maul, and Swipe abilities by 5/10%. | Moved Reported | |
| 3/3 | 1 | 5 Rage, 8-25 yd, instant, 15 sec cooldown. Bear/Dire Bear: charge an enemy, immobilizing them and interrupting any spell being cast for 4 sec. Cat: leap behind the enemy, Dazing them for 3 sec. | Reworked Reported | |
| 3/4 | 2 | Increases your critical strike chance while in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Cat Form by 3/6%. | Reworked Reported | |
| 4/1 | 3 | Reduces the Energy cost of your Shred ability by 6/12/18 and reduces the Rage cost of your Lacerate ability by 1/2/3. | Reworked Reported | |
| 4/2 | Requires Savage Fury | 1 | 20 Rage, melee range, instant, 6 sec cooldown. Requires Bear or Dire Bear Form. Mangle the target for 100% normal damage plus 26. | New Confirmed |
| 4/3 | 3 | Increases your melee Attack Power in Cat, Bear, and Dire Bear Forms by 50/100/150% of your level. | Unchanged Reported | |
| 4/4 | Requires Sharpened Claws | 2 | Gives you a 50/100% chance to gain an additional 5 Rage any time you get a critical strike while in Bear or Dire Bear Form, and your critical strikes from Cat Form abilities that add combo points have a 50/100% chance to add an additional combo point. | Reworked Reported |
| 5/1 | 2 | Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your melee abilities by 10/20%. | New Confirmed | |
| 5/2 | 1 | While in Cat Form, Bear Form, or Dire Bear Form, the Leader of the Pack increases the critical strike chance of all party members within 45 yards by 3%. Does not stack with Moonkin Form's aura. | Moved Confirmed | |
| 5/4 | 3 | Tiger's Fury now instantly grants you 20/40/60 Energy. | New Confirmed | |
| 6/1 | 5 | Requires Bear or Dire Bear Form. Increases your dodge chance by 1/2/3/4/5%, and gives you a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to gain 5 Rage each time you dodge. | New Reported | |
| 6/3 | Requires Predatory Strikes | 5 | Increases damage done by your melee abilities on Bleeding targets by 2/4/6/8/10%. | New Confirmed |
| 7/2 | Requires Leader of the Pack | 1 | Instant, 3 min cooldown, lasts 15 sec. Bear: your Mangle strikes up to 3 targets and has no cooldown. Cat: increases the critical strike chance of your Combo Point-generating abilities by 100%. Clears Fear effects and makes you immune to Fear for the duration. | New Confirmed |
Restoration16 talents · 51 ranks
| Row/Col | Talent | Ranks | Effect | vs Classic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/2 | 5 | Gives you a 14/28/42/56/70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting Arcane and Nature spells. | Reworked Reported | |
| 1/3 | 5 | Gives you a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to gain 10 Rage when you shapeshift into Bear or Dire Bear Form. Shifting into Cat Form restores 20-100% of the Energy you had when you left Cat Form plus 2-10 Energy per second spent out of Cat Form (up to 20-100). | Reworked Confirmed | |
| 2/1 | 5 | Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 sec and increases all damage you deal by 1/2/3/4/5%. | Reworked Reported | |
| 2/2 | 3 | Reduces the threat generated by your Nature and Arcane spells by 10/20/30%. | Reworked Confirmed | |
| 2/3 | 3 | Reduces the mana cost of all shapeshifting by 10/20/30%. | Moved Reported | |
| 3/2 | 3 | Allows 17% (rank 1) of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting; higher ranks not transcribed (Wrath equivalent: 17/33/50%). | Reworked Confirmed | |
| 3/3 | 5 | Increases the effect of all your healing spells by 2/4/6/8/10%. | Moved Reported | |
| 3/4 | 1 | Reduces the global cooldown by 0.5 seconds on your Rejuvenation, Swiftmend, and Wild Growth spells. | New Confirmed | |
| 4/2 | 5 | Reduces the mana cost of your Healing Touch and Tranquility spells by 2/4/6/8/10%. | Unchanged Reported | |
| 4/3 | 3 | Increases the effect of your Rejuvenation spell by 5/10/15%. | Unchanged Reported | |
| 4/4 | 1 | Instantly heals a target with an active Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect for an amount equal to the full duration of one spell's periodic effect. No longer consumes the heal-over-time. 15 sec cooldown. | Reworked Confirmed | |
| 5/1 | Requires Naturalist | 1 | Instant, 3 min cooldown. When activated, your next Nature spell becomes an instant cast spell. | Unchanged Reported |
| 5/2 | 3 | Increases your Spirit by 5/10/15%. | New Reported | |
| 5/4 | 2 | Reduces threat caused by Tranquility by 50/100% and its cooldown by 30% (rank 1; rank 2 cooldown value not transcribed). | Reworked Reported | |
| 6/3 | Requires Improved Rejuvenation | 5 | Increases the critical effect chance of your Regrowth spell by 10/20/30/40/50%. | Unchanged Reported |
| 7/2 | Requires Living Spirit | 1 | 550 Mana, 40 yd, instant, 6 sec cooldown. Heals the target and their party for 285 over 7 sec (rank visible in demo). Party members must be within 43 yards of the target. | New Confirmed |
Builds in the knowledge base
Feral with Restoration support (Furor/Naturalist) 0/38/13
Endgame Feral (cat-leaning) theorycraft
Feral with Balance support 9/38/4
Endgame Feral theorycraft
Balance Eclipse (level 30 beta) unknown
Leveling/early Balance theorycraft; no point distribution shown
Removed talents and baseline changes
Classic talents that are no longer in these trees, and baseline changes that affect them.
| Talent | Tree | Change | Detail | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improved Mark of the Wild | Restoration | Removed/Made baseline | Removed from talents; made baseline for Druids (Classic Resto 1/2, 5 ranks). | Official |
| Omen of Clarity | Balance | Removed/Made baseline | Removed from talents; now a baseline passive that also procs from heals and offensive spells, not just melee (Classic Balance 3/3). | Confirmed |
| Nature's Grasp | Balance | Removed/Made baseline | Removed from talents; baseline trainable spell (Rank 4 seen at level 38; 1 charge) (Classic Balance 1/2). | Reported |
| Improved Nature's Grasp | Balance | Removed/Made baseline | Removed (not in Forever tree) (Classic Balance 1/3). | Reported |
| Natural Weapons | Balance | Removed/Made baseline | Removed (not in Forever tree); a general damage bonus now sits on Naturalist (Classic Balance 2/3). | Reported |
| Improved Thorns | Balance | Removed/Made baseline | Removed (not in Forever tree) (Classic Balance 3/1). | Reported |
| Feral Aggression | Feral Combat | Removed/Made baseline | Removed (not in Forever tree) (Classic Feral 1/3). | Reported |
| Blood Frenzy | Feral Combat | Removed/Made baseline | Removed as a separate talent; its Cat combo-point effect is merged into Primal Fury (Classic Feral 4/3). | Reported |
| Faerie Fire (Feral) | Feral Combat | Removed/Made baseline | Removed from talent tree (Classic Feral 5/3). Whether it became baseline is not stated by any source. | Reported |
| Improved Enrage | Restoration | Removed/Made baseline | Removed (Classic Resto 2/3); baseline Enrage now grants 10 Rage instantly plus 20 over 10 sec. | Reported |
| Improved Shred | Feral Combat | Removed/Made baseline | Renamed/reworked into Shredding Attacks (3 ranks, also affects Lacerate). | Reported |
| Improved Healing Touch | Restoration | Removed/Made baseline | Renamed/reworked into Naturalist (adds all-damage bonus). | Reported |
| Feline Swiftness | Feral Combat | Removed/Made baseline | Renamed/reworked into Feral Swiftness (moved to tier 2). | Reported |
| Improved Mark of the Wild (baseline) | Baseline change | Blizzard: 'talents that granted key class buffs—such as Divine Spirit, Blessing of Kings, and Improved Mark of the Wild—are now baseline for their classes.' | Official | |
| Talent tree structure | Baseline change | Blizzard: 'familiar structure, the same number of rows, and one-point milestone talents at 11, 21, and 31 points, now joined by a new 16-point milestone.' Druid 16-point talents per community data: Insect Swarm (Balance), Mangle (Feral), Swiftmend (Restoration). | Official | |
| Combined hit and crit | Baseline change | Blizzard: 'Spell, melee, and ranged hit chance are combined, as are spell, melee, and ranged critical chance.' | Official | |
| Bonus healing grants bonus damage | Baseline change | Blizzard: 'Bonus healing now also includes one third as much bonus damage.' | Official | |
| Periodic effects can crit | Baseline change | All DoTs (and HoTs) can critically strike. Given in the task brief as part of the Blizzard recap, but the phrase was not found in the fetched recap text; reported by Icy Veins. | Reported | |
| Revive | Baseline change | New out-of-combat resurrection spell ('Returns the spirit to the body, restoring a dead target to life. Cannot be cast when in combat.'); Rank 3 known at level 38 in demo. Wowhead icon for the spell: ability_druid_lunarguidance. | Confirmed | |
| Omen of Clarity (baseline passive) | Baseline change | 'Your spells and attacks have a chance to grant you Clearcasting, reducing the Mana, Rage, or Energy cost of your next damage or healing spell or offensive ability by 100%.' Works on offensive spells, heals and melee. | Confirmed | |
| Lacerate | Baseline change | Learned from trainer; Bear ability that applies a stacking bleed (up to 5) with extra threat. | Confirmed | |
| Tiger's Fury | Baseline change | Now a 15% Physical damage increase for 6 sec on a 30 sec cooldown, no Energy cost; single rank. | Reported | |
| Swiftmend rework | Baseline change | No longer consumes the HoT it feeds from; 15 sec cooldown; now a 16-point talent. | Confirmed | |
| Furor / powershifting | Baseline change | Furor reworked so that powershifting into Cat Form no longer yields extra Energy. | Confirmed | |
| Moonkin / Leader of the Pack auras | Baseline change | Moonkin Form aura now grants crit to all spell and ability types and is mutually exclusive with Leader of the Pack. | Reported | |
| Nature's Grasp (baseline) | Baseline change | Trainable spell (Rank 4 at level 38): 'The next 1 melee attack that strikes the caster will afflict the attacker with Entangling Roots.' | Reported | |
| Enrage | Baseline change | 'Instantly generates 10 Rage and another 20 Rage over 10 sec.' | Reported | |
| Cure Poison removed | Baseline change | Not in level-38 demo spellbook; Abolish Poison available instead. | Reported | |
| Feral weapon damage scaling | Baseline change | Cat and Bear attacks now benefit from equipped weapon damage. | Reported | |
| Polearms | Baseline change | Druids can use Polearms. | Reported | |
| Skyborne druid forms | Baseline change | Skyborne (new race, both factions) can be Druids with new forms: bird-bear hybrid Bear Form, owlcat-like Cat Form, bird Travel Form. | Confirmed |
