Druid in WoW Forever

The WoW Forever Druid trees at launch (Blizzard's Nov 2 notes): Genesis, Eclipse and Moonkin Form in Balance, Lacerate, Predatory Discipline and Primal Bite in Feral Combat, Bloom, Living Spirit and Wild Growth in Restoration. Values shown at max rank.

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Starter builds

Leveling

Feral cat leveling

Cat Form damage with Rend and Tear and Primal Bite for bear emergencies; Restoration for Strength and faster heals.

Split 0 / 31 / 20 · level-by-level order →

Endgame

Restoration healer

Swiftmend, Bloom, Nature's Swiftness and Wild Growth; Balance for Genesis and longer HoTs.

Split 16 / 0 / 35 · level-by-level order →

Endgame

Bear tank

Feral Instinct, Thick Hide, Lacerate and Natural Reaction for threat and survival; Restoration for Heart of the Wild, Naturalist and Gift of Nature. Opinion build, not benchmarked.

Split 0 / 31 / 20 · level-by-level order →

Endgame

Balance (Moonkin)

Moonfury, Vengeance and Starfire for big Arcane and Nature crits, ending in Moonkin Form; Nature's Focus from Restoration.

Split 46 / 0 / 5 · level-by-level order →

Best race for each Druid spec

Top-scoring race from our racial scores: Horde first, Alliance below. Open the race picker for the full ranking and why.

Spec	Leveling	Dungeons & raids	PvP
Bear tank	Tauren High Order Skyborne	Tauren High Order Skyborne	Tauren Night Elf
Cat DPS	Windshaper Skyborne High Order Skyborne	Windshaper Skyborne High Order Skyborne	Tauren Night Elf
Balance	Windshaper Skyborne High Order Skyborne	Windshaper Skyborne High Order Skyborne	Tauren Night Elf
Restoration healer	Windshaper Skyborne High Order Skyborne	Windshaper Skyborne High Order Skyborne	Tauren Night Elf

Druid talents changed for launch

Talent	Tree	Now
Genesis	Balance	Your periodic damage and healing are up to 10% stronger (2% per rank).
Moonkin Form	Balance	Same form, but the +3% crit aura now covers every type of critical strike.
Furor	Feral Combat	Same effect. Moved to Feral row 1, column 3 in the Oct 30 hotfix.
Predatory Strikes	Feral Combat	Same effect. Moved to column 1 in the Oct 30 hotfix.
Lacerate	Feral Combat	New in this slot in the Oct 30 hotfix: a bleed for 20 damage over 15 sec plus 10% weapon damage per application, stacking 5 times. Higher spell ranks at 34, 42, 50 and 58.
Predatory Discipline	Feral Combat	New in the Oct 30 hotfix: Ferocious Bite no longer spends extra Energy but still deals its extra damage. Tooltip not yet translated in game.
Leader of the Pack	Feral Combat	Same aura, but the +3% now covers every type of critical strike.
Rend and Tear	Feral Combat	You deal up to 15% more damage (3% per rank) to bleeding targets. Moved to column 1.
Natural Reaction	Feral Combat	Same effect. Moved to column 4 in the Oct 30 hotfix.
Primal Bite	Feral Combat	Moved to row 7 (level 40) in the Oct 30 hotfix, replacing Berserk: 100% weapon damage plus 42 (later ranks 62 / 77), 20 Rage, 6 sec cooldown. Now 3 spell ranks.
Shifting Power	Feral Combat	Moved to row 7 in the Oct 30 hotfix with an 8 sec cooldown (was 16). Improved Shifting Power was removed.
Heart of the Wild	Restoration	Same effect. Moved to Restoration row 1, column 3 in the Oct 30 hotfix, with no requirement.
Naturalist	Restoration	Healing Touch and Wild Growth cast up to 0.5 sec faster, and all your damage is up to 10% higher (2% per rank).
Reflection	Restoration	Same effect. Moved up to row 2 in the Oct 30 hotfix.
Subtlety	Restoration	Same effect. Moved down to row 3 in the Oct 30 hotfix.
Bloom	Restoration	New in the Oct 30 hotfix, replacing Gift of the Earthmother: when your Rejuvenation or Regrowth ends, the target is healed for 100% of your Spirit (50% if dispelled). Tooltip not yet translated in game.
Swiftmend	Restoration	Consumes your own Rejuvenation or Regrowth on an ally to heal them for its full periodic amount – someone else's no longer counts. 20% of base mana, 40 yd, 15 sec cooldown.
Wild Growth	Restoration	Now a 3 sec cast (was instant), 2.5 sec with Naturalist. Heals the target and its party for 336 over 7 sec. 550 mana, 40 yd, 6 sec cooldown.