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Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druid PvE Guide For Mythic+

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Balance Druid
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Keeper Of The Grove
The War Within Season 1
Based on 50 Characters
From 3223 to 3454 Rating

Welcome to Murlok.io's PvE guide for Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druids in Mythic+ Dungeons. This guide covers the best stats, races, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems for Patch 11.0.5, based on data from the top 50 Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druids in The War Within Season 1 across the US, EU, KR, and TW regions. This includes Dorkibear (Sargeras US) , who is currently the highest-ranked with a rating of 3454.

Updated every 12 hours with the latest data from the Battle.net API , this guide also examines each character's recent playtime, specialization frequency, and equipment choices for greater accuracy.

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Stat Priority

Stats are crucial attributes that influence a character's power in World of Warcraft. They determine the character's strength and overall playstyle. Stat bonuses can be found on various equipment pieces, consumables created by Alchemy, certain foods, some enchantments, and gems.

Each stat experiences diminishing returns once its equipped bonus reaches +20%. Optimizing a character's performance involves finding a balanced distribution. Here is the optimal way to balance Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druid secondary and minor stats for Mythic+:

Secondary Stats

+4470
11% Critical Strike
+13868
21% Haste
+17940
17% Mastery
+2239
3% Versatility
  1. Mastery
  2. Haste
  3. Critical Strike
  4. Versatility

Minor Stats

+2157
4% Avoidance
+484
0% Leech
+248
1% Speed
  1. Avoidance
  2. Leech
  3. Speed

Class Talents

Talents are the main element defining a character's build, significantly influencing playstyle by adding, modifying, and enhancing abilities and behaviors. They are crucial in shaping how a character functions in battle.

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Druid specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Druid class. They offer a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Druid's overall capabilities. The following tree reproduces the in-game class talents disposition as a heatmap. Each color represents the usage frequency and general recommendation level of the talents:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druids with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. The following tree reproduces the in-game specialization talents disposition and shows the best talents as a heatmap:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow deeper customization of the Balance Druid class fantasy, enhancing character builds. The following trees show the Keeper Of The Grove and Elune's Chosen hero talents as a heatmap, highlighting the most effective choices:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Best In Slot Gear

Gear consists of items that directly determine a character's power level. It can be acquired from various sources: dungeons, raids, world drops, crafted through professions, obtained from PvP vendors, or chosen as rewards from the Great Vault.

Each piece of gear significantly boosts a character's overall strength and capabilities. Here are the top items for Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druids in Mythic+, tailored for each equipment slot:

Embellishments

Embellishments are unique effects associated with crafted items, either as predefined elements in a recipe or added with an optional embellishment reagent, creating embellished gear. These enhancements diversify and amplify characters' capabilities.

Given that only a maximum of two embellished items can be equipped at a time, here are the best embellishments for Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druids in Mythic+:

  1. Vagabond's Bounding Baton icon
    Ascendance
    36
  2. Rune-Branded Waistband icon
    Writhing Armor Banding
    33
  3. Rune-Branded Armbands icon
    Duskthread Lining
    19
  4. Consecrated Cloak icon
    Dawnthread Lining
    6
  5. Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship icon
    Elemental Focusing Lens
    5

Enchantments

Enchantments provide minor yet valuable enhancements to various items, including Back, Chest, Wrist, Legs, Rings, Feet, Main Hand, and Off Hand.

Most enchantments are crafted via the Enchanting profession. However, Legs enhancements are crafted by Leatherworkers.

Enchantments are usually available at the auction house, making them accessible for upgrades. Here is a list of the top enchantments for Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druids in Mythic+, essential for optimizing combat effectiveness:

Gems

Gems are crafted stones from the Jewelcrafting profession that provide stat bonuses to improve gear and fine-tune character stats. These gems can be socketed into various item slots, including Head, Neck, Wrist, Waist, and Rings.

While the availability of sockets on these items is generally random when they drop, Head, Wrist, and Waist items can have a single socket added using the Nerubian Gemweaver , which costs 6 Algari Token of Merit obtained from the Great Vault.

Additionally, for non-PvP Neck and Rings items, sockets can be added with the Magnificent Jeweler's Setting . This item, crafted by Jewelcrafters, can increase the number of sockets to 2 for Neck and Rings slots.

Available through both the auction house and the crafting order system, the following are the top gem choices for Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druids in Mythic+:

  1. Quick Onyx icon
    Quick Onyx
    173
  2. Versatile Onyx icon
    Versatile Onyx
    39
  3. Culminating Blasphemite icon
    Culminating Blasphemite
    37
  4. Masterful Emerald icon
    Masterful Emerald
    31
  5. Deadly Onyx icon
    Deadly Onyx
    30

Races

Each race in World of Warcraft has unique traits that enhance abilities or improve in-game quality of life. Although these racial traits offer minor advantages, they can provide a competitive edge in certain scenarios.

With Night Elf currently being the top race for Keeper Of The Grove Balance Druids in Mythic+, here are the other races that also stand out due to their advantageous traits:

  1. Night Elf icon
    Night Elf
    46
  2. Troll icon
    Troll
    3
  3. Tauren icon
    Tauren
    1