Newish to WoW classic and used to retail version gearing wise. Wanted to try something different instead of typical resto/feral approach. Problem is idk how to gear in terms of classic and Balance spec/tree due to everything mainly being cloth gear with +int.
So i was wondering do we basically just use w.e. gear provides +int and +spirit for now disregarding the added armor from leather? I am only lvl 17 haven’t really found much int gear yet so just been using Leather agility gear or w.e. gear has given me more stats in general.
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Yes, basically. Get leather with caster stats where you can, but otherwise grab cloth. You’ll be wearing a lot of cloth.
wowhead.com has guides on all classes and setups
You want gear with natures wrath in the name for +nature damage, the person who made the pre-bis raid list on wowhead is a moron. Grab anything with +spell damage and +nature damage.
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Checked wowhead it only gives pre bia lisr and a lot of negative comments about the author.
Something about nature dmg gear as the other poster stated but im hust concerned about gearing as of not since a lot of my gear is just leather with agility.
Balance druid is +spelldamage > + nature damage / + arcane damage > intellect > mp5 > spirit right now.
+spell damage can be thought of us as double effectiveness of +nature or + arcane.
+nature is typically best for stand still fights.
+arcane damage is typically best for high movement fights.
+nature damage is better for multi-dot because sunfire is stronger than moonfire in this phase and slightly cheaper to cast.
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all i can say is if u want to be a caster dps in sod look elsewhere besides druid. infact dont play druid at all. they are sadly underpowered in regular classic and sod really didnt help them at all. druids are basically regulated in sod to being either a motw buff bot or wildstrikes(wind fury) buff bot for melee(sometimes both). our damage in either spec is laughable and priest far out shines us in healing
Hey this is completely untrue. SoD made balance not only viable but a strong caster.
hahahahahaha
good one
if you enjoy being bottom dps. whatever floats ur boat
Here are statistics for BFD
DPS Damage Statistics - Blackfathom Deeps | Warcraft Logs Vanilla
You can see balance druid is almost on par with mage. Keep in mind that mage parses can be inflated with arcane explosion on adds while balance has to tab target sunfire one by one.
Theres also a substantial amount more of players playing mage. So they have more data to go on. Imagine what this chart would look like if we added another 30,000+ balance parses
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so your evidence for saying druid is a strong viable caster is to show that they parse 10th place out of 14?
im glad you arent my lawyer…
I’m saying that in order for balance to be a “bad caster” you would had to also say that mage is a bad caster and I don’t see you doing that.
Check out this log of akumai:
Damage Done - Aku’mai Normal Kill (7:06 PM) - Report: Protect lumber 2 | Warcraft Logs Vanilla
See how I do more damage than our mage on the boss? He has the epic staff from kelriss and I out dps him single target. He only beats me with add damage.
and there is a big reason for that. mages can actually aoe. balance druids cant.
try again.
ah yes. one log proves it
Try again what? I’ve proven my point. Balance druid is a good single target caster. And that’s just this phase. When balance gets access to aoe we’ll see what changes on that front but either way balance is a strong caster right now.
While you’re still leveling grab some (not tons) of spirit. The way mana regens when you haven’t cast a spell in 5 seconds is actually based on mana use, so the chest rune for free wrath spells lets you spam cast it while your mana climbs back up.
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This made perfect sense, I would listen to them 
Feral on the other hand is awful
If you think they wont make a rune that makes hurricane good/OP you are smoking something buddy.
Thanks for the chart link. I wonder if the time period covered before the change to starsurge - which makes balance great fun to play.
The other feature of balance in raids in that wrath spam when necessary both allows mana regen and can proc an instant healing touch. It’s also easy in caster form to switch to healing if necessary.
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Druids are trash so far
Pvp we literally have to spam sunfire and run in circles
Pve is so easy you can clear it naked so that really doesn’t matter
Mages can literally AOE farm dungeons for gold rn