Blizzard,
I can’t take it anymore. I just can’t. Slogging uphill with a ton of bricks on my back feels better than playing balance currently. I feel like playing my chosen class is literally a handicap. It should never be that way.
I have had great experiences playing a warlock, Elemental, Arcane or Frost mage, even Shadow Priest. I played a delve as a Demo Lock and I breezed through it. It felt amazing! So smooth! Almost effortless!
But then I get back on my main- my Balance Druid- and it feels completely different. SO SLOW! SO CLUNKY! So HARD! Content that I breezed through effortlessly on a class with 20+ Ilvl LOWER gear is like trying to wade through mud mixed with molasses!
Why have you let balance druids get so bad? Did you know they are currently ranked 2nd to last? They were dead last, but apparently arms beat them out for that honor.
PLEASE BLIZZARD, buff the balance druid!!! We desperately need it! I can’t take content being 20% or MORE harder for me just because I chose to play a druid. It should not be that way.
I don’t know why you seem to hate balance druids like you do but you need to get over it and stop doing a disservice to your customers who play a druid. We are paying customers too and we deserve BETTER than this.
3 Likes
Balance Druid has been a blast and really easy to ramp up for me. What kind of issues are you having?
1 Like
Balance is pretty strong.
I don’t spec into Balance, I run Feral for the enjoyment, but I can’t imagine it is worse for damage than Feral.
I wonder which tier list they are looking at to feel so bad.
1 Like
Balance is flying off at the handle with damage tbh. I’ve been Resto for years and just made the switch up last season to focus balance instead because it has great output and versatility in the rotation for AoE and ST.
My balance is a little weak, but only because Ion and this is a direct quote " Will never let you roll a one hit toon on my server’ , but even with that nerf I do pretty well, It’s a matter of knowing your rotation.
My suggestion, run the combat assist ( cant remember the name of it) thingamabob and see what your numbers are, you can always go back to self pressing the buttons.
Oh no, not the meta. Whatever will happen.
If Blizzard buffs balance druids, they’ll be hating on other specs. Why is that any more acceptable?
Perfect balance is unattainable.
It’s not like Balance wasn’t favored in S2…
Just out of curiosity, which specs do you think should be last and 2nd to last?
2 Likes
Augmentation evoker should be last.
It should be deleted from the game.
3 Likes
for a second. have you considered Bear?
Content is relatively 40% less hard based on the presented assumed numbers of Balance being 20% harder than baseline.
else, maybe redistribute stats with gear.
1 Like
This. Faceroll any solo content as bear, go boomy for group content.
Go into PvP and nuke a small country as balance druid.
1 Like
I always play bear in delves and breeze right through them and when I’m raiding or in a group I use Balance. I don’t have any issues at all…
I think what OP is trying to say is that with balance druid is that our skills that have a cast of 1.7s should be reduced or deleted with how the servers are acting.
There are days and times my druids runs great but other days it doesnt. That 1.7 cast becomes 4-7 sec is obsured
Didn’t we just get an 8% buff the other day? And wasn’t there another buff before that?
That “buff” was offset by a huge nerf to our gear set bonuses.
To the inevitable “dudes” that always chime in and say “balance is fine dude! I do like, so much damage dude!” I know for a fact you are lying because the official SCIENTIFICALLY ATTAINED DPS tier list has Balance Druids dead last place in the C Tier for damage. The only class lower (in D Tier) is the arms warrior).
But I am telling you MY experience. I know how to play my balance druid. I have been playing it for about 15 years. It is my main. I am struggling on content that my lower geared alts of other classes breeze through with no problem.
I ran a delve as a demo lock and my damage nuked everything in moments. It felt fluid and easy and fast. My survivability was off the charts. I pulled two large packs accidentally and survived it. I thought right then “If I was on my druid I would have died here”.
THAT is what I am trying to tell you. I don’t care if your LOLgeared 700+ druid can roll a 620 Ilvl delve. That is irrelevant. The fact remains that there is a HUGE disparity in how well a balance druid performs verses almost every other damage spec.
This is so frustrating. Every time there is a major issue that needs to be addressed we always get the “Status Quo Knights” who pop up and say “LOLZORS Nothing’s Wrong Bro!” so blizzard feels justified in doing NOTHING.
But Balance is BROKEN and woefully weak IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER DPS CLASSES. So much so that the disparity is game breaking and needs correction. Honestly, balance needs about a 20% improvement in overall performance. Both damage and survivability.
Blizzard knows it but as long as YOU are willing to accept complacency they give us COMPLACENCY!
Somebody’s gotta be last dude, just be glad you’re not it 
