Tier Sets
Balance Druid TWW Season 2 Tier Set:
- (2) Set Bonus: Your damaging spells have a chance to hit a Jackpot!, growing a Wild Mushroom at a nearby enemy’s location at 100% effectiveness. Casting Celestial Alignment or Incarnation: Chosen of Elune always hits a Jackpot!.
- (4) Set Bonus: Starfall and Starsurge damage against targets affected by your Wild Mushroom’s damage over time effect is increased by 20%.
The tier set for TWW Season Two is incredibly solid and grants us some on demand burst AoE when we pop our cooldowns. More importantly, the four piece buffs our spenders by quite a sizeable amount when the DoT from your mushrooms are active.
balance druid Best in Slot Gear
You should still prioritize the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Balance Druid, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.
Overall Best Gear
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Branches of Reclaiming Blight | The One-Armed Bandit |
| Neck | Gobfather’s Gifted Bling | Mug’Zee, Heads of Security |
| Shoulders | Jaws of Reclaiming Blight | Rik Reverb |
| Cloak | Test Pilot’s Go-Pack | Sprocketmonger Lockenstock |
| Chest | Robes of Reclaiming Blight | Sprocketmonger Lockenstock |
| Wrist | Rune Branded Armbands with Embellishment | Crafting |
| Gloves | Tempestwind Handlers | The Rookery |
| Belt | Mekgineer’s Championship Belt | Operation: Mechagon |
| Legs | Moccasins of Reclaiming Blight | Stix Bunkjunker |
| Boots | Backbreaking Bootstrappers | Cinderbrew Meadery |
| Ring | The Jastor Diamond | Chrome Kin Gallywix |
| Ring | Miniature Roulette Wheel | The One-Armed Bandit |
| Trinket | House of Cards | The One-Armed Bandit |
| Trinket | Eye of Kezan | Chrome King Gallywix |
| Main Hand | Vagabond’s Bounding Baton with Ascension Embellishment (2H) or Stix’s Metal Detector | Crafting or Stix Bunkjunker |
| Off Hand | Operator’s Fraud Detector or Vagabond’s Torch with Ascension Embellishment | The One-Armed Bandit or Crafting |
Best Gear from the Raid
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Branches of Reclaiming Blight | The One-Armed Bandit |
| Neck | Gobfather’s Gifted Bling | Mug’Zee, Heads of Security |
| Shoulders | Jaws of Reclaiming Blight | Rik Reverb |
| Cloak | Test Pilot’s Go-Pack | Sprocketmonger Lockenstock |
| Chest | Robes of Reclaiming Blight | Sprocketmonger Lockenstock |
| Wrist | Hustler’s Ante-Uppers | The One-Armed Bandit |
| Gloves | Grips of Reclaiming Blight | Cauldron of Carnage |
| Belt | Competitor’s Battle Cord | Cauldron of Carnage |
| Legs | Moccasins of Reclaiming Blight | Stix Bunkjunker |
| Boots | Rushed Beta Launchers | Sprocketmonger Lockenstock |
| Ring | The Jastor Diamond | Chrome Kin Gallywix |
| Ring | Miniature Roulette Wheel | The One-Armed Bandit |
| Trinket | House of Cards | The One-Armed Bandit |
| Trinket | Eye of Kezan | Chrome King Gallywix |
| Main Hand | Best-In-Slots or Stix’s Metal Detector | The One-Armed Bandit or Stix Bunkjunker |
| Off Hand | Operator’s Fraud Detector | The One-Armed Bandit |
Best Gear from Mythic+
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Branches of Reclaiming Blight | The One-Armed Bandit or Catalyst |
| Neck | “Emergency Stop” Keychain | The Stonevault |
| Shoulders | Jaws of Reclaiming Blight | Rik Reverb or Catalyst |
| Cloak | Anvilhide Cape | The Stonevault |
| Chest | Robes of Reclaiming Blight | Sprocketmonger Lockenstock |
| Wrist | Battle-Scarred Fisticuffs | Cinderbrew Meadery |
| Gloves | Tempestwind Handlers | The Rookery |
| Belt | Mekgineer’s Championship Belt | Operation: Mechagon |
| Legs | Moccasins of Reclaiming Blight | Stix Bunkjunker or Catalyst |
| Boots | Backbreaking Bootstrappers | Cinderbrew Meadery |
| Ring | Fleshfused Circle | Theater of Pain |
| Ring | Footbomb Championship Ring | The MOTHERLODE!! |
| Trinket | Signet of the Priory | Priory of the Sacred Flame |
| Trinket | Carved Blazikon Wax | Darkflame Cleft |
| Main Hand | Neural Synapse Enhancer or G3t-00t | Operation Mechagon or The MOTHERLODE!! |
| Off Hand | Deathwalker’s Promise | Theater of Pain |
Trinkets
The best trinkets currently for Balance Druid are the Eye of Kezan and House of Cards.
Other solid trinkets include the SIgnet of the Priory, Mug’s Moxie Jug, and Carved Blazikon Wax.
Another very, very solid trinket also includes the Suspicious Energy Drink at 665 item level. This is a delve trinket, and is only obtainable at that item level from the vault, making it relatively challenging to properly obtain at such an item level.
Embellishments
Many players at the beginning of last season, myself included, opted for as much player power available early and crafted a 636 Vagabond’s Bounding Baton with the Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension embellishment, pairing it with the 610 Algari Competitor’s Leather Wristwraps embellished with a Writhing Armor Binding to also acquire an early socketed piece that amplifies the effect from the Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension. If you’re looking for as much power as possible on Week One, this will not be possible this time around as we will not have enough sparks to make this craft in the very first week of prog.
You still have the option of spending your Gilded Crests on an off-hand with this embellishment effect, however, and potentially use a PVP craft to craft an offpiece with the Writhing Armor Binding to get yourself a 675 offhand. If you’re planning on playing long-term, you may also opt to fill out off-pieces with Dawnthread Lining and/or Elemental Focusing Lens (very solid on single target, especially with more sockets). The most important thing is to SIM YOURSELF and think about what your goals are!
This Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension embellishment will be the go-to embellishment for Balance Druid for the entire tier. However, if you are thinking long-term, the technically optimal Best In Slot build will have a 639 Main Hand and a crafted 636 Vagabond’s Torch offhand with the Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension embellishment.
The ideal piece to pick as your second crafted piece is an item that has a low stat budget, such as your wrists or your cloak. If you obtain a solid Polluted Spectre’s Wraps early on from Mythic Bloodbound Horror and want to commit a socket to them ASAP, that would mean it is optimal for you to craft on your back instead. The choice for this second craft may vary depending on your gear, so it is important you sim yourself and plan ahead! Most players will find that crafting on back will be optimal for them, but it may not be for you!
Cyrce’s Circlet
With the advent of Patch 11.0.7, Blizzard is introducing Cyrce’s Circlet. This is a powerful ring similar to the Onyx Annulet from Dragonflight’s Patch 10.0.7. There are a myriad of unique effects, but for Balance Druid, you’ll want to pick the gems that give you additional Mastery and not worry about the other gems as much.
These gems are as follows:
- Fathomdweller’s Runed Citrine
- Stormbringer’s Runed Citrine
- Legendary Skipper’s Citrine
This will give you a powerful ring that scales up to 658 item level that grants you your highest primary stat, and a small amount of all other secondary stats. This ring is more powerful than all other available options barring a 639 Seal of the Poisoned Pact, and you can expect roughly 1% DPS from equipping this ring over the previous Best In Slot set-up at 639 item level.
The Cycre’s Circlet will likely continue to be played, as of the tuning of it when this was written, until you get a Miniature Roulette Wheel with high Mastery at ~665 item level.