WoW Classic TBC - Balance Druid Guide - From Noobkin to BOOOMKING!

[@Scottejaye]

Thank you for watching all! If you didn't make it all the way until the end I will be doing a £100 amazon voucher give away if we hit 5k subscribers before the 25th December as a nice Christmas gift for someone and to say THANK YOU. The support on the channel up to now has been amazing and i am so so greatful. I hope you find this useful either now or for the future when Classic TBC inevitably comes :)

[@shawnwhite4908]

I love this guide and as a caster dps main it’s really making me want to roll bokmkin for tbc. My only question is the stat weights for each stat. For example, how much spell power is equal to a point of haste. I know this is often a complicated answer that requires simulations, but that’s the only piece missing from this guide. Still great guide going over the basics and I’d share with all my boomkin friends.

[@stevenklaassen1363]

Thanks for putting the guide together, nice work. Quick note, haste pots do not help casters since it is not spell haste.

[@Scottejaye]

Steven Klaassen useful, must admit outside my rogue and feral, I’ve never used haste pots. As a boomy and priest raiding it’s all mana pots so thank you for the clarification! Can always rely on the comments 😁😞

[@TheAnonJohn]

hey i am thinking of playing moonkin on classic tbc, and I was wondering if there is a BIS list (not preraid) for every raid tier, something to aim at as patches roll out.

[@lightironmogs]

Out of any youtuber covering balance druid that ive seen, your video is easily the most through and informative as well as being set out in an 'easy to pick up' manner. Really pat yourself on the back for this one its amazing. An easy Subscribe from me, looking forward to your future content

[@Scottejaye]

Thank you so much mate, glad you enjoyed it 🙏🙏❤️❤️

[@MikePW]

Such a sick in-depth video guide. Love it, looks great and can tell ya put a lot of effort into this one! (even though you are the second best boomy in the guild) ;)

[@Scottejaye]

Thanks mate yea the other boomy is better looking as well

[@MikePW]

@@Scottejaye Very much agree

[@Ramen10420]

Currently levelling as balance deep resto for healing touch spam in dungeons as needed and decent enough DPS in open world and dungeons to keep up. It has improved fairy fire and 3 points in thorns for the tank. Pretty fun and quickens dungeons when your healer is putting out consistent DPS with dots, and switching between DPS and healer on the fly without a 50g charge is so satisfying.

[@sinnocent7530]

Would you have a link to this spec? This is exactly what I'm looking to try

[@Ramen10420]

@@sinnocent7530 tbcdb.com/talents/index.html?en&druid&51002231150313120130000000000000000000000050500320501402000000

[@Ramen10420]

@@sinnocent7530 you could go range instead of the 2% damage, up to you, I personally prefer the range.

[@Ramen10420]

@@sinnocent7530 it takes loads of situational awareness to know when to focus on DPS and when to heal and not get tunnel vision on one or the other in order to maximize your utility.

[@sinnocent7530]

@@Ramen10420 thanks so much for this just what I am looking for. What order did you start, resto tree first then move to balance?

[@Pablomaniac]

Awesome video as usual. Liking this format. Looking forward to enhancement shaman in particular but I'm biased. Will be looking forward to the other videos regardless of class. Keep doing good work!

[@Scottejaye]

paul fletcher thanks mate, these ones will take a bit longer than usual because I didn’t realise they would be a full time job to edit 😂😁

[@othellosmistake]

Guild needs a boomkin and asked me to switch from tree. So videos like this are a big help.

[@pietrofratini5830]

Thank you for the guide! It was amazing! :)

[@tomato7955]

Thanks for the great video. This made me so much better at boom.

[@GANDRES89]

Thanks for all the tips, these are very useful to the raids

[@RoliRegenbogen]

Super looking forward to hear your guide on feral dps!

[@Scottejaye]

Going to be putting out a shadowlands video today then the feral guide tomorrow 👍

[@dominikegolf6597]

Can you post the links of you Weakauras you are using to mantain the things up on your target? would be lovely!

[@KThuzad]

My main was Warlock next was Mage This is time for changes Starfire Inc. Thank You for this guide. I thought tailoring was mistake but. is not Good work!

[@Scottejaye]

Cheers mate 🙏🙏🙏 good choice of main!!

[@SkarrGaming]

I currently have a Shadow Priest (main) and a Feral Druid (alt). In TBC my SP will remain my main but not sure what to do with the Druid yet. I might make him Balance and PvE with him, or go Resto and make him my PvP character, try some arena. Third option is I replace him with a Shammy (I'm allience).

[@Scottejaye]

Depends if it’s gonna be a farming char as in have herb and mining or will it have PvP professions? Only reason I ask is because I would have every Druid alt farmer as feral for no downtime when you have to actually kill a few mobs etc for mines or herbs

[@syxnyneonline]

@Scottjaye loved the video! Thanks for all the work you've done. Would you happen to have a link or could you direct to the weakauras you are using in tbc to track FF, insect swarm, moonfire, etc? Those power auras looked great but I guess classic tbc only supports weak auras? Thanks man! Love from Canada

[@aumdail]

Can you link the WA that you raved so much about.....

[@acanthosaura7018]

what wago is this where shows the CD of Nature's Grace???

[@NeetzBeats]

Is downranking still a thing Scottejaye? Like in your video you suggest with mana issues to stop dots and spam SF - would downranking be a thing in this case, like even IS to keep the debuff up or a downranked SF.

[@Scottejaye]

Yea mate 100% i must admit i do everything i can to avoid downranking - pots dark runes innervate etc but long fights like prince it will still probably happen

[@NeetzBeats]

@@Scottejaye cheers for the fast reply pal and for the awesome videos

[@Ashie_Healing]

Hi. I followed your channel recently because i am planning on raiding in TBC as a moonkin. I am currently mythic raiding in retail. I dont quite understand some stuff. You tend to say "when you get a trinket proc, just dont bother refreshing dots, go for starfires". It seems that it's only the case with Haste Procs, the only one not affecting Dots. You even want to refresh dots on the last seconds of a Spell power proc, as they will keep retaining the spell power you had when casted. So, except if i am a total piece of shiet, refreshing a moonfire / IS before a trinket ends, always results in a DPS gain?

[@Scottejaye]

Tbh it’s going to depend on fight length quite a lot. The gain from casting a starfire on the last second of a trinket proc is more valuable and reliable. There will be loads of fights where your mana simply won’t be able to sustain keeping both dots up 100% of the time (without downranking SF) the damage dots do is reasonable but starfire is your bread and butter and for my personal gearing on the boomy, the results of focussing star fire during ALL trinket price, not just quags eye always yields more damage.

[@Ashie_Healing]

@@Scottejaye I get it, especially the mana issue, but, and we will need to see datamined "classic" values, IS is 792 + 75% Spell Power and MF is 339(+15%) and 600(+52.5%). SF is 120% (with Cenarion talent). We can then safely assume that at some spell power breakpoint, you will be right. Under that SP point, refreshing is better. If those spell coefficient remain the same, It's at - At 1760 Spell Power, Starfire becomes better than Insect Swarm - At 1756 Spell Power, Starfire becomes better than Moonfire. The only thing i lack is Do you reach such spell power, and if so, when? I am really looking forward to push Moonkin to the extreme, therefore i do love those maths lol

[@Scottejaye]

@@Ashie_Healing this is assuming non crit though, and boomy gets insane crit and dots can’t crit. And then with the vengeance talent also making crits even more valuable ofc.

[@Ashie_Healing]

@@Scottejaye True. Will do the maths including crits :p.

[@Ashie_Healing]

@@Scottejaye What crit chance are we looking at, not including talents? let's say pre raid, then at some tiers?

[@HouseofOrdos]

Getting clever with the greenscreen/background

[@Scottejaye]

❤️❤️❤️ slowly learning 😁😁

[@Swooped117]

Wouldn't you want to snapshot your dots when you get a spell power trinket proc?

[@kamilolszar4050]

Hi Scott. I am trying to make the power Auras as u did, but it didnt work for me. Can you help me with that? Or is there any way that i can copy it from u? Thanks in advance.

[@sethwynn]

Great video man!

[@Scottejaye]

Appreciate it!

[@matjee]

Oh boi, finally looking another one! Also the regular question - the 25man comp comming when? ^^ GJ mate on this guide, appreciate the new format, its different from the standard picture presentation that can be seen elsewhere :)

[@Scottejaye]

Haha it’s coming mate, 😂😂 I tried mixing it up a bit I hope this format is well received it was hard work tbh

[@aric074]

Question about faerie fire: i noticed that for multi targets you don't mention faerie fire. I'm guessing you would still keep up faerie fire on 2, 3, 4 targets. Is that right? What are some cases when you wouldn't use faerie fire?

[@Fokkingdrasl]

Would like to hear about that also!

[@aric074]

@@Fokkingdrasl the answer i have since found is, keep up faerie fire on targets that are being focused down. If the target is just being hit by a tank, it's not worth it to faerie fire. AOE is a bit more complicated. Of course don't try to faerie fire the aoe packs before moroes in kara when you could just hurricane. The murlocs in ssc though before and during tidewalker will live much longer than your hurricane. In this case I think whether faerie fire spamming is worth it comes down to your raid comp. If most of your aoe dmg is warlocks and mages like most comps, i would guess you shouldn't bother with faerie fire on such large groups.

[@aric074]

i found these numbers awhile back: the armor debuff alone adds about 5% dmg to physical dps. if i faerie fire 5 targets when i normally would have done say, 1k dps over 5 gcds (7.5s), we're losing 7500 damage in applying faerie fire. if we have 4 hunters doing 1500 dps each and every target takes 15 seconds to kill, adding 5% to their dmg gives 4500 dmg per 15 seconds. so if every target has faerie fire kept up that's an increase of 22,500 dmg for those 4 hunters.

[@aaronm3416]

You said 8%hit alliance 9%hit horde but what about imp fraerie fire? Wouldn’t it be 6%?

[@Scottejaye]

I replied to this then edited because it made no sense to your question (it’s early lol) I’ll have to rewatch it and see what you are referring to. If I’m talking about melee on the group then yea it will be 6%

[@mattc2735]

Is letting dots drop during a trinket proc really worth it if the raid is losing hit rating b/c of it?

[@Hotzone_Official]

so during lust u don't care about dot uptime and just starfire?

[@ohhhh6961]

Isnt snapshotting dots with proccs more valuable?? Any source on that statement?

[@vorvolakas]

ur guide is good but the one thing u mention is the haste potion. I think u don't play a lot tbc that potion just works on mele DPS or hunter. for spell classes this type in tbc like spell haste rating or spell crit rating spell hit rating when some of this removes the spell from it that shows the buff not working for spell classes.

[@jakefuria]

Sup man, can u tell me if Still need tô be LW on tbc now or should i swap to tailoring since the drums are nerfed. My other option is JC Im already enchanter and LW on my classic moonkin What should i change?

[@xXTranceDroneXx]

Can someone tell me or comment on this. What does the shadow priest do for the group do they give A mama regen?

[@21TheRonin]

Their Vampiric Touch DOT restores 5% of damage dealt as mana. Also, Google is your friend.

[@Cobalt_027]

Sub'd just for the intro, nice podium bruh

[@v2occy809]

I know every raid is going to want a boomy. How do they compare on dps?

[@salsa066]

How are boomkins in 5 mans? Impossible to get into one?

[@Eureka7n]

i love druid and l love your london accent!

[@Scottejaye]

Awww thanks 🙏❤️

[@TheRealMrArms]

Amazing guide I love boomkin so much ty for the info as always!

[@Scottejaye]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@RoliRegenbogen]

I just occasionally play boomkin when our raid has none, but based on the addon Dr. damage, insect swarm has the best dmg per mama ratio, therefore I try to keep it up as first priority if I run low on mana. Also the increased miss helps a lot during progression, potentially serving as a life saver. Isn't boomkins main job to shine in the corner with the utility of improved hit, miss on boss and aura - and thereafter care about dmg? I mean my gear is shit as it is my off-off-off-spec (free respecc alliance side xD), but am I getting something wrong? Also very interesting that you don't faerie fire when having multitargets. I mean sure they die fast, but raid wise, the increased hit potentially increases the overall raid dmg more then your own ability, right (assuming the first mob lives for at least 20ish seconds)? As I said, I don't play boomkin usually, so I am happy to hear your expertise on that!

[@Scottejaye]

The lack of use on FF is because adds are and don’t quote me on this for every single fight in the game....not boss mobs so the extra hit is wasted or they just die so fast that it’s not worth it. Think about the trash on the stairs on the way to moroes for example, I believe without checking they are level 72 max? So everyone should have enough hit for those.

[@MrTranzformer1]

So do ppl not use starfall I really like that spell

[@OftenAlwaysFresh]

Are you doing this for each class? Or just the classes you're proficient in? If you can't do others, that's fine, was just curious. *Edit: I wrote it in haste, but I also wanted to say that, your content is superb, and enjoyed this video enough to try a balance druid on a private server to see if I should level one on classic leading up to tbc classic

[@Scottejaye]

Be doing them all mate, Some I will be just calling on others expertise for

[@OftenAlwaysFresh]

@@Scottejaye awesome dude, looking forward to it. Sorry I realize I hadn't subbed, so here's a sub!

[@Scottejaye]

OftenAlwaysFresh much appreciated mate and glad you enjoyed it 😁😁🙏🙏

[@neilslocum1]

As boomys have been playing through TBC we have all come to the conclusion that insect swarm is not worth using ever

[@Aka_daka]

This guide is pretty bad just watched it.

[@edorford8778]

how would you recommend lvling a druid from 60 - 70 in retail TBC? ( assuming they go fresh server with 60s and green gear)

[@Scottejaye]

100% feral mate, even if I was a main boomy in a progressive launch I would still use off spec gear and feral to 70

[@bix14]

timestamps would be nice

[@raysanchez4214]

Tbc boomies are only there for buffs.

[@Prediculous]

Good guide. Really hope they nerf drums though. If everyone goes LW It would take a ton of fun out of the game. I personally wont be going LW'ing for my second prof. Likely JC for the custom gems. Once gear upgrades compete with the tailoring set, Ill transition into JC / Ench for minmax potential & Optimal PVP for arenas. Just my 2 cents though.

[@Scottejaye]

Cheers mate glad you enjoyed it and I’m certain you’ll be absolutely fine with your choice of proffs!

[@vladyslavgnys5770]

Everything is good except one thing, using dots after u get more than 1k spd is rly nonsense, u loosing to much gcd for doing that, even if monfire crits its not worth to loose gcd in which u can simply spaw starfire which crits for 7-8k with 1.7 spd, and gives u 2k dps... Everything rest was good

[@brettdumas7657]

Good thing they nerfed drums🤷‍♂️

[@andrewgaidashenko8764]

making a tbc guide in pandaria platform, tnx but ill pass

[@Scottejaye]

😂😂