Balance Druid Review of Elune's Chosen Hero Talents - Burst-Enabling Thematic Talents
14.03.2024 - 13:49
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At the end of February, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion.
Our Balance Druid guide writer, Tettles, offers an early review of the Elune's Chosen Druid Hero Talents highlighting the additional burst potential and exceptional theme that builds on the Balance foundation.
Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. Blizzard has revealed an early preview of Hero Talents coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Hero Talent Trees revealed so far. Check out all of our released editorials below.
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Elune's Chosen Hero Talents
Stacking on top of what we saw a few weeks back with Keeper of the Grove talents, we now have Elune's Chosen!.. These are talents that work for both Guardian and Balance, and I will be covering them from a Balance Druid perspective today. As you see below, the talents work heavily off of Fury of Elune or Full Moon depending on what you have talented. Fury of Elune and New Moon are capstone level talents that are on a choice node with one another. It makes sense that the Elune's Chosen talents work with both Fury of Elune and New Moon. & are the main 2 points for this tree. They generate a decent amount of Astral Power while doing your regular rotation, and they put more power into Moons and Fury of Elune.
There are a lot of modifiers for both Fury of Elune and Full Moon in the tree such as,, and. These either increase the damage of Fury of Elune / Full Moon, reduce the cooldown of said aiblities, or make mobs take increased damage after pressing them. This will create for some interesting burst windows with both of these abilities, particularly when stacked with Primordial Arcanic Pulsar or Incarnation: Chosen of Elune.
Playstyle Implications
Historically, Balance Druid has had minimal burst damage, particularly in Incarnation: Chosen of Elune. A lot of our damage has been more consistent, and these minor burst windows created by Fury