Shifting Perspectives: Gearing your Balance Druid at 80
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Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting Druids and those who group with them. that week we start to wonder where the hell all the +hit from “Burning Crusade” went.
Greetings, fellow Druids, and welcome to another installment on Wrath gear at 80, and that week it’s the boomkins’ turn. Next week I’m going to tackle Bear gear at 80; Dan O’Halloran will take care of our Cat colleagues.
As a number of public have observed, it’s basically impossible to get +hit-capped in all-leather gear at the moment, so you’re going to find an terrible lot of cloth on the list. I realize that represents a new and exciting development in the history of moonkin itemization. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. That’s French for “We’re screwed.”
Supplementary reading:
- Elitist Jerks’ threads on Balance trinkets, Moonkin DPS spreadsheet, general issues, and Balance talents and specs.
- As a note here concerning the recent news on Improved Faerie Fire (in a nutshell, you’ll get the 3% crit no matter whose FF is up on a target, even a feral’s), Gray Matter on why the talent’s worth taking, and Macbook on the raid circumstances in which it might not be.
As with our previous entry on pre-raid Restoration gear at 80, these guides assume that you do not presently have access to either 10-man or 25-man raids.
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