The retained beta client read marks four Balance talents as new and twelve as reworked. This reported tree is a comparison snapshot, not a final build. Blizzard's September 24 notes separately say Wrath's base damage increased ~50%.
Balance in Forever
The current client read lists 16 Balance talents: four new, 12 reworked, and none unchanged against Classic Era. Moonkin Form is the reported 31-point capstone.
Reduces the cast time of Starfire by 0.5 sec and Starfire has a 15% chance to stun its target for 3 sec.
Classic, 5/5
Reduces the cast time of Starfire by 0.5 sec and has a 15% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
Row 5 20 points in Balance
Overgrowth
Reworked
Forever, 2/2
Increases the maximum number of targets you may have affected by Entangling Roots by 2.
Classic as Improved Nature's Grasp, 4/4
Increases the chance for your Nature's Grasp to entangle an enemy by 65%.
Nature's Grace
Reworked
Forever, 1/1
All non-periodic spell criticals grace you with a blessing of nature, increasing your spellcasting speed and reducing your global cooldown by 10% for 3 sec.
Classic, 1/1
All spell criticals grace you with a blessing of nature, reducing the casting time of your next spell by 0.5 sec.
Eclipse
New
Forever, 3/3
Your Wrath spell reduces the cast time of your next 2 Starfire spells by 0.5 sec. Stores up to 4 charges. Lasts 15 sec.
Row 6 25 points in Balance
Moonfury
Reworked
Forever, 5/5
Increases the damage done by your Arcane and Nature spells by 10%.
Classic, 5/5
Increases the damage done by your Starfire, Moonfire and Wrath spells by 10%.
Row 7 30 points in Balance
Moonkin Form
Reworked
Forever, 1/1
Transforms the Druid into Moonkin Form. While in this form, the armor contribution from items is increased by 360%, Omen of Clarity gains 100% increased chance to trigger, and all party members within 45 yards have their critical strike chance increased by 3%, exclusive with Leader of the Pack. The Moonkin cannot cast healing spells while shapeshifted. The act of shapeshifting frees the caster of Polymorph and Movement Impairing effects.
Classic, 1/1
Transforms the Druid into Moonkin Form. While in this form the armor contribution from items is increased by 360% and all party members within 30 yards have their spell critical chance increased by 3%. The Moonkin can only cast Balance spells while shapeshifted. The act of shapeshifting frees the caster of Polymorph and Movement Impairing effects.
35% of base mana · Instant
Every fact, with its source
1 more fact, checked Sep 27, 2026; 1 from Blizzard. The 2 headline changes are above. The tag says how sure each one is.
Whether beta talent values persist through launch.
How launch tuning will change this tree.
Where the talent data comes from
TalentsNames, positions, ranks and text from the community WoW Forever Talents dataset, read from WoW Forever beta client build 1.60.1.70009. Reported
Classic EraThe comparison text comes from Classic Era client build 1.15.9.69722, in the same dataset. Unchanged means the same text as that client, not a Blizzard statement.
