Balance Druid DPS Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities (WoW MoP 5.3)
Last updated by Vlad on 20 May. 2013
In this article, we list the buffs, debuffs and useful abilities that a Balance Druid brings to a raid in WoW MoP 5.3. We also list equivalent buffs and debuffs that other classes provide.
The other articles of our Balance Druid guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.
This guide has been reviewed and approved by Imsupersdw, one of the best Balance Druids in the world, who raids in Method.
| Buffs | |
|---|---|
 Moonkin Aura |
Increases spell casting speed of all raid or party
members by 5% — does not stack with  Mind Quickening,
 Shadowform and  Elemental Oath
|
 Mark of the Wild |
Increases the Strength, Agility, and Intellect of all party and raid members by 5% —
does not stack with  Embrace of the Shale Spider,  Legacy of the Emperor, and
 Blessing of Kings
|
| Debuffs | |
 Faerie Fire |
12% Armor reduction —
does not stack with  Dust Cloud,  Tear Armor,
 Expose Armor,  Sunder Armor, and  Devastate
|
| Utility | |
 Rebirth |
Combat resurrection |
 Solar Beam |
AoE interrupt and silence, 1 minute cooldown |
 Remove Corruption |
Removes all Poison and Curse effects (8-second cooldown) |
 Innervate |
Grants mana to a raid member |
 Tranquility |
Raid-wide healing cooldown |
 Stampeding Roar |
Raid-wide movement speed burst (automatically shifts to
 Bear Form - although the form requirement is removed by
 Glyph of Stampede) |
 Soothe |
Dispels enrage effects from the target |
| Crowd Control | |
 Hibernate |
40-second sleep (beasts and dragonkin only) |
 Cyclone |
6-second incapacitate |
 Entangling Roots |
Roots target in place for 30 seconds, broken by damage |
| Survival | |
 Barkskin |
20% damage reduction for 12 seconds, 1-minute cooldown |
 Dash |
Movement speed burst (using this automatically shifts the Druid to
 Cat Form) |
