Balance Druid DPS Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.0)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Balance Druid for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.0).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Balance Druids and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Balance Druid
Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Balance Druid
Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Balance Druid
Defensive Tips
- During later casts of
Tank Buster, you will a lot of DoT damage from
Exhaust Fumes.
- Use
Renewal and
Barkskin as needed otherwise.
Cooldown Usage
- You should
Celestial Alignment and
Convoke the Spirits on pull and then during intermissions which happen once ever 1-minute, 40-seconds.
- You can use one
Celestial Alignment during the normal phases with
Whirling Stars
- When possible, save
Force of Nature and
Dream Surge for the stacked Geargrinder Bikers.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Typhoon and
Ursol's Vortex to control the Pit Mechanics during the intermission.
Mythic Difficulty
- Tips will be added as bosses are cleared.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Balance Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use
Barkskin when soaking
Scrapbomb when available. Especially later in the phase with high stacks of
Blistering Spite
- Be prepared to roll healing such as Heath Potions, Healthstones, and
Renewal during casts of
Colossal Clash which ramp up as the fight goes on.
Cooldown Usage
Celestial Alignment and
Convoke the Spirits can be used on cooldown and you can use
Convoke the Spirits on cooldown thereafter.
- Try to save
Celestial Alignment for
Colossal Clash which happens every 70-seconds.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Wild Charge to disengage out
Blastburn Roarcannon after it finishes channeling.
- Use
Entangling Roots or
Mass Entanglement to crowd control Voltaic Images.
Mythic Difficulty
- Tips will be added as bosses are cleared.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rik Reverb for Balance Druid
Defensive Tips
- Roll extra Healing and
Barkskin while soaking the Amplifiers as the damage ramps up quickly.
Cooldown Usage
- Use
Celestial Alignment and
Convoke the Spirits on pull and on cooldown thereafter.
- Pool Astral Power and potentially
Force of Nature when Pyrotechnics spawn as they will wipe the raid if not killed.
Mechanical Tips
- During the intermission, to maximize damage, pool Astral Power, DoT the boss, and
potentially get a
Touch of the Cosmos proc as the boss takes no Damage during this phase.
Mythic Difficulty
- Tips will be added as bosses are cleared.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Balance Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use
Barkskin during
Electromagnetic Sorting.
- If afflicted with high stacks of
Toxic Fumes be ready to use
Renewal and other Healing as there are random bouts of damage that can kill you.
Cooldown Usage
- Use
Celestial Alignment and
Convoke the Spirits on pull and on cooldown thereafter.
- Focus down Territorial Bombshells as they can not be absorbed by rolling trash piles.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Typhoon to push detached Territorial Bombshells into Melee to be cleaved.
Mythic Difficulty
- Tips will be added as bosses are cleared.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Balance Druid
Defensive Tips
Barkskin,
Renewal, and other Healing can be used as needed but most damage taken is from failing mechanics.
Cooldown Usage
- Use
Celestial Alignment and
Convoke the Spirits on pull and on cooldown thereafter.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Stampeding Roar or
Dash to get back to the boss quickly during the intermission.
Mythic Difficulty
- Tips will be added as bosses are cleared.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for One-ARmed Bandit for Balance Druid
Defensive Tips
- Most damage taken will be while the Reel Assistants are out as they have uninterruptible casts which damage random players. Use
Barkskin when targeted.
Cooldown Usage
- Use
Celestial Alignment and
Convoke the Spirits on pull and on cooldown thereafter. Try to cast Convoke the Spirits when only the boss is active.
- When possible, slightly delay uses of
Force of Nature and
Celestial Alignment for add spawns such as Reel Assistants and Dynamite Booty.
Mechanical Tips
- Always try to get the
Pay-Line buff. You may want to use
Glyph of Stars to see your hitbox better than in Moonkin Form.
- Use
Typhoon and
Ursol's Vortex to control Dynamite Booty adds spawned by depositing bomb tokens. With the exception of the coin plated ones which are immune.
Mythic Difficulty
- Tips will be added as bosses are cleared.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Mug'Zee for Balance Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use
Barkskin when you soak
Goblin-guided Rocket.
Renewal can clear off the healing absorb from
Searing Shrapnel right away.
- If targeted with
Spray and Pray use a defensive or go Bear form.
Cooldown Usage
- Use
Celestial Alignment and
Convoke the Spirits on pull and then on cooldown after.
- Sometimes it is worth slightly delaying
Celestial Alignment and
Force of Nature when killing Gallagio Goons during
Earthshaker Gaol casts.
- Try to pool all cooldowns into the final burn after the intermission.
Mechanical Tips
- Use
Wild Charge or
Dash to quickly reposition around walls when you have
Frostshatter Boots.
- Use
Mass Entanglement to root Unstable Crawler Mines if your raid leader calls for it.
Wild Charge can be used to quickly soak far
Unstable Cluster Bomb when soaking Crawler Mines.
- Use some mobility on each cast of
Bulletstorm.
Mythic Difficulty
- Tips will be added as bosses are cleared.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Balance Druid
This boss was not testable on the TWW Alpha/Beta servers. Information will be forthcoming once it is available on Live servers.
Defensive Tips
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Cooldown Usage
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Mythic Difficulty
- Tips will be added as bosses are cleared.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Offensive Cooldown Usage
Balance Druid has a few cooldowns to think about using
optimally on the fights in Liberation of Undermine. The following cooldowns
can be used flexibly with Control of the Dream:
Celestial Alignment - 2-charges and a 100-second recharge.
Convoke the Spirits - Our 2-minute cooldown. Best used on single target.
Force of Nature - Our 1-minute or (45-second cooldown with
Early Spring). Activates several Hero Talents in
Keeper of the Grove.
Make sure to use your cooldowns on cooldown as much as possible unless certain adds or DPS phases allow you to get more value out of them. This is typically something you will want to discuss with your Raidleader or the rest of the raid in static groups, while PUGs are more freeform than that. Simply keep an eye out on how you can best serve the raid, even if that means an add does not live to see the full duration of your Deathmark and Kingsbane. If it wiped you in the previous pull, and you now kill the boss, it does not matter if your DPS is a bit lower.
General Defensive Cooldown Usage
You want to be utilizing Barkskin during high damage instances.
Renewal
is a strong heal absorb clear or extra Healthstone.
Bear Form gives you
high Stamina to survive big hits as well as a heal through
Frenzied Regeneration.
Changelog
- 03 Mar. 2025: Updated raid tips for Liberation of Undermine Normal and Heroic.
- 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
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This was written by Borabank, a Balance Druid theorycrafter and raider in Muscle Memory. You can watch him on his Twitch channel or in the Dreamgrove Discord server.
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