Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Races for Balance Druids in Cataclysm
All sections for Balance Druid PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal race, talents, glyphs, gear, professions and macros. This will help you have a good understanding on Balance Druid in PvP for Cataclysm, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will explain the best Balance Druid races for each faction in PvP for Cataclysm Season 9.
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Table of Contents
Best Balance Druid PvP Races
Alliance
Worgen
As this may come to a surprise for most people, Worgen will be your best option if you plan to choose Alliance as your faction for Balance Druid in Cataclysm PvP. This is due to Worgen’s racial, Darkflight, being stackable with Dash, allowing Druids to avoid melees and casted spells more effectively.
Darkflight
Darkflight as a racial ability grants 40% additional movement speed to your character for 10 seconds. This will provide you additional ways of avoiding enemy players.
Viciousness
Worgen also has the passive racial, Viciousness, which gives a 1% Critical Strike bonus to all spells used.
Horde
Tauren
If you plan to choose Horde as your faction for Balance Druid in Cataclysm PvP, Tauren is your best option to choose from. War Stomp provides uses when in PvP combat, but isn’t as strong as Worgen for Alliance.
Additional CC
War Stomp‘s ability grants an additional stuns that can be comboed with Druid Crowd Control, such as Cyclone, to provide players other options besides Bash or Pounce to initiate a CC chain.
HP Increase
Tauren is provided with a passive racial, Endurance, which grants 5% additional Stamina. Balance Druids are common targets in arena, and having this passive racial effect can be beneficial for your survivability.
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Alternative Balance Druid Races
Alliance
Night Elf
If you want another option outside of Worgen when playing Balance Druid, Night Elf is still a great pick when it comes to Cataclysm PvP. This is due to receiving one of the most iconic racial abilities, Shadowmeld, which provides many uses in PvP combat.
Immunity to Projectiles
Shadowmeld as a racial ability can immune any incoming projectiles, which includes abilities that require some travel time, Frostbolt & Death Coil, and can immune instant abilities such as Blind.
Dropping Combat
Shadowmeld has the ability to remove combat off of your character, which can allow you to land restealths if necessary.
Target Dropping
When Shadowmeld has been used, it will remove you as the target or focus target to prevent players from either attacking or stopping casts immediately.
Quickness Racial
Night Elf also has the passive racial Quickness, which gives a 2% chance for spells to miss including Crowd Control.
Horde
Troll
If you want another viable option for Horde in Cataclysm PvP, Troll can be an alternative chosen instead of Tauren. With Trolls receiving the Berserking talent, this can be paired together with cooldowns for massive burst windows. Since Balance Druids are typically targetted and trained during most arena matchups, this will not assist you with your mobility, making it more difficult to avoid your opponents.
Berserking
Berserking as a racial ability grants 20% Haste to your character for 10 seconds. Since your Haste scales with your DoT effects, this will result in additional DoT ticks, and can assist you with DoT damage to make your opponents rot down faster.