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Balance Druid Essences for the Heart of Azeroth - Shadowlands 9.0.1 Shadowlands 9.0.2
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Essences are a system of power progression for the
Heart of Azeroth
, which allows you to mix and match several legendary-quality effects. In this guide, you will learn everything you need to know about the available Essences in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, how to unlock them and increase their rank, as well as how well they compare with one another and which Major and Minor powers are best for your Balance Druid in .
For more details about this system, please read our
Heart of Azeroth Essence Overview
, which includes new essences added in
Patch 8.3
.
This page won't be updated for Shadowlands Pre-Patch and may be out of date.
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What are Essences?
Essences are a system of power progression for the Heart of Azeroth introduced in patch 8.2. These legendary-like bonuses are unlocked through pre-determined activities including dungeons, raids, open-world activities, PvP, reputations, and achievements, and come in four ranks: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary. The second and third ranks add to or improve the base effect, while the last unlocks a flashy visual. Each Essence has a unique Major and Minor power, which can be socketed into the Heart of Azeroth upon completing a short introductory questline. For more information on available Essences and the drop locations for each rank, see our
Heart of Azeroth Essences Overview Guide
.
Essences may be changed in any rested area, or by using any
静心书卷
type item, but the same Essence cannot be used in multiple sockets, resulting in a total of 1 Major and 4 Minor powers active at any one time. You can pre-plan and preview your Essence setup in our
Essence Calculator
.
Learn more about Essences in our Essence Overview Guide
Account-Wide Essences for Alts
While Essences have been a chore to unlock on characters until Ny'alotha, Blizzard has introduced a new system in Patch 8.3 to speed up the process of obtaining Essences for subsequent characters: Echoes of Ny'alotha! Most current activities completed, like Mythic+, PvP, or Emissaries will reward a given number of Echoes, which can be traded at MOTHER at the Chamber of Heart for a Rank 3 Essence that you have already unlocked in another toon.
Learn more about Echoes of Ny'alotha in our Guide
My thoughts on Essences
Majors
You should be playing
完美愿景
Major in almost all situations in raid as the buffs to visions in 8.3 puts it at the top.
For M+ you should be looking to play
聚焦之虹的精华
or
完美愿景
major depending on what level of keys you are doing. Generally, higher level of keys are more effective for VOP, but for lower level stuff Iris is better. If your trash / bosses are not lasting long enough then Iris will be better than VOP.
Minors
You should pick 3 of these depending on your situation:
聚焦之虹的精华
- General purpose, play it if you do not have Iris major.
濒死之息
- HUGE damage.
冲突与斗争
- General purpose, the amount of versatility + the damage reduction makes it really good.
净化协议
- Replace focusing Iris with this if you have abberations / big AOE situations or are playing Iris major.
Balance Druid Essence Simulations
We have comparative simulations for each of the different Major and Minor essence powers, courtesy of SimulationCraft, Bloodmallet, and other class tools. Don't forget that this is simply an overview; you can create your own comparisons as well as combinations of different essences you have unlocked on your character using
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Top Gear function. If you are not already familiar with Raidbots and how to use it, take a look at our
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Again, this is simply an overview. Certain Essences, such as Worldvein minor, may be worse in practice on encounters with heavy movement or when you are the only player in your group using it. Reference the Essence notes and recommendations below to see how your spec can best take advantage of each individual power.
Best Balance Druid Major Essences
While only one Major power can be used at a time, whichever Essence is socketed into the center node of the Heart of Azeroth will also activate its Minor Power, so both effects should be taken into consideration when determining which to use. Below is a short ranking of notable Top Tier, Mid Tier, and Bottom or strictly Situational Tier Major Essences you should consider using when playing a Balance Druid. Anything not listed is currently considered undesirable or has no noteworthy interaction.
Vision of Perfection -
完美强化变速箱
Source: Operation Mechagon (click for details!)
Rank 1: Defeat King Mechagon.
Rank 2:
图纸:完美同步的差速齿轮
from King Mechagon and craft
完美同步的差速齿轮
.
Rank 3: Combine 4
序列链轮
, dropped by King Mechagon.
Rank 4: Obtain
心之锁定
.
Default
Getting
超凡之盟
from the essence, you also get stupid amounts of
飞驰流星
procs. That compounded with the reduction in the cooldown makes this trait the Belle of the Ball.
奥能脉冲星
also is incredibly strong with Vision of Perfection. Visions is the best all around Major essence for moonkin, and while this is may be RNG dependent it feels pretty good to play. Make sure that you don't use Celestial Alignment during the proc otherwise it will eat it. Starlord seems like it will be better than Incarnation in most situations.
Effect on gameplay
You will have very large swings in damage from pull to pull occasionally, but it will average out in the end over the course of the night. Prepare to sit in your cooldowns for minutes at a time with Visions + Pulsar + Celestial Alignment.
Essence of the Focusing Iris -
聚焦之虹的稳定透镜
Source: Mythic+ (click for details!)
Rank 1: Complete a +4 Mythic dungeon.
Rank 2: Complete a +7 Mythic dungeon.
Rank 3: Combine 15
聚焦生命心能
from the weekly cache.
Rank 4: Complete
“争霸艾泽拉斯”钥石大师:第三赛季
.
Use on: M+
聚焦之虹的精华
is one of the best essences overall for Balance in M+ pretty much exclusively. The minor is also pretty insane with the haste buff if you can keep it up.
The Crucible of Flame -
赤色龙母的淬火之鳞
Source: Heart of Azeroth level (click for details!)
Rank 1:
知子莫若母
.
Rank 2: Neck level 54 and
黑暗中的梦境
.
Rank 3: Neck level 60 and
调查暮光高地
.
Rank 4: Neck level 70 and
蓝龙军团之雷
.
Use on: Literally Free to get
The Crucible of Flame is literally free to get and insanely easy. For this reason it is mid tier. Leveling it up to rank 3 is neck level 70, which with the current amount of AK we have makes it super easy to obtain.
Purification Protocol -
强效净化协议
Source: Rustbolt Resistance Reputation (click for details!)
Rank 1: Honored, purchase for 4
S.P.A.R.E.零件箱
and 2
电流振荡器
.
Rank 2: Revered, purchase for 20
S.P.A.R.E.零件箱
and 10
电流振荡器
.
Rank 3: Exalted, purchase for 40
S.P.A.R.E.零件箱
and 10
电流振荡器
.
Rank 4: Rustbolt Resistance Paragon cache.
Use on: Mythic+?? It recently got buffed, and could contend with Focuing Iris in similar situations.
净化协议
owns for M+ for Balance Druid. I need to test it further, but it can be seen as paddy or it can just be super strong.
The minor essence is simply a damage and healing proc based on rng. The damage proc is a damage over time effect so it may lose value when facing quick low health mobs or if the DoT is applied as a mob is dying.
**
This essence becomes one of the
BEST
essences when facing Aberrations!
Blood of the Enemy -
被征服者的翻腾之血
Source: PvP - Honor (click for details!)
Rank 1:
席卷战场
.
Rank 2:
战场斗士
, purchase from War Coordinator NPC.
Rank 3:
战场战术家
, purchase from War Coordinator NPC.
Rank 4:
战场大师
, purchase from War Coordinator NPC.
Use on: Potentially Mythic+
Blood of the Enemy does decent damage and gives a pretty sick Crit buff when used every so often depending on level. The downside is that you have to be in melee, which really isn't an option sometimes. For that reason, it might be decent in M+, but requires further testing. You can get this on patch release though, so it can be useful early on.
Effect on gameplay
Having to run into melee sometimes can just be straight up not an option in raid, thus making this not an option. Balance not really having any burst AOE makes Blood of the Enemy seem kind of decent for M+ situations, but in the end balance still isn't good on AOE.
Memory of Lucid Dreams -
明晰意图珍珠
Source: Nazjatar Bodyguards (click for details!)
Rank 1: Complete
短暂的休息
/
深入纳沙塔尔
.
Rank 2: Complete
患难之交
/
潦而不倒
.
Rank 3: Obtain
海战集训
/
海战集训
.
Rank 4: Obtain
灭世洪流
/
灭世洪流
.
Use on: Early Essences
Memory of Lucid dreams breaks the mold of not capping
. The Memory of Lucid Dreams active should be used at low amounts of Astral Power in order for you to cap as few Empowerments as possible.
Effect on gameplay
You will end up having 2 options with Memory of Lucid Dreams on use. Either use it high on Astral Power and machine gun Starsurge and lose innate value out of the trait, or you start low and the trait feels way worse than you'd like.
Condensed Life Force -
回响的元素之心
Source: Azshara's Eternal Palace (click for details!)
Rank 1: Combine 9
沧海圣匣
.
Rank 2: Combine 18
沧海圣匣
.
Rank 3: Combine 27
沧海圣匣
.
Rank 4: Defeat Queen Azshara on Mythic difficulty.
Use on: Burst damage profiles ona 3 minute cooldown. It got nerfed recently.
Condensed Life Force summons a rock boi to fight for you 30 seconds and does big damage. Being on a 3-minute cooldown, of course, you are giving up a lot. Making sure you are using it at good times is critical as the rock boi can actually die to ambient damage somehow (I don't know if this is a bug or intended). This essence should only be taken at rank 3.
Effect on gameplay
Make sure you use the rock boy inside of burst windows when you need a target to die very quickly, boss is taking increased damage taken, or just for general ST purposes. The rock man is very good on the major and minor, so something to definitely think about
Conflict and Strife -
肋骨统御项圈
Source: PvP - Conquest (click for details!)
Rank 1: Earn 500 Conquest and claim a weekly PvP War Chest.
Rank 2: Reach 1,000 Rating in Rated PvP and claim your next weekly PvP War Chest.
Rank 3: Collect
燎原战场之狂
from your weekly PvP War Chest.
Rank 4: Reach Elite rank and claim your next weekly PvP War Chest.
Use on: M+ and early raid
Activates
in all content, including PvE instances and out in the world with War Mode is turned off. Thorns is actually very high DPET, meaning that per the global spent, you get a BOAT load of damage. It's not top top tier on Single Target, but it OWNS on multiple targets that are meleeing 1 guy. For those reasons you will be looking to use it in M+. Happy gaming :).
Ripple in Space -
坚韧的战场纪念品
Source: World PvP (click for details!)
Rank 1: Complete
水淹部落
/
水淹联盟
.
Rank 2: Obtain
两线对决
.
Rank 3: Collect
战斗召唤勋章
from weekly Call to Arms quests.
Rank 4: Obtain
刺客的补给
.
Use on: Never?
野性冲锋
makes this fairly redundant, even if it didn't have a significant opportunity cost. It's possible an encounter strategy could encourage it, but it would have to be the only option to warrant the damage loss of not taking a better Essence. Really bad
The Minor Power is god awful requiring you to move entirely too much for it to be viable for a heavy caster such as Balance Druid.
Worldvein Resonance -
波动世界血脉
Source: Island Expeditions (click for details!)
Rank 1: Complete the weekly quest
联盟的艾泽里特
/
部落的艾泽里特
.
Rank 2: Combine
泽姆兰的失落藏宝图碎片
from island expeditions.
Rank 3: Complete the mission chain starting with "A Disturbing Rumor".
Rank 4: Complete a specific
神秘的藏宝图
mission.
Use on: Grouped Content
Worldvein Resonance is incredibly strong only because of the Minor. You should really try to avoid the major if possible
Effect on gameplay
No real active effect on your gameplay, just kinda use it on cooldown. It also helps significantly if other members of your group are also using Worldvein Resonance. ******If you do not have the Worldvein Resonance Minor, you should take the major******
Unbound Force -
极化的艾泽里特裂片
Source: Nazjatar Reputation (click for details!)
Rank 1: Honored, purchase for 10
棱彩法力珍珠
.
Rank 2: Revered, purchase for 25
棱彩法力珍珠
.
Rank 3: Exalted, purchase for 50
棱彩法力珍珠
.
Rank 4: Nazjatar reputation Paragon cache.
Use on: Nothing
不羁之力
has a very strange design on the minor proc. It actually devalues critical strike in order to proc more often, and at 20 RPPM multiplied by haste, it will ideally proc every 2-3 seconds resulting in a 70% crit buff for 5 seconds every 40-50 seconds.
Best Balance Druid Minor Essences
Two additional Minor Essence slots can be unlocked over time, providing additional benefit. While the above rankings already detailed several minor bonuses, the rankings below consider only the Minor or how it might interact when using it alongside a different Major Essence. Anything not listed is currently considered undesirable or has no noteworthy interaction.
The Breath of the Dying -
死亡合唱徽记
Use on: Multi-purpose
The natural strength of breath of the dying makes this an excellent option for a minor choice!
Unbound Force -
极化的艾泽里特裂片
Use on: If you do not have Breath of the Dying R3.
不羁之力
has a very strange design on the minor proc, and has recently been buffed into viability for Moonkin. You basically stop using Astral Power when at 19 stacks of Reckless Force then pump Starsurges when the buff is up independent of anything but Streaking Stars. Capping Empowerments is fine during the window.
Conflict and Strife -
肋骨统御项圈
Use on: M+ potentially
The minor for Conflict and Strife actually gives a ton of Versatility. It can be really good in M+ overall as for raid you are almost always going to want to play Worldvein Resonance.
Essence of the Focusing Iris -
聚焦之虹的稳定透镜
Use on: Raid + Potential M+
This is very strong in raid if you are not using Worldvein across your whole group. You have to make sure that you can keep the buff up with 100% uptime though, otherwise it is pretty bad.
Purification Protocol -
强效净化协议
Use on: M+
Purification Protocol AOE damage on the minor can be very solid if it procs in M+. Dungeon dependent and pull size dependent. Solid option though.
Memory of Lucid Dreams -
明晰意图珍珠
Use on: Early Essences
Memory of Lucid Dreams minor gives you a 15% chance to refund Astral Power upon spending on Starsurge or Starfall. It can feel pretty solid inside of cooldown windows, but overall it seems a bit lackluster except early on when choices are relatively limited.
Effect on gameplay
You will definitely cap Empowerments while taking this, it is just one of those things that you have to deal with.
Worldvein Resonance -
波动世界血脉
Use on: Stacked group when a lot of ppl use
Worldvein Resonance Minor trait will spawn a shard near you every so often giving you and your party members a pretty sizable amount of intellect.
YOU SHOULD BE USING THIS WHEN GROUPED WITH YOUR BOYS
The proc is pretty calculated and has a really high uptime making it very solid for consistent damage.
Ripple in Space -
坚韧的战场纪念品
Use on: ??????????
MOVING 25 YARDS FOR MAIN STAT IS BAD. NO
Blood of the Enemy -
被征服者的翻腾之血
Use on: Never
Blood of the Enemy minor is actually pretty good all things considered, but there are just some other choices that heavily overshadow it in all situations.
Vision of Perfection -
完美强化变速箱
Use on: Never
The Visions of Perfection minor is pretty cool because it will RNG reduce the cooldown of your Celestial Alignment. The minor by itself is not super cool, but when paired with the Visions major it is super sick.
Effect on gameplay
You will have very large swings in damage from pull to pull occasionally, but it will average out in the end over the course of the night. Prepare to sit in your cooldowns for minutes at a time with Visions + Pulsar + Celestial Alignment.
Condensed Life Force -
回响的元素之心
Use on: Never
The Minor from Condensed Life Force is pretty cool in the sense of it will make your target take increased damage taken, but as the balancing stands it is just too bad to take the minor by itself.
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评论
评论来自
Evellath
Under Essence of the Focusing Iris - Converging Lens of the Focusing Iris you have the crucible of flame info pasted there :o
评论来自
meganerd18
Is Vision of Perfection working? Cause I've not once seen it do what it says it's supposed to. The only procs of Incarnation I've gotten have been through Arcanic Pulsar.
Edit: <He says as he finally notices it happening>
评论来自
Ailyse
I just got a rank 4 essence; how does that fit into the simulation table ? It only goes to level 3 :(
评论来自
toddiuszho
Love how Purification Protocol for a minor is simultaneously both Top, Use on: M+ and Bottom/Situational, Use on: Never.
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