Druid Balance Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Sunfire 2 Moonfire 3 Moonfire 4 Fury of Elune 5 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 6 Empowering VenomOff-GCD 7 Incarnation: Chosen of EluneOff-GCD 8 Starfire 9 Starfall 10 Starfire 11 Starfire 12 Starfall 13 Starfire 14 Starfire 15 Starfire

1 Moonfire 2 Sunfire 3 Sunfire 4 Fury of Elune 5 Empowering VenomOff-GCD 6 Incarnation: Chosen of EluneOff-GCD 7 Starfire 8 Starfire 9 Starfall 10 Starfire 11 Starfall 12 Starfire 13 Starfire 14 Starfire 15 Starfall

1 Wrath 2 Moonfire 3 Sunfire 4 Lunar EclipseOff-GCD 5 Starfire 6 Starfire 7 Fury of Elune 8 Incarnation: Chosen of EluneOff-GCD 9 Empowering VenomOff-GCD 10 Starfall 11 Starfire 12 Starfire 13 Moonfire 14 Starfall 15 Starfire

#showtooltip Sunfire
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Incarnation: Chosen of Elune
/cast Sunfire

Ability	Top-player CPM
Starfire	15.5
Starfall	12.7
Moonfire	6.8
Starsurge	6.1
Sunfire	3.6
Fury of Elune	2.4
Lunar EclipseOff-GCD	1.9
BarkskinOff-GCD	0.9
Incarnation: Chosen of EluneOff-GCD	0.7
Moonkin Form	0.5

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Moonfire 2 Sunfire 3 Moonfire 4 Moonfire 5 Moonfire 6 Lunar EclipseOff-GCD 7 Sunfire 8 Moonfire 9 Moonfire 10 Sunfire 11 Moonfire 12 Moonfire 13 Sunfire 14 Fury of Elune 15 BarkskinOff-GCD

1 Moonfire 2 Sunfire 3 Moonfire 4 Lunar EclipseOff-GCD 5 Moonfire 6 Sunfire 7 Starfire 8 Moonfire 9 Moonfire 10 BarkskinOff-GCD 11 Sunfire 12 Moonfire 13 Sunfire 14 Fury of Elune 15 Incarnation: Chosen of EluneOff-GCD

1 Moonfire 2 Moonfire 3 Sunfire 4 Moonfire 5 Moonfire 6 Moonfire 7 Moonfire 8 Sunfire 9 Starfall 10 Sunfire 11 Moonfire 12 Fury of Elune 13 Incarnation: Chosen of EluneOff-GCD 14 Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD 15 Light's PotentialOff-GCD

#showtooltip Moonfire
/cast Lunar Eclipse
/cast Moonfire

The Patch 12.1 Omnium Folio has five rune rows. This is what the sampled top logs actually run in each row, read from the runes' own damage, healing and buff traces. Bold = most picked. Rows 1 and 5 are procs, so their share is inferred from the traces they leave.

Row	Raid	Mythic+
Row 1	Rune of Unleashed Fire 100%	Rune of Unleashed Fire 90% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 10%
Row 2	Rune of Self-Mending 59% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 8% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 3%	Rune of Self-Mending 49% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 46% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 5%
Row 3	Rune of Lingering 100%	Rune of Lingering 100%
Row 4	Rune of Critical Power 54% Rune of Masterful Cunning 46%	Rune of Masterful Cunning 59% Rune of Critical Power 36% Rune of Burning Haste 5%
Row 5	Rune of Overload 92% Rune of Echoes 8%	Rune of Overload 92% Rune of Echoes 8%

The GearInsight addon shows the same table next to your own current runes and can switch every row to the recommended one in one click.

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip Rebirth
/cast [@mouseover,help]Rebirth;Rebirth

#showtooltip Remove Corruption
/cast [target=mouseover,help,nodead][target=target] Remove Corruption

#showtooltip Heart of the Wild
/cast [nostance:1] Bear Form
/cast Heart of the Wild

#showtooltip
/cancelform [nostance:4]
/dismount [nostance:4]
/cast [nostance:4] Moonkin Form

/stopmacro [channeling:Convoke the Spirits]
/cast Starsurge

#showtooltip Celestial Alignment
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Berserking
/cast Celestial Alignment

#showtooltip Innervate
/cast [@mouseover,exists] Innervate

#showtooltip Soothe
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Soothe

#showtooltip Hibernate
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Hibernate

#showtooltip Cyclone
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Cyclone

#showtooltip Force of Nature
/cast [@cursor] Force of Nature

#showtooltip Ursol's Vortex
/cast [@cursor] Ursol's Vortex

#showtooltip Moonfire
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@target,harm,nodead]Moonfire

#showtooltip Sunfire
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@target,harm,nodead]Sunfire

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Starfire	15.5
2	Starfall	12.7
3	Starsurge	7.6
4	Moonfire	6.8
5	Sunfire	3.6
Z	Fury of Elune	2.4
X	Lunar EclipseOff-GCD	1.9
C	BarkskinOff-GCD	0.9
V	Incarnation: Chosen of EluneOff-GCD	0.7
R	Moonkin Form	0.5