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 WrathOff-GCD 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 Moonfire
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Incarnation: Chosen of Elune
/cast Moonfire

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
Empowering VenomOff-GCD	0.5
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 Moonfire 3 Sunfire 4 Moonfire 5 Sunfire 6 Moonfire 7 Sunfire 8 Moonfire 9 Moonfire 10 Moonfire 11 Moonfire 12 BarkskinOff-GCD 13 Sunfire 14 Moonfire 15 Sunfire

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

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	16.3
2	Starfall	12.7
3	Moonfire	6.8
4	Starsurge	6.5
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	Empowering VenomOff-GCD	0.5
F	Moonkin Form	0.5
T	Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD	0.5