https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html Every change log entry for Everything you need to know about Balance druid PvP mechanics in Forever, newest first: corrections, updates and rewrites. en Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-10-alliance-roof https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-10-alliance-roof Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update Added a dated note to Carrying the flag that Blizzard opened the Alliance base roof in Warsong Gulch on 9 November, and the advice on roof spots is unchanged whilst it’s reviewed (the field note). https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-09-matchups https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-09-matchups Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update Five fights now links the new matchups guide, which takes every class in turn. Nothing in the fights changed. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-plainsrunning-tested https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-plainsrunning-tested Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update I tested Plainsrunning myself, so the guide now says it keeps building in Prowl and in forms but doesn’t add to Travel Form or Feral Swiftness until it passes them, and that it did nothing whilst I carried the flag. The Plainsrunning test has the detail. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-plainer https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-plainer Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update Reworded throughout to read more plainly, and nothing in the advice or the numbers changed. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-dash-rank-one https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-dash-rank-one Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Correction Dash adds 50% at its first rank in Forever, by its live tooltip, the same as Classic. The guide had given 40% as Classic’s figure, which was wrong, and its five-minute cooldown is now confirmed by the same tooltip. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-links https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-links Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update Linked the Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin and Darkspear Islands guides where this page talks about cover and the flag, and Contributing now links the open questions page. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-plain-reading https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-plain-reading Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update The Untested labels and the Still to test list are gone, and each claim now names what it rests on in the sentence, which for most of the engine rules is Classic. The recommendations, from the tier order to the dead zone, are stated plainly as the guide’s rather than as opinions. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-reads-easier https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-reads-easier Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Correction Corrected five things, six shifts cost about 22 untalented Wraths, not five or six, Starfire is a 3.5 second cast, not two, Charge range means walking out to 26 yards, not 25, the launch client does have a focus target, and the DeadZone measurement shows the beta client kept the old Hunter rule, not Forever. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-reworded https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-08-reworded Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update Reworded to read more easily, with the interrupts in a table, form numbers read off the stance bar (not the spellbook), each shift tied to a question on the form map, Nature’s Reach on Roots worded as Classic’s precedent, a free exit from a form marked Untested and the six-shift sum priced in one Wrath, and the rules underneath now follow the skills as a reference, with the closing above Still to test. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-07-vendors-down https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-07-vendors-down Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update Added a dated line to the trinket advice saying the PvP vendors are down at the time of writing, so nobody can buy the trinket until they’re back. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-07-natures-grasp https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-07-natures-grasp Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Correction Nature’s Grasp has no proc chance in Forever - the live tooltip roots the next melee attacker for certain, so the 35% is gone and the Warrior fight now plans around it landing. Hunter traps don’t share one cooldown either, Frost and Fire traps each have their own, with one of each down at a time. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-07-live https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-07-live Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Major Updated for the live game, with one Untested label replacing the old four, which puts most of the engine rules back on the test list, whilst the live tooltips settled Dash, Barkskin, War Stomp, Overgrowth and what each shift costs. Since launch, a Tauren loses Plainsrunning on picking up a flag (Kaivax’s 5 November hotfixes), and the PvP vendors are temporarily down, so nobody can buy the Rank 2 trinket yet. The launch week hotfixes note covers the hotfix. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-meta-line https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-meta-line Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Correction The line under the title said this guide was tested on live servers as they open, which could read as done already. It now says it will be, because none of it has been tested on a live server yet. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-short-version https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-short-version Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Major Added the short version at the top, fifteen of the seventeen skills with what to do and why it wins fights, for anyone who wants the answer before the detail. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-dash https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-dash Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Correction Corrected my own earlier correction - no Forever note mentions Dash, so it’s back to the Classic 40 and 50% and Unverified, and Nature’s Reach covering Roots is Probable. Also, the Cat Form Feral Charge doesn’t interrupt, Spell Lock is 6 to 8 seconds, hunter traps now share one cooldown, and Faerie Fire is free from Bear and Cat Form rather than castable from every form. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-launch https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-launch Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update Reworded the intro and byline, nothing in the mechanics changed. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-corrections https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-corrections Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Correction Corrected against the 26 October and 2 November notes - Plainsrunning now stacks to 60%, Dash’s second rank is 60%, Nature’s Reach stretches Roots too (so the old range tell is gone), and Entrapment has diminishing returns. Smaller fixes to leeway, Furor and Hurricane, and the stream starts once I hit 60, not at launch. https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-moved https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-04-moved Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Update Moved to Guides, at the address it’ll keep from here on (the content is still the pre-launch version). https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-01-published https://restokins.com/guides/balance-druid-pvp-mechanics.html#change-2026-11-01-published Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +1000 Major First published, written before launch from the patch notes, datamines and beta testing.