Malfurion
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Build: HEALING? NOT MY JOB! (ok just not now)
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When to go Balance?
Pros
Good sustained damage during fights with Moonfire.
Still has crazy heals with Regrowth, and Innervate is still Innervate.
Surprise burst with Twilight Dream can catch the entire team offguard and set the team up for combos.
Far less mana problems when compared to full healer Malfurion.
Great against dive heavy comp.
Very all-around and balanced. Happy accident with the name "Balance Druid".
Extremely fun, and not as bad as people would think.
Insane shoulder muscles for being over 15,000 years old.
Awesome fashion sense.
Cons
Starts out slow and feels like the usual healbot during the first levels.
People could potentially start to play worse just because you are a "troll". (Not true. Vol'Jin is a troll. You are a Night Elf.)
Twilight Dream requires you to be in the middle of the enemy team, which is never safe.
Damage spikes around mid-late game, but as heroes continue to level your talents shine a little less. Still solid utility and healing though!
Pretty much needs you to have either a team that is lighthearted, or friends in the group so randoms don't rage when they see Twilight Dream not doing so hot. (This is not the next op meta build, like anything else, it can go wrong :P Surprise surprise to them.)
Innervate |
This is the reason why people like you... Nah, just kidding, but this is a big reason why Malfurion is so pleasant to be around. This ability is like a heal, except it heals MANA! The only bad thing is that you can't cast it on yourself... Boring :( Innervate is a great tool to increase your team's ability to do stuff in fights. It grants % max mana instead of a set amount, so it's always a good thing to cast on your allies. Just keep an eye out on who needs it the most. Usually spammy mages will hug your leg so you Innervate them often--it is for good reason though. !! As of 27th of September (2016), Innervate now grants 50% Cooldown Reduction to the target. Meaning? The target recovering mana recharges their abilities 50% faster. That's INSANE! Use this on heroes with long cooldowns to make their life awesome. Use this on heroes with short CDs to make the enemy's life hell. USE THIS! |
Regrowth |
This is usually your bread and butter.
Regrowth is an amazing healing ability that pretty much is a click and forget. You see someone with low health? Boop them with Nature's grace and leave them to regrowth back to their healthy selves. The healing amount is insane at higher levels and frankly, it's the main reason why Balance Malfurion is not useless for the first minutes of the game. Just because of this ability you can be both useful in the healing department and damage department--just to give an idea about how powerful this heal is. Keep in mind that since it's a Healing Over Time effect, you can cast it if you know an ally is going to be suffering a great deal of damage, and as they take it, they restore it. It's a good call if you trust your instincts or know that no one is going to need that clutch heal any time soon. !! As of 27th of September (2016), Regrowth now recharges faster, and costs A LOT less. Use it more often! |
Moonfire |
This is your other bread and butter. Malfurion loves breakfast. This ability may seem like the weakest piece of fertilizer ever, but bear with it for some time and you'll see how much damage you rack up over the course of a skirmish as you choose the right talents. If you keep casting this thing on your enemies, you will constantly rain down a blast of moonlight every couple seconds, annoying them to no end and actually getting quite a good amount of damage overall. The "burst" damage isn't spectacular, but it's very cheap, very spammable, is an instant cast, has decent range and the area of effect is easy to hit with since it's so, so fast. I've grown to really love this ability even though it's underwhelming at first, and I hope so do you as well after playing around with Balance Druid. |
Entangling Roots |
This is your utility skill. This is an amazing ability once you master it, but if you just started it's really wonky to land. This is how it works: The moment you cast it, there's a small delay before leaves start to spread out. The wave of leaves root your enemies, meaning that obviously you will want to place it so your target is in the center. If other enemies step into the circle of leaves after it has spread out, they are also rooted, which also means that this is an amazing zoning tool to keep enemies away from your squishies. The main reason why the spread is relatively slow and the root works that way it's because it was designed as a counter ability. You are supposed to place it under a harassed targets and as they run away, their pursuer is rooted. BUT! Balance Druids don't counter fights--we seek fights. Learn to land this ability, and you will love it with your heart and soul. !! As of 27th of September (2016), Entangling Roots now is pretty much instant. This just means the leaning curve for this skill is relatively gone, so fire away! Rooting enemies has never been easier :D Same tips, all apply, but now the root starts almost on-cast. |
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Twilight Dream
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Now, this... NOW, THIS--is an AMAZING ability. People always write it off because Malfurion is a healbot in this game. Well guess what? The ARCHDRUID is no longer a healbot. PREPARE FOR YOUR DOOM. YOU SHALL BE DESTROYED BY THE MIGHT OF THE TWILIGHT DREAM! This skill is just bonkers in terms of sheer damage and utility. It silences your enemies for THREE SECONDS. THREEEE SECONDS. This means that for 3 entire seconds, those who were unfortunate enough to be caught within your power will not be able to fight properly. Yes, there are auto-attack oriented heroes, but every one loves their abilities and not be able to cast them is always hurtful. See how League of Legends tries so hard to remove Silence? Yup, it's THAT strong of a debuff. Oh, and the damage ain't anything to scoff at. You can easily chunk all enemy squishies for about a third of their maximum health in an INSTANT EXPLOSION. There is no counterplay from this ability since to the eyes of the enemy there is no cue, and once the damage is done, it's done. They are silenced, you are slamming their faces with Moonfires, and it's all beautiful.Oh and it also increases mana regen. Who doesn't love mana regen? |
Tranquility |
This is the Heroic you did not choose. If you chose this... Then what are you doing here? :O For new people this is an aoe heal that lasts for a couple seconds. It's ok I guess, but it's no Twilight Dream!... Ok, this is actually this is an insane heroic, just not for this playstyle. |
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Entangling Roots. This ability is your key during the early game, and you never know if you may need it. Don't use it just for poke and fun! Moonfire at the beginning because due to its instant nature, if you can land one the split second before you land your root, you essentially doubled your DPS since
Moonfire's cooldown is so short. Keep in mind that if you are not certain you will be able to land the root, just cast
Entangling Roots. This is extreme "min-maxing" and really it's not that big of a deal. I just threw it out there as a neat idea, no need to stress over a single
Moonfire if it's going to cost you the root. Regrowth part of the Rotation?" Regrowth on them and watch as the damage they take gets negated as time passes.
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Twilight Dream. The damage and big howl that this skill produces is extremely satisfying to watch, yes, but remember that you should not be saving this to finish of enemies. I repeat, do not think of this as a "wombo finisher". It's a wombo starter, that I can assure you, or even a "linker" as you can keep the combo going with your Silence, but it's not a finisher at core. You can get kills of course, but your main goal is to silence everyone and lay down some heavy damage for your assassins to clean up. This is the reason why I did not stop the rotation at
Twilight Dream. Your job is most likely unfinished after dropping the Dream. Moonfire as long as you have more than 25 or 30% of your mana, because you can. Your talents let you spam those
Moonfires at a low cost and the damage just racks up from there. Keep around a third or a fourth of your mana for the clutch heals, but remember that you shouldn't really be the only healer anyways. So yeah, fire away! All the
Moonfire talents really shine when you can just spam nonstop, and I assure you it's extremely fun to watch your enemies wither away as you land one blast of moonlight after the other without catching a breath.
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Bolt of the Storm at Tier 7, level 20. The moment you jump into the enemy team with this blink and slam down the power of the
Twilight Dream, you can start spamming away as enemies fumble under your imposing presence only fitting of the true Archdruid. I absolutely love doing this if I am sure that the enemy team cannot burst me down during this time, and that's why I pick
Bolt of the Storm. But beware that you may still be in trouble after the dream is dropped, that's why you will most likely want a tank to either follow up or for you to follow into the fray. It's not easy to find a good moment to blink in and drop the Dream, but as you become more and more experienced and learn how much Malfurion can do or can't do, you begin to see possibilities that will mark the difference between a win-ensuring engagement and a bad one. I myself still have some work to do regarding this, but I am sure that in the future I will be able to make full use of this combo's potential.
Twilight Dream, the Dream can also be a setup for a good
Entangling Roots to secure a great combo initiator.|
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This could arguably be the to-go ability. Before, I saw this as a big mana sink since it encourages non-heroic damage, but really in the later phase of the match the difference it makes is huge as the damage ramps up. 100% damage increase is literally doubled the damage! That plus the increased area of effect we're getting just makes Malfurion an insane pushing machine.
Twilight Dream really amps up the mana regen so mana becomes a small problem as soon as level 10 is hit. I would say pick this 49 out of 50 times.
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This little treant does far more than people realize. It increases your overall damage, creates a body for enemies to missclick in the heat of battle, and soaks a neat amount of turret ammo / merc damage if that's something you need after the teamfight is won and pushing is the main goal. Thing is the others don't really have much synergy with our playstyle.
 Rampant Growth is for mainly healers,
 Versatile is for
Innervate mana-battery builds, and
 Elune's Grace, albeit nice, is something I never really liked. But I want to mention that I do not choose
Elune's Grace for personal taste. I like being in the fray and
Regrowth usually keeps me alive. Not to mention,
Twilight Dream requires us to be in the middle of the enemy team anyways, and our "combo" makes the extra range not as useful as it is for other Malfurion builds. Take it if you really like it, but I just love the increased damage of
Vengeful Roots and feel it's a core part of this build. further and further.
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This is an amazing talent for our damage. Malfurion can use every single boost in overall damage from his rather passive talent tree, and this one comes in very, very handy. Yes, it's pretty much just pure damage, but a 100% increase to the already half-decent root damage will make your DPS jump up when you catch enemies with your
Entangling Roots. Now, why didn't I choose the others when this talent is so one-sided (only focuses on damage and nothing else)? The other talents are all too focused on supporting. We don't need increased Regrowth duration because we are not healers; we don't need the MULE because, well, it's not really picked anyways and the treant is more useful for actual fights; and we don't need the Cleanse as much in this build because we appreciate damage more, and you cannot cast
 Cleanse on yourself. You should have another support doing that job, so you should be free to push the boundaries of your teamfight damage
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Yeah. Alright, I'll use this opportunity to say more stuff about this ability. Use it to negate enemy flankers, use it to negate their backlines from fighting back, use it because it's an awesome and strong ability. It has silence which is an awesome crowd control and the damage scales nicely throughout the game. Core of this build, no "situational picks" in this tier! :P |
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This is the second core part of the build. You will not believe how helpful the mana reduction is. The increased radius however, is what makes this talent a must pick. It makes
Moonfire a large area of effect instead of the puny little blast that we had to play with the entire game, and landing some heavy poke becomes so much easier with the skill becoming both cheaper and more mana efficient. Overall, this talent makes the build twice as fun, and it's a must pick.
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DISCLAIMER! This is a separate section, but the reason is because while we already picked Lunar Shower as the to-go talent, the other ones are also very useful and strong when used right. All other talents in this tier are great, so I feel like it's a must to explain a little bit (And well, offer situational picks since they are all so strong). |
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This is an amazing talent, period. People love this talent for a reason, and it's because it ain't that hard to keep yourself topped off, and more often than not you will be able to recover all your health (and your teammates') with a Tranquility pop in the middle of a teamfight. But why is this not the to-go talent choice when it's pretty much a 50% cooldown reduction? Well... you will be hanging around with the enemy team a lot.
Twilight Dream requires you to be in the middle of the enemy team, and I'm not kidding, the MIDDLE, you won't really be able to be topped off as often, and the main skill you want off cooldown,
Moonfire, can be cast quicker with a talent below. But again, this talent is amazing. You can still keep yourself topped off with a Regrowth, and more roots and
Regrowth means more utility for the team, but at this point your
Moonfire suddenly is literally twice as spammable and twice as effective, so yeah.
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This is the least powerful in this tier, but it's good regardless. It increases your utility by a great margin, and we know how well damage and utility work together. Increased root and area of effect just makes your job easier to do, and that is to disrupt and destroy your opponent's plans through damage and crowd control... But there's just another talent that is too sweet in most cases. However do take note this could still be a superior pick in situations where for some reason you don't have the time to spam as much Moonfire and need desperate rooting.
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Utility! Combine the enlarged area of effect from
Full Moonfire and just how spammable the skill becomes, the enemy team will be constantly slowed as you rain down pain from the moon and blast their faces off with an easier to setup
Twilight Dream. Amazing tool when you need slows for some reason, though keep in mind even though immobile heroes are doomed as you slow them constantly, some mobile heroes won't care about the slows. Very situational, just like
Tenacious Roots above.
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Now this is the stuff. This is the good stuff. Last talent made
Moonfire more mana efficent by increasing the size of the blast, and even cheaper. Now what do we need? Yes. DAMAGE. More damage. What else? REDUCED COOLDOWN.
Lunar Shower does exactly what its name suggests. You will start raining down the real pain once you pick this talent, and remember when I said that your damage peaks in a mid-length fight? Well that is no longer true as your damage ramps up incredibly fast with how much faster you can cast
Moonfire. You will go insane with this choice, so keep in mind your mana. Yes, you will be able to cast like twice as fast for the same mana price, but remember that you still have to manage your mana. This talent is a big one for this build, but the other tier 6 talents are incredibly strong in their right situations. If you feel like you have been doing your job just fine, or you know that with this boost you may be able to complete your Balance Druid feel, then don't even hesitate, just do it! |
| This is it. The final talent. Every single hero in the game achieved their peak in power level and now it's time for you to choose your final weapon. Again, there is a to-go talent, but the others are pretty good, so I feel compelled to explain. |
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This is a great talent for this build. The moment you feel like the enemy team is shrugging off the silence easily, pick
Nightmare. There you go, they will be absolutely CRIPPLED when they are hit by
Twilight Dream because not only is the silence FOUR seconds long, there will be a 50% slow applied, which literally halves their movement speed for the duration. It pretty much prevents them from doing useful things for 4 seconds, and that is huge. Unlike most Upgraded Heroic talents, you do not get increased damage, and that may sound unappealing, but the increased silence and slow are worth it without a doubt.
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Not as bad of a talent as it could seem, but it's just overshadowed by the others. However, keep in mind it's an extremely strong, burst of survability for your entire team if you are close to them. What is a little counter-intuitive is the fact that instead of being in the middle of the enemy team,
Storm Shield requires you to be in the middle of your own team. Plus the fact that you should have a support anyways, makes this talent not as appealing even though it's very strong.
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Well, this does not do much for you besides resetting your
Entangling Roots cooldown and
Regrowth. It's not useful for Malfurion overall and I say skip it.
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Again, this is the GOOD STUFF. This talent is an instant blink that helps you reposition yourself. You may ask, why would I need to dash to places? Well, remember how you had to land a root or follow up a combo if you wanted a safe
Twilight Dream cast? Well, this lets you instantly appear in the middle of the enemy team and pop the Dream, sabotaging and crippling the entire enemy team before they can even react. This is the great combo I was talking about. This is both extremely fun and a huge surprise when the enemy gets caught offguard, and I say that it's good enough to pretty much be the to-go. Yes,
Nightmare is a good competitor, but this one could be picked a slight bit more often. I would say probably it's a 55/45 between this and
Nightmare.
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How the Furion Rolls
Regrowths. It is not focused on pure damage, but you love the
Moonfire spam. So, how do you go about playing Balance Druid Malfurion? Well, it's actually quite simple once you get the hang of it.
Malfurion requires a different kind of mindset when played in an "off-meta" way. You are no longer as worried about your teammates, but remember that you DO have an amazing healing ability on your Q, one of the best if not the best basic healing in the game, so make use of that. Don't use one more
Moonfire just because you think a Twilight Dream Malfurion is all about that sweet dps. Yes, it's all about that damage and surprise factor, but you need living teammates to win. However, early game you are still going to be relying on your teammates to do most of the work since before hitting the late key talents, your damage output and spamming ability is still not as good as you would want them to be. Twilight Dream, you heal a lot with
Regrowth, you deal decent and constant dps with
Moonfire, and you bring great utility in terms of roots with
Entangling Roots and silence from the Dream itself. Oh, and did I mention that you have a mana battery as your trait? Yup, Balance Druid Malfurion does it all! With style. Twilight Dream and turn a teamfight around. Now, keep in mind something. A single
Twilight Dream cannot win you the fight. Yes, you can drop it and let your teammates capitalize on its surprise factor and crowd control assuming you also dropped the root, but if you are alone or your teammates are too low to do anything, it's not gonna end well. That's why I said Malfurion is a teamplayer. You do the plays, but this is a team game. Moonfire rain. Know which enemies love to sneak behind your squishies and snare that flanker the moment you see that weird warping thingy stealth heroes do. You pretty much have to keep an eye out on everything since you are supposed to help in every aspect. Healing, damage and utility, you gotta cover it all, because you have the potential. Malfurion as something besides a healbot. Moonburn as the go-to!HeroesFire is the place to find the perfect build guide to take your game to the next level. Learn how to play a new hero, or fine tune your favorite HotS hero’s build and strategy.
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