Nurturing Instinct
Tree position
In the Balance Druid talent tree, Nurturing Instinct sits in the Druid class talents, row 5 of 13. It takes 2 points to fill.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Nurturing Instinct from Wild Growth, Moonkin Form and Remove Corruption.
Wild GrowthHeals up to 5 injured allies of the target for (336.7% of Spell Power) over 7 sec. Healing starts high and declines over the duration. Tree of Life: Affects 2 additional targets.
Moonkin FormShapeshift into Astral Form, increasing the damage of your spells by 10% and your armor by 125%, and granting protection from Polymorph effects. While in this form, single-target attacks against you have a chance to make your next Starfire instant. The act of shapeshifting frees you from movement impairing effects.
Remove CorruptionNullifies corrupting effects on the friendly target, removing all Curse and Poison effects.
Connected below
Nurturing Instinct leads on to Natural Recovery, Astral Influence and Aessina's Renewal.
Natural RecoveryHealing you receive is increased by 4%.
Astral InfluenceIncreases the range of all of your spells by 5 yards.
Aessina's RenewalWhen a hit deals more than 12% of your maximum health, instantly heal for 10% of your health. This effect cannot occur more than once every 30 seconds.
Same row
Also on this row: Maim, Ironfur, Improved Barkskin, Hibernate and Sunfire.
MaimFinishing move that causes Physical damage and stuns the target. Damage and duration increased per combo point: 1 point : damage, 1 sec 2 points: damage, 2 sec 3 points: damage, 3 sec 4 points: damage, 4 sec 5 points: damage, 5 sec
IronfurIncreases armor for 7 sec. Multiple uses of this ability may overlap.
Improved BarkskinBarkskin's duration is increased by 4 sec.
HibernateForces the enemy target to sleep for up to 40 sec. Any damage will awaken the target. Only one target can be forced to hibernate at a time. Only works on Beasts and Dragonkin.
SunfireA quick beam of solar light burns the enemy and all enemies for (21.2% of Spell Power) Nature damage and then an additional (165.6% of Spell Power) Nature damage over 18 sec. Generates Astral Power.
Talent trees
Nurturing Instinct is in the talent tree of 4 specializations. Druid: Balance (DPS), Feral (DPS), Guardian (Tank), Restoration (Healer).
Nurturing Instinct Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)