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Nurturing Instinct

Nurturing Instinct2 ranks

Magical damage and healing increased by 6%.

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TypeTalent
Ranks2 ranks
ClassDruid
Specializations4
Tree sectionDruid class talents
Row5 of 13
Game build12.1.5
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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 Growth

    Heals 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 Form

    Shapeshift 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 Corruption

    Nullifies 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 Recovery

    Healing you receive is increased by 4%.

  • Astral Influence

    Increases the range of all of your spells by 5 yards.

  • Aessina's Renewal

    When 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.

  • Maim

    Finishing 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

  • Ironfur

    Increases armor for 7 sec. Multiple uses of this ability may overlap.

  • Improved Barkskin

    Barkskin's duration is increased by 4 sec.

  • Hibernate

    Forces 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.

  • Sunfire

    A 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).

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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)
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