Genesis

Druid · Balance · available from the first tier · 5 ranks

Genesis does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Genesis ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases the periodic damage and healing done by your spells and abilities by 2%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases the periodic damage and healing done by your spells and abilities by 4%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases the periodic damage and healing done by your spells and abilities by 6%.
  4. Rank 4 Increases the periodic damage and healing done by your spells and abilities by 8%.
  5. Rank 5 Increases the periodic damage and healing done by your spells and abilities by 10%.

Where Genesis sits in the Balance tree

Genesis is a Balance talent for Druid. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.

How often people take Genesis

48 of the 148 public Druid builds saved here (32%) put at least one point in Genesis. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Genesis

5 of the public Druid builds written up here spend points on Genesis.

Where this came from

New in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
  • the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)