45 Mana · 30 yd range · Instant
Insect Swarm ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 The enemy target is swarmed by insects, decreasing their chance to hit by 2% and causing 55 Nature damage over 12 sec.
Slot corrected from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.
What Insect Swarm does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 The enemy target is swarmed by insects, decreasing their chance to hit by 2% and causing 66 Nature damage over 12 sec.
Where Insect Swarm sits in the Balance tree
Insect Swarm is a Balance talent for Druid. You need 15 points in Balance before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Vengeance, Improved Starfire
How often people take Insect Swarm
50 of the 142 public Druid builds saved here — 35% — put at least one point in Insect Swarm. 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.
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage