As the Insect Swarm apologist himself let me be the first to say. *This does nothing to address the SHEER damage differential between us an other specs*. Sunfire/Moonfire shouldn't overlap one another, there has to be a way to shift between Eclipses faster for better NG uptime, and either Starfall needs it's splash damage back, or Starsurge needs a chance on cast to reset it entirely. I am having so little fun right now it hurts.
To the first, yes, that's called later expansions. To the second, yes, that's called higher levels of haste. Phase one the actual problem with moonkin that everyone has forgotten is that our t11 4pc used to be the most powerful set effect for the tier. We are using the gimped PoS 4piece that was released in firelands in order to get people to drop t11 for t12.
Hey, is it possible to do a rotation guide or a priority guide for balance dps in cata? Woud be insane atm right before firelands, like hold shropms on cd or only do it in solar or hold you dots on 100% uptime or just aplie it if you in an eklipse some like that ❤❤ and nice videos brooo
Solar buffing mushrooms is the biggest reason I sit in solar during multi target/trash fights, unless they also make mushrooms spellstorm damage, this is still isnt equalized.
Exactly this. We plan our solar eclipse around add phases in raids (and for all the trash packs in dungeons) for the mushroom damage, not because insect swarm did more dmg in solar than lunar.
Agreed. It's one of those mechanics that's.. kinda interesting and does require some thought sometimes, but just doesn't feel good and isn't fun for most people
I think in Bliz's eyes, the "Little bit of damage loss" is the opener nerf with the 0 solar reset, not the sunkin, because that wasn't a thing they were willing to allow . I will say that having the 2 mastery trinkets to snapshot on trash isn't a huge pain in the ass to do and is a big dmg boost for trash
Yoo this is actually something I wanted. Another nice change would be something like an incarnation spell from retail Balance Druid. Some sort of CD that immediately puts us in an eclipse every 2 or 3 mins.
meh... they should probably change Shrooms to Spellstorm damage too. Feels so bad to be in a AoE situation while NOT in Solar Eclipse. Ofc you can delay your Eclipses by casting the "wrong" spell and doing healer level dps which just feels wrong. All in all Boomies right now are hopping through hoops for VERY average damage. Nothing new for Classic Moonkins I guess, but it sure starts to get old, especially now since the spec brings no unique buffs to the raid.
That's what separates a 95 percent from the masses.. right eclipse, right time. Master it and you're actually doing very very well stacked up to anybody but a fire mage.
I mean.. the fact that we dont bring anything that is not already brought AND our damage being so low. Yeah .. just trying to trick us into feeling like they care with a BUFF that doesn't make up for it. I didnt enjoy sunkin personaly, But i like prepping my bar to start in eclipse and still do decent numbers. Now its a FAR to long of a ramp-up to even be competative. (not that we had a huge chance as it was). So, until they figure things out, my raid prefers me playing a REAL DPS CLASS, so stuck on hunter for now. /sigh (no not playing mage =P)
Why would you switch to a worse spec that's only useful as an offtank, instead of a spec that does suboptimal single target but good aoe and great multi target cleave? If you're that desperate to be a FOTM reroller just make an ele Shaman or UH DK.
I was new to wow in classic, and have been loving the evolution in boomie since then. So imagine my surprise when to me it feels like boomie is just awful to play in cata. I can literally parse 90 and be close to bottom of the meters. I can parse 50 on my mage, be top of dps and everyone compliment your performance, when I just mashed a few keys. Without starfall we can’t keep up on trash dps either, mushrooms too slow, 4 GCDs just to place them and detonate them. Just ruined my favourite class it feels like. Needs a serious buff imo.
Vanilla to TBC, Moonkin had some solid improvements, TBC to Wotlk, more solid improvements, then I agree, Cata, it changed too much. The Eclipse is very wonky, making us spend lots of time without our eclipse bonus, and but the Shrooms I kinda like, even with all the GCDs to get three down, since it allows for movement.
As the Insect Swarm apologist himself let me be the first to say. *This does nothing to address the SHEER damage differential between us an other specs*. Sunfire/Moonfire shouldn't overlap one another, there has to be a way to shift between Eclipses faster for better NG uptime, and either Starfall needs it's splash damage back, or Starsurge needs a chance on cast to reset it entirely.
I am having so little fun right now it hurts.
To the first, yes, that's called later expansions.
To the second, yes, that's called higher levels of haste.
Phase one the actual problem with moonkin that everyone has forgotten is that our t11 4pc used to be the most powerful set effect for the tier. We are using the gimped PoS 4piece that was released in firelands in order to get people to drop t11 for t12.
Hey, is it possible to do a rotation guide or a priority guide for balance dps in cata? Woud be insane atm right before firelands, like hold shropms on cd or only do it in solar or hold you dots on 100% uptime or just aplie it if you in an eklipse some like that ❤❤ and nice videos brooo
Solar buffing mushrooms is the biggest reason I sit in solar during multi target/trash fights, unless they also make mushrooms spellstorm damage, this is still isnt equalized.
Exactly this. We plan our solar eclipse around add phases in raids (and for all the trash packs in dungeons) for the mushroom damage, not because insect swarm did more dmg in solar than lunar.
i hate snap shotting so much
Agreed. It's one of those mechanics that's.. kinda interesting and does require some thought sometimes, but just doesn't feel good and isn't fun for most people
"To make up for that little bit of damage loss" is a massive understatement
I think in Bliz's eyes, the "Little bit of damage loss" is the opener nerf with the 0 solar reset, not the sunkin, because that wasn't a thing they were willing to allow . I will say that having the 2 mastery trinkets to snapshot on trash isn't a huge pain in the ass to do and is a big dmg boost for trash
I choked when you said damage meters.. I cant find my boomie on the first page of damage meters anymore. :P
Do a rotation guide please 🙏
Yoo this is actually something I wanted.
Another nice change would be something like an incarnation spell from retail Balance Druid. Some sort of CD that immediately puts us in an eclipse every 2 or 3 mins.
meh... they should probably change Shrooms to Spellstorm damage too. Feels so bad to be in a AoE situation while NOT in Solar Eclipse. Ofc you can delay your Eclipses by casting the "wrong" spell and doing healer level dps which just feels wrong.
All in all Boomies right now are hopping through hoops for VERY average damage. Nothing new for Classic Moonkins I guess, but it sure starts to get old, especially now since the spec brings no unique buffs to the raid.
That's what separates a 95 percent from the masses.. right eclipse, right time.
Master it and you're actually doing very very well stacked up to anybody but a fire mage.
I mean.. the fact that we dont bring anything that is not already brought AND our damage being so low. Yeah .. just trying to trick us into feeling like they care with a BUFF that doesn't make up for it. I didnt enjoy sunkin personaly, But i like prepping my bar to start in eclipse and still do decent numbers. Now its a FAR to long of a ramp-up to even be competative. (not that we had a huge chance as it was). So, until they figure things out, my raid prefers me playing a REAL DPS CLASS, so stuck on hunter for now. /sigh (no not playing mage =P)
Im just going feral at this point
Why would you switch to a worse spec that's only useful as an offtank, instead of a spec that does suboptimal single target but good aoe and great multi target cleave?
If you're that desperate to be a FOTM reroller just make an ele Shaman or UH DK.
I was new to wow in classic, and have been loving the evolution in boomie since then. So imagine my surprise when to me it feels like boomie is just awful to play in cata. I can literally parse 90 and be close to bottom of the meters. I can parse 50 on my mage, be top of dps and everyone compliment your performance, when I just mashed a few keys. Without starfall we can’t keep up on trash dps either, mushrooms too slow, 4 GCDs just to place them and detonate them. Just ruined my favourite class it feels like. Needs a serious buff imo.
Vanilla to TBC, Moonkin had some solid improvements, TBC to Wotlk, more solid improvements, then I agree, Cata, it changed too much. The Eclipse is very wonky, making us spend lots of time without our eclipse bonus, and but the Shrooms I kinda like, even with all the GCDs to get three down, since it allows for movement.
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