DPS Druids

[sp0000n]

I have 3 druids (60) levelling together to catch up to a fourth (70). Prior to the patch they were all boomkin types but this new moonfire/sunfire stuff is just beyond me to manage.

Would you guys recommend levelling them as feral cats or stick to the nuking without bothering to manage the eclipse mechanic?

[Boylston]

Stick to boomkin. Do not worry about eclipse for now.

[Ualaa]

Either spec will work well.
You have a lot of damage, focused onto a single target.

Feral Cats require Click to Move and Interact With Target.
I have a team of these, and they're quite fun to play.
If you go this route, you'll open with Feral Charge (Cat) and Ravage.
With a lot of Mangle spam, to down things.
Anything harder will include Rake and Rip, for the dot power.

Boomkins can Insect Swarm & Moonfire anything that will live a while.
But you can straight Wrath or Starfire spam anything too.
If you want, do castsequences where you do 8-10 of one, and then the other.
Or go with two buttons.
Or just ignore the Eclipse mechanic, as things will die fast anyway.

[Blubber]

I'm struggling with boomkin DPS as well. Made a very simple little addon, that checks your eclipse status after and right before entering combat. It switches to actionbar page 1 when your eclipse points to the lunar direction, and it switches to actionbar 2 if it points in the sun direction. So I have my starfire rotation on key 2 of page 2, and my wrath rotation on key 2 of page 1. It doesn't work as well as managing it manually, but at least you get to use your eclipse on some level.

Addon can be found here: http://blubber.student.utwente.nl/~blubber/

[sp0000n]

Thanks, folks. These tips help tremendously.

Blubber, I redid my toons to feral but will most certainly be giving your addon a try when I'm boomkining again.

[Blubber]

I would hardly call it an addon tbh, with a bit of effort you can probably compact it into 5 lines of lua. Anyway, it does seem to work. My 67 boomkin did around 450 ish DPS (thats in feral gear, bar some pieces), with this addon and a slightly better rotation it's up in the 600s, which is an increase of roughly 30%, not bad if you ask me :).