Boomkin+4xToW = Fun, fun, fun!

Respecced out of my arena spec to farm some shards, make a little cash, and level up my little L66 boomkin druid.

4xToW + Moonkin Aura = 17% crit and 12% hit = Fun!

I think I did Steamvault in 16min for the fastest run...

You can read more about it here, but the shamans were running with about 45-47% crit chance. Mana usage was also incredibly low due to the 40% mana reduction post-crit. I synchronized my druid's Starfire (with 15% chance to Stun) with Lightning Bolt to great effect.

The second boss goes down so fast that I can safely ignore the little healing gnomes (or just power through up to 5 of them). The last boss doesn't live long enough to do his tank/enrage mechanic. It's sexy.

I shudder to think what's possible if my druid was L70 and had any kind of reasonable gear. Still, at L66, he reliably hits the L70-72 content due to the +12% crit bonus.

This is the way to farm normal mode stuff fast and in style!

Keep it Up man, I like Boomkins ;) and with 12 treants it's going to be nice some kind of the Lord of the Rings scene with the Tower ;)

Great to hear it's working out for you Boyl. Not to try and derail from your experience, but is 2% more crit really THAT big of a deal? Honestly I'd imagine you'd really have a hard time even being able to feel the bonus from it. Also, if you had a 5th shaman the damage would probably be more synchronized anyways, not to mention the boomkin probably runs out of mana much sooner since he doesn't have a clearcasting like the shams do. Druids do bring some extra utility though, with buffs and brez. It sounds like a fun team nonetheless.

I'll be honest.... I did the same, but I've dropped the druid now.

Because of the spell synergy, I just couldn't get the druid to do anything like the DPS of the shammies, even once I'd geared her up a bit. See the armoury link below for details, her name is Floriana. She's got virtually the same spell dmg as the shammies, but was only peaking at about 60% of their DPS. I've given up and parked her now, slowly levelling a 5th shammy on rested to join up with the other 4.

I absolutely love moonkin + 4 shammies. 3% to crit and hit doesn't seem like much- but it STACKS. That's why when you actually read his post, he is about 50% crit rate. The reason for the druid is to boost the shammies dps- not be the uber dps. Plus it gives you crowd control options for pvp. :)

But I'd expect the druid to be able to at least hit 75% or more of the shammy DPS, mine actually has more Spell Dmg than 1 of the shammies, so for me, the extra 2% crit didn't live up to the hype, but whatever floats your boat.

The combo is mad i love it.
I believe that MOTW+Moonkin Aura+Hot healing is alot better than a 5th shaman.

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I absolutely love moonkin + 4 shammies. 3% to crit and hit doesn't seem like much- but it STACKS. That's why when you actually read his post, he is about 50% crit rate. The reason for the druid is to boost the shammies dps- not be the uber dps. Plus it gives you crowd control options for pvp. :)

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I believe you misunderstood me. Yes, TOW stacks, I know that and it's a fantastic tool to use with multiple shammies. What I was saying was that having a druid over a 5th shammy means you get 5% to crit from aura, instead of 3% crit/hit from a 5th TOW. Thus you are really only gaining 2% more crit over having another shammy.

I'm just saying that since the druid in the group doesn't have a clearcasting equivelant, he doesn't have the stamina like the shamans do. To me on paper that just doesn't sound like a good tradeoff, but I've never tried it so I can only theorycraft.

i don't feel that the 2% is worth losing a shaman over... the shaman synergy = the wins... + 4 totems.

1+ grounding totem > Oomkin anyday in pvP.