Update: How the 5x Boomkins are doing

[Evilseed]

so is this program used in conjunction with keyclone?

Yup

[Soundeyes]

What's the chance of having this (MC) ported over to OS X?

[DeathRush]

Evilsid:

my question is how do you do the aoe pulls in instances? you said you pull 2 groups at the same times sometimes, you cant do that every time as the trees and starfall is on 3 min cooldown, do you take out smaller groups one by one, and the larger ones with aoe?

(and it was a nice PVP video by the way)

(My 5 druid group is now at 63 with a 70 druid tanking)

[Mokoi]

Evilsid:

my question is how do you do the aoe pulls in instances? you said you pull 2 groups at the same times sometimes, you cant do that every time as the trees and starfall is on 3 min cooldown, do you take out smaller groups one by one, and the larger ones with aoe?

(and it was a nice PVP video by the way)

(My 5 druid group is now at 63 with a 70 druid tanking)

Boomkin staple AOE is hurricane, and the added dmg bonus of starfall while casting hurricane is negligible, and certainly not required for every pull. Earlier in the post he stated that 2 hurricanes are sufficient for any group of elites. I believe he does what I do, lifebloom > lifebloom > regrowth > rejuv > lifebloom on the tank and then let him pick everything up, casting one more lifebloom to roll while aoeing, and then letting it proc while finishing off the mobs.

This is the most efficient way to AOE tank elites I have found, and I am anxious to give his MC program a try to speed up the aoe portion of the fight =)

[pengwynman]

Level 52

Why dont you have Gale Winds in your talent spec? +range cyclone, +damage hurricane and typhoon?

-Totemic

i haven't specced into it because i never really used cyclone or hurricane for leveling, so i figured i would be better off using talents elsewhere.

buuutt..... i hit 80 yesterday! :thumbsup: so we'll see how things go, i might be respeccing soon :P

[Mokoi]

grats on 80! I dont have enough time to play this month and my guys are still 65 ><

[nakago]

Grats on 80!!

[Rowdysattva]

Gratz on 80 and congratz on evilseed coming up with a program to help target aoe... really, really, really, amazingly, really good.

I am also very interested in how you can do in arena with a x5 druid set up. I have a x5 druid set up with all at 62 and one at 64 atm. I thought that with dual spec i could have them all balance or have 3 balance and one feral and one resto if needed for heroics. One of my goals was/is to do some endgame arena and so i am especially interested in how x5 druid is with arena. I also have the one pally and x4 shaman all at about 66 atm. I want to try out shaman at above 75 to see how LvB changes things but i am really liking my druids.

The fear bombs scare me though. The shaman have a great way to handle fear bombs. I am wondering what the druids will do. I know somethings will probably work at lower opponent skill level so i am wondering about higher level skill opponents. Something i am not sure if i know much about.

Seems like 15 trees and x5 starfall would be pretty intense though for aoe and single target dps. Hurricane seems pretty bad with a few going at once too. Starting from steath is ftw. You mentioned you were blowing through many of the shaman boxers you met. Was this with hurricane? Many of the boxers i have met don't use a spread out macro well at all and so can get aoe'ed easily. If they were smart enough to spread out i think that would help.

Love to hear some stories and experiences around any of this musing.

oh
and
congrats


I notice that the shaman auto crit is gone. Overall that may be a buff but it will really change strats for them to be sure.

[pengwynman]

personally, i'm going to be running 5's with 4x druids and my friend playing his resto sham. it's really tough to constantly be switching out of boomkin to heal (don't want to be caught without the +armor bonus either) so having a dedicated healer is pretty much a must. that, plus spell damage totem, tremor, bloodlust (trees get bloodlust!), chain heal.... should be pretty formidable once we get some gear :]

[Rowdysattva]

Good point. I kinda assume that in 5's even with the shaman you want an extra player for the dedicated heals. One reason i have four shaman and +1 pally as well. I thought for arena the pally would stay home anyway.

For my druid i guess my feral/balance would stay home... or get his own different team.

Anyway plz let the forums know your experience in arena when you get through some of it.

SIDENOTE: I just posted about follow and mounts and it was in relation to some pvp in HFP. I had four of my shaman all EM CL one 66 DK that was /spit and /lol at them... and he didn't die... i think i just about died... from him not dieing. They all have about 700 spell power atm and all auto crit. I was thinking how the hell... then i remembered the pwn that is boneshield... he had boneshield up... 40% reduction in everyone of those CL

He died to the hammer of wrath anyway.