Toon Tweaking Boomkin DPS help!

[genocyde]

ok, I was always thinking that I had to go bear to tank, and when the moonkin went bear, it had no skills. What was your rotation on MK Panzertank?

Well I specced and glyphed pushback protection on wrath for tanking. I pulled with a few starfires hoping to proc eclipse on the first couple casts. As soon as a procced eclipse it was wrath spam till death. Having a hard time deciding if throwing up DoT's was a DPS gain as it made it harder to get the starfire eclipse proc fast enough. Use your trees as well or drop them on adds for some leet offtanking.

Spec - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#0vM0uVIscdhAuRuZrhczb:hr Theres plenty of talents in here that you can shift around for preference. Just make sure you take pushback protections and owlkin frenzy (i haven't checked yet to see owlkin frenzies uptime... Wrath glyph and pushback protection might be unnecessary if frenzy is up enough).

PvP gear helps a ton for tanking but I don't have much for my moonkin set yet.

[Style1one]

I have raided as a druid for multiple years as my main. In that time it was mixed between resto and boomkin.

At the current state, the general gearing wise is sp > haste > crit while leveling.

When you hit 80 it is, hitcap in sp gear then sp > haste soft cap (401) > starfire crit cap (depends on your group/raid buffs but basicly will crit ever starfire you cast) > haste over soft cap > int > spir

Adding the IS and MF glyphs will hugely increase your dps.

To max dps, you never want to clip dots (is/mf) in short if there is 5 seconds left on eclipse then you do not refresh that druids dots. If there is more then that, then you refresh that druids dots.

You only need one to have improved ff.

For watching the eclipse procs you are able to set up power auras to do just that. (though the screen shot is some months old the timers with icons on the middle left of my screen shown here is power auras)


I would sugjest this build while leveling. http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#0xG0u...uZbxczb:fruzMV (make sure one of your druids has imp ff)

and when you get to 80 and have the 2/4 t9 bonus where mf can crit on its periodic strikes then add imp mf to it.

Hopefully that helps you out.

[Seldum]

Thanks for all the nice information

[Style1one]

to add what has been previously stated. If you are having issues with keeping eclipse and just find all together you can not manage the buff and cd timeing between. Each solar and lunar have there own cd. That is 30s.

So to look at that using the genral idea (it does not boost your dps which you choose to try and proc first though I tend to try and proc lunar first but that is just to my likeing).

Proc lunar happens (by casting wrath). I now have a 30s cd till lunar can proc agin. I have 15s that this buff will stay up. With being starfire crit cap once this happens I should imidiatly go into a solar eclipse on the first cast after the lunar buff wears off. (Lunar is now at 15s left on cd). So with in 1-3 second I am now into a solar eclipse. On proc it then will go into a 30s cd till it can proc agin. Once it is done, this is where haste soft cap and then haste after starfire crit cap comes to play, I want to be able to cast wraths as fast as I can in order to get into lunar eclipse for lunar is off of its cd once solar buff has worn off.

Having the t9 idol, you will be having that proc almost at all times running strong and due to having to ramp up the t10 idol, and unless you are massivly raiding you over all should get more out of the t9 idol then the t10.

If you still find it hard to manage the eclipse proc. For gear wise just go hit cap > Sp > Haste. This will allow you to spam starfire more and with the haste in the game as it is get it to about 1.2 (with talent procs) - 1.8s casts. So if to much is going on, you are finding that you are having issue in the fight to watch the proc, just set up a macro where it casts wrath then starfire. Though this will not give full max potential you could have.

As for talking about power auras, you are able to set it up so it can watch buffs, debuff and such things on other players. So in your team being a feral, 3 boomkin, and 1 tree. My sugjestions on this, is use the spell icon for the notifier, and there is a setting to set the glow color of the proc. So to give you an idea

Druid 1 Red Glow
Druid 2 Blue Glow
Druid 3 Green Glow

With those visual ques, it may help with being able to take more note on who is proced and who is not.
It would take a little getting used to but to add to that. If you set up your starfire and wrath macros yes there would be 8 of them. But it would help out greatly.

Macro 1
wrath
wrath
starfire

Macro 2
wrath
starfire
wrath

Macro 3
starfire
wrath
wrath

Macro 4
starfire
starfire
wrath

Macro 5
starfire
wrath
starfire

Macro 6
wrath
starfire
starfire

Macro 7
starfire,

Macro 8
wrath

In doing that, you persay could set Macro 1-6 on persay v + shift, alt, ctrl, shift/alt, ctrl/alt. And v with out a midifyer.

Then just set up 7 and 8 on the same key using a modifyer for one of the two. It will take time to learn it, but will help massivly when they are running on other procs then one another.

As the reasoning in the dots and why they are so dam important is that, they do modify wrath and starfire, not to mention there personal dps.

[Seldum]

Well this would almost be like playing a piano then with all the buttons

Thanks for the details.

I was thinking about something. Prior I have been very "single" target focussed when doing instances. But everytime I do PUG the runs are so much faster since they AOE everything down.

Woulden't this be a viable alternative for trash? Have a simple single target dps macro and maybe utilize and spec for AoE damage aswell?