Thanks Blizzard...

[Alemi]

It's easier to manage eclipses across multiple characters. However... Multibox Boomkin PvP style is NOT to stand in one place and spurt out Wraths or Starfires over and over again. In my experience, it is a lot of loading up Moonfires and Insect Swarms on people and using Typhoon/Starfall to do great AoE burst. I rarely find myself just standing in one spot casting non-instants.

I totally agree against melee teams. Caster (spell-cleave) teams is probably where you'll see some benefit from eclipes.

I don't buy this. They will close on you before DoTs kill them. Too many tools to close and too many tools to get out of roots. It buys you time, and probably precious little. Any melee reinforced with some heals is going to be a big problem.

I've glad'ed it in 2s and 3s with my druid and find roots to be highly effective. Also, consider that with chaining macros you can use a /cast [target=arenax] Entangling Roots and effectively root the entire team, while moving. Include in a /cast [target=arenax] Solar Beam and you'll force a trinket pop, and at buy team to nuke down a single target.

In a rated BG - I'll agree that multiple melee will be a problem since you lack the arena frame to use the effective multi cc. I'm testing out ISboxer in picking targets based on tab and it's working out, semi-effectively.

I have always been excited by this. Just to confirm, you're saying that at L85 in beta, you can do around 7,000 x 3 x 5 (for a 5xboomkin team) on a full pop of mushrooms? Or 105,000 without factoring any crits into the picture? That's pretty good, better than I expected.

Correct. 100k damage from mushrooms.

My theorycraft is to start in stealth, get to a point you can CC their entire team asap (cyclone ideally) and drop your mushrooms since it will take ~6 seconds. If you force an early trinket, awesome, root/solar beam, stock up on AOE damage and wait for melee to come up and boom. You'll at least force healers to move and prevent some direct heals while they move out of the beams.

Fear vulnerability is also VERY high with this team.

On a side note - solar beam will make you effectively immune to fear bombs as well - with the exception of Intimidating Shout, as that is the only physical fear (Pychic Scream and Howl of Terror would be subject to silence effects).

Everything shamans were good at just gets better in Cataclysm, as near as I can tell. I love, love, love the playstyle of my druids right now, but I just think shaman will be more competitive in rated BGs.

And... if I'm wrong. I've already got the boomers sitting there at L80.

I'm really enjoying moonfire spamming people with full lunar showers up... 90% less mana cost, doing about 6k instant non-crit. And the new shooting stars is procing quite often (more than 4% it seems but i guess it evens out since it can tick from dot ticks) to cast an instant 20k starsurge.

[Boylston]

Overgrowth is gone

A little sad, what they should have done is required an entangling roots cast time.

-1 for the Druids.

[Mosg2]

Yeah I saw that this morning. It's a big hit.

Looks like Warlocks are going to be the third team for me