Thinking of respecing Boomkins

[Ualaa]

Swipe is garbage for DPS.
The only thing that can be said for it, is that it hits several at once.

Mangle is 35 Energy, and will very rapidly destroy anything that Swipe would have a chance to down.
Auto attack is initiated by the Mangle, and that is a significant portion of that damage.

Bear definitely has many times additional survival potential.

And if you're doing mass pulls, that will be faster boosting/leveling than anything you can do with a Cat.
However with fewer targets, Cat Form has as much higher DPS as Bear Form has higher survival.
Until the next expansion, Feral has both tanking and damage potential.

[sync00]

Ualaa,

I'm going to work on improving my gear and then I'll try cat some more.

I realized that meleeing with multiple toons is not going to work like it does with casting. I did some research and found your instructions on how to set up IWT for melee in ISBoxer. It makes my head spin and wonder if I should go back to casting. But I've grown to like melee.

[sync00]

I looked at the instructions again http://www.dual-boxing.com/showpost....69&postcount=3 and realized those are for a more complicated situation than a pure melee team.

Do I only need to set up IWT and CTM in WoW plus IWT in ISBoxer to make an all melee team work?

[Ualaa]

Here is a video by MiRai, on how to set up IWT/CTM in IS Boxer.
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=45676

Basically, you want Click to Move enabled on the melee members of your team.
You can toggle that with /console AutoInteract 1 and /console AutoInteract 0.
1 = on and 0 = off.

You could opt for two IWT keybindings within Warcraft.
One would be only your melee toons and one would be all of your toons.

You'd broadcast (or make a mapped key) with all of them receiving the IWT command, when you want everyone to loot a corpse in turn, or to take a quest from an NPC, etc...

You'd broadcast just the melee's IWT, when you want to move the melee toons into range with whatever you're killing.




The post you have linked is a tad more advanced, but its not that hard.

If you were to make a castsequence for your toons...
Or you were to use Mercurio's two-step macros... http://www.dual-boxing.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14

You would have a button that you would want to spam.
You would have IS Boxer also send your IWT keybind to the melee toons.
So the one button would execute your DPS and ensure your toons are also in melee range (the melee ones anyway).
You would do this as a two-step process in IS Boxer...
Either on Press or Release, meaning key down is the IWT and key up is the Castsequence.
Or as alternating, one press/release is IWT and the next is the Castsequence.

Either way, you get IWT built into your DPS.
You can go with a manual IWT key quite easily, you'd just be pressing it quite often.

[blast3r]

You could try two bears and one healer for instances. Bears can put out some decent damage. Faire Fire deals damage when in bear form.

I respec'd 5 boomkins to feral and love it.

[sync00]

Here is a video by MiRai, on how to set up IWT/CTM in IS Boxer.
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=45676

I followed the instructions in the video and it turned out to be much easier than I expected.

[sync00]

I respec'd 5 boomkins to feral and love it.

In other games I don't play melee. But I'm loving feral in WoW.

[Moorea]

Ualaa you wrote "Until the next expansion, Feral has both tanking and damage potential."

What do you mean - the next expansion druids don't have tanking and melee dps anymore ? (which one is lost?)

[Khatovar]

Feral becomes 2 trees, so Druids will have 4 trees total. Balance, Resto, Feral {cat} and Guardian {bear}



http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/mis...t-calculator#U!

[Moorea]

ah interesting, thanks Khatovar - so do we get triple-spec then ;-) ?