6.0.2 Balance Druid rotation

[Wubsie]

I was considering a boomy team for WoD, but the new eclipse system seems a bit wonky for boxing purposes. As a single member of the group, I'd say they are still OK, but require some attention to maximize their potential.

As just a single member of a mixed team, I would probably end up ignoring the eclipse system outside of tracking whether or not I should be spamming Wrath or Starfire. With the loss of stat snapshotting, dots need only be kept up and take very little focus, where as before it was important to make sure you were getting the most out of them. Granted you might want notifications on hitting Lunar for better Starfalls, etc...

If running more than one boomkin, the only way to reliably sync would indeed be with Astral Communion, which could be Glyphed to make it castable while moving. Unless one of your toons gets a full half-cycle off sync, this should be easy enough.

[konraddo]

Jamba can tell you when eclipse procs. Put sunfire abilities on one action bar and moonfire on another, then just toggle action bars when Jamba tells you to.

If running more than one boomkin, the only way to reliably sync would indeed be with Astral Communion, which could be Glyphed to make it castable while moving. Unless one of your toons gets a full half-cycle off sync, this should be easy enough.

If there's only one balance druid in a team, then changing into another set of DPS macro won't be too much of an issue (though it's actually quite tiring to do so). But if you have more than one, I can't imagine how chaotic it would be to sync the eclipse 'peak' across all characters. I think I need to turn him into a tank, then turn my tank into healer (Paladin)...