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I rolled a new all druid team yesterday (horde this time as I haven't played horde all expansion), and wanted to make a mixed spec team specifically for dungeons because that end-dungeon bonus from dungeon finder is insane with the 100% buff now. Previously I'd been irritated that I couldn't just roll through with 5x guardians (I have a very well tested ISBoxer setup for that), but based on what Lyonheart said, I decided to try my hand at setting up boomkin.
The GREAT: Went from 20 (highmountain tauren) to 52 in about 6 hours - about 2 of that was spent just fiddling with configurations when I started. After the first couple of dungeons, which took a bit of time but also let me get a feel for how to handle the team, I just started prowling directly to dungeon quest objectives and required bosses. Dungeons that would have taken me 30-60 minutes if I had to fight ALL THE TRASH were getting finished in 5-10 minutes. I did an accidental almost complete tribute run in Dire Maul because I just snuck past everyone, and even the wing of DM with the stupid imp was super fast to do all the quests whereas normally it's a slog.
The Good: My Resto druid picked Balance Affinity, my Boomkins and guardian picked Resto Affinity, so now I basically have 4 boomkins who are fairly robust to take a beating themselves, a bunch of passive healing, and the ability to lay 4x regrowth onto anyone who needs it.
The Bad(?): I don't think my boomkin rotation is very optimal. Some fights took longer - like Lilian Voss in Scholomance, I got to the phase where her soul got separated from her body, and I don't think I've had that happen before. I could use some advice there.
My boomkins are set up with a priority: single target it tries to cast starsurge, then it does both of the dots (only once per target), and then it alternates between solar wrath and lunar strike, which I believe should let me take advantage of procs every other cast. For AOE, I replace starsurge with starfall at my druids (we just stack), but keep the rest the same. I thought about starfall on a cursor macro, but that's more micro than I care to do, so @player it is.
Is there a known good setup people are using? Do boomkin just take a bit longer to come into their own? They aren't like SUPER SLOW or anything, but it feels suboptimal.
Anyway - this is a surprisingly fun comp, mostly due to the skipping all the trash thing.
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