Infraction for nixxo: 7. Do not beg for hand-holding.

• bartolimu · 03/02/09, 10:35 AM

Post: Druid: Simple Questions/Simple Answers
User: nixxo
Infraction: 7. Do not beg for hand-holding.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Do your own homework. I'd give this one an "F" for effort.

Original Post:

I have a Moonkin alt, I mainly raid with my Paladin and use my Moonkin on off nights, running through 10 mans and such. I try to spend some time researching and such about Balance spec and there is a few things I'm getting confused about.

To start here is my Armory The World of Warcraft Armory

I also have these pieces of gear:
Shoulders: [Mantle of the Eternal Sentinel]
Gloves: [Heroes' Dreamwalker Gloves]
Off-Hand: [Scepter of Murmuring Spirits]
Legs: [Windripper Leggings]

Ok, onto the questions. I have mainly been focusing on gemming SP, I recently came acrossed Maxdps.com and going through their ranks of gear, they have all gems with Haste. By what i've read haste is good yet bad due to going through mana faster, and since I'm already have mana issues I'm not sure whats best. Should i be gemming/enchanting/gearing for haste or not?

Atm I'm using T7 Shoulders and legs, though I have Ilvl213 Shoulders, for the set bonus. I picked the T7 shoulders/legs over using the gloves to replace one of them pieces because what I've seen the gloves are the weaker of the 3 pieces. What I'm wondering is wearing the 2 pieces I picked worth the set bonus? Or maybe use the Ilvl213 shoulders over the T7, and use the T7 gloves instead to get the set bonus still?

I'm having mana issues. I ran 10man Naxx for the first time the other night. My dps was fine, was higher then expected, ending with average 3.1k on bosses that i didn't go OOM on, 2.5-2.8k on bosses I did go OOM on. I also spend alot more time drinking between trash pulls compared to other casters. I'm assumming this is due to the amount of mana Hurricane cost. I went OOM on 3 bosses, Gluth, Sapp, and Thaddius. I was wanting to try and squeeze in Dreamstate into my build but I'm not sure how to do it. Maybe the mana issues it because of my gear? Any ideas on this would be awesome, respeccing to get Dreamstate or just telling me there is nothing I can do til better gear?

Last question lol, Eclipse. I love when it procs, but sometimes it just never seems to want too. It makes my dps drop dramatically when it doesn't proc reliably. Atm my rotation is IS, MF, Wrath til Eclipse then SF til internal cooldown is gone then repeating with keeping DoTs up unless Eclipse is proc'ed. What i'm curious about is there any type of build that can do respectable DPS without using Eclipse?

Sorry for the very long post. I'd be very thankful to answers of the above questions or any helpful ideas, opinions (good or bad) I'm just looking forward to being a better Moonkin