Didn't see the original context for GC quote, but I imagine it would refer to the beta version of IS (long DoT on one target), rather than the WLK/Cata IS (short DoT that's always maintained along with Moonfire).

Yeah, I've been saying since Cata beta that Eclipse has to give some player control. It wound up being an issue all through Cata (players wound up using Lunar Shower for that purpose). Earlier on it appeared CA was the solution for MoP--this is somewhat more organic though.

Will have to think about in practice though. Casting Starfire will give around 20 Energy in 2s--this saves 50% of the time getting to Eclipse at the cost of doing 0 DPS for a bit. Obviously they have to design something that doesn't obsolete the normal rotation so you only use it when you need Eclipse for a particular purpose, which is a bit tricky for an ability with no cooldown. This way if you have an AoE/burst phase coming coming you can stop DPS'ing for 5s to get Eclipse 5s sooner, which might not be all that exciting. Will have to see how it feels.

I kind of agree, it doesn't really affect moonkin rotation much at all, which is why i still think insect swarm still might return in a future build.

Astral Communion (hope the name changes) doesn't stop our ratation from being far too predictable currently. It does give us more control over our eclipse power, which is one of the two goals they wanted to achieve. The second though remains to be seen.

I have been feeling for a while that now MoP has made the eclipse mechanic a lot smoother, i'ts made it a lot simpler too, in fact too simple, it needs something to add a bit more unpredictability to it and complexity.

The best Idea i could come up with for less predictability was an ability that would randomy proc. (I codename it Equinox)..when it procs it inversts your position and direction on the eclipse bar, and sweetens the deal by causing your next spell cast or maybe 2 spells cast to have a 100/50% extra crit chance.

e.g. say you were at 42 lunar energy going towards a lunar eclipse, Equinox procs you immediately shifted to 42 solar energy moving towards a solar eclipse and your next spell or 2 cast has a crit bonus. What it does is that where you were very predictably spamming wrath to hit a lunar eclipse, you suddenly have to switch the spam to starfire... not affecting the balance of eclipse at all, and allowing your rotation to be less predictable than usual.

This sort of ability would be perfect to add to symbiosis to be honest, which i feel really needs to give each druid spec a passive random proc ability that affects their specs rotation in a fun way. Why? Because symbiosis is the only class ability that will be misisng if you don't have another person with you. Druids lose their 87 ability if they are by themselves soloing, and basically every class gains an extra ability when with the druid except the druid himself. They already have a level 87 ability + symbiosis - so unless symbisois also does something for the druid while not linked, for all its excitement, it is more of an advantage to the other classes than to the druid. This shouldn't be the case.

Introducing Equinox as the balance passive component to symbiosis solves 2 issues neatly. The rotation's simple predictability and the symbiosis disadvnatage. Adding insect swarm later could help solve the rotation simplicity..altho allowing insect swarm to do something that affects spells rather than actually do damage might be a solution

e.g. Insect swarm: Swarms a target sprading to all nearby engaged enemies. During a lunar eclipse, all arcane damage done will do splash damage to affected targets, during a solar eclipse, adiditonal wild mushrooms are pollinated and nature spells have an x% chance to overload causing an instant /no mana duplicate of the original spell that does y% of spells damage. Outside an eclipse the insects will spread your debuff effects and dots to all affected targets at y% of the damage of the original DoT. It should be an active ability, I would rather this sort of thing only be usuable under certain conditions, maybe after an equinox, doesn't have to have a fixed cooldown, but could do.

or it could be an execute like ability.

Nope.


It benefits from SotF. With SotF, starting at 20 Lunar remaining and cast CA for full duration, you'll end up at Solar Eclipse. Any tick of CA that brings you to the end of an eclipse will proc SotF.