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Old 09/30/11, 3:42 PM   #406
 Hamlet
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Current Wrath on the PTR, although lots of speculation that it's unfinished since it's not too spiffy (and yellow for Wrath is slightly odd):

Patch 4.3 - Updated Spell Effects - YouTube


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Old 09/30/11, 4:48 PM   #407
Raintola
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It's not too odd when you consider the whole "solar energy" bit. I'd be interested in seeing what the gain from 4P T13 would be like if you were using GoSS and GoF. Maybe there will be an encounter similar to Beth'tilac or Lord Ryholith with waves of adds that come in from a fairly short distance away.

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Old 09/30/11, 8:14 PM   #408
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Have they increased the travel speed of wrath? I've heard that lightning bolt speed did increase.

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Old 09/30/11, 11:01 PM   #409
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Was just on the PTR and it Wrath does not appear to have any increase in its flight time.

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Old 10/02/11, 11:49 AM   #410
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Looks like Dragonwrath is also giving increased uptime on some buffs: Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest - Warlock specific analysis

e: Ah good. That would have been a huge pain to worry about.

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Old 10/02/11, 12:13 PM   #411
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Originally Posted by Hamlet View Post
Looks like Dragonwrath is also giving increased uptime on some buffs: Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest - Warlock specific analysis
its was nerfed in previous patch

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Old 10/02/11, 2:53 PM   #412
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Looking back at this Tier of raiding, in which we got the current version of Lunar Shower, I realize I did not really find any use for it in its current implementation. I tried hard, at the beginning, but the few extremely situational uses did not balance the constant drawbacks.
The good thing out of it, is that I was able to free 3 points to max perseverance (a talent that actually offers benefit in all the encounters).

The major issue I see right now, is the lack of mobility I suffer from, since I felt like I had to spec out of our "mobility talent" (Lunar Shower - which was not perfect either in its previous iteration, but was pretty good as long as we were in eclipse when moving) for this Tier, and nothing remplaced it. Of course Mushrooms can be placed while moving to offset the dps lost a little, but it is quite limited (not to mention tedious).

I feel that this talent no longer as its place so high in our talent tree, especially in its 3-points form, and I kind of hope that it gets reworked in 4.3, however I would like to hear your views on it : did you, fellow pve-oriented moonkins, specced out of it? Does it have enough value in pvp that it can be tagged as a "pvp talent" and left as it is? Or is it just a weak talent overall, whatever the situation.

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Old 10/03/11, 8:24 AM   #413
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I actually find Lunar Shower useful for 2 reasons :
- It is still a good dps increase for fights where adds are dpsed and die too quickly for dots to be effective. Such examples : Spiderlings on Beth'tilac, Fragments on Lord Rhyolith, Spores on Ragnaros
- I also find myself using it sometimes on Ragnaros to push a lunar eclipse instantly rather than waiting on the ridiculously long flying time of Wrath and Starsurge.

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Old 10/03/11, 2:12 PM   #414
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Originally Posted by cyriusblack View Post
I actually find Lunar Shower useful for 2 reasons :
- It is still a good dps increase for fights where adds are dpsed and die too quickly for dots to be effective. Such examples : Spiderlings on Beth'tilac, Fragments on Lord Rhyolith, Spores on Ragnaros
- I also find myself using it sometimes on Ragnaros to push a lunar eclipse instantly rather than waiting on the ridiculously long flying time of Wrath and Starsurge.
Both your uses are damage losses compared to stuff you can do without Lunar Shower.
Beth'tilac HM: Just solo the spiderlings using mushrooms -> typhoon -> mushrooms with dots on the ones not hit by one explosion
Lord Rhyolith: Mushrooms + Hurricane does more damage and allows you to camp in Eclipse more easily
Ragnaros:
Sons: Mushrooms on any clumped ones with Sunfire (+IS if you want to kill them fast) allows you to solo 3-5 sons on 10m
Molten Elementals:
AoE: Starfall + Mushrooms + Typhoon into Hurricane
Non-AoE: Starfall and just DoT everything up with Sunfire

That's all 10m HM but should also fit to 25m and even moreso to 10m nonHM.

Your second use is quite a big DPS loss since not only you spam a spell that's lower DPS than your non-eclipsed main nukes but you also forcefully refresh non-eclipsed DoTs.

In general I find Lunar Shower to be a fairly mediocre talent currently because - if you plan your fights correctly - using it hinders you more than it helps you.

Last edited by Hidden : 10/03/11 at 2:27 PM.

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Old 10/03/11, 6:03 PM   #415
Loudnoises
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I'm having a little difficulty with Wrathcalcs currently. I have the 110911 version, and am using OpenOffice(have switched the version), when I try to deselect a reforge, nothing happens. Is there a particular way I need to go about doing this now? In the last version of the sheet I could just select an empty cell in the drop down menu, that is no longer working.

This is a great tool that is very well done, I just want to be able to use it properly again.

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Old 10/03/11, 7:01 PM   #416
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Not sure what might have changed there, but until you get a more detailed answer from Tecton, can just try deleting the cell. Should have the same effect as selecting an empty option.


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Old 10/04/11, 5:18 AM   #417
Devourer
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I suspect that the low DPS gain is because SS is worth the same whether hard cast or not; it is the same as your GCD. A non-guaranteed crit, non- guaranteed-boosted spell that has only a slightly larger hit than any other nuke, and we get 2 more per minute, if that, seems like a garbage 4-piece. How much of a boost in SS proc percentage would be needed to be greater than the current 4-piece.

Typed from phone and Jesus it's difficult.

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Old 10/04/11, 7:30 AM   #418
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@loudnoises if you're talking about necromantic focus, it held my mastery -> haste from the DMC:V and had to switch it to DMV then revert the reforge then switch it back.

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Old 10/04/11, 7:07 PM   #419
Loudnoises
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Deleting the cell did the trick, thanks Hamlet.

As a point of interest, deleting the cell actually made it select a blank cell in the drop down menu, though I don't know why it wouldn't let me select that same cell manually.

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Old 10/07/11, 10:22 AM   #420
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Originally Posted by Hidden View Post
Sons: Mushrooms on any clumped ones with Sunfire (+IS if you want to kill them fast) allows you to solo 3-5 sons on 10m
Molten Elementals:
AoE: Starfall + Mushrooms + Typhoon into Hurricane
Non-AoE: Starfall and just DoT everything up with Sunfire

That's all 10m HM but should also fit to 25m and even moreso to 10m nonHM.

Your second use is quite a big DPS loss since not only you spam a spell that's lower DPS than your non-eclipsed main nukes but you also forcefully refresh non-eclipsed DoTs.

In general I find Lunar Shower to be a fairly mediocre talent currently because - if you plan your fights correctly - using it hinders you more than it helps you.
Lunar shower is good to have for ragnaros hc if you use it smart. Specially SEED phase and 2nd transmition (if u have blazing heat...).

Here is the log if your interrested:WoL
Not so good try from me aswell, only 27k but had some bad RNG`s there.

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