Right now, Imp. Moonkin Aura is pretty worthless in a 25-man raid (or possibly even a 10 man) given that Shamans can simply drop a Wrath of Air totem that gives 5% spell haste. A bump to 5% Haste wouldn't be a bad fix, but I think a better one would be moving I.F.F. to Feral and reverting it to Melee +hit and changing the Imp. Moonkin Aura to a + 3% spell hit buff.

That's weird. Given that, we're starting at 11% innate spell haste in raids. I suspect WoA might become a third +3% all haste totem when they crunch the numbers.

Check the Enhancement/Shaman threads.

Stormstrike is/was changed to a Haunt style debuff, only benefitting the shaman who cast it.
So, no nature damage boosts by Stormstrike for casters/hunters/anything but Enhancement Shaman.

I've actually implemented that already in a recent push, r285 I believe.

However.... I have not implemented the Shaman "blue promises" yet: lava lash, talent location swapping, etc....

No, I haven't tested it yet but I can later. What I do want to say is that people saying iMKA and Wrath of Air should stack is not 'creative interpretation' the blue post about raid buffs explicitly said they were two separate categories of buff and therefore should stack.

Preliminary testing:

Thorns scales off of the recipient's spell power, not yours. It sucks, I know.

Brambles does not affect scaling of Thorns. With 1535 Spell Power, I was getting an additional 100 or so damage on thorns whether I had 0 or full Brambles. I submitted a feedback report on it, hopefully they'll change it. This also puts the Thorns scaling coefficient at around .065.

Tests on Brambles for FoN are not really conclusive. Their attacks have random damage, just like everyone else's, which makes it hard to see scaling. My gut feeling is that Brambles does affect scaling for them, but I'd need a lot more time on a test dummy before I could be sure. They have 1408 base health, and seem to scale at .075*your gains in health.

Base health for a 80 NE is 4703. Base mana is 3496. Base stats are 86 STR, 87 AGI, 97 STA, 143 INT, 157 SPI. There's some odd scaling going on with the base stats, the 97 STA only increases health by 790, 143 INT only increases mana by 1865. Naked stats are then 5493 health, 5361 mana.

Starfire base cost is 559 Mana for rank 8-10, 629 for all others. I'm assuming that ranks 8 and 9 are a bug. Moonglow brings SFr10 down to 542, 525, and 508 for each rank respectively. I didn't check any other spells, as these match the expected values, as long as you round down. These also match the WoWhead listing of 16% base mana for the highest rank (18% mana for the others).

Basic premade gear is 1480 Spell Power, 52 hit, 68 haste, 13.38% crit out of form, no MP5. 15k health, 13.6k mana.

Correct.

Could this chanage? Yes.


Source: World of Warcraft (English) Forums -> Changes to Debuffs, Buffs, and Raid Stacking

Yes, that could change but they could also change Moonkins into being a spell/melee hybrid like they're doing to Enhancement shamans right now. Why state that something could change when there's only a tiny chance that it could? The system of minor/major debuffs and having them stack seems fairly entrenched in their new system of debuffs.

Using the Starfire glyph I was able to get Moonfire up past 24s duration without any talents or 2T6. My guess is that there is no hard cap on it, but it takes heavy casting (this was on my main, not on the premade, so I have more %haste) for a long time to get it there. Without Heroism, you're not going to be able to game it for keeping MF up while you chain Wrath. By the time you have enough for a 30s Wrath rotation, the boss will likely be dead.

That's not what he was talking about changing.

I tested this on the PTR yesterday, and they do stack.

Some other notes from the PTR:

Moonfire does maintain the periodic damage determined at the time of application. I have not tested the impact of moonfire idol switching yet, but that's certainly the best place for us to activate our trinkets early. Debuffs on dots are definitely applied on a per tick basis now as well. This pretty much guarentees I'll be sticking with the DMC after 3.0, as waiting for the Ashtongue trinket to proc will waste far too much moonfire time.

E&M felt much more secure at four points than at three points. I don't think I would want to rely on it at three points in a Starfire rotation. That might be feasible in a wrath rotation, however.

I ran a pug ZA to test my potential DPS rotations when 3.0 hits, and felt very happy with some of our changes. I REALLY enjoy eclipse, it adds a strong dynamic to our DPS. I was starting off with IS, wrath till eclipse proc (While building DMC). When eclipse went off I trinketed, applied moonfire, and began Starfire. After Eclipse went down I switched to wrath momentarily for Eclipse. Very important to pay attention, because accidentally getting the Wrath buff will really impact your rotations. It felt very powerful, but probably could use a slight bit of tweaking (I'd prefer a 25/50/75% proc rate for PVE rotations, or make it two points at 30/60).


Our aoe ability is amazing, almost entirely due to hurricane. I did not get to test aoe caps as of yet, I'm going to test that out tonight (With the moonfire idol). Typhoon is very buggy as it doesn't damage/knockback until the entire animation is finished.

Starfall looks very pretty, but doesn't have a huge damage impact. There's almost nonexistant scaling from spell power, and the splash damage from the stars isn't very impressive either. Two stars will not hit the same target, if there's only one target you will only get ten stars from the spell. The way it's implemented now it should have a one minute cooldown, it is not powerful enough to need a 3-minute limitation as all it serves as is supplementary aoe damage during hurricane.