3.3 patch notes up. Only relevant change is that Treants have increased damage reduction against AoE effects in PvE.

starfall and hurricane are non-periodic spells. ng has never procc'd from dots,

Hurricane never procced NG on live server I think, Starfall is not periodic, it is single Stars (single hits, procs NG) and additional splashdamage (counts as aoe = no NG)

I hadn't noticed that the little stars don't give NG, but it looks like you are right. I'm not sure that AoE is the right explanation. Typhoon gives NG, and I'd call it an AoE.

Removed. Incorrect info.

The change to Nature's Grace is just a tooltip correction. The current "periodic" spells that we have that can crit are Hurricane and Moonfire, and neither of those can proc Nature's Grace on live. As noted, Typhoon and Starfall both are non-periodic, as are (of course) Wrath and Starfire. It's not a change to the talent.

What i'm concerned with is that I have always assumed Genesis only affected MF and IS. 5% more on Hurricane and Starfall would improve it's gain per point. How can this affect speccing for more aoeish fights, like Anub. Or is 5% DoT damage, SF damage and Hurricane dmg just not worth so many points?

Is anyone else noticing a bit of a delayed reaction when Lunar eclipse procs?

Let me clarify: I've been noticing that I'll crit with wrath, and NG will proc like it normally does, but it seems like I'm waiting a couple seconds after that crit until Lunar procs. Is this a latency issue? Is anyone else noticing this recently? It's really been throwing off my rotation as of late.

Still not clear. Eclipse always procced a "few seconds" after NG, because NG procs when the Wrath cast completes and Eclipse when Wrath hits the target. There was also always a slight gap between when SF/Wrath hit the target when Eclipse procced, due to latency. Regardless, I don't think anything's changed here.

I have created a very small mod that deals with this effect should you wish to use it for predicting eclipses. It still needs some tweaking, but 99% of the time it will work perfectly. The basis of the mod itself is the reason a few bugs are hard to work around.

What happpens:

Small frame in the middle of the screen says WRATH when you need to cast WRATH, STARFIRE when you need to cast STARFIRE to proc or use your eclipse buff. If both buffs are available it says BOTH. These texts are able to be changed in the .lua file. With the Nature's Grasp Prediction feature turned on ("/sem NGP"), it will change the text accordingly should you gain Nature's Grace when you are able to proc the lunar eclipse. This in no way tells you how to play, it simply lets you react faster.

It does have it's draw backs should eclipse not proc, but it's an interesting play style I've been trialling.

Example:

Lunar eclipse is on cooldown -> You gain Nature's Grace from a wrath cast -> the text changes to STARFIRE -> Eclipse procs -> You are casting starfire right away now -> Gain extra cast(s) within the eclipse.

wowinterface Link:
Shadow's Eclipse Monitor

The mod also has a standard feature that ignores the Nature's Grace procs, should you just want to use it to monitor which spell to use.

Without any strage math involved, you have 3 out of 5 items with spirit, which is a deffinite budged loss.

I presume you left out any heroic mode gear since you chose T9.245, so i will do the same:

Your choice:
T9.245 Helm and legs
T8.226 gloves and shoulders
Merlin's Robe (245)

My choice (could be better, i just chose a plausible setup)
T9.245 Helm and chest
T8.226 shoulders and legs
Gloves of Lifeless Touch (245)

Ignoring Stam, intl and armor (which are in the same ballpark anyway) your gear setup wins 9 SP, 88 hit and 1Red+1Blue sockets and looses 146 crit and 67 haste. (SP after spirit conversion).

The latter setup still gains more stats, even if you ignore the fact that your setup has 229 hit which will make it even harder not to go over the cap.