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Old 11/28/08, 6:21 AM   #61
Ashaera
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Night Elf Druid
 
Auchindoun (EU)
I like Starfall for several reasons - Any encounter with aoe (also stuns!), faster trinket procs, Nature's Grace etc.
Atleast keeping it until someone does a proper testing of Imp. Faerie Fire.

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Old 11/29/08, 2:02 PM   #62
Latas
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Night Elf Druid
 
Uther
Has anyone gone through and calculated the dps increase each point in eclipse would be since they increased the effect?

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Old 11/30/08, 1:56 AM   #63
bunnie
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Draenei Priest
 
Silvermoon
Edit: Found better numbers so deleted to avoid confusion.

Last edited by bunnie : 11/30/08 at 2:03 AM.

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Old 11/30/08, 9:25 AM   #64
Feathorne
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Night Elf Druid
 
Turalyon
Originally Posted by Ripuanewhole View Post
What do people think of the spec below for level 80 raiding to start.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?drui...h=061119050406

One slight change tho, take out starfall and the 1 pt in genesis and put those 2 pts in Nature's Reach
I agree, Nature's Reach is a manditory talent for any Raid Spec. Genisis is only needed if you plan to go resto.

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Old 11/30/08, 7:13 PM   #65
veo
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Tauren Druid
 
Spirestone
Does anyone have a spreadsheet for dps increase from crit/haste/dmg I don't know what's better crit or haste atm

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Old 11/30/08, 10:08 PM   #66
Hjalte
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Night Elf Druid
 
Dunemaul (EU)
I am using the values from SimulationCraft which are found here: SampleOutput - simulationcraft - Google Code.

You'll need to check what spec you are of course and they might also not be using the same talent spec as you are.

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Old 12/01/08, 4:27 AM   #67
Miim
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Yesterday I managed to get my last two tier7 pieces, so I am at full tier7 now (10-man). With the added 5% crit to wrath and SF I should be at around 34% crit for base with theese two spells, giving me 64% during eclipse.

So I am thinking of switching to a W/SF/SF rotation with MF only. Any thoughts on this.

I have been going back and forth a lot between W/SF/SF and SF/W/SF. My biggest problem before was not beeing able to proc eclipse at a regular time with Wrath and beeing "RNG/unlucky" during SF eclipse. But with the added 5% I should be getting more consistant results with W/SF/SF

Anyone else done some testing on this?

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Old 12/01/08, 2:47 PM   #68
Eilt
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Night Elf Druid
 
Bloodhoof
I read through this thread and see a few WWS parts with extremely good WWS parses, and then I look at their gear and it seems very similar to mine, and I look at the casting frequencies and again seem pretty similar to mine, then I look at the DPS and they are way higher than mine.

At this point I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I must be messing something up.

Full night WWS on Malygos first night of attempts/kill and Sartharion kill with one drake up:
WWS Parse

This is my current spec:
Wowhead – Talent Calculator

Here is a link to my armory:
Armory

I am not actually raiding with IotRG as it is only .5% crit, I am using the old Starfire idol until the new spellpower one drops. Should I consider using the Badge moonfire one? I am also going to over hit a little since the spriest and I do not always attack the same target as shown with my average 3% “Mitigated” on the night, I figure adding to 11 or 12% on my char sheet will get me to 15-16% hit before the misery debuff, and if the misery debuff is missed I am only getting partial resists.

I am considering dropping 3/3 CF and picking up the last point in gale winds (helpful for trash not really on single target boss fights) and picking up 2 points in brambles for 10% extra treant dmg.

Spec here:
Wowhead – Talent Calculator

On the night above (not suing treants every CD they were around ~280k dmg, so those 2 talent points would get me 28k dmg, would this outweigh putting 2 points in CF for 2% haste? Would either of these increase my single target DPS on boss fights?

On rotation:
I have been using MF, SFx3, Wrath through Eclipse (or until an eclipse if one of my first 3 SFs did not crit), SF till eclipse iCD is up then Wrath till SF Eclipse procs rotation.

I throw up IS/Starfall if I have to move around so I have IS glyphed (along with MF and SF) and have been saving treants for a hero, but will start using them every 2min.

I am going to try the MF, Wrath till eclipse, SF rotation as I am finally getting enough crit where I feel it would proc enough.

Looking for any comments on the above questions as well as advice, thanks!

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Old 12/01/08, 3:55 PM   #69
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You should be comparing your DPS on Patchwerk, not Sartharion/Malygos. There is too much happening in those fights to be able to compare DPS directly really.

Having said that, looking at Sartharion (bit less of a weird fight for DPS than Malygos):
If you find that you have lower DPS than other players on those encounters it is likely to be because you need to maximise your DPS time. Use instants while moving, and move as little as is humanly possible. If you have to move and have a choice, wait until a good time for your instants. If you don't have a choice, wait for ticks of instants before refreshing to avoid 4-5 seconds between ticks. Your uptime on IS during the Sarth kill is awful - 28 ticks of a potential 'perfect' ~190 (on a single target). With the Glyph you should be looking for 100% uptime really due to the increased damage. For comparison on a very similar length Sartharion, I had 73 ticks, and that's just using it while moving as an extra instant due to not having the glyph.

IotRG is 0.5% crit to all your spellcasters, including healers. It's worth it until you get the Naxx starfire idol imo, and then in 25 mans its probably still more worth using IotRG.

CF > Brambles if you ask me. Treants are too easily killed on a lot of fights to bother improving them, and thorns DPS is pretty low for most fights unless you're looking at a prot paladin.

On hit you should be going with either 10% hit (+4% talents, +3% misery/iff) or 13% hit (+4% talents). You can either rely on 3% hit being up or not. If you can't rely on it being up, you should almost certainly pick up IFF, as it'll help you and all your DPS casters a lot. I'd suggest the 2 points (from cf/brambles/whatever) + a point from eclipse.


As an aside, I'm not quite sure why you're doing 25 mans without any upgrades from Heroics/Craftables/Quest items though. You're using fully level 70 gear other than 25 man Naxx upgrades? I assume you just hit 80, otherwise that's just slack :P

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Old 12/01/08, 4:20 PM   #70
Eilt
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Night Elf Druid
 
Bloodhoof
Originally Posted by dukes View Post
You should be comparing your DPS on Patchwerk, not Sartharion/Malygos. There is too much happening in those fights to be able to compare DPS directly really.

Having said that, looking at Sartharion (bit less of a weird fight for DPS than Malygos):
If you find that you have lower DPS than other players on those encounters it is likely to be because you need to maximise your DPS time. Use instants while moving, and move as little as is humanly possible. If you have to move and have a choice, wait until a good time for your instants. If you don't have a choice, wait for ticks of instants before refreshing to avoid 4-5 seconds between ticks. Your uptime on IS during the Sarth kill is awful - 28 ticks of a potential 'perfect' ~190 (on a single target). With the Glyph you should be looking for 100% uptime really due to the increased damage. For comparison on a very similar length Sartharion, I had 73 ticks, and that's just using it while moving as an extra instant due to not having the glyph.

IotRG is 0.5% crit to all your spellcasters, including healers. It's worth it until you get the Naxx starfire idol imo, and then in 25 mans its probably still more worth using IotRG.

CF > Brambles if you ask me. Treants are too easily killed on a lot of fights to bother improving them, and thorns DPS is pretty low for most fights unless you're looking at a prot paladin.

On hit you should be going with either 10% hit (+4% talents, +3% misery/iff) or 13% hit (+4% talents). You can either rely on 3% hit being up or not. If you can't rely on it being up, you should almost certainly pick up IFF, as it'll help you and all your DPS casters a lot. I'd suggest the 2 points (from cf/brambles/whatever) + a point from eclipse.


As an aside, I'm not quite sure why you're doing 25 mans without any upgrades from Heroics/Craftables/Quest items though. You're using fully level 70 gear other than 25 man Naxx upgrades? I assume you just hit 80, otherwise that's just slack :P

A patchwerk WWS Gear has changed a bit since this raid though....

I was only using IS when I was forced to move, I was not aiming for 100% uptime, even with the glyph as I thought it was a DPS loss, I will work on 100% uptime though.

On the aside, we literally leveled to 80 and startied raiding, we were all in full Sunwell and T6 so the green quest rewards were not upgrades (except in stam). Now that we have fully cleared all of the raids currently out, I can sit back and start looking for upgrades in heroics, etc.

I am finding a lot of gear with either crit or haste on it though, I would be very interested in eharing what kind of itemization points other are using. (i.e, spellpower = 100, hit = 115. haste = ???, etc).

Thanks for the reply, I will probably end up sticking with CF, although still interested to see everyone else's thoughts!

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Old 12/02/08, 12:02 PM   #71
yuppidoooooo
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Night Elf Druid
 
Kel'Thuzad
What meta gems are you all using? Chaotic Skyflare Diamond looks to be probably the best choice for overall DPS, but Ember Skyflare Diamond is also appealing because it doesn't require any pesky blue sockets. Unfortunately, nobody on my server seems to have that pattern yet.

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Old 12/02/08, 3:09 PM   #72
mader
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Night Elf Druid
 
Stormreaver
Originally Posted by Wangmu View Post
It seems to me that a number of the things suggested give you better numbers maybe over the raid, however in my eyes the things that count are in boss fights where it is more typically 1 target rather than multiple.

In terms of progression it is the boss fights that pose problems not AoE trash pulls
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would stand to reason to be the best spec for those conditions with a possibility at changing Nature's Reach for Imp MF. depending on your Glyphs.

If someone has a Reason why they think AoE moves imps or treants would be a better Single target dps boost, then please illustrate it. I don't have math at my back to straighten my point this spec just seemed the most logical for those ends.
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treants are amazing single target dps. on this parse i figured we would kill it right at 3 minutes so i only cast them once (we had a dps disconnect so it was slightly longer than 3 minutes). the spec i used was Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft so it was more focused on single target. mana regen talents are more or less useless for me at this stage of raiding but i would feel uncomfortable speccing out of intensity and omen (especially omen due to hurricane). oh and i made sure shamans popped hero the instant they came out so yea..

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Old 12/02/08, 3:34 PM   #73
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Originally Posted by yuppidoooooo View Post
What meta gems are you all using? Chaotic Skyflare Diamond looks to be probably the best choice for overall DPS, but Ember Skyflare Diamond is also appealing because it doesn't require any pesky blue sockets.
The dps increase from using Chaotic over Ember makes socketing 2 purple or green gems worthwhile. In an ideal world, I would use Purified Twilight Opals (Power, Spirit), but they're not yet implemented. Probably the next best bet is Intricate Forest Emerald (8 Haste, 8 Spirit) or Shining Forest Emerald (8 Hit, 8 Spirit) if you need the +hit. Those two blue spots wouldn't be a horrible place to pick up +hit if you're hurting for it.

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Old 12/02/08, 6:30 PM   #74
Lord BEEF
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Mal'Ganis
Here's one thing I've been struggling with.

I get bloodlusted. Eclipse isn't active or on cooldown. I have about 27% crit on starfire and wrath (working on that).

While bloodlusted, using wrath seems suboptimal due to the 1 sec global cooldown.

Do I cast a few wraths and hope for eclipse to proc to use starfire?

Do I just cast starfire and ignore wrath entirely? Or do I use starfire and use wrath under eclipse?

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Old 12/02/08, 9:05 PM   #75
boomchicken
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Tauren Druid
 
Hyjal
Originally Posted by Lord BEEF View Post
Here's one thing I've been struggling with.

I get bloodlusted. Eclipse isn't active or on cooldown. I have about 27% crit on starfire and wrath (working on that).

While bloodlusted, using wrath seems suboptimal due to the 1 sec global cooldown.

Do I cast a few wraths and hope for eclipse to proc to use starfire?

Do I just cast starfire and ignore wrath entirely? Or do I use starfire and use wrath under eclipse?
I have been wondering that also, I just tend to go about my regular rotation using wrath to proc eclipse, but if it does not happen within five or six casts then I go to starfire and ignore the eclipse proc. (I do not have any numbers to back this up. It is just what I have been doing)

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