from what i've read, it's from misery being up (seems that misery/fff/iff all share the same spot), but this is being remedied in 3.1 so you can spam away as a feral tank :P

After throughly searching the Moonkin forums for discussion on the output of trinket "Extract of Necromantic Power" versus other trinkets, my hands are left very empty and very hungry for knowledge about this. I've done a few tests myself on a dummy but I would like to see math involved if possible.

Lets assume natures splendor

Also, do the numbers increase when Black Magic is used as a main hand enchant?

Edit:

My tests show that the trinket is accounting for 1.9% of my damage on a Starfire Eclipse rotation.

If I keep only Dots rolling, it shows 6.6% of damage done. (I kept dots rolling for 8 mins with a total of 390 ticks, perhaps 8 mins is too short for a good estimate)

Internal cooldown is 15 seconds, average proc time is 16-19 seconds, depending on class and how many dots you perform. Obviously lower for warlocks. I would assume its about 18-20 seconds for a druid. Could this downtime be lowered by having Black Magic enchant?

From what i have read in the past, Black Magic is JUST lower than 63 spell power as far as DPS. Maybe the combination of these 2 can put it over the edge.

I looked a couple of pages back, but I didn't really see anything on the t8 bonus'.

The only thing I've seen is that the 4pc set bonus might be horrible. Instacast with 5% chance and a 3min cd.

Any confimration on this?

The 5% proc chance is confirmed but the 3 min cooldown is just speculated as its only on the buff tooltip posted on wowhead.

Patchwerk is not the definitive dps measurement for moonkins. With the RNG nature of Eclipse procs and other variables like raid composition, fight length and heroism uptime, your dps will vary greatly. Shorter fights I've had as high as 6000dps while longer fights only around 4500.

Hey guys,

I am new to the balance tree coming from resto, just got hitcapped still working out some bumps in my gear as far as gemming goes but kind of have my hands tied due to my lack of hit gear. I have been doing my research as far as rotations go starting with:

IFF>MF>IS>W->SF

But what i have been reading:

IFF>IS>MF>W->SF is better.

As far as my DPS goes here is my last PW:

Wow Web Stats

Does anyone see anything major that needs changing? I am new to Boomkin so any tips/tricks of the trade would be wonderful, thank you for your time.

The answer to your question is here Moonkin Guide for Dummies! under number 3, Rotation.

Basically its just that if you do MF second, it is more likely to be lengthened by starfire.

Just a little comment for going all out at the start of the pull and using a pot before the fight actually starts... I can easily see using a pot to increase dps before the fight start to allow the cooldown and use of a second pot during the fight, I would usually not as most of that pot would end up being wasted, especially on a fight like patch where I would be using faerie fire and my treants during that pot. It is still a gain, but such a slight gain I dont consider it worth it to be using a pot that I pay for. 6 min Maly is the only place in the current content where I might do it if I needed to do that again.

As for pulling aggro off the tank... If you have 2 points in natures reach, you should never be pulling off a competent tank, especially on patch where 1 second into the fight, your tank will have a full rage bar. At most, you can do around 4.5k tps with natures reach, while a decent tank would be doing over 7k tps, making pulling off of him impossible. You can argue that your burst tps will be high, but it will never exceed 7k tps, wich a decent tank will be pushing out within 2 secs on a fight like Patch, at wich time you would be applying dots. The only time I have ever pulled aggro on a fight is 6 min Malygos with no points in natures reach, and only because I didnt cast faerie fire, procced eclipse on my first wrath and started dps before Malygos had actually landed.

The 3 MTs we use do at minimum 7k tps, and no one has any chance of pulling aggro off them unless the tanks are requiered to move the boss around and cant be focused on actually building threat.

With a competent tank there is no need to have 2 points in nature's reach, i am sure this was mentioned before. You might need to watch omen a bit on your initial eclipse. Our mt knows this too, so he works a bit harder(yay he's not bored). It is an issue though when a dk is tanking, i guess they spec for migitation so much that they loose threat compared to the other tanks.

it isn't a threat issue ( although being able to ignore threat is handy), so much as an issue that extra range is actually very helpful in some fights. Sure you don't need it in patchwork, but in movement fights, fights with messy positioning, etc. having extra range grants you a lot more flexibility, which equals less time running around and more time blasting the boss. In a perfect fight, it's a waste, but I doubt that most fights in ulduar are going to be perfect, and if ti saves half a second a minute of running around on an average fight, then it's about the same dps improvement as IIS. personally I plan to keep 2/2 reach.

I think you'll be singing a different tune come ulduar. You're constantly going to be outranging abilities, steering clear of other players, and getting absurd buffs to your damage which can make pulling aggro as easy as pie. I'm curious though as to what you'd put that point into. Armory is currently not showing any of your talents, and I'm very interested to see what you think is more important than extra range and less threat.