No need to get all fancy about when in the rotation you cast it. Once per rotation is once per rotation. If you are fixing it at once per rotation, be aware that casting it during an eclipse is a bit of a dps loss compared to outside of eclipse, though it shortens the rotation by a GCD, which may be relevant if you're cutting it that close. I don't think towards the end of solar is the optimal place to put it anyway. Presumably you want to have the moonfire dot up for your pre-solar phase to get the IIS benefit, so you'd want to cast it as late as possible pre-lunar or during lunar if you'd rather cast it during an eclipse.

In my experience, full rotations that take more than 36 seconds are fairly common. I wouldn't feel comfortable planning on them, though there's certainly good opportunity to see the problem coming if your first pre-eclipse phase goes poorly and just throw in an IS for solar to keep the buff up.

That robot strategy is actually casting moonfire anytime it is down and you're not near the beginning of your solar eclipse or right at the end of your lunar (where it would cost you landing that last starfire during the eclipse). More than once per rotation on average.

I believe the simplistic rotation of the robot simulator is good for beginning moonkins because it is very simple. With the way things are working now, the rotation you use depends heavily on the glyphs you are using and there is no clear cut winner (with the exception of the Glyph of Starfall).

If anything, it is the standard model that we have improved upon, but the difference (both in results and in the rotation itself) are pretty small.

Does anyone considered prehoting with Rejuv and using [Idol of the Black Willow] pre pull and then switching to the "normal" idol on fights like lets say festergut,rotface where you allready have the boss in range so you can start to nuke right from the start of the fight? Are 256 SP for ~12-13 seconds worth it or is it just to complicated to pull off?

Use wild magic pots, it's easier.

I mean, sure you can start off with a 256 SP boost so technically you can only gain DPS by doing this, but it is a bit of a hassle and the difference is something stupidly small... It comes out to like 7000 damage, less than .01% of your total damage on a 300 second fight.

Is that including the spellpower benefit to your first Starfall/FoN/DoTs?

Honestly? No, I didn't include the cooldowns because like I said before, the difference is squat. I took the difference in the overall DPS between the two and multiplied it out for 15 seconds. That came back with about 7000 damage (I don't remember the exact number).

For the sake of argument though here's a more complete breakdown:

Starfall: +2180
Force of Nature: +100
Moonfire: +675
Insect Swarm: +450
Wrath x3: +650 (expected number of Wraths to cast)
Starfire x4: +3650 (expected Starfires to cast)

Amusingly... that comes up to 7705. In the end, the difference is like I said before.... squat. (And less than a .01% increase).

It's even less of an option for those of us with Phylactery of the Nameless Lich. I have to start a pull with DoTs, wait for the Siphoned Power proc and then cast Starfall (usually only takes 2-3 seconds). Still, it requires the use of immediate MF/IS as opposed to postponing DoTs so your resto idol proc can remain for a few GCDs.

Pot of Wild Magic, GotW, Treants (<<all prepull in two GCDs) IFF, MF, IS, Wrath till Eclipse. The Starfall usually happens after the first Wrath.

I don't have to worry about an initial wrath for Earth and Moon because of our trio of DKs insta-debuffing the boss with the same thing.

When I look at the character stats under "ranged", I see a reaaaaallly low crit chance than what's under "Spell". However, when I inspect other balance druids, I see their ranged crit chance is around the same level as their spell crit chance. Does anyone know why that is?

Casting Treants prepull seems like a strange idea to me. You need to wait 3-4sec after the pull to have Demonic Pact up usually, and some armor debuffs on target. You may also have the ring and the cloak enchant (if you are tailor) proc at this time, giving quite a nice boost to your treants.

My choice :
Wild Magic+Gotw, IFF, MF, IS, Wrath, Starfall, Starfire, Treants (you can select the position while casting the Starfire since Starfire > GCD), then Wrath if Solar / SF if Lunar / if nothing procced already you can do what you want (you are on perm NG until the end of Starfall anyway).

That way, StarFall is casted ~6sec into the fight, and Treants ~8sec into the fight, still within the duration of Wild Magic. Of course depending on the fight you may want to delay the use of Starfall (like against Putricide)

Correct me if I'm wrong... But doesn't Starfall apply your stats for each individual star? I was always under the impression that it was similar to Hurricane in this way (a spell that casts another spell).