#balance
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Nah trust they will get buffed
Very simple playstyle which is a bonus in keys
lol, hope they buff raid and dont buff aoe
Can muscle memory afk the rotation and still do decent
fuck m+ers

Ask Tettles
Lmfao you already know it’ll be a big starfall buff and a small surge buff
you can do 1 button rotation and gain damage
hittem with another lunar calling buff
grosssss
thanks for reviewing my logs really apprecitaed
and add some duration to he buff
16 casts no proc
Hey, we noticed Boomkin isn't doing great in raid, this raid has a lot of cleave. Here is a lunar calling buff and a starfall buff. Have fun
Raise the cap of the 4pc again
Class tuning will happen after rwf
Alota decent classrs might get big nerfs anyways
Druid might climb up if it does get buffs
lol

We are genuinely bottom of the barrel
when have we climbed after buffs
It's gonna take a lot of buffs / big buffs to climb anything lol
The only thing that will make us look decent by end of the tier is that boss fights are so short
They don't know
Ret is pretty down bad
Give it another 8%
Also wtf, why is arms performing so well in mythic atm
You hate to see it
Over a 1M gap 
Lets see what they cook up for us
15x int, and some funny wrath buff
Of course it's gonna be a wrath buff
Take it or leave it
It's going to be so fucking sad
30%
Revert to 25x cap please
they wont
At this point i'll take every buff we can get
A man can dream
I just want to see our double starsurge hit as hard as engulf does
no u cant
Sorry
Even tho engulf is a 45? second cooldown
our double surges are 100s cd
whats ur point
That our damage numbers are fucked and should be doubled
Hire this man
for the surges after dryad
nah they need to hit harder than engulf
That's not gonna happen
The entire kit is fucked anyway
True
Revert tier back to HP based bear gimmick
rework the entire spec
Target switching is such a pain
Anyways gave up on balance for raid and just healing this tier, m+ still do some keys when I can’t heal
Why do i have to spend 2 gcds to start doing damage
EC tier proc rng feels worse than ravage procs somehow
Warlock presses funny havoc and blasts
Just two?
You also have to go into an eclipse
Which is another two OR spending CA for it
I sure hope they get rid of eclipse
But it makes total sense to have to cast 2 wraths into a pull with 20 mobs first before doing damage.
Gotta cast 10 moonfires first, oh packs gone
Then repeat it
15s later
😂
10 moonfires, 1 sunfire hope it's all in range
if u have cds u dont do that
but nonetheless still cringe
How can we make blizzard bring back ravenous frenzy
Neither of those things are gonna happen
I swear
How about we act like terrorists like the ret discord
Untill they bring back ravenous frenzy
Our mods are too sane for that
Unless....
We don't have a TC or faq channel and u think they're gonna shut one channel down
Big funny
Guys with some patience, and a few decent buffs. We can go from bottom tier, to bottom tier but not as far from top spec, just like every other season in this expansion 
so real
at least back in the day we used to be op at the start and then got nerfed and nerfed and nerfed
now we are just shit
bruh
GJ reading
She will, cuz shes a yapper
hello guys! am I missing something about the new tier effects? i just got 4pc and not pumping like before when i had 2-2 pieces
How are we supposed to know with that information
My guess is that the people around u got 4 set aswell and now ur specc is mid
Read a guide how to play it
i did and got this overall
consider not using one button rotation
not using it, does it looks like i am :C

One button rotation does more...
Are you playing keeper or ec
i just tried on AoE dummies, 1button rotation does 6m and manual rotation 10m, and I'm playing EC
Its not that big of a difference
But thats besides the point
Its hard to say
What youre doing wrong from a screenshot of a m+ overall
Theres not really a lot to fuck up as ec
yeah I understand, sadly i dont have logs of it but by looking at that overall could u tell is kinda low for a 698ilvl balance with parapodia and lily on Priory 9?
Well my balance gear is 700 ilvl with house of cards and best in slot
And the last priory i did 9 million dos
It also depends on how long shit lives and how your tank pulls
Again not something you can really judge
But yes 4 million is like last season numbers
I think you need to relax and enjoy the game
And if u come up with an actual question then u can ask it
i love doing minigame dps i want to maximize my minigame dps output though
oh geez! definitely I am doing something wrong, gonna check rotation again, and i really appreciate your patience to explain to me even when i dont have logs or anything, cheers
i did and i got answered, ty
making a log takes around one dungeon so you got this, you can run a quick one and be back soon so people can really help!
then that would be an optimal world
Hello is it just me or does it feels like that balance druids are really weak against single target?
Feel the same
Yeah pure single target like patchwerk Bosses in M+ and raids I pretty much struggle to dps over 3 million
Raid overall and Fractillus (which is pure ST no damage amps)
based
Yeah okey i knew that we got nerfed pretty hard but now i know that we are in the same place as always, right in the bottom
Fractillus (H) kill times (~4.5m) are probably a big part of boomy doing okay on that fight. Damage to bosses is probably a fairer overall measure of current performance.
But Fr have played balance in every expansion except Vanilla and have always had 95+ parces but I most say that it really feels like we are at rock bottom in ST
Classes that cant aoe in raid will always be overranked, and classes that can will underperform in that statistic unless they are a cheat class that does both
oof
why craft 1 item when can craft 2 items

@lyric kettle lifelined
Yeah but usually we’ve Been solid in both ST and Aoe but now it’s purely Aoe
When was this 💀
4 years ago
1 time 4 years ago with pretty specific circumstances that just made us bonkers 😄
And.. are we even solid in AoE atm? Wont we fall further behind when mythic tier sets become the norm?
Aoe is not that great even on bosses like soul hunters we are not in the top 5
Yeah we need at least 10 mobs to excel on the Aoe
is 60% haste too much in combat?
No
so what you want to do is garrote one, garrote two, garrote three, rupture vendetta exsanguinate! yeah? then you're gonna fok fok, rupture again, you're gonna vanish, reapply garrotes, especially on the target you don't have, and that's it, then you're gonna ct (crimson tempest). Look at my damage, right now, fucking 40k, it's fucking over dude. Oooh. How the fuck though LETS GO
so in boomie
with the 4p, we prefer haste in m+ and crit in raid ?
or always mastery/haste ?
Musclebrah
always sim
stats weight didnt work
Hello guys, I have a question about a sim. https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/9ddziqkSzuyAxQLWyexRzJ Trying to sim the ring I got and the gems show Haste main stat. I should just follow this right?
you should never sim stat weights
use top gear and droptimizer
Show me the variables you used, normally you go with the results but it looks like you did something weird
using a rank 2 vers only gem?
You didn't click the replace existing option
You might want to add a socket to that first ring and then run a replace sim with proper gems, don't forget to select for the meta
you're also running a rank 2 single stat haste gem
Yea, just wanted to put something to have it there whilst I find a better ring
That's fine
You still need to sim with the right options
You're not simming the meta properly
sec
You're also running cursed ring enchants
Make sure you sim those too, because that seems kinda sus but I might be wrong
how signet of priory can sim better than lily ? cuz he give 700 less but for 5s more ( and 30s more cd)
( priory 701 and lily 710)
quick question:
We play kotg full ST on Plexus, Loom'ithar, Soulbinder, Fractilus and Dimensius, kotg ST with cleave on Araz and Nexus-King, EC on Soul Hunter, right?
obviously it might change on mythic at some point and is dependant on group constellation but overall this seems legit, right?
it's within margin of error to use many different gems. Ultimately you'll never notice a difference, and the sim cannot tell you what is actually the "best" option as it's so minor and within margin of error.
generally the blue number will indicate that
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/gVb9rQhK1afta8ViSGQB7M I ticked everything that is good and it is showing full haste. What am I missing here
Wrong talents maybe?
you still didnt do what I said
.
But ignoring meta optimisation, a result like this isn't out of the ordinary
Like recruitie said gem sims are often just within margin of error
But you probably need to either optimise for meta or replace the meta
EC sims better with haste than kotg. Change your talents to ST and kotg and it wont be that haste heavy
That too
wondering why u guys suggest him to switch this and that in the gem section but not mentioning the talents 😄
cause he's specifically asking about the gems
anyone have a Threat Plates profile for tracking important Dots as Boomy for RBGs and Arena?
there's also no point in saying "if you swap to kotg it will be different gems"
thats a really bad answer to why it wasn't mentioned 😄
why
cause the first question you should ask is for which content they are simming
so you're all wrong
EC for 5min 1 target patchwerk? there is no such content with that talent loadout
at least his talents
no lust = haste most of the time
well, it's a video game and you can play whatever you like, first of all
so instantly assuming they are playing the wrong thing is silly. As duex asked you should probe for more info on what they want
the last sim, without all buffs, implies he wants to know - for M+ content
They're also 2p2p, so haste will probably sim good as Kotg as well, doubt it will be as stacked. I also am not even sure if 2p2p keeper sims better on ST. Never checked 1v1
How do i set a specific sim time? I dont want 5 min +-20% but exactly 4 minutes as an example
Someone asks about a sim result and you see that they dont know how to sim, thats where you begin
Feel free to disagree
You can dm me any complaints
done
add
max_time=240```
to the footer of expert options
I will take it into consideration

Please allow 5-7 business days to process your request
Real
Thaaank you
240 as mentioned for 4m
chatgpt gave me the wrong info and it ended uup with me asking this for a third time 😄
clanker was really sure tho
ew
humanising ai smh

stupid ass excuse of an ai it became dumber with the 5o model or whatever
It's now second nature for me to end every google query with -noai
wonder if there's a plugin for it
It's unreal how fucking stupid that google search ai is
Actually it's probably not the AIs fault
People are stupid, it's just repeating what they're saying
it's just a system
and you should fact-check anything
regardless of it being AI, human or w.e.
Did you see the guy who flew to like thailand or some shit
without a visa
Because AI told him he didnt need one
no 💀
yeah I mean people are also asking relationship advice
or thinking there's a humans stuck in the bot
this thing is unhealthy for humans
next generation is fucked
I think there was an anime about that
yeah 'Her'
ah
(not an anime)
wasn't there a case of a service pretending to use AI chat bots but actually outsourcing it to overseas workers
or was that also fake news
also i'm stealing this meme thanks
AI that is
i don't even know how AI is a buzzword
it doesn't even work
why are people glazing it so hard
yes but humans are an expensive resource
so companies will always want to replace them
oh so they just make people think they want AI so they can justify firing humans
that makes more sense
It seems like you're not in a position to determine if AI works or not
i suppose not
it doesn't work for asking it moderately complicated questions in my experience
but i guess that's not what it's being used for
It's the same as using raidbots, plenty of people will find a way to not use it properly
not that hard to wrap your head around
as a wise man once said
BASED
damn
Some people will somehow manage to bypass all the literal red flags and warning signs on raidbots, manage to track down the purposely hidden stat weight function, then sim stat weights and go into a class discord asking why the stat weight says the stat priority in <guide> is wrong
Getting bored running 10s for weekly I tried to run 1 floodgate with new 4 set as EC and one with the old 4 set from last season and I gained quite significant dps just running the old set. Up next 2p 2p, what an absolutely based season this is.
One single key is usually also my benchmark for any theorycrafting
There is a secret trick and it usually involves you not updating your addon
Yea nah for sure, it was based on the 80 or so runs after getting 4 set and feeling like it was a dps loss and it very much looks like it is at least in the dungeons with larger pulls, backed up by the fact that those logs that have been done show a vast majority of the top dmg logs being done by people not running EC 4 set kinda seals it for me. It's a good thing though, means I never have to touch the garbage that is EC 4-set for the rest of this expansion.
ah
Current is a ST tier set and we dont even pick Starsurge talents
In what universe is this good
You sure as fuck are in weeklies. You don't nee the survivability

Because it doesn't function in a way that is conducive to a healthy skill expression. It's a random proc that sometimes runs out on its own, most of the time runs out because of the group, and the only real way to use it properly is to force your tank to get a weakaura tracking your buff and recklessly pull based around it. It's the anti-thesis to a weel designed set and even on these boards with some of the most ardent try hards the overall opinion is to literally just ignore the buff because playing around it is not only hell but in most cases entirely futile.
So much skill expression when one pull wild mushroom is my 2nd highest dmg
Can you read what the 2 set does for me cotti
there is a very important part
that you seem to have missed
what happens when you press CA?
lmao
Xdd
If using CA gave us 6 stacks of the buff, we wouldn't be talking. But it doesn't.
I wonder who the better balance druid is cotti or feirbawt
Fucking hate that being able to read is not a requirement to be here
ok but the pwar breakdown is pretty funny ngl

english pls I dont speak german
theres no skill expression
in this spec
you either proc or u dont
Reading is so hard.
If several people read what you say and have the same reaction, and you blame them for not being able to read, it is perhaps you not making your point clear enough
my only problem with tier EC, why the fuck is it 40% proc? such a random number
its like
fake
i swear
ive gone
20 seconds of the buff
without getting a single proc
Nobody claimed shrooms was skill based. It's a non random proc during CA and a random proc otherwise, you literally can not play around it or fail to play it. New set is 20 second buff that gets constantly fucked either by starfall not procing it, your group chilling and not setting up while your stacks are high, or not pulling when you desperately need to refresh it. Meaning that it's designed so that if you track it and try to play around it, it will just frustrate and fuck you over consistently, so much so that the general advice is to not even track it and just don't get ragebaited by it.
That's literally bad design.
That's literally the fucking point.
bad design is a feature
I think I know the answer
both bad probs
if you want something that is well designed
You had moments with old 2pc where it would proc on your first Moonfire in a dungeon and slow the mobs down and int your pull
youi dont play this game
ive had it asspull mobs
that werent supposed to be
This is true, that was cringe but at least that doesn't happen 20 times in a dungeon
It is also hilarious you go after cotti for disagreeing and calling him bad when he's a better player than most people here
I love the fact that we are still moving away from the point of the 4 set being a terribly designed set.
i mean
I have not called him bad though have I?
I said he couldn't read, and that's true.
I dont disagree w it being bad
telll me one set
not better than me
What's this
that wasnt badly designed
df s1
Im disagreeing saying dropping the 4pc is a good idea
How is that calling him bad?
You can pretend you don't hear the dog whistle
But it's still a dog whistle
Ok do you?
No I'm not a dog
Do you need the survivability in a 10?
@cloud plover is the dog
do you need the damage?
old 4 set is not more damage than new set...
ur wrong
df s1 set was designed badly, there was just a bug which made it good
old set is same damage as new set (class sucks so both do 0 dmg)
+1
Ilvl and sim
copege
It's just weird simping at this point.
The only thing we've disagreed on is if you need the survivability of your 4 set in a 10.
everything else was just simps going crazy thinking I called someone bad.
When I didn'
t
saw a jank pull in hoa yday
?
pulled the central packs
I'm at 704, if I die in a +10 it's my fault at this point.
it confused me
what central packs
EXACTLY
the entire dungeon is played in the center
That shit is so free on guardian
No like what the fuck are you talking about
no...no
whats the point of this then
go right, get guardian, loop back go left
every god damn time I tank ecodome my entire group just stacks in the purple pools
and dies
I'm so sick of it

Gg..
the central packs as in before the stairs
before going down
the mobs I've never in my life killed
(yes he was like 10% over pull)
..right
what

wait
Waiting
nice eco dome
these plebs here
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HOA
Yes
I have to constantly remind myself that everything you say is a bit
hence why it confused me
Or I will lose my fucking mind
wrong
it's not on your route
And you all jumped on me when I claimed none of you could read.
Yeah that route sucks
I've never seen those packs pulled
OK
we've moved on bro
in my life
We are not here to criticise my pug friendly route
WE were dogpiling kekkers
and feirbawt
lemme try remember the packs he pulled
If my pug tank does that route I will not be friendly

Its been more than 10 minutes, can someone please ask a question about gear so I can tell you to sim it? I'm getting the shakes
don't sim, use stat weights
Should I still be using Jastor Diamond and Mug Jug?
Sim it
No
probably
Thank you ugh 🚬
im not replacing jastor till like mythic raid ring
Mug probably, Jastor not if it doesn't get fixed

Kekkers
brother was overpulling for next dungeon
wait
Go look at your latest raid log, see how many people are using Jastor, and then go look at how many people actually had the buff during a pull, and how bad the uptime is
If you time a 15 with 200% forces killed you get a handshake from Metzen
wait
it's fucked?
damnit
Stat weights is telling me int is my worst stat, should I be going for agility instead?
Real ones dont get the bug so
its just crazy no? i had 4-5 min pulls, with 0 uptime on buf
c r a z y
strength
We had 25 people with Jastor on Soul Hunters this week, 13 people with buff
what the
ah righto.
Like 6 of those 13 people had 80%+ uptime and the others had like 5%
With patch presumably
wait, this requires investigation.
fml
It has been investigated and uuuh unequip or play proc lottery
you're behind by a week give or take if you dont know about it
Do we have a number on how much the proc is worth
by now
Ok tough guy
Ur already playing the lottery anyway
need a var check 
Just commit

The lottery I'm playing is whether or not I get to raid in a tier, given I play boomie and ret
🙂
🙃
Yea ret is so unplayable rn
poor ret
Crazy how the ferals are the sane ones
Needs nerfed by 20% to be playable
uhm???????
(;
i might swap to feral
His name isn't sanemeow is it..
but the feral compendium is so bad
does obr ret have more buttons than ret normally?
ya main reason id suggest not going feral tbh
real
The resources suck
not sure
I mean if I'm the one stealing the uptime it requires absolutely no investigation and everything is fine. If I'm the one getting stolen from we need to riot.
Depends on how you define buttons
Spotify is blessing me today
and again
you should be playing ret kekkers
my first char was a paladin 🙂
Did you quit because it was too hard?
My first character was a paladin too
Female draenei paladin on a WOTLK private server
I saw the OG wow cinematic of that night elf jumping into a puddle of water and transforming into a panther
I guess technically speaking my first char was a tauren druid but it was a trial acc so
and I was instantly hooked on the fantasy
Then once I reached like level 8 after 10 hours of playing
Tauren hunter
My friend called me gay for not being horde
a furry awakening
Killing myself to call my pet in the spirit realm
Wait is that actually waht tauren hunters do?

Real
My first character was a night elf priest
oh right
Is jastor still bugged inside manaforge?

howdy guys good afternoon
when is the discord getting shut down?
Were not babies we wont shut down
on soulbinder .. do you hold double ca for 2nd add spawns at 4:30 or just send earlier? seems kinad tight to get in another ca convoke until boss dies
no way - top logs on soulbinder play ec 💀
are the other people hitting the adds in those logs
yea
its pad anyways
was just looking for the timers and saw almost no convokes on lorrgs
You can do competitive damage w Kotg
Boss is getting removed off Allstar sooner of later
not gonna play ec, all good
on araz generally worth to send a CA late into collectors to get 4 dryad surges into amp?
in both intermissions?
It’s… tight
You have to bank on the fact that your team will kill them within 10 seconds once you make the decision
Also it takes like 3 seconds for amp to start
Yea, I saw that. Maybe I will just try to feel out the timing and then adjust if it's not consistent.
quick question, my second CA charge, do i use it before or after my 2 starsurges at the end of my window?
looking at logs for dimensious on archon its showing all the people popping incarn at start and then 2 more within 20 seconds, are they popping before they go over or that just a visual bug?
Well u use 2 at the start, 1 at 2m or if ur too fast u hold the 2m one
@jolly delta why can i only export to MRT from the timeline planner but not import, grr .. want to save setups
But 2 more withing 20 seconds is a visual bug probably. Which u should just use lorrgs or look at logs instead of use archon
is it worth do equip old 2p with new 2p tierset?
Yes
so should it overlap ever so slightly with my first CA or right as it ends?
i have but it isnt clear
depends on your FoN timing
you want to make sure both surges go inside FoN buff and are right at the start of 2nd CA
but generally you do overlap CAs
so it may overlap depending on the exact timing
cool thank you, the guide wasnt completely clear on that
added it to the backlog
hopefully in september I'll have more time
see how they are all using incarn at start and then again twice within 15~ seconds
Hey guys, got a question about araz trinket, is it worth to use it to up the intel pool and make the intel cap of the 4p bonus higher ? (like we did with bear morph on the end of the dryad before modification)
thats why its good
But you still using it on incarn's use or you delay it to get as much intel as posible at the end of the first dryad ?
yeah I mean next week
after I finish PoE's patch
yea theyre not using ca at the very start
but yes they are using a 2nd ca at 15
but again, ur using a shitty site to see those uses
and should stop using it
lol, even the champ boots proc increase feels nutty
use it on ca cuz u get it with convoke as well
Aight thanks you
Are dots ALWAYS worth it for mastery damage buff if they don't tick for long? If you have a high prio add that doesn't instantly disappear but also doesn't live too long do you dot it before doing anything else, even if it's just gonna be like 5-6 seconds of fighting?
I know the easy answer would be "just hit boss, let burst specs deal with it" but that's not realy an option in pugs
Thank you
World first over now. Balance buffs when???
next week forsure
What would be your ideal version of buffs for balance?
delete other classes
well, the problem is what i think isnt gonna happen because they dont ever put us in the top mid of classes
but even though we dont really do damage to adds in raid and were only generally doing ST/boss dam, were not even the middle to top in that
bottom in overall damage, meaning both cleave and boss dam
kinda tied with 4-5 other specs for just terrible boss dam
I’d like to see starsurge buffed by 20% and I’d like it to cleave to 3 stacked targets
and i would prefer if theyh didnt buff EC again
@lofty depot have you been prepping for forgeweaver?
I quite enjoy both hero talents but I don’t like the poor cool-down sync of trees
please buff ec. like 200-300% please and thank you
You’re so bald man
kinda, why
was gonna try out EC
see if i hate it
I hate it in raid
I also prefer no convole
wondering about grove inspiration vs potent on that fight and CA late in intermissions
Convoke
are you sure you are talking about forgeweaver?
uhh didnt i send u the cd thing
yes
what are you gonna do with ec on last phase
in liquid max words "game"
yea, probably .. but i cant remember and your opinion might have changed
game 
last phase is super short anyways after nerfs
The levels of cringe are breaking records rn
and you do nothing during amp
so what, im killing adds
adds are free
but not even good
guilds that dont have 3 ele's or 3 locks
surely that 20% starfall buff next week will come in handy
😉
theoretically getting 4 dryad surges into amp has gotta be more dam right?
compared to playing grove inspo
yea, but i play around my guilds ability to do things
and your guild is not capable to cleaving adds?
u can do double surges into amp regardless
this is without potent
Creep
😮
yes .. but 2nd amp
whens htat
shortly after 6min
How do you even fix not being able to deal with adds well without changing encounter design?
u dont, some classes should be worse at add damage than others
the problem is when those other classes arent good at anything else
and the ones that are good at add damage are also good at boss damage while losing nothing to do add damage
more like 6:10
i know
with potent its probably right on time
i do be using the planner
2nd is very tight
with potent its super easy
ye
so yea, that would be hte idea is use potent assuming u get double amp
but idk if thats enough of a gain to win out over grove insp
(not that grove insp is big dam but its something)
Spriests used to suffer from the same exact problem as boomkin and then they gave them shadow crash and suddenly that problem was much smaller
Encounter design is only one half of the equation
the problem is our aoe spender does fuck all
well its 4% when u get an extra one
so its gotta be more when u get extra one on amp
Aff lock has the same exact problem but they have two other specs they can roll that don't suffer from it at all
and then u still get a single ca + convoke during the last phase at whenever u want 8m
You can redesign our mastery and solve the problem instantly
But then the DoTs suddenly become a very awkward part of the kit
boss prolly dead before then
well they can have a talent be that dots increase ur damage to said target
Because they do piss damage and without enabling mastery they aren't worth casting if the target isn't going to live the full duration
rather than it be hte mastery
it was never awkward in shadowlands
just something you want to have on at all times
So you'd have to make significant changes to shift more damage into the dots
and there's still WT
if you do the 4 surges into amp its prolly also worth to have all 4 during trees, hey?
oh araz 630 or 7m fight?
like 7m
With sunseeker and smolder you might not bother applying moonfire because you don't need it for waning
In aoe scenarios
yeah but that's a good thing
Neither of those existed in shadowlands
but in that case you would create talents making dots more impactful
and they still generate ASP
remove dots
there's a ton of talents linked to dots
changing mastery so you can actually target swap is a good thing
Meh, AsP generation is already very high and spender damage is so pisslow I don't think dot asp generation is actually that valuable
it definitely is, for movement
that's the whole reason they changed it or made it generate more
ur also forgetting shooting stars
You're talking about changing mastery completely, surely spenders could also be retuned at the same hypothetical update?
which does like 8% of ur dam
do we get a quest for resi keys again?
it's not just a mastery change, it's a whole philosophy change of the spec
which I would always root for
Yes, the point overall was that redesigning mastery would necessitate significant additional changes to the spec and isnt a quick fix
Man auto correct wrecked that sentence
well thats why they cant do it in the middle of the expansion because were not shadow priest
they can do random shit to shadow priest every patch for fun
So question for people who have played this spec when it wasn't meh, when was it good and what made it good?
moonkin "oh its a give problem and needs an big expansion release and blah blah"
Don't worry, new DH spec throws stars so surely moonkin is being reworked
well we keep coping they do it during a new expansion
but jackshit has changed for 4 years
Ravenous Frenzy
3 years *
SL and dragon flight
Different iterations were good for different reasons and you'll get lots of different answers
Frenzy is extremely popular because it was immensely powerful and game warping
was there a niche the spec fell into though?
I'm a big fan of WoD boomie because it was extremely rhythmic, had one of the higher levels of skill expression, and machine gunning starsurges was always fun
heavy heavy burst
and then 0 dps for 2 minutes
It was also actually fun to play with
Boomies niche has always been two things, spread cleave and extremely bursty single target
not frontloaded burst and it was 3 minutes
Feels like we do the bursting now but mostly because of set
Not always both at the same time, but always at least one of those
in current fight designs it's ass
yea its not even close to the same
SL u were miles a head of people for full minutes
right now, my feral catches me after 30 seconds
Current tier set is bursty but like... 20% of what a good frenzy ramp got you
I only healed during SL but I remember everyone wanting boomkins for every kind of content
I still haven't forgiven Owls for ruining Kyrian
Blame @wicked shuttle
no it was balance druid in general
classic kyle take
You got it nerfed for bears. 
and/or bears I guess
Adaptive swarm was so peak for resto tho
imagine choosing to be a bear playing kyrian rather than other druid specs playing night fae
L for u ig
adaptive swarm and kyrian are fun concepts
I miss swarm on resto
Venthyr bear was peak content
The fact that feral got to keep it but resto lost it is a crime
the ability feels very resto-y
Got a question about bursting in big pulls in m+, after you dot everything etc and press your CDs, by then you sometimes have so much so that is it worth it to spend it on Starfire or should you just spam Starfire or try to not cap it, basically going cap->starfall->Starfire into cap and repeat?
u need to not cap asp
Your tier set won't proc if you're capped so never cap
if u dont uncap, starfire doesnt proc 2p
So basically do the last point of the message?
Why are you pooling to cap for?
Asking mainly when you are in the point where everything is off and you gain so much ap that a single Starfire caps you, kinda that scenario
as stated, u need to not be capped when u cast starfire
The point is to get starfalls off so you play around that. I find it very unlikely where I would ever be in a scenario where i can't cast starfall but a Starfire would somehow overcap me
no thats not the point
starfire is more dam than starfall
hence you spam starfire
and only starfall to not cap
or build starlord
Didn't say you can't cast SF, rather if it's worth casting as many Starfire's as possible during your CD
is it safe to assume the gearset used in the simc sims is our BiS for ST KotG for the season?
No, because of the set.
no
Ic
the gearset is just something that was used when simming and there can be differences or flaws in it
I see, thanks!
u do want as many starfires in cds as possible
u still need to not be capped when casting starfire
BiS gear profiles don't really exist, there are several different items that are all within margin of error
the profiles used in sims like that are just defaults used when simming different APL options and talents etc in order to keep the results as accurate as possible
You want as many starfires that generate astral power as possible I guess would be the correct phrasing.
and wowhead "bis gear" profiles also just use those to clickbait on their website
sure, but thats what i said in 2 sentences
but u also just shouldnt be overcapping asp ever
thats a condition always
So as long as it generates at least some astral power starfire is better than starfall?
Even if it's like 1 astral power?
How do we handle swapping to shortlived prio targets? I feel like I struggle to get rolling against things like the Pulsar at the end of Gambit, the spirit in eco-dome, and the adds that spawn on the first boss in ecodome. It feels clunky trying to dot and then build astral power (I guess I could track timers more closely and make sure I'm pooled).
yes but u shouldve probably spent 2 starfalls in that situation
We don't really.
is that even true for ec anymore?
preferrably the boss in ecodome is in the middle of the 2 adds and u can sunfire ontop of said boss
read the 2p
Sunfire boss, Moonfire add
moonfire son or sunfire daughter?
how many of you have figured out last boss in Eco-Dome does the same pattern every time
My teammates havn't figured out that you need to pick up the echo thing that is on the dmg slice first let alone that the fight is almost entirely scripted.
on the intermission you pick up the 3 ghosts in the same pattern every time
Furthest from entrance ghost first and then go right
no , i meant not spend if the next starfire would cap you as long as you stay under cap
For sure, it's just that every group I'm in someone is typing about the encounter being bugged because they didn't pick the ghost on the dmg slice up before she went boom.
It's really always the same pattern?
You will have to spend eventually
It's not a big deal tbh but it is very lame
yea, but overcapping slightly means less ap to spend so more starfire
i mean yea, but hes saying gain 1 asp
which means ur then losing some
Now that rwf is over when we getting our buff?
My last key I realize I was bothered by the fact I had to spend asp, what a shitty ass tier set
Tomorrow.
which might be good?
I wonder if they added the have to generate astral power clause just so that there was no way we would just stop using astral power and just starfire only.
but its kinda random anyways with shroom procs and shooting stars
thats exactly why its there
There was 0 reason the 2p didn’t trigger on starfall instead of starfire
It would make spending feel so much better even with the Lower dps on starfall
Imagine the glory of starfall triggering a starsurge on every target. I don't care how nerfed it would be, I would just want that visual.
doesn't help in ST
If I'm pressing Starfire in single target as EC just make me press starfall in single target as well.
love that boomkin niche in raid they seem to think we have
It's just wither dmg
kinda lame tbh
"just wither dmg"
that's one ability that clears our whole kit
wdym "just wither damage"
must be nice pressing a button 25 times in a fight and being #`1
Before you get worked up you're reading it wrong
ah
I think he meant "just" as "excluisvely"
It's in response to the guy asking if it was chaos bolt
that's too ironic
as "dot class" i too would like a single dot that does 50% of my dmg. Hell I wouldn't even be that greedy make sunfire do 25 and moonfire 25.
25 wither presses is high
You're generally applying with soul fire or cataclysm and not wither itself
Wither damage increases based on you doing your rotation, you can't just cast wither and afk
Yeah the dot itself isn't doing that damage the blackened soul effect is
120 starfalls to do half the damage
actually i thikn its like 1/3
Race is over were our buffs reee
I'm not saying the tuning is good, just that the number of casts of wither has nothing whatsoever to do with how much damage it deals
If you put 25 withers and nothing else you're gonna do 1% the damage of 120 starfalls

well that's besides the point
we were talking about balance druids niche
in that regard it would make more sense if Affli would be topping soulhunters
Affi was topping until they nerfed it
And I think I've been on several rants now about how we're not even a top 3 class on the spread cleave council boss of this tier
Nexus King should've been an amazing fight for us as well
Add phase lives long enough for dot value, big damage amp to sent burst into
And yet
niches dont exist
too much work
why soul hunters doesnt share is my biggest quesiton tbh
u never want to be considered "the aoe" class
U mean lower alpha? Like seethrough? Or do u mean a different/darker color
My alpha is lower for oor and los, nothing with combat afaik
Also hey moonkin friends, sucks to be us right now

speaking of which, since tettles isnt taking on the kalamazi role. can u?
need the 5+ videos of "boomkin needs buffs" "are the buffs enough?" "wee need more buffs"
Doug Dimmydome?
He eventually figured it out, it had to do with nameplates changing for targets not in combat with you and apparently target dummies counted as not in combat with you
yeah
I would, but we could do less dmg than a naked holypriest and if id ask for buffs ppl would hate in the comments
I think id get less hate if i start uploading videos about controversial political opinions

recall naguura?
pol arc
Vid title: buff boomkin and free Palestine comments section: disaster
Hahahaha
Theoretically if you could carry a Boomkin to the Dimensius P3 surely the dmg amp would be enough for us to actually have impact in that phase right?
For the elune chosen build with 2 charges of incarn
am I sending both charges at the same time?
or using 1 at a time?





