Comments on: Moonkin FAQ: Being the BEST Moonkin

By: Hellzy

Hellzy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:59:22 +0000

all i know is in my naxx gear around a month after WotLK release i was hitting 5k on patchwerk so you must be doing something wrong if that was what you were getting. check my boomkin out, Hellzyboy

By: jim

jim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:05:34 +0000

your a jew

By: Macbook

Macbook — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:03:07 +0000

@ Ani –

This makes sense to me, but only to an extent. Latency affects a Starfire-favored rotation much less than it would on a Wrath-based rotation.

I lag to hell very often, but the hast still helps, to an extent. I’d imagine it would be tough to calculate the lag, but maybe one day I will put on a +crit set and do some testing

Macbook

By: Ani

Ani — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:47:34 +0000

One thing I’ve noticed lately, haste seems to be somewhat dependent on your lag. I run at around 300-500 latency, sometimes spiking to 600, 800, 1000 and I just can’t take as much advantage of the haste as the lucky people who run at around 100-200 latency. So I stack much more crit than haste, on both my holy priest and moonkin, just because of my lag.

I’d love to see the numbers on exactly how much of the benefit of haste you lose per 100 latency, but my experience has been that the lag makes it not worth it for me.

By: Macbook

Macbook — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:45:29 +0000

@ Aju –

Don’t forget, that until your hit capped, each point of +hit is worth more than each point of spell power or any other stat.

3% +hit is going to help the most, and you get 3% extra crit as an added bonus.

Macbook

By: Aju

Aju — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:41:51 +0000

The 1 comfort that I take from going into IFF is that it’ll boost my spell crit by 3%. I don’t know if that offsets losing 3% haste.

By: Macbook

Macbook — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:59:27 +0000

@ Aju — Spec looks fine, I just can’t imagine a spec that doesn’t get CF though, but I guess you can’t really pull point from elsewhere if you are having mana issues.

Losing Starfall is fine in my book though. I hope you get out of the mana problems so you can get back to the DPS machine talents

Macbook

By: Aju

Aju — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:37:02 +0000

Something like this I guess.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=0xG0uicsIdIVhohZMxcub

By: Aju

Aju — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:34:45 +0000

I have intensity + dreamstate. We don’t have Replenish in the raid (no ret pally/surv hunter/ and I’m the only guy with Shadow Priest).

I was using frostwyrm flask – I’m thinking next time I use the +mana/5 flask.

If I spec for IFF – I’m most likely to take out Starfall + pts in Celestial Focus…

By: Macbook

Macbook — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:12:43 +0000

@ Aju –

Grats on doing Naxx , and lol, I still die on the Heigan dance sometimes, I hit these awful lag spikes and there’s not much I can do about it.

I’m worried your going OOM. Do you have all of the mana regen talents available to us? And yes, it may be worthwhile for you to use IFF if you don’t see yourself getting hit capped anytime soon.

Come to think of it, you may be going OOM a lot if you are using SF to proc Wrath, and using Wrath during Eclipse CD. I do the converse of that; spam Wrath till Eclipse, and use Starfire during Eclipse’s cooldown.

I wouldn’t worry too much about an extra MF tick here and there, the balance dps rotation is already hard enough as it is, no need to make it tougher

Grats again,

Macbook