Comments on: Moonkin Patch 3.3 Notes – Adios WiseEclipse

By: kasper

kasper — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:48:46 +0000

mark, u shouldt definitly NOT stack interlect. u shouldt be soft capped for haste, but also stack crit abit. u SHOULDT be it capped imo.
and then u shouldt just stack loads of SP

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:08:16 +0000

Ok quick question as for a moonkin what do i need to stack on my gear. I mean is intellect or haste or crit or hit or what here i am so confused

By: Feior

Feior — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:23:16 +0000

Wow, getting 2/3 of our T8 built into our Moonkin is pretty nice.

By: Patch 3.3 AGAIN – Eclipse Buffed | Moonkin | World of Warcraft Blog & WoW Tips

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:24:07 +0000

[...] — I’ll take it. Early yesterday, Blizzard decided to make up for their previous nerfs (they nerfed 2pc T8 & WiseEclipse), by buffing Eclipse. Eclipse now increases damage done by [...]

By: Xiera

Xiera — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:31:30 +0000

As I've stated elsewhere, the Eclipse change is not a "nerf", it simply breaks an addon. Since the addon was never intended to be part of the game (otherwise Blizz simply would have added the functionality), we cannot consider it a nerf. It is going to hurt our DPS slightly, but no nerf there.

I definitely share your sentiment in wanted to get to T10. 2T8 and 2T9 are fun, but 4T10 promises to be good times.

By: Xiera

Xiera — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:49:33 +0000

Even when we were using pre-3.2 Eclipse, the solar rotation was the way to go. 30% increased damage on our higher-DPS spell was worth more than 30% increased crit chance (about 21% increased damage) on our lower-DPS spell. The difference was in how you geared. If you geared for haste, lunar was better. If you geared for crit, solar was better. In reality, lunar was actually hampered outside of Eclipse by the stat that helped it inside of Eclipse.

That's why I went for a twisting rotation back then — because I wanted the consistency of solar and the burst/mana regen of lunar.

By: Macbook

Macbook — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:36:12 +0000

I honestly wish they would just buff Starfire damage constantly by 5% or something rather than give it more crit. If we were using pre-3.2 Eclipse, a Solar rotation would definitely be the way to go.

By: Macbook

Macbook — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:34:36 +0000

Well – I define a 'nerf' as any change from Blizz that negatively impacts our DPS. Although I expected this to happen, since WiseEclipse definitely increased moonkin DPS, I still consider this change, or 'fix' a nerf.

But no use arguing over the definition of a nerf, as we both agree its going to lower our damage

By: Xiera

Xiera — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:33:48 +0000

This change to Eclipse will do wonders for replacing 2T8 and will make the loss of WiseEclipse much more bearable. My only concern here is the crit soft cap, but we'll be so far over the haste soft cap that it won't hurt to be over the crit soft cap either.

By: Macbook

Macbook — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:33:30 +0000

Its up on MMO-Champion atm – time to blog about it!