Moonkin T10 Set Bonuses – Brief Analysis
The new T10 set bonuses for all classes have data mined and made available via MMO-Champion. Hate to say it, but at first impression, I am a little underwhelmed. I used to love seeing 4pc bonuses that I really wanted to get, but lately it seems that the 4pc bonuses they are coming up with have not been so useful.
Moonkin T10 Set Bonuses:
- Druid T10 Balance 2P Bonus – When you gain Clearcasting from your Omen of Clarity talent, you deal 10% additional Nature and Arcane damage for 6 sec.
- Druid T10 Balance 4P Bonus – Reduces the cooldown on your Eclipse talent by 6000.
The 2pc is interesting — it seems similar to 2pc T8, except will cover ALL of our spells, and I prefer 10% damage than 15% crit to my Starfires. The 4pc, on the other hand (I understand the ‘6000′ is simply filler), isn’t attractive at all. Sure, I know that eventually they will ‘fix’ Eclipse so that WiseEclipse does not work anymore and that will lower our Eclipse uptime, but that said, I still don’t think that lowering our Eclipse CD is that attractive. Even if it does prove to be DPS increasing somehow, its still, well, boring. Honestly, at certain levels of crit, and even without WiseEclipse, I usually am chaining (or near chaining) Eclipses on tank/spank fights. I mean, really, are any of you guys consistently taking 10+ seconds to proc the other Eclipse than the one you just had up?
Moonkin 2pc T10 Analysis
OMG BALLERKIN/MACBOOK IS DOING MATH!?!?! Nope, but I can definitely go through some of my logs 
I’m interested in seeing approximately how long we can expect to have the buff from 2pc T10 up, since it procs of OoC and lasts 6 seconds. Easy enough — I’m going to use my logs from our Heroic Lord Jaraxxus kill (no, I will not provide the link). Lord Jaraxxus is probably the closest to a tank & spank fight in ToC, since you only have to move for Legion Flame, and the amount of adds isn’t *that* crazy.
Based on the above buffs breakdown, some key things I’d like to mention:
- Combined Eclipse up-time for either Solar/Lunar = 76.5%
- Blessing of the Moongoddess (the MF Idol) had great up-time = 93.5%
- Nature’s Grace uptime = 73.2%
- Clearcasting/OoC proc’ed a total of 10 times.
- Total Fight Duration: 4 minutes, 59 seconds
So, if we have 2pc T10, the 10 Clearcasting procs would give us a total of 60 seconds of the 10% increased damage buff, or ~20% uptime. Starfire and Wrath, on average, still make up around 80% of our damage most of the time, so even though 2pc T10 affects all our spells, I think it is safe to say that if we compare 2pc T10 to 2pc T8, then 2pc T8 should win. However, I am 100% positive that the additional stats from T10 will be huge, especially if they continue on this path of 3x different iLevels for the same tier sets.
I really hope they increase the OoC proc rate, and fix T10 4pc. Does anyone know if they already released info on a new boomkin idol (i258)? I really hope there is going to be one that rocks.
Adios,
Baller
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They should make one that procs cirt and haste at the same time lol IMO
They've updated the 4-piece bonus.
"4 piece bonus – Your critical strikes from Starfire and Wrath cause the target languish for an additional 5% of your spell’s damage over 4 seconds."
Depending on how this works (specifically in terms of stacking/refreshing), it could be interesting. It's still a lot more attractive than an Eclipse cooldown decrese.
indeed, it can be interesting, but 5% is not that much with hits from wrath on about 7k (or so).
Both of these set bonuses are mediocre at best.
For 2T10, sure, 10% additional damage at roughly 20% uptime is a 2% DPS increase, but that's *ONLY* a 2% DPS increase. Compare that with 4T9, which is a roughly 4% DPS increase, and with 2T8, which is even higher. The only situation I can think of where the 2T10 bonus would be superior to either of those is Hurricane-spam.
4T10's original incarnation may have been decent. I would imagine that the 6000 number was in milliseconds, meaning 6 seconds. With the advent of WiseEclipse, it wouldn't surprise me if they kept the Eclipse cooldowns as they are but allowed one Eclipse to proc while the other is active. This would remove the need for WiseEclipse because the game would naturally handle that functionality. If this did occur, 4T10 would be an amazing bonus, giving us nearly 100% Eclipse uptime.
As for the new 4T10 bonus, it seems like a weakened Ignite (the mage talent). There was a little bit of math on TMR figuring the damage output after a lunar Eclipse. It wasn't anything amazing. You would have to crit more than once every 4 seconds for the bonus to truly be worth it… and for the entire length of the fight. Movement would screw you over, refreshing DoTs would screw you over.
That said, I think we'll probably see 2T9 stay with us in Icecrown Citadel. It's an incredibly powerful bonus and a lot more reliable than 4T10. Whether we'll get 2T10 or not, I don't know; we'll have to see what other items drop from IcC.
FYI they've updated the 2pc bonus to 15% now, from 10%.
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i want to know are moonkin good dps pve i got lots of items but i cant reach 1.9k dps and i know the rotations what is the problem
the gear i gess…i only got T8.5 (4/4) and i have 5.6k dps np
are u hit caped?