Patch 3.3 AGAIN – Eclipse Buffed
Hey — 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 Wrath by 40% (up from 30%) and the critical chance of Starfire by 40% (up from 30%)
Like I said — I’ll take it. This should balance out the DPS loss that most people were going to experience by switching out their 2pc T8. I’ll wait for Graylo to do math, but I think the Eclipse buff + 4pc T9 > 2pc T8. Sure, you lose 1% extra damage to Wrath, but 10% crit and 4% damage to Starfire are definitely better than 15% crit to Starfire.
I understand people’s complaints about this buff, and how it even furthers our dependance on Eclipse and makes movement flat out kill our DPS. However, I don’t think its going to affect us that much. As I read elsewhere, I’m sure that Blizzard will not ‘fix’ Eclipse or change anything significant about moonkin DPS till Cataclysm, so let’s just stick with what we got and be content 
In other news – I have finals and final papers next week and the week after. I haven’t taken a final in like 2 years!! x.x
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Good luck with your examns, hope you do well.
I'm thinking of dropping my moonkin spec alltogether, in my guild raids, I'm always at the bottom of the dps log, sometimes even below the tanks. The only time I do acceptable damage is when there's lots of AOE, but even then it only get's to about 5k DPS.
Chain proc'ing Eclipse also has not worked well for me, I was a kitty dps before, I might try that out again as they've changed alot of stuff since the last time I tried it (2 years ago)
Mages and Warlocs do 6k DPS on average without even trying hard, I focus, all the time and I barely get 3.5k. and it's not only me, there are 2 other moonkins in my guild and they struggle just as much.
I dunno, I must either be doing something wrong or my ping (avg 500ms) is affecting my dps more than I think.
Maybe I should level my paladin faster and just delete my very disappointing druid! Blasphemy, I know, but the more I go raiding and see alts with shitty gear do more dps than me the more I feel like this. And before you go on about my gear not being the right combinations and stuff, I can assure you, I've tried several combos, my dps alwasy stays at the 3.5k range.
Bliz needs to buff moonkins a little more so we can also relax a littel and do the same dps as locks and mages!
I think Graylo did the math. Murmurs did the math over at TMR, as well. You should check that out.
If you used Wise Eclipse, I think the estimate is maybe a 1% DPS increase if you are in the 4-piece Tier 9 gear. If you didn't use Wise Eclipse, then the boost is a little higher than that.
I've been working hard at stacking as much crit as humanly possible for my moonkin (even 2 crit trinkets) just to get my DPS to stay respectable.
It is really a band-aid fix above anything else. As Graylo said, they picked this fix because it didn't require much testing.
Well, it makes sense. I think it may have been you who brought up (when discussing the new resto druid glyph) how Blizz tests out certain things in set bonuses & glyphs; who knows — maybe they thought that 15% extra crit/damage to Eclipse would make us OP (lol).
Is that 1% increase from using 2pc T8? Because if so, I'd imagine that people like myself that had already made the change would experience a larger DPS increase. I was already getting used to DPSing in 4pc T9, so personally, I am not displeased that they at least decided to fix our 'nerf' in the same patch.
Lol I'm a tard. I keep thinking that they buffed it to 15% but its actually 10%. Disregard my comment xD