Sorry that’s just wrong, different traits are better for different situations.
I believe I remember Ion in several Q&A’s saying that one of the good things about Azerite was going to be that it would be easy to identify and target specific pieces for your spec’s best traits.
Since we need a TR vendor at all, this obviously was not the case. The TR vendor is just treating a symptom, not the problem itself.
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They’ve said a lot of things about Azerite. Most of them have been proven wrong. They added a vendor – that didn’t solve anything. Now they’re redesigning the way the gear / traits / neck works MID EXPANSION – will that solve anything?
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Cause they implemented it completely wrong. Just do it like how they did PvP / Valor vendors like how is this so hard?
I guess if players are running a +30 every week it’s attainable in about 6 weeks
same thing with the rep gear. by the time you get to the rep you don’t need it anymore.
On top of all the other problems that people are pointing out, my biggest issue is the frequent nerfs and buffs of various traits (especially in PVP). Why would I invest 6+ weeks of play time on one piece of gear when I don’t even know if it will get nerfed a few days later? I remember finally getting all 3 Blaster Master traits on my mage then a few days later it got nerfed into oblivion and all my azerite gear was complete trash.
It feels really bad to work so hard for something then have it made useless. To be fair, this is mostly because the devs prefer to heavily nerf the good stuff rather than buff the bad stuff.
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…You’re a balance druid. You literally have three traits that are not universal garbage. One of them’s already taken a nerf bat, and is still one of the best three just because the others are such total steaming crap.
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Well that’s untrue, high noon lunar shrapnel and potm are the best aoe traits.
While arcanic pulsar and streaking stars are the best single target traits. The only truly garbage spec trait is dawning sun
REALLY? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GO THERE? Look Elynos, I know you are an ultra scrub and probably don’t understand how to min max or even sim your character. Everyone knows you are a huge forum shill. There are 385 pieces better than 415 pieces, that is a FACT. AN ACTUAL FACT. Don’t even start.
Don’t stress yourself over this person, they are a huge shill and will defend every system Blizzard has created.
Better for what though? not every situation I can guarantee that. Sit down little man
Lunar Shrapnel is absolute garbage in any situation. POTM and High Noon are useful as 1 offs in M+ but garbage in raids. Dawning sun is better than all 3 on Single Target.
Think about what Lunar Shrapnel does for a minute. It buffs Starfall (a spell we only use on 5+ targets) but only if the mobs it’s hitting are already affected by moonfire. So that means 4 gcds (1 sunfire, 3 moonfires) before this trait does anything at all. The situations where this is useful are close to zero, because the only time you’re starfalling usually is when the mobs you are fighting have too low health to be worth casting moonfire on.
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It literally recks in m+ with reaping bra. Trust
We have bras in game now? Are you equipping one or using it for transmog?
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No, it doesn’t. Because reaping mobs have such low health that casting moonfire on them is a waste of time. And Lunar Shrapnel does nothing if moonfire isn’t present.
Take a look at all the Boomkins running high M+ (and high M+ is where a trait like that might actually be useful because mobs live longer.) None of them take even a single Lunar Shrapnel. If it was any good, you’d think they would. The trait is totally useless.
If Lunar Shrapnel simply buffed Starfall damage then it might be worth taking. But in its present form it never is.
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High noon and potm are both very good in raid especially with all the multidotting going on. 1 ap 3 ss is a given but high noon and potm are both solid choices for the last 2 spots
No, they aren’t.
Again take a look at rankings in logs and see how many moonkins are using these traits in raids. Literally none.
There are exactly 2 spec traits that are worth using in raids: Streaking Stars, and Arcanic Pulsar. That’s it. And you only want 1 pulsar. So the game becomes finding all the pieces with streaking stars.
The last 2 spots are filled with the raid trait Treacherous Covenant. Take a look at boomkin DPS rankings, literally every person on every boss fight has 1 pulsar, 3 streaking, 2 covenant. Nothing else comes close.
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Outside of fort weeks well past +10 when raw HP sponge becomes more of an obstacle than execution, there’s just nowhere that matters right now where slightly more sustained AOE is especially useful enough to even consider High Noon and POTM (and as already discussed, Lunar Shrapnel very nearly makes itself a DPS loss just trying to use it). Almost none of the Dazar fights have AOE distractions in the first place, and none of them are remotely threatening enough to sacrifice killing the boss quicker.
The only boomkins running anything other than 3x Streaking, Covenant, Pulsar right now are the ones still waiting for the right drop.
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