So, I was only pulling around 9k during a normal dungeon. Someone whispered me and told me my dps sucked because I should be doing more as a 120.
I then went and regeared to prioritize haste>mastery>crit rather than haste>crit>mastery. I got worse numbers. So which is the right priority?
Also, should I keep doing world quest and stack the SSx3? I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. Currently I don’t have enough Azerite pieces to stack SS three times, unless I use much lower gear than I currently have. Should I do that and sacrifice gear level?
I’m so confused atm
It just feels like I’m not doing great. I’m not sure if I should drop my moonkin for my void elf warlock.
Your talents could use some changes,
Natures Balance for Raids and Treants for M+
Take wild charge instead of renewal, but i personally prefer Tiger Dash instead, it works just fine too
Take Incarnation over Starlord
Shooting Stars for ST or for Raids, Fury of Elune for Multi target or for Dungeons
Google Icyveins Balance Druid Rotation and learn it for your rotation
Azerite Traits, try and go for 1 Arcanic Pulsar , 3 Streaking Stars, 1 Treacherous Convenant if you can. Or at least try to get 1 arcanic pulsar and 1-2 streaking star
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The sad truth is you will simply never do good DPS in a dungeon as moonkin. Dungeons (even at high M+ levels) revolve around burst AOE dps which boomies do not have. We are invited to dungeons for our utility - mainly treants, not our DPS. If you’re trying to satisfy people who only care about overall DPS you might as well pick a different class.
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I wouldn’t necessarily listen to the guy above me. He’s right in that our utility is highly sought after but, our damage is definitely competitive. More so some weeks than others as again, we don’t have burst aoe. But I just did a +12 shrine yesterday and overalled near 30k. I was slightly behind a spriest, mainly due to instant aoe (mind sear) and the fact that my son was crying so I missed two pulls lol.
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You weren’t competing with a Outlaw Rogue averaging 40k over the dungeon and bursting 120K plus on reaping.
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yeah well nobody is anytime soon. they arent even getting changed this patch either. so stupid
Well, I only do like 11-13’s but I’ve never seen anyone do that. So I guess you’re right, no I wasn’t.
Reaping really skews towards the big, high target burst and Balance just doesn’t do well there. I’ve gotten up to 60-80k on Reaping packs by starting with full AP, and Incarn, and Fury. But that’s nothing compared to the 120-150k I’ve seen from Fire, Havoc, or Demo, or a couple of 200ks from Outlaw.
But I’ve found my overall performance compared to the Rogues & DHs that usually populate the 15-16s I do has slipped since S1 and I don’t think it’s just me. Managing more than 25-28k over the instance is kind of hard even when Streaking lets me burst on bosses well, unless total AE damage is poor.
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Its not just you. Balance as a whole has been overtaken by demonology, elemental and shadow in S2 because of reaping. Only the lesser warlock specs and MM hunters are below balance now.
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That’s a relief. I honestly wasn’t sure if I had become bad.
It is a bit sad, but I guess I’ve pugged as high as I can reasonably get. 16 & 17s are pretty hard to find in the tool
Dont worry about it, get some gear and then if your DPS is still bad, come back and ask for help. 345 ilvl is pretty much launch gear at this point.