I literally played 6 lobbies today between 1800 and 2k.
respectively 2k as sv and 1800 as marksman.
as survival I didn’t really pay attention and care,
then I make a challenge to myself to reach 2k in all hunter specs.
survival done, then as soon as I switch to mm from 1800 to 2k all see in 6 lobbies is warrior dk ret, dh war ret, or double warrior ret.
Bear form is less of a defensive than pretty much any classes self healing and makes the class do nothing while it’s “in use”.
They almost NEVER do. Its ONLY done to channel frenzy when healers are in CC or before stuns. You will very often die through bear form if cds are committed.
Sure, but youre objectivvely playing REALLY suboptimally, bro.
You cant use your experience to inform balance if youre not playing correctly.
Ive played pretty much every class/spec above a glad level and have been pretty vocal about classes needing nerfs, even when im playing them. Cyclone should be nerfed by a full second and id like to see mastery nerfed and bases buffed slightly to even out the variance in starsurge/goldrin’s fang burst damage.
Moonkin has several strengths, but its defensive strength is definitely NOT one of them (nor should it be with its mobility and cyclone).
It is objectively the squishiest caster in the game (not easiest to kill, just mathematically the squishiest).
You can cloak it off or dispell it. Its why its basically never used.
You do though because you seem to think shadow priests are casually solo’ing people while they triple cc the enemy team. Which is not a thing that can really happen.
Also to clarify, I am not trying to say shadow is bad, it is great. Current shadow and pre 10.0.5 shadow have been the strongest iterations of the spec since pretty much WoD.
I’m not sure what you’re sacrificing, but how is it not worth it? I don’t see why you wouldn’t take disarm against warrior when it’s basically a 5 second silence to completely nullify all their CDs.
It’s dispellable IIRC. That’s the main reason. Probably better to take that knock up starfall talent, thorns, and HIGH WINDS GOTTA SPAM CYCLONE LOLOLOL
ret is less of a melee than sv. their stun is their shortest range active ability
moonkin isn’t actually very good at forcing the enemy healer dispel at a particular time. whether they’re spam dispelling your dots to push back your dmg is kinda up to them, but disarm does make a good punish for that
dispellable as gomachi said
shares a school with clone
costs you owlkin adept, which is a smaller loss now than it used to be(this is why you take it into sub and mm teams sometimes)
denied by bladestorm or reflect or ams
you should be using this website to answer the question “what build are most current players of a given spec using” in general, and it’s accurate for moonkin although ofc recency of the last adept nerf won’t be reflected yet in all 50 players it counts
We still have to catch you to heal since both our heals are upon attack, similar to a dk but dk uses runic power to heal, both fury heals are on cds, well as far as fury, we are pretty much rip if we hit enraged Regen and casters pillar away or a rogue disarms us or roots bla blah bla. That’s not counting if the healer isn’t stunned tho so yeah. That’s just a few examples. Yes we have 2 charges and a leap but even those can be easily stopped sometimes.