why is the damage on moonkins so horrible? i would be luckt to break 16k dps with 350lvl gear
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ilvl means nothing if you are not gearing the right stats and using the right rotation/CDs at the right time.
According to warcraftlogs, balance is performing better than feral as dps for druids and is rather middle of the road atm overall.
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Not anymore, it was nerfed with no notice yesterday.
*no notice and not mentioned in any blue posts
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Was it actually nerfed or was it patched so degenerate gameplay doesn’t become “the meta”?
Because the latter is more likely since the avg boomkin performs better than the avg feral dps according to logs.
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if you start a boss fight in any eclipse* state, it resets to 0, pretty huge nerf
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Remember bear weaving? Blizzard promised to communicate changes and test them first in PTR. Even with masterykin, it would just be competitive against other casters.
Now they stealthed nerfed boomkins and we’re dead last.
In ICC, languish was broken and Blizzard was radio silent on any fixes. I have 0 confidence Blizzard would want to fix this.
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Mastery swapping to start in eclipse state and then stay in eclipse stay permanently was a bug that was being abused…
https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/1023
Avg balance druid performs better than any other druid dps. So the only people that are being “nerfed” are the degenerate gameplay types abusing an unintended bug.
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Maybe they will add a glyph like they did back then, I wouldn’t hate losing “Glpyh of Thorns”
No you aren’t…
You are wrong, look up any balance guide it says to start in solar eclipse, now you cant.
“Use this degenerate unintended bug to get more dps”
Yeah, that’s what guides will tell you to do…
Just look at logs. Avg performance is highest among balance druids. Literally raw data contradicting the “We are dead last reee”
Set the above link to within the last day…oh look, balance still above every other druid dps 
That range is over the last 2 weeks, this hit yesterday, keep a close eye on it and see what happens.
Boomkins are dead last as casters even with a range of 1 day. What are you talking about?
Do ferals need love? OF COURSE THEY DO! But this is a boomkin thread…
If your boomkin is overperforming other casters, you must be playing with avg or below average players skewing your bias.
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I 95 parse magmaw and beat the tank by 120k damage
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How to buff boomkin
Your first wrath or starfire (based on eclipse state) will also apply moonfire or sunfire on the target.
This saves boomkins a global CD for applying their dots.
More buffs may be needed afterwords but this would be a good first step.
Edit: i chose this method to minimize pvp effect of the buff as druids will already be applying moonfire/sunfire in pvp when they have to move, and pvp requires a lot more movement so this would be a minor buff to pvp, while a noticeable buff to pve.
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You can change the time to the last day…like I said above. Balance is still ahead.
Read the averages. You’re looking at top end performers. Balance is middle of the road…and no, they are not the worst caster…arcane and frost are. Druids were never meant to be top performers, they’re a hybrid class that can do a little bit of everything.
You’re really counting a frost mage in there? o_O
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i did… Are you not looking at chimaeron which is a pure single target dps fight?
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The other notable thing in the WCL data is the N.
FireM: 8,390
Arcane: 658
Frost: 5
Boom: 2,896
Feral: 1,942
If we are talking about Chim specifically then yeah, Balance/Feral come out only ahead of Fury, which unless I’m missing something has a grand total of 1 parse logged lol
WCL /zone/statistics/1023#boss=1023