[top]Introduction

[top]Talents, Glyphs, and Race

[top]The Spec

[top]Talent Details

• Eclipse. The base Eclipse bonus is 25%, and the 16% from Total Eclipse stacks on top of that. The damage bonus is multiplicative. Spells provide Eclipse energy when they land. Eclipse ends after the cast that takes you to 0 energy; the last spell is still affected. If your Mastery rating changes during the Eclipse, the damage bonus changes dynamically.


• Moonfury (damage): Stacks additively with Glyph of Moonfire, Glyph of IS, Gale Winds, and Blessing of the Grove.


• Moonfury (crit): Due to the odd critical bonus stacking rules, the total crit bonus for affected spells if you use a Chaotic meta is 209%.


• Balance of Power: Your base Spirit is not included in the hit rating conversion, only bonus Spirit (green number in the tooltip).


• Euphoria: This currently will not proc if you have more than 35 energy towards your next Eclipse. Unclear whether this is intended or not.


• Starlight Wrath: Applies before any haste effects.


• Moonglow: Mana cost is rounded down after multiplying. Applies after [Shard of Woe]-type effects.


• Nature's Grace: This does not affect the DoT cast that procs it.


• Moonkin Form: The damage bonus is multiplicative. The spell haste buff does not stack with Wrath of Air Totem or with the Priest talent Improved Shadowform.


• Owlkin Frenzy: This can proc from physical or magical damage, but many boss abilities which hit the player frequently do not proc it.


• Force of Nature: If casting this immediately after an instant, you have to press the spell key and then click a targeting reticle in the world frame, losing a small amount of time. The Treants will attack whichever mob hates you the most, and can be easily redirected with the pet bar. They have 90% reduction against AoE damage in PvE, allowing them to survive some boss abilities. Bloodlust and Battle Shout, among other things, will particularly improve their DPS. The Treant's Attack Power is proportional to your current spellpower (i.e. it changes if your spellpower changes after casting). They are affected by any melee hit rating you have, but not by spell hit rating from Balance of Power.


• Sunfire: Identical to Moonfire in all respects except appearance and damage type. Affected by Glyph of Moonfire, Glyph of Starfire, Genesis, Lunar Shower, Nature's Grace, and Shooting Stars. Sunfire and Moonfire overwrite each other on the same target.


• Earth and Moon: The personal 2% damage stacks multiplicatively. The 8% damage debuff also stacks multiplicatively, and does not stack with the Warlock spell Curse of the Elements or the Death Knight disease Ebon Plague. As with other damage debuffs, spells check for presence of this debuff when the arrive at their target and log damage.


• Lunar Shower: If you have at least one stack of the buff (i.e. if you have cast Moonfire/Sunfire within the previous 3 seconds), this talent will cause Moonfire/Sunfire to move the Eclipse bar by 8 energy.


• Starfall: This will not fire stars when your character is stunned, and the buff will drop entirely if you shift into a Feral form. The worst use is against a single target, where you only get 10 stars. Against multiple targets, you will get 20 stars total. Each star checks your current spellpower at the time it is fired. Stars will only hit enemies that have a target or are under 100% HP.
  


• Heart of the Wild: Stacks multiplicatively with Mark of the Wild and Astral Leather Specialization.


• Omen of Clarity: Has a 2% chance to proc on spellcast [need to verify]. Does not proc from and is not consumed by shapeshifting. Note that you can no longer force procs by casting MotW in combat.


• Master Shapeshifter: The Moonkin Form bonus multiplies with all other damage bonuses.


• Perseverance: Stacks multiplicatively with Moonkin Form and Barkskin.

[top]Glyphs

[top]Prime Glyphs

[top]Major Glyphs

[top]Minor Glyphs

[top]Race

[top]Gear

[top]Stats

[top]Gems

[top]Set Bonuses

[top]Trinkets

[top]Activated trinkets

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[top]Consumables

[top]Enchants

• Head: 60 Int/35 crit (Guardians of Hyjal revered).


• Shoulders: 50 Int/25 haste (Therazane exalted).


• Back - 50 Int


• Chest - 20 stats


• Wrists - 50 Int


• Gloves - 50 haste


• Legs - 95 Int/55 Spirit ([Powerful Ghostly Spellthread])


• Boots - Run speed/35 mastery


• Weapon - Power Torrent


• Offhand - 40 Int

[top]Professions

[top]Gear Selection

[top]General Principles

• Higher-ilvl gear is stronger. Intellect usually increases very regularly with ilvl, so we have a predictable gain.


• More sockets are better (since they allow us to stack more Intellect, primarily).


• As far as secondary stats, gear so as to maximize haste. Your next best stats after that is Spirit/hit or mastery (these are interchangeable due to reforging). Therefore, Spirit/haste (or hit/haste) and haste/mastery items are the best.


• When picking items, don't worry about being over or under the hit cap--that will be addressed in reforging.

[top]Optimizing Gear/Gems/Enchants/Reforges

[top]Casting Mechanics

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/use [@target, harm, nodead][@targettarget, harm, nodead][] Starfire

[top]Spell Queueing

[top]Spell Rotations

[top]The Short Version

• Start by applying Insect Swarm and Moonfire, and casting Starsurge. Whenever either DoT falls off the target, or Starsurge comes off cooldown, recast it.


• Cast Starfire until until a Solar (Wrath) Eclipse procs, then switch to Wrath. Cast Wrath until a Lunar (Starfire) Eclipse procs, then switch back to Starfire.


• Repeat this Eclipse cycle, always keeping your two DoT's on the target and using Starsurge, Starfall and Force of Nature on cooldown.

[top]The Eclipse Rotation

1. Pre-Lunar. Cast Wrath until the Eclipse buff appears (have some mod that will make it very obvious when you gain the buff).


2. Lunar Eclipse. When you see the buff, finish casting your current Wrath and then cast Starfire for the duration of Eclipse.


3. Pre-Solar. When Eclipse fades, continue casting Starfire until the Eclipse buff appears.


4. Solar Eclipse. Cast Wrath for the duration. Continue casting when it ends to loop back around into step 1.

[top]Subtleties of Transitions

[top]Managing Eclipse

[top]DoT Refreshing

[top]Starsurge

[top]Other spells

• Starfall: If possible, cast this at the beginning of Lunar Eclipse. But depending on your haste and other factors, your cycle might be too short to use Starfall during Lunar each time. In that case, use it on cooldown. In fights which occasionally have multiple targets up at once, save Starfall for those times. With the tier 11 4-piece bonus, try not to have Starfall up when you gain an Eclipse, because it will immediately consume the buff.


• Force of Nature: use this as many times as possible in a given fight. If you know when Bloodlust/Heroism is coming, try to cast this immediately beforehand (but not if this requires waiting so long that you can't use it as many times during the encounter). There's no special benefit for having a spellpower buff active at the moment you cast this; the Treants' attack power changes dynamically with your spellpower. This macro is handy:
  
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  /use Force of Nature
  /petattack

  
  
  
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• Thorns: This spell can do good damage. At around 15 procs per cast, it starts to become worth casting on cooldown. In situations where any tank is tanking multiple mobs, you will definitely want to use this on cooldown and probably Glyph it as well. Note that it is expensive, so you have to be careful if you're planning to use it heavily. Here's macro to cast it on your target if friendly, otherwise on the target's target (useful if you're targeting the boss and want to cast Thorns on the tank):
  
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  #showtooltip
  /use [@target, help, nodead][@targettarget, help, nodead][@mouseover, help, nodead][] Thorns

  
  
  
  <!-- END TEMPLATE: bbcode_code -->(The mouseover part is mostly there for Resto purposes, but could still be handy).


• Typhoon: With Wild Mushroom and DoT's providing stronger AoE options, the main reason you use this is for the knockback. Occasionally it's useful in a raid encounter to spend a GCD pushing something away. For this it must be unglyphed. If you do ever want to use it for any DPS reason, make sure to Glyph it.


• Faerie Fire: We no longer need to use this unless the raid is missing an Armor debuff.


• Innervate: You will generally cast this on yourself on cooldown now, as there's little reason to cast it on anyone else. If you're relying on Dreamstate to sustain mana in a given encounter, make sure to cast Innervate when you have a large mana pool due to Int procs. In particular, the [Darkmoon Card: Volcano] proc is a large boost, as is your [Volcanic Potion].


• Rebirth: The most important issue is to avoid wasting it, especially now that the raid can only use a limited number per attempt (3 in 25-man, 1 in 10-man). First, make sure to coordinate with other Druids in your raid using macros or Vent so two of you don't cast on the same target. Second, people love to accept the resurrection as soon as it appears and die to something immediately. It can be good to warn them if it's a bad time to accept, and Glyph of Rebirth provides further insurance. Remember that Rebirth drops Moonkin Form, so be ready to reshift as your next cast.
  
  Here's a macro that casts Revive instead of Rebirth if you're out of combat, and also alerts your raid if Rebirth is used:
  
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  #showtooltip
  /use [nocombat] Revive
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  /use Rebirth
  /ra Rebirth on %­t

  
  
  
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• Tranquility: This spell does quite a large amount of healing due to our high spellpower (only slightly less than that of a Resto Druid). Don't forget to use it at some point during the fight when the raid has taken a lot of damage.

[top]Bloodlust/Heroism

[top]Movement

[top]Multiple Targets and AoE

• Wild Mushroom should always be used on cooldown against clumped targets (i.e. plant a set of 3 Mushrooms and detonate them every 10 seconds). Remember that the detonation is off the GCD, so you want to hit it at the same time as some other instant rather than pausing.


• Always put both DoT's on any target that's going to live for more than a few seconds.


• Save Starfall for multi-target situations if there are any in the encounter.


• Hurricane and Typhoon have little use for DPS right now, since you can basically fill your time with Wild Mushroom and DoT's.


• Since all of the above spells are instant, you can move continuously while doing all this (it takes a little bit of practice). This keeps Lunar Shower stacked, while slightly increases the DPS of any Moonfire casts and makes them much more affordable.

• Make sure to periodically let Lunar Shower fall off by casting 3 consecutive Mushrooms.


• Occasionally fill time with a Hurricane.


• Drop the Lunar Shower talent. This is a drastic measure, since, as just discussed, there are ways of managing the energy problem. Moreover, if you try to spam Sunfire without Lunar Shower for a whole minute, you will use a huge amount of mana. It's possible that certain encounters will make this the best solution, however.

[top]Advanced Techniques

• If you queue an instant spell after the final Wrath/SF that procs an Eclipse, that instant will not be affected by the Eclipse. So if you want to refresh DoT's at the beginning of an Eclipse, you have to cast one other spell first.


• Corollary: if you queue a Starsurge at that point, it will be affected by Eclipse unless it's instant cast. So be careful with Shooting Stars procs around the beginning of Eclipse. This is especially important with the tier 11 4-piece bonus, as you don't want to use your first guaranteed crit on an uneclipsed Starsurge. It's often quite good to hold your Starsurge cooldown or an SS proc into the beginning of a new Eclipse, just keep this is mind if you do.


• Similarly, if you queue an instant spell after the last spell of an Eclipse (i.e. the spell that takes you past 0), the instant will also be Eclipsed. You can use this to refresh DoT's as Eclipse ends, or even cast an instant Starsurge. If that last spell is Wrath or Starsurge, you can sometimes get two extra instants off, depending on travel time.


• There are a wide variety of things that affect the damage done by a DoT at the time you cast. A non-exhaustive list: Nature's Grace, Eclipse, trinket procs, Lightweave/Synapse/Power Torrent, Bloodlust, Volcanic Potion, Berserking. Depending on you closely you monitor your buffs (there's no way you can watch all these things effectively without a mod organizing your buff information), you can squeeze out extra DPS by watching what's going on as you refresh DoT's, and adjusting slightly earlier or later as necessary.


• This also means that if you're moving, sometimes you don't want to use the usual Lunar Shower spam because it will overwrite a strong DoT with a weak one (for example if Eclipse just faded). This is the sort of situation where you might plant Wild Mushrooms to fill time for 3 GCD's, and detonate them at any later time (e.g during Solar).


• Glyph of Starfire further complicates DoT refreshing. If you have it equipped, any Starfire will cause the number of ticks on your current Moonfire to be recomputed based on your current haste. This means that, among other things, it's no longer important to try to cast Moonfire with Nature's Grace up (since further Starfires will apply it anyway). So during Lunar Eclipse you should reverse the usual DoT order and refresh Moonfire before Insect Swarm.


• From a reset Eclipse position, Starsurge will give Solar energy. Keep this in mind when planning your first few casts of the fight, to make sure you start cleanly towards whichever Eclipse you want first (which Eclipse this is depends on your plan for the fight). A solid starting routine is important, because you have your Volcanic Potion, first set of trinket procs, and often Bloodlust, and want to maximize their effect. Pay particular attention to DoT refreshing.


• The 4T11 bonus constricts your use of Starfall and Moonfire, since you want to avoid using up charges on either. Be especially careful not to Starfall near the beginning of a new Eclipse. Conversely, you might hold your Starsurge cooldown for many seconds to start an Eclipse with a crit Starsurge.


• The 4T11 bonus allows a particular trick with Wild Mushroom. If you detonate a set of Mushrooms with the Astral Alignment buff up, all of the hits will be affected by the current number of charges (i.e. the crit bonus applies before the charges are used). By carefully planning an Eclipse (ideally Solar) to start right before you use a set of Mushrooms, you can do a large burst of AoE damage with a crit bonus on the detonation.

[top]Mods & Tools