Post by curlymon
Starsurge (Why this first then wrath? Because if it proc's for instant cast you don't waste 2 casts of it).
Earth and MoonIt is not just a boost for yourself but a boost to the entire raids damage.
As for Wrath till Lunar vs SF til Solar... Ideally you start in one eclipse or the other and not at 0 energy. You also go for Lunar first as it gives you the best chance to fit extra Starfalls into a fight.
Post by curlymon
With current haste levels Im starting to wonder a bit about Starfall and GoSS. With the extended time it now takes to get from one eclipse into the next, Im convinced that with GoSS you end up loosing dps by waiting for a Lunar proc to use Starfall. Id suggest either using Starfall on cooldown with GoSS, or going for GoWrath instead and letting the natural cooldown take you into Lunar. Also, at 85 DoTs will no longer last from the begining of eclipse into the next and as such need to be refreshed as soon after they run out as possible. I have no maths to support whether or not they should be clipped at the start of eclipse or not but I would immagine this would be a dps loss.
Just food for thought.
It is worth thinking about yes, but the guys over at EJ still have info set as GoSS being optimal and GoW for infrequent or no SFall use in fights, so i guess we will have to see. A lot of what we see now will change once people get into the raids and the gearing from there should help push mana and haste concerns back a bit.
Genesis - 3/3 - Required Talent. Increases Moonfire/Sunfire and Insect Swarm by 6 seconds or 3 extra ticks
at the same time it boost both by 6% damage? On top of all of that DoTs are our single strongest spell if they run their full duration? Get it, love it.
The bolded portion is no longer accurate, is it? Genesis now states that increase the
healing done by your periodic spells by 6% and increases the duration of our two DoTs. It says nothing about increasing the damage done by your periodic spells. Is this a case where the tooltip is just not accurate?
You are correct, I will clear that up.
Glyph of Innervate - For boomkins tight on mana but find they need to Innervate the healers quite often.
How does Dreamstate interact with this glyph. Will it increase mana from the glyph if you innervate someone else? (Is it worth noting somewhere that people probably want to either plan to innervate themselves or plan to innervate a healer and glyph/spec accordingly.)
Maybe, I will look into this. I'm fairly sure I put that in there somewhere, but maybe some redundancy will be a good idea.
If you hit a heavy movement section of a fight and you still have Eclipse up and either DoT falls off, the DoT should be reapplied to gain the benefit of the Eclipse before casting your way out of the proc. Just to emphasize DoTs are stronger then nukes for us currently. They always take prio over a nuke while Eclipse is up.
With the new refreshing mechanics, isn't it inaccurate to talk about refreshing dots after they fall off? Or does Balance operate abnormally because of Eclipses. I know most other DoT classes now want to keep their DoTs going, never letting them actually fall off, since that results in lost ticks.
Either way, it seems like in your scenario (Eclipse still up, heavy movement) you'd want to refresh DoTs even if they're not close to falling off.
As per Les's observations with Haste it is indeed worth refreshing DoTs any time they are about to fall off. DoTs do operate in the way you described I was just rewriting whole sections of the guide and this fell through the cracks.
You might want to additionally discuss the effects
the new meta gem requirements have on gemming and how to achieve it effectively. (Gem pure Hit/Spirit in enough blue slots to outnumber your pure Int gems, reforge excess hit/spirit from gear as needed.) Unless Balance isn't using that gem, I haven't actually read up on it much yet. (edit -- Oh, I see that's on the to-do list.)
I'm hoping the Devs reverse it fairly shortly here as the optimal gemming is far more complicated with more Blue then Red. *shudders at the number of green gems needed*
If it is not reversed by this next Tuesday I will have a step by step guide.