As a balance druid what is the spell rotation that does the most dps?
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Well in the 70 levels I spent as a balance druid before speccing to resto I found a few things out.
One, the optimal spell rotation for me was to open with Starfire, Moonfire and then Wrath. Rinse Repeat. I also found spamming Moonfire was not a good idea, nor was spamming wrath both of which = oom.
Basically the way to roll through your spells is to do this. If you're doing instances and raids when you pull trash it's ok to spam wrath without going oom, which shouldn't happen if you've got dreamstate/intensity. When you're going up against bosses and mana isn't much of an issue go with the spell rotation I previously stated. If it's going to be a longer fight use Starfire and keep up moonfire/insect swarm damage. IS is the most amazing spell you can use for your tanks since it's going to cause them to be hit a percentage less.
Starfire is your most mana sensitive spell you have and it's got a pretty decent damage/mana ratio to it so use it well.
If you're going to be doing pvp, I would always Starfire, Moonfire, Entangling Roots, Insect Swarm, after that what it would depend on is if they had popped trinkets or cooldowns to remove themselves from roots I would reroot and begin to nuke with wrath.
Play around with different spell rotations, I know when I had about 650 spell damage and around 19% spell crit I could starfire/moonfire between 2000 to 4000 depending on crits. Really it'll just depend on what you find to be the best and most mana efficient way for you to kick out dps with your mana.
One, the optimal spell rotation for me was to open with Starfire, Moonfire and then Wrath. Rinse Repeat. I also found spamming Moonfire was not a good idea, nor was spamming wrath both of which = oom.
Basically the way to roll through your spells is to do this. If you're doing instances and raids when you pull trash it's ok to spam wrath without going oom, which shouldn't happen if you've got dreamstate/intensity. When you're going up against bosses and mana isn't much of an issue go with the spell rotation I previously stated. If it's going to be a longer fight use Starfire and keep up moonfire/insect swarm damage. IS is the most amazing spell you can use for your tanks since it's going to cause them to be hit a percentage less.
Starfire is your most mana sensitive spell you have and it's got a pretty decent damage/mana ratio to it so use it well.
If you're going to be doing pvp, I would always Starfire, Moonfire, Entangling Roots, Insect Swarm, after that what it would depend on is if they had popped trinkets or cooldowns to remove themselves from roots I would reroot and begin to nuke with wrath.
Play around with different spell rotations, I know when I had about 650 spell damage and around 19% spell crit I could starfire/moonfire between 2000 to 4000 depending on crits. Really it'll just depend on what you find to be the best and most mana efficient way for you to kick out dps with your mana.
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Ok.. kool I see... but what if I have enough mana to spam wrath without going OOM and kepp up the 2 DOTs.. would that do more dps?
Here's what I did to get an idea how effective different rotations were. It's not the ultimate answer or anything like that, but it gives you an idea. Go land on the boxes/barrels by Dr. Boom in Netherstorm and DPS him like crazy with different rotation. Use a damage meter addon (such as Recount) to see how you perform.
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Leveling: Roots->Moonfire->Starfire spam, recasting roots if it breaks.
For raids and heroics:
Starfire does more damage than Wrath at about 1000 buffed damage (if you have Curse of Shadows), or at least similar enough damage to not warrant the huge mana drain of Wrath. Below this, Wrath does more DPS but can be a huge mana drain.
Moonfire is your highest DPS spell, provided you let it tick off and don't refresh it early.
Insect Swarm is very mana-efficient but becomes a damage loss about the same time Starfire gets better than Wrath.
Because of that, once you get into raids, Moonfire + Wrath is generally best for short-lived trash where Curse of Shadows doesn't get thrown up. Moonfire + Starfire is better for long-lived trash and bosses, especially once you're at that ~1000dmg margin.
For raids and heroics:
Starfire does more damage than Wrath at about 1000 buffed damage (if you have Curse of Shadows), or at least similar enough damage to not warrant the huge mana drain of Wrath. Below this, Wrath does more DPS but can be a huge mana drain.
Moonfire is your highest DPS spell, provided you let it tick off and don't refresh it early.
Insect Swarm is very mana-efficient but becomes a damage loss about the same time Starfire gets better than Wrath.
Because of that, once you get into raids, Moonfire + Wrath is generally best for short-lived trash where Curse of Shadows doesn't get thrown up. Moonfire + Starfire is better for long-lived trash and bosses, especially once you're at that ~1000dmg margin.
Hmm, root first in leveling. I always went starfire/moonfire/roots since it meant you only get hit once or twice or not at all and you push out more damage up front.
If you have the mana to spam wrath go for it, but like I've said before try playing around with a few spell rotations. You'll eventually figure out something that works well for you.
If you have the mana to spam wrath go for it, but like I've said before try playing around with a few spell rotations. You'll eventually figure out something that works well for you.
i'm bass *** backwords but for soloing i did SFx2 MF wrath spam. for trash **** in kara wrath spam if longer mobs maybe rotate IS or MF in. on named i would IS MF wrath spam. i'm not a fan of SF for some reason.
i find root breaks on moon fire alot and becomes a waste of mana or even on the sf after it.
i only have about 720 spell damge buff free 18% crit buff free and 110 mp5 while casting buff free. i havent ran with our higher kara groups i've just ran with soem pugs and guilds working way up and still top 3-4 normaly.
i find root breaks on moon fire alot and becomes a waste of mana or even on the sf after it.
i only have about 720 spell damge buff free 18% crit buff free and 110 mp5 while casting buff free. i havent ran with our higher kara groups i've just ran with soem pugs and guilds working way up and still top 3-4 normaly.
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