Weapon Choice and PlaystyleFollow

I just dinged 40 on my druid today (*squeel*) and I have a few questions.

I've been leveling as balance because I'm playing with my BF's paladin, and I didn't feel as much pressure to go feral for speed (I loathe tauren cat form). My new moonkin form makes me do a happy dance, though. I really haven't been putting too much emphasis on my kill tactics...I just fire off wrath and starfire and moonfire and insect swarm without much rhyme or reason. Now that I have moonkin form though, I'd like to start getting into the habit of being as efficient as possible.

I know ferals don't really care about their weapon DPS, but it seems to me that it would be most efficient for me as balance to fire off 3 or 4 spells and then melee the rest of the mob's health in order to regain a chunk of that mana back. My question: is there a weapon best suited to this? I don't fully understand how the mana regen aspect of moonkin form works. Should I be using a faster weapon for more chances to proc? Or a slower weapon in order to generate more mana per swing? Does it matter?

Furthermore, is this playstyle really the most efficient for balance? Should I just be spamming wrath and moonfire and not worrying about melee? That seems silly to me. But I don't know.

Any druids out there that can shed some light on all this for me?

Thanks!

Edited, Aug 30th 2008 12:15am by PanicFairy

Really, if you think about it, it's quicker to kill the mobs faster and drink a little more, then to take an extra 5-10 seconds to kill each mob. You might less killed mobs per drink, but it would stil be faster leveling.

Hoped that helped. if not, I'm sorry, it's late = D