Moonkin Mania!!Follow

So on a whim I hit 40 last night and decided "What the heck" and change my tree out to Balance from Feral. I was a bit hesitant at first as i got used to shredding thru the leveling process rather quickly as feral.

I gotta tell ya this Moonkin is a big bad hairy "whoop@$$ machine". It's like a bear with a much cooler dance, and better spells, but same armor.

I wasn't sure how to approach the talent tree thing and i couldn't find an example for lvl 40. But what should i be looking for? Should i got back to Feral at 50? Does this moonkin rate pound for pound vs. a lvl 50 feral w/mangle?

My overall mission is to eventually go Resto to get in as much instance/dungeon action as i can.

Any advice is appreciated. By the way for all those that call them boomkin, restokin, and whatever derivative i havent mentioned, please address mine as

WHOOPKIN! (who's preferred mana replacing drink is Cpt. Morgan....now if i could only find the recipe to make it..)

If you are having that much more fun as Boomkin then yes it will go faster.

Technically, a feral with Mangle will be faster as they only use mana to heal, buff and shift. Thus creating less downtime as mana regens in feral forms. That being said if you are enjoying the game play more the time will seem to go past faster and you will be into playing the toon thus making the process faster.

Added bonus Boomkin and Tree will share a lot of gear in Wrath making the respec less gear intensive.

After playing "whoopkin" for 2 days now i see where the feral is still a bit quicker. Maybe as i get higher and get more talents to preserve/gain mana it will get better. Even with me getting as much intellect, stamina and spirit as i can "balance" no pun intended. But I am gonna stick it out for at least 9 more levels, before I make a decision on balance.

I will be trying out feral @ 50 for the mangle experience as i keep hearing it really puts the "hurting" on things.

Who knows what i will do at 60..

Again thank you all for your posts..

LOLOLOL........Lazer Chicken and Battle Turkey....priceless.


Monster crits...wow..


thanks,

Back before I was raiding and my gear was less than sub par, having to root was just part of being a boomkin. Now it has turned into what you've said. Blow things up before they even have a chance to hit you.

I had an spriest hassling me the other day, I los'd him and got a chance to pop off a starfire which crit... for 5k. a nice chunk of his life was missing and the rest was taken away by that nice spell moonfire.

I looked through the first page or so of threads and didn't see anything that blatantly discussed it, what is the change to healing/spell damage stats that will take place in the expansion that Horsemouth mentioned?

It isn't the first time I heard it but I haven't seen any specifics about it. Only interested because I am resto and if the gear will be interchangeable then I might be trying out moonkin in the expansion.

Thread hijack ftw!
But I was curious to know roughly what kind of conversion rates we will see.
Eg. Crystalheart Pulse-Staff increases +healing more than spell damage. Does that mean we will see something with 382 spellpower and it adds less damage, or 128 spellpower and it adds more healing or somewhere in the middle?
And whatever happens with the one before how does that affect spell damage items such as Gladiator's War Staff which adds equal spell damage and +healing.
I've been meaning to ask this for a while and this looked like a good thread, though perhaps the general is a better place.
The item's I chose are there simply because they are the first 2 I found when searching staves that showed what I wanted to ask.

The 382 +heal on the crystalheart becomes 204 spellpower.

The +spell damage on items gets converted direct to spellpower.

In some cases, this means that some of your current healing items may become upgrades for you boomkin set.


So basically your spell damage (with the same gear) will remain the same.

Your +heal in your healing gear will drop a fair bit, but your healing spells are affected more by +heal than current, so it should work out about the same.

To a certain extent yes, although DPS will want stuff like crit & hit a lot more as well. As a healer you would probably be focusing mainly on +spellpower & regen stats and perhaps some haste. There will still be certain pieces that are more suited to heals or DPS, it'll just be a little less obvious than it is now :)

Rarebeast, the only arguement to your statements about stacking for boomkin is spirit, it's becoming more viable as a stat for boomkin in the patch.

The 2% spirit converted to spell damage for party/raid will become more apparent so don't be surprised to see more crit/haste/hit items with spirit on them.

It appears I need to l2read. Horsemouth ftw.