Boomkin is amazingFollow

As many of you know, I leveled all the way to 70 as feral. I ran Kara for the first time as feral last night, and while no feral leather dropped, a bunch of resto/balance stuff did, which is what I've been wanting. I wanted to try out balance, but I didn't want to be in greens while I did it. So now I'm respecced and everything, and I love it. Stuff just falls apart when I start throwing spells around, and I rarely run out of mana! Incredible! Its like my mage, but buff!

This is the build I use right here.

This build allows you to allocate 4 points where you feel they should go, and there is a difference in where you put them.

If you want to increase your single target dps in a raid, you'll want to be glyphed MF/SF and throw those 4 points into genesis. The reason being is you trinket your moonfire and enter into combat with it for more tic damage. The SF glyph will continue to add time to the moonfire tic so it ends up doing some pretty good tic damage while you're in between starfire casts.

If you want to keep good single target dps, but do more damage in aoe you can put one point in Starfall, 2/2 Gale Winds, and you'll have one point to either throw into Typhoon, or Force of Nature. You're hurricane will push out more damage and you'll have Starfall to also add on for more damage in your aoe.

My personal use is the single target dps, now that you dont return mana on aoe I don't seem to have near as much fun with it as I used too.

This is what I'm doing at level 70. I like typhoon, and trees! It works well for everything I've done in the 24 hours since respec.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Muradin&n=Thenatureboy

Actually, I just went with what a friend suggested. If you've got a better suggestion, I'm not going to refuse your advice :). Like I said, I'm still learning how to play this build, and extra damage is always good.

Edit: The two talents you mentioned that are 3/5, are actually 3/3 in game.

Edited, Nov 5th 2008 6:11pm by crazyrick

If I came off as an ***, that was completely unintentional. :(

Jeebar, your spec is actually pretty good for what you intend on using it for.

I don't use Nature's Focus and go with 3/3 Celestial Focus for the raid. The chance to stun though with celestial focus is nice when you end up using starfall in pvp.

Other than that it looks fine :D

Thanks for the validation, Arex. You didn't come across as an *** to me anyway, my comment about you judging amateur hour at the balance builds was meant to be self-deprecating humor. Also deprecating crazyrick, but he seemed to be in a "hey I dunno you tell me" kinda mode too. : )

I took Nature's Focus because I run battlegrounds fairly often since I have short unpredictable play sessions. The pushback resistance on cc (roots), damage (wrath) and healing spells (regrowth) seemed invaluable.

Not sure why I took Imp MotW instead of throwing those points innto Celestial Focus...I guess 10% chance to stun on Starfire didn't seem worth it. And I didn't notice that it covered Starfall now. But I tend to use Wrath more than Starfire/Starfall anyway.


As far as my mana problem, I've found myself much more mana-efficient once I realized that my DoTs weren't living up to their full potential. By that I mean I was unnecessarily unloading full DoTtage and direct damage on non-elite mobs -- Moonfire is fairly expensive and was hardly getting to tick so that was wasted mana. I'm now just rooting, insect swarming (costst like 25% of moonfire) and wrathing/starfiring as the mood hits me.

Indeed, I was asking for help, therefore opening myself up for ridicule far worse than Arex's comments :D. But I've redone my talents now, and I'm seeing how they work.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Muradin&n=Thenatureboy

A good way to pull through the grind to 70 w/o going crazy amounts of oom is to just focus on damage/int/spirit gear, now I haven't had to do this grind in a long while as boomkin but what I'm thinking now will get you through is this.

A higher intellect obviously is going to help your dreamstate on top of your mp5 already. Intellect when talented adds back to your spell damage which is good, plus having more int means less down time with mana issues. Spirit is spirit, if you're spec'd Imp Moonkin it will obviously add damage and give you more mp5.

I would also glyph with moonfire and insect swarm. You won't be raiding so you're not going to need the -% chance to hit from mobs for your tanks and your insect swarm is going to push out more damage. Plus having that moonfire glyph is going to increase your over time damage. I would try a spell rotation something like this: Pull with either starfire or entangling roots. If you pull with starfire, root afterwards to keep yourself from getting hit, and then dot it up with MF/IS. Most mobs in that level range have about 3-6k health, the tic damage you give them should be more than enough to drop them down far enough to hit them with a wrath or another starfire.

This is more of a patient way to kill them, but trying to be more mana conservative. Just consider yourself like a lock.

Another good way to get through w/o going oom as well is to build a set of spirit gear. Just normal greens that offer great amounts of spirit. Once you build up a spirit set that gives you a decent amount of spirit write a macro or use outfitter to make a quick click button so you can pop it on and use innervate. Obviously if you do this you're goal is going to make your mana pool last 6 minutes.

Also, going 5/5 furor will help giving 10% more intellect in boomkin form.

All of this may or may not fix your problems with going oom but you're going to run in to times where you need to drink to mana up.

I'll link you guys my armory so you can see how I have my gear set up. Mind you I may be in my boomkin pvp spec and in my pvp gear (resto s2 ftl). But I'll try to get in raiding gear before I head to work today.

Edit: I totally didn't link you guys my armory.... This is it.

Edit Again: In my pve gear and with my spec I linked earlier I'm hitting single target dps for a max of around 2000-2100 dps and 1400 is generally the lowest dps I get. My gear isn't all that spectacular a majority of it is either badge/za/kara. Two pieces are from TK and my Boots are from BT. So getting crazy good gear isn't a necessary thing if you know how to push your spells and stack your stats correctly. Talented and raid buffed my Starfire crit chance is usually between 43-44%, which I rely heavily on for damage.

Edited, Nov 6th 2008 2:22pm by ArexLovesPie