Beginning Raid Stats for Moonkin?Follow

Well, more than ten of us in our guild have dinged 80 already, and our guild leader is talking about trying out our first 10-man raid next Saturday. As I've been leveling, I've just been gathering various gear with haste, crit, mp/5, and hit stats. However, I'm unsure (outside of +hit) of what my moonkin needs more of.

I was able to find out that the moonkin needs 342 hit rating with Balance of Power talent, or 263 hit rating with BoP and Improved Faerie Fire (source). But, beyond that..which should I try to stack and to what degree? I haven't been able to find any other info on the other druid sites I know of. Haste? Crit? MP5?

On a side note, while leveling, I had been using all the crit gear I gathered, but found I was running low on mana fairly often and needing to stop and drink. So, I switched to using all the mp5/spell power gear (what I would have used for a healing set), instead... which gave me more spell power in the end, but low crit...yet was still able to be competitive in dps, and need to drink less often. Of course, the group I usually run with just aoe's everything down so I'm using hurricane often (and this is in 5-man's).


TL;DR? After hit, what stats do I need to stack for level 80 raiding? And what would be the recommended minimum amount to stack?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

I was za/badge/bt/t6 geared at 70 and I had 1250 sp, 33% crit and was hit capped and that was more than enough. So for entry level boomkin raiding at 80 I would figure this much.

Closest to hit cap as possible if not hit capped, 1400-1500 spell power buffed, 20% or more crit rate and whatever haste you can get.

The biggest thing obviously though is your hit cap, that needs to be fulfilled first before you start working on other things.

Edit: I forgot to mention this, after you've reached the hit cap work on your spell power/crit at the same time. Ultimately you're goal is to get to around 30-35% crit with just your rating and let your talents get you to a higher crit. Having a SF crit with talents and buffs of around 40-45% is where you ideally would like to be. I don't have the exact thread link atm but on elitist jerks there is a post about dps simulation using various wauys of Eclipse and everything is pointing to using wrath until you get the SF eclipse and busting out massive SF damage as much as possible while keeping up your dots.

After all of that you fill in wherever.

Edited, Nov 24th 2008 6:16pm by ArexLovesPie