Boomkin been away awhile, advise would be much appreciated Follow

Greetings fellow lazer chicken. I'll direct you to this post.

Alight, first thing I see is you can stop going gemming for your socket bonuses. For the most part unless you absolutely must gem for hit or hit/sp don't worry about the set bonuses.

You NEED the triumph badge idol. It has a ridiculous uptime and gives you another 4% crit, which is key to our dps.

Enchant wise you might want to spring for the highest level enchants you can get. The plus side is you do have everything enchanted correctly just need the best you can get.

Honestly right now it just looks like all you need to upgrade your dps is new gear. Once you start filling up your gear with BiS you're gonna notice your crit rise. Biggest reason I say this is because t7 equivalent gear is rather low on crit and t8 will be loaded with so much hit you wont know what to do you with it all. T9 is actually itemized correctly so keep picking up that 232 gear.

As for the 2t8/2t9 yes, that is what you should go for. If you don't have access to 25 man togc raids your gear can't push you past the threshold where 4t9 becomes better. So for you, 2t8/2t9 is your best bet.

One more thing, I didnt look at your spec.

Try dropping points out of dreamstate and into intensity. Intensity is the best mana regen spell you have available.

Also, drop the innervate glyph and pick up the moonfire glyph. If you must use the innervate glyph drop the IS glyph and use MF.

IS and MF should have 90% uptime in a fight, mind you thats the number you should shoot for, but most times it will be less than that. Between the two they will account for 15%-20% of your total damage. So counting those out, might not be the best idea.

I hear what you're saying but having been through every encounter since the start of Ulduar, I can confidently say mana isn't that much of a problem often enough to warrant a glyph slot, really. When we've wiped on something hard, it's not because the healers are oom. You shouldn't ever need to Innervate anyone but yourself, and you don't get the glyph benefit when you do, so it's pretty redundant.

Edit: I just pulled up a WOL from one of our recent 25s, and with the glyph one of our boomkins did 400k damage with Insect Swarm alone, and that was only on Freya, Mimiron, and Iron Council. You're going to have the spell up anyway to buff your Wrath, might as well get your money's worth.

Edited, Nov 24th 2009 11:41am by Norellicus

Thanks guys, very persuasive argument, I'll replace the Innervate with the MF :-)