A few weeks ago I was reading some blue posts on MMO-Champion and I came across an idea that seemed great. The idea was changing the way Eclipse is activated (Proc'ed) in order for balance druid not to get bored of spamming Wrath until lunar eclipse proc or spam Starfire until solar eclipse proc. Because deep down inside all of us Moonkin there is a little voice that says "this is getting old and when will I get my eclipse proc."
Here is the original discussion: (Source)
It makes eclipse more of a definite % proc rather than a guess at any rate. Now imagine that for every wrath you would receive a 20% chance to proc eclipse and after the fifth wrath cast you would have a 100% chance to proc your lunar eclipse. Rather than spam an undefined number of wraths until you eventually get to your lunare eclipse. To me that is amazing and I personally think it would boost our dps into the sky. Right now if we do over 4k dps its great but imagine holding above 6 or 7k dps with that assured proc rate. The current eclipse format has made us resort to using mods like SquawkAndAwe to track the cooldown of our eclipse. Either way its a great mod and a must have for balance druids. If you don't like the size of it you can always resort to Quartz which has an extension called Quartz: Eclipse Module which has a smaller timer plus other cool features.
I remember during The Burning Crusade we had a balance druid in our raids only because of the aura. The 5% critical chance helped our casters do more damage in the long run. During that time most groups in 5 mans did not want a balance druid because they usually didn't do an outstanding amount of damage as we do now. Hence me tanking and not dpsing as a space chicken.
If at any point in time eclipse worked the way the blue post describe it we could have to change out names to Doomkins. Mainly because after the fifth wrath cast we would have a 100% chance to proc lunar eclipse and see those 20k crits destory the meters. We would be a more viable to a raid composition than we are now because we would bring an immense amount of damage to the raid.
- Earth
Friday, June 5, 2009
First day on the job...
Well to start off let me introduce myself to you all...
I am Earth of Nathrezim US. I recently came back to playing my druid not to long ago when my guild and its leaders decided to disband it. I was an Elemental Shaman for about four months. I've tried changing my main but never really went through with it. Elemental shamans are kind of similar to balance druids in some way I guess. BUT! Balance druids are still better I personally think. I chose to play a druid ever since I played Warcraft 3 for PC. The best part is when they introduced Force of Nature. To me its one of the best talents a balance druid has.
At around level 40 I went feral to speed up my leveling. Feral is an amazing specialization as well. Much easier to survive and one never has to worry about mana. I stay feral for most of The Burning Crusade but always kept a balance off set. I mostly tanked since feral dps was not as hot as it is now a days. I tanked my way all the way to Black Temple. Since we already had a balance druid in the guild I was in, I had to stay a tank.
When Wrath of the Lich King hit the store I when back to Balance which I loved so much. I battle my way to 80 as a space chicken spamming my laser beams from the sky. When I reached level 80 I joined a raiding guild and with some epics in hand I was dpsing my way to the top.
I'm currently in a guild but I don't raid much with them since I joined as a friend for the most part. I am currently on a brake from raiding but I pug raids here and there during the week just to see how my dps is doing. I can hold over 4.5k dps right now and can peak up to 5.5k at most in 25man raids.
Other than that I heal sometimes since its easy to switch form balance to restoration due the similar item useage. I have a decent feral set in my bank that I use when I get camped by those meanie horde.
Here's a link to my armory page: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Nathrezim&n=Earth
and that is all for now...
- Earth
I am Earth of Nathrezim US. I recently came back to playing my druid not to long ago when my guild and its leaders decided to disband it. I was an Elemental Shaman for about four months. I've tried changing my main but never really went through with it. Elemental shamans are kind of similar to balance druids in some way I guess. BUT! Balance druids are still better I personally think. I chose to play a druid ever since I played Warcraft 3 for PC. The best part is when they introduced Force of Nature. To me its one of the best talents a balance druid has.
At around level 40 I went feral to speed up my leveling. Feral is an amazing specialization as well. Much easier to survive and one never has to worry about mana. I stay feral for most of The Burning Crusade but always kept a balance off set. I mostly tanked since feral dps was not as hot as it is now a days. I tanked my way all the way to Black Temple. Since we already had a balance druid in the guild I was in, I had to stay a tank.
When Wrath of the Lich King hit the store I when back to Balance which I loved so much. I battle my way to 80 as a space chicken spamming my laser beams from the sky. When I reached level 80 I joined a raiding guild and with some epics in hand I was dpsing my way to the top.
I'm currently in a guild but I don't raid much with them since I joined as a friend for the most part. I am currently on a brake from raiding but I pug raids here and there during the week just to see how my dps is doing. I can hold over 4.5k dps right now and can peak up to 5.5k at most in 25man raids.
Other than that I heal sometimes since its easy to switch form balance to restoration due the similar item useage. I have a decent feral set in my bank that I use when I get camped by those meanie horde.
Here's a link to my armory page: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Nathrezim&n=Earth
and that is all for now...
- Earth
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