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Posted: Sat 10:36, 28 May 2011 Post subject: Moonkin may receive a buff soon |
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Balance druid performance has been noticeably lagging in raids. While moonkin have long had a problem being too easily +haste-capped with Wrath, there's another issue on the not-too-distant horizon in the form of the "lunar +crit cap." Essentially,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when a lunar eclipse procs and the player turns to the Starfire portion of the rotation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the combination of raid buffs, gear,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and procs make Starfire crits all but inevitable. While this may sound like a welcome DPS increase, it does have the unhappy result of the spec seeing increasingly less benefit from the +haste and +crit that exists in abundance on Icecrown raid gear.
Blizzard has known about this for a while,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but the issue with Nature's Grace and the soft +haste cap isn't easily fixable without impacting both Restoration and Starfire (where the NG proc is still useful),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the +crit cap is the effect of unintended stat inflation in Wrath. Enter Zarhym on Wednesday to announce news of world of warcraft gold a possible change to the Earth and Moon talent in a future mini-patch, granting 2/4/6% spell damage to the moonkin, up from 1/2/3%. While this isn't set in stone (and Balance players buy wow gold are already aware that an overhaul to the Nature's Grace issue probably won't happen until the Cataclysm content patch at the earliest), it's been greeted as a decent short-term fix. It's also a means of improving the scaling of what remains the moonkin's best stat (+spellpower).
Zarhym did warn that the change may not go through in this form,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and we're also waiting for news on when this mini-patch will hit. Stay tuned for future announcements.
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