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Originally Posted by Pyros  Not saying they're useless in a raid setup, just saying they're quite damn boring, but that's a trend with DPS classes in general in my opinion, which is why I don't play them anymore. It's entirely subjective though, some people love DPSing. I guess I'm just not done for it anymore, unless it's a quick respec for fun and stuff like that.
As for downtime and moonkin routine while leveling, I have a hard time believing it could be any faster than feral with mangle, perma 30%speed buff on catform and imp lotp healing all the damage you take. If anything, simply because of the speed buff letting you go from mob to mob faster, thus completing quests faster. |
I feraled all through vanilla wow and a bit into TBC before the call of the orbital owl battle cannon took me. Once you get some gear for it boomkin actually is just about as fast as feral. While I may not run as fast I dont' really need to with moonfire to tap mobs.
Its kinda fun because I rarely bother rooting mobs boomkin can straight up mage tank mobs leveling up fine and with the expansion it should be even easier. The thorn shield is getting a BIG dps scaling upgrade from what I have seen big enough to make the brambles talent worth while. One thing to remember with boomkin for leveling keep a good feral staff with you. If you get low on mana dot a mob up and wack it a few times with a huge attack power staff and you can regen your mana in no time.
One nice thing about boomkin is the shrubbery I was able to solo all group 2 and group 3 suggested quests with 0 issue using the shrubbery. And the shubbery is getting an upgrade as well 3 points into brambles pumps their dps up by 75%. The shrubs already do pretty good damage and with a talent damn near doubling them I should have 0 problems soloing most of the group quests.
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If you stay feral with the expansion look into the brambles talent it looks from some of the leaks I have seen that it could make your damage shield do up around 250 damage a hit its like 160 or something untalented. That could be a hell of a lot of extra damage for you in cat or bear form leveling.