City of Angels
by Sunfyre on Jan.27, 2010, under General
I too finally picked up [item]Nibelung[/item]. There’s been a flurry of activity throughout the forums and DPS blogosphere about the stats for the Nibelung, so I won’t bore you too much. I’ll try to touch on the main moonkin items:
- Many abilities proc Nibelung. These include [item]Glyph of Starfall[/item], [spell]Earth and Moon[/spell], and [spell]Languish[/spell]. That means when Lunar Eclipse is active, you effectively have quadrupled your proc-rate for the Val’kyrs. (The proc rate is 1%. This assumes you have 4pc T10).
- The val’kyrs currently do not enjoy the same AoE avoidance as hunter pets, treants, etc. However, it seems just like pets, there are some fights in which they are immune to certain AoE damage. (Festergut being an example).
- [item]Glyph of Starfall[/item] may be a wise replacement for [item]Glyph of Insect Swarm[/item]. I’m currently testing it out. Starfall is great at forcing the Nibelung to proc.
- After about 7 minutes on a heroic training dummy, (about 3 million damage worth), the Val’kyrs were 8.2% of my damage. My treants were about 3.6%.
There are some fights the Val’kyr get absolutely raped, so it’s handy to have a good MH/OH combination ready. Blood Queen Lana’thel is one of those fights.
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Latest on Mon, 08:03 pm: When you hit 0 energy, in 5.1, you'd go to 20 energy. + 40 energy from one cast to 60 energy, + 40 energy from cast #2, that's 100 energy. Now you go from 0 energy to 40 energy. Cast #1 brings you to 80. Cast #2 is still required, and it brings you to 100 energy (which is really 120 but you get nothing for that extra energy). The amount of casts did not change. 2.
: Wait, what you just said doesn't make sense. What makes us go straight to 20 energy? With SotF it takes 2 casts to reach lunar. 2 casts to reach solar. Without SotF it takes 3, correct me if i'm wrong.
: Sorry, I don't understand where your getting the 20 from, 100 80 60 40 20 0 40 80 100 or sotf 100 80 60 40 20 0 (40 sf + 40 sotf) 80 120 ??
: Hi sunfyre, how would you say the 4p t15 will be with SoTF? Does that also maybe make mastery more valuable?
: Hey Sunfyre. I'm trying to wrap my head around what you've been saying about SotF. How exactly does it not reduce Starfire casts by 1?
: Started a Druid....3 days ago or something like that.... Anyways i got to lvl 60 and im not using gear SETS so much as im using the things that look especially helpful such as Int and Spir Stacke, Occasionally with some 14-15 haste involved..... Im not one of those guys who go out and get the best pve/pvp gear But i really need some help..... im a resto balance mix and well my hits are only doing about 5K at lvl 60 :/ what sohuld i do?
: Hi Sunfyre! Have you tried SotF+NV/HoTW vs Inv+NV/HoTW on PTR? If not, will you do this?
January 27th, 2010 on 2:19 am
Grats on the new staff
On an off topic note; is the title of your post a reference to the lyrics of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ song ‘Under the Bridge’?
Or am I thinking way too much..
January 27th, 2010 on 7:20 am
Thanks!
It’s really not any specific reference. Los Angeles is the city of angels, but in this case, I was in a city (Ironforge), spawning angels from the staff.