4.0 Damage Breakdown
by Sunfyre on Oct.30, 2010, under Cataclysm, General
So with the fix from Sunfire on 4.3 PTR, I threw up 5 million damage to a training dummy just to see how our damage breaks down.
Primary nukes (Wrath, Starfire): 50%
DoTs (Sunfire, Insect Swarm, Moonfire): 30%
Starsurge: 10%
Starfall: 10%
Together, Moonfire & Sunfire did an impressive 18% damage, where insect swarm was roughly 12%.
Again, we will want to always cast insect swarm before sunfire/moonfire, as they do more damage per tick, and we want Sunfire/Moonfire to receive the extra haste from Nature’s Grace. (At my haste level [40%], insect swarm will tick 13 times and moonfire/sunfire tick 15 times, per cast.)
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: Hey Sunfyre. I get the legendary Meta soon. Does anything Major change when i get to gem? Statweights, Playstyle. thx
: 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?
October 30th, 2010 on 7:17 pm
u make cata dps sound so fun/intriguing/challenging. i sorta want to play again to see if i can master the new eclipse/rotations the way i did in tbc. (best parse was 2k brutallus dps)(3rd n.american moonkin to kill m’uru)(5th kj)
October 31st, 2010 on 12:01 am
I have my glove accelerators bound to IS. Should I bound it to moonfire/sunfire now?
October 31st, 2010 on 6:02 pm
Yeah
November 1st, 2010 on 8:28 am
IS always before MF/SF is going to be a major challenge for my muscle memory.
November 3rd, 2010 on 4:20 pm
Sorry, i got linked to the post below this one. Didn’t see you verified tick intervals on Moonfire and Sunfire.
Are you glyphing for Moonfire or Starsurge?
November 3rd, 2010 on 6:25 pm
I always glyph moonfire and insect swarm, and situationally glyph wrath or starsurge. I have a feeling I’ll stay more with Wrath in Cata as we won’t have the haste levels to give us as many shooting stars procs.
November 11th, 2010 on 8:02 am
For what it’s worth:
The base amount of ticks differs between Sunfire and Moonfire. Sunfire having 6 over 18 seconds, as different from Moonfire’s 9.
At 40% haste, your Moonfire should tick 13 times, and Sunfire 9 per cast.
Insect Swarm share it’s base amount of ticks with Moonfire.
November 11th, 2010 on 1:02 pm
I guess you missed the top of the post where I said “With the fix to Sunfire”. It’s currently bugged. Sunfire will tick on a 2 second base as of 4.0.3.
November 12th, 2010 on 5:41 am
So it would appear. My apologies.
Am I to understand that the base tick count of Moonfire is being increased from 9 to 11, seeing how you got 15 ticks at 40% Haste? Or did they change the Haste scaling of Moonfire?
November 12th, 2010 on 4:10 pm
The base is 9. I think I only get 12 base with 40% haste. 15 is with Nature’s Grace applied.