State of Moonkin, Mind and soul

I'm sure many people have already seen this posted somewhere else, so I won't go into to much detail. Ghostcrawler has stated he wants to give Moonkin more burst in PVP, however he feels that if it runs over into PVE; hes more than certain that we wont complain.

And why would we?


We are being pushed to the bottom of the meters. We used to do great in naxx when we properly scaled. Ulduar we began to move to the middle of the pack, Icecrown; if on a non movement fight, we can still do well, but all the movement on the other fights destroy us. Elemental shaman and Shadow Priest have been given their buffs to help them out. So now I really have to fight to hold my spot on the meters. But to this point, without any real buffs besides bandaids, there isn't much we can do in the end. No amount of min/maxing will fix the gap that Blizzard has put infront of us.

So I'm very curious to see what this "burst" ability will be. Will it be something we already have just with a talent switch? Will it be a new spell? (god I hope so). What? Tell me!

Another thing I wanted to talk about is the state of the Moonkin in World of Warcraft. I've noticing a few of them dying out or other guilds talking to me about their Moonkins. I've done random heroics and had Guild Masters asking me to join their guild so they could kick their Moonkin. Or to teach one how to play. I really don't know whats going on here lately. A lot of Moonkin are getting the sense that they are the best at what they do and don't feel like the need to read up on anything.

I did a video series called Moonkin Raiding Basics. Over time, they have become outdated. With the change in us not having a single rotation but now twisting; the info is outdated. But its become a problem where people don't read the dates where this information is submitted. Or hell, they don't even read the nearly always up to date Raiding Basics Sticky thread.

Are these the types of people giving Moonkin a bad name? I know I'm not the best in the world either, but to be constantly asked to look at others and see what they are doing wrong, you see alot of strange stuff come across your path.

People gemming pure haste, runspeed meta. I've even see a Moonkin with no Hit and not knowing what it was when he applied to a raiding guild. (Yes, 232 Hero as we call it). The weirdest thing I have ever seen though was a Moonkin who actually gemmed Armor pen. I never did figure out why, but its fixed now. But in all seriousness, these people probably make up 60% of the total Moonkin population. With that high of numbers, they are normally seen before the people who know what they are doing. I've seen friends (other Moonkin) turned down from guilds because the last Moonkin they had was terrible and they didn't want a repeat.

So please, read up on this stuff. Figure out that 4k isn't good now adays. Single Target dps testing doesn't use Trees or Starfall or buffs to gage where you are. If you feel you are the best on your server, always know there is someone out there better than you; probably just less known. I'm sure there is someone better than me on my server all the time. I'm always looking at WWS logs to see what I can improve. So far its my dot uptime. I won't lie. I need to work on it. Sometimes I just take to long to get my dots back up, or I clip them by mistake and then I cry.

Either way, LEARN; its good for you! Gives more wrinkles to your brain :D

Lowbie Moonkins are OP in PvP

The word Moonkin and OP really doesn't fit for most people in a PvP setting. This is more than understandable. As you reach level 80, its a whole new world when it comes to Player Vs Player Combat. You have the gear level difference which can be from a fresh 80 in quest greens to someone in full t9.5. Not to mention all the armor reducing abilities melee have which makes moonkin's armor worthless and allows a melee to destroy us in a few seconds.

However, while playing my Lowbie-Kin, Foofe, I discovered the fun of PvPing once again as a moonkin. With her only level 40, its easy to take on melee as well as casters. No one is maxed out and has every spell possible to take you on, but still are able to give you a good competition. So, while really getting into the PvP scene again as a moonkin, I found sheer enjoyment of being able to root a Rogue and having them stuck there the entire duration. As well as the fact as if they got on me, I could live through a stun and get away, and outheal their damage with a Rej and Regrowth.

Now, fighting twinks is another story, they are meant to destroy you, so I refuse to turn off my XP gain since I do wish to level her (slowly, but surely). But as I stated, PvPing as a lowbie-kin is just great. It really evens the field when melee don't stack their ArP, or have Cloak of Shadows or even Bladestorm.

What makes Lowbie-Kins OP in the Lower Brackets?

With Moonkin form, we have a high amount of armor. Of course as we go higher and get into the 60's alot more abilities will effect our armor when a melee gets ontop of us. But currently, with no ArP stacking peeps in the 40's, its heaven and you actually last more than 5 seconds. We also have players who aren't maxed out on damage, so we can actually hot and run once more. Its kinda like Vanilla WoW once again, where druids would just hot and run, only, now we can do damage.

Our roots are the most powerful thing ever in low level brackets. Even if you don't have Moonkin form yet, its still great to have. Before I picked up Moonkin form, I was still a force to be reckoned with in BG's. I even had an enchance shaman pop after I killed him, and I just killed him again. He tried to kill me since I only had 10% health, but my rej kept me alive the entire time.

Insect Swarm and Moonfire are a great combo. Just using these and keeping yourself up is so easy and the outcome is funny when a rogue dies to it. Them not having cloak of Shadows is like a dream come true. Going against a caster is about the same as it is at 80. Hit or miss. Its all about the player behind that caster and how they react and how things go.

Either way, I love PvPing again (And no, typhoon'ing people off Thunderbluff doesn't count as Moonkin PvP) but only in the low level brackets. So I suggest if you have an alt druid to try respecing them Moonkin and trying it out. You may find that you enjoy it.