Originally Posted by
Dracodraco
If you think boomkins are bad at singletarget dps compared to a hunter, I don't know what to tell you I guess. The highest hunter on Juggernaut is at 465K, with the highest boomkin at 455K - and the highest hunter on Malkorok is at 446K, with the highest boomkin at 456K. Clearly, when the two classes get to just singletarget, they're about equal (within 1-2% of each other).
Sure, hunters has the ability to move and dps, but the majority of encounters where you are forced to move often enough that you can't rely on starsurge procs for boomkins (AKA siegecrafter and Paragons) have multiple targets for you to dot up to proc more starsurges, leading to little to no real difference if played well - you'd be spending your movement dotting up secondary targets to boost your main dps (or help clearing up adds).
On fights like Garrosh where you need multidotting to get the weapons down, or utility like the roars or tranqs vs the empowered whirls (CoS+tranq from boomkin ftw), having a boomkin over a hunter just is far better.
As for the AOE slow, being able to place it in a line rather than just a circular area is a big plus. But even if you decide to not consider aoe slows, the fact that boomkins have both a knockback and ursols at the same time is silly-good for bombs compared to what hunters get - an AOE stun. With all the different aoe stuns that people have nowadays and are just chugging at the bombs, it'll be on DR in no time. Neither of boomkins abilities have any DR.
In any case, you get the idea. Overall singletarget damage is the same for the two classes, roughly - sure, boomkins might be a bit burstier than hunters (but on most fights, that's a benefit, not something bad), but the overall net damage is the same. I'd much rather have the "incredible singletarget burst" from a boomkin for Skeer/Korven/Xaril pushes on paragons, than the same sustained output from a hunter across all bosses. Sure, the dmg overall ends up being the same, but the boomkin actually helps us push the DPS checks, while the hunter just keeps the status quo.