Hello everyone,
Having been a tanking druid for most of my WoW life, and just only a few months back switched to resto, I have, due to medical issues (nothing grave, just my arm disagreeing with spamming Maul), been unable to tank. As such I decided I should respec moonkin for the first time ever. This was a few weeks back.
I've read several guides, am very positive I have a good spec because it's the spec most topmoonkins use and is adviced in guides. My gear is severly lacking considering it's Yogg, having 4T7 and some random Ulduar10/ToC10 resto gear. I am hitcapped in a raidenvironment (that is, if I just cast imp FF xD) despite the resto gear, and am somewhat below 2k spellpower.
So I might kinda have taken it too fast with my owl, but our casual guild's progressing on Yogg required me to go balance for a change, because we needed the buffs an owl brings and one more ranged. Now this pretty much yielded the same crappy results I've had in, for example, heroics: loads of fast dying adds. I do pretty nice damage on other bosses considering my gear and lack of experience (4k I think on average depending on how much Eclipse likes me), but everything dying so fast doesn't allow me proper Eclipse rotations.
What happens is that when I'm done spamming Wrath, Eclipse will likely proc and will likely wear off by the time I can start nuking the new add. Similarly, on tentacles in phase 2 often when I *finally* get Eclipse to proc the tentacle is as good as dead. When I'm in luck I can switch to any small tentacle nearby, but when I'm out of it, it will have been the Starfire eclipse proccing and its cast time is simply too long to get the most benefit out of eclipse. Might note that we have barely been into phase 3, just brain phase progress atm.
Now I'm posting this here because in my old, more serious 25 man guild, we had moonkins doing pretty nice damage and not such variable, random dps. On every try their dps was more or less constant. I'm not expecting to do their damage with my gear, but I'm just REALLY struggling with the eclipse procs. Is this really only to do with my gear? Or with me? Or is this the way it is?
I've tried it both ways - start Wrath, hope for a Eclipse, and continue Starfire, but since Wrath's crits doesn't always proc Eclipse, with some bad luck I'll stand there spamming Wraths forever. That, and when Eclipse does proc Starfire, it has too long a cast time to be beneficial. I've then tried the other way around, but somehow this yielded even worse dps. O.o
My dps on a Yogg try would be anywhere between 1.8k and 3.9k. The point is not that 3.9 is low for Yogg, the point is that doing dps anywhere between 1.8 and 3.9 seems a bit off. Am I doing something miserably wrong?
I am using Squawk and Awe, yes. I have 17.75% crit and 420 haste selfbuffed. We were running with 2 mages, 2 protadins, one ret, one dk, one disc priest, one resto druid, and one dpsing warrior (and yes, I have Focus Magic on me). I know the synergy doesn't like me that much and I'm pretty much the buffbot in this setup, but still.
So basically what would you advice me to do? Is this *normal* on a Yogg fight for moonkins, this variable dps? If it's a l2play issue, please teach me. Or am I a lost cause and should I just bring my properly geared Warlock next time with who I do know how to play? How should I handle fastdying mobs? How should I handle Yogg?
Thank you for your time and sorry for the wall of text (if it critted you, who knows, might have procced a proper eclipse for a change.. x.x)
TL;DR: My dps on a Yogg try would be anywhere between 1.8k and 3.9k. The point is not that 3.9 is low for Yogg, the point is that doing dps anywhere between 1.8 and 3.9 seems a bit off. Am I doing something miserably wrong?