Hi,
Our guild tried Anub'arak heroic 25 for the first time today, and we were told all to spec for maximum AE damage. So I quickly came up with a spec that I thought would be ok for this:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/talent-calc....00000000000000
We weren't very successful unfortunately because we failed to reach P3 in the 3 short hours we had (with about 30 tries left and 6 tries couldn't be utilized).
I was wondering what the optimal spec for this fight would be, hence this topic, because I didn't like the above build at all. To my surprise however I was still top 3 dps in most of the tries (where the adds were kept close enough together to be all hit by the AE).
Some thoughts I had :
- nice AE output from hurricane, I was basically spamming it most of the time in P1
- having 0/3 eclipse hurt my feelings when there was only 1 target to dps. Should I spec less in genesis perhaps to get at least 2/3 in it?
- Some tries were really draining my mana very fast, although I never went completely oom as we wiped on our best tries before reaching P3. Maybe intensity 3/3 is not enough (dreamstate?) or maybe I shouldn't be spamming hurricane without a clearcast proc. I think the latter would solve most of the issue. I have about 40% crit raid buffed (as shown in the character tab) with MF idol up so single target nukes tend to regen my mana.
- Shouldn't I drop nature's reach altogether to get nature's grace 3/3 (I wasn't happy with the uptime) and maybe something in Imp IS or eclipse. I specced nature's reach mostly for threat reduction, but threat never was a real issue except maybe on scarabs (which are uncontrollable i think)
- Do I need (glyphed) typhoon? It would be good to nuke the scarabs down faster. What I did on scarabs was just dotting them all and popping a starfall (I replaced glyph of starfire with glyph of starfall)
- We have a shadowpriest so Improved FF? I only casted it on Anub'arak so basically all it did was making my hurricane and wrath crit 3% more on him
- Improved moonfire? with T9 2set I think it helped on the scarabs mostly
I'm curious to see some feedback from moonkins who have done this fight successfully. After browsing the moonkin guide thread on this forum, I should mention that, although not overpowered, we are definitely excellent dps on this fight (next to the DK, the feral, and .... surprisingly, our ele shaman..).
So, anyone has the optimal boomkin spec for this fight?