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re: Balance Boomkin

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Here's a one-stop-shopping article at elitest jerks:

http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t66856-druid_balance_pve_updated_cataclysm_release/#Spell_Queueing

The stat priority can be briefly summarized as:
Int > haste = hit = Spirit > mastery >= crit

Spell Rotations

The Short Version

* Start by applying Moonfire and Insect Swarm, and casting Starsurge. Whenever either DoT falls off the target, or Starsurge comes off cooldown, recast it.
* Cast Starfire until until a Solar (Wrath) Eclipse procs, then switch to Wrath. Cast Wrath until a Lunar (Starfire) Eclipse procs, then switch back to Starfire.
* Repeat this Eclipse cycle, always keeping your two DoT's on the target and using Starsurge, Starfall and Force of Nature on cooldown.


The Eclipse Rotation

You will generally operate in a four-step cycle.

1. Pre-Lunar. Cast Wrath until the Eclipse buff appears (have some mod that will make it very obvious when you gain the buff).
2. Lunar Eclipse. When you see the buff, finish casting your current Wrath and then cast Starfire for the duration of Eclipse.
3. Pre-Solar. When Eclipse fades, continue casting Starfire until the Eclipse buff appears.
4. Solar Eclipse. Cast Wrath for the duration. Continue casting when it ends to loop back around into step 1.


Basically, you cast Wrath until Lunar procs and cast Starfire until Solar procs. But once DoTs and other instants are involved, thinking in terms of the four-phase cycle helps you plan your casts well.

AOE: I've found that hurricane is way to big of a mana muncher to be worth using. My best approach for multiple targets is 3 mushroom detonate and then applying our 2 dots on all mobs (tab tab tab). Then you have plenty of mana for the rest of the fight and can just keep applying the dots as they fall off. Gotta get out of that "run in and blast" mindset of WOTLK Happy
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