Thursday, December 9, 2010

Moonkin 101 for Cata 85

Not much has changed, really. Most of the additional talent points are optional to do with as you see fit. If you're having mana issues, consider picking up Furor in Feral, since you'll get more mana back per eclipse proc that way.

Stat priority is still:
int > spirit/hit (to hit cap) > haste > crit/mastery

Crit is a bit better than mastery right now, but once we're in full raid gear mastery may be slightly better than crit. In either case, reforge out of them both into other things (haste if you can, spirit if you can't so spirit can become haste from someplace else).

The Hit cap for 85 is 1742.
Not that it is a huge worry anytime soon, but natures grace can soft cap haste at 3102.
If you can hit that haste cap, and refresh dots during NG, you can get an extra 4 dot ticks at this point, so I would strive for it.

The new Meta Gem is the Chaotic Shadowspirit Diamond. Both it and the lvl 80 version we were using are supposed to go back to being 2 blue gems, rather than more blue than red gems as it states now. However, if you want to activate it now, put spirit on the other end of every gem and reforge everything away from spirit/hit. Expect to want to regem again once they fix the meta though.