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Can moonkins even do dps?
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In my old guild we had a moonkin who would top the dps charts. Granted a lot of their dps where fail this moonkin was pulling 3-4k dps. So to awnser your question.. Yes just gotta find what works
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The thing is you never once told us what dps you were actually doing as a moonkin in raids on some classic fights (nor what you were doing as feral for that matter). That makes it difficult to actually answer your question. Dummy helps but the lack of raid buffs makes it hard to interpret.
Moonkin can do good dps. While good ferals should be in front of moonkins at the moment since they got a lot of love at the patch, a good moonkin will still do very competitive dps.
I don't have a good view on numbers post-patch since there isn't such a convenient benchmark fight as we had previously, but pre-patch a good moonkin would be able to do 5k5-6k on stand and nuke fights. Post patch our dps should have increased a little bit.
In terms of stat level to aim for (for you to determine wether it's the spec or the gear or the playstyle), best in slot T7 gear was bringing you at 2k2 spellpower (unbuffed and in caster form), hit cap (refer to FAQ), ~600 haste and ~440 crit. That plus the full array of raid buffs (bok, int, spi, elem shaman, spriest, feral for FF, 5% crit on target, ...)
Post patch spellpower should go up, and the debate on haste vs crit is still ongoing (though i've read recently that apparently there was a lack of haste on BiS Ulduar gear which might lead to solar eclipse and thus crit being the way to go).
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Celdhyrean
I'd suppose he didn't have cat swipe yet ? (edit : or whatever other important ability). Anyway, you can't really compare things at that level as both specs might be missing a few important tools and are missing a lot of stats.
At this point of the game, i'd say that with comparable raiding level gear a good feral will beat a good moonkin in terms of dps (and i'm a staunch moonkin supporter myself).
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Erlinn
I was running Nexus on my 72 Boomkin with a kitty in my group. On single targets, he had about 700 dps, i had 1k+ when i wasnt spell locked. He began to beat me DPS wise by spamming swipe. Soon afterwards we overpulled 2 pats. I dropped Starfall and Hurricane and did 2500 DPS. He stayed at 1k.
Not max level but I dont think it would change much if you had a good tank.
You absolutely cannot compare feral dps against balance at that level. Only around level 75 when we pick up Savage Roar does our DPS become competitive, especially on trash. Also, as Celdhyrean said, both specs will be missing a few things as well.
As for the OP, we can't help you do more DPS if you keep saying that Boomkins are underpowered and they "cannot" do good DPS. Your gear is atrocious. Only until you're at the spell hit cap and you have every piece of your gear that you can enchanted and gemmed can you begin to speak about how bad balance is. Please do not make bias, unfounded claims when it's obvious you're not even trying to help your Boomkin damage.
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Daet
Maybe your just a bad moonkin?
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Bruenor80
I have a friend Boomkin that regularly breaks 5.5k. I would say yes, Boomers are still very good dps. Just gear/enchant correctly.
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