Comments on: Building a Better Moonkin: One Healer’s DPS Experiment

By: Mokele

Mokele — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 04:26:15 +0000

I know I’m late (story of my life).
Like you, I’m a healer, I heal. My DPS is comical at best. O how they laugh

They. Want. Me. To. Moonkin. Heroic. Lich. King.

I don’t even know where to start. I’ve put little stickys around my pc to remind me of important stuff like IS buffs Solar eclipse & MF buffs Lunar & Starfall is best before a sloar eclipse.

I been doing some Moonkinning in raids to practice.
O how they laughed! XD

Wednesday is D day. This is gonna be funny, I hope in a good way.

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:22:25 +0000

Yar, I just want to feel like I’m a contributor if I’m asked to DPS as opposed to a pile of feathers people are toting around! The extra practice has most definately helped me

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:21:19 +0000

Yea, when I dispair about how awful I feel I do in that DBS fight, one of the hunters in the fight tells me not to sweat it, that fight is a really poor judge because of all of the things that we have to take care of during the encounter.

I got the 4T10 bonus last week or the week before, I think. And it’s juicy! I think you will like it!

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:19:37 +0000

Ouch…kitty is, well, hard! And gearing it is worse, I think, because you are right, definately can’t share any gear!

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:18:50 +0000

Thanks! I’ve been working pretty hard at it!

I really don’t mind DPSing, I just so rarely get the opportunity in our raids I feel very much like a fish out of water

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:17:53 +0000

/soothe

By: Zy

Zy — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:59:29 +0000

I am regularly asked to DPS in my offspec but that is only since I became competent at said offspec. Like you, for the longest time I only went DPS for soloing and in a group I would embarrass myself. Eventually I decided if I couldn’t do more than 2.4k DPS in full t9.25 I should probably quit the game :p

I can now dependably pull 7k as either ele or a kitty. Still sort of bad considering both sets are full t10 but at least if the raid needs me to swap specs I’m actually helping instead of being a warm body (albeit one that stays out of fire).

By: Jasyla

Jasyla — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:24:41 +0000

I’m in pretty much the same spot as you were. I always heal in raids. When we have another resto/boomkin in our 25s, he always goes dps and I always heal. Until hardmode Saurfang 10. I’ve actually never gotten to heal that fight, my Typhoon is too tempting for the raid leader to pass up.

I’m moderatly comfortable with balance. I’m usually lowest on damage, but my gear is inferior to everyone elses. I find Saurfang 10 particularly hard because I spend so much of my time controlling adds (and can’t help but bust out a Tranquility when things are looking dire).

Last week in our 25-man run, I went DPS for the first time so I could get some practice. The next step is to set up some power auras for balance and get my 4t10 bonus.

By: Maenfalyn

Maenfalyn — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:00:57 +0000

I feel your pain. I’ve been passed up for our prog 10 group for the past month because they didn’t need a tree, but when a spot opened I was passed up for a worse tree because she has a better off spec. We already have a boomy so I was informed I should build a kitty spec, which is rather difficult as a tree! Lol no over lapping gear there, nope. I have the problem that I’m afraid to start going kitty at all until i have a complete set, since I feel silly dpsing with healer boots! I wish I could just stay a pretty tree forever..

By: Qieth

Qieth — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:36:44 +0000

I think that if you swap around “moonkin” and “resto”, then you have perfectly described my relationship to resto. I didn’t take a resto offspec until not too long ago, and I am still not very confident with (or happy about) it. I do see some improvent.

But I keep resto as an offspec to help my guild if we are short on healers or need an extra for dreamwalker. I’ve made it absolutely clear to my guild that I do not like healing, and that I’m not enjoying myself. I just don’t think it’s fun anymore (since I stopped my holy priest in vanilla). This is all for them

Glad to hear that you are coming along with the moonkin’ing. If you need some help, give me a poke. Currently writing on my iPhone, so checking logs and such is too troublesome