Moonkin Cast macros

[DLoweinc]

Can I see what people are using? My moonkin falls behind my mage and elemental shaman in dps by a large margin (he does like 2200dps on bosses compared to consistantly over 3k on my shaman and mage). I would love to squeeze out more dps

I saw the one in the /click thread but for some reason it isn't working for me (using bartender4).

My current one is something like:

/cast [nostance:4] moonkin form (or whatever the spelling is)

/assist party1

/use 13

/use 14

/castrandom wrath, wrath, wrath, wrath, wrath, wrath, starfire, starfire, starfire, starfire, starfire, starfire, insect swarm, faerie fire

[wowphreak]

using Glyph of Moonfire,Glyph of Insect Swarm

/castsequence reset=target/combat faerie fire ,null
/castsequence reset=target/combat insect swarm,moonfire,Starfire,Starfire,Starfire, Starfire,

depending on how much haste yeh have you and whether or not yeh took nature splendor yeh will have to add more starfires so you dont clip yer moonfire dot.
Depending on how much haste yeh got yeh might have to much haste for wrath its only a 2 second cast time spell and if yeh picked up startlight wrath its 1.5
So if yer haste would reduce it below 1 sec it would be better to cast starfire. If yeh picked up nature grace there's even more reason to go with starfire

Moonfire does a good amount of damage.

no idea what yer specced but improved faire fire is something yeh really want increases to hit for the entire party and 3% crit for the moonkin.

[DLoweinc]

So with the macro you posted what kind of dps do you do? (and approximate gear lvl).


For comparison my guy is in full iLvl 200 gear from heroics half blues half epics

[Poetry]

Interesting timing on this since I had just started to make a similar post. I recently dual spec'd my resto druid to moonkin. I keep hearing that moonkin single target dps can be really good but my moonkin brings up the bottom of the meter every time (doesn't help that her hit is a little low but still). I'm way too busy with my other toons to watch for eclipse procs so my rotation has been trying to play the odds. It's like, fingers crossed that eclipse will proc on one of the first three starfires. Unfortunately it doesn't work out that way very often. Here is my current castsequence:

/castsequence [nochanneling:Hurricane] reset=combat Moonfire,Insect Swarm,Starfire,Starfire,Starfire,Insect Swarm,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath

My moonkin is glyphed for Moonfire, Insect Swarm, and Starfire. Her gear is mostly heroic/Naxx but I'm often getting under 2K dps. I obviously have the formula wrong
This is my build Moonkin

[DLoweinc]

Well I think that perhaps we can create a thread where we post talent build, glyphs, macros and dps (perhaps a gear score too) so people can easily play new casters in their groups?

I know 4 elemental shaman + 1 paladin was the original and many people are still playing that, but a lot have moved toward mixed class groups as well. Perhaps if there is enough response we can make a formal thread and put it into the wiki or something

[Clone]

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Im also trying to find a good cast macro for my druid but Im trying to avoid /castsequence as you then lose a large portion of dps from server lag. At the moment im using /castrandom wrath, wrath, starfire, starfire, starfire. I have Insect swarm on a seperate key thats bound to flameshock for my shamans. I find my druid not coming in too far behind the shamans but he sure runs out of mana much faster. Im not much good at writing macros, but is there some way to make a macro that checks the target for insect swarm and faerie fire and if they aren't present applies them, if they are present continues to spam the /castrandom wrath/starfire?

[Nolife]

I have separate macros for DoT's and Direct Damage.

This is my boomkin DoT macro:

/petattack
/castsequence [harm][target=party1target, harm] reset=target/combat Faerie Fire, null
/castsequence [harm][target=party1target, harm] reset=target/combat/18 Moonfire, Insect Swarm, Starfire, Starfire, Starfire

Those starfire spells at the end of macro are there so i have something to cast while waiting for other toons to finish their DoT cast OR i'm too busy to notice when to switch back to DD macro OR I try to cast DoT's before castsequence is reseted. I have /petattack command in there because I usually use treants and DoTs only during boss fights. Trashmobs die too fast for DoTs or treants to be useful.

Direct Damage macro:

/stopmacro [channeling]
/use <DPS Trinket>
/castrandom [harm][target=party1target, harm] Wrath, Wrath, Starfire

Last night I tested my solo DPS on Boss Dummy and got average of 2,7k. I'm not hit capped and gear is 1/3 blue items and 2/3 naxx epics.

Currently I'm leveling a mixed group. Final setup should be Prot Pala, Holy Priest, Boomkin, Ele Shaman and a Mage (not sure of spec atm). I hope to boost my groups dps with wide variety of buffs and debuffs.

[DLoweinc]

I have separate macros for DoT's and Direct Damage.

This is my boomkin DoT macro:

 
/petattack 
/castsequence [harm][target=party1target, harm] reset=target/combat Faerie Fire, null 
/castsequence [harm][target=party1target, harm] reset=target/combat/18 Moonfire, Insect Swarm, Starfire, Starfire, Starfire

Those starfire spells at the end of macro are there so i have something to cast while waiting for other toons to finish their DoT cast OR i'm too busy to notice when to switch back to DD macro OR I try to cast DoT's before castsequence is reseted. I have /petattack command in there because I usually use treants and DoTs only during boss fights. Trashmobs die too fast for DoTs or treants to be useful.

Direct Damage macro:

 
/stopmacro [channeling] 
/use <DPS Trinket> 
/castrandom [harm][target=party1target, harm] Wrath, Wrath, Starfire

Last night I tested my solo DPS on Boss Dummy and got average of 2,7k. I'm not hit capped and gear is 1/3 blue items and 2/3 naxx epics.

Currently I'm leveling a mixed group. Final setup should be Prot Pala, Holy Priest, Boomkin, Ele Shaman and a Mage (not sure of spec atm). I hope to boost my groups dps with wide variety of buffs and debuffs.

I am using this exact same group makeup and the dps in GROUP is MUCH higher than individual. For me, arcane spec mage is the best and is on par with or outdps's my elemental shaman even though he outgears him moderately.


DPS #'s: (All on dungeon heroic bosses)

Mage: 3k (w/heroism 4k+)

Shaman: 3k (w/heroism 4k+)

Moonkin: 2200-2600 (w/heroism 3200 to 3400)

Shadow Priest (when he doesn't need to heal): 1400 (w/heroism 1800)

I will be posting my druid's current macro and I believe my mage macro is already in this thread. I tried the Frostfire Bolt build and it fails compared to arcane, even with arcane being a castsequence macro!

[Poetry]

I have /petattack command in there because I usually use treants and DoTs only during boss fights.

How do you cast your treants? They are a great dps boost but right now I tend to ignore them because the ground targeting system makes them a pain to use.

/stopmacro [channeling] 
/use <DPS Trinket> 
/castrandom [harm][target=party1target, harm] Wrath, Wrath, Starfire

Alternating like this definitely seems to be a better way to play the eclipse odds. I just tried it out and saw a nice increase in dps. Thanks for the idea! :thumbsup:

[Nolife]

How do you cast your treants? They are a great dps boost but right now I tend to ignore them because the ground targeting system makes them a pain to use.

Simple answer: InnerSpace :thumbsup: