Tag Archive: solar beam

Moonkin guide 4.0

This post is no longer updated. For the updated Moonkin guide, please find it in the new and improved Cataclysm moonkin guide (which I will continue to update) in the top, or by clicking here!

Patch 4.0 is right around the corner, and with it comes a whole lot of changes to our class. For some reason, I thought I had plenty of time before I needed to re-write the Moonkin guide, failing to realise the abundance of questions that are bound to come when 4.0 hits the live servers.

So I buckled up and started typing. Obviously, some things are still the same. Professions and enchants hasn’t been changed on the PTR, so I won’t meddle with them in the guide before the changes are active. I assume that most enchants such as +81 spell power will be changed to +81 intellect, but until they do, I’ll keep those sections as they are.

Rest assured that I will keep updating this as 4.0 comes out, and naturally throughout Cataclysm as well. I’ll add this guide to the button at the top once 4.0 hits the live servers. I’ll also post this guide out to MMO-champion and the like when 4.0 comes around – you get to read it now, because you are here ;)

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A nerf, but not quite

I’ve been spending the weekend being sick. This annoys me quite a bit, as I’ve been off work since thursday evening, and was planning to enjoy a long weekend doing some stuff around the house, and maybe get really, really drunk somewhere.

So as I was wallowing in self pity over my man-flu – which, as everybody knows, is a lot more deadly than the regular flu’s women get – I have been browsing the forums quite a bit. I haven’t really had the energy to write much, but reading takes little energy.

And I feel that there is an issue that I must adress: Beta changes, and the way we react to them.

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Glyphs, glyphs, glyphs

Attention! I am a massive tool! Please check the “best glyphs” list again for an update!

So, I wanted to talk a bit about Glyphs. There will probably still be glyph changes around, but for now, I want to talk to what is available and what we have in store.

Playing on the PTR, I’ve been working hard on trying to settle in with a new rotation. I’ll admit, it’s not easy to get used to. I had to concentrate quite a lot on not forgetting starfall, which is odd, since I am usually spot on with that. Starsurge feels odd to get into our rotation as well, but I guess its just a matter of getting used to it. When I started out as a moonkin, my rotation was so messy, so having to learn something new probably isn’t that bad.

But now it is time to see how our glyphs might affect our gameplay. Lets theorycraft!

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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Waking up today was like christmas evening, with a ton of goodies spilling out of MMO-champion. Just to clarify, danes get presents on christmas evening, not chistmas morning on the 25th.

There is a lot of stuff out there, ripped from the Cataclysm alpha client. I am not excactly sure how Blizzard feel about people stealing info from the client, but since nobody in the alpha really said anything, I suppose it might be alright.

Before we go on, I MUST stress the point that this is really early alpha changes. The talent tree below is not finished, it will be changed, and nothing of this is guaranteed. Got it? Let me repeat it again: The talent tree below is not finished, it will be changed, and nothing of this is guaranteed.

If you don’t like spoilers, you probably shouldn’t read this post. What am I saying? Ofcourse you should read my blog!

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Blizzard had another chat with their lifeblood on Twitter. Oddly enough, I knew about this, I was reminded by it from listening to TotalBiscut’s BluePLZ yesterday, and yet I completely forgot about it!

I am obviously a bit of a Twitter fanatic, and I like it when Blizzard takes time to sit down and talk to their customers about upcoming ideas – especially because they take time to talk directly to us, rather than through a half-cryptic magazine interview somewhere. It feels more casual. Its nice.

Bornakk and Zarhym did an excellent job at answering the many questions, ranging from masteries to archeology, from raids to PvP and was very willing to give out their thoughts on class changes and hints to things we don’t yet know of – and I think that there is a lot that we still haven’t been told.

I would suggest that you all take a look at it, because it tells you a lot about Blizzard’s mindset for Cataclysm. One answer did spike a “Oh hello?” moment, when the following question was asked about druids:

Q. What change are you most excited about?
A. Some of the new Balance talents for druids, like Solar Beam, which works like Freya’s spell where it instantly silences a target and they have to move out of the beam to get rid of the debuff.

“Oh hello” awesome new silence ability, with a graphic to let everybody know that the person standing in the beam is virtually defenceless. Even if this is mostly for PvP, it does look like a nice tool to our arsenal.

Go read the full list of questions and answers on MMO-champion!

- QQ