A guide to refreshing DoTs during Moonkin Eclipse rotation

Relevart at the Druid Reliquary blog looks at the numbers for refreshing DoTs for both Lunar and Solar Eclipse rotations. He ends with a guideline on when you should and shouldn’t refresh Moonfire and Insect Swarm for theoretical maximum DPS.

Is Glyph of Innervate worth a glyph slot in Patch 3.1.2

With the change to how Innervate restores mana, Lissanna at Restokin looks at different Druid playing styles to see if Glyph of Innervate is still a viable choice. She covers Raiding & PvP Moonkin and well as Raiding Resto Tree Druids.

How revised Innervate works in Patch 3.1.2

Bellwether at 4 Haelz looks at what the newly revised Innervate does and does not do with the changes made to it in Patch 3.1.2. She also looks into the revised Glyph of Innervate.

Walkthrough of new equipment manager

The Frostbolt blog has a walkthrough of the new equipment manager that went live with Patch 3.1.2. It isn’t advance as third party AddOns like Outfitter which will automatically swap out your gear when you change forms out of combat, but it does have some uses.

Feral Cat Druid glyphs analyzed post-3.1

The Druid Kitty blog takes a look at all the current major glyphs available to Cat Druids and has two guest experts rate each one. At the end, the top three are recommended.

Moonkin Ulduar strat guide: Razorscale, Ignis and XT-002

Accident, guest blogger at Moonkin.info, has started a series of strat guides for Moonkin starting Ulduar. In his first article, he covers the bosses at the beginning, Razorscale, Ignis and XT-002 Deconstructor.

Resto Tree Druid healing strat guide for Iron Council

Averna at Nerf This Druid continues her Druid Healing strat guide series for the Ulduar bosses, this time tackling the Iron Council. She admits that there isn’t alot of healing strategy involved on this one, but it’s still good to know the details.

Maximum Moonkin Lunar rotation DPS calculated

Relevart at the Druid Reliquary is doing more number crunching, this time working out the optimal DPS from a Lunar Eclipse rotation given top gear and perfect circumstances.

Druid notes from Patch 3.1.2

Patch 3.1.2 went live during today’s maintenance. Here are the changes that affect the Druid class:

• Equipment Manager
  • When enabled from the Interface Options menu, this feature will allow players to store sets of equipment, easily swap between saved sets using hotkeys, and pull items directly from backpacks or bank slots (must be at the bank to equip inventory from the bank).
• Druid Abilities
  • Innervate: This ability has been redesigned to grant 450% of the casting Druid’s base mana pool to the target over 20 seconds.
  • Improved Moonkin Form: Now grants 10/20/30% of spirit as spell power
  • Maim: Rank 2 of this ability is properly considered a stun and can be escaped by Blink.
• Druid Usable Items
  • Arena weapons with an item level of 239 have had their rating requirements increased to 2350.
  • Furious Gladiator’s Staff and Furious Gladiator’s Greatstaff: The agility values on these two items were too high. They have been reduced by 50%.
  • Increased the health and mana restored from Northrend food and drinks.
  • Nightsong Garb 4-Piece Set Bonus: Chance for Insect Swarm to trigger an instant Starfire changed to 15%.

Complete patch notes can be found here.

Another Resto Tree Druid best in slot list

This one is from Averna at Nerf This Druid. She lists the top Resto Tree Druid items for every slot including all available loot from Ulduar. She also explains her reasoning behind each decision.

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