![]() The star children of the group would be those pesky twins of Wrath and Starfire with moonfire being the middle child and Insect Swarm the youngest spoiled brat (look at all the itemisation geared towards it as well as talents/glyphs/patch attention this spell gets). I'm curious to know what 'half brother in the attic' refers to.Consider Balance tree like a family tree in a sense, mother moon and father sun. (this is only to compare SF and Starfall glyphs, IS, MF and Starfall can be compared in a straightforward manner) The damage increase from the Starfall glyph comes on top of that. ![]() Simply removing the SF glyph and changing to a 2-MF per cycle results in a very small loss of dps, the free ticks + 1GCD gain (which you might miss btw when unlucky with Eclipse procs) being mostly compensated by the increased MF uptime. ![]() Using the SF glyph forces you in a 1-MF per cycle rotation, since we mostly don't want to refresh it during Eclipse (though there might be some work to be done on that yet) As has been said by others, this is a choice that will affect how your rotation works and MF's global uptime. Regarding the choice of wether to glyph Starfall (for 1min CD) or not, you can't just compare +x damage on Starfall and -y damage from MF ticks. Obviously it's even better when there is some AoE to be done. On some Aoe fights there'll be more value to keep it for precise phases of the fights (Hodir, waiting on storm buff or during flash freeze) but the short CD will still allow us to use it more than once each fight anyway. Starfall's damage + 10s NG proc is enough to make it worth casting on single target fights (during Eclipse iCD) which makes it more interresting as a base spell. Glyphing it isn't a problem in terms of dps since it is a minor glyph. Which means it's a situational spell, take it if it fits your gameplay choices, you'll lose under 1% single target dps increase to gain a quite nice aoe damage increase. However it is a very good aoe spell, and does more damage by GCD than Hurricane or Starfall. Using it on OoC is not realistic because of continuous casting constraints (ie changing spells on proc is going to cost more than what you gain by changing spells). Typhoon : this spell should not be used for single target dps ever, unless you are moving, have already refreshed dots, have Starfall on GCD, and have mana vailable. When both those conditions are met, you need to know your mana pool and the demands of the fight to decide if it's worth casting. Decisions about its horrendous DPM only come into the equation when both your DoTs are up (with some time) and you're on the move. Unless your crit is low, if you run the 2 MF rotation with the SFire glyph you'll either have to clip your MF from time-to-time or you'll find yourself making more tough "should I refresh MF during Eclipse?" decisions.Īs has been pointed out for a single target Typhoon is just plain less DPS than Wrath/Starfire if you have the luxury of standing still. For the 1 MF rotation, you save a GCD at the expense of (at least) 2 MF tics. The 2 MF rotation generally equals a higher uptime. ![]() If you like to cast 2 MFs per full Eclipse-cycle use SFall If you prefer 1 MF use SFire. You want to maximize your DoT uptime while maximizing Eclipse procs. It is an oversimplification to say you want to maximize your DoT uptime. The choice between using the Starfire or Starfall glyph is based on your rotation.
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