Strayegg updates in progress 2 comments

Gday all. I know I've been quiet these past months. In honesty that's because I had covered most of what I had to say, and the data hadn't really changed. Well 4.0.1 blew that out the water.

First things first, Strayegg may be unreliable over the next week or so. I am in the process of moving to a shiny new server. All being well the change-over will be smooth, but sometimes things go down the proverbial creek!

For now none of the guides have been updated, but they will be soon. I am currently catching up on the theorycrafting, and am not intending to go putting out information as gospel truth until I've had a chance to look into it more myself. In the mean time I would like to recommend taking a look at Graylos fantastic write-up here.

There's not a great deal I would add to Graylos information at this point with one slight exception. Personally I am finding Solar Beam quite useful. I mean it's a 15 second silence when glyphed! That's quite handy on some fights. Not too relevant to endgame raiding, but I got Gundrak as a daily heroic and we got Less-rabi without even trying due to that silence. Also I would be careful about listening to those going on about Thorns. It's strong at the moment but it seems like a nerf is incoming to reduce it to be more situational rather than being on a par with our main damage spells.

A couple of personal notes. Firstly, I loved being able to mess around with moonfire spam. I managed to clock up 8.2k dps against a target dummy. In Azjol Nerub I managed to do quite well spamming it also. It's also nice to be able to mess around with aoeing by spreading around Insect Swarm, with the damage buff it works beautifully, hoping to have some fun with that in ICC when I'm next in there (though apprently they have nerfed it heavily, inevitable really).

Lastly for the personal notes, my team successfully completed the CARE challenge, and with not too bad a time ending up almost exactly middle of the table. If you feel like contributing to the charity CARE International then it's still not too late,just click here - any money donated is going to a good cause! Don't worry I'll stop going on about this soon!

Finally, a small warning. Moonkin are now aggro magnets if you are in high-end gear. You may find it beneficial to warn your favourite healer of this fact, so that they are there to spam-heal you when you inevitably pull aggro from that low-geared tank in that PuG you just joined!

TLDR version Updates incoming, I love Solar Beam, CARE challenge didn't kill me, watch your threat.

Comments

zelmaru 4:14PM on the 15th of Oct 2010

I recently moved servers. Was a pain but ultimately worth it! Good luck and get MULTIPLE backups. Also, on the other end, I went ahead and downloaded the plugin "broken link checker" to track down any links that were not behaving (some of my images unlinked etc).

Aeiedil 4:34PM on the 15th of Oct 2010

I work with websites for a living, so you don't have to tell me about backups ;) :) Thanks for the advice all the same :D