Moonkin DPS guide

[Concillian]

As a side note, it is nearly impossible to maintain a perfect 1.5 second cast on wrath. Due to latency issues starfire does get a boost from the longer cast time. In addition, Starfire DPS goes up with NG procs. With a 25% chance to crit that equates to a 4.2% increase to DPS with Nature's Grace. Between Curse of Shadows, NG procs, and cast latency they may be closer than I originally depict. I'll need to take these issues into account and re-calculate my numbers. Perhaps Wrath is not the clear winner.

Yeah, these are factors I've seen in my warrior DPS modeling. My Fury numbers are generally more below my spreadsheet expectations than my MS numbers. Fury requires use of every global cooldown, but Fury requires 3 skills per 5-5.6 seconds (depending on #of points in Imp. MS) and my numbers are closer to spreadsheet expectations. Thus while on paper the numbers between Fury and MS look pretty far apart, in actuality (if you have WF for both) they are not too far off in my experience actually using each spec.

There are always "intangibles" like judging the need for mana efficiency, mobility of the fight (where wrath may be better becuase sometimes you need to move NOW), if outside the 5 second rule it might make sense to squeeze out that last bit of mana regen by using starfire first then wrath after, etc... Stuff that's not easy to define... but I guess that's why they are called intangibles.

Also this guy has made tables for various rotations showing relative values of hit, crit, etc... for various builds:
http://wiki.shadowpriest.com/index.php?tit...onCraft/Scaling

I don't know how valid they are, but they are a point of comparison.