07-24-2007, 01:41 PM
Quote:I'm not sure I completely agree - as a shadowpriest, I often sit around (or jump around :P) waiting on threat, and see boomkin doing the same. Anything that can raise the threat ceiling will help our DPS; not directly, but it will.
That being said, since when is raid utility something to be frowned upon? That's something DPS classes have wanted forever (see rogues when they weren't kings of damage:whistling:).
Your argument is akin to saying healing priests, if they even exist anymore, shouldn't spec into improved spirit because they'd get more +healing out of slapping the extra 2 points into Holy. True, if you only look at your character, but I think most would appreciate the raid-wide buff more.
Or, to take it even one step furthur, that incinerate warlocks should never have to put up CoS, even if there are 3-4 shadow priests in the raid, because it won't help him; vice versa for shadow warlocks and CoE with a bunch of mages. They aren't talents, but the mentality is all wrong IMHO.
If you're min/maxing, there's already precious little reason to bring boomkin - I'm not sure why you're complaining so vehemently about a "crap gimmick talent" that might help get a raid slot for at least one.
Once thing that has to be considered is what you give up to Improved Fairie Fire. You want 15 points in resto to get the reduced threat talent. A 46/0/15 build would give you improved fairie fire, but you would have to sacrifice intensity from the resto tree. This is a big loss to mana regen capability. Granted, DPS gear tends to be light on spirit so a moonkin will usually be low on spirit. But with raid buffs it's pretty easy to get over 300 spirit that would provide another 11 Mp5.