07-27-2007, 01:17 AM
Regarding the Improved Faerie Fire issue, I suspect people's views are largely coloured by how the rest of the raid judges them.
If out of 15 dpsers you are consistently 10th-15th and the rest of the guild looks at the damage meters and assumes you're a semi-afk slacker it will obviously cause you to have a different take on the notion of sacrificing personal dps for the +3% hit raid buff. If you're in a raid where either people simply take it for granted that you are bringing something valuable regardless of the meters or if you're in a raid where most people have very deep game knowledge and are aware that hybrid dpsers should be judged on damage contribution not personal score
Judged by contribution Moonkins seem approximately equivalent to a dps class that lacks synergies in terms of how much damage the raid will do with them there. I suspect Moonkins will struggle for general acceptance until they are ahead of that value (just as Shadow Priests are) since most people simplistically value 1000 dps more highly than 700 personal dps + 300 dps to other people
In conclusion if you're in the kind of guild that lets you spec Moonkin in the first place you're probably in the kind of guild that would rather have an extra 50 dps and 20 tps from Improved Faerie Fire over 20 extra dps on the Moonkin but that is probably atypical of how the general WoW populace looks at things
If out of 15 dpsers you are consistently 10th-15th and the rest of the guild looks at the damage meters and assumes you're a semi-afk slacker it will obviously cause you to have a different take on the notion of sacrificing personal dps for the +3% hit raid buff. If you're in a raid where either people simply take it for granted that you are bringing something valuable regardless of the meters or if you're in a raid where most people have very deep game knowledge and are aware that hybrid dpsers should be judged on damage contribution not personal score
Judged by contribution Moonkins seem approximately equivalent to a dps class that lacks synergies in terms of how much damage the raid will do with them there. I suspect Moonkins will struggle for general acceptance until they are ahead of that value (just as Shadow Priests are) since most people simplistically value 1000 dps more highly than 700 personal dps + 300 dps to other people
In conclusion if you're in the kind of guild that lets you spec Moonkin in the first place you're probably in the kind of guild that would rather have an extra 50 dps and 20 tps from Improved Faerie Fire over 20 extra dps on the Moonkin but that is probably atypical of how the general WoW populace looks at things