Moonkin = OOMKin

[Brista]

Very interesting post, some nits though

I wonder if that's possible because the instant part of Moonfire gets a large part of the +spellpower dmg.

The dd part gets ALL of the + spellpower damage

Can't think of any other instant no-cooldown DD spell right now

Shadowburn (Warlock) but it takes shards

... so anyhow, with lots of +spelldmg the fact that you're wasting part of the damage becomes irrelevant and the important thing is that you're dumping 42% of your +spelldmg every 1.5 seconds.

Every 1.0 seconds no? Global cooldown is 1 second

This also makes me wonder if Blizzard thought ahead and reduced +spelldam by rank of the spell.  Why not use a lower-rank Moonfire to dump your 42% of +spelldam ... you'd want to do this to conserve mana around the time that your 42% +spelldmg bonus was significantly greater than moonfire base dmg.

edit:  Oh nm, spell rank does affect +spelldam ... to some extent.

I thought that it didn't. Where did you get this information from? My understanding was that if you were adding 42% of +100 damage then it's 42 regardless of rank or class, just as a +5 scope is +5 on any gun

So yeah at some point (+500 spelldam?) a Balance druid will outnuke a Shadow priest I expect, simply because they can deliver a significant fraction of their bonus every 1.5 seconds.

Yes. Not just that but they can do it while running too.