The Moonkin Guide

It has been a long time since I decided that I wanted to write a moonkin guide, but I finally sat down and just bashed the hell out of my keyboard. I think this covers most of what you need to know to get going. Chances are, you don’t need it, but it would seem weird not to share this on my blog after all this work.

Use the drop down menu at the top, or the table of contents in the bottom to view the rest of the guide. If you want it all in one sitting, you can read the full guide here. Please feel free to share this if you deem it worthy. I cannot stress how much my fingers hurt!

Disclaimer – What is a moonkin?

“If I wanted to be a caster, I could just have rolled a mage!”. There are many reasons why we spec into moonkins. Some are resto druids looking for a damage spec they can easely transition to. Some are feral druids who want to explore different types of gameplay without having to level a whole new character. Others relish in the sheer awesomeness of being a giant chicken who can command the entire universe to shift around, with a mere thought.

Why would you roll a moonkin? Moonkins have a variety of very different spells and abilities in their arsenal, and cover a great deal of raid buffs. With two dots, two main nukes and some potentially devistating cooldowns, moonkins can adapt to many situations. A single moonkin in the raid brings a number of raid buffs that you would need to cover on several other classes: 3% spell haste, 3% hit, 5% crit, 13% more spell damage, minor armor reduction, rebirth and more. To cover all of these buffs, you would need 5 other different classes.

We are hybrids. But while we are not dominating the damage meters, we are in a very comfortable position, with great potential to secure our spot in a raid. A well played moonkin would and should do just as much DPS as the core of your raid group, while offering your raid the support needed to succeed.

Resources

Moonkin guide on Elitist Jerks
WrathCalcs.xls version 100402.