Angryson
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This thread is intended to help all my fine feathered friends who decide that they would like to better themselves at being at true Boomkin in end game raiding.
First off...a TON of the info I pull from is found at elitistjerks.com. This link takes you directly to the druid forums. There is a plethora of information here if you're willing to wade thru all their theorycrafting and number crunching.
SPEC
For starters we'll talk about spec'ing. Your ICC build should look something like this. You can switch one point out of owlkin frenzy to grab typhoon if you feel like you need to have it for adds on Saurfang. There is no real need to take points in mana regen talents as well. With gear and raid buffs, the only time you will run into mana issues is if you're spamming hurricane or helping heal. There are also other small tweaks you can make, but this is your best bet for all around high dps...especially single target.
STATS
Your #1 stats to watch for is your hit. With the previous spec listed above, your hit cap is 263. I would advise against using +hit gems since you will hit the cap just by farming emblem gear and a couple other pieces. After hit is spellpower. Spellpower is your strongest stat after the hit cap. Nothing tops it...EVER. After SP is haste. The soft haste cap (to bring your wrath down to a 1 second cast) is 401 with Wrath of Air totem (from a shaman) or 585 without it. Your best bet is hitting mid 400's since there might be server lag, user lag, etc. After haste is crit.
In short Hit>>>Spellpower>>>Haste>>>Crit
GEAR
Gearing will follow your stat priority. As a new 80, you will want to just farm random Heroics using the Dungeon Finder until you have your 4 piece T9 gear, idol,Band of the Invoker. For choices on which T9 piece to leave out, I would personally get the 245 head piece instead of the tier IF I could afford to miss out on the hit. If you need the 72 hit it gives to stay above hit cap, then sub out your Tier shoulders for these.
Once you've exhausted all your Emblem of Triumph gear, it's on to Emblem of Frost stuff! As soon as you hit 80, you should be doing whatever you can to get as many of these bad boys as possible. As of right now, the only way besides killing bosses in ICC is doing your Daily Random Heroic, Weekly Raid, and 10/25 Vault of Archavon (VoA). Make sure you stay on top of your Frost Emblems as they are hard to come by and take a while to accumulate.
On choice for Frost gear, I would buy your T10 pieces and get your 4 piece set ASAP. Again, you only want 4 pieces as you can sub out 1 piece of 251 tier for a 264 non-set piece. I would suggest leaving out your tier hands and get these instead. Again, this is assuming you are able to stay over hit cap. Once you have your 4 piece T10 and 264 hands, grab up your new idol.
Updating after my Physics final
First off...a TON of the info I pull from is found at elitistjerks.com. This link takes you directly to the druid forums. There is a plethora of information here if you're willing to wade thru all their theorycrafting and number crunching.
SPEC
For starters we'll talk about spec'ing. Your ICC build should look something like this. You can switch one point out of owlkin frenzy to grab typhoon if you feel like you need to have it for adds on Saurfang. There is no real need to take points in mana regen talents as well. With gear and raid buffs, the only time you will run into mana issues is if you're spamming hurricane or helping heal. There are also other small tweaks you can make, but this is your best bet for all around high dps...especially single target.
STATS
Your #1 stats to watch for is your hit. With the previous spec listed above, your hit cap is 263. I would advise against using +hit gems since you will hit the cap just by farming emblem gear and a couple other pieces. After hit is spellpower. Spellpower is your strongest stat after the hit cap. Nothing tops it...EVER. After SP is haste. The soft haste cap (to bring your wrath down to a 1 second cast) is 401 with Wrath of Air totem (from a shaman) or 585 without it. Your best bet is hitting mid 400's since there might be server lag, user lag, etc. After haste is crit.
In short Hit>>>Spellpower>>>Haste>>>Crit
GEAR
Gearing will follow your stat priority. As a new 80, you will want to just farm random Heroics using the Dungeon Finder until you have your 4 piece T9 gear, idol,Band of the Invoker. For choices on which T9 piece to leave out, I would personally get the 245 head piece instead of the tier IF I could afford to miss out on the hit. If you need the 72 hit it gives to stay above hit cap, then sub out your Tier shoulders for these.
Once you've exhausted all your Emblem of Triumph gear, it's on to Emblem of Frost stuff! As soon as you hit 80, you should be doing whatever you can to get as many of these bad boys as possible. As of right now, the only way besides killing bosses in ICC is doing your Daily Random Heroic, Weekly Raid, and 10/25 Vault of Archavon (VoA). Make sure you stay on top of your Frost Emblems as they are hard to come by and take a while to accumulate.
On choice for Frost gear, I would buy your T10 pieces and get your 4 piece set ASAP. Again, you only want 4 pieces as you can sub out 1 piece of 251 tier for a 264 non-set piece. I would suggest leaving out your tier hands and get these instead. Again, this is assuming you are able to stay over hit cap. Once you have your 4 piece T10 and 264 hands, grab up your new idol.
Updating after my Physics final
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