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But is it going to be enough? Looking at how things have been entire Wrath I seriously doubt it. Let’s look at all the buffs we’ve got so far in Wrath (ones affecting our PvE DPS).

Patch 3.1 (2009/04/14)

- Eclipse: The benefit to Wrath triggered by casting Starfire has been increased to 30% bonus damage.

- Insect Swarm: The bonus damage from spellpower on this damage-over-time ability has been increased significantly to match similar spells on other classes.

- Celestial Focus redesigned: Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Starfire, Hibernate and Hurricane by 23/46/70% and increases your total spell haste by 1/2/3%.

Patch 3.1.2 (2009/05/19)

- Improved Moonkin Form: Now grants 10/20/30% of spirit as spell power.

Patch 3.2 (2009/08/04)

- Eclipse: The Starfire and Wrath buffs from this talent are now on separate 30-second cooldowns. In addition, it is not possible to have both buffs active simultaneously.

Patch 3.3 (2009/12/09)

- Eclipse: This effect will not activate again within 15 seconds of either type of Eclipse effect
firing, in addition to the existing 30-second cooldown for each type of Eclipse. In addition,
Eclipse now grants a 40% critical strike chance to Starfire and 40% increased damage to Wrath,
up from 30%.

Patch 3.3.2 (???)

- Earth and Moon: This talent now increases your spell damage by 2/4/6% (Up from 1/2/3%)

Well at least it’s a good buff. And the fact that we’re getting attention keeps my hopes up. Recent Blizzard developer chat had couple good questions and answers:

Q: Any plans on looking at Balance Druids, in particular to Eclipse procs? RNG sometimes is detrimental to our dps.
A: We don’t mind the RNG aspect that much per se, but losing an important proc because it happened at the wrong time (say just before you moved) is a problem. We have a pretty cool solution for Cataclysm if we can make it work. It makes Eclipse cooler but also gives Balance more of a kit in general.

Q: Both balance druids (moonkin) and elemental shaman feel like their dps is falling behind in Icecrown Citadel. Any damage boosts for these hybrid casters currently planned?
A: We have small buffs coming in the next patch. We’ll see where they are after that when more encounters are open (including the hard modes) and once more players have tier sets and higher gear in general. We have no problem buffing them more if we need to.

If/when more buffing is needed I hope they don’t take too much time with it. I need the DPS increase now when we’re still working our way through the content… not when we already overgear everything.

And what comes to cooler Eclipse… well. I certainly hope so.

Maybe one day… I’m not incredible DPS fanatic so to speak. I’ll do my best that will hopefully be enough. If I’m at 7th or so in DPS done then I’d be pretty satisfied. Right now that’s obviously not the case and I’m really not sure how I should feel about it. On the other hand I feel like I am doing something wrong but I’m also aware the class is working far from ideal. Meh.