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My DK tank and your moonkin knockback spell
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We used to have a boomkin in our guild who used to do it ALL THE TIME! On trash pulls, Valithria ... literally everywhere. It was very annoying.
It was one of the reasons he got kicked out of the guild.
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hashmel
The spell is
Typhoon
, 41 point Balance ability.
The spell itself should ONLY be taken for the knockback or !@#$ing people off. On-the-move aoe dps isn't even remotely common enough to make it a must have especially given the cooldown and for stationary aoe dps Hurricane is a far better option.
Glyph of Typhoon
is an absolutely dreadful glyph choice because of those reasons, the ONLY reason to spend that talent point is for a knockback and the glyph directly contradicts that, essentially wasting a talent point and minor glyph slot for a needless on-the-move aoe.
Typhoon should be used to assist in positioning, prevent/delay mobs from reaching a certain location, and to save people's asses by getting some distance between them and the things trying to kill them. It can also be used as a multi-target spell interrupt given the targets are vulnerable to knockbacks but the odds of such a situation arising where it's so vital to interrupt multiple targets over outright killing them are quite paltry.
If people use Typhoon as a generic aoe on a regular basis then they're doing it wrong.
If people are speccing into Typhoon while using the glyph then they're doing it wrong.
If people are using the glyph and not even specced into Typhoon then they're doing it wrong.
If people are specced into Typhoon, don't have the glyph, and never use Typhoon then they're doing it wrong.
If people are specced into Typhoon, don't have the glyph, and use it as the situation calls then they're doing it right.
If people aren't specced into Typhoon, don't have the glyph, and nobody's dying from a situation that Typhoon could've prevented then they're doing it right.
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curlymon
The moonkin is at fault here. Especially if the tank has requested that they stop that behavior. No edging around this.
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Kutkh
It's not just annoying, it also slows your party down. If melee poistion themselves and are doing aoe, if range/casters are doing aoe, and you have "smart" boomkin whos starfall cast just ended and he thinks he will gain DPS by instantly Typhooning pack of mobs, he is wrong. All he did was removing pack from melee's range and out of range/caster DPS aoe. No matter if I tank or DPS in random HCs, I ask them to quit that. Its plain dumb if not used to save someone's ass (which you will likely not encoutner in 5 man random instances).
Unfortunately, many of them are aware of everything said here and in that case only cure is Vote to kick.
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Having a Prot Pally and a Boomkin I see both sides of the story, much like you. If a Boomkin uses Typhoon in a Heroic I'll ask them once to stop using it. If they do it again I'll tell them to stop doing it. If it happens again they get booted, 100% of the time the other 3 group members agree.
On the other side of the fence, as a boomkin I never use Typhoon in a Heroic, simply no reason to use it. The only time I ever use Typhoon is for Saurfang adds or if I jump into a BG to mess around (think EotS bridge). Because I use it just for the knockback it's unglyphed.
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