All my Moonkin out there should enjoy this post.
Here is what we’re inclined to do about Balance. It isn’t a done deal yet because we just talked about it and didn’t make the actual changes yet, so it’s possible we’ll hit a snag (though I don’t see why).
Moonfury and Earth and Moon down to 3 ranks from 5, but keeping the same overall benefit. That buys you 4 extra talent points to get more utility or fun talents.
We are also going to buff Eclipse’s damage a little so that you feel you’re paid back for the extra proc-watching (and so I won’t feel so lonely when I tell you I think it’s fun).
We’re going to leave the Starfire glyph as is for now, since one of the reasons we added it was to buy you back some brain time if you were watching Eclipse too much.
The treant health is still something on the list to look at too. I suspect it just hasn’t scaled well.
As an epilogue, here are our feelings on bloat. The problem with the Balance tree was that druids had to spend nearly all their points just on pure damage. It’s hard to justify giving up damage for utility, PvP or fun talents in a raid scenario. Ideally you should be trading those talents off against each other ,not against your damage (or healing or mitigation).
Bloat (in our dictionary) does not mean there are more talents you want than you can afford. That’s a *good* thing. If there were a bunch of talents you’d never ever get, now *that* would be a problem. As a contrast, we don’t think Feral is bloated — or rather in this case we bloated it on purpose so that you couldn’t be the best cat in the world and the best bear in the world with the same spec. (src)
For those who have never played a boomkin at level 70, I suggest you give it a try, it’s quite fun. It will be even better once the roots are usable indoors in the next patch and Omen of Clarity proccing off spells! And if nothing else…the giant chicken form you take on.