Cool things about being a Moonkin

The Black Morass

This instance has to be one of my favourites. It's short, has clearly defined goals, and lets you unleash the Horde on Azeroth - pure win! It's also one of the few instances where all your Moonkin tricks can shine, including all of our forms of crowd control.

In BM you are tasked with keeping Medivh alive while members of the Infinite Dragonflight try to destroy you, then him, and stop him opening the Dark Portal and letting the Horde into Azeroth.

It's a strange idea that even Alliance groups have to protect Medivh, as he is ultimately causing the destruction of the Kingdom of Azeroth, but this article covers the topic fairly comprehensively. Scroll down to "Why should the alliance help?".

So, regardless of discussions around the time-space continuum, and whether or not it's a good idea to allow the Horde through the Dark Portal, if you want to complete the mission, you need to save Medivh.

Essentially in this event a series of portals open, and a Rift Lord or Rift Keeper appears. This is a simple tank and spank, so your tank, healer, and two of the DPS take out the ugly guy.

While the rift guardian is having his scaly rear handed to him on a silver platter, your job as Moonkin is to deal with all of the extra dragonkin that appear. You have to deal with Infinite Assassins, Infinite Whelps, Infinte Chronomancers, Infinite Executioners and an infinite number of other types of infinite drangonkin. Seriously, look them up on Wowhead! If your gear is good enough for Kara, you should have no problem with this whatsoever, even in Heroic.

Infinite Assassins are fairly nasty and have several stuns, so use Entangling Roots on them, then Wrath/Starfire them to death.
Infinite Whelps are one shot wonders - shoot them, let them die. If one wrath doesn't finish them off, Moonfire or even Thorns will do the trick - you're in Moonkin Form and have high armour, so let them hit you until they die!
Chronomancers are also game for entangling roots and being nuked, as are Executioners.

If you have to deal with more than one of them at a time, you can use Hibernate. (Woot! Hibernate is useful! W00t!). If you get really stuck, you can use Cyclone to give yourself a few seconds breather (yes, Cyclone is useful in PvE too!).

As a hybrid class, you have the ability to heal yourself if you take a few hits from the dragons, taking pressure off the healer, Innervate can keep you going for longer, and you even have Bear Form if you find yourself in a sticky spot.

There are 18 waves of mobs in the instance, most are straightforward, but at waves 6, 12 and 18 bosses appear. At this point you should help the rest of the party burn down the bosses, if you're able, whilst killing the mobs. If any of your part has a Chrono-beacon, you may want to drop it at this point, but near Medivh, rather than by the boss. This will make your life much easier (although it's perfectly doable without!).

So, all new Moonkin out there, you can be very useful, even outside of a raid setting. Don't let anyone tell you that druids have no CC! The beauty of this is that even in heroic, 30 minutes will net you 3 badges, 5 if it's the daily. Good times!