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I've now had a number of shenanigans tried on me with demented piece of warpcheese. Here's the question: is the doomrocket a "shooting attack?" I'll list some situations where it has come up in games, or where it could matter even if I've never run into it.

1) If the storm banner or chalice of dark rain is in effect, must the skaven player roll a 4+ to fire the doomrocket?
2) May the doomrocket be fired while the bearer is in close combat?
3) May the doomrocket be fired if the bearer has marched or failed a charge or is otherwise prevented from "shooting" (e.g. the Chillwind spell from dark magic?)

And so on. I raised the marching question in a previous thread, and the answer seemed to be nearly unanimous. Does this broaden to other aspects of shooting?

My opinion: As a ranged attack that takes place in the shooting phase, it's a shooting attack.

It is most definitely a shooting attack. The second sentence even begins with "To fire the Doomrocket..."; it is also allowed to be used to Stand and Shoot as per the FAQ.

1. Yes, as per the Storm Banner errata: "Change the start of the third sentence to “All shooting attacks that don’t use BS [...]”."

2. Nope

3. Nope

And I thought the cheeziest thing to do with it was skitterleap a naked engineer off to one end of your battleline and fire away, since it would be bound to hit something. But to actually cheat with it?

It's perfectly clear, even without FAQ, in the original book. It is fired, as a shooting attack - not cast, as a spell.