DPS advice please...Follow

My place on the dps meters is much lower than it should be and I'm not sure why. I'm in SSC 2 or 3 nights a week. I'm always near the bottom during trash because I have to almost constantly sheep. I do a bit better on the bosses, but I'm usually not in the top 10.

My rotation is generally enough scorch to max the effect, spam fireblast when available, spam fireball the rest of the time. Sprinkle in a scorch here and there to keep the effect up. I use stopcast macros and a casting bar mod.

My PC could be better. I drop to as low as 4 fps during Hydross. Not sure how much effect that has.

I'm not a tailor, and I currently have no interest in pvp.

Any suggestions?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Scarlet%20Crusade&n=Gobi

Ignore the riding crop if it's there. Darkmoon Card: Wrath should be in its place.

*edit*

eh, I should probably change that sig...

Edited, Nov 2nd 2007 6:40pm by Maelll

In my guild mages are usually near the bottom of the damage meters and were on Kael right now. Even the mages in tier 5 are getting out damaged by classes in poorer gear.

Our guild leader always yells at us for our poor dps and constantly threatens to replace us. So not really much I can say because mage dps seems to be on the bottom of the damage meters.

Some factors that aren't apparenty from your armory: Are you using consumables on a heavy basis? Any OOM issues during the raid bosses?

Due to current mechanics, an AM spam build will probably reach you the top DPS you can put out. I tested it recently. I regemmed and equipped an MSD and got a Lightning Capacitor then respeccd for a raid, and my damage was immense. Every 3rd or 4th AM was high speed. But I probably would have been OOM a lot had I not had a paladin tank whose main is a mage convinced to keep JoW up on the bosses for me.

Come 2.3, expect to see a fairly large DPS jump in 10/48/3 and deep frost and a bit of a reduction for AM spam. It also wouldn't take too much re-gemming to get a Mystical Skyfire Diamond working in your helm. That would be a huge increase, IMO. Don't get me wrong, I love the Insightful Earthstorm Diamond, but I know I rarely have mana issues.

Additionally, yes, find a way to up your computer's performance. That will certainly help you DPS more.

Don't underestimate the power of an Arcane Blast spell rotation even without the 2 piece T5 bonus, you have the mana pool with the aldor set to keep it up. Your Int would go up to 598 and that would turn out an extra 150 spell dmg with MM. If you could get your hands on a Lightning Capacitor and a MSD it'd make the spec even stronger.

according to my guild's mathemetical calculations, 2/3 of pyro's dmg comes from the dot, 1/2 of fireball's dmg comes from dot, so dont spam fireball, u should open with pyro fireball fireblast, then scorch x5(put a fireblast in there), then pyro fireball fireblast, and spam fireblast and scorch, pyro and fireball when the ticks are over.

hoope that can improve ur dps, cause ur gear is pretty decent right now

Sounds about right to me.

Also, remember that the bosses in Kara will be dropping those heroic badges now, so if you have Kara on farm, you can pick up and easy bunch of badges there.

How often is CoE up and running on bosses? If you've got 2 or more mages, it should always be up.

Get something better than DMC:Wrath. It's really not all that great, especially when you already have a decent crit rate - in fact, simulations put it as worse than ZHC for a 10/48/3 mage, and even a not-outstanding trinket like the Sta'tar revered one is around twice as good O.o

I'm going to have to say that the MSFD really isn't worth the crit and/or damage losses from having to meet the requirements. Come 2.3, I'd grab the Chaotic Skyfire one instead (exactly 2 blue) and regem back to Potent Noble and/or Runed Living. I haven't seen math on CSD yet, though, so I may be wrong.

It might be a bit different than me, being a DoT-heavy class and outgearing many other casters in my guild, but I don't see a huge loss with my with my current 6-8fps in raids - I'm currently breaking 1000dps on Maulgar, and dps spreadsheets put my ideal damage at about 1200dps. I'm sure a better framerate would help, and hopefully this will be less of an issue for you with the /stopcasting fix next patch, but I doubt that's the sole problem.

Pyroblast is always, always, always a net damage loss unless you can PoM/Pyro. Pyroblast with very good gear (30% crit, 1200dmg, ignoring miss) is 944 dmg/casting second, fireball is 1290 right now and will jump to 1380 in 2.3. Pyro pulls ahead if you use it on MSFD proc (1888 dpcs) or PoM, else Fireball is better. Fireball scales better as well (22.5% of +dmg/sec versus 34.5%/sec now and 38.3% in 2.3).

Edited, Nov 5th 2007 12:32pm by lsfreak

Pol... I think this nerf was not aimed at the 10/48/3 build, but the deep arcane build that uses: ABx2 -> AM. The MSD had a chance to proc on the cast of AM itself, as well as with each bolt. Since I won't be playing a deep arcane mage after 2.3, It'll work fine for frostbolts (deep frost) as well. It becomes a slight nerf there as the casting time for frostbolts is a half-second shorter than for fireballs.

/bye unbelievably OP AM spam. I had fun in the battlegrounds with ya!

To the OP:

I'd wear something something other than that violet eye badge. It's a +stam trinket that I'd wear for PVP maybe, but not in raids and such.

There, now I'm almost back on topic... I feel better.

Edited, Nov 6th 2007 7:41am by ktangent

/agree. It just makes the deep arcane specs much less viable.

now if only the MSD didn't have such a terrible gemming requirement... more blues than yellows... goodbye damage.

Actually, it's not necessarily bad. If you can get your +hit from enchants and gear, you can just have one blue and nothing but +dmg red gems.

Do you use quartz and a stopcasting macro OP?