Whats A Decent DPS ?Follow

Since I would likely be unable to contain my anger, I will resort to the standard form to answer your inane, insipid question.

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Have a look at the FAQs on the site that deal with talent specs. There are some key changes you could make to your talent set up that would really help. Try going for a more "cookie cutter" build to get the feel of things. Whilst you probably chose the talents you had now on what you thought sounded good, there are some gaping holes in it.

If you give the cookie-cutter builds a spin you will get a better idea at the synergy of each talent and how to use it & then you can start personalising your own builds without losing much effectiveness.

Thank you. As I dont play this game a ton (I have other parts of life that are important ie work, wife, child) I don't know all the ins and outs of the details of the game. I tried picking a build that suits my play style and so far it has done just that. I thank you for your comment and will look at playing with my build.

I leveled from 1-40 using random builds, picking talents that I liked the sound of. But after popping onto these forums I did a little reading & some experimentation into what works with what, and when you understand it all you can still choose talents that you enjoy but without destroying your dps.

A lot of talents for example are "all or nothing". There isn't much point taking 2/5 in Seal fate when they can be placed in other more important talents. Blade-twisting is also pretty pointless... just generally.

Demea actually did you a favor. Whatever we say will now seem very kind, where normally it would be about as enjoyable as shutting your ***** in a door.

Lets start.

1.) Learn the difference between rogue and druid gear. Your helmet, gloves, belt, pants, boots fail here. Bad.

2.) A 22 +hit means you should go kill yourself. You should have at least 100 by 2 weeks after 70.

3.) Your trinkets and mainhand are acceptable.


4.) I am combat daggers. You are hybrid fail.
a.) 5/5 Lightning reflexes = 5/0 fail.
b.) You skip weapon expertise fro blade twisting. Fail.
c.) 1/3 Imp SnD. Fail.
d.) I have to stop, I can't do it anymore.

Offtopic: We need to build a thesarus into Alla for the word fail.

Edit: We really aren't being mean. We are giving good advice, but if you had read the stickies instead of posting an I"M IMPORTANT thread, you wouldn't have posted and when you did would have been welcomed. You asked, so there is hope for you yet. Btw, I leveled 1-70 combat fail, so I sympathize.

Edited, Nov 14th 2007 7:16pm by ArundelvalEstar

Use firefox, it has an inbuilt spell-checker. Im on uni computers right now so I.E. has made my spelling go to the pits.

I appreciate the comments....I certainly don't mind critisizm and actually expected some. Although I am lvl 70 it's literally taken me about 2 1/2 years to get there. I play VERY casually and usually solo. I am just starting to do some raids and stuff, so my knowledge of the game is admitedly minimal (compared to you guys). I appologize for posting an ignorant question but I really did have the best intentions. I've been doing some reading on these forums and it became clear to me that I've been doing something wrong, as 350 dps to me even seems low. Having said that, I only play for maybe an hour a week so it's difficult to stay "up" on all the lingo and intricacies that make this game enjoyable...

(lotsa spelling mistakes in there I'm sure )

Don't forget the good old peanut butter crotch dog triumvirate!

I got accused of the in /2 trade a while back.....

PS Thesaurus isn't a word worthy of being correctly spelled. If I can't pronounce it I don't have to spell it.

Just a question (as my rogue is still in training so i can't find out properly) is it best to skip LR and get imp gouge and im SS for a Combat Swords rogue?

Thanks Arun,
I'll spec out of LR and Deflection once I get some of the better abilities.
My rogue has quite a lot of agi for his level, but I am still using a few of the survival orientated talents until the 40's

a.) 5/5 Lightning reflexes = 5/0 fail.

i dont know how to quote. But that pwned my face.

Greetings all,

/rant

Normally I would not get involved in any way in a thread like this, simply because my knowledge is mainly a READING INFORMATION one, using cookie cutters, simply because I cannot think of anything better or more original to do (at least not with my ROGUE (65)).

But...

I see no reason at all to burn BubbaEl down the way you have been doing in here. Yes, he could have read up more. Yes, he could have done more research or try some things out to make a change. But noone that posts in a decent and normal languaged manner should be fired off like happened in this thread.

If the OP would have been "OMFGOOOOOODZIrUlEz, butz I wana make mes even RuLeZ mooooorree!" granted, your responses are fine with me and 99% of the others. But it could have been a bit less blunt this time.

/rant off

To the BubbaEl: yes, 350 is low, yes of course there are reasons for it and yes it should be a lot higher after a bit of 70. Even at reaching 70 with quest rewards and a decent talent build (this you lack the most) you should be quite some higher I think. Try to read beyond the burning lines in the above posters and try to learn from it. The sticky holds immense amounts of information. For example: you call yourself a combat dagger spec, try to find out what this really means before calling it so. You will find out that there are quite some changes you can make that ups your overall performance immensely. Being a casual player is not really an excuse, because I am too (2-3 hours a week max), but still you could spend a little time a week reading up and learning SO much more than in 3 weeks fulltime online...

Always remember though (certainly as a casual player): this is a game, which is supposed to be FUN, no matter how you play it.

Shut the **** up and sit down or GTFO my boards.

His OP and subsequent post were enough to get him flamed in my book, and that's just about the only one that matters around here.