BubbaEl, don't let the flamers get you down. My biggest piece of advice for you as a WoW player is to use the Blizzard forums, WoWWiki, World of Raids, anything but Alla for advice. I was a long time EQ player so when I began to play WoW I naturally used Alla for info. Bad choice. Over time it became obvious that the people posting on Alla were NOT the high end players in the game. It's always funny to me to see some of the more famous ones posting about their PvP exploits or dungeon experience. If you look at their armory, or raid progression you will see they are far from leading the progression at anything.
They are great at acting important though, I'll give them high marks for that. I enjoyued my many verbal battles with them a few years ago, even causing one high level poster to admit he was in therapy and using ant-depressants. So your observation that someone who has 10k+ posts probably has no meaningful real life, and little time to actually play the game, is probably true to some extent.
As for your DPS, and how to fix it. THe main thing to remember about any build, for any class is synergy. You need to pick your talents so they work together, not haphazardly. This will show a huge increase in DPS, healing, or whatever. Check the guides on Alla, WoWWiki, Blizz forums and try them out to find one you like.
Do yourself a favour, don't rely on the Alla class forums for anything other than amusement. If you do find usefull info here, it was probably mistakenly posted.
Edited, Nov 27th 2007 2:58pm by ubermuse