What the hell is wrong with my DPS?Follow

I was in kara today with the following stats:

1040 Spell damage
77 Spell Hit
30,02% Spell Crit
18 Spell Haste
10340 Mana (Unbuffed)

Detail: I have a Lightning Capacitator, a trinket that throws a 800 damage lightning bolt every third crit.


Here is my spec:

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=obxVc0fzxIzrZxgGzb0co




I don't have any mana problems, i use mana pots + my gems. But on bosses, my DPS isn't breaking 550ish. What the hell? What's wrong with me? My spell rotation is Fireball > Fireball > Fire Blast, pretty straight forward. Why is my DPS that horrible? I hear mages that have similar gear doing over twice my DPS in raids, i just don't understand, how can i improve this? What am i doing wrong? What could i be doing wrong? Help! ><

I'm going to venture a guess that you're waiting until your cast bar runs out before hitting the next spell?

The biggest thing I've seen that boosts people's damage is to get Quartz and start mashing the button about .3 seconds before the spell hits the "red" that shows when the spell will really go off. People who don't do this selective buttonmashing, in order to trigger Blizzard's spell queue, basically add double their latency into the casting time - so if you run 100 ping, your Fireballs now have a cast time of 3.2 seconds instead of 3.0 seconds, a huge difference.

You probably also want to drop Fire Blast out, it doesn't work the the spell queue system very well and should only be used during movement. Despite Blizzard's queue, it still puts your latency into the "cast time" twice.

Respeccing to cookie-cutting 0/47/11+3 would boost your damage, your gear is good enough that the multiplier deep in the Fire tree will definitely help out. You're also a large chunk short of the hit cap, especially since you don't have Elemental Precision, so 11% of your spells are being resisted outright instead of the 1% it should ideally be at.

Edited, May 2nd 2008 12:27am by lsfreak

global cooldown is 1.5 seconds, half of a fireball cast.

I didn't have imp scorch in that build.. But i just switched to a 48/11 build (with icy veins). I hope that gives some desired results.

Besides the rotation being bad, you should pick up more spell hit, the scryer trinket and badge ring should get you pretty close to where you should be, which is 164 with talents. You should be well able to do 800+ dps raid buffed (and the target raid debuffed) with your current damage, crit and haste, provided that you fix the hit.

5x Scorch to start, then 8 fireball, 1 scorch rotation.

Wow, that was a parade-example of a problem being solved xD.

BTW, I believe that a smart dps-group setup would also boost your DPS. I'm no raider and don't know what high-end raiders are actually setting up for raid-groups, but having a shammy to drop the spelldamage totem and a firelock for the firedebuff will help your dps really much.

I also do not know if you use consumables to help your dps, but the wizard oil+ 23 SD food and adept's elixir should bring you over 1.1k SD. At least if its your base-damage you postet.

There is a meta-gem which gives crit-rating and 3% more critdamage, and although I haven't tried it for myself I know top-mages use it in raids.

What others have said about you needing to be hit-capped is also very true.

This + icy veins, imp scorch and better spell-rotation would bring you over 1k DPS in a not movement-based fight, at least IMO. Use icy veins together with SD-trinket in order to get the most out of it and beware, if you're in gropup with a shammy, that you don't use icy-veins when he uses the speed buff.

wah flask of pure death for kara? you are damed rich @@


your stats certainly looks amazing for kara, get around 70 more spell hit you are good for t5 content d

btw, dont blindly follow 8x fireball 1x scorch after your initial 5x scorch

this is because sometimes due to lagging or some reasons, your 5x scorch buff will be finish after you cast your no.8 fireball

try to see if the buff of scorch is still on the boss be4 you decide to cast the no.8 spell as fireball or use scorch instead

and yes Quartz is important...very....

Do all the Isle dailies + most of the other Shattered Sun dailies 2x a week and you'll have more than enough, easily. I go through 8-9 flasks a week, not to mention the massive destruction potion addiction I have.

I'm going to assume you don't do all of the potential 25 dailies then?

ah...talk about money, i also do around 14 dailies everyday


2 at skettis,1 at nagrand, 1 at netherstorm, 8 at isle of quendelas, and 2 at hellfire penisula

ocassioanally i farm primal water, but my gold still go down so fast. :S

guess i am a heavy shopper, once i got money i will buy something like primal mooncloth to make bags, powerlevel enchanting, and now wanted to buy darkmoon card: crusade.
sigh....well this is way too off topic
:p

slackers... there are 4 dailies from ogri'la that are worth about another 70g