His Excellency Aethien wrote:
It has to be said that that is 25 man and a 2 min 45 sec kill (nicely done btw :) )
I myself reached 3739 dps on Patchwerk in a 4 min 14 sec 10 man kill, which is a lot less amazing.
Had we done the kill in 2 min 45 sec I would have been well over 4k dps.
As the shorter a fight takes, the more impact cooldowns such as Rapid Fire and Call of the Wild make on your dps.
For Kden the fight's length was also good because he could use his trinkets twice giving him an uptime of 40/165 seconds, Or 24.2%. (trinket used somewhere between 0-25 seconds and between 120-145 seconds)
Where I had 50/254 (used my trinket at 4 seconds, 124 sec, 244 sec) = 19.7% uptime.
This.
I haven't done a Patchwerk fight yet as SV. I hadn't respecced yet the last time we fought him, but did 3600 as 11/53/7 MM in 10 man last week on Patch. So I'm eager to see how SV compares. Then again, with readiness, I had rapid fire/trinket up 4 times (well, rapid 4 times, trinket on 2 of them) in that fight. Having a SV hunter there for a (albeit small) mana battery didn't hurt.
Viper uptime is what kills DPS. The nice thing about SV, is I rarely have to go in Viper (if I even have to pot for that matter), and even when I do, it's for shorter periods.
Raid comp can make a difference too. In 10 mans, it's very hard to get all the goodies. That particular Patch fight, I had both might and kings working for me. That isn't always the case.
Edited, Jan 27th 2009 12:39pm by Steelray