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July 17, 2009, 07:50 PM
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Damage vs DPS, please help
Hi there, I took quite a break from the game and have just recently come back to playing and raiding full time. My gear is coming along quite nicely so I have no complaints. My issues are...... I am destruction build, with 3 points in supression. I'm completely hit capped and my plus damage is currently at 2500+. My DPS is around 2800-3200 during raids. However....my damage is quite low comparative to my dps. I have next to no haste so that may have something to do with it. My rotation on bosses is Doom, Immolate, Conflagrate, Chaos Bolt and Incinerate, rinse and repeat. What am I doing wrong that my damage is so low. I'm around 8th or 10th in raids but my dps is about the same as those ranking much higher than me. I'm spamming everything so I don't believe there's a ton of delay between spells. Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them. If you want to write to me directly I'm at sillidee@gmail.com. Thanks for any help that you can give me. |
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July 17, 2009, 09:34 PM
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Satalitetv 80 Blood Elf Warlock Ravencrest US PvE Guild: Relic Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 3/15/54 |
Re: Damage vs DPS, please help
well, this really depends on the fights you're in. Are you dying on the fights (i'm going to assume no, as you would probably know that's the problem). Also, which raid are you talking about? Can you maybe give us an example of a specific fight (prefferably something like patchwerk) and the dps you're pulling there? I'm sure your dps could also be a good bit higher if you have 2500sp. By that point your haste and crit should be ok too. Thing about destro locks is that our damage is more directly related to our dps than some other classes/speccs. |
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July 17, 2009, 10:18 PM
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lilsteele 80 Human Warlock Terenas Euro PvE |
Re: Damage vs DPS, please help
damage = dps * time spent attacking so if you dps is fine, then you have to work on your uptime. Sorry to say, but it's as simple as that. Try looking at some combat log reports (e.g. WWS) from your fights, they also list dps time and such, maybe you can find a problem there 
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July 17, 2009, 11:14 PM
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Re: Damage vs DPS, please help
not sure if it will make much difference but at the start of the fight go Immolate -> CoD -> Conf -> CB -> Incin |
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July 17, 2009, 11:20 PM
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Re: Damage vs DPS, please help
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I've said this before, but I keep my meter on "overall damage", that's what I shoot for. Quote:
Last edited by Evictoray; July 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM.. |
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July 18, 2009, 12:23 AM
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Belthezor 80 Blood Elf Warlock Draenor US PvE PvP Guild: BCBuds Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 56/0/15 |
Re: Damage vs DPS, please help
Im the exact opposite. I tend to do very well on the damage meters but am a few places down in the dps meter. Many people always seem to gloat about how high their dps is, but then I check damage and I am out doing them there. Normally its not by much, but many times it can be upto four spaces on the meters. Very confusing. I would think that damage is the overall more important value, but dps is all that heard about. |
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July 18, 2009, 06:35 AM
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Re: Damage vs DPS, please help
Damage done on bossfigts is all I care about. Total damage/dps through an instance is a nice read, but matters less. |
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July 18, 2009, 06:45 AM
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Kilmir 70 Gnome Warlock Aszune Euro PvE Guild: Been There Done That Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/13/58 |
Re: Damage vs DPS, please help
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Create like a god, command like a king, dps like a slave. |
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July 18, 2009, 08:25 AM
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Killah 80 Gnome Warlock Aszune Euro PvE |
Re: Damage vs DPS, please help
+2500sp and only 2800-3200dps in raid? isnt that bit low? |
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July 18, 2009, 09:36 AM
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Theuglyone 80 Undead Warlock Dentarg Euro PvP Guild: Everybody Gets One Talent Spec: 0/30/41 |
Re: Damage vs DPS, please help
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Man with 2500sp, you shouldnt be worried about your total damage done but with your DPS.... 3200 is waaaay low for 2500sp... this means that unbuffed you got around 2000sp.... I myself got 2200sp unbuffed and i'm able to pull out about 4.7k DPS on a Dummie with no side buffs for a 5 mins fight. in raids you should be able to do @least 5k DPS. Start workin on this one BR, Ugly1 |
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