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Spriest, what am I doing wrong?
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Post by
Snownation
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dunemaul&n=Cheque
^ First of all, my link.
I may not be the best geared SPriest, but I see other Spriests in my raid, which are lesser geared than I am.
I'm being out-dps'ed by other Spriests, despite them being not as well geared as I am.
I see people with just 232 ilvl gear, and still, I get out-dps'ed.
My rotation is good, and I've been following the spell priorities to the fullest.
I have even checked their armory profiles, and compared my stats with them. On every attribute, I am higher. i.e. I have more SP, I have more Crit, I have more Haste... etc.
I know gear means nothing in WoW, but when my stats are higher than them, in theory, I should be doing more dps than them right? Which leaves me to think that my spell rotation isn't optimal. But it IS! I can't see any other way to change the way I rotate. I VT > MB > DP > MF ... til 5 stacks of SWeaving... SWP, and do the MB, MF circulation til VF, or DP finishes ticking. Then reapply. Using SWD as a filler between CDs. I even time my ticks carefully so I get a new debuff when the last one just runs out.
The only thing I might think of is the 4piece set from the other SPriest's T9. Giving 5% crit on MF's.
Other than that, I don't know what's wrong.
I do 4k dps exact, give or take, on training dummies.
Any help or advice?
Post by
Erethzium
You're supposed to do low DPS. Spriest has horrible scaling at level 80. They do not scale with Haste as well as other classes do. On top of that, they're a Hybrid, so low dps is expected. 5% crit on Mind Flay shouldn't make a giant difference in DPS.
Luckily in 3.3, our DPS gets a *huge* boost, seeing as Haste will affect how fast our DoTs do damage.
So don't fret over low DPS, it's natural.
Post by
IDrownFish
I agree, you may simply be running into the eventual wall that comes from scaling.
Although, I'm not sure how the other spriest could be doing better than you with lesser gear. That warrents investigation.
Post by
Paolo
You need some better trinkets! The procs from those won't show up on character pages. But with Dragon Soul (200 spell power) or Broodmother (125 spell power) or even Abyssal Rune you'll get much better use out of those slots than you are with say your DM card.
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Snownation
Thanks for the helpful replies!
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Snownation
To be honest, what does it mean by itemized gear? I always go by the belief of higher stats = better.
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Post by
Snownation
I'm still doing quite badly in my dps.
I occasionally get 4.5k dps on dummies, and sometimes it's just 3.8k.
My rotation is optimal, and i can't see any other way to improve it. I might lose a few seconds from dot timing mismatches, but honestly, I don't think that's the problem.
My gear i would say is more itemized than when I first posted, but still, it's bugging me.
I saw a Spriest with ilvl 200 blues, 17% crit, and 9% haste, and he was pulling 4k dps on the 83 boss dummy.
Just bad rng with crits? Or is my Spriest bugged...
Post by
karlusdavius
change your pure spell power gems to hybrid. Sp+Haste will probably be better. I've been lotsof SP's run with 20% haste.
Your trinkets need work. they are really bad. That might be the downfall.
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