Post by Ekvator
Greetings, Wowhead warlocks. I've been playing this class for a while and never before have I had problems with keeping my dps high. Over the last few weeks, however, I have noticed my performance is rather bad (disgustingly low in my personal opinion). Now, this isn't from raiding experience as much as it is from comparing my attempts at the dummies (Yes, yes, what they show isn't worth *, but still). I pulled 16-17k easily a month ago and nowadays it's a struggle to keep myself at 14-15k, depending on the warlock (I have two).
I ran both my characters through Simulation Craft and they were both meant to be doing just over 18k on a Patchwerk-like fight without raid buffs, so they're both quite a long way off. In the heroics I ran/run, I've noticed that while I used to rule the damage, I'm now the idiot who gets accused of keyboard turning. In the three raids I went, I was severely under the others, pulling 12k on Al'akir while the top player, an alt, did somewhere over 20k.
My armory links:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/nagrand/Ekvator/advancedhttp://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/nagrand/Plaguu/advancedI have read the EJ thread over 10 times and I've paid quite a few visits to Wowhead and the official trollums. I have checked and compared the talent trees, glyph selections and stat priorities so many times, it's forever going to be inprinted into my head. I am aware that we need int>hit (until cap)>haste>crit>mastery. I am aware we gem Brilliant/Reckless/Veiled with the Burning meta and that we ignore the socket bonus if it's under 20int/30rating.
As it seems to me, I've made no mistakes in gemming, enchanting and gearing my warlocks. Ekvator is near perfect in stats and Plaguu could lose quite a bit of mastery for more haste. As soon as I get into a few FL trash runs, I'll have more hit and will be able to reforge some of that stuff into haste. I'm also working on getting that Masterwork Elementium Spellblade and the Earthen Ring gloves for Plaguu to replace the 333 sword and the tier gloves.
My prioritization when casting is as follows: ISF>Immo>Conf>BoD>Corr>Shadowflame (if I happen to be in melee)>CB>Incin (preferably when I have Backfraft). I highly doubt the way I open on my targets matters THAT much, but just in case it's the Achilles' heel: SF>CoE>Immo>BoD>Conf>Corr>CB>Incin&go as it happens.
My latency and fps are fine, so those cannot possibly be reasons for this kind of atrocious dps. The only things that might be dps reductions are missing ISF's refresh by 1 second or refreshing Immo&Corr a second to two too late. Or maybe it's the horribly high amount of mastery or the fact one of my professions on Plaguu is worthless (herbalism).
In any case, I cannot for the life of me put my finger on the reason for my terrible performance. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Post by Nintiv
- Read asakawa's guide.
- Don't Sim your characters "without raid buffs". They mean a lot. Remember, you're not supposed to solo those raids. Also keep in mind that there are not many Patchwerk-like encounters, numbers vary.
- I've read several posts about pet's assist stance not working properly, check that.
Bolded text would be my best guess if you're doing everything else by the book. As it seems that you are.
Except Shadowflame > Corruption