Post by Amused
I had originally posted this on the official WoW warlock forums, but got so few responses I thought I'd try here as well. There is a link my armory profile
here.
I'm a casual scrub that has been healing almost my entire WoW carrer. Asides from a few vanilla 5 mans on a rogue back in the day PvE DPS is very new and foreign to me. This character in BC mostly just farmed battlegrounds and quested.
My spec and rotation are from the thread at Elitist Jerks on
destruction warlocks.
I'll post the rotation I got from there (and use) here:
- Immolate
- Conflagrate
- Chaos Bolt
- Curse of Agony
- Corruption
- Incinerate
On the heroic training dummy (The one with the ? level) I average about 1,6700 DPS. Once again, bear in mind rotations are a completely new thing to me. I'm using recount to track my DPS. However at the end of a heroic when damage gets posted I'm sitting around 1,400 DPS. I have upgraded from a
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41821 to the weapons currently in my armory since my last heroic, but I'm not sure how much that would up my DPS.
I know training dummies aren't the same as an entire heroic run, but the gap between 1,6700 DPS and ~1,400 DPS just seems too big to me. Is this normal? My friends tell me the combination of trash in heroics and damage meters are unkind to DOT using classes, but I don't think that explains all of it. I'm too lazy to post my UI so I'll just say I don't click with this character, I use my keyboard. I'm not sure if this bears repeating or not but I'm just looking for help that's relevant to heroics, I don't plan on raiding with this toon. In case the armory doesn't show it, my spell power with fel armor is 1713.
One last, final disclaimer. I'm not PUG'ing heroics, I'm running with my guild (who doesn't mind my sub-par performance) until I gear up and become a bit more competent at damage dealing. So there is no need to debate whether or not I'm 'ready' for heroics.
So I guess what I'm looking for is:
- Suggestions on how to up my DPS in 5-mans. Should I be using a different rotation on trash, for instance?
Comments on my spec or gear. I'm aware a lot of my gear is terrible, I've only had this character at 80 for a few days.
Any other advice you can give to someone trying their hand at DPS for the first time.