Hi all,
Ideally I’d like you to fire questions back at me in regards to the below. Hopefully by doing so, the reason will become clear.
I am a i106 BRD looking for a group capable of comfortably downing T9. I ‘found’ that group and rightfully so they requested to check my DPS against a dummy.
I parsed 280 DPS over what I would gauge to be 3-4mins on a dummy. Now I have no reason to question the validity of the figure. The chap parsing me seemed pretty down to earth and eager to give feedback. But that seems rather low to me. I don’t care for making excuses, it is what it is and that’s fine. For those who need the additional info: I didn’t use food/pots. I’ve also never even hit a striking dummy before and found it hard to land Misery’s End. The dummy just died rather than fell into the 20% bracket (not that I believe using Misery’s end to test DPS produces reliable/realistic figures).
I am someone who very much doesn’t settle for second best – so I promptly check forums for benchmarking purposes and I’m seeing 370-400’s. This leads me to believe one thing, something must be fundamentally wrong with my rotation.
Here’s a rough summary of my rotation:
- BV Foe’s
- Striaght Shot > Bloodletter > 1 Buff > Windbite > 2 Buff > Venemous > Barrage > Flaming Arrow
From this point the abilities used are based on a priority system in my opinion. Always have Straight Shot up, keep DOTs up (don’t clip them). Always hitting Straight shot on proc and weaving buffs/silence/repell between Heavy/Straight/BL as soon as they’re up.
The only (apparently unnatural/DPS limiting) thing I do is use a macro for heavy shot. This is as follows:
- Heavy Shot
- Bloodletter
- Misery’s End
- Internal Release
(I’m not sure why I still have internal release on this macro honestly, I think it was because it’s the buff that refreshes the fastest? Can’t remember).
I have Bloodletter and Misery’s End on a separate button, I use this macro as my spam button which will catch any Bloodletters/Misery’s End I do not notice right away due to participating in mechanics or what-not.
So what’s the deal? Any advice would be much appreciated. I would ideally like to see some honest numbers from the community for me to compare with.
Thanks!
The below is kind of irrelevant but gives some additional context,
I do not parse, nor do people who I play with regularly parse. The only figures I can go off is a 310 average over 3 fights on Titan Ex, and the last T9 run someone claimed I was at 292 (n=1). I care not for these figures; if I want more reliable data I’ll seek it but it’s something to compare my dummy DPS against, which just doesn’t quite add up (No DRG present… unless being in a full party boosts DPS)?