Thread: Mage dps help.

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    Mage dps help.

    OK, well I have recently went from healing our 10 man group to dps because we lost a mage and my preference is dps anyhow. I haven't raided on my mage in about 3 weeks and do know about the recent nerf, but I have noticed a large decrease in dps now that im raiding on it again. Here is my recent logs from this week.

    http://worldoflogs.com/reports/2svm2kt7clognwij/
    http://worldoflogs.com/reports/y93iqm3c6gpwan89/

    http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...%B8it/advanced

    I have good uptime on my LB, I'm using my combustion on a good ignite (if rng allows..) when my ICM is proc'd on start. Im using Combustion on cooldown and with 10 stacks of stolen time. I'm not sure if its the group makeup having crit buff on only certain fights or now that I have 4 set rotation is wrong. I seam to never get any Pyroblast! procs either. If anyone can take a look at the uploaded logs or any suggestions let me know. About to go to dreaded borcane spec even simuC is coming ahead in dps once I reforge/respec.

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    Primarily, I might switch around some reforges, but the differences would be insignificant so I won't even mention them.

    As for the dps, I looked only at Ultraxion HC because it can give me the most information:
    - you need to use Flame Orb on every cooldown. You used it only 3 times on that fight, while you could have used it 5 times
    - the combustion ticks are a bit too low. Don't hesitate to use Combustion even without the Pyro dot on the target, if you got a good ignite before that
    - the log shows that you used both Molten Armor and Mage Armor during that fight - I didn't quite figure it out how it went because I think it counts the uptime wrong - you should never really do that - mages shouldn't have any mana problems, at least not on ultraxion which is a strict single-target fight. Not having that 5% extra crit chance is an enormous dps loss
    - you used mirror images once instead of twice - not a tragedy, but still a dps loss
    - you used only 3 combustions when you could have used 4 (counting like this: first one around 5 stacks of stolen time and 00:20, second 02:00, third 03:25, fourth 04:50 - this should never go unnoticed, combustion is an insanely powerful spell, as I'm sure you know...

    other than these things, I'm sorry... I can't figure out any more, maybe someone with a better eye for details can help.

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