...where, for absolutely no distinguishable reason, your DPS was so low that it just pissed you off all night long?
Prior to last night's raid, I was online doing dailies and noticed that my attacks were hitting for a lot less than normal. I mentioned it in guild chat and people asked me to make sure I was using max ranks and that my gear was right. I utilize the Item Manager and haven't upgraded my gear in a while, and as all pallys know, Divine Storm and Crusader Strike only have one rank.
Hoping it was just a bug, I hung out until raid time just hoping that I was hallucinating. Raid time came. I had all of the usual delicious buffs including LotP (this is important to know). We were doing FL+4 for the second or third time and I was in a chopper this week. When I get in my chopper at the beginning of the instance, I recall having over 800k hp on my chopper but I could have misread it. Every attempt afterward only gave me 781k. We killed FL+4 and moved on the XT-002 and we were gonna go for the hard mode on this guy.
On our first attempt on XT(hard) we killed the heart and were doing pretty well as a raid. I was doing piss poor. I was popping AW on cd, got Bloodlust for the heart, and also used Speed pots on it but my DPS was just a hair over 4000. After the attempt, I checked Recount and found that my I was not critting anywhere near what I should be. During the fight, I have a 45% chance to crit on white, 55% on CS/DS(4pc T8), and about 55% chance to crit on Judgement.
Others in the raid confirmed my numbers that I was critting about half as often as I should be. DS critting 30%, DS critting 28%, White critting 31%, and Judgement critting at 40%.
Had this only been one attempt, big deal. This continued for the entire 3 hour raid. I could not break 4k DPS when I normally do well over 5-5.5k. I was so pissed about this that I wan't to log off but we didn't have anyone else online that could dish the 4k I was putting out.
I WAS BELOW THE SHADOW PRIEST!! That usually only happens on gimmick fights like General, but it happened on every boss last night and I just wanted to cry.
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R are expected but I'd like to know if anyone else has ever had a full raid night like this.