Prot Pally damage in 5 mans normal & heroic

[bainies]

I am finding that I top the damage meter pretty much all the time in 5 mans. I do have some DPS gear mixed in with my prot set as the RNG has been a bitch for me so far.

I can't really work out if I am doing uber damage or if the DPS just haven't got to grips with new rotations / mana management. I do get up to 16000AP with trinket procs and buffs so I should do a bit of damage, I just expect pure DPS classes to be far out in front.

Anyone else found this?

Also has anyone else had a problem with the aura you use being reset to nothing on? I have noticed a few times that I set devotion aura for example to find a few minutes later that no aura is set. Only seems to happen in 5 mans.

[Deleted]

Since your gear inst very good yet you will take alot of damage and there for proc "vengeance" alot wich makes u do more damage. This passive bonus is implemented due to your threat will not scale as much as the dps damage so later on it will help us maintain aggro.

[Pyroness]

I play Resto Druid, an I run with a prot warrior as my tank from my guild, when we get the dps as pugs, he (tank) usually tops the dps charts, I think it's because of the aoe damage you can do, the rest of the aoe's typically done have gotten a lot weaker.

[Wysmark]

Lol the law of unintended consequences strikes again

[Reg]

As a Prot Paladin, I am topping meters in dungeons, heroics and raids. On Halfus today, I did 23K dps. Granted, I did tank Halfus and the whelps, but I still outdpsed everyone.

[smokii]

the word is vengeance, with poor gear and whilst taking a lot of damage from heroic trash packs as well as from bosses, vengeance will stack quite high and you will do crazy ass damage. expect it to scale down a bit in heroics once you are geared up, but you will probably be doing the same dps on raid boss fights as thats what vengeance was intended for all along

[Deleted]

It will change, and to be honest even though my mate (prot pala) who I go with heroics alot is above other dps...I will kick the dps. If I and my buds can do more dmg with same gear as a random person I don't see why a random person should be in my group.

If I see a player is doing best he can but just ain't geared enof to do the right dmg, than I just let him go along with us...we all need to start somewhere.

[Aneiset]

Whoa, lots of ignorant comments about Vengeance in here. It isn't going to change significantly. It isn't "going really high cuz ur takin lots of dmg". It IS capped at 10% of your health.

Tank damage is high because tanks are benefitting from Vengeance right away, and doing lots of AoE damage. Meanwhile, the DPS are largely limited to single target, short-lifespan targets (where you can't work up a full rotation like you can on a boss) or significantly weakened AoE spells. There is nothing wrong with being below a tank on DPS in trash pulls in current 5 man content. It's far more important that you are interrupting, CC'ing, not pulling aggro, etcetera.

Sarac, way to directly contradict yourself.