What am I doing wrong, Ret question

[dwarven]

Here is my character:

I'm just starting to get back into Ret after being holy for most of Cata. I know my gear isn't enchanted and I'm still wearing a couple 346 pieces, but I can't break 11k dps on the heroic training dummy. I have the priorities down for all the spells and everything. Should I even be doing more than that with the gear I have?

[Deleted]

I was doing 14k on dummys with my 4.0 gear, but on real raids I was doing around 20k, in dummy you lack a lot of buffs that will improve your output.

[Deleted]

It's ok bro, never trust a dummy.

[Surgent]

You can reforge some exp, 29 glyphed is much more than you need. And go hit cap, to 8%

[Malthanis]

It's ok bro, never trust a dummy.

The only real good a dummy test can do is show that you've improved. You run a test on the dummy, equip new gear/change talents/swap glyphs/etc. then do another test (using the same starting conditions, buffs, and duration), to see if anything changed. Usually that will mean that your raid DPS will increase as well (in a Patchwerk style fight, anyways, they don't have test dummies that run around all crazy like).

[BDF]

Alot of ret's damage comes from the big burst phase, so without raid buffs and heroism you won't get a good sense of how your dmg compares to other classes from a dummy. Ret dmg is very dependent on fight length in a raid setting so target dummy testing over large periods of time can't give you a very good sense of anything with the class.

[DinoUP]

reforge more for mastery get closer to hit and expertise cap as you're a little above, if you say you know youre rotation and priorities practice keeping 100% uptime on inquisition. keep in mind good times to pop cooldowns so you get 100% dps time out of it from the start of the fight to the finish. make sure you abuse landslide procs (I.E. slam TVs and exos when they proc during a landslide proc) take time to properly gem, reforge, and enchant your gear and it will take you a long way. i started off this t12 in the blues i got in december and now im 7/7 HM because of taking care of the gear I had while doing these things.

[dwarven]

Got some more gear and enchanted it, and I've been doing 20k+ in troll heroics. Still, pretty craptastic DPS on the training dummy, but I guess that doesn't really matter that much. Thanks for the tips.