I have dps in the 4000s, any advice?

[bpl0807]

Lately my dps has hit rock bottom, and I don't seem to be doing the damage that I did at 80, and i'm 85. Here is my character: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...valac/advanced . My rotation is Key 1: Soul Fire, Key 2: Immolate, Key 3: Conflagrate (I cast conflagrate whenever the cooldown is up.) , Key 4: Chaos Bolt, Key 5: Searing Pain, Key 6: Fel Flame (This obviously increases the duration of my Immoate debuff on the target, or refreshes it.) And I know my gear sucks, but I was doing more damage at level 80, and i'm now 85. If anyone could give me any advice possible, It would really help.

Thanks

[Amerrol]

Destruction Warlocks don't have a rotation, we have a priority system.

* Improved Soul Fire (Keep this buff up!)
* Demon Soul
* Immolate
* Conflagrate
* Bane of Doom
* Corruption
* Shadowflame
* Chaos Bolt
* Shadowburn (Sub 20% HP)
* Incinerate

Don't use Fel Flame until they change the 4 piece bonus, and only when it procs.

[SonsofDisaster]

Gemming (even with green Cata gems) and enchanting your gear would show a marked improvement. Also, you're pretty low on hit-rating.

[Spoiledkid]

Don't use Searing Pain or Fel Flame in your normal "rotation". Where's Incinerate? You should use it as a filler. You shouldn't worry about Shadowflame and Shadowburn at this time, you could get familiar with them later. Drop Master Summoner and Demonic Aegis talents and take Mana Feed. Then drop Improved Searing Pain and take Nether Protection. Put last three talent points in Improved Corruption (you should have Corruption up all the time).

Replace Glyph of Chaos Bolt with Glyph of Imp and get Glyph of Fear (for cc). 6% hit is enough, I doubt you are doing any raids with that gear anyway. Once you get 346 pieces, get some proper enchants and rare gems. Reforge mastery to hit (if you drop below 6%) or haste.

[Amerrol]

I'd assume he doesn't really plan on raiding much, in which case 6% is enough for any heroic boss. If you do plan on raiding eventually you will need 17% hit.

[Swaggy]

I may be wrong, but I think destro prioritizes crit over haste. I know for a fact that mastery is worthless so reforge all mastery to (crit/haste, whichever is better, i forget for destro) and hit if you need it. Basically gem for intellect always unless the slot bonus is actually worth it(if its mastery and low amounts of haste/crit its not worth it). Make sure your rotation/priority is correct. Your glyphs for destro should be imp, conflag and immolate.

Your rotation/priority is going to change when 4.0.6 comes out, and according to EJ's latest numbers, destro is going to be the worst spec of the 3.

[Hellphantine]

It is very possible that it simply has to do with gear. A lot of people base their Wrath DPS of ICC with the 30% buff which is completely inaccurate.
The thing with having only 5 levels to go through is that at each level, the amount of crit, haste and mastery it takes to get 1% increases a butt load. Gear up and see if that helps. I'm no lock, but this is just the concensus for all classes.

[volescue]

It is very possible that it simply has to do with gear. A lot of people base their Wrath DPS of ICC with the 30% buff which is completely inaccurate.
The thing with having only 5 levels to go through is that at each level, the amount of crit, haste and mastery it takes to get 1% increases a butt load. Gear up and see if that helps. I'm no lock, but this is just the concensus for all classes.

4000 dps is very low. It has nothing to do with the ICC buff in this case.

Spoiledkid gave some good advice. I would also suggest reading up on warlocks at elitistjerks.com. The class posts there generally have any class info you may have missed that was changed with cata as well as gemming, gearing, and dps guides.

[Deleted]

For starters:

Your are missing incinerate in your rotation, which is the largest portion of your dps. Remove searing pain from your toolbars. Keep up corruption, bane of doom, and curse of elements.

Your stat priority is: Int > Hit > Haste

That should get you at least 7k dps in Cata blues. Try it and report back.

[japes]

Character Audit

* 8 empty glyph slots
* 9 unenchanted items
* 2 empty sockets in 2 items
* Missing Ebonsteel Belt Buckle

[Spectrez]

I could do 4k dps just by setting my face on the keyboard and rolling it around... How do you do only 4k!? You can do that just by casting Incinerate and Chaos Bolt the whole time.

[Kenjji]

Character Audit

* 8 empty glyph slots
* 9 unenchanted items
* 2 empty sockets in 2 items
* Missing Ebonsteel Belt Buckle

i lol'd a bit irl

[Buttfear]

I recommend trying affliction and demonology. From the looks of things Destruction is bad now, it's going to get worse next patch, and doesn't scale very well.

[Montesquieu]

I recommend trying affliction and demonology. From the looks of things Destruction is bad now, it's going to get worse next patch, and doesn't scale very well.

Sorry, but are you pulling this stuff outta your ass? State of dps.

I see destro locks above both afflic and demo.

How this guy managed to do well in WotLK is hard for me to understand. No incinerate? I lul'd.

[Deleted]

Your stat priority is: Int > Hit > Haste

Int > Hit > Crit > Haste > Mastery as for destruction (elitistjerks.com)

This is allthough more advanced than that. Read for yourself at link above.

for OP: Try reforge mastery/haste to crit if possiple.

Priority for reforging:
Spirit>Mastery>Haste>Hit to crit. Be aware that you should only reforge hit if you're not going to raid, 6% hit for HC and 17% for raids.

Everytime Improved soul fire is 1-2 sec from running out, start casting a new soul fire so you have a 100% uptime on that spell.

Try use my profile for help: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...merbird/simple
Ive got a raiding destro spec and 17% hit + full reforged/gemmed/enchanted gear. Even though your not that great geared you should be able to pull 9k+ dps atleast. NEVER use searing pain in your rotation or talentbuild btw.

[Meowse]

1) Respec Demonology. No, really--Demonology is radically better DPS when you have poor gear, and is radically better threat management when you have good gear.
2) Use Felstorm on cooldown (or delay slightly to sync up with your next Metamorphosis).
3) Use Metamorphosis on cooldown (or delay slightly if the next pull is a big AOE pull).
4) Always be casting something.
5) Don't overuse Shadow Bolt.

That's pretty much it. At average ilvl 330, my Felguard alone does 3.5k dps using the above--and I do an additional 6k average on top of that.

[the kins man]

Wow, searing pain, haven't used that since I lock tanked Illidan back in the day (which was a wednesday btw)

[Dragonwing]

I laugh at people who come to "I need help with dps" threads to call the op bad

[Buttfear]

Sorry, but are you pulling this stuff outta your ass? State of dps.

I see destro locks above both afflic and demo.

I lul'd.

I actually got it off the elitistjerks simulationcraft thread, also, destruction has the least amount of raid utility.

[Montesquieu]

SimCraft is only under highly ideal situations. Unfortunately, raids are anything but ideal.

As for utility, I see Shadow and Flame's 5% debuff, Replenishment, and (sorta) Shadowfury. That's pretty decent. I understand that Demo brings a SP buff, and Afflic an int/spirit buff with a felpuppy. What am I missing?