So i'm a healer in a T6 guild. I picked up a decent bit of offspec gear along the way and am 1/2 T5 1/2 T6 for boomkin gear. It's only meh...I'm hit capped with 1200 spell damage and 27% crit not counting imp FF and Imp Insect Swarm. So i guess that puts me at 33% crit self buffed with 3.5% haste. Nothing to write home about.
How come when we got a ret paladin for infinite mana and a ele shaman to buff our spells did I out dps one of our regular mages in T6 gear. Before you say anything YES he's very good and our raid leader and he tried numerous specs. It might have just been a lot of RNG in my favor but i religiously out dps'd him.
In my misshappen gear set i averaged 2100-2200 DPS and he had higher DPS peaks but he was less total damage done in the same time frame but not by a lot. We went for 5 minutes and were doing hundreds of thousands of damage for a large sampling.
So...I edge him out in dps and damage done. I shouldn't...but i do. Aren't mages suposed to be 5% more damage than me? I know their talents are all tuned for 80...and i've been in Tier 7 25 mans all well geared and mages do outperform hybrids by 5% there...but why is 70 so fubar'd??