Hello everybody,
yesterday we managed to kill stoneguard. Yeah on normal and no it wasn't easy I have to admit.
It's nonetheless been a very satisfying feeling. Before the shitstorm breaks loose: Yes, our overall performance is underwhelming. There are too many points to work on all of them at once. We are raiding once a week for 3,5 hours - so it's far from "progress" raiding. That however is no excuse for not playing as good as possible. As such we have some people being up to their game and some not as good. Rest assured, that I will post a similar thread in other classes' forums to get feedback on the other peoples performance. Right now I'm especially interested in our rogues performance and how to improve it. So while I know that there is A LOT of room for improvement on many parts of our raid, I'd be happy if you could focus on my fellow rogue.
Please have a look at our kill last night.
I'm Hunnok, one of the tanks and most of our tries ended before any real good could have been done due to fukup on tanking side.
Some DDs are OK: our warlock and our shaman would be what I'd call "in shape" some others range from "need to improve" to "What the ...". We have had a lot of tries beforehand with the explicit order to avoid as much damage as possible and just stay alive for 7 minutes. If we managed this, "only" damage had to be applied in addition. It worked out - the boss fell, but with a LOT of hassle and some differences in performance.
Now for my questions:
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Xeramas, our rogue, former raidleader and avid player scored a meagre 32k DPS, 50% behind the other melee-DPS and more than 100% would have to be added to reach our lock. Granted, this fight is as melee unfriendliy as it can possibly get, but that's a problem all our melees had to face.
He usually is a very aware and teamoriented player who uses all things at his disposal to help out the groups needs. So I feel I'm in dept to find out what can be done to improve his performance as a DPS. Please have a look at the logs from the kill and his armory. If you can give me any advice regarding playstyle, itemization, talents, rotation - anything I'd be very glad. Also if you could add any specific tips for stoneguards he might have missed I'm all ears.
I'm sure that there's more than just "He needs to L2P". So under the assumption that he does know how to execute things well, WHICH things would he have to execute well in order to pull some numbers?
Also I'm sure that a lot of melee DPS-loss still comes from bad tanking (I'm one of the tanks) although as I already said that is something all melee have to face.
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I'm open to all sorts of critics, suggestions or further information
Thanks alot in advance
Hunnok/Ntarok/Fiercon