So Ladies and gents - Another warrior steps up to the plate in search of aid, in the ever important battle to increase DPS.
The scenario is quite simple - My guild is currently 4/8 heroic 25 man and currently tackling the formidable Ultraxion heroic. With such a demanding boss, every ounce of DPS I can pull myself is certainly a requirement.....except - I'm struggling to even pull substantial amounts, let alone ground breaking.
Like many, I recently switched to arms from fury due to the higher DPS gain that the spec offers for this latest tier, yet since doing so my DPS has clearly dropped significantly, to the point its actually getting quite depressing and I can't help but feel, dare I say, carried?. I first attributed this issue to getting to know the spec - something I thought I understood well enough, by generally following the basics of MS > CS > OP > Slam when all three are on cooldown as my general rotation and of course stance dance macroing all the appropriate abilities. Yet despite my best efforts, it clearly hasn't been working out too well for me, as was made more evident by my DPS on Ultraxion this evening.
The guild currently houses 2 other Arms warriors that I pale in comparison to, yet even these guys are unsure as to where I'm going wrong. To give some examples - Despite recount exclaiming that we had used similar numbers of abilities - These guys were perhaps sitting at 37k and I was just hanging around 27k.
Gear is not really an issue in this case as, although there are a few discrepancies between us - there isn't anything substantial such as one guy is in all heroics and I'm in just normal gear.
So down to the character in question - I can be found at http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...riimjaw/simple
As some side notes - I am aware of a missing enchant, I am also aware of the shield wall glyph - this is being used simply for Hour of Twilight soaking. Anything else is up for scrutiny
In terms of World of Logs parses - the general raid parses can be found here http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/b...411/?enc=wipes
Whiles an example of my own failing can be found here http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/b...?s=9150&e=9299
The other comparable warriors come in the form of Tratts and Theldaron. (HI TRATTS! :P).
As ANOTHER side note - after tonight's raid I have experimented with the in game latency tool. It was noticeable that even though unticked - the tool itself was locked at 400ms. With an average MS of 20-30 I have since set the tool to 30Ms. I haven't had an actual chance to test this our fully, nor am I expecting 10k extra DPS to appear from such a change, but having read into this field a little, it surely wouldn't cause any more harm lowering this figure to nearer my ping, than the 400ms I was being offered, essentially negating and limiting the queuing of some abilities.
At this stage I'm actually quite ashamed of my level of performance and feel that I truly am letting the guild down. Any information, tips and advice that could be offered to help me further maximise myself is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks for the efforts.
James