Elentarri wrote:Falore, Ahrek may i ask what you are doing to get so high dps? i on average do about 8-9k sometimes 10k but am wondering if i am missing something?
Before I made the change to mage I was given Wire's post and live by it. I've even taken it a few steps further. I have 2 spell keys (both options used) one using RS and the other subbing in Thaumatize for RS so more of a sustained burn. I also use a hotkey setup that removed RS and Jolt so I have more of a trash weave, Fickle and Bolt.
Now what I do is after hearing a friend talk about boxing his mage this way (i gave him all the weave stuff). He decided spamming the button was too hard and if he just left the mage there and just pressed an autofire key it would do the whole weave for him and he didn't have to pay attention. For me it's similar, I use a set of autofire keys for all my weaves, I toggle for the 2 burn ones, and I just have to hold it for the trash one. Doing this allows me to focus on the AAs/clickies I use between casts. This makes it much easier on myself.
So what I'll do on a burn though is this:
RS, Foceful rejuv, RS, Burn Key(Fire core, First spire, Acute arcanum, Arcane Whispers, Servant of Ro), Twincast, Force of Elements, Jolt of many, Frigid clicky, Bolt, Molten orb clicky, Fickle, RS and then it just starts rotating my weave and clicking clickies.
To note I ALWAYS use a prebuffed pet on burns, ALWAYS. Even if I die on a raid i summon and get one up and going then click the burn keys and suspend it then pop a fire pet and keep going on the trash part, then unsuspend for burn. It just saves me time even on short burns, but mainly it extends the time pet is burning so on longer fights I can do just that little bit better. Also my weave is RS, Jolt, Bolt, Fickle, on brath sub in AtA for Fickle.
I use glyphs/7th a good amount, for glyph I use it before twincast goes off in the list above. For 7th though I find that we can max on crit chance or smurf close if you get bard epic/fierce eye/auspice/first spire, so I have an audio trigger for when Fierce Eye falls, and when it does I hit 7th. I think this maximizes my crit chance the best.
So that's basically how I do it. I got a nice parse yesterday I was very happy about, usually I screw up my ideal burn but this time I got pretty close to perfect.
/GU Burynai Destroyer in 201s, 41520k @206568dps > Ahrek + pets 3050k @15480dps (7.34%)
That used 7th and glyph of the cataclysm and had a bard and enc... also if you get a bard make sure they use aura of the poet, many will go with rodcet as it's mana regen, but don't because Aura of the poet gives swarm pets 25% haste =)