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Blackfang321
Ok, so I'm sure a lot of people are going to call me a n00b, and some may call me a troll, but I honestly have no idea what I"m doing wrong. Affliction locks are supposed to be great for PvE right now, and I can't seem to get off the bottom of the charts for DPS (according to the add-on Recount).
Me Currently
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Me On Armory (with glyphs and talents listed)
My equipment is not great by any means since we just really started raiding. I've gem stoned up everything but my newest raid find (Which I will) and have even tried some of the re-forgings since so many sources promote master for us 'locks.
My rotation is:
Curse of the Elements, Haunt, Soul Shard + Soul Swap (applying all DoTs), Malefic Grasp until I can haunt again. If it is a boss I usually rinse and repeat this process for quite some time, but if there are multiple targets I will use Soul Swap to get my DoTs off before they expire and dump them on the other target. I use Soul Drain instead of Malefic Grasp if target is at less than 20% and will often use it to finish off trash mobs to get my shards back. I also have some engineering buffs I use to increase my stats temporarily as well as summon my demon on bosses whenever it is off cooldown.
I know I sometimes forget to cast my self-buffs, but I don't think that is what is causing me to be at the BOTTOM of the DPS charts every time. Please give me advice! I'm not new to MMOs, but I've only had 9 months with WoW so this is my first time really doing raids "at-level". I wouldn't consider myself a stupid person or a bad player but at the last raid I did someone commented on my performance it was down right embarrassing. :-P
Thanks for the help!
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Blackfang321
I think from what you've said made a lot of sense. I have enchanted most of my items, gemmed up my new piece of equipment, and am waiting to raid again to see if it helps.
I use my talent that absorbs my normal demon-companion, but occasional forget to summon the Doomguard. I'm thinking that is just going to take some practice to remember since I rarely needed him before.
Also, I think you're right about the mutli-targetting. In raids I Would focus on one mob at a time...I just practiced jumping from mob-to-mob dummies and got an instant kick to my DPS. I was pulling around 20-22k and jumped to 26-28k just with the enchantments and the multi-targetting.
Thanks for the advice and the encouragement! I've gone from being nervous to trying a raid again, to excited about seeing how all my changes are going to do. :-)
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Nubucanezzer
Just one thing to reiterate on from Darongo8, stacking mastery can make a big difference.
My warlock was stuck on the dps front, I could only get around 37k when others around me were doing a lot more. I reset all my reforging, logged out/in and refreshed my AskMrRobot page, it suggested reforging a lot of my stats into mastery, and as a consequence, I can now regularly hit over 50k on a single target.
I was quite surprised how much difference reforging made.
Good luck!
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