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Ele and my low dps
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681208
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Post by
Meldoron
The only advice I can give is that you get some more pieces for your ele set so that you can gem and reforge to better optimize your stats. You seem to be in the spot that my friend is where he can't seem to pull higher dps as ele no matter what he does. He asked for my help once when I only had ilvl 349 resto gear and had never played ele before. I respeced and pulled 11k dps, but he couldn't top 9k with ilvl 355. Maybe someone can give a little better criticism, but other than that, *yoda* my sig has good information, it does. */yoda*
Post by
raymix
First of all. I supose you are raiding in resto gear. That means to much spirit has gone into to much hit, means to much wasted stats for reforge. You only need 17% spell hit. I would suggest reforging unnecessary spirit into mastery and haste (balance them both), if you do not plan to play resto anymore. Otherwise - farm OS gear.
Second, don't use UE to much. While it's a nice buff to your fire spell, time spent in 2 GCDs is already wasted DPS. Only use it while moving to remove impact on your DPS.
Thirdly - there is no set rotation. Use priority spells. I would suggest you getting Spell Flash addon for shaman, it should help you get to know your elemental faster.
Lastly, get more haste. Since ele does not have any problems with mana, haste will help you get more casts out, thus also proccing your mastery more often.
I would also suggest you get rid of Convection Talent and get something more useful - like Elemental Warding and/or Ancestral Resolve so you are not a burden for healers or Earth's Grasp to help raid with kiting. Also Earthquake is an expensive useless tool, very poor damage, while only one point, it could go into survivability. If you combine Elemental Warding with Ancestral Resolve, you get pure 22% damage mitigation while DPSing. Very helpful in fights with huge AE, like Nefarian for example.
Also reverbation talent is not much of a use for you. While many disagrees, it really depends on your playstyle. Myself i'd use extra LB instead of shock, it does more damage, thankyouverymuch
According to your given numbers of your raid's DPS, they are pretty low. Pure DPS class should get at least 19-20k with pre-raid gear (ie lock, hunter and mage). 15k .. that's pretty low.
Myself I used to play elemental in wrath, but found it awfully boring in cata, so changed to enh and noticed huge damage increase (despite reality that ele should have better dps) while having more fun.
Enjoy your game
edit: typos
Post by
Gnub
Also reverbation talent is not much of a use for you. While many disagrees, it really depends on your playstyle. Myself i'd use extra LB instead of shock, it does more damage, thankyouverymuch
I hope you know that the reason for choosing Reverbation isn't to cast shocks every CD, but to minimize potential overlaps of high Lightning Shield stacks and Flame Shock running out. That's all - and there isn't really any better DPS-talents out there to choose as an alternative, that you won't be able to use other points on.
Otherwise, read Meldoron's guide. Good stuff :)
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681208
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Post by
raymix
@Gnub: i would still sacrifice that overlap for survivability, that contributes to raid much more than a chance of overlap, that respectfully could be ignored if there is lots of movement involved in fight. Sadly so far i do not recall any of the cata bosses that would be stationary pew pew.
But once again - player's choice. I'd still suggest him to avoid that talent at the moment until descent DPS gear.
As for recount numbers - dude it does not matter if you do less DPS as hybrid class (which is normal btw) as long as you contribute yourself and your class to raid. Those guys with huge numbers, they can not DPS while dead. So bring a player, not e-peen. At the end of the day for DPS class it's all about total damage done, not damage per second until wipe or kill.
Have a nice day
Post by
soccergenius
You don't need that much magic damage mitigation for Nefarian, just use Resistance Totem. The dmg you mitigate is also somewhat offset with your now reduced dps which makes the boss fights longer. You can skip Earthquake and put points into Elemental Warding and Ancestral Resolve w/o skipping Reverb.
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811385
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Post by
greywolfsage
Crafted Shield has Haste on it, as I recall.
Superior to Kingdom's Heart's crit, as well as having a socket.
You want more int, haste and mastery.
And more hybrid gems. Or at least you should be using more of them.
As I recall, Haste is the superior dps stat for Elemental.
Then mastery and crit is middling.
Haste is best because:
More Lava Surge Procs.
More Spell Casts.
Most Mastery Procs.
Also helps to get Lava Burst of CD ASAP so you don't get a proc while it's being cast/waiting to be used in the first place.
Remember that you can dip below 17% hit a little bit due to Kings/Mark buffing spirit.
Post by
Circuit
As I recall, Haste is the superior dps stat for Elemental.
It depends on the rest of your gear. Haste and mastery are generally pretty equal at high gear levels, but I'd still recommend stacking haste until you get the 4pc bonus. After that, haste and mastery are both very strong.
Remember that you can dip below 17% hit a little bit due to Kings/Mark buffing spirit.
No raid buffs affect spirit or hit rating. 17% is still the target.
Post by
Haxzor
Every good Shaman knows. Stack crit and spam LB
Post by
greywolfsage
That's really weird then, because I KNOW my hit rating has been different in a raid and out of it, I figured it was a buff.
Post by
Meldoron
Nope, the talent only allows hit rating to come from spirit on gear and effects. Sadly, a buff isn't considered an effect.
Post by
buzz3070
Every good Shaman knows. Stack crit and spam LB
Ah how i miss tbc.
Post by
Haxzor
TBC made stuff way too complicated.
Dude, I didn't make a shaman to press more that one button
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