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Shadow PvP: Devouring Plague spec
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OscarDivine
Kiyomii, I've linked that screenshot you requested in the "Shadow Rotation" thread. It shows a 20 second casting rotation on the heroic boss dummy hitting 4925 DPS and that's WITHOUT my CSD activated (my mistake!). Just thought you would be interested.
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Erethzium
Don't see how you'd "spec for DP", outside of a few talents. And yes, even in ICC10/25 gear with 3.8k SP, Imp. DP only hits for 3-4k, crit 5-6k. So against someone in PvP gear with ~1200 resilience, you'd be doing around 2.5k non-crit, 4k crit, and they'd probably be able to just smack you down from your 0 resilience, if you're not wearing PvP gear. Your damage would be even lower if you're not in really good PvP gear.
Besides, why spam DP when you can use ALL your DoTs, and use MB/MF which do much more damage?
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Post by
cohut
When to cast DP for instant damage:
lets see, SWP is on target, SWD is on CD or your hp is to low(in that case you'll probably be better of going out of form and healing). VT is on target or you cant cast atm, MB is on cd or you cant cast atm. You cant cast mind flay atm. The DP you already have on target have ticked the past 0.5s
or if you simply need 2~3k dmg instant and SWD is on CD. in this situation silence or fear is a better use of GCD/mana,so you get time to cast something.
If or when you're in this situation it might be a good idea to spam DP.
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OscarDivine
Kiyomii, I've linked that screenshot you requested in the "Shadow Rotation" thread. It shows a 20 second casting rotation on the heroic boss dummy hitting 4925 DPS and that's WITHOUT my CSD activated (my mistake!). Just thought you would be interested.Well, I had some sort of idea of that there was something "wrong" with my recount. It always used VERY long time to actually show my correct DPS, after trying a lot of things, I finally got it and pulled 5k in 20secs. I've been left with the impression that shadow DPS goes up slowly due there being something wrong with my recount and it giving wrong results. For this I am sorry, but I did not mean to sound like a prick.
oh I wasn't fishing for an apology, I was sincerely hoping to show you that it is possible, and by what you're saying, you're already there. So no worries!
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Spinky
the ppl in that video didnt have resilience gear.
against 1000 resil ur imp DP only hits for like 1800 for almost 900 mana
18k mana in pvp gear/900 per cast = 20 casts, oom in 30 sec or less
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Erethzium
So pretty much this idea is just taking a good tactic for certain situations (i.e. need to keep chasing a moving target or if you're in danger of an interrupt) and pushing it too far. Point taken. Thanks for the comments ^^
IMO, I would not spec for chasing a target, or "in danger of an interrupt", as people don't really tend to run away in PvP unless they know they won't win, and insta spam doesn't help you avoid interrupts, as someone will only interrupt if they see you casting.
Once again, using ALL OF YOUR DOTS will trump only using one, any day, no matter how much SP you have, and as people have said, Imp. Devouring Plague doesn't do enough damage to be that big of a threat to anyone except people in full PvE gear.
the ppl in that video didnt have resilience gear.
against 1000 resil ur imp DP only hits for like 1800 for almost 900 mana
18k mana in pvp gear/900 per cast = 20 casts, oom in 30 sec or less
And in addition to that, the melee's he dueled were complete and total idiots, running around aimlessly and not attacking him. Heck, I saw the "high arena rating" warrior just running around stancedancing.
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sagnheiili
WAY to high of mana consumption with far to low of damage.
You're better off with the cookie cutter spec, and layering all your dots on, and hitting DP on the run and as a pseudo-shock spell if someone's skimming on 3-5% and you need a quick tap of burst to drop them.
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