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Offline Sylantar

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« on: May 07, 2008, 10:37:23 AM »
ok, i be getting bored with my current rotation which is basically
firebolt till dead unless on boss then stack scorch followed by firebolt - topping up scorch when needed.
unless i get aoe tastic i am pressing 2 buttons.
which while supposidly being the best rotation for damage it's getting a bit dull.
anyone got any other ideas?

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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2008, 12:02:48 PM »
Try being a shadow destro-lock.....

curse-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowboltshadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt-shadowbolt......boss dead.

Major yawnage, gets the job done though.
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« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2008, 01:00:01 PM »
lulz,

sounds thrilling.

maybe it's time to try a non caster class.... :s
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« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2008, 01:35:46 PM »
Elemental shaman: Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt -> Lightning bolt

Pretty much all caster DPS rotations are less than exciting as far as I know.  One of the reasons I liked raid leading with Daff as a boomkin was I could press the nuke keys in the right order without actually paying attention to them while focusing on leading the fight (this was back when Kara was hard for us and we were wiping on Aran for months).

Bronwyn is kinda the same, enhancement DPS is not what you'd call complex.  I don't know if there is any complex DPS class to raid with, anyone know?  I think the idea is not to make the actual DPSing too complex because the later fights requrie you to do more than just stand and nuke (CC, AoE adds, move etc).
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« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2008, 01:46:56 PM »
would just be nice to use something different i guess, all my instant casts apart from 1 with a 8 sec cd are aoe so i don't get to use them as much as i used to, nevermind was just hoping for some alternatives to mix it up a bit.
might just try playing with my alts for a bit.
see if i can actually do some quests on the priesty rather than just pug leveling
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« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2008, 01:49:59 PM »
Maybe try frost for a bit of a change?  I don't know if it's any more interesting but it's a change.
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« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2008, 01:58:08 PM »
Noooooooo

really don't like frost

i tried it for around 7/8 levels and it's not as fun for me. i lurve setting fires
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« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2008, 02:31:43 PM »
Uh-oh, try a shadowpriests spellrotation. It is as far as I'm aware the most difficult there is in the game, IF you do it right, as in let the dot expire to recast it a milisecond after so it still stacks with the VE but gets of his last ticks... *mumble*.... *fade*
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« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2008, 02:39:11 PM »
i be holy priesty. tried shadow and didn't like it very much, will try somem different rotations with the mage and see if it makes a big difference to the dps
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« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2008, 03:55:14 PM »
Aff-lock is a fine art, if done properly can out-dps a lot of destro players but it's a real ballacher tracking and refreshing dots on multiple targets whilst monitoring threat. It really is the polar opposite of 'one button raiding'.
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« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2008, 06:26:51 PM »
Although Fireball is the most mana efficient, once I had built up 5 scorches I went with Fireball>Fire Blast>Scorch>Fireball>Fire Blast>Scorch (basically just to keep dps rolling until Fireblast was ready again).  Scorch can be suprisingly powerful with a crit and it's obviously essential to keep the scorch debuff up, you never know when you might get hindered and have it wear off.  I speak as a solitary fire mage, I rarely had the pleasure of having someone else to keep scorch up with me so I had to kinda keep my eye on it.  

As everyone else has said, dps rotations aren't particularly fun.  Of course depending on the mob type, some arcane missiles are often great.  If you have PoM a Pyroblast is on the menu every 3 minutes as well, I opened pretty much every fight with it, the 8 or so second DoT just gets nicer as you lay those scorches on and I found taking 6 seconds to cast it during the fight cost me precious pewpewpew time
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« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2008, 03:38:12 PM »
Quote from: rox0r
Aff-lock is a fine art, if done properly can out-dps a lot of destro players but it's a real ballacher tracking and refreshing dots on multiple targets whilst monitoring threat. It really is the polar opposite of 'one button raiding'.
but when it comes to single target dest takes revenge. Atm im fire dest wich means i have a whopping 2 dots to keep track of (  ). But from gruul and up its no 2 butting pull since blizz making you move at some point at all those fights (well some you have to aoe instead of move, but you get the point).

anyway fire dest: more to press than shadow dest. affliction even mor to push on.


btw doesnt arcane mages have more to press on to get good damage, or are they screwed from the beginning?
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