Originally Posted by Animosityftw
Thought I'd reply to this again for warriors having a difficult time with DPS. After working hard to perfect my DPS cycles, I effectively jumped over 100 DPS this week. I posted before having only hit around 760 DPS on the Magtheridon encounter, but this week I was hovering at 900 DPS before execute range which I died(21%) due to an unlucky cleave. I easily could have broke 1000, and this is with 0 gear upgrades from the 760 night. What it came down to was perfecting the DPS cycles, while also paying less attention to the raid(I'm raidleader O.O). I didn't think working on cycles alone could upgrade damage by 20%, but it turns out I was wrong!
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Out of interest what did you change?
My basic priority order goes something like this (please feel free to critique).
1/ Bloodthirst – For me this is #1 priority. I'll always try to make sure I have free rage and GCD for when the CD comes up on BT.
2/ Whirlwind – It may not be great dmg, but its still an instant (for flurry, mongoose procs) and does the dmg of a MH swing (but yellow!), with no extra threat/rage loss.
3/ Hamstring – If I have spare rage and GCD free ill consider hamstring. I only tend to use this when I have a shaman or flurry has dropped off, otherwise I skip hamstring.
4/ Heroic Strike – Unless threat is an issue, I just start spamming HS when i'm above 40ish rage.
With no TM at the moment I rarely overpower. The exception would be when I get a bad streak and I'm left with low rage and no flurry (usually I switch stance on OP if I get an OH & MH miss/dodge/parry and BT/WW are unavailable. Its I nice way to get flurry back up and running with 1/2 Overpower.
Rampage I tend to refresh slightly early (when it gets below <10 seconds and I have a GCD free). I try and avoid letting it drop off (or leaving it too late and having to use rampage instead of another instant that’s come off cooldown.
I choose to refresh BS every minute (on the off chance a rogue was out of range when I did the last one). So they would have to be out of range twice in a row for BS to drop off … its just too big of a dps upgrade to rogues to risk them loosing it.