Originally Posted by Dicho
Honestly, the DPS vs DPM consideration relies intirely on the encounter, and your regen in raids.
Keeping in mind here that my gear is somewhat decent, I always have a shadow priest, and BoW available. I also use stopcasting to shave milliseconds off my LB casts, thus spending slightly more mana.
On the majority of fights, I find myself hard pressed to get rid of my mana. How mana efficient my spell rotation might be seems pointless when I am seemingly never in any danger of going oom.
With that in mind, I would love to find out whether just spamming LB, or CL/LB rotation, or FS/LB rotation, or FS/CL/LB rotation will most increase my dps.
- Assuming again this is in a raid situation with all the appropriate debuffs on the boss, CoE, CoS, Scorch, Misery etc, and that I have my totems and flasks/pots on.
My own rather primitive attempts at calculating this seems to indicate that using FS every 12 secs is more dmg then just spamming LB in the same cast window.
Threat is mostly a non-issue on static fights, even with Stormstrike goodness.
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Well, you can see that on there, I just included the mana stuff as an afterthought.
I guess I could include a debuff check in next, but it's pretty safe to say that the only thing that would affect a rotation like this is whether the mob is nature vulnerable, or has +fire damage debuffs. Guess I'll add that into the next build, as I'm kinda curious now :p
This said, I have made some changes. I think I've implemented a sufficient way of accounting for Clearcasts. There's now a second option to use for CL, to say how many CC'd CLs you use (I think this effectively gets around the CC -> CL issue with minimal worry on my part, but allow fairly decent control of how it works in the long run). Assuming your crit % gives that many clearcasts, the remained will be used on LB/FS casts.
So for the debuffs, we want scorch, CoE at least.
Misery is all spell damage iirc, so it would scale everything up by 10%(?) and not be that useful for comparisons (unless we want absolute values).