Originally Posted by Azev
I recently xfer'd to a guild working on Brutallus and tonight was unexpectedly called in. I have experience with all of hyjal/bt on my druid and 5/5 hyjal 8/9 BT on my warrior. I'm usually pretty solid on DPS, 3-4th spot maybe pulling anywhere from 1.3k-1.8k DPS (broad range I know, but certain encounters kill). I use a basic rotation: BT/CD/WW, wash rinse repeat, throwing in as many HSs are rage permits. So tonight on Brutallus I was thinking patchwerk 2.0 - time to have some fun. But for the first hour and a half or so I was consistently pumping out weak 1.2-1.3k DPS attempt and on some only 1k-1.1k.
WWS of the kill
Here I finally pulled out 1.5k which is more what I expected, but it took everything I had and I STILL fell way short to just about everyone else.
Armory
The only difference is for the fight I was wearing my sapphire.
Is this something on my end of the game or can I chalk being so low to the level of the encounter vs the level of my gear? |
Another major difference between you and "the other warrior" in addition to what kaan pointed out is that your guildmate has 17 expertise, which puts him slightly over(or close to depending on wherver Boss dogdge figure is 5.6 or 6.5) the Expertise cap (from behind) with 2/2 Weapon Mastery whereas you have 0. Now this can make quite a huge difference in dps (granted not 600, but it will account for a decent chunk).
Now I have no idea as to how the Shard of Contempt shapes up against the good old DST (assuming you are using Solarian's trinket) as I have not yet read any theorycraft on it nor have I seen any comparative numbers on that topic, but considering how easily obtainable the shard is, it would probably be a good idea to get your hands on one and maybe test it out how it compares to DST on your next Brutalus kill (or if you are lucky maybe you'll be able to wear both)
Other than That I thought I'd compare the sources of damage output on your brutalus kill:
Him You
314.000 246.000 White damage
234.000 117.000 Heroic Strikes
107.000 80.000 Blood Thirst
55.000 50.000 Execute
53.000 46.000 Whirlwind
Now the one stat jumps out immediately, and that's the difference in Heroic Strike damage, as it seems he did double the amount of damage with HS than you did. Yes it does appear that you got a tad unlucky with your crits on HS, but that alone won't even come close to making up the difference. Taking a close look at the HS row it appears that you used HS ~100 times (rough estimate) whereas he did so ~150 times. Now I don't know whether that's all down to the difference in gear, ie clearly superior rage generation on his part, as the huge difference in white damage clearly indicates. The Warglaive Proc combined with more Ap (vs demons), more expertise and ~4% more crit (from armory stats, subtracting TT stats) will make for a huge difference in overall dps and rage generation.
Also don't forget that he basically gains one trinket slot over you, since he gains the AP buff from your SS too.
PS Good luck on the Glaives
Edit: 2/2 Weapon Mastery not 3/3 Precision.