Originally Posted by barlaniel

My guild is currently on brutallus and i have a couple of questions about my own dps.
Fully raid buffed i have 1530 shadow dmg 30%crit (talents inc) hit cap and no spell haste gear.
Now heres what i need to know currently i seem to be capped at around 2000 dps.Ive looked over a lot of wws reports of brutallus kills and from all this ive come to the conclusion that since my guild is going to be using 2 shadow priests and 1 or 2 others who dont have 4 pc yet there has to be some extra dps coming from the top 5. I fairly sure ill be one of these but i just dont think that 2000 dps cuts it. I do have a shaman in my group and i think ill be gettin a shadow preist although not 100% sure yet. Either way however even with a s. preist i cant get above 2000 dps. I use destruction potions as well as litterly ride the tanks ass all the way home on on terron and the few brutallus attempts we have had. What can i do to boost my dps to the 2200-2400 range that i continusly see on the wws reports of bruallus kills. I dont have a skull of guldan , but atelast from what ive read it shoudlnt add 200+dps.
Does Dps rely on the timing of the first hit and the size of it? Ive noticed that if i start off with a 9800 crit or something similar my dps at the end of the fight seems higher then if i start with a normal non crit.I never did check to see if the damage done at the end of the fights changes i tend to only look at straight dps. Does that matter at all or is that just me overanalizing? Are the warlocks in those wws reports gettin chain heroisms?
All i kno is i wanna see my numbers in the 2200-2400 range.Drums i kno can increase the groups dps we have only 3 who have them but other then drums any other tips or suggestions?

Also we have 4 destro locks right now so ISB is up almost all the time. Does having an 1 shadow preist vs 2 increase its uptime? Thats another thing i have been wondering heavily since midblast is a 1.5 sec cast they eat up the isb debuff's at a rate of 2 per 1.2 shadow bolts ,And shadow word death is instant. since we have 4 locks doesnt that reduce the uptime? meaning that Evry 8 and 12 sec we would loose out on basically 3 of the 4 warlocks 20%extra dmg. i did the math and a destro warlock benifits more from the same 20% but my point is having 4 warlocks with 100%+crit altogether with anything more than 1 shadow preist reduces dps and dmg of the 3 of the 4 locks with 1 lock gettin randomly lucky evry 8 to 12 sec.

im not sayin s preist should not use death and mind blast cause that is way to much dps loss but is there a cap where having X amount of warlocks mixed with X amount of shadow preists becomes counterproductive.
i may be wrong on that last part its just a theory but either way i hope someone out there has thought as hard about fine tuning dmg output.