Originally Posted by dblaikie
Assuming his ele shammy was present for the entire duration (with Totem of Wrath) then reitemizing to reach the hit cap wouldn't have increased his dps on this parse. (though it might still be justified) If anything it would have decreased his damage in this particular situation.
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Fair point, but I would still aim for the hit cap.
17 scorches for a 6min + fight seems pretty close to optimal.
5 to ramp, then one every 30 sec (11, assuming he started doing his first scorching (& scorched right on the line) within 3 seconds of engaging the boss) => 16 or 17 scorches.
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It's not 17 scorches, it's 17 hits + 14 crits.
Looking at that more, I notice a few more things. First, always use your Hex Shrunken Head during bloodlust/drums, with combustion and icy veins. Combustion is wasted on Skull of Gul'dan and if you don't use any +spell trinkets/consumables, you don't get any benefit from stacking icy veins, Skull and berserking. So, I'd say go with using the Head, combustion, icy veins and berserking (does it stack with icy veins?) and then the Skull. Also, you should use your racial after the 3rd meteor slash, so you get the most out of it.
Secondly, you need to mash your fireball button faster, you have a lot of pauses between your fireballs. Comparing your parse with my guild's latest kill, I didn't have a shaman (no bloodlust), I don't have the skull and I'm an undead (no berserking) and I cast 128 fireballs and 15 scorches, compared to your 104 fireballs and 31 scorches.
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