Originally Posted by Gralin
Stuff about getting out DPS'd by a Lock and gear advice request.
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I assume you are referring to Bellamorte as the lock since she was the only one I saw consistently ahead of you.
First off I wouldn't say you out gear her alot. Be Imba will give her a crappy rating cause of the two pieces of pvp gear, but she does have them enchanted/gemmed for pve. Overall I'd say ya'll are on relative parity for gear.
As for your DPS the first thing you need to understand is that you are in SSC. A raid instance that HATES fire mages. So many fights make it so hard to keep up decent DPS conditions. With that said I notice you used Flamestrike on both bosses every attempt. For Hydross I guess it was with the adds and for same again for Lurker. Don't use Flamestrike. Its terrible DPS compared to Arcane Explosion. Further you should never be AOEing anything on Lurker. Sheep one mob on your platform and blow up the other than swap to you sheep. Even at your gear level you shouldn't have much difficulty doing that. Another loss of DPS on Lurker is the fact that he submerges and Scorch falls off before he comes back up. This means you have to be scorching alot more than normal compared to most other bosses. Its a DPS loss that can't be helped when fire. Best thing you can do is have the other mages present help you put the debuff back in ASAP.
Thats all I could get out of your WWS, perhaps someone else will be able to divine more. As far as your comment goes about the G15, I take it you mean you hit a button and it automatically starts using your CDs for you? I personally would never recommend letting something hit your CDs for you as sometimes it could hit them at a bad time. I.e. they come up just as the last adds die and it hits them while you stand around waiting for Lurker to resurface. The biggest boost to a fire mages DPS is proper CD management. I might be jumping the gun when I say this, but I am pretty sure all the best mages in any top guild manage their own CDs instead of letting a preprogrammed gaming pad/keyboard do it for them, regardless of spec.
Now about that gear advice. Standard advice, I'm sure if you do a scan of this thread as you will see. You have way too many blue gems. Drop the stam hybrid gem from your spellfire robes. Put in more
[Veiled Noble Topaz]. Replace the shoulder and helm blue gems with
[Glowing Nightseye]. Replace your
[Spellfire Belt] with
[Belt of Blasting] and gem it with pure damage like your legs and wand. Drop the
[Spellfire Gloves] for
[Enslaved Doomguard Soulgrips] since the socket is yellow and you can get the bonus while gemming for hit/dmg(
[Veiled Noble Topaz]) (normally I recommend the older
[Studious Wraps] but the +dmg on the newer gloves is better when gemmed for hit than it is on the Wraps.) This will also let you put spell damage on your gloves instead of spell hit. You are right in wanting to pick up the ring. Between the changes I listed above and your own goal of getting the ring, you can replace your Scryer trinket with the DM:C and you you will actually go up in hit to 163 spell hit (assuming my math isn't screwed up.)
Edit: P.S. Get used to getting out DPS'd by Warlocks. It only gets worse the higher the content. Trust me on that.