
Originally Posted by Samstar27000
Please excuse this "noob" question but I feel I really need it answered.
I recently switched from arms to fury upon hearing and witnessing its higher DPS in raids. My gear's decent for having not delved completely into the raid content, (my team is 5/6 bwd and 3/4 bot) am im having trouble with my DPS. The thing is, the other fury war on our team, who is significantly less geared, tends to pull more DPS than me, about 14.5 k compared to my 13.6k.
His armory: Noishu @ Bloodhoof - Game - World of Warcraft
My armory: Snookiee @ Bloodhoof - Game - World of Warcraft
I do have the Blacksmith/jewelcrafting profesions for obvious strength gain, and am reforged to 25 expertese, 7.96% hit. I have landslide on both my TG 2 handers.
My rotation is CS>BT>RB>slam on bloodsuge>HS>BT etc, with cs on cooldown.
So the question is, with all sincerety and no trolling intent whatsoever, what am i doing wrong that's making my dps so low? On paper (he agrees with me) my DPS should be much higher, but I'm at fault somewhere.
Any and all responseses are welcome! its my first post so sorry if i did anything wrong.
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I think you may get in trouble for requesting 'hand holding', but on the off chance you don't, there's probably a few things you could fix up.
1) You're under the Expertise Cap. You should have 26 Expertise for your MH; given that you're an Orc, your easiest bet would be to put your Axe in your MH Slot and the Mace in your OH. It's been brought up a few times in this thread and I think the BiS Thread, but meeting the 26 Expertise Cap for your OH isn't nearly as important (i.e. reforge so that you are at 26 for your MH with the Axe in that slot and only worry about getting to 23 for your OH; use
WoW Reforge Calculator & Optimizer or one of the many other options to get as close to the Cap as possible).
2) You're under the Special Hit Cap. You should be at 8% Hit (Minimum) in order to ensure that none of your Specials miss. I think you'll find that if you plug your gear / set-up into SimCraft these days and spit out SEP Values, you'll see Hit above Mastery anyway. This is what I've found (and the majority of other TG players I've read about). Point being, you'll most likely end up well above 8% anyway once you check your SEP values - grab SimCraft and give it a go.
3) Your rotation is slightly off.
CS -> BT -> RB -> BT -> Slam (Proc), with HS as a filler whenever you have rage above the threshold (try to squeeze 2 out during CS, but don't starve yourself of rage to the point where you cannot complete your normal rotation).
You didn't address this, and I'm not 100% sure myself, but there's a good chance that a ilvl353 PvE Weapon from ZG / ZA will out-do a ilvl359 PvP Weapon DPS / Stat-wise.. That's something that someone else will have to confirm however.
In summary, I'd say:
- Download SimCraft, determine your SEP Values.
- Go to WoW Reforge Calculator & Optimizer or a similar website and ensure you meet the 26 Expertise Cap for MH (or both hands if you are using a) 2 Axes or b) no Axes), and have also reforged the rest of your secondary stats according to your SEP Values.
- Concentrate on perfecting your rotation.