Originally Posted by valeea

I have to consult you too and hope my question/concern fits this thread.

I really have problems with my dps in terms of not understanding what i am doing wrong. I compared myself with many other mages, had my items equipped with haste gems recently to go with the trend towards haste instead of crit in first and spelldamage in second place. here is what im talking about exactly:

my char: The World of Warcraft Armory
wws: Valeea - WWS
this is my page of the third brutallus kill my guild made. as you can see, i score 2036 dps here, what is not all too bad. But considering the equip i have (used to have illidan staff instead of grand magisters back then), the support i had (elemental shaman + shadow) and the consumables (flamecaps/destru pots) i used, i still consider my dps to be far below the maximum possible.

I searched for wws on brutallus and found this mage:
his char: The World of Warcraft Armory
wws on brutallus: Rinald - WWS
he scores 2400 dps on the same boss. he stacked haste more than i did and did not use flamecaps (as far as i interpret the buffs/debuffs page), nor did he have a ele shaman. he has about 20 less spelldamage than i do, but still does 20% more dps.

my question now of course is: what the hell am i doing wrong. is even more haste the only way to go? what can i do besides waiting for more gear? Fyi i add the way i use my cooldowns. In second 5-10 after engaging brut, depending on the tank aggro, i use the following macro

/use flamecap
/use destruction pot
/use icy veins
/use skull of guldan

after the 20 secs are over i use

/use combustion
/use hex shrunken head.

i assume that this is the best way to have the cooldowns profit from another. if i am wrong, please correct me. but i strongly doubt that even if my usage of the cooldowns could be improved this will cause 400 more dps.

im eager to read your analysis and tips.