Originally Posted by alarge

Your gear is fine. As earlier stated, you want to gem for agility instead of AP, but that won't cause that big a disparity.

I'm going to guess (without seeing a WWS) that the issue is one (or both) of two things:

1. You haven't trained the highest rank of ES. I went for a week myself after switching to SV before I realized that I was using rank 1 ES and Aimed Shot.

2. Your shot choices are bad. SV is considerably different than BM was. You cannot rely upon either a fixed shot rotation or a spam macro. I use (and recommend) the following priority:

a. Kill Shot -- I have this macro'd into my ES, AS, and SS, so I don't really count this.

b. Explosive Shot - If you are in the middle of an LnL proc, you either need to pause for a sec or so (after GCD) between ES's or slip in an instant (Aimed Shot, SrS, or even HM)

c. Aimed Shot (or Multi-Shot if you don't have Aimed)

d. Serpent Sting

e. Steady Shot

Getting the priority and the timing right is the (IMO) tricky part of SV. You can't simply use a rule like ES,SS,SS,SS,ES,...

Fixing both of these issues should add nearly 800-1000 dps right away. Beyond that, it's about raid synergy, trinket procs, etc.