09-16-2010, 03:50 PM
As far as dps goes, I agree with jack. The CL's/officers are there for a reason, to make sure that every member of their class is performing at enar perfect optimization. Even if you aren't an officer, if you see someone struggling and you know a way to help them do better, say something. Don't be a dick about it saying "HAHAH IM EBTTER THAN U U SHULD BE DOING THIS INSTEAD NUB". And aslo, if you see someone doing better than you, even if say they're in another guild or something, don't be ashamed to ask. People like when their opinion is asked for.
http://wtfismygearscore.com/us/scilla/furly look at that number, I'm like the 20th best geared mage on the server but look at our logs from last night. I could literally break down the entire fight for you right now from my point of view. Where I'm standing, what I'm casting, how long is left on cds etc. Everyone should be able to do that. By knowing exactly what's about to happen, you can position yourself in advance and not waste global cooldowns. The way you become good at dps in this game is by realizing you will not be perfect. Never think, oh there's nothing more I can do to be better, the people who have less or the same gear as me just get lucky rng.
I'm going to use you as an example Rego, not to bash you or call myself better than you in an elitist way, but just to illustrate a difference. Regolith has gotten alot better, he is a good mage.
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/eyxv ... details/5/
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/eyxv ... details/3/
The first link is my damage/spell for last night, and the second is his. Regolith outgears me. He has me beat in every category statwise, meaning he has more haste than me, but throughout the night, I casted a total of 1315 fireballs while he casted 1196. There are a few things that could skew this such as deaths or valks, but last night our rng in that sense was essentially identical, in fact I got picked up a few more times than he did. Also notice, that he has alot more fireblasts than me. It's good that he is fireblasting on the run, and also using CoC, but in my case, I almost never have to fireblast, because i only move when I'm either refreshing lb or firing off a pyroblast. If you watch me p1 it's very apparent, but you also see that I move slightly on almost every lb or pyro, to put myself in a better position for the future, because I know exactly where I'm going to be, exactly what I'm going to be casting. When we come in from the side phase, I wait until I get a hotstreak proc, and then rocketboots to the position where we stack for first valks, and in that boots time, I have three globals to use, one for the pyroblast, one for refreshing lb on the spirit, and one to lb lk. After the last gcd I'm already casting my next fireball on the spirit, which is why when you look at aggro on the last spirit I'm always right on abe's ass when everyone else is down lower because they were still moving.
Now my point wasn't to say I'm better than Rego, but to say there are things that I do, that he doesn't do, that he coulddo to improve. I'm sure there's something I could take from him as well. Even people outside of our classes. I'm sure that a rogue could pick up something from a warrior, or a warlock from a mage and vice versa, that goes a long way to improving your personal damage.
Now to piggyback on that. It doesn't juscome down to dps. There is always something you can do, that will make a job for someone else easier. Spreading out on the side phases helps healers conserve mana, running towards abe wen you ahve a spirit spawn on you makes it a shitton easier for abe. You should always be playing open-minded thinking, what is it that I can do to make this boss die, even if it's something really really small and seemingly insignificant.
http://wtfismygearscore.com/us/scilla/furly look at that number, I'm like the 20th best geared mage on the server but look at our logs from last night. I could literally break down the entire fight for you right now from my point of view. Where I'm standing, what I'm casting, how long is left on cds etc. Everyone should be able to do that. By knowing exactly what's about to happen, you can position yourself in advance and not waste global cooldowns. The way you become good at dps in this game is by realizing you will not be perfect. Never think, oh there's nothing more I can do to be better, the people who have less or the same gear as me just get lucky rng.
I'm going to use you as an example Rego, not to bash you or call myself better than you in an elitist way, but just to illustrate a difference. Regolith has gotten alot better, he is a good mage.
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/eyxv ... details/5/
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/eyxv ... details/3/
The first link is my damage/spell for last night, and the second is his. Regolith outgears me. He has me beat in every category statwise, meaning he has more haste than me, but throughout the night, I casted a total of 1315 fireballs while he casted 1196. There are a few things that could skew this such as deaths or valks, but last night our rng in that sense was essentially identical, in fact I got picked up a few more times than he did. Also notice, that he has alot more fireblasts than me. It's good that he is fireblasting on the run, and also using CoC, but in my case, I almost never have to fireblast, because i only move when I'm either refreshing lb or firing off a pyroblast. If you watch me p1 it's very apparent, but you also see that I move slightly on almost every lb or pyro, to put myself in a better position for the future, because I know exactly where I'm going to be, exactly what I'm going to be casting. When we come in from the side phase, I wait until I get a hotstreak proc, and then rocketboots to the position where we stack for first valks, and in that boots time, I have three globals to use, one for the pyroblast, one for refreshing lb on the spirit, and one to lb lk. After the last gcd I'm already casting my next fireball on the spirit, which is why when you look at aggro on the last spirit I'm always right on abe's ass when everyone else is down lower because they were still moving.
Now my point wasn't to say I'm better than Rego, but to say there are things that I do, that he doesn't do, that he coulddo to improve. I'm sure there's something I could take from him as well. Even people outside of our classes. I'm sure that a rogue could pick up something from a warrior, or a warlock from a mage and vice versa, that goes a long way to improving your personal damage.
Now to piggyback on that. It doesn't juscome down to dps. There is always something you can do, that will make a job for someone else easier. Spreading out on the side phases helps healers conserve mana, running towards abe wen you ahve a spirit spawn on you makes it a shitton easier for abe. You should always be playing open-minded thinking, what is it that I can do to make this boss die, even if it's something really really small and seemingly insignificant.