Comments on: Response to Reader Questions

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:53:09 +0000

here we go again.. ‘

DPS is a good value when you want to check your sustained damage /time for comparing your rotation on the Dummy in your major cities.

Some people tend to use the DPS value to messure your damage done on a boss and that could be total incorrect.

The damage done is what is used in raids to calculate how much damage you bring to a raid as “damage dealer” NOT As DPS wich is a bad assumption.

In short damage done is what messure how much damage the boss recieved from you. Sometimes i see people with hight DPS that die during the middle of the fight still in top of dps but in terms of damage done last. DAMAGE DONE IS WHAT KILLS THE BOSS!!!!

By: Sunfyre

Sunfyre — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:41:52 +0000

Of course I have the glyph — there’d be no reason not to have the glyph in 99pct of PvE scenarios.

By: Drenos

Drenos — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:05:28 +0000

A typhoon on the adds of Anub is a bad idea, good tactic for adds would be holding them on ice under the boss. When you typhoon them, you kick them off the ice – away from the melee dps, and allowing them to burrow. Both these things are very bad, so you might want to not typhoon during Anub at all. Unless maybe you have the glyph that removes its pushback effect.

By: Xiera

Xiera — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:46:54 +0000

I basically assigned myself to stay on Anub while the adds are out. We’re not on heroic yet, but we have him on farm on normal. Our raid leader wants everyone on the adds to burn them down quick, which, if you ask me, is a waste of some DPS. I played that way the first three attempts (read: wipes), then decided to stay on the boss while everyone else was on adds so we could get his health down faster. It worked great.

Phase 2, I had been running around, waiting for a chance to AoE, but I’ll try Wrath-spam instead.

Lots of good info there, Sunfyre. Thanks!

By: Sunfyre

Sunfyre — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:06:13 +0000

There’s generally enough add DPS, and you can always throw in a typhoon, and a Starfall when the first wavec omes up. (I’ve found typhoon to be extremely handy during phase 2 as well due to the long range and the daze effect. It works well on the small scarabs). It’s equally important to have enough DPS on Anub’arak to ensure you’ll get him to phase 3 in two burrows, so your guild really shouldn’t take issue to you staying on him. This way you also ensure E&M stays up on him at all times which will amplify the AoE damage from the other spell casters in your raid.

By: Seca

Seca — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:10:41 +0000

I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions. I should have added that my guild is pretty casual – we have just started meeting the dps requirements of grand beasts in the past couple of weeks.

I hadn’t thought to save starfall for the Icehowl stun. Will definitely try it. Had wondered if trying to proc solar eclipse might work better when there’s no heroism.

Will certainly suggest the star positioning on Jarraxus. Our positioning is pretty random at present. We’ll need more organization for TotGC.

I think your Anub advice is good, tho I’d likely get called out if I didn’t dps the adds. Lately I’ve been bringing down frost spheres (when the GL asks who is going to do it, there is the sound of crickets as our 4 hunters make scarce). So my dps is garbage through P1 and P2 now.