Hello, I took a break after Uldir and am catching up on 8.3. I was a halfway competent player but feel next to useless right now and looking for advice on which areas to focus on improving.
I’m on warcraft logs, with heroic Nya mostly gray and terrible with a couple green parses. I averaged Blue and had purple on Ghuun in heroic Uldir.
I’ve caught up in iLevel, though not exactly BiS pieces. Decent azerite traits but I can’t run much for corruption and my cloak is behind, my essences are low rank (working on it), I need a better offhand.
Looking at our last run’s logs, my active time is really low which I imagine is from not knowing the fights very well, but my “DPS when Active” is ~42k (combined across all kills) vs the upper end of our DPS doing 70-80+.
Are you seeing anything that jumps out at you I can fix/prioritize, or am I just generally behind? I can’t imagine more corruption and better essences would amount to 30k DPS?
I’m not very good at parsing logs, but I can tell you there’s a lot of player power that doesn’t come from straight ilvl anymore. You mostly identify the problems yourself.
Your Azerite traits are so-so, your Essences aren’t the best and none of them are Rank 3, your only Corruption is Twilight Dev R3 which is more of a M+ oriented one, and you’ve got a Mastery/Vers ring that probably isn’t your ideal stats.
The people doing more DPS than you are the ones who have been playing constantly. They have ideal Azerite traits (on pieces that are +30 ilvls), they have the top Essences all at R3, they’ve been farming Corrupted drops to get a really high powered set. Oh, and they’ve probably farmed a Geti’ikku for their off-hand weapon, that’s another substantial boost that doesn’t show in simple ilvl.
As you say, you’re catching up. You haven’t caught up yet. There’s still a lot of work to do to get there. Don’t panic, keep playing, and you’ll improve.
Is it really worth getting this wep for a fury warrior? Sorry for what might be a silly question, I am just gearing my fury warrior at the moment and am considering weps to get and noticed this comment.
My understanding was that this wep was nerfed to the point the proc didn’t make up for the loss of stats.
Note: I may be completely off base with that comment, it was just my understanding.
You sim a hair shy of 51.9k and did 48.5k on Shad’har, which is as close to patchwerk as it gets this tier. That’s honestly pretty respectable imo. Let’s go into the logs.
General rotation/priority, you’re solid. I’m not really seeing any mistakes. You seem to have remembered it and even done a little research - you’re prioritizing BT over 2 stacks of RB, which wasn’t the thing back in Uldir (CSHB didn’t exist yet). The two biggest errors I see that you could work on are
Downtime - You have do have fairly regular gaps of a gcd or two at a time every once in a while. Considering it’s mostly in phase one, I’m betting it’s because of dodging purple swirlies. Good job, survival is most important, but it is possible to maintain constant uptime during that phase. You can do better. You will though, it’s just reps and comfort with the fight I think. There’s some downtime later in the fight too but it’s not nearly as bad.
Without digging into the more complicated fights, I imagine that’s exactly case that your downtime is low on them simply due to not knowing the fights.
Your opener. It’s close but not quite - Recklessness BEFORE charge, doubles the rage gain, and as long as you don’t miss your autos you’ll be able to Rampage immediately after Siegebreaker then BotE. During your second round of CDs you lost a GCD of recklessness/BotE overlap by executing before BotE even though you were enraged. Your third round of CDs was a complete mess, it looks like Recklessness was completely expired before you used Blood. Siegebreaker didn’t line up with either of them. You had two options there - either hold SB until Reck & Blood were up, or use it and hold Reck/Blood until SB came back up again around 210s. Second would’ve been best, since the fight lasted the right length that you’d still get the full CD stack and not lose any casts of any of those abilities.
On gear, you definitely want better Azerite. The higher ilvl will really make CSHB’s dot tick harder, and you’ve got a couple unideal traits. Should come if you keep running heroic Ny’alotha. Don’t cleanse that TD off your sword whatever you do, it’s invaluable for M+ and multi-target fights, and honestly once you get your cloak caught up you’ll have so much corruption resistance you need a good powerful corruption sink like it. It’s really not that bad on ST once you have high CR and some other small corruptions to supplement it, it’s what I use now.
As Althiala said, your Vers/Mastery ring is trash, get a new one. If you’re down to do some M+, you could make some key upgrades by getting a Geti’ikku for your OH, any ring with a lot of crit, and either a Butcher’s Block or a Vial of Animated Blood to replace your Writhing Segment trinket.
Yes, even in multi-target, Geti outperforms similar ilvl weapons.
Negative. The only time it was tuned that I can think of is the end of BoD, when all direct damage procs were buffed greatly.
Better essences really do make a big difference. I can think of no single better or easier dps increase for you than to make that BotE rank 3. Its a big difference, that will only be exaggerated as you get more crit rating. Referring back to M+, you can easily get yourself a rank 2 Iris, and before long a rank 3, which would be a great replacement for Worldvein. It’d be a solid upgrade for you. If you can stomach arenas enough to not slit your wrists, get yourself at least a 1000 Arena rating and start working on Conflict & Strife, it’s not game changing but it is a solid, reliable upgrade.
Anyway, I hope this is helpful. Hopefully you’ll check back in later as you start making improvements so we can see how you’re doing and give you updated advice. Good luck!
Depends how hard you want to optimize. It’s not transformative the way certain Essences and Azerite traits can be. Your character won’t play differently and it won’t be a sudden +15% to your performance. Also it should be noted that Geti is so good because you can stick it in your off-hand; for your main hand weapon, ilvl is still the number one trait you care about.
With all that said… a while back I ran some theoretical sims to see what it would take to replace my OH Geti with a different weapon. In those sims the Geti was still beating other weapons that were +20 ilvls and only fell behind at +25. That’s how strong the Geti DoT is.
Going to take this straight from Andaa’s FAQ on his discord. He’s one of the best Fury Warriors there is when it comes to pushing keys, highest io last season.
Essences: BOTE major + Conflict/Breath minor are set in stone. The last minor slot I swap between Iris and Protocol depending on dungeon. Protocol excels in WCM and Underrot.
Azerite Traits: 3x CSHB. The other slots arent quite as important. Unbridled Ferocity | Simmering Rage | Heart of Darkness | Swirling Sands | Blightborne Infusion are all good traits.
He doesn’t say anything about the other tiers, I would recommend
Unstable Flames > Overwhelming Power > Heed My Call > Gutripper
For the defensive tier, nothing beats Resounding Protection. If that’s not an option on a piece 1xMoment of Glory is always great, Impassive Visage is pretty good too.
I think the 1 Unbridled Ferocity is almost as important as the 3 CSHB right? I know you want 1 just for the 8% proc chance on Recklessness.
But yeah, CSHB first and foremost. Minimum 2, ideally 3. Then 1 Unbridled Ferocity. After that it doesn’t matter as much but unstable flame, overwhelming power, even elemental whirl are all decent choices, you can’t really miss.
It’s fairly important yeah, just not most. It’s a pretty rare circumstance someone isn’t going to have a piece with CSHB & UF on different tiers but it’s come up often enough this tier apparently. Particularly for M+, 3xCSHB takes precedence. Triple HoD is the only thing I’ve seen been considered over UF. I’d rather have UF personally.