Throughout Legion and BFA I was able to top most heroic raids and felt good in my rotation. I realize much has changed on returning to the game, but I am now mid pack most raids at 387 item level.
Following guides from Method, wowhead, etc. Simming my character, I should in theory be hitting around 45k. Aside from the opening minute, my dps falls to around 35k. The momentum build is a bit tough to master so I have been running a mythic+ style setup.
One DH in a raid was running a sigil build and did phenomenally well surprisingly averaging 60k+
Does anyone have any tips, or should I check out the fel hammer discord and go back to the dummy till its second nature?
Normally my rotation is as follows
Vengeful retreat to cheat some fury.
The hunt to engage
Eye beam
Essence break
Death sweep
Chaos strike
Meta
Death sweep
Chaos strike repeatedly
Glaive tempest
I wouldn’t vr off the bat to cheat fury, you can pop sigil at 1 sec left on the countdown, and then the hunt to engage. I’d also add a 2nd chaos strike before using your meta after essence break. I can get a death sweep and 2 chaos strikes while the essence break buff is up. I’m not sure how useful glaive tempest is in raiding this tier. All the DH raid stuff I’ve seen, don’t even mention builds that would run it in raid.
Other than that, pop immo / sigil / felblade when you are under 30 fury, and start dumping fury when you have over 80.
Also, the lifeflame trinket you have on is really weak, it’s one of the worst trinkets for DHs. You also don’t have the tier bonuses, and the tier bonuses are quite good for DHs.
I think 35k is decent with your gear set up. It’ll likely go up more once you get tier set bonuses and a better trinket.
I’ve also been struggling with my parses. I used to be a purple-parser, then I skipped SL and just can’t get things down the way I had before. I was wondering if anyone knows how much of a DPS loss it would be to not play momentum?
If you run a macro to instant meta instead of the ground target(or if you’re fast) you can pull off 2 death sweeps with the Essence break debuff up and it yeilds the most damage on opening. I always double death sweep with my meta/eb window.
I believe that its about a 4% loss from the last bit of theory/parsing I saw. There are a few good no momentum builds out there for ST. I don’t think there’s a great AoE build w/o momentum though.
This might be not true. While you have to use a global to keep your buff up, non momentum build is probably doing smth that is dealing more dmg. For ex. My eye beam always crit and it does 25% extra dmg to single target. I also have inner demon, after entering demon form (eye beam) the next chaos strike cause a lot of extra dmg.
Momentum can be better in the long run but it’s boring AF and requires a lot more micromanagement.
You’re probably just hitting your abilities too slowly.
If you take 1/4 second to activate every ability you’re effectively giving yourself something like -20% haste. You need to be aggressive with how you perform your rotation.
A perfect rotation done slowly will do less damage than a somewhat imperfect rotation don’t aggressively.
You arent doing the rotation correctly. You eye beam to enter meta. Essence break to activate the debuff. Next you want to get 2 death sweeps in. First death sweep. Then Meta then another right away. Thats the biggest burst you can do.
I take that even w/ momentum. You give up felfire heart for it on single target fights. The only difference between the main momentum build and Non is glaive tempest.
i think the crux of havoc is to use your cds with a meta thats up
so hunt to engage is a dps loss.
you want eyebeam to activate meta
bladedance
–into momentum activation
–into hunt
into button press meta
–into eyebeam
–into essence break
into buffed by essence bladedance
well eye beam is the joke skill, what make a powerful skill that enemies should fear even with all the talents just tickles. so is a waste of talent points, better just get the haste talent use eyebeam, and immediately cancel it, and use that haste for everything else, like essence break and get 2 death sweeps in it.
even chaos strike is not even worthy to press any more… only in essence break windows since you get the buff but … is not really enough damage,
Just play the no mover build, they are going to do one of 2 things when DH finally get’s attention. Either rework how momentum works or buff the boomer builds.