Its really a noob question but I want to know this clearly. Some people saying that my dps is not good enough! How do I do that? Is it sort of related to gears that I wear or is it related to sort of talent choices and good rotation? Thanks and cheers 
And yes, I am talking about retail not classic.
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Check your class discord for builds/guides/leggos et cetera, use raidbots to sim your character when you get new gear and practice on some training dummies until youāre familiar with your rotation.
Thatās the gist of it for every class. If you have more specific questions, Iāll help as much as I can. 
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Try hitting the keys harder. That sometimes help me do more damage to my keyboard
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Gear, rotation, consumes, talents, and knowing the fights well will all contribute to higher dps. Figure out your stat prio and start working towards that. Youāre low ilvl with no tier set, so donāt expect to pump big numbers just yet (unless this is not your main)
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Your ilvl is showing as 203, which is super low - first work on getting that increased because no amount of skill is ever going to overcome being super behind on ilvl
Other than that, looking up the optimal talents and DPS rotation helps quite a bit. Enchant all your gear, use all consumables possible. As you improve on these basics that can be practiced on a training dummy, work on learning fight mechanics (dead dps do no dps)
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I am working on some M+ to increase my gear level.
Check our Zereth Mortis starter gear, should be pretty easy to instantly hit 226 in all slots
edit: and potentially crafted 233 ilvl gear or 229 ilvl ZM BOEs - pricing depends on your server but often they are cheap
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I recommend getting a jump start on your ilvl by purchasing the 226 item level gear with anima in Zenith Mortis or 233 pieces from the auction house. 23 item levels will be 1.01^23 = 1.257x more primary and secondary stats, your dps should increase by a little bit more than that amount.
I would also recommend enchants on any gear that you wear, this expansion your rogue will want a good one on their chest, back, feet, both ring, and both weapons.
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Thx, looks like gotta buy some from AH. Most of my gears are from quests and some random dungeon finders.
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When jumping into a new spec I check pages like these that have the top 100 break down.
Youāll have to choose what ever spec your using.
It will give you a very top level view of what talents, leggos, conduits, and gear sets ups that have been show to work best.
The set up can change for raid even to the point of there being boss specific set ups. But basically youāll find thereās an AoE set up and a single target set up.
Once you have all this information you can then look at things like wowhead for how the rotation is suppose to work for those talents and leggos.
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I would also recommend unlocking single and double legendaries as soon as possible. It seems like your character does not have any legendary, but they are quite easy to get nowadays and you get a 265 legendary belt for finishing the zenith mortis questline. Try not to compare your dps right now to people with double legendaries and full tier sets, those things are extremely powerful.
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Proper execution of rotation > gear > talent choices
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Doing better DPS is very complicated so you need to take it one step at a time.
- Make sure your doing your rotation correctly and watching your resource bar(in this case, your energy). Never let it it at full, wasted DPS skills not being used.
- Depending on fight - ST or AOE - best talents/soulbinds/cov/conduits
- Farm the best stat gear - EX my best stats are haste and Vers so I farm gear thats 100% haste/vers, if I have mastery on one piece, its less DPS.
- Know fights and when to best hit bosses and when to jump to adds and cleave for AOE damage.
- High ilvl. Get to ilvl 272 farming M+ and your DPS will go up a lot with above points added.
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Use flasks and or consumable potions and pay the highest dps in the group money to not do as good dps as they typically do.
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So, you are asking how to increase your DPS (damage per second)? And is it sort of related to your gear, Talent choices, and rotation?
Yes, to everything in the second sentence. The answer to the first sentence is: improve everything mentioned in the second sentence. Really.
But breaking it down, most important is probably going to be your rotation.
To do high DPS you have to use your hardest hitting, fastest abilities as often as possible.
Your rotation is a routine use of abilities that helps you accomplish this. The point is to waste no time. Number one waste of time? Checking to see if your target is dead. OOPs, thats MY number one waste of time. Yours, idano, really, you need to talk with other Rogues. That is where you should post, in the Rogues thread, amongst the Classes Forum.
Asking questions is good, and may good luck attend you.
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This used to actually work untilā¦mop, I think?
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Five finger death punch and the right mog
I just learned that I can gear up a bit by doing some grinding in the new zone, Zereth Mortis
If I were getting serious? 
Hit up icy-veins, methodās site and start reading thru the guides. Rotation, stats, talents and whatnot. See what works with my playstyle, can I pull it off or not, mostly talent choice side for this.
Sim myself to see what Iām supposed to be doing in the gear I have on. Forget āgettingā gear at this stage, I have to āgit gudā first. If Iām not pulling the numbers I should be then fix that first.
Pound on the target dummy until the rotation and whatnot flows nicely. See if Iām happy with the results of the numbers Iām pulling compared to the Sim.
Once that is squared away head out into the world and take on some tough fights to see if I can hit those numbers āfor realā.
After that it is learning fights so you know when to use big cool downs and all that jazz. (or cheese stuff if you will) 
Nothing worse than popping things for big numbers and fight mechanics throws a wrench into it. Man thatās annoying, so you have to learn that bit. So the first few times thru content might not be great as one would like but you will get there.
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Step 1: read a spec guide
Step 2: practice what the spec guide say
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