Currently sitting at 1300, but immediately get trolled by the wow Gods and smacked down to 1100-1200. My dps is poor I know, going 2 mil at best a match and sometimes barely passing 1 mil, all dependent on if I’m getting trained or not. But is there a way to improve this? With melee teams being the hardest to play against as an Spriest I know I won’t be able to cast any channel spells, but even with insta cast talents, the procs are so limited, there are times I seem to just wait for something to proc.
Chain your cc on the healer, don’t waste catharsis damage at the cap, don’t try to hardcast anything when you aren’t on stun dr, and don’t be afraid to use a lot of your offensive tools right away each round. You can usually dictate positioning as sp vs melee so try to walk at the healer during your stun to get a multi fear. As long as you’re not fighting monks or ranged with huge travel time nukes(boomy, mm, destro) you can disperse really really low pretty safely, so hold your gcd and try to greed sometimes
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When stuff isn’t proccing and ur running press purge
If u can’t do dmg you can at least mitigate healing
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So focus more the heals as an spriest, obviously situational, but cc which I know I need to practice on instead of going with the tide of lets focus the warrior… which never makes sense since many games the dang healers can out heal the dps. Until they eventually dampen or OOM. thank you
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just do your best to keep your dots up. Shadow crash, damnation and unfurling darkness are your bffs.
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send your procs when you get them and don’t cap on insanity
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when youre being tunnelled just do your best to lead them LOS of their healer. dont be afraid to use disperse asap when you see enemy cds popped. use fade on cool down, and fade can be combined with void tendrils to give yourself a bit of space.
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make sure youre hitting your cc chain on the healer, at a minimum silence into stun, and if youre close to him then fear off the stun.
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This is the key item.
Always be pulling the dps away from their healer if they are melee and force their healer to push in. Then you can Horrify the heals, tendrils the melee, push in for fear > Fiend on kill target > Silence off the fear. If you’re the kill target, that means you need to support the other dps as much possible. Keep your dots up and purge. Shadow’s CC chain is amazing.
If you don’t already, I’d just set up focus macros and set the healer to your focus each match. You don’t want to be swapping between two targets and kill uptime.
You want to tune in and watch Efx stream, then do the total opposite of everything he does.
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appreciate the genuine comments, yes I already have focus macros and will practice more on using them and the cc chains
Absolutely decimated me.
To help out, this guide is pretty solid on dealing damage:
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awesome thanks everyone
Multidotting to keep pressure definitely helps, especially because of Psychic Link. Having a good talent build helps, depending on enemy positioning it’s often best to use damnation on one DPS then spread instant cast VT to the other one. You can psychic horror to keep enemy healer in a spot and shadow crash on top of before fearing them. Just keep in mind that casting mind blast, mind spike, mindgames with psychic link can break fears on dotted targets early.
DPS isn’t the ‘biggest thing’ though it helps, you can use stuff like void tendrils to keep a target (DPS or healer) out of line of sight of the rest of the team. Against enemies where you don’t need mass dispel offensively (Paladins, mages.) You can use it to dispel CC on your team, especially your healer. Things like fear, or hunter ice traps. Just don’t use it on your team mates if there’s an affliction warlock with Unstable Affliction up, cause dispelling that is bad.