I rolled this character to heal, but due to a glut of healers, my raid leaders have asked that I move to DPS. I’ve been working at it for a few weeks and still feel like my DPS sucks compared to other classes with the same ilvl. I struggle in raids to maintain 40K DPS. Even in M+, I’m lucky to finish a run at 45K DPS while the others in my group are at 60+.
We are on H N’Zoth now and I’m pretty sure I’m going to get benched if I can’t start averaging 50K+.
Little help?
Have any logs that you could post for us?
Getting your stat weights from raidbots it says you worst secondary is crit which you’re stacking.
If you run a sim on yourself you can see what spells the sim cast and in which order. It might help you get a better idea of improvements you can make to your rotation.
You can also sim different talent/azerite traits against one another to see what would be best. Right now ret is stacking traits that buff wings and crusader for the increased duration on wings. But do whatever the sims say is best but since you have light decree and might on your gear that is what would probably be best for you.
Here is a good example. I got destroyed by two other Ret.
www(dot)warcraftlogs(dot)com/reports/xQHTMADWtJRPYBGZ/#fight=5
The only real thing that stands out to me is that the paladin who’s name starts with S had 303 casts and you have 214 casts in total. This isn’t the whole picture cause some of those casts aren’t dps casts (healthstone would be a cast) but that is a big different. It isn’t a positioning problem because your number of autoattacks are actually more than his. So hit more buttons? I suggest smash the target dummy for practice and then run some m+ to practice always hitting buttons while under pressure.
Why didn’t you use Crusade until 43 seconds into the fight? You have 46 wasted HP, that’s 15 DS or TVs you could have hit. Your wake of ashes wasn’t even used in your Crusade at 43 seconds into the fight, when did you use it?
You need to be using Wings as soon as you hit 5 HP after pull, you spend, build, spend, until you are at 10 stacks, Wake, and then repeat building and spending.
You wasted a lot of HP, you need to make sure you aren’t over capping, you get to 5, spend, build up to 3, spend, build up to 5, spend, build up to 3, spend and just keep repeating.
Load your log into WoWAnalyzer site and it will show you a lot of stuff you can improve on.
You need more haste, like 23-25, you don’t want to be using Inquisition, Crusade is where it’s at now, and less mastery.