Been playing unholy these last couple of expansions but I just can’t seem to get the dps up where I feel I should be. Any help on rotation or maybe switching some pieces out would be much appreciated.
I understand all to well about getting decent drops in the mighty rng gear slot machine…
that said…while your 405 weapon looks nice on ilvl numbers…it isnt doing you justice with having a large crit value as well as a few other pieces that are crit heavy…
if given the choice…and I have been…id stick with a smaller ilvl weapon with haste than a higher lvl weapon with crit “and” mast…same with other gear…for unholy.
Where are you specifically looking for help at? Raids or dungeons?
Single target wise stay on the target as much as you can, make sure your pet is active and on target, VP is up, use army with lust.
I see you have both rage trinkets, so you should be using R.A.G.E with UH Frenzy and using both with apocalypse since they line up well (I actually macro apocalypse and R.A.G.E, wait a few seconds then pop Frenzy) the Gorilla trinket you just want to use when you can, when it’s safe, and when you won’t cap runes.
As for your stats, sim your self, download the SIMC addon and use Raidbots, easy as pie, Crit is (or was) my top stat.
And for the love of god don’t downgrade your weapon, weapon damage is almost always the top damage increase.
his actual stats aren’t that bad… it could be something with your rotation, although i’m not a fan of those azurite traits you have too - festermight being the only good one, but i know how rng can be painful. are you using soul reaper on cd and not saving it for the end of the fight like it reads? logs would help.
If you want a place to start and are logging your fights go to wowanalyzer
and look yourself up.
It’s not as good as digging through logs, however, it’s far easier and a good place to get an idea of where you may be making major errors.
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what kind of dps do you pull? if you go all out on Grong without switching targets.
Wrong, plain and simple. Weapon DPS is your biggest damage increase by a huge margin no matter the stats on it.
When in doubt, sim it.
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Looking at your logs, i see on some of your parses you are using AotD tier 100 talent. This is a DPS loss there as no fights outside of Jaina last long enough to get you a second cast of Army even with this talent. Spec into UH Frenzy instead.
Also, Defile is a useless talent and should not be used. If you are going to choose an AoE talent, get Epidemic. With that said, do not use DnD unless you are planning on cleaving targets. Should never be uses on single target.
To min/max your DPS rotation use RAGE trinket 6 seconds after UH Frenzy the first time you use it, so they will both come off cooldown at the same time the next use. Always use the 2 in conjunction and just use Grong’s on cooldown.
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I’ll agree to a point…
depends if your weapon has stats utilized best for unholy…and crit aint it…hes got more of a tanking weapon than dps… but even for tanks…I would put that in second place if I had one that had vers mast or hast mast…
and me being “wrong” is your opinion and your welcome to it but things depend on an individuals playstyle as well…so…whats right for me is wrong for you =)
It’s not opinion. It’s fact. Sim your stat weights and you will see that weapon dps is 5x’s higher than your next best stat…
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if you were talking two weapons of the same ilvl, then you would care about the stat differences, but otherwise always go with the one that has the highest ilvl.
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easy…
Sim your Toon!
for me, I run about 21% haste and 13% crit and my sims are at 21,200 with the gear I got. 3 feaster might stack on gear well over 2000 str with 10 stacks and a 390 helm to get the 3rd with T covenant. my single target build dose about 40k on the pull. The trick is to keep feaster might up and don’t burn runes 5 sec before it drops off like stacking more festering might under 5 sec they will be wasted. You dump all your runic power before the stacks fall off landing 18 k death coils. Don’t us Hellchain on a single target, you will find it hard to get the pet in place a lot of time to do any dam and the precast pet will loss dps on the pull running in. Cankerous wound is a crappy trait because you never want to us a fester strick when you have other stuff up or to give you stacks of festering wounds. I try to only use it when I have no festering wounds up and soul reaper is off cooldown, land 2 back to back and the soul reaper and stack feaster might then dump my runic power. You gear look like you have stuff on because it is 400 but there is alt off crit/haste items that would be a dps upgrade.
BAHHAAHAHHAAHA…HILARIOUS.
If you are that uninformed then don’t even bother posting in the future. Thanks!
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Enronexec, not sure where you are getting your info but it’s off.
It’s not really opinion, this stuff has all been calculated out the wazoo. With addons like simc and websites like raidbots you can see just how much value different stats are worth, in differnt types of fights (patchwerk, cleave, aoe) for your character specifically.
And while the value of secondary stat may vary character to character almost universally you are going to see Weapon DPS being the highest by a large margin.
For example if I sim my stats for a pathwerk fight Haste is my highest, followed closely by Crit, and Strength is my weakest stat.
Weapon DPS however is worth almost 4 times as much as haste.
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