Amras

I've recently betrayed to brigand and I have a few questions about the class, mostly about parsing. Here's my eq2players profile : EverQuest II Players
I don't have all the items i want from instances yet, but i'm working on it. I'm specced 46481 str 46481 agi 448 sta 41 int. my group set up is usually dirge, bruiser, paladin, inquis, assassin. i usually have 75 - 100 haste mod and 60 + dps mod.raid wide dps is usually anywhere from 35k - 50k. my problem is sustaining dps during longer fights and getting it up there. Im usually ranging in the 2.2 - 3.5 range and have been having trouble getting it up anymore, my ZW's are anywhere from 2 - 2.5 k but i see other brigs parsing so much higher, and they arent in HC raiding guilds, so its not like their guild is doing that much more raid dps. I use expert poisons, tactics, i have all ad3's, most of my gear is adorned, save like my neck and bp. During fights, i often find that i run out of CA's to use and im just sitting there auto attking, and thats when my dps goes down a lot. But i don't know what else to do to keep it up except to just wait for them to be back up.
Thanks for all your help, i know people ask these questions all the time, so ive read through and posted most of what you guys said you need to know to help.

Ninibi

Maybe a cloak that's geared more towards melee skills vs. a heal proc. If you can get the dps clicky cloak, you can make a macro to click it and swap back into a zek or something else on the pull.

You've got good earrings/rings, maybe the torque neck out of Vaults. I'd probably lose the leviathan charm for the gorowyn charm (start quests on butcheblock docks from selnok guy) - arbitor tossed for nathser or carotidcutter if you can get them. BP for something with crits - but ymmv.

I'm not sure I like the assassin's thirst proc - if you're on a raid with other melee classes, it cuts down on your chance to strike a death blow - that seems better for solo'ing when you could swap in something else for raids. When you get a good neck get the 10dps adorn on it.

Ummmm I'd probably lose the bow for a better ranged pouch - skyfire pouch of storms I think (could have wrong one) has 51str + 30+ sta or agi - one of those. ;) You get your ranged weapon CA back.

AA wise I'd lose the STA line for raiding (edit - if you die a lot and think you need it...stop that! ;D) and throw the extra points in relevant AA's in str or agi & keep boot dagger.

Timing and CA's - if you're timing CA's vs. spamming them, you shouldn't run out - something should always be coming back up. I don't seem to have trouble there but hell I may be fuzzy in the head. Well I AM fuzzy in the head, but that's beside the point.

If that doesn't work, you might try just autoattacking during CoB then back to CA's again when it's up - see if that helps, then start adding in a couple CA's during CoB till you can get a steady pattern going with it and not get stuck waiting on timers.

Don't forget to use your temporary haste/dps buffs every time they're up.

Just my .02.

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Zalathorm

its your gear man, those two weps are definitely going to drop your dps while your just autoattacking. do the brig epic and put havoc in the mainhand. put anaphy in the offhand until you get carotidcutter or can get a fabled raid wep. also, what's your crit at? I was sitting at at least 48 before some t1 raid gear...with a few drops from t1, 56 (without manipulator's hood ><). get ganak's torque for a neck, some of the leather crit shoulders from either coa or chelsith.

don't save your temp buffs

double up masterstrike on any fight you can...and for that matter, have every masterstrike you can

go hard from the first second...after dispatching in the first 5 seconds, my full double up routine followed by every CA landed in the next seconds. the ONLY time i ever time CA's is when midway through a fight where i might only have a few up...ill try to let autoattack hit here and there. otherwise, spam your CA's every second they're up. your essentially increaseing the reuse timer yourself if you save.

Amras

Yeah i dont time anything, i just spam, self buffed im at 42 melee crit, the torque, leather shoulders, and my shackle from the quests would help, but i can never find a group for shackle and neither of those items ever want to drop for me :/ im on the chardok part of epic, just havent been able to get a group for it, so when i can, ill get it done.