Help My Dps Increase - Page 2

Braydon · 08-01-2009, 12:28 PM

it is better to use, but with vent chatter calling curses, aoes, ports, power drains(anashti) adds spawning etc etc. I find the bar less annoying.

Venser 2.0 · 08-01-2009, 04:47 PM

i still dont understand how it's hard to time auto attack. i dont use any melee auto bar or ACT ding... it's, really easy to time autos, dont even have to look at delay anymore got it memorized... so yaw, if you want to make things fine and easy just know how to auto attack and know what it looks like..

Braydon · 08-01-2009, 05:23 PM

Mine stems from being a monk with capped haste and 2.5 sec delay weapons and CA's casting .26-.36ish(?) So timing was a little more, well not harder, just more of a minor annoyance.
Having the bar for him helped a little and when I switched to swash has helped a lot since pending group I'm not always capped on haste so I can squeak in an extra CA before the auto.

Riffy · 08-01-2009, 05:23 PM

i was told there's this really easy trick of counting to 2 then firing off some CA's then its rinse and repeat. idk tho. i could be mistaken.

Lebrasier · 08-05-2009, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Venser 2.0

i still dont understand how it's hard to time auto attack. i dont use any melee auto bar or ACT ding... it's, really easy to time autos, dont even have to look at delay anymore got it memorized... so yaw, if you want to make things fine and easy just know how to auto attack and know what it looks like..

Aye, as Venser says, you just need to know what to look for. If you turn off other players' damage you'll see only your own numbers. Autoattacks usually tend to be a wider cluster of orange numbers hitting at once (primary and secondary weapon damage, poisons and other procs) and easily identified. There are often in-game sounds which tell you that an autoattack has landed.

All you need to do is quickly check how much haste you have at the beginning of a fight to estimate how many CA's you do between autoattacks to begin with (usually I find if it's around 80 or below, fit 3 CA's... 80 - 110 is an awkward area, but over 110 is good to fit 2 CA's), and when bravado kicks in you're pretty much on your way with AA > 2 CA's > AA > 2 CA's (unless of course you use swathe at some point etc.)

I always start off with Kidney Stab, Flurry of Blades... the def skill debuff, and Thieving Essence (all of these after temp buffs if they're up at the start of a fight) to lower the mob's physical mitigation and defence as much as possible, and also give yourself +123 CA damage.

Poisons I use are caustic, gracelessness, and enfeebling.

Different things work for different people though. Some people prefer the autoattack bar, but I find it to be too much of a distraction and end up worse off for it.

Anyways, that's my 2 cents on the basics.

Ocello · 08-06-2009, 08:10 AM

F it I have like 4 macros each with 2 CA's with similar recasts...I hear the auto attack ding and then hit a macro. But my swash is an alt nub s i doubt this is the proper way of doing things.

Venser 2.0 · 08-06-2009, 01:31 PM

yar. it is all about watching for numbers. and even sometimes when you dont see the cluster, you can tell AA hits due to at the least 1 DA proc.

and when it comes to mobs where you cant see above the head, press P real quick look at delay, then 2.4-2.6 is basically 2 CA > AA. i dont like 2.7-3.0 delay because seems to be a sticky point of CA to AA .

but work it with gear switches and know when your buff procs to prlly put you to 2.4, is easily noticeable by testing with Swathe, 1 Swathe > AA , 1 Lucky Whirl 1 CA > AA. just helps figure things out right away. just takes a wee bit of practice, but once you got it down there is NP doing it consistantly. if you have a Dirge in the group, automatically assume you'll be doing 2-3CA to the Auto, specially when they proc CoB = 2CA, sometimes 1.

Mizou · 08-10-2009, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by alvarez

are you sure you played a brig?

just what i thought :D muahaha