pagansaint

The mythical seems to parse the same as the two handers against anything that you don't have 100% hit rate on, for some reason I've been noticing a trend of fights where my mythical is equipped my hit rate is fine, swap to a fabled two hand and the hit rate drops. Same buffs, same people in raid, just different hit rates by about 5-7%.

But in general, against yellow and some orange cons the SDS or Bonecrusher will generally outparse the mythical by a few hundred if you have a decent hit rate.

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Kandra

"I feel the key is timing. I can cast 1 spell in between each swing and when I get in the right rythm I can parse really well."

I have to admit I still don't understand this. I checked my chat and combat messages. Even with spamming spells I still see my autoattack go off whenever it's supposed to in between?

pagansaint

It will go off, but by delaying it by a tenth here, tenth there you end up having less swings overall than someone who is timing their spells/CAs. This equates into lower DPS.

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Kandra

hah crap - thanks. I didn't know you actually delay the auto attack with casting in between. I always only focused on casting order to max dps.

spinedoc

With AA's my melee crit is at 101% and my DA is at 102% (thex mallet). I only have a few STR items, one haste item and I still notice a large difference in overall dps melee versus spell. I'm basically in a full Templar T2 shard suit, with heal jewelry on, my fabled and a guard of drelikus which I sometimes switch out to a thex mallet if it's an easy group.

My next goal is to acquire a full set of the shard T2 DPS plate armor so I can switch it out while soloing, healing an easy zone or playing secondary healer.

spinedoc

Just look at your spell description to see what the cast time is and compare that to your weapon delay. With haste I usually cast one spell between every swing and it works out almost perfectly. There is a rhythym to it that you will get used to after practice. It's nice seeing melee DA 4k...spell 1k...flurry and DA 10k...spell 1k....melee DA 4k... etc etc.

Gemlin

I'm confused.
What do you mean with spell 1k?

My spells usually hit for much much more.

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Cetara

Using the autoattack timer plugin for ACT really takes any brain-work out of it for those who aren't annoyed hearing a .WAV file constantly beeping.

pagansaint

Fuck that, that thing is more annoying than its worth, especially if you're also using ACT for AE timers.

Just use the new auto attack bar UI plugin that will work on live after the LU.

That is of course if you can't tell how to hit buttons when you see big orange letters and then rinse/repeat over and over.

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Knurr

I'm currently dps speced with str - sta - int with steadfast and DR. Without special dps gear I can get up to 6k in palace with an average just below 2k. With the mythical on a 2,1 sec delay, my dps goes down while I try to time the hits.
What I wonder is how +spell mod and +melee mod work together with steadfast? Do they both add together for all damage spells or is just the highest one taken into account?