BRD dps advice

I very much have same rotation as Bluskyy. My crits are very nice when they happen, not blm nice but still good, lol
I would say do not let dots fall off, just like smn so i would re apply them
What is your accuracy atm?
For T13 you need over 500 acc
I am not yet in final coil so sorry i could not offer advice related to it

Hi Tiva, i think you opening rotation needs some more work, as well as your buff rotation. (These are the primary reasons why some bards are able to pull a lot more DPS then others)

For example, my opening rotation looks like this:

Raging Strikes/ Hawk's Eye > Bloodletter > Straight shot > Blood for Blood/Internal release > Windbite > Flaming arrow > Venomous bite > Barrage > Blunt arrow etc.
5 seconds before my Internal release ends i re-clip both of my dots to make sure they are reclipped again with all buffs still on.

This means you have a total of 30 seconds of buffed dots.


Buff rotation: NEVER use just Barrage without any of your other buffs. Clip atleast Hawk's eye & Blood for Blood with every usage of Barrage.

I'm easely pulling 450 DPS at 3 minutes without party buff/food/pots this way.

Bard has the lowest sustained. Our dps will continually drop the longer a fight goes on. We can start strong the first few minutes but lose about 20 dps about every 3 minutes past that.

here's my rotation:

off global cooldown order - bloodletter(reapply whenever available) > hawkeye > raging strikes > blood for blood > barrage
you weave these between global cooldowns. if you have a good ping you can insert 2-3 of these in every global cooldown. if misery's end and bloodletter are both available prioritize misery's end, but again if you have a good ping you can cast them both.

global cooldown priority - straight shot > windbite > venomous bite > heavy shot(filler)
once you have like 5-6 seconds left on hawkeye, reapply your dots. always prioritize your dots before anything else and clip them whenever a buff is about to expire(with the exception that straight shot is about to expire)

buff rotation after opener:
internal release
hawkeye + b4b + barrage
internal release + raging strikes

hope this helps

Rioszz-

I've made some adjustments to my opener as others metioned as well. I've always been casting barrage when its up, not waiting for another cd. I'll try it this way. THank you!

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Bard has the lowest sustained. Our dps will continually drop the longer a fight goes on. We can start strong the first few minutes but lose about 20 dps about every 3 minutes past that.

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Actually it drops due to songs, if not, it is quite "sustained" over long period of time because our moves aren't varied, we have no combos to alternate with, the only variable is crit hit and BL procs

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Originally Posted by Tex_Mex

Please also note that the dps increase of 1-1.5 potency per second is less than a 1% dps increase anyways, so we are really only talking about 3-4 dps difference anyways, which is pretty much negligible.

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3-4 dps difference is pretty decent amount of dmg over a 14mins fight. Ppl wouldn't have been using poison pots if they don't want that 3-4dps.

3 or 4 DPS can be the difference between an enrage wipe and a kill in early progression.