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    Amiaze's Avatar
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    Genevieve Mhakaracca
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    Former WHM gone MCH speaking, so I'm still trying to figure out how to DPS properly. But for times when the bonuses just don't appear, that's when I normally pop my cross-classed cooldowns (Hawk's Eye or Raging Strikes) so that my DPS doesn't fall into the void, never to be seen again. The only situations I've encountered where this isn't as feasible is when a sudden DPS burst is required, and I end up expending all of my remaining cooldowns to meet the check. That being said, I normally save ammunition for when worse comes to worst and I have no other cooldowns and am getting no procs.
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    Khaela Alteri
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    Quote Originally Posted by Amiaze View Post
    But for times when the bonuses just don't appear, that's when I normally pop my cross-classed cooldowns (Hawk's Eye or Raging Strikes)
    You don't wanna do that. You'll get a bigger overall DPS increase on those abilities by using them alongside reload (and to snap cast DoTs, obviously).

    To put it another way, nothing is proccing, best DPS in that situation is spamming splitshot (until it does) where you'd normally 1-2-3. Raging strikes is +20%. So lets look at some potency per second, ignoring oGCDs etc.

    1-1-1 = 140 potency every 2.5 seconds or 56 potency per second.

    1-2-3 = 160+200+220 = 580/3 = 193 (and a third) potency per GCD . 77 (and a third) potency per second.

    Now if you use raging strikes for the top one you increase your potency per second by 11.2, for a total potency per second over that time period of 67.2

    If you use raging strikes during the second you increase your potency by 15.4, for a total potency per second over that time period of 92.8.

    Or to put it another way you get an extra 4.2 potency per second using Raging Strikes alongside ammo greater than it would using it without which does add up to more DPS over an encounter.
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    Last edited by Krylo; 07-16-2015 at 04:33 AM. Reason: Fixing my mistakes

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