Quote Originally Posted by skaterger View Post
I can't really agree with this sort of mindset. May I know what class you were researching with that had many conflicting opinions on their rotation? Afaik, all 5 dps classes are fairly consistent in their rotations, with the possible exception of monk having side-only, back-only or side-back movement dps. But even so, the rotations have a few governing principles that all non-mmo newbies should possess

1) Keeping uptime on dots and debuffs on enemy as much as possible
2) Using offensive cooldowns as much as possible and as soon as its off cooldown
2) Weaving off gcd cooldowns into your normal 2.5 sec gcd rotations
3) Correct positioning during skills and right order of skills used to maximize damage
I agree with this person. I like to believe that I am an above average player on most of my classes and all I had to do was come to the dps section on the forums to look up people's tips/advice on certain classes. They really aren't hard to find at all and a lot of skilled players give their input, with proven data, on what to adjust which is then edited on the main threads.

Quote Originally Posted by skaterger View Post
People who are doing sub dps as OP is talking about usually have much more major problems like spamming full thrust or casting blizzard for 90% of the fight to conserve mana.
It's funny because I joined a DF Titan HM as my War one time and we never got past heart phase. I was trying to eyeball the situation as to see what was wrong and I noticed that our Smn was not only eating every single avoidable damage, but he only casting ruin1. He didn't have his pet out and didn't cast any dots. Although he may not be the sole factor of us not progressing past heart, he was a major factor of the failure.