Quote Originally Posted by Shamox View Post
Also make sure you don't overlook the issue, most people simply lose a lot of DPS because their uptime is way below what it should be, fact is that uptime has way more impact than any kind of optimization on your DPS.
This is super critical. 9/10 when people ask for help on the forums I poke through a log and see they have way, waaaay fewer actions than they should...

But yeah it's not just uptime as in, "be in melee range of the boss," it's also uptime in the idea that you need to constantly be doing stuff. There should never be a time when you just sit there thinking about your next attack, just do it. If you're not comfortable with your rotation, go to a training dummy and practice a bit. You don't want to be in a raid thinking "OK, now I should hit X ability..." then die to a boss's mechanic or something, nor do you want to be in a raid thinking "OK, the boss is going to do Y" then just not hit anything for 10 seconds for no reason. Gotta multitask!