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Post by
echonn123
hmm. Im not sure why you are opening with mindspike. Well ok i do. It looks to me that your mindset here is to "blow up" in the first 10 sec of the fight and then throw down all your dots. Well thats a fair state of mind to be in especially competeing with some pretty legit OMGLOOKATTHEFIREAN^&*!IN10SEC classes we are usually grouped with. But I think that the idea is that u want to put up damage because when u throw up dots at the beginning of the fight nothing happens for a good 3-5 sec until they start ticking. But if u think about it, the same downtime as you would have had opening with dots is happening right after u cast that first MB. then when you look at the fact that in the long run DoTs out dps Mind Blast Mind Spike, you actually just lost dps.
Now what I do is SW:P>VT>DP>MB>MF>MF>DA i open with SWP for an attempt to get an orb up by the time i hit MB and so that as I move on DP i get a Shadow Apparition. I usually blow my DA before SF because i feel on heroic bosses you are gonna have a much better chance of having DA come off cooldown than the SF.
SWD i dont really make part of my rotation till the end of the fight and when DA is up, but I work it in on fights where I hurt for mana like ripsnarl.
Post by
karlusdavius
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
DO NOT USE MIND SPIKE IN YOUR ROTATION. IT IS FOR TRASH THAT DIE QUICKLY!
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Post by
killerdinoblood
My rotation on bosses and on stronger mobs (Such as the Naz'jar Sentinels in Throne of The Tides) is this.Shadowfiend>VT>SW:P>DP>Mind Flay untill i get 5 stacks of evenglesm and atleast 1 Shadow Orb then i cast Dark Archangel (And a trinket that increases spell power if you have one) and Mind Blast so i can get empowered shadows.Then I Recast VP>DP>And then Mind Flay untill i get 3 stacks of Shadow Orbs for some hard hitting Mind Blasts BUT never allow Empowered Shadows to fade even if that means Mind Blasting on only one Shadow Orb aswell as ofcourse never let your DoTs Fade.This is my rotation but im not a pro if anyone has a better one he is welcome to tell me :).
Post by
karlusdavius
SF>VT>SW:P>DP>MB>MF
thats all you need. its a priority system. Don't worry about orbs being at 3, as long as you have one (which you will while your DoT's tick away) then your good to go.
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Post by
Deezmon
There is no need to mind spike at all until the boss is below 25% and you pop DA imo. In my experiences this burst does way more dps than the mind flay spam with dots up that some others do. With that being said, my opening rotation is:
swp>dp>vt>mf>mb>vt>dp>da>mf
The reason for this is so that you can start dotting up while moving towards the boss or getting in position, and once you cast VT you can get a few ticks off while casting MF in order to get 5 stacks of evangelism and shadow orb. After you get one shadow orb you hit MB and then go for another 5 stacks before re-dotting again. After your dots are all up then DA and then go back to normal priorities.
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320952
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Post by
Deezmon
The reason why you put SWP back up after MB is because of the increased periodic damage as far as I know even if its refreshed it will still use the same increased damage from when you originally used it.
Edit: Took the liberty to go to a training dummy and swp refreshing indeed does take whatever buffs you use currently. Will change the other post as well.
Post by
karlusdavius
Just to clarify the DoT clipping thing. You should now be looking to refresh VT and DP just before it finishes.
Example being VT ticks for damage every 3 seconds, therefore you should be refreshing it after the last but one tick (anytime after 3 seconds). Do not let DoT's drop off.
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