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#1 Nov 01 2009 at 11:41 AM Rating: Decent
This is my mage's armoury: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Anachronos&n=Gilaine. I seem to be doing low dps in heriocs i:e around 1200 - 1400 dps and I don't know why. Was hoping you friendly people could look at my gear and help me out a bit. Is my gear, my spec or do I just suck? or all 3? lol
#2 Nov 02 2009 at 4:27 AM Rating: Decent
Your link showed up as an error, are you transferring that particular toon, or is there some other reason why their profile wouldn't show up?
#3 Nov 02 2009 at 5:45 AM Rating: Decent
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Heroics are not a good measure of dps, the trash are probably dead before you get a 2nd or 3rd cast off... Whats your dps on the bosses like?, at least they'll survive long enough for a LB to go off. :)
#4 Nov 02 2009 at 7:24 AM Rating: Good
The reason their link didn't work is because there is a . at the end of the name:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Anachronos&n=Gilaine

As was said, mages are not very good in comparison with heroics as most of our dps shines in longer fights. Trash is basically just AoE-time which for you is just blizzard->flame strike I believe as FFB.

The only things wrong with your gear is the mp5 gem (lol), the stam gem (why?), and the spellpower/stam leg enchant (should be spellpower/spirit), oh and your weapon could use an enchant as well.

If the socket bonus is good enough on gear and/or you need your two blues to get the CSD meta, use purified gems (spellpower/spirit).
#5 Nov 02 2009 at 11:49 AM Rating: Decent
Your hit rating is a little on the low side as well, perhaps not for heroics, but for raiding it is, unless you have a boomkin or shadow priest in your group.

Do you raid at all, or do you just do heroics? Raiding in general you get a better idea of what your DPS is like. For one, you generally have more buffs, especially if you use flasks and food. Like Anobix and axy said, the bosses are up longer and you have more time to do DPS. This is particularly true of Fire and FFB mages. Arcane mages have a little bit more leeway on Heroic bosses, but on trash our DPS still sucks. Me for example, I do upwards of 5k DPS in raids, and 8k on mage friendly fights like the twins in ToC. In heroics on trash I tend to do about 2.5k DPS, which really irritates me. Granted that's with blizzard attacking 3 or more mobs at once. If there's just one or two targets I'll stick to the typical arcane rotation and usually do about 3.5 to 4k DPS.

And yeah, like Anobix said you need to change the mp5 and stamina gems and the leg enchant. Change your two blue gems to the SP and spirit gem. Spirit is much more important stat to stack than stamina, as we get extra crit with the Molten Armor glyph. Crit is much more important than health.
#6 Nov 02 2009 at 12:48 PM Rating: Decent
Thanks for the advice and sorry for not replying sooner. Have been at work. I do mostly heriocs with the occasional raid to OS10 with guild. In OS10 I do about between 2k and 2200 dps. Just changed the leg enchant. Need the 2 blue gems for the meta so will see whats available.
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