Sunday, July 6, 2008

Raid consumables: max DPS

I'm not going to reveal any top secret tactics to maximize your DPS, I only going to tell the tactics that I use providing the real numbers.

#1: Battle elixir - Elixir of Major Agility. No comments on that. The only real consumable available for SV hunter. No Flask of Relentless Assault doesn't work at all!

#2: Guardian Elixir - Elixir of Major Mageblood. That's the one that you will need to keep your mana regeneration high enough to keep you from using any mana potions and leave this cooldown for Haste Potion.

#3: Potions - Haste Potion. That's our second Bloodlust! We are using slow weapons, that's why haste potions give us more DPS per pot than BM hunters. If there's no free shammy for your party, which i consider to be a bad raid setup, thi potions will bring your DPS much higher that you are used to. If there's no chance to pop your haste potions because you have to use your mana potins - Fel Mana Potion is what will help you to keep AotH on you, and that's lots of DPS.

Now the haste pot tactics. When you pull the boss, give tank a moment to get a solid aggro because you'r going to get the insane TPS from the 20th second of the fight. 20-30 seconds past the pull - pop your Rapid Fire and switch to 1:1. That will move you to the top of aggro list very soon so be careful and don't overaggro. Then you should simple FD and pop the haste potion, it will bring you to almost the same speed as Rapid Fire and you will again switch to 1:1. Now you have 2 minutes cooldown on pots and 2 minutes and 30 seconds on Rapid Fire. That's usually the time when the Bloodlust come, because tank have a solid aggro and your group can deliver it's max DPS again, that's your moment of glory again, so get ready to FD again to drop aggro. 4th minute of the fight - you have your haste pot cooldown ready and you're going to use it again, and after it you'll have you Rapid Fire.

Teron Gorefiend is one of the DPS race fights. This tactics brought me to more than 1600 Personal DPS and 280 pet DPS. Do i have the best gear available? NO! But that's when your hands do the most of the work. You are going to be hasted to about 1.7 speed for 2*15(Rapid fire) + 2*15(Haste potion) + 40(Bloodlust) = 1 minute 40 seconds. That's quite a lot... at least for Teron who's fight is about 4 minutes long. If you don't have a melee pally then you might be screwed up, because that will eat all of your mana very very fast and you'll have to use fel mana potions... that' means that you are not hasted for 30 seconds. What you have to do is to ask your raid leader to give you a shammy and to get the melee pally to put the mana regeneration seal all the time.

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