Raid dps casting order

[Fayelynn]

I have toyed with my bruiser for several months trying to get the best dps casting order for raids. I know that a lot of our dps depends on group make up, but I would really like some suggestions on this matter. Thanks for you time Adnila  70 bruiser of Nek

[Kram337]

I've pondered this myself. Assuming we know we'll run out of power on a fight, is it better to reserve and only use the most Power to Damage effecient abilities? Or just go all out... I'd assume reserving power for the more efficent abilities would be the way to go. Anybody have thoughts?

[Raidi Sovin'faile]

<p>It would depend on the length of the fight and if you have a lot of mana regen.</p><p>Since your casting interuption to your autoattack is at most 1 second, you can pretty much toss in any CA and get higher DPS out of it.. so the only reason to not cast a CA would be because of mana constraints.</p><p>With a Bard, or better yet and Illusionist, you should be sitting fine on power to go all out on anything 2 minutes or quicker (which are most fights anyways).</p><p>Knockout Combo order would be to use your 10s recasts first, so you can use them again after you've cast everything else. Don't forget your AE's and Eagle Spin (or whatever AA ability you currently have available based on your weapons).</p><p>You can squeeze in 15 CAs in that time.. 16 if you switch out weapons and use another AA ability. This might take a little bit of cast speed increase to fully pull off, but a Bard should be giving you a bit of that with their Wisdom line buffs.</p><p>Doing it that way and netting yourself an extra 2-4 more CAs means getting a potential avg 2k more damage out of Knockout Combo. Over 8k damage in the span of 20 seconds from one ability alone... adds up to some respectable DPS when adding in your combat arts and autoattack. Hurray for 30s fights.</p>

[Dravendar]

I'm not so positive that there is any difference, if any, that can be discerned from whether you chain your CAs in one way or another.   As long as you stick to debuffing first then laying down all your attacks afterwards,  there just isnt too much rocket science that you can apply to casting order.  One thing that you can change with highly discernible effects is your AA spec.  I'm sure we've all noticed how easy it is to spam all our CA's only to find that our long reuse timers force us to sit there and autoattack for very long periods of time.  For this reason, I'm currently trying an agi/sta/wis in 4/4/8 configuration to see how that works out.  I don't have the time nor the inclination to quantify the differences b/w this setup and the "By-the-book" dps spec on my gimped alt toon, but subjectively speaking it feels like this is the way to go.  Stack the reduction of reuse timers along with the 'whistling wind' effect and that should allow you to chain CAs much faster rather than doing 300 dps while autoattacking for long spells at a time.  Someone quantify this scenario if convenient and share please.  I'd like to see how close/far I am from my subjective opinion.     

[Raidi Sovin'faile]

<p>Since crits affect both autoattack and your CAs, it would stand to reason that you'd get a heckuva lot more doing Agi/Int/Wis.</p><p>Since Sta's proc only happens on the main hand too.. I'd definately do Int line.</p>

[Fayelynn]

I want to thank you all very much. The info is very insightful. Adnila