My Parse is so low, whats wrong?

[Masema]

<p>I am a 75 Assassin.  I have decent gear, not great, though i do have a bunch of upgrades in the coming levels.</p><p>I was told that a lvl 70 fabled assassin could do 3k parses,  and at 75 im only doing around 1.7k.  Though keep in mind thats a group parse, not a raid parse.  The mobs were in CoA and 3-4 levels above mine.. but still...  1.3k less then a lvl 70?</p><p>I do have some melee crit upgrades for me at higher levels, but currently im at</p><p>20% melee crit , 3 % DA and 31% haste.</p><p>I didnt raid in t7, so i dont have any sweet melee crit gear that i could be wearing.</p><p>also i only have 75 AA points, but i have finished the Tricks and Poisions line in the Assassin Tree, and the Str in the pred tree, i am working on the int line.</p><p>I do not have a full adpet III's either, just a few of my better ones, and i have death Mark M2.</p><p>Is there something i am missing? or did i take a wrong aa line?  Or is this parse just something i'll have to live with untill i get my better gear at lvl 77-80?  But it seems really low to me.  Shouldnt a lvl 75 Assassin be parsing higher then that?</p>

[guitarist13]

<p>Actualy, your doing just about average, i cant belive a lvl 70 is doing 3k parse normal. i'd find it hard to belive that a 70 pushed a 3k parse whith all the stars aligned and everything. a raid assassin at lvl 80 will do about 4k-5k, pre raid 80s will do about 2k-3k So yea... some one led you a line of bull.</p><p>But on a side note, out of curriosity, how at lvl 75 do you only have 75 aa? im lvl 78, and i never level locked, or aa grinded, or even quested much, and i have 121.</p>

[CoLD MeTaL]

<cite>guitarist13 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>But on a side note, out of curriosity, how at lvl 75 do you only have 75 aa? im lvl 78, and i never level locked, or aa grinded, or even quested much, and i have 121.</p></blockquote>It's called being level capped when AA was introduced.  My 77 paladin just broke 100AA.  When you can't raid much you miss a ton of AA.

[-Arctura-]

(( its probably just your order of attacks and CAs.try dropping your Mark first (deadly mark or whatever its called)then drop your Dotsthen your big stealth bombs(USE CONCEALMENT to pack them together in 7 seconds)(a good strat I always used was just before the pull do short term buffs, then on the pull, stealth and hit our AOE Dot (slaughter or something? I dont recall the name its been a while)ANYWAYS after that hits, then do your mark, more dots, etc (the above pattern)That way, the AOE dot ticks away doing massive damage.That Aoe Dot is actually VERY strong and does Tons of dps for you, but you have to do it early.Basically the concept is let the dots do extra damage for you while you spike dmg with stealth arts (DDs)That way you are doing EXTRA damage while you are doing your regular high spike dmg.Make your dots work for you!Back when I was 70 raiding T7 ive hit 3k before, but it was not very common, and only on raid mobs with not much HP ^_^ (nowadays at 77 i dont raid but i imagine I'd only be doing 1.5-2.5k *shrugs*)(fully fabled, adorned, etc. (btw pvp gear helps the parse ALOT, if you dont have any, join pvp server ^_^all you have to do for l33t gear is kill other n00bs <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />---<img src="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/Arctura000/Skree-sig2008a.jpg" alt="" border="0" />

[Norrsken]

<cite>CoLD MeTaL wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>guitarist13 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>But on a side note, out of curriosity, how at lvl 75 do you only have 75 aa? im lvl 78, and i never level locked, or aa grinded, or even quested much, and i have 121.</p></blockquote>It's called being level capped when AA was introduced.  My 77 paladin just broke 100AA.  When you can't raid much you miss a ton of AA.</blockquote>I have a toon taht was 35 with 8 aas when EoF came out. Without locking I now have about 80 or something at 60. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[CoLD MeTaL]

<cite>Ulvhamne@Nagafen wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>CoLD MeTaL wrote:</cite><blockquote>It's called being level capped when AA was introduced.  My 77 paladin just broke 100AA.  When you can't raid much you miss a ton of AA.</blockquote>I have a toon taht was 35 with 8 aas when EoF came out. Without locking I now have about 80 or something at 60. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src=" width="15" height="15" />" width="15" height="15"></blockquote><p>Exactly, but if u were 60 when KoS came out as several of my chars were, you have done most of the quests up to that level and 'lost' all that AA that a 35 coming up would gain.  A tremendous amount of AA was lost to those chars level capped when AA was introduced.  I don't care enough about it to complain loudly, but it really set some of us.I don't care enough about 140AA from 120 to go try and find quests i missed, which weren't many coming up.</p><p>So my 77 paladin has done 1000+ quests, nearly all of which were of some color, yet just broke 100 AA.  I will not have 110 AA when i hit 80 and will have done over 1100 quests.  I hve always felt they screwed their best customers on that addition with the timing.</p><p>Let me say this another way, if I had gotten AA credit for all the quests I did at the level i did them, I would ALREADY be at 140AA.  (as would many, I am not unusual here)</p><p>Now for the trolls, can this be overcome?  Certainly. (not without significant time IMO)</p>

[Masema]

<p>Yeah exactly.  I wasnt quite capped, but pretty close.</p><p>I am glad to hear though that my parse isnt too terrible.  I seen an 80 Wizard doing 2.5k + parse in a group,   though i guess i cant compare a 75 to an 80.  At 80 I'll have much better gear.</p>

[CoLD MeTaL]

<p>buffs from other people make a huge difference difference, and crit gear and plus damage gear.</p><p>Honestly you really only have to 'worry' about the parse if u want to be hard core raiding.  The parse otherwise should just help you understand that u need to aquire more and better gear, spell quality, AA points and study AA setup.</p>

[guitarist13]

Also at 80, you get fatal followup which is a HUGE increase to your damage. execute type damage at only a 1 min cooldown. gotta love it

[Terq]

<cite>Raiden[sK] wrote:</cite> <blockquote><p>Though keep in mind thats a group parse, not a raid parse.  </p></blockquote><p>Group parses are inherently unreliable.  On a group mob, I can parse anywhere between 1k and 10K, simply depending on what are timers are available.  With 4 second delay weapons, and all your timers down, even a bard can outparse you on an individual group mob.</p><p>Assassins have a lot of DOTs, which don't tic to completion on a group mob that dies within 15 seconds.  That is going to decrease your DPS as well. </p><p>3K for a level 70 assassin generally requires top of the line stuff, and being raid buffed.  Really, if you are doing 1.7 in group content, then you are doing fine.  I wouldn't worry about anything right now. </p>

[Masema]

<p>Yeah, ive since hit lvl 80 and Fatal Followup has done wonders to my parse.  Im usually top dps now.  It really does depend who your grouped with though.  With a Troub in my group ive done over 2.5k ZW in CoA.  I got a 7.5k mob parse on a named in there.  Its more like 1.8ish - 2.2ish ZW with no bard though.</p><p> But yeah, when i was talking about 1.7k before, that was a mob parse, not even zone wide.  So my dps has gone up signifigantly.</p>