Finer points of DPS

[Silkmyst]

<p>HI,</p><p>Thanks to lots of forum help (especially from Jellica and Ranja), my dps has gone way up.  Its at least 1.3 k higher on</p><p>the wall, and I had some really good moments in raid with an Illy/troub in group where I was third on the parse with</p><p>a lot more experienced raiders.</p><p>One more question (besides do you take paypal lol):</p><p>I had my keys all set up per  suggestion, but after the first debuff/bloody, then 3 cycles of FA and sets of arrow</p><p>CA's,  I feel like I'm at an intersection with about 50 red light/green lights lol.</p><p>Some things are up, some aren't.</p><p>I start cycling through my melee CA's with auto attack macro after each, then a few arrow CA's come back up.  Should I</p><p>be going back and forth between melee and arrow attacks up, or wait for a few arrow CAs (say 3) to refresh before I</p><p>start cycling those again?  We didn't have a brig the other night.</p><p>Ranja mentioned once, hit which ever CA first thats up and is highest dps?</p><p>It seemed my my brain got on overload with one third keys up, and two thirds down, and I started rushing and not waiting for my ACT ding.</p><p>Silk</p>

[Ranja]

<p>What I was referring to is DPS efficiency. Under the assumption that you want to do the most damage in a given period of time, you want to use the highest DPS efficiency combat which is roughly:</p><p><strong>Average Total Damage / Casting time + recovery time (0.5 seconds)</strong></p><p>This does not consider recast. I ahve my bow arts ordered in highest to lowerst DPS efficiency. At any given time during a fight, I know which CAs are the most DPS efficient. It is all situational but this gives you a rough guideline at what you should cast next. In general, dont cast bloody at the end of a fight even if it is up b/c it wont run all its ticks. Things like that need to be considered.</p>

[Dirty Jack Rackham]

<p><cite>Silkmyst wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>It seemed my my brain got on overload with one third keys up, and two thirds down, and I started rushing and not waiting for my ACT ding.</p><p>Silk</p></blockquote><p>Regardless of what combat abilities you use, make sure you allow your <strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ranged</span></em></strong> autoattack to go off on time. You're lowering your damage output if you don't. Don't sweat the small stuff so much. You'll work out your own rhythm in due time.</p>