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Please change the bloodthirst debuff to remove if you die, or atleast if the entire raid wipes.
YES! annoying and unclear if we should "cleanse"
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thanks all. I'll work on my rotation and priorities/queuing
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I would wait until the unload finishes, then go rail shot, power shot x2 and then you should proc rail shot again.
As far as IM, you shouldn't have to lose out on a power shot. Possibly delaying it for a GCD but as long as you get one PS in within the next 3 GCD after proc:ing PPA, and the second on the 4th GCD it should be fine.
And yes, rail shot should proc every 6 seconds, with a possible delay if you need to fit in rapid shots. So you should land somewhere between 35-40 over 250 seconds, or between 45-50 if you do the five minutes that's sort of the standard for parse comparison.
I analyzed your 250 second parse against mine (thanks BTW).
What I found interesting is that you REALLY hit that RS every 6 seconds. Almost to the T!
While I am all over the place (even going 10-12 seconds sometimes).
Regarding this I am wondering if you do anything special to be grabbing RS right off proc or is it just you prioritize RS and keep that as your main priority to fire it off ASAP.
Definitely I am not doing a good job of that so I will pay better attention to firing RS as close to every 6 sec as possible.
THANKS AGAIN!
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bump - various stuff like KOlto Tank, Carbonite Chamber not reducing heat for my Arsenal Merc.
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Welll, getting your APM up is the best way to start. I strongly suggest you look at Odawgg's arsenal guide and especially read the part about Always Be casting. In short, make use of the action queue so that before you're done with your current attack, the next one is already lined up.
I did a cropepd sample of both our parses at 250 seconds to get a more accurate comparison.
Yours: http://www.torparse.com/a/500371/time/1385054268/1385054518/0/Damage+Dealt
Mine: http://www.torparse.com/a/498894/time/1384940059/1384940309/0/Damage+Dealt
We're the same on the number of Thermal Detonators, so you're using those on cooldown. You have more incendiary missiles than me, which unfortunately isn't necessarilly a good thing. I am a little lax with them at times, but I don't think I miss them that frequently, which means you're sometimes refreshing IM when the dot on it is still running.
Now for the big thing, I have almost twice as many power shots as you do, and 25% more rail shots, while you have more unloads than me. Here of course one follows another, more power shots means more rail shot procs, which in turn means more heat dissipated.
But the main thing to improve upon is to get APMs up and being comfortable with the tighter heat management that entails.
thanks for taking the time to offer some analysis.
If I follow your logic I should have a railshot firing every 6-7 seconds correct?
so 250 / 7 = ~35 rail shots ?
another question:
If Unload procs railshot should I immediately interrupt the Unload cast and fire the rail-shot or wait until Unload finishes?
I definitely am refreshing IM before it finishes (by a sec or 2).
I need to work on my timing for that. I guess I am losing out on firing a Powershot by doing that correct?
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This is great. Thank you.
I just switched to Pyro and like it. However, I basically have the same gear as you currently and my numbers are drastically lower than yours (by about 600 dps
)I have a bit more crit currently but I can't imagine that would account for 600 dps.
So, where am I going wrong if I am leveling out at 2500-2600 dps?
My APM is about 8 less than your parse but not sure where the additionals could come from.
Any advice is appreciated.
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Played Arsenal for 2 years and finally switched to Pyro last week.
I like the rotation a lot more from a consistency and heat standpoint.
Definitely more mobile as well.
As Arsenal if my Unload got interrupted I would be pissed, but as Pryo the Unload still pops railshot off cooldown so I don't mind at all.
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4 months ... probably not gonna happen at this point.
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* Please adjust the cost of Fusion Missile. In it's current form it is not worth using in the rotation unless making it free (basically used once or maybe twice in a fight is not really part of the rotation). I would love to use it as a dot in a normal rotation.
* for us arsenal casters, pushback can be a pain. In PvE most encounters produce some sort of DoT or AOE attacks. Some can be cleansed/avoided but since we are a casting class it seems this affects our DPS more than others that do not have such lengthy casts
* would love some kind ability or proc that gives us the next ability clicked as an auto-crit
* reduce cooldown on thermal sensor override and power surge
Some Pet Peeves:
* It bothers me that Death from Above is cancelled by a POUNCE/SMASH/PIPE-SMASH from a boss. what? we are in the AIR, why do we care that there is an earthquake on the ground? other forms of interrupt? sure.
* I've seen plenty of completed casts that end up hitting a dead target and doing zero damage. improve our cast-times vs. actual HIT TIMES. some abilities are a 1.5 sec cast but also travel through the air. so, they really don't hit the target until 2 seconds (or more sometimes it seems). It's gotten to a point that if an add is at 5% I just stop casting and attack the boss instead or move to a different mob in order to not waste my heat/time. can this be fixed somehow? the attack should actually do DAMAGE by the end of the cast but currently the damage is being done 1.6-2 seconds due to travel-time.
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This is just terrible.
The Marauder buffs are pretty crazy. You just made it EASIER for Marauders yet you state in other posts how they are over-tuned.
In your answers post you mention that we are going to get the first round of changes and we just got nothing.
I'm so depressed.
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I have 2 of them and have no idea what to do with them.
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Thanks for the advice from both of you.
I'll work on my rotation a bit to manage heat better/more-efficiently
Couple questions on this fight in particular:
1. do you solely use DFA just on the adds/red-circle phases?
2. is Fusion Missile worthwhile on the add phase such as the 2nd and 3rd add phase where there are more to burn? Usually I plop an Explosive Dart on them as they are running and then Flame Thrower them if DFA is on cooldown.
3. when you HAVE to move are you usually using rapid shots? usually if i have to move then i just click my rapid shots as a default.
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Slowly getting up there.
Nightmare Writhing Horror I am up to 2500-2600 dps.
Was wondering where I can squeak out a few hundred more if you don't mind analyzing.
Usually I take the 4th red circle when all hell breaks loose in the last 60 seconds or so.
This parse is the one we killed him on (i think I died the few seconds before he went down).
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Resource discipline (between 0-40 heat for merc), priority system execution, all while keeping APMs at a maximum is DPS in a nutshell (for any class). Once you have these 3 things mastered, you see the big numbas. I'll try to address some of ur concerns.....
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Q. attacking while moving issues
A. This unfortunately is one of our Achilles heal, best counter is to anticipate your positioning to reduce movement as much as possible, save power surge for heavy movement fights to use with TM, and make a habit of positioning yourself during your instant abilities like HSM, Rail, RS etc.
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Q. could use any tips possible.
here is a recent parse of HM Writhing Horror and Ciphas fight. I am usually ~1900 dps but feel i shoul dbe around 2000-2200 ...
A. From what I can see you just need practice...if you are serious about bringing your numbers up, get on the dummy and practice the tips from this guide and thread posts....set goals of increasing your dps 50 at a time and if you hit a wall, come back to the thread and post a dummy parse, that's a lot easier for me to dissect and tell you what you can do better....first things first ABC (always be casting) and get HSM/Rail off as close to cd as possible, keep your heat in 0-40 heat window
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
We tried Nightmare Writhing Horror last night and got him down to 12k hp left (ugh!).
A fun fight definitely.
I tried to focus on upping my APM and planning on my movement or positioning better.
This seemed to work pretty well.
I was averaging about 2200-2400 dps on the 5-minute fights that we had. Few times 2400+
Will work more on my timings and your other recommendations. THanks!
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Hi, my APM suck. I feel that if I could get that up from 23-25 to more like 30 then my dps would greatly improve.
I'm currently in mostly 72 gear but with just the new 2-piece set bonus.
some of my issues are that:
1. ability queue cancels the Unload cast so recently I haven't been using the ability queue
2. attacking while moving issues
3. should I use ability macros? like if ability A is on cooldown when button is hit then use default rapid shots?
4. unload seems to do nothing the first second of its casting time
could use any tips possible.
here is a recent parse of HM Writhing Horror and Ciphas fight. I am usually ~1900 dps but feel i shoul dbe around 2000-2200 ...
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By the way, has anyone else noticed that when starting a fight with Power Surge, the global cooldown overlay doesn't activate?
AND it seems on every boss fight my very first UNLOAD always fails and I get false animation with no damage or lasers.
ANyone else have this problem? ALWAYS the first unload misfires.
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thanks for the quick reply. I'll try those suggestions tonight during raid.
I think the change-target while casting is a good tip that I probably don't do.
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I need help. I feel like I am slowly getting my dps up, but my numbers are WAY below yours.
I am in all 69 gear with some 72 thrown in like for belt/bracers.
I am at 99.4% accuracy and the rest is in power/surge.
Comparable parses my average hits are about 1k less than yours and my APM is only at about 26-27.
Currently I dps at around 1800 for a full HM boss fight and can usually get a stable dps line at around 2200.
I think my issue might be movement or something.
Anyways, comparing my writhing horror HM parse to yours was somewhat depressing ...
http://www.torparse.com/a/260315
any advice is appreciated.
note: currently I am using 2 pvp relics. one procs power the other procs the extra damage thing.
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I managed to heal TFB normal as an Arsenal spec (just changed stance).
I'm not saying I did it great, but as a pug we progressed through the bosses so I couldn't have been that bad.
The universal heal AOE (spo ooge) is awesome I think.
I'm sure if you are respeccing to BodyGuard each time and also using the healer set bonus then you are not
going to have an issue at all.
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Not quite exactly :/ What is your mainstat at? Full DG gear should have you a lot higher on those parses listed. Maybe RNG kept the numbers low, but other than that they should be at the very least a little higher. Writhing Horror kind of caught my attention on that seeing as its generally a patchwerk style fight with a good AoE phase.
Thanks for looking.
Totally unbuffed I am at 2504 Aim and 132 Cunning (Primary Damage 1127 - 1429)
Currently i just have the old war hero boundless relics ...
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I'm basically in Dread Guard gear and kind of holding on to the old 2-piece bonus until I can win
some Arkanian drops in order to get the new 2-pc set bonus.
In the meantime I'm at 100% acc, and then mostly power/surge (haven't been able to upgrade my augments yet).
I'm parsing ~16-1700 during Ops boss fights (S&V normal and TFB norm and the Golden Boss Norm).
With where I am at with gear am I at the proper dps numbers?
Thanks.
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Movement won't increase the damage of net like it would if used in PvP on players.
really? gah!
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I specifically like to use net when I know the boss will be moving around (Toth/Zorn anyone?).
If there is minimal movement then getting net and unload off initially lowers the time of waiting for them to come back or proc.
During movement phases dart and missile blast work pretty well when RS and HSM are on cooldown.
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Ok, so I am not crazy.
Working as designed.
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