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This post was a couple months ago and I believe could have been before 4.0.6 or whenever we stopped stacking hit and spamming heroic strike. These days its more about stacking Crit and then mastery, while using a more logical rotation (rather than exploiting a broken heroic strike)

Regardless, dps has stayed pretty similar. Doing more damage will come with epic weapons. You can get 1 or 2 of the epic pvp weapons with a little time. You just need 5 Arena wins a week for 3 weeks (so a minimum of 9 days if you started on a Monday) to get 1.

Getting the first epic weapon made a huge difference In dps. Since then moving to PVE epics I’ve seen even more but nothing as staggering as moving up from Foe Reaper to the PVP epic Mace.

Rotation these days I’m going with BT>RB>BT and trying to hover at around 60 rage. Any time I jump up to pass 70 rage I’ll heroic strike, and anytime bloodsurge procs I’ll hit slam in the open GCD between BT>RB>BT>Slam>BT>RB>BT

I’ll also wait to tick up to 70 or 80 rage as Colossus Smash is coming off cooldown so I can get BT*HS>RB>BT*HS while the debuff is up.

The other part especially for heroics is savings Recklessness/Deathwish for bosses where the mob will be alive for the duration of your buff. (or at the start of a raid encounter so you can use it twice or three time during a boss fight)

Reck/Deathwish generally get me to 25-30k single target while they are up and if you have a good group the boss usually melts and preserves your high dps.

AoE is WW on cooldown, and Inner Rage / Cleave spam. I generally don’t use anything else while cleaving so I have enough rage to Cleave on GCD while IR is up.

Hopefully some of that is useful.

The dps also comes from gear. I have several heroic pieces at this point and Ashkandi w/ Landslide. I wouldn’t be to worried if you aren’t pulling those numbers just yet. Just give it some time with gear and you’ll be good to go.

Warrior Question: How do you pull that DPS. what’s the rotation. I’m sitting average at 9k with Titan Grip and 2x Foe Reapers!! ilvl 349ish

If you had you famely killed by Nazies i would understand why you wouldnt be amused that the Nazi legacy is being made into an amusement, a joke for no other purpose than to sell a game.

If ppl think that Nazi references is ok, then it should also be ok to make a questline where you chase Oklama Bling Farten out of caves in stonetalon mountains, or what about a questline where you draw pictures of the profet Mulochamed and have camel riding beduins burn the flag of the players faction in response.
Nagazaki, Hiroshima. The Kenedy murder, The trial of michael Jacson. the list of things that could be made funny references to is endless. personaly it takes a lot to offend me, but the ppl designing these quests MUST think about how their products can be viewed.

I sort of have GTFO as a backup. If for some reason I’m not paying attention to DBM warnings (looking for a new target, waiting for an interrupt, or if I just zone out of focus for a second) the jolt from GTFO prompts me to strafe away from people while I figure out what sort of nasty debuff im standing in or have on me. I ignore GTFO almost all of the time, it is just a safegaurd against that 1 in 50 attempts where you just make a boneheaded mistake.

Another issue I have is I play multiple roles so I don’t always have DBM set up the way I would like. I generally have warnings and timers for every ability going on. Depending on role you probably only care about one or two abilities. I don’t get the urgency I want from seeing a DBM warning because I’m almost spammed with warnings on some fights. On Lich King for example, my priest healing would want infest warnings and timers to pre-sheild where as if I went on my paladin I would get desentisized by all the infest warnings going out that didn’t really matter to me and it would take me an extra second or two to realize I had a shadow trap. I guess I just like having the audio warning as well in case the other information doesn’t grab my attention.

If you only play one role and you can turn off any timer or warning that doesn’t matter to you (or if you aren’t lazy and you modify your DBM settings when you swap toons/spec) I can see GTFO not being very appealing. Hopefully some of that helps.

In my mind Hearing Vent > Hearing Game Sounds

I would agree that hearing a boss emote prior to an ability is pretty important, but now that it gets spammed across your screen as well as other places it seems like it’s now a matter of personal choice.

I guess it’s worth a shot to try raiding with game sounds on – I will miss hearing people say “Navuzious, gtfo out of the fire” or”AFK reading Kro’s blog”

Also it seems like your writing from 1 hour in the future – tell me what it’s like in the future? Is it as wonderful as the movies make it out to be?

As far as raiding sounds go, I find hearing boss emotes pretty helpful, there are other distinct noises, like lay on hands or other cooldowns. I find useful to know about as they are going on.

Sometimes I’ll be watching something on netflix on my other monitor and in those instances I’ll have sound turned off. GTFO the addon actually has a setting to work while sound is turned off. I noticed on Pyremaw (or whatever the Firemaw clone outside Chimaeron is named) that it turned on my game sound for a fraction of a second to play the alert. I could catch one mace crit noise, or a ‘nyah’ behind the alert noise so I imagine that is how it works. I did like that feature, but I will probably still continue to leave my sound on in combat most of the time.