Road to 100k dps / How to get high DPS / For new casual people

[Booo]

I am currently 900cp, but still cannot get 100k dps.
I m using magdk.
Using slimcraw 1 piece, harpoon kilt, bahsei, kinras(front),perfectMA inferno staff , all purple gear except one blue jewelly. Enchantment is just rekuta(purple). Doing on the dummy which gv all buff and highest i got is just 50k dps. I have copy the meta build with LA before every skill and yet still cannot reach 100k dps, what am i doing wrong? Isit golden gear and purple gear make 50k dps diff? Isit golden jewelly and purple jewelly that important? Need some guide on really boost my dps to 100k, well at least mayb 80k will do. I need some REAL suggestion! Not something like ur weaving must be bad blah blah blah.

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After all the help from the community. Here are the conclusion that what hardwork / tips / guide that i am sure you want to listen of. And this is the stuff for casual player that want to enjoy solo content and group content.
1) Slot suitable amount of DOTS , not BUFF/not sustain skill , preferable skill that come with buff (barb trap). For example, slot magelight/ pet skills so your slot become a passive DPS. Either double bar or just single bar is enough but make sure you utilize the bar more often.

2) The TRUTH or FACT to get high dps is really the time of weaving/light attack. A lot of people have heard before so they add one light attack before one skill IS NOT ENOUGH!!!!
All skills have it own cast time/animation which is vary. Some are shorter some are longer some are even bug :/
To get high DPS, YOU NEED TO TIME IT PERFECTLY!!!!!
Just like LA>Skills>LA>Skills
I know you guys are saying, yeah this is what i do. I still have low dps, this is because you are not timing it perfectly. You should download perfect weaving and spaming right click + skills and then you will see the SPEED of what a perfect weaving is compare to yours. You can download combat metric to see your weaving interval. 0.1 or below is what people get to reach high dps.

3) Since the game have launch mytic item AKA antiques, i feel like monster set can be replace by it. Kilt for pure dps or ring of pale order for solo boss. So your build should look like this, 1piece head, 5piece of main set, 5 piece of proc set, 1 mytic item, 1 bar back proc weapon. For new people you can use monster set but it is not that great. In the current meta i found out many people are trying to use Kjalnar’s Niightmare, for me i feel this is not a good set because you need 5second to deal X amount of damage and then 4second of cooldown, thats mean you need 9 second to deal X damage, whether you like it or not, it is your choice.

4) Gold quality with bloodthirsty trait play great role to get high DPS. So the upgrade order is like this. Weapon > Ring/jewelry > Armor. The reason why you should gold weapon first is due on bloodthirsty ring too, you need damage to drop boss health to 60% hp so your damage start to get higher and higher and higher.

5)Crit chance better or weapon/spell damage better (thief or shadow mundus)? IMO thief is better, because you can check you crit damage start at 50%, in order to proc this 50% you need crit chance, it doesnt matter if you got 150% crit damage but you got low crit chance, you just don't have luck to get the damage >0< And adding 100damage is actually worst than crit chance too because do you think 50% crit damage is lower than 100damage?

6) Magicka dps better or stamina dps better? The answer is both are the same, it depend on the what weaving speed are you at. In this post i am using a imperial magicka dk and still reach 83k dps max, so race may matter a bit/ lot. But just play which class you like, weaving speed outmatch all those thing.

7) I have testing spamming 1skill but with 0.1 weaving speed you can deal 24k damage, but with perfect weaving addon, i tested it again and i reach 0.02weaving speed and i deal 32k damage. So you can see weaving speed make so much different.

[awn]

Get CMX and post a log about a parse. But generally you want to use DW for parses as it's currently the strongest weapon choice for straight DPS.

You kind of left out half the info about your gear. Is everything divines? bloodthirsty jewelry? Why are you not running gold enchants? Everything max mag (or stam)? 64 points in a stat? Correct mundus? Correct CP skills?

Just post a cmx lol

[Booo]

Originally posted by Awn:

Get CMX and post a log about a parse. But generally you want to use DW for parses as it's currently the strongest weapon choice for straight DPS.

You kind of left out half the info about your gear. Is everything divines? bloodthirsty jewelry? Why are you not running gold enchants? Everything max mag (or stam)? 64 points in a stat? Correct mundus? Correct CP skills?

Just post a cmx lol

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2704717026
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2704716952

[awn]

Your weaving is terrible lol. Lots of misses and .434 average is really, really bad. You want it UNDER .100

Also swap on the fight stats from health to magicka so we can see the spell damage and crit stuff.

[awn]

Also ele drain is literally a wasted slot on a trial dummy parse..

[737]

What top comment said, weaving needs to improve a lot. I consider my weaving bad but it's still much better than this. Also you did not kill the dummy, for a better reading you should complete the parse and do the full 21m. Also I'm not completely sure about this but having the backstabber CP and attacking the dummy from behind is better than having thaumaturge. If you want you can get full kilt stacks on another dummy before doing the parse as well. You also have a few heavy attacks which should not be necessary in a parse, are you using parse food? (eye scream for example)
The gear really doesn't matter that much. I managed to hit 80k with bahsei's and medusa and no kilt.
You can do it. I'm a terrible player and I've come close. You just need to improve a few things. Combat Metronome is an addon that helps with light attack timings if you need it.

[Hylie Pistof]

anyone noticed the ping?? and desync?

not sure if it would influence a dummy "fight" (XD), as i dont do this, and also i never even get 60k dps, so... nvm me ;)

[Commancho]

Remove degeneration, elemental drain and scalding rune from your rotation. Replace beast trap with a channeled acceleration (psijic skill line) if possible. Don't use flawless dawnbreaker as your ultimate - its there on the frontbar just for passives. You have a standard of might backbar which is the strongest ultimate in the game - use it.

Replace CP thaumaturgie perk with a backstabber perk and stand behind dummy / boss.

Basic rotation for magDK is: wall of elements, eruption, engulfing flames, burning embers and then spamming molten whip with a light attack untill wall of elements is gone, then you repeat whole rotation. After you master it you can experiment with a new things.

[awn]

Originally posted by Commancho:

Remove degeneration, elemental drain and scalding rune from your rotation. Replace beast trap with a channeled acceleration (psijic skill line) if possible. Don't use flawless dawnbreaker as your ultimate - its there on the frontbar just for passives. You have a standard of might backbar which is the strongest ultimate in the game - use it.

Replace CP thaumaturgie perk with a backstabber perk and stand behind dummy / boss.

Basic rotation for magDK is: wall of elements, eruption, engulfing flames, burning embers and then spamming molten whip with a light attack untill wall of elements is gone, then you repeat whole rotation. After you master it you can experiment with a new things.

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Why would you use chanelled instead of BARBED trap for the same 10% crit dmg, except you're losing out on FG passive? Bad advice lmao.

Also you don't need backstabber for trial dummy as you can get to cap without it, so in that case it's a wasted cp slot, which is why I asked op to show their magicka fight stats to see crit dmg.

Degen and scalding are perfectly fine.

Ulti is true, shouldn't be using dawnbreaker.

[Heimdall313]

What is this CMK thing and how do I test my DPS? Because I literally have no idea what I roll.

[awn]

Originally posted by Heimdall313:

What is this CMK thing and how do I test my DPS? Because I literally have no idea what I roll.

CMX, command metrics addon, and you test your dps on parse dummies, people usually test it on 21m trial dummies which give almost all possible buffs and debuffs in the game (which is why its super high number compared to regular combat numbers.)

[Booo]

Originally posted by Awn:

Your weaving is terrible lol. Lots of misses and .434 average is really, really bad. You want it UNDER .100

Also swap on the fight stats from health to magicka so we can see the spell damage and crit stuff.

It seems like you can give good suggestion that why i only quote you but i do read all comment and i will answer all your guys suggestion.
Q Why you using dawnbreaker but not standard of might?
A Well i have sustain issue as i do not ALWAYS parse in a 21m dummy which you need to keep spamming skill non stop. The reason i used it because i cannot get enough 250ultimate, so in order to get back my magicka i had to use it.

Q Why using elemental drain?
A I use it because i have sustain issue, YES I DO USE POTION but still having issue.

Q Why not acceleration but barb?
A Imo barb trap deal DOTS plus extra 3% damage is better. Plus that is a ♥♥♥♥ skill anyway dk skill is on short range too so i m not a fans to it. And you see i use 4 min to kill the 21m dummy, so acceleration need cast time i think it will make my dps drop even more.

Q Why using backstabber?
A I dont like to use specific CP for specific stuff.

After one whole day practice and doing some research, here is my outcome.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2705656655
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2705656742

Q -I know people will saying why using grip?
A I double bar my whip so if i use grip i can maintain my sustain better as the magicka is refund on dummy.

Q - Your weaving is not perfect you miss 4LA
A If 4LA can make you go from 70k dps to 80kdps, then only you talk :)

What i want to listen is some real suggestion to increase my dps, maybe some skill swap, but grip is my choice as i need it as a gap to let my magicka comes up.

Thank you
#Road to 100k guide please

[Sir Fed Dump]

What about Mystic Orb? Other than the dummy, a lot of tough enemies use CC, so how about Destructive Reach + Flame Staff?

[Booo]

Originally posted by Sir Federal Dump:

What about Mystic Orb? Other than the dummy, a lot of tough enemies use CC, so how about Destructive Reach + Flame Staff?

I know those are decent skills, but what skill am i going to replace with? Plus i dont think those will make a huge spikes on dps as i m currently target only 1 target. And the skill i sloting now deal flame damage, degeneration provide major sorcerer, which i can save my pots a little while dealing quite decent single target skill.

[Ironwu]

I am not an expert at high DPS, but I do have a couple of questions for the OP.

1. Are you practicing on a Raid level target dummy? Or just a normal landscape level?

2. What is your Penetration value? If you have to buff to keep it up, are you keeping the buff up?

The only other thing I can suggest is that banging away on a target dummy is nice, but really has no value when preparing for a real Boss fight. I would recommend practicing whatever it is you want to use on World Bosses (at least).

Getting good at situational awareness, moving, blocking, and keeping up a reasonable DPS is what really counts. Does not matter what you can do to a Target Dummy if you are only doing 10k on a real Boss, or even worse, DOF.

[Booo]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

I am not an expert at high DPS, but I do have a couple of questions for the OP.

1. Are you practicing on a Raid level target dummy? Or just a normal landscape level?

2. What is your Penetration value? If you have to buff to keep it up, are you keeping the buff up?

The only other thing I can suggest is that banging away on a target dummy is nice, but really has no value when preparing for a real Boss fight. I would recommend practicing whatever it is you want to use on World Bosses (at least).

Getting good at situational awareness, moving, blocking, and keeping up a reasonable DPS is what really counts. Does not matter what you can do to a Target Dummy if you are only doing 10k on a real Boss, or even worse, DOF.

1. This is a raid level target dummy with 21m hp that gives all buff to you.

Most VET trials group need 80k-100k parse dps in order to join (well to make life easier and dont want to be burden). Yeah i know if you don't go on the trial dummy, i got my dps cap at 30k. But this is not what i wanted, I want to learn more, try more content, and not just cap at low dps for the rest of your life and only go normal mode. And to get high dps the only way is to get all buff up, and by doing that, is just trials dummy.

I dont know you are trolling or i misunderstood you, i feel you are a hater that say i dont need high DPS to get into vTrial group, all you need is to gitgud and learn the mechanic and eventually you will clear the trials. High dps mean shorter time to stay in that boss fight, and also less risk!! You sounds like there is other way to get hard content done by calling friends/ guildmate to carry me, or just use $ and hire 11 people to get what i want and brag to other.

Well i am not that kind of person, I m just a casual player but want get deeper to the game. If you are aware of, some pug group even need you to link clearance of vet trials before they accept you. But how in the world am i going to get a chance of clearance if i dont even get accept to the group?