The first thing I noticed is that you're using a veteran dungeon dummy instead of a trial dummy. Trial dummy parses are typically higher because they use buffs and debuffs that you would have on your side in a carefully coordinated, optimized trials group. Players who post their parses generally like to use trial dummies for that reason.

However, don't worry too much about that if you're mainly running dungeons with random people. You can't count on every tank and healer being optimized like they're doing trials. In most real, non-trial fights, your DPS will not be what you would see on a trial dummy.

But let's take a look at your build. You've definitely put in the work to get the gear, but there are some things you can tweak to make it work better for you:

Gear

As an inferno staff user, you would benefit from getting a Crushing Wall staff from Maelstrom Arena, to use on the same bar as Wall of Elements. It doesn't even have to be Perfected to do what it needs to, which is boost your light attacks on targets standing in Wall of Elements.

Your gear being Purple/Epic is fine for now.

Traits

Some of your armor has the Training trait, which does not contribute to your damage. You want more Divines (assuming you've got a critical or damage Mundus stone) for that.

Your jewelry is Robust, which doesn't raise your damage if your highest offensive stats are maximum magicka and spell damage, which I am guessing they are. Arcane would work better. But what people use for high damage in PvE is Bloodthirsty, which gives you ramping damage the longer you fight, regardless of your offensive stats.

Do you have access to transmutation or reconstruction to change your traits? It can take a while to get the materials and research the gear traits for it, but it's helpful if you spend a lot of time in endgame content.

Glyphs

For weapons, you would benefit from a glyph that raises your weapon and spell damage when you attack. That's usually good to place on your DoT bar weapon. A fire damage glyph on your spam bar adds more damage as well.

Re-enchanting your Harpooner's Wading Kilt to raise your max magicka instead of stamina would give you more highest offensive stats to boost your damage.

Putting some spell damage glyphs on your jewelry instead of recovery glyphs would help too. If you find that your recovery is too low after, you can always add a magicka recovery glyph.

In addition, you would want to make sure all of your enchantments are Gold/Legendary if possible.

Nestor wrote: »

I dont know if you have, but your weapon NEEDS to be improved to Gold. Other gear can be purple.

FluffyReachWitch wrote: »

The first thing I noticed is that you're using a veteran dungeon dummy instead of a trial dummy. Trial dummy parses are typically higher because they use buffs and debuffs that you would have on your side in a carefully coordinated, optimized trials group. Players who post their parses generally like to use trial dummies for that reason.

However, don't worry too much about that if you're mainly running dungeons with random people. You can't count on every tank and healer being optimized like they're doing trials. In most real, non-trial fights, your DPS will not be what you would see on a trial dummy.

But let's take a look at your build. You've definitely put in the work to get the gear, but there are some things you can tweak to make it work better for you:

Gear

As an inferno staff user, you would benefit from getting a Crushing Wall staff from Maelstrom Arena, to use on the same bar as Wall of Elements. It doesn't even have to be Perfected to do what it needs to, which is boost your light attacks on targets standing in Wall of Elements.

Your gear being Purple/Epic is fine for now.

Traits

Some of your armor has the Training trait, which does not contribute to your damage. You want more Divines (assuming you've got a critical or damage Mundus stone) for that.

Your jewelry is Robust, which doesn't raise your damage if your highest offensive stats are maximum magicka and spell damage, which I am guessing they are. Arcane would work better. But what people use for high damage in PvE is Bloodthirsty, which gives you ramping damage the longer you fight, regardless of your offensive stats.

Do you have access to transmutation or reconstruction to change your traits? It can take a while to get the materials and research the gear traits for it, but it's helpful if you spend a lot of time in endgame content.

Glyphs

For weapons, you would benefit from a glyph that raises your weapon and spell damage when you attack. That's usually good to place on your DoT bar weapon. A fire damage glyph on your spam bar adds more damage as well.

Re-enchanting your Harpooner's Wading Kilt to raise your max magicka instead of stamina would give you more highest offensive stats to boost your damage.

Putting some spell damage glyphs on your jewelry instead of recovery glyphs would help too. If you find that your recovery is too low after, you can always add a magicka recovery glyph.

In addition, you would want to make sure all of your enchantments are Gold/Legendary if possible.

Firstly, thank you for responding.

I did all of this with my Julianos/Mother's Sorrow gear. I did all of it. All yellow/gold/legendary gear and weapons, divines for body armor, precise and infused for main and second weapon, blood thirsty for jewelry, all the proper glyphs for my weapons. I did all of this with that build. That's what makes me think adopting those for this build will only get me 1-3k damage, still far below where I should be. I can even post a screenshot of my Julianos and Mother's Sorrow gear to show you. It still gets me 10k.

Could very well be with how you're parsing.

The dummies are pretty poor at showing you your true damage if you skip a beat and don't kill it.

You have to line up all your dots, all your status effects, and all your attacks to end at once if you don't fully kill it and wait for the feedback. If you don't it'll skew the numbers to show up less damage as you'll have a gap of close to no damage being dealt that messes with the average.

If you lack a trial dummy the weaker dummies like the vampiric thrall and the precursor dummy you get from Clockwork City might be the better test beds in the beginning since they die fast.

As for rotations typically you start out with damage buffs, move to damage over time abilities, and then start the spammable + light attack weave. Turn on in the UI buffs and debuffs so you know how long your dots and buffs last so you can properly refresh them. Some addons display this information better if you're on PC, but I personally stick to the vanilla UI.

Additionally you really want to get a light attack in between every single ability cast. You might wear off your index finger hitting the left mouse button over and over, but it does make a impact which I know troubles some people.

Just to add on from above, here is a video from Nefas that can help you with learning light attack weaving and animation cancelling for the rotation as well!

Make use of light attacks between skills, if you have sustain issues, a heavy attack or two won’t go amiss.
Potions, yup, potions. Chug em. I don’t chug pots, so I’m probably hitting about the same as you, I think.
Crit chance, higher chance, more crits.
Crit damage- higher % (capped at 125%) more damage.
Iirc I’m slacking off at about 13-15k on skill hits, executes where I’m best at (60k impales) which is the low end for executes I’ve heard.

Learn weaving, it helps. A lot.

GQManOfTheYear wrote: »

What class (DPS or tank) does not require all of this light weaving, animation cancelling b.s.? Because I don't see me practicing light weaving or animation cancelling again. I just started another game outside of ESO and I don't want to completely abandon this one. Is there another class (either DPS or tank) that does not require you to go beyond the game in order to be good/effective? Or do all of the DPS and tank classes have their own versions of this?

You don’t have to animation cancel if you don’t want to, weaving is a matter of timing your attacks, landing in light attacks between skills. It’s a PiTa but it’s pretty much one of the limitations of a damage dealer. Tanks and healers also weave.
I main a DPS and moonlight as a hybrid healer with impale at the ready, and I’m always weaving light attacks or even heavy attacks with my heals + other abilities.
I’m not the best at DPS, that belongs to those who live and breath parsing, as it stands, I’m at 37-40k on the dummy.
Other than learning to weave, perhaps try a heavy attack build, I’ve heard those can hit hard as heck

GQManOfTheYear wrote: »

What class (DPS or tank) does not require all of this light weaving, animation cancelling b.s.? Because I don't see me practicing light weaving or animation cancelling again. I just started another game outside of ESO and I don't want to completely abandon this one. Is there another class (either DPS or tank) that does not require you to go beyond the game in order to be good/effective? Or do all of the DPS and tank classes have their own versions of this?

Light attack weaving is the definition of ESO - it's literally the only requirement in the game to function as a DPS. Most other MMOs use a 1.5 second global cooldown and have no additional input (or the other input is off the gcd and doesn't require timing) but ESO is defined by a 1 second global cooldown and light attacking with every skill.

You need to simplify things until you practice the basics of light attack weaving - adding in pointless dots and stuff isn't necessary while you're learning.

Frontbar: Ricochet Skull / Blastbones / Degeneration / Trap / Inner Light
Backbar: Unstable Wall of Elements

Yes you're eventually going to fill in the gaps with DoT layers to support things, but let's begin with using the basics first to get the damage up higher.

Your gear is awful. Using Kinras drops is a terrible idea, because they drop for stamina users and you're a magicka char. I could sugar coat this, but I think honesty is the best policy here. Robust trait on the Kinras is awful, suuuuper awful.
Craft yourself a proper set of Kinras (with infused or bloodthirsty as a trait. infused is better in real world applications, bloodthirsty parses higher) and ensure you enchant them properly. Spell damage, unless you need Magicka recovery (some chars I get away with full damage, others have 1 sometimes even 2 recovery glyphs).
If you cannot craft a proper Kinras set (it's not easy to get that many transmute crystals instantly!) then craft yourself Law of Julianos and Order's Wrath sets (full divine traits).
Ensure your glyphs are correct - magicka across the board for armor pieces, weapon enchants of Shock/Poison/Flame on the front (the difference is very small) and Increase spell/wea damage on the backbar weapon.

Once you get your gear set up (again, law of julianos and order's wrath are good enough to see better numbers with and should allow you to hit a good 60-70k parse) focus on practicing the weaving.
LA > Skill > LA > Skill. It doesn't just happen magically, you need to practice it. I use an add-on that puts a green bar on my screen to show the GCD and help me weave. It's so simple, but effective.

Once you get the weaving down then it's a simple case of:
1. Blastbones on cd.. soooo important to hit this every 3 seconds.
2. Wall of Elements when it runs out
3. Trap when it runs out
4. Degeneration like, a few seconds after it runs out cos the buff lasts way longer than the actual dot.

Simple is how you begin, not with all this nonsense of bahsei magicka management, kinras procs and transmuting the right stuff and definitely not worrying about juggling 7 dots for your parse. If you're already willing and able when you pass to drink potions on cd, then degeneration can be left off the bar entirely while you practice (since the potion will give you the 20% spell dmg buff).

Ultimately, get yourself back to basics and not following the guides and then gradually build up the difficulty.

@dmnqwk i didn’t know that about infused vs bloodthirsty, I’ve been running bloodthirsty trait on my jewellery in trials……
Can vouch for orders wrath/ julianos as crafted pair, even orders wrath + mothers sorrow if needing more crit/ or Medusa weapons + jewlery for the minor force boost if lacking crit % and no spare slots open for trap.
Seconded on robust armour….. divines all the way.

I see many issues with your setup, i don't play necro, but I can give you a couple of tips on itemisation and rotation in general.

1)Default enchantments and traits on your gear. It's especially harmful on jewelry, stamina recovery / stamina chants and robust traits don't contribute anything to your build and you lose really many stats only on that.
Change jewelry glyphs to spell damage, traits of jewelry to arcane/infused/bloodthirsty (in order of priority, BT will provide you with better results overall). Also change chants on weapons. Berserker for infused off-bar staff, flame/poison for precise main-bar staff. Golden weapons grant about 200 spell damage over purple ones btw, pretty noticeable difference. You can fix that in a few minutes and you'll see bigger numbers immediately.

2) You are using only a single bar and only three damaging skills. Sometimes it's fine to have utility spells if you want to save gold on potions or you need to have an ability for surviving, but it's always a trade-off and losing of damage. That is why you shouldn't use Spirit Mender and Magelight while parsing and use Spell Power potions for that (more free stats by the way, you don't have Major Sorcery buff on you).
Still, the whole second bar remains unused at all, i think you've used Blockade once at the start of the fight and forgot about it (Unstable Wall is more damaging morph by the way.) And it's a really big issue, because you don't utilize abilities with higher efficiency per cast, mainly damage over time. And you certainly should use them. Or if you're deadly set on using only a single bar, use Oakensoul instead of Kilt.
In general, damage over time abilities deal more damage per cast than instant damage spammables and that is why spammables are used only when you don't have anything else to cast. As example, if your spammable deals 10k damage instantly, casting it 10 time in a row will result in 100k of total damage, but if you have 5 damage over time abilities that deal 20k over 10 seconds each, you'll use 5 of them and 5 spammables with 10k damage over the same 10 seconds, you'll end with 150k of total damage. It's 1.5 times more dps, numbers aren't very accurate and it's a simplified view on this, but the core idea is the same.
So fill your back bar with damage over time abilities and try to maintain 100% uptime of them on the dummy.

3) The biggest elephant in the room no one told you yet. You don't only have to use abilities in the most efficient order, but to press them fast enough. Over 554 seconds you have used only 246 skills. On average it took you 2.25 seconds between casts of skills. And here you have to learn about GCD. In this game there is the Global Cooldown of 1 second between ability uses. And it means that you should cast an ability exactly once per second for better output. In your case you're slightly than 2 times slower on this. Do you remember that I wrote about using the most efficient ability at the moment? In your case every second ability is doing nothing. Figuratively, you're just not casting skills that you could. Let's return to our example, casting a spammable 10 times in a row over 10 seconds will result in 100k damage overall, but with delay of 2 second between each use you'll be able to cast it only 5 time over the same duration with result of 50k. 2 times difference only on this.
If you have issues tracking GCD, consider installing any GCD tracker addon.

4) Weaving, the holy cow of this community. Light attacks have different and separate GCD from abilities. It's less than a second, but it's not so important, because you'll be using it once per second. You want to use it just before an ability, not otherwise, you can cancel animation of LA with skills but not vice versa. However, weaving alone won't make you a good DD without addressing issues with pace and with abilities. Don't be fooled by people who say you should practice weaving foremost. Practice your core rotation first and when you'll be comfortable with it, start improving your weaving.

5) Testing environment. Use raid dummy for your parses (21m), you can find it in any big guild. You'll see bigger numbers there, but everyone uses it for standardized testing. It grants you some raid buffs, but more importantly, it allows you to test with reduced sustain issues. And trust me, you'll have them on 6m. If you'll improve pace of your rotation, resource consumption will increase as well.

English isn't my native language, so if something isn't clear enough, feel free to ask.