Yeah apparently fully decked out people (no undaunted) have shown meters of them hitting approx 35k. They are running Julianos/moondancer/vma staffs.
The main thing I found was that you really need that get your rotation down. Clean it up and really get that animation cancelling down. A smoother rotation can add about 5k more dps to be honest.
Best I can do is 22.1k (No Undaunted/Mages/Scathing/Mixed Staves/MD Inferno)
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I started with 23,5k DPS with first tests on Magicka Templar and now i can do 33k+ on a 3kk Life dummy and 30k+ permanent without sustain problems. I listen to others and selfbuffed without offbalance are nearly all classes touch maximal 35k DPS. There are few, they do more, but there are enough who fake this damage. I think, when you able to do 30k DPS (selfbuffed), you are fine
Check your CP, you do main damage with only magicka spells? Else Julianos > Warmaiden and you dont need to farm it. Monsterset you can farm fast (first with unliked traits and later you search for the right ones; divines trait and crit mundus for DPS). Willpower Juwelry is cheak now. Staff is fine to have a crafted with right trait, sharpened > all. Better 2 sharpened selfcrafted as bad vMSA Staffs. You need to upgrade this to golden for max DPS. Then create a good build. Notice, that a lot of damage you can do with animation canceling. I got 20% damage over weapon attacks. Blobs made a good video via Youtube to show how it works. hf