you are *carried* only if another dd in your party

does tremendous dps and everybody cryes about your

low dps and how they carry you...


if you are doing ~40% of your party dps with your 16k

(lol 16k is about just light attacks and nothing more - elitist comment)

then you are not carried - just playing with equal

low skill lower league players. (elitist comment again lol)

if noone complains and you with your friends

are having fun - nothing to worry about.


but if you want to *l2p & gitgud* then welcome to

the long but rewarding road of practice rotations, min/maxing, practice and...practice


best of luck anyway

Practice, Practice, Practice your rotation
Keep yourself self-buffed up
Let your DOTs run their course where possible
Keep bar swapping to a minimum - set-up your skill-bars for the most effective rotation for you
Layer your DOT's and refresh as needed (Theres an Addon that shows a timer cooldown on each skill on your bar)
Make sure your Weapons have the correct Trait + Enchant
Make sure to use Spell Damage / Crit potions when practicing on the dummy
Have a friend use 'Weakness to Elements' on the Dummy

One test on the dummy is nowhere near enough - you really do have to practice.
There can be many, many things that affect your DPS results. For example, a friend was using Purple food as they thought it was the best in game (being purple). Obviously it isnt, and after switching to Witch-mother brew his DPS jumped up by about 9k.
A Guildie was using a Destro staff with an unhelpful Powered trait, they bought it because it was cheap and didn't realise the effect it could have. Changing to a useful trait and making the staff gold increased his DPS.
'Silly' little mistakes like this can have a devastating effect.

Also, I notice that you don't mention which armour sets you are using.
I understand that you have upgraded them to gold, but are they actually the best sets for you to be using?
Making armour pieces gold has quite a small effect on stats, however making weapons gold has quite a huge effect.

I'd like you to do a test again on the dummy - this time ONLY use your self buffs and Heavy Lightening staff attacks.
No other damaging skills.
Even with just this, you should get 10k very easily.
This might help define whether it is your armour sets / stats that are the problem, or your rotation / skills used.

siddique wrote: »

If you want more cheese, use Zaan, Siroria and Spell Strategist.

Back bar: ele drain, daedric prey, liquid lightning, blockade, twilight
Front bar: force pulse/elemental weapon, crystal frags, bound aegis, mages wrath, twilight

Before you start the parse, put the eledrain on the dummy. Gulp spell pot, drop storm atro.

Light Attack - Liquid Lightning - Light Attack - Blockade - Light Attack, Daedric Prey (animation cancel to front bar)

Light Attack - Force Pulse (x3) if frag procs, use it asap, bar swap, repeat.

Apply daedric prey upon explosion, gulp pot on cooldown, drop atro as soon as available. Maybe every second or third rotation, reapply ele drain.

If there is someone else to ele drain for you, you can simply skip that and use bound aegis on back bar as well or some other skill.

As soon as dummy hits 20 percent, execute with mages wrath.

P.s, jewelry with spell damage, Infused or Bloodthirsty.

Well, I understand why top players are doing all this cheesy things, it's important to grab max possible numbers. But if person parses for personal use, i.e. just to do their job in dps role, what's the point of drinking potion before the parse and other similar things? I'll say OP should start with simple things like keeping up self-buffs, main dots and LA weaving, find balance between sustain, spammable and damage and only after when all that is working with good efficiency (75%+ light attacks weaved, 90%+ dots and buffs uptime), he may start thinking about different tricks.

myskyrim26 wrote: »

Recently I started doing pledges and random dungeons with my PetSorc, CP 670. I go with my guildmates or random players, and these are always vet dungeons. The bosses are melting, I'm never dying and never get kicked. Yet I can't get rid of feeling that I'm... carried. How do I know I'm not? Installed Combat Metric today, but can't make a head or tail of it. What addon can I use to check how much damage I'm doing in percents? And what percent should a DD do?

UPD: I tired to kill my Skeleton. It took 3 minutes 4 seconds, and result is 16364 DPS. I want to uninstall this game. So much efforts during recent months, and all useless...

It’s stuff like this why so many people write this game off as the biggest pos ever. You’re not alone. Shouldn’t really be possible right. Something must be going wrong here.

Then some forum jockey will come here and tell you they get 20k DPS with some nothing but lightning staff heavy attacks.
( that is very easy and completely possible, has been proven btw) also, that was before the new raid dummy existed. It’s probably more now.

So then, all your efforts trying to improve from an intuitive standpoint; just kind of went out the window.

DPS For this game, follows pretty straight forward design. Buff up. Debuff your target. Lay down your dots(damage over time) swap bar. Maybe lay down another dot or two. Light attack weave the spammable a few times.
Start over.
Remember to use your ultimates. Remember to keep buffing up. Light attack between every skill. Then executes when the time comes.

I don’t know what kind of build your trying to use or what all content you’re trying to do, but it sounds like you’re well on your way. Hammer out a simple easy to repeat rotation and you’re golden.

Know that hybrids do not work well. You want all your attributes into magic or Stam depending on the build. Use appropriate food. And everything you thaught you knew about your build is subject to change the next patch.

Guardna wrote: »

Kalgert wrote: »

SaintSubwayy wrote: »

Kalgert wrote: »

AbysmalGhul wrote: »

myskyrim26 wrote: »

I tired to kill my Skeleton. It took 3 minutes 4 seconds, and result is 16364 DPS. I want to uninstall this game. So much efforts during recent months, and all useless...

Don't give up man. Just keep practicing!

How about me? I've been killing skeletons for months, using different skills, attacking and quickly using a skill when I hear the distinct "clank" that the skeleton makes, even switched to a two-hander (As it turns out oddly enough, I do more DPS with a two-hander than I do with dual-wielding), and all I can muster at most is 17 to 18k. My damage only improved by 2k from 15k when I went Stamina from Magicka on my Dragon Knight, and roughly 1k after switching to a two-hander.

What does that say about me, who has been hitting a skeleton for months and has noticed no significant improvement?

And no, I refuse to give websites the time of day, considering they're so horribly designed, that I feel actual physical pain trying to read through them.

well the refusal to check out builds and parses on websites says something about you.
namel< that you are to , lets say lazy, to check out other peoples approach tho wthis problem, and the ignoreance to accept help by viewing vids etc.

you accept help, in your case the tips to keep pratiticing, if they are brought up to you, but you turn down suggestion like checking homepages cause then you would have to read throuh a text and maybe watch a video to understand the reasons behind certain skills or sets used.

if its really unpleasent to read a guide on certain homepages, then you can still mark the whole text and copy it over into a wrod, and print out, this is not an excuse to ignore the guides online!

that the fundamental flaw all arround the globe these days, to lazy to do stuff yourself, but other should be the ones investing time and teaching you how something works. this calculations will never add up over the long run, since ppl will get bored giving you tips if you donw follow them.

sorry if it offends you but thats how I interpret your post.

Here's how my experience was when I checked Alcast:
"Okay I wanna be a Stamina DK, here is one... Not a big fan of the black background on white text, but whatever. This is guide feels too wordy, with information scattered all around the place, not interested."
Then Xynode:
"Ugh, who's idea was it to leave the Elsweyr logo as a background? Some things I can't even properly read. This is the worst website I've seen yet for game guides!"
Maybe it was me unlucky or something, but I tried watching a video, the individual commentating sounded about as enthusiastic as a loaf of soggy bread, and talked non-stop about things, when I was thinking "Get to the point already!".

Ultimately, I feel like guides are useless, as you can do whatever they tell you, but it doesn't guarantee results if you don't get the playstyle or if you hate the playstyle. That and I just don't trust/respect the person writing the guide. Got burned too many times before.

Also I find it brave that you consider me "Lazy", as it would imply that I am doing absolutely nothing with myself and just sit there staring at the sky, and then going to the forums to yell "My DPS is not improving!". And when I say "Do nothing" I mean literally not do anything. Hitting a skeleton, using different skills and weapons and farming Fighters Guild shows that I am actually doing SOMETHING.

Or I can just play tank. It may not be as satisfying as a DPS, but it's something I can play and am excelling at, so that is a positive (InB-Four some keyboard warrior comes screeching "This is an admission of defeat! You will never achieve anything in life!" Or some other B.S)

People this days are so spoiled.Oh no, this web site doesnt look pretty enough lets ignore its content even though all the information on it is important for me to improve and i went out of my way to find that but cant get over the looks and people in videos dont overhype and oversell the build and say it plain and simple and i dont like that and i hope they get the the point and say the magic formula for dps instead of taking their time to explan every single bit and reasoning about their build so it helps others understand and and use it better but no its too long and boring for me too listen so i will instead complain about my bad performance on forums and say there is nothing i could have done about it.Thats how you sound.

And you sound like a jackass and are intentionally misrepresenting my points with a childish demeanor.

The way a website looks and how information is spread out is, unsurprisingly, rather important. If the information is spread out all over the place, or it's ontop of a layout that makes it hard to read, no one is gonna bother as it looks like the person put little effort in making it presentable.

And when I talk about the videos, it is because someone sounding like he's about to fall asleep makes for a very unpassionate video, that reflects onto the viewers. And I say this as someone who's working on a video with commentary, if I sound like as I usually do (Very relaxed and quiet), only people I'll attract are those who need ASMR to fall asleep. It's not to oversell to a bunch of children with ADD, but to simply express a bit of passion.

You can disagree all you want, but that's how it is. Got a problem? Then eat me.

Edit: Besides, I've been playing as a tank for a majority of my recent relapse. Less stressful and I don't need to deal with having people give me *** about "ur not diing enuf dps". Admitively I woulld like to unwind and just play as a DPS, but I am too considerate to my own detriment of other players to just queue as a DPS and take glorious *** on people who'd decide to talk trash to me.