Trial bis armor are easy to get and if you play stamina they are very impactful to your DPS sadly.
Lokkestiz (nSS) + New moon Acolyte (craft) seem to be on way to be the top, both easy to get.
Relequent still strong but only on people who can weave correctly, if not it's not worth it.

That said you can do 30-40k w/o problem with no-BiS armor.
I'm not a DPS main so I probably won't be good enough to teach you, but it mostly about finding a good rotation and learning it.

Try to do one LA between each skill, don't try to cancel-animation yet, just put 1 LA each time, and try little by little to be faster at executing the and rotation.

From what I've read on some other thread their is a good amount of decent DPS on the forum so I'm sur yopu gonna find a good guy to help you.

You've the good mentality to not wanna be carry, keep it ^^

GL buddy !

20k is the first big wall, on the learning curve, it's right.

I know I'll give advices you already read 20 times over, but here's how I broke it.

1) constant rotation : apply some dots, then spammable, try to re-apply dots on cooldown. Oftentimes, you won't manage to have 100% uptimes on all dots. It will not prevent you to raise your DPS.

2) Try to have a light attack goes off between every skills. (AKA light attack weaving). It's real hard, when you don't know, and has it's own timing. When done right, it raises your DPS by --> A LOT <-- . Don't let the light attack animation complete. Cancel it with the next skill in your rotation.

3) Gold weapons are very, very important. Very much more important that golden armor. Gold your weapon if it's not already done.

4) Don't forget to keep your weapon's enchants charged.

5) Use pots to raise your crit% and damage.

6) wear good sets


With these, slowly, little by little, I finally managed to break the 35k wall. So can you !
Good luck !