There’s a pretty wide variety of rotations, depending what you’re looking for. They range from simple and effective, to very complicated and difficult to squeeze out a few more % damage. Since it sounds like you’re fairly new to this, I’ll give you a decent compromise between damage and ease of play.

Front Bar: Force Pulse, Purifying Light, Radiant Oppression, Flex Slot/Shield, Inner Light, Crescent Sweep

Back Bar: Unstable Wall, Blazing Spear, Mystic Orb, Channeled Focus, Inner Light, Shooting Star

The rotation is: Channeled Focus, Mystic Orb, Blazing Spear, Unstable Wall, bar swap,
Purifying, 5X Force Pulse, Purifying, bar swap,
Mystic Orb, Blazing Spear, Unstable Wall, bar swap,
3X Force Pulse, Purifying, 2X Force Pulse, bar swap,
Repeat

This might seem complicated at first glance, but to break it down into key presses it’s not so bad. Basically starting on back bar you do 4, 3, 2, 1. Then on front bar you have 7 skills to cast, which start and end with Purifying Light, so 2,1,1,1,1,1,2. Then to back bar for a simple 3,2,1 (Focus on 4 is still running from last cast). And front bar again for a 1,1,1,2,1,1. There are only 6 casts front bar this time since you’ll need to go to back bar and refresh Focus before recasting your 3 back bar DoTs.

When you get the boss down to about 35%-40% Health you can start casting Oppression instead of Force Pulse, with each RO cast filling the time of 2 FP.

Use either ultimate on cooldown, replacing one Force Pulse at any point in the rotation.

When you get comfortable with this simple rotation you can consider adding a few other things to it. Barbed Trap or Channeled Accel can replace back bar Inner Light to add Minor Force and increase DPS by a few %, but the rotation becomes more dynamic and Trap requires you to move into melee range. Elemental Weapon can replace Force Pulse once you’ve mastered light attack weaving, but until then stick with Force Pulse. With Ele Weapon every missed light attack becomes a missed spammable, so really need close to 100% weaving before it becomes good. Solar Barrage is another good DPS skill, with a 10s duration like your other DoTs so it fits easily in a static rotatio if you ever want to add it. The complications with Barrage are that it’s damage is split between Light Attacks (buffing them with Empower) and a player based AoE, so it’s only worth using with good light attack weaving and if you are in melee distance. One more good DPS skill to consider is Ritual of Retribution, which is a large AoE and also heals you and allies. Ritual is expensive to cast so it makes sustain more difficult, and the duration does not line up with other skills so it makes the rotation dynamic (worth using once you’ve mastered the class, but not easy for beginners).

Hopefully this helps.

Whats the deal with barbed trap? Using a stamina ability seems like a big dps waste

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

naturebased wrote: »

Whats the deal with barbed trap? Using a stamina ability seems like a big dps waste

There’s just no other good way to get Minor Force. Barbed Trap is more efficient than Channeled Acceleration for most fights, and the sets that give Minor Force are not worth using (Medusa and Twilight Remedy). If a Magicka version of Tzogvins existed this would be a very different story.

I wouldn’t say Minor Force is even a necessity to do well, but it will add 1-2k DPS.

Theres no healer or tank skill that gives this?

U can ask your Tank If he wants to guard you
Overall minor Force will add more than 1-2k.
As a Magicka DPS you normally Play with Mother's Sorrow and percise Frontbar Staff. So you have at least 70% krit.
Every critical Hit will do 10% more dmg with that Buff.
At avarage only your light attacks will hit at least for 1k more dmg (i set a very low avarage here).
And light attacks are only one Part of your Rotation. Add Up your spammable, your aoe's, your Dots, other direct dmg abilitys and of course your Finisher.
You will notice the increase of DPS with minor Force more as better you become in your Rotation (Weaving/Uptimes/etc).