#periodic log analysis
fair herald
just from a quick look
i looked at sausage
as it is mostly a pure single target fight on heroic
your snd uptime is rly bad
should be close to 100%
rupture uptime is also fairly low
for the opener you want to strike-snd-symbols-er-(finish)-dance
using er in dance is not that great
there is a long delay after first dance before using your 2nd charge, not sure what the reason is for that
it seems like you lost a global in your 2nd dance
same in the follow up one
the slice and dice refresh here should have been before dance
again lost globals in dance
lost globals + er in dance
symbols with a huge delay, snd followed up as well as a questionable backstab
symbols with no dance alignment
shadow dance with low amount of globals used
symbols without dance
dance with downtime before using abilities, also symbols during dance and symbols mid dance
again er in dance
shadow dance with a lot of lost globals
so basically you rly need to play your shadow dance better
you can't on a boss that is basically patchwerk have this much lost globals during shadow dance
also looking at your er buff uptime, it seems you missed quite some anima charged combo points
To explain what you need to do to improve:
#1 Try to optimize your uptime on the target!
This is essential, you generate combo points and damage from auto attacks, having this much downtime is rly bad. On top of that you had downtimes often while using shadow dance.
Use Sprint/shadow step/vanish-teleport to get higher uptime, also only run out of reach if rly needed, don't stress out.
If the aoe effect comes you can use Cloak or shadow step to get close to no downtime.
#2 slice and dice (and rupture, but very important slice and dice).
Slice and dice accelerates your combo point and energy generation from shadow dance, so you want to have a as close to 100% uptime as possible. If you have troubles keeping it up get a weaura, it is very important to know when you need to re-apply it.
#3 your covenant ability, ER
The ability is best to be used on cooldown outside of shadow dance
usually followed up by a finisher if you can hit a charged cp value
the minigame rly needs to be played, if you don't you lose a lot of the value from the covenant
you don't need to stress out about it
you just hit it when possible, but should be able to do that during the duration of it
if you don't hit them you lose a lot of cooldown reduction from finishers
it is in combination with poorly played shadow dance one of the main reason your uptime is so bad
the average uptime of shadow dance is around 60%, your log is around 45
this is fine, everyone starts out with mistakes, so just try to focus on playing your dance efficiently.
#4 splay shadow dance efficiently
you want to use it very agressively
BUT also need to care for your symbols
so as a example, if you get symbols up in 7 secs but just hit your first charge of shadow dance, you probably want to wait for symbols to line it up
in addition to that, the main purpose of shadow dance is shadow strike
so you always want to start dance with strike
e.g. the last image shows dance-finish
this shouldn't happen because you would never start shadow dance on finishing cp amount
if you have high cp, you would finish-dance
the reason you shouldn't use your covenant ability during dance is similar
you basically lose casts in shadow dance
So i hope the points i brought up are helpful, i can go more in detail if you have more questions towards one of it
strong eagle
Whoa, a threat, nice
And thank you for the detailed analysis. That's a lot to read.
So #1 makes sense. I didn't think I was out of range, but maybe I was mis-estimating my melee range here or there. Now that I think about it, we had a ton of black puddles in this pull and it was hard to stay on the boss.
#2 is a really good call-out. It's hard to see the benefit of S&D and Rupture and so I think I've been forgetting about them. I'll tweak my WAs to be more clear about making sure I keep them up. Too often I'd start an SD or SoD and then realize my S&D or Rupture were falling off.
I'll really pay more attention to #4. I know I've caught myself doing Dance - Finish before. Time to start paying more attention to the Shadowstrikes.
strong eagle
Been messing around with it and I think that focusing on Shadowstrike during Dance is making a big difference. Thanks for that tip.