ST Surv on Terros.

[rugged stone]

Im not sure if im doing stuff correctly because i feel like i should be doing more dmg on terros or maybe im missing some small thing.
I did see another one of Thyminde's log reviews talking about focus management and ill be honest i have no idea if my idea of the focus management is correct or wrong.
Any help is appreciated.
The log is on my guild first Terros kill so the last part is prob a bit stressed and with alot of problems.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/NJTXHhYBCQdzjPmR#fight=16&type=summary&source=68

[fair sand]

Very quick first look: your spearhead opener is off.

Flanking strike should be a last resort button to push in spearhead but you pushed it 5gcds into your window. You should be aiming to go mbx2 KC through the entire window, only MBing 3 times if you have too much focus because of a proc or if your KC didn't reset. After that flanking you use MB 5 times without KCing.

[rugged stone]

okay, thanks for even that quick look 😀 I think im useing the FS inside the Spearhead because i feel that not having it on CD was wrong, i've been trying to keep it on CD as much a possible without capping.

[fair sand]

Normally yea you'd want to get FS on cooldown but deadlyduo stacks have higher priority to consume than FS. It will also let you fill with a FS if you get really unlucky with 4p procs if you hold it since without the 4p you can easily run out of focus before SH window ends since of you can't KC with 2 stacks and you can't MB then you need to FS

[fair sand]

Here you throw a red bomb, but then only get one KC out of it because you throw flanking in there because you're basically completely out of focus

you see right at 1:51 you hit 31 focus and began another mongoose window despite having a bomb ready (especially a red!)

You should try to avoid starting fury windows below 65 focus and be loooking to try and generate focus or fill with bombs, which I think you do know because I see other places where you run out of focus as mongoose fury ends and then double bomb and generate a bunch of focus before starting another fury window.

You had red bomb available, KC available (used at 1:45 so it came up, and flanking strike. You actually even idled a GCD for a bit to be able to mongoose at 30 focus

So you could've flanking strike there, then KC, then began your fury window at near full focus

Idleing your GCD because you've run out of focus, you can when this happens throw that bomb rather than idleing

At 3:41 you're high focus and outside of a fury window and throw a blue bomb instead of beginning fury

Here you flanking strike up to 80 focus and then mongoose bite down to 50 but rather than pushing KC when it came off cooldown, you mongoose bite again. which you further compound a little later

1 is your flanking, 2 and 3 are the bites, then you KC, but if you KC'd earlier, that 4 would've come earlier and you wouldn't be bottoming out on focus like that as early.

The little bits that KC idles off cooldown when you could've pushed it add up over time to a lot of missed mongoose bites

Right after that there's a big gap. I'm assuming while you were moving for a mechanic. Pretty much every mechanic you can keep dpsing through unless it gets real hairy on Terros since he has such a big hitbox.

At 4:56 you kill shot during your spearhead window while spearhead ends at 4:58. Don't want to be using kill shot in spearhead

Basically boils down to your focus management could be better

[rugged stone]

Thanks alot for taking your time to look at it. Ill keep these thing in mind and try to improve 🙂

Okay so i tried to implement what you have told me. And during this weeks Terros Reclear i was around 70k dps by the end of the fight, at least according to details, unfortunatly we had too many one too many of our healers dead and i died as i had run out of deffensives. But your advice certainly improved my dps by alot

[mental ivy]

not much to add here. although

i would advise you to switch to sophic devotion on your next weapon or even your current weapon

also im not sure if you are aware of this

but puzzlebox is not actually on the global cooldown

you could have used it alongside kill Command which would have saved you a full GCD

this also would have meant you could use your last puzzlebox sooner, and on gcd here alongside the MB

you also never used a second potion (consumable)

and left blood fury/orc racial on CD to pair it with your second spearhead.

if you pair all these things together

you could have had an entirely free puzzlebox + blood fury + spearhead + potion combo for the last ~12 seconds of the fight.

one final thing i'd recommend doing is try to sim the difference versus elemental chaos and tepid versa.

they're both good flasks for us

ele chaos tends to be slightly better when we have the 4 set. but tepid versa can beat it depending on your stats

especially on a fight like terros this can be helpful for its defensive benefit.

[rugged stone]

im really happy with all the attention this is getting from both of you as it has already improved my dps by about 10k overall.
@mental ivy I have Crafted a 418 weap with Fang and used Sophic Devo (Rank 3) on it too. Also the Neck is now also 418 just need a JW to make me the gem

now im just notizing that i hit Focus cap a bit much at pull

[fair sand]

71 focus don't hit KC

since it'll overcap it

If you get a 4p proc in your spearhead and are high focus you can MB a third time

[rugged stone]

thanks i was getting abit confused as to where i should and shouldnt use third MB with proc at high Focus

Heres a Raza pull on NM i just did where i feel like the Focus line is looking alot closer to the top logs.
Im still trying to improve my gameplay and implement all your suggestions but old habbits die hard.

[rugged stone]

Also i did not know that, thanks for the tip (of the spear)

[fair sand]

yeah that's a much more healthy looking focus graph

A lot less spiky and a higher average focus

[mental ivy]