Chronic performance issues

[halcyon lark]

Hi all, I've been running with my team for a long time now, but I have been cut from the progression team due to low DPS. I am devastated (get it, aaa ) and I want to make it right. Please, please take a look at my logs from the past several raids and help me find what I'm doing wrong, in particular where you see patterns from fight to fight or raid to raid since sites like wowanalyzer are a pain trying to compare in this regard.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/hrkg2Bw83QdYx1Ky/

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/GDHtpfh3xAMTnv92/

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/wvRKNBrdCFcYJZ2A/

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/81Mzj3Kw2TXqC4hg/

Sincerely,
Kotodrake-Moon Guard
(PS: I realized just today that running Firestorm on Broodkeeper when I am on adds is dumb. Please do not point this one out. >_> )

[mossy vault]

Looking at your heroic terros pull - https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/GDHtpfh3xAMTnv92/#fight=9&source=12&type=casts

You only cast dragon rage once in a 3 minute pull

You only used your trinket once as well

You don’t cast for 10 seconds at a time

You’re struggling with very basic parts of the evoker rotation. My suggestion is you look at a video like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTYnnH2YMY

Learn what we cast, when we cast it, and why we cast it and sit in front of a dummy and practice

There’s too much going on in your logs to focus on any single thing. You need to start with the basics in the video and practice

Also practice using hover and continuing your rotation as you fly around the dummy

[halcyon lark]

Regarding the trinket in particular, I have that macro'd to DR, is that something I shouldn't do bc I am terrible at manually activating trinkets and have to macro things to remember them

[obsidian fiber]

yes you can macro shadowgem into DR

[halcyon lark]

I watched the Preheat video above like 8 times. I do struggle with movement despite Hover. I know I do use Hover in Terros with the big triangle of bad (forgot its name) and sometimes my UI will show I can cast Dis but it won't actually let me

Also I have HUGE range issues, any thoughts on optimizing this

I feel like as soon as I'm in range something moves again and not even an out-of-range X on my screen is enough apparently

also is there a point to "precasting" LF if the tank has a habit of pulling early

Can anyone glean anything from other fights?

[dense siren]

Yeah you can just keep cancelling the LF -- just by moving around a bit if the tank doesn't actually go in

Also just for reference to anyone else - the logs are in order:
Start of Mythic, (Jan 27, too long ago to really be relevant)
Heroic 7/8 + some Raz
Raz Heroic
Misc everything heroic/mythic

I think I would second Larias that you need more practice, but from a different perspective: consistency. Sometimes you get 37s dragonrages, which is great, that's expected when doing high level content like mythic raiding. Other times you forget to cast it at all. And of course ideally you want to be consistently hitting it, and getting good, efficient use of the cooldown time.

Which leads me to another thing I would ask about: UI/addons. Are you tracking your cooldowns? Do you have spell sound alerts from Weakauras or similar to remind you of certain important events you have to hit (like when your CDs come back online)? Those sorts of things might help set you up for success.

(speaking of WAs, spanky linked this one in Schyll's thread, worth a look at: https://wago.io/gbkcKFk5H)

[halcyon lark]

@dense siren I do use WA extensively and find premade bundles difficult to work with (my brain just doesn't make good use of them) so I make almost all of them myself, plus I use IceHUD for health/mana and more importantly essence tracking. I'm not at my computer so I may miss things but I am tracking DR CD (just yesterday fixed it the way I wanted where it shows when it's almost up and makes noise when it is), essence burst, fire breath/SS/ES/tip the scales CDs. I just added charged blast stacks because I am not utilizing them right nor am I taking advantage of leaping flames/scarlet adaptation in AOE so I have trackers for these now. Of course I do use the default cast bar with that one WA that shows the Disintegration ticks but I learned from that video way better than the description on wowhead why and when you're chaining vs clipping and what that actually looks like in practice. Is there anything else super critical to be tracking?

Oh and burnout procs are visible too

[halcyon lark]

Also on this, my question is more if I start precasting LF but the tank pulls before it goes off, should I cancel LF and go straight into normal opener or just cast it anyway? This situation when the tank pulls early gets me disoriented because I am wondering about this problem

[halcyon lark]

Is there any UI benefit to showing externals affecting me such as PI and lust? I want to track important stuff but not so many things that my screen becomes difficult to interpret in a fight

[dense siren]

Yes imo - increased haste means you are more likely to get DRage extensions -- or just generally cycle through essence bursts and get CD reduction on your empowers faster. If you are usually playing pretty chill then yes, you should have an alert that tells you to up your key input speed/APM