Tri-DPSING in raids (hardcore raiding mindset)

[Fursphere]

There are many fights in which as either caster or melee this is possible. After reading EJ and seeing many unholy DK's pulling over 6k dps in heroics i ran on my tank (some were even undergeared) i was thinking that something like a DK with a 1 button rotation like they can have would be great for such a thing(as they nolonger use SS glyph), as well as things like arcane mages. I don't see many instances where having multiple shaman would be useful for such a thing as their DPS is quite low comparably to other such classes that can have 1 button type DPS rotations (not able to break 7k).

Starting off with a bang on this one. Once again, you're dead wrong. Niley is pulling 10k dps with his Shaman (pre-ICC release).

[Zal]

Starting off with a bang on this one. Once again, you're dead wrong. Niley is pulling 10k dps with his Shaman (pre-ICC release).

I'm guessing thats fully raid buffed, over 3k spell power, ~40% crit, and around 750-900 haste? Otherwise i highly doubt thats possible. (saying niley is ele shaman, i don't know him/her)

Edit: Nevermind, found an armory link. Its possible.

[Fursphere]

I'm guessing thats fully raid buffed, over 3k spell power, ~40% crit, and around 750-900 haste? Otherwise i highly doubt thats possible. (saying niley is ele shaman, i don't know him/her)

Edit: Nevermind, found an armory link. Its possible.

Ya I was skeptical too at first - but I've seen the profile, and I've seen the screenshots. Its possible.

[Akoko]

I was actually worried about the future of my 3x mages once they hit 80. Is Naxx really that unfriendly to multiboxers? How about Ulduar? I've never even seen Ulduar and I've only ran Naxx as a single boxer about a year ago and don't really recall any fights that seemed particularly movement intensive except for Thaddius and Heigan the Unclean. Could anyone with experience DPS multiboxing give me some opinions on the feasibility of 3x ranged dps in raids?

[Fuzzyboy]

Starting off with a bang on this one. Once again, you're dead wrong. Niley is pulling 10k dps with his Shaman (pre-ICC release).

That's in heroics on a lvl 82 boss with heroism right and cooldowns right? There' s big difference between pulling 10k dps on a 300 second fight on a lvl 83 raid boss and on a 15-sec fight on a lvl 82 heroic boss :-)

[Niley]

That's in heroics on a lvl 82 boss with heroism right and cooldowns right? There' s big difference between pulling 10k dps on a 300 second fight on a lvl 83 raid boss and on a 15-sec fight on a lvl 82 heroic boss :-)

not quite, it was on a boss dummy, em popped first after em ran out i used heroism. No fire elementals, single target.
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6...2409232049.jpg
This is from few months ago.


On my shaman in raid setting i can pull over 10k dps(solo of course)
heres a log:
http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/11441787#damageout
close to 11k....but not quite there yet.

[Fuzzyboy]

not quite, it was on a boss dummy, em popped first after em ran out i used heroism. No fire elementals, single target.
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6...2409232049.jpg
This is from few months ago.

So most of the fight with either lust or EM on a short duration fight (although admittedly longer than initially assumed) :-)... You can easily pump up numbers by controlling the context - ie. lock/dk/druid debuff + lust + arcane mage spamming arcane blast. Sure, he would be out of mana fairly quickly, but you'd see very high numbers.

I don't think competitive progression (as in "hardcore") is really an option while multiboxing, but then again perhaps dual-boxing with a class that has an easy rotation might work. Either way I think the thing to keep in mind is that in terms of raiding, boxing doesn't really have any advantages (as opposed to for example coordinated burst in pvp), so the only reason to really do it would be if a raid was short on dps'ers - which these days is a fairly unlikely scenario :P

[Tiburon502]

The orbs in Nileys screen by his bars is the left HP and right mana, and if so yours or the targets? Was wondering because it says 53k on left.

[Niley]

The orbs in Nileys screen by his bars is the left HP and right mana, and if so yours or the targets? Was wondering because it says 53k on left.

that was my paladins hp, its around 55.4k now.

[Zaelar]

On my shaman in raid setting i can pull over 10k dps(solo of course)
heres a log:
http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/11441787#damageout
close to 11k....but not quite there yet.

You didn't switch to blood beasts(except for chain lightning bounces) and you got hit 12 times. Either you're bad or this was a farm kill and you didn't care and were just trying to inflate the damage meter. Considering you got hit 12 times without attacking the adds this begs the question, is the log bugged?