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Shiverlynn
I use all my cooldowns self-buffed (but no consumables).
Since you will buff yourself with your own buffs you may as well include them in your DPS calculation, same goes for the cooldowns and trinkets. I don't include consumables because you need to know your minimal DPS, and it might vary depending on the food and potions you take.
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Quest
I use all my cooldowns self-buffed (but no consumables).
Since you will buff yourself with your own buffs you may as well include them in your DPS calculation, same goes for the cooldowns and trinkets. I don't include consumables because you need to know your minimal DPS, and it might vary depending on the food and potions you take.
If you are using a consumable anyway, its silly not to include it. Its not like its cheating.
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MischievousLoki
I use all my cooldowns self-buffed (but no consumables).
Since you will buff yourself with your own buffs you may as well include them in your DPS calculation, same goes for the cooldowns and trinkets. I don't include consumables because you need to know your minimal DPS, and it might vary depending on the food and potions you take.
If you are using a consumable anyway, its silly not to include it. Its not like its cheating.
I don't know many people who want to waste a flask on target dummies.
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svirve
I waste flasks on target dummies.. But then again I dont need flasks i'm svirve...
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Quest
I use all my cooldowns self-buffed (but no consumables).
Since you will buff yourself with your own buffs you may as well include them in your DPS calculation, same goes for the cooldowns and trinkets. I don't include consumables because you need to know your minimal DPS, and it might vary depending on the food and potions you take.
If you are using a consumable anyway, its silly not to include it. Its not like its cheating.
I don't know many people who want to waste a flask on target dummies.
Why waste mana buffing yourself?
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MischievousLoki
I use all my cooldowns self-buffed (but no consumables).
Since you will buff yourself with your own buffs you may as well include them in your DPS calculation, same goes for the cooldowns and trinkets. I don't include consumables because you need to know your minimal DPS, and it might vary depending on the food and potions you take.
If you are using a consumable anyway, its silly not to include it. Its not like its cheating.
I don't know many people who want to waste a flask on target dummies.
Why waste mana buffing yourself?
Why be argumentative for no reason?
A warrior in the same gear doing the same test would still battle shout. The idea is that you're just setting your baseline for what other people would solo-test themselves at as well, for comparison purposes.
The mana from buffing yourself comes back in the first second of the fight D:
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Quest
I don't know many people who want to waste a flask on target dummies.
Why be argumentative for no reason?
wat.
Anyway my baseline includes Flasks. Everything else is a veritable based on what group Im running.
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MischievousLoki
Everything else is a
veritable
based on what group Im running.
Everything else is a metaphor?
Do you mean 'Everything else is variable...'?
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Squishalot
Everything else is a
veritable
based on what group Im running.
Everything else is a metaphor?
Do you mean 'Everything else is variable...'?
Variable, probably.
I generally self-buff, no consumeables, all cooldowns allowed, including AW. That means that any number I produce will generally be conservative, meaning that my group will never be disappointed.
On the other hand, if you've done a lot of single-boss heroics before, you can quote a 'real life' example and tell them that you can do 2400 on Keristrasza or other tank'n'spank bosses. No need to refer to a dummy at all.
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Quest
Remember to consecrate!
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MischievousLoki
On the other hand, if you've done a lot of single-boss heroics before, you can quote a 'real life' example and tell them that you can do 2400 on Keristrasza or other tank'n'spank bosses. No need to refer to a dummy at all.
Just make sure that if you do this for a raid boss, you tell them if it was 10 or 25, because everyone does a lot more damage in 25s due to there being more buffs/debuffs.
So say if you tell them you did 5k DPS on your last Patchwerk (and you mean 25-man) then when you do Patchwerk on 10-man, you're probably not going to hit 5k.
Post by
PureGold
This.
I HATE target dummies, mechanical bastards.
Edit: (side note) My rogue has done more dps in a 10 man setting than a 25 so raid stacking is more important than 10 or 25 in some cases.
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