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Originally Posted by Vexenu
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Do you really think that landing a single 675 DD nuke per kill on mobs with 6-10k HP counts as "sustained DPS"?
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The definition of sustained is "continuing for an extended period or without interruption".
Landing one Ice Strike per mob on average is indeed the definition of sustained DPS.
This is why you can create a solo video mimicking a group situation. You just need to math out how many offensive spells you can cast on a mob per fight. This is just a question of average fight duration, average time between pulls, and respawn timers.
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Originally Posted by Vexenu
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In the video, you made plenty of other contributions to the trio besides DPS, so throwing out a nuke here and there is perfectly fine. But in a theoretical 4 man group with 2 Enchanter pets DPSing/tanking and a Cleric healing, you aren't needed for anything but slowing, buffing pets and DPSing. And given that spamming JBB is your best sustained DPS, along with your pet and the occasional Bane of Nife or Ice Strike, you won't even be maintaining 50 DPS over a long grind.
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Let me ask you this. If DPS is a primary factor for your play preferences, Wouldn't Enchanter/Enchanter/Enchanter/Shaman be better since the Shaman is providing DPS, while a Cleric is not?
I clearly showed in my video that the Shaman can do all of the tanking for the pets, so you don't need CH to keep the pets up. This means in this group the Shaman is providing at least 30 DPS over a Cleric. DPS will be a bit higher with buffing the Charmed pets with Avatar, and having the pets attack from behind for the entire fight. I just haven't parsed that yet to know the exact amount.