I am curious about your dps rotation. Here are some facts:


1) expose buff is renewed on every shape change (also bear -> man). It is enough to use it once and then never again. Just don´t forget to switch form within 15s.

2) trash makes +15% damage buff. Don´t forget to return to bear form within 12s.

3) to use trash tier 2/3 you have 5s window. You are not able to go in man form and back within these 5s.

4) if you want to use trash tier 3, you don´t have enough time to renew the dot from slash.

5) bash and biting edge (dot) are dealing the most damage.


So there are two main approaches in my eyes: you are going for trash t3 or slash t3.

Trash t3:

trash t1 -> bash/rending blows/vicious claw/bees -> trash t2 -> bash/rending blows/vicious claw/bees -> trash t3 -> bash/rending blows/vicious claw/bees -> slash -> biting edge -> trash t1 -> ....


or short: 3xtimes trash + random bear skill and then slash + biting edge.

This random bear skill should be: rending blows, vicious claws, bees, bash, Nature´s vengeance, in this order. (of ocurse, you start the fight with expose -> trash -> bash)


Slash tier 3:

achieve the t3 dot and then use only trash t2: slash -> biting edge -> trash t1 -> bash/rending blows/vicious claw/bees -> trash t2 -> bash/rending blows/vicious claw/bees -> slash -> ...

the issue here is that biting edge might not be of cd, so you need insert 1 skill more in between (slam). Not sure right now.


Thus my question: Do you have something better?

If you are thinking what about execute and FR+RM combo, it is just a dps loss in my eyes.

The most damage is done in dots and that means the crit chance is much more important than one harder hiting skill (execute). Using execute means losing 12% crit chance and stucked longer in man form to generate the wrath.

Also, it is very difficult to fire execute because it is procs. And that means that quite often you will have less than 100 wrath and thus you won´t get the bonus damage for full wrath.


FR+RM combo is good in group of enemies, but weak against 1 target. Well, ok, it isn´t weak, just sligthly weaker. Still a dps loss.