Hi,
Ok I see you point, correct me if I am wrong :
1/ You want swap from 2T9+2T10 to 4T10 but you loose stats in the process because you downgrade the ilvl of you shoulders from Stifened Corpse Shoulders (264) to Bloodmage Shoulder (251). As you said before you loosed 2%crit and gain 3%haste
2/ You see somes mages in dungeon and you beat them meanwhile they where better geared than you. But you beat them by doing more than 5k dps (if i got you correctly)
3/ You are not raiding, because you cannot join and you assume it's because of your gearscore
There are the points i can give you :
The lost you get on on crit is well compensated by the haste gain you will get and moreover by the 4T10 bonus
And a good side effect is that if you fix your spec (by going TTW for example which is simply better (even for dungeon)) you will get more chance to get into a serious raid, because a smart RaidLeader looking at 2 candidates seing one of the in 2T9+2T10 and with and unoptimized spec, and a 2d one with 4T10 and with an optimized spec, will know for sure that the second one have stronger ways to get better DPS than the 1rst
Mages low dpsing in dungeon will ever be, in fact Mages have a long casting time so the only way to get decent dps on trash in dungeon is to be haste oriented, or to play arcane. Or to be really used to farm dungeons and have smart targets. With you gear and playing TTW on dungeon bosses I can pull at least 7 to 8k dps, with 4T10 easely jump to 9-10k
To my mind you shouldn't take that much importance to how to play mage in dungeon, because basically if you play mage in dungeon the way they are meant to be played in raid you will still maxxing your dps, compare to raid, in dungeons : rotation doesn't change, hit cap doesn't change, mob priority doesn't change the only thing that change is that in raid with a huge number of buff your character will be on steroids ^^ , the only difference is that in raid during trash mobs you will way more aoeing than you will in dungeons
I can give you advice on how to play via discord if you want, (pm on the forum if you want)
But do not assume if you see random ppl pulling 5k dps from their character it's because this is how it's meant to be, a lot of people especially in dungeon and low raiding instances are just casual players which never took the time to minmax their gameplay. While i am leveling my characters from 0gs to BIS gear, at any point before 6k dps, i just double the damage done by most (aroung 90% i meet) of the mage (especially unexperienced once) at my level of gs, just by outplaying them in terms of mechanics and gameplay.
Tiny
PS : Classic TTWFire is the spec you should go for if you want to minmaxing you char and be more seriously taken by smart RLs :
https://rpgworld.altervista.org/335/...00000000000000