Need tips for increasing damage as fire mage pve

[HUNTERmagic]

Hello guys,
I'm struggling with sub-par dps. Mages with 300 gs lower than me is making 3k more dps.
I've been paying more attention to my positioning, which definitely helped my DPS, but it's still not enough to keep up with other mages. I'm honestly not sure what else to do, so I'm looking for some gameplay tips for ICC.

For example, should I be spamming Living Bomb on the adds during Lady and LK? Also, besides LK and DBS, are there any other good opportunities to pre-cast Flamestrike? Are there any other mechanics or tricks I can take advantage of to boost my damage?

Thanks!

[Whiteman]

well first write your character name, so we can see your items and stats. Dont spam LB on lady and LK because its waste of mana and losing a lot of single target dps as mage

[HUNTERmagic]

https://armory.warmane.com/character...ecrown/profile

this is my armory, sorry

I do the basics. Usually i get 15k on average, but people with lower gear get 18k+

Also, it's ok to spam LB on BPQ?

[Whiteman]

1. gear is okey
2. try to precast on bosses where you can pull from range, start casting on 2 sec before pull
3. use your engi hands after hero, use your mirror / combustion after your hot streak proc and if u have your trinket proc
4. fire mage is so much rng class for crit %, so in some cases you can even have 50% crit while under hero and all procs and then later over fight to get more lucky, so in that case you can lose a lot of dmg.

[ArchShyman]

dear @OP
please try these trick

during Heroism/BL if cast time <=1.5 secs skip LB, focus on Fireball and Pyro only ;
however if u got bad streak of bad luck with no crit thus cast time becomes > 1.5 secs, slip 1 LB


please inform us back if this trick work for you

[TutellaF]

Few quick points:

Beasts take waaay reduced dmg from AoE.

Biggest Flamestrike dmg spike is the initial dmg, so you would have to time it just right at the spawn of Valks so all are hit.

Otherwise Flamestrike has rather small AoE radius, so unless all Valks are stunned to get at least couple of DoT ticks in you would be better with casting something else.

Don't just look at DPS, but overall dmg. If you leave a DoT ticking before boss enters phase when you cannot dmg normally, meters like Recount will still keep counting towards the total time "in fight" (not in combat) that is then used to calculate dps.
If the other mages failed to put LB on target before fly phase, they stop the "in fight" counter sooner thus preserving more "dps" from burst phase.

Don't underestimate latency difference.