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Ranged DPS Advanced Guide - Essential Tricks & Tips
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Welcome to Wowhead’s Ranged DPS Advanced guide. In this guide, we will discuss some relevant topics for all range DPS to get new range DPS players up and running and go beyond for the more experienced players. We will be looking at the range DPS ABCs and going into essential concepts that will help players get the most out of their characters.
About the Author
This guide is written by
Kib
, who raids in
Strawberry Puppy Kisses
. You can catch him online on his
Stream
.
Always be casting
As a range DPS your primary goal will be to do as much damage as possible while staying alive and executing the fight mechanics correctly. One of the easiest ways to increase your DPS is to fill up more GCDs. The following sections will cover some tips and tricks to be more efficient as a ranged DPS.
Positioning as Ranged
Positioning as ranged is not as self-evident as melee and is often not something most range players will think about. While as range you don’t have to be at a specific location to DPS you can still think ahead of time and position yourself in anticipation for future abilities requiring movement or to reduce future movement.
To give you a concrete example of this, we can use the
Mythic Ghuun encounter
from
奥迪尔
.
In phase 2 when the
喋喋不休的恐兽
spawn it is a common strategy to drag it to the back of the room before killing it to better position the pool he leaves behind and to better funnel the
戈霍恩之嗣
ies into the raid. If we keep this in mind a proper way to position yourself to be in range of both targets would look something like this:
You can see me use the windows where casting would get me silenced to slowly move into a position to be able to hit not only the add but the boss also as well as the adds when the
喋喋不休的恐兽
dies.
Movement Tools
Most range specs have access to some form of movement tool, be it passive, active, baseline or talents. Managing these are important to successfully dealing with an encounter. Knowing when you can aggressively make use of these tools, and when they need to be saved is part of approaching an encounter, and is a key part of preparation.
Planning your positioning is something you want to study before progression starts and confirm / test either on the PTR if your guild does that or during the first couple weeks of a new raid zone opening. Trying to go into an encounter with a general gameplan for when you use your movement tools can make a big difference in your success and help increase your damage in the same process.
Downtime mitigation
The points we covered previously ultimately result in downtime mitigation. Your goal is to do DPS, to do DPS you need to cast, the more you cast, the better. Not casting enough is the biggest issue players will run into when changing role from melee to range as well. The movement tax is costly for most ranged specs, but with proper planning and knowledge of the encounter at hand, downtime can be reduced to a minimum. It is also important to plan around natural downtime; there are only very few encounters that don't have some downtime present. With this in mind, plan the use of your cooldowns accordingly. Make sure to use your cooldowns at moments where the risk of downtime is at a minimum to get the most out of those 2-3 minutes powerful buffs.
Repositioning
Most encounters will have mechanics forcing you to move or to reposition in another area of the room completely. Again, knowledge of when these moments will occur will drastically improve your gameplay and efficiency at doing damage during these encounters. Make sure you have the tools at your disposal not only to move efficiently but to also predict when the movement will occur. Add-ons like
BigWigs
,
DBM
and
Weak Auras
will help with these type of mechanics. Remember that you are not alone either, mechanics that will force you to reposition will also most likely cause other players to do the same. Communication is key here to let everyone optimize around each other.
Ability Management
You need to be able to know what is happening with your spell throughout the fight. Not only the cooldown on your spells but also the remaining time on your dots or ranged CCs. A good
WeakAura
for your class will help with this.
Ranged players, especially, need a good nameplate addon to feed you quick information about any mobs in your radius, like dots or CC timers.
ElvUI
is what I use and an addon I suggest not only for the nameplates but the whole UI suite. If you do not like ElvUI, other nameplate addon options are
Plater
or
Kui nameplates
.
Downtime Prediction and Resource Balance
Downtime is something everyone will have to deal with while raiding or doing dungeons. Mechanics will target you forcing you out of range, or stopping you from attacking completely. Pre-planning your ability usage based on this fact is something important to keep in mind at all time. You will achieve this mostly by being knowledgeable of what is to come and planning around future actions where you will be forced into downtime. Make sure to pool resources for uptime, spend before downtime, etc.
Target Switching and Priority Targets
Target switching is a key element for ranged players, in particular, if there is a high priority enemy that is going to spawn. The way you interact with this will be in one of two ways:
Pooling resources in anticipation of an important, high priority target spawning.
Dumping resources into the boss and allowing for it to recuperate when you are moving to the newly spawned enemy.
The “how” of the previous points will vary encounter by encounter depending on the timings and where priority target spawn, for how long they are up, etc. Make sure you save CDs and Resources for these adds, they aren’t called
priority
targets for nothing.
To use an example from Uldir once again, for a
Destruction Warlock
on the
Vectis
encounter. You will always have your
浩劫
ready for the first
瘟疫聚合体
of each phase and during the second and third one. It is important to make sure to pool not only soul shards but also
Conflagrate
charges to cast the maximum amount of
混乱之箭
inside your
浩劫
window.
GCD Optimization
Optimizing the usage of your GCD, as mentioned in the previous section, is your ABC as any role in WoW. Always casting means that you fully utilize your every move to do what is necessary. With that in mind, we want to be casting the right thing at every moment, and this is where the optimization comes into play. Being aware of incoming movement, mechanics, buffs, debuffs adds, etc. are all things to keep in mind when optimizing the usage of your every GCD. Remember, knowledge is power. Knowing what is happening at the present moment and what is coming up shortly is crucial to plan your GCDs optimally. Is an important add spawning shortly? Use a couple extra resource generating GCDs to have more to spend on that important add. Is movement incoming? Make sure not to use your instant cast abilities beforehand to fill out your movement GCDs, etc.
Large Cooldown Optimization
All specs have some form of high damage window in their rotation cycle, often via the use of one or multiple 2-3 minutes cooldown. The optimal usage of these long cooldown abilities will play a significant role in your results, and therefore it will be important to not only utilize them as often as possible but also to use them at the right time to ensure efficiency.
Every encounter will have different damage pattern that will play a role in how you decide to use your cooldown; we can usually break these pattern into a few categories:
Patchwerk, Pure single target, fire and forget for raw damage
Single Target with high burst/increased damage windows requiring timing
Priority target spawns that need to be burst down with cooldowns
Managing cooldown uses to avoid waste during movement/downtime
When preparing for a new encounter make sure that you identify what type of encounter you are facing. Knowing the encounter type will significantly help you identify difficult phases, where damage will be the most important. Identifying those phases will allow you to layout your cooldown usage. This usage doesn't necessarily need to be perfect, but at least give you a solid outline to start with as you adjust during progression. Videos from PTR testing, High end kill videos, and Warcraft Logs are all tools to be utilized to help yourself prepare for new encounters. Use these tools to your advantage, the more knowledge you have, the better you can prepare, the better your results will be!
Extra Utility
If you are lucky enough to have great utility spells, make sure to know exactly how they work and how they will be utilized. While not contributing to your DPS directly these tools will make the encounter significantly easier for everyone benefiting from them, helping your group to achieve success.
Self-sustain and Survival
Most specs in the game have some form of active and or passive survival tool at their disposal. Do not make the mistake of forgetting or neglecting them. Either being out of range from healers or reducing high damage or any damage assuming you won’t need your mitigation for a harder hitting ability within its cooldown window. A single GCD spent to use an active cooldown to guarantee staying alive will always outweigh a damage GCD especially during progression, where consistency is key. Pay attention to your healer and the encounter to best utilize your defensive tools. Lastly, don’t forget about using your
治疗石
AND
海滨治疗药水
whenever necessary to stay topped off / survive.
Looking for more in-depth information? Check out our Ranged DPS Class Guides!
Balance Druid
Beast Mastery Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter
Arcane Mage
Fire Mage
Frost Mage
Affliction Warlock
Demonology Warlock
Destruction Warlock
Shadow Priest
Elemental Shaman
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