Marksmanship Sniper/Sharpshooter Gunslinger Compendium

[tdr]

(04-18-2012 08:24 PM)Talshai Wrote:  Hi folks,



I'm playing a Marksman Sniper for a couple of weeks now. I didn't worry much about my dps (pre 1.2) since there wasn't any real damage meter around. All of that changed last thursday. We went to Denova as soon as the servers came back on and we killed all the bosses on story-mode. I uploaded the log file from the various encounters to a couple of online combatlog parsers and got shocked. My dps was arround 900. So I rechecked this thread.



I used the Pure MM: 31/7/3 and the MM/Eng Hybrid: 23/16/2 spec from the Compendium on a Ops Boss Target Dummy and tried a few rotations on it. Basicly I used the Sustained Damage Rotation and filled the blanks with best DPE Ranking Attacks from the Compendium list (and of course kept the Shatter Shot debuff up):



Pure MM: SoS – Ambush – FT – Corrosive Dart – Explosive Probe – Snipe – FT – Rifle Shot – Overload Shot – Snipe – FT

MM/Eng Hybrid: SoS – Ambush – FT – Explosive Probe – Interrogation Probe – Snipe – FT – Rifle Shot – Corrosive Dart – Snipe – FT



I uploaded the combatlog to various web parsers again and on top of that, I installed the MOX Desktop Raid Meters. The results of the damage meter addon varies a little bit from the online parsers since its realtime. But its basicly the same. My dps on the target dummy is between 1,000 and 1,100. But every time I read about sniper dps here on the board or on the official page, it says my sniper does 1,500 - 1,800 dps.



So what am I doing wrong?



Btw: I'm wearing mostly rakata gear:

Head: Rakata Field Tech's Headgear

Ear: Black Hole Targeter's MK-4 Adaptor

Implants: Rakata Field Medic's Enhancer

Chest: Rakata Field Tech's Jacket

Wrist: Rakata Field Medic's Bracers

Waist: Rakata Field Medic's Belt

Hands: Rakata Field Tech's Gloves

Legs: Rakata Field Tech's Leggings

Feet: Rakata Field Tech's Boots

Relic 1: Matrix Cube M7-R3

Relic 2: Campaign Relic of the Kinetic Tempest

Main Hand: Shadow Fist Assault Rifle

Off Hand: Ripper Nine

My stats are:

Weapon damage - 799 - 950

Bonus damage - 496.7

Accuracy - 102.09%

Ranged Crit Chance - 30.41%

Crit Multi - 69.74%

Tech Crit Chance - 29.37%



Can someone give me a hint?

You appear to be using a blaster rifle instead of a sniper rifle...
I would also only use *either* CD or EP as filler in the snipe/ambush,followthrough,filler,filler tuples instead of both. I find the immediate energy drain of popping both those abilities on cooldown in the same followthrough cycle to run me OOM all the time.
You might work shattershot into early filler slots and use O(rbital)S(trike) on cooldown. OS is especially tasty if you can work it in during a sniper-volley proc or during target acquired.
Others can correct me, but I think a snipe may be universally superior to overload shot for MM unless run-n-gun is required.

Just some quick impressions. YMMV

-t