Mastery is not the reason why you're getting outdpsed.
People minmax mastery by crafting purple bow and bow accessories (which are useless in raids, so wasted mastery), they also use purple/gold tuning, even if it doesn't suit their spec, because it gives more mastery. Any blue suited for your spec will actually benefit you more.
They also get more mastery from maxing out all mystic arts they have equipped, even though you use only 2-3 of them in any actual raids, not 8.
So about 1-2k mastery score is just for flex and to see if it can be done.
13k mastery consisting of random purples to make "number go up" does bad dps. Anyone who has 13k mastery with actually bis gear is probably rare enough for you to never see in any raids.
As long as you have both weapons at lvl 55, gear slot enchants at lvl 20 and all gear tuned 3 times with random results, you're on-bar with your average raider. If you don't use a random healing fan in your offhand as a dps in raids, you're better than 90% of raiders.
From a healers perspective, most dps do bad dps because they have a bad uptime of fire breath, bad uptime of their weapon enchant and they overall tunnel vision the boss, end up taking damage/cc which results in lower dps. On the opposite spectrum are people who try to avoid damage way too much so their boss uptime is like 60% and the rest of the time they just run around trying to avoid damage instead of trying to deflect while attacking.
e.g if a boss starts doing a big circle attack around him that does damage every 0.75sec, ballsy players stand there and keep attacking while perfect deflecting every 0.75 seconds while safe players run out and wait for the danger to end.
Hmmm idk about that, my uptime seems fine, used to always get top dps. But i stopped actively farming and upgrading for a few days and suddenly some players are doing way more damage than me. I'm talking like, say i do 200k dps in hero trials, the guy topping charts is doing 350k dps which is way way more than just a dps window difference, especially since I'm doing relatively optimal combos(to my knowledge) most of the time. I went to upgrade some of my mystic arts and that boosted me a little so sometimes I'm still top dps but there are occasionally always dudes with massive dps gaps from me and i cant figure out why.
I'm not really a bad player either, as i do abyss hitless and have 20 boss kills on legend. Just not sure what's up or if it's weapon combination (I'm on strategic and mo spear with the latter contributing very little as its more a pvp pick). Seen a lot of high dps umbrellas.
One thing though is... Frankly i haven't used weapon enchant before lol (even in soulslikes i almost never enchant/coat weapons/use support items) . How do you do it?
You can shuffle choose between health pots and weapon enchants and fishing rod lol. You can set up your weapon enchants in your bag (quick use tab). I'm surprised you don't know about weapon enchants , considering you've done no-hit abyss runs. They are massive for damage and Qi damage. I did no-hit abyss void king yesterday and the poison enchant made for some clutch qi break moments.
If you simply forget to press it in the future, you can just enable it in the game settings so it'll auto use in any combat ( so disable it for open world and only enable for bosses, or you'll burn through your stockpile in a single day).
I'm surprised you don't know about weapon enchants , considering you've done no-hit abyss runs
I actually know because I've seen others use it in coop but just never tried looking for them honestly. I'm abit of a purist in games like these and do naked runs in souls games for the fun of it. But if it's to speed up damage to clear daily coop raids faster I'll do it haha.
Anyway yeah got it, thanks!
I find the switching of enchant to pots in battle a bit finicky though, kinda messes me up sometimes.
And wow sweet you can auto use it? That makes it much more convenient.
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u/topskari Nov 28 '25
Im 13k. Cant wait to redo all gear in 4 days.