Please tell me you are not a hostage negotiator . The best comment that sums it all up . He ' s a clear case of Stockholm syndrome . <| sep |> I run the same . Race is definitely a factor . Besides Max magika , really no offensive passives . That said , I run pretty much the same thing , and can get over 20 pretty easily . More CP help . Not much there but to wait . Twisting path will be better than refreshing for DPS , by a hair , but you lose the utility . Only cast siphoning to start fight and when resources dip below 5030 % it ' s a DPS loss in rotation . Make sure you have major sorcery up . Either pots or a sap every other rotation minor DPS loss , but not crazy expenaive for pots . You didn ' t mention bar setup . Front merciless , impale , FP , Sap , IL , soul harvest . Back siphoning , path , blockade , cripple , IL , star . I take soul harvest front for the extra crit over more resource . Pretty much same rotation . Keep in mind , your DoTs are all 8 s I believe , which makes a clean rotation . BlockadegrasppathswapFPx 3 bowrecast merciless . I use bow there for a more consistent rotation , rather than cool down easier to stay in groove and recast DoTs rightness they expire . Medium weave everything . You can light weaveblock cancel and probably buy an extra pulse , but resources get trickier , in my experience . Shooting star on cool down . For execute , make sure DoTs and merciless are up , then soul Harvestimpale X 6 . Gear . Grothdarr is best DPS , but stregth of the class is range and AoE . so I don ' t like it . Skoria isn ' t bad with our DoTs up and allows for range . I actually like 3 xWillpower and 3 x Aether . No dead spots . You can run crafted set staves so it ' s easy to build . Need to do some testing on it to say it ' s better . more a preferencence . Julianos is good . I run TBS to play with the 3 front bar crit passives from assassination abilities . You probably know 99 % of that , but hopefully something helps .