In an attempt to increase SK DPS on the whole, here is some things I use that may or may not come in handy for other folks:
I have 2 multibind keys - 1 and 2.
1 is tied to Bash, Vicious Bite of Chaos, Banestrike, Chattering Bones, and my lifetap/spear chain.
2 is tied to Bash, Lacerating Blade, Repel, and my clickies that do damage - 2 swarm pets, necromantic bone, and theft of hate bp.
For some reason Discs, clickies, and AAs seem to have a conflict chaining, so that's why the keys are built like that.
1 is setup to fire in order: Bash, Banestrike(/alt activate 15073), Vicious Bite of Chaos(/alt activate 825), Chattering Bones(/alt activate 3822), Spear, Dichotomic Fang, Dire lifetap (highest level), Touch of lifetap (highest level), Touch of lifetap (5 levels lower), and Touch of lifetap (10 levels lower)
This will fire whatever is off cooldown - frontloaded for the most damage items first. Spear being on the front of spell spam helps to also boost aggro as it is a good bump on that number while tanking.
2 is setup on the longer cooldown items that will not be used as often. Bash, Repel, Lacerating Blade (1ish minute cooldown), Amulet of the Drowned mariner (5min cooldown), Vicious Rabbit (5min cooldown), Necromantic Dragon Bone (3 minute cooldown), and finally Breastplate of Wailing Hatred (3 minute cooldown)
Bash is on both sets of hotkeys for the extra dps as well as being constantly pushed for when unholy guardian is up for the lifetap proc.
3 sets of burn hotkeys:
1 fires off unholy guardian then /stopdisc so the buff for the lifetap off bash comes up. and glyph of cataclysm.
2 fires off spell loaded burning so that dots and lifetaps hit for much higher damage. This fires off Gift of the Quickspear(/alt activate 2034), unholy aura disc, Cotf T2 BP for proc, Visage of Decay(/alt activate 747), and First spire(/alt activate 1450).
3 fires off melee loaded burning. This fires off Visage of Death(/alt activate 9403), T`Vyl's resolve (/alt activate 742), Carmine Blade disc, Reflexive Rancor disc, Lacerating Blade disc.
Burn Hotkey 1 looks like:
line 1: /pause 2, /disc unholy guardian discipline rk. iii
line 2: /stopdisc
line 3: /alt activate 7019
Burn Hotkey 2 looks like:
line 1: /pause 2, /disc unholy aura discipline
line 2: /pause 3, /useitem 32 5
line 3: /alt activate 2034
line 4: /alt activate 1450
line 5: /alt activate 747
Burn Hotkey 3 looks like:
line 1: /pause 2, /alt activate 9403
line 2: /alt activate 742
line 3: /pause 2, /disc Carmine Blade rk. iii
line 4: /pause 4, /disc lacerating blade rk. iii
line 5: /disc reflexive rancor rk. iii
There are also other buttons not bound to those initial burn key dumps that get hit:
Reinforced Malaise (increases dot damage 100% at rank 5), 7th year vet reward aa - intensity of the resolute, the harmtouch/leech touch/thought leech keys, 4-5 swarm pets, and some dd clickies. I also have and use the girdle of the weaponmaster, the +500 dmg to procs does add up. There are also the ancient hedgewizard brews and the mana infusion potion that can add up on damage.
As of this post - harm touch was doing 337225 initial damage, and 7 ticks of 36226. leech touch with unholy aura running hit for 300k ish. and thought leech hit for 871000 on a crit with the secondary damage of 162500.
Burn spell setup is Spear of Vizat, Dichotomic Fang, Dire Declaration, Touch of Lutzen, Touch of Falsin, Touch of Urash, Plague of Holmein, Blood of Bonemaw, Dire Strangulation, Plague of Piqiorn, Blood of Ralstok, Plague of Klonda.
All of the dots and buffs have Gina trigs on wearing off to know recast or hit the next hotkey in the chain.
Depending on the raid setup - if there are many necros, I drop the dots and go primarily with the lifetap chaining.
Starting the fight/burn, general order is to put a couple dots on the mob when engaging in melee, hit burn hotkey 1, do a quick check that unholy guardian did /stopdisc properly, then hit burn hotkey 2, reinforced malaise, and start pounding the 1 and 2 buttons to spam out the bashes and multibinds, redotting as needed.
Visage of decay and reinforce malaise with buff extensions last for 1m46s ish. first spire will only last 1m34s ish, so it will wear off before the spell burn is really over - when first spire wears off, i hit intensity of the resolute so that it is running through the end of spell burn, and is still up for when the melee burn key is hit.
When visage of decay drops, hit epic for the accuracy increase and hit burn hotkey 3. continue spamming dots/lifetaps while meleeing with the increase damage from Visage of decay.
Continue through the end of the fight with spell spamming until oom or the mob is dead.
