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Warrior fury dps extremly low

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So i got tired of tanking and decided to dps as a fury warrior. To my surprise the max dps i can reach is around 1k 0_0 here's a link to my char http://bit.ly/cRBuMj Yes i know i am not supposed to gem for expertis but without it I get like 700-800 dps i use the normal whirl bloodthirst slam on proc rotation, and i have no idea why the dps is so freaking low. Are there any stupid obvious mistakes that i've done? any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your time

EDIT Actually recount made me really sad, 20% miss 18% Parry 17% glacing 3% dodge eh /facepalm that is definatly the reason, but my gear is pretty good, why i still miss alot?( i know im not expertise capped)

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Judging from the fact that hits are being parried, this says to me you are attacking from the front of the mobs. If you move to the back of anything you are attacking, you push parry off of the attack table, which will automatically boost your DPS. [link is a little out of date, but gives the general idea]
However, this is the key point to take away from this answer: Move behind the target for a dps boost.

As for your miss rate - don't worry about them too much for white damage [ie, auto attack], as that requires a stupid amount of hit to remove - 27%, or 886 +hit], but it is at special attacks you need to care about.
Since you have 3/3 Precision, you need 5% - or 164 +hit to take misses off your special attacks, therefore you can safely change out gear with hit on it for other stats.

Your expertise is at 24, and as a human, if you can ever replace your mainhand with an Axe, with no other change in stats, it would boost to 26. This would push dodges off of the attack table. [this is why you're only seeing 3% dodge - you're almost there]
[edit: comparing against EJ's Warrior FAQ, stat priority is 8% hit inc precision [ie, 5%], 26 expertise, then Str > ArP > crit > agi]

Your meta-gem isn't active, which is costing you some crit. I'm not too up on Fury warriors to know what to put in, but you'll want to swap out a couple of gems.

Finally - enchants! You're missing a load of them. There's no excuse for having no enchants on your gear, even if you just have a lower version while you get the gold for the accepted one.
For instance, on your chest, you want Powerful Stats, but if you can't afford that, you can easily make do with Super Stats at a fraction of the price and only a 2% drop in effect. That single enchant would give you a boost of ~8% to your strength and agility, which means more delicious DPS.
There is no instance where having an acceptable enchant will cost you DPS.
On BOTH weapons, you want to aim for Berserking - Use Massacre until you can afford them [as you have on the offhand]


Edit:
There's much that can't be determined without someone experienced reading a combat log parse to see what you may or may not be doing wrong. Further information could be needed. For instance:
- Are you ever rage starved?
- Do you use any macros?
- Key binds, or using the mouse to click the action buttons?
- Average latency of your internet connection to WoW?
- Are you using consumables?
- Are you using any addons to assist in reminding you to do certain things? [ie, when bloodsurge procs]

This answer can only offer small tips to boost your DPS a little. Definitely practice against the combat dummies in the cities.
Check out the spreadsheet linked from EJ, and start experimenting with enchants and gemming against yout current gear to see how you can improve DPS without changing anything you're doing otherwise.

Finally final [in this edit]: If you're applying Sunders when no-one else is supplying a similar debuff, you can reduce the concern a little on your DPS, as you're increasing the overall DPS of the rest of the raid/party

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thank you for your answer, i'm not sure that enchants are going to really help my dps, just really weird having 5300 gearscore and 1k dps – Windblade (Sep 5 2010 7:52 AM)

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Not having enchants will always hurt your DPS. As stated, you're missing out on at least an 8% boost in strength - around 100, I think, which should give 200 more AP. And so on... – Baberth (Sep 5 2010 9:24 AM)

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but still, 1k dps just because of not having enchants and 2 expertise? there must be something more then that – Windblade (Sep 5 2010 10:14 AM)

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You're right, there will be something else. I've added more tips to try and aid you gaining it, but there's a lot we need to know to aid you further. You're right that it's low DPS, but it's very good that you're looking to improve it; and why I'm doing what I can to help you. – Baberth (Sep 5 2010 5:22 PM)

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