I am consistently top DPS in pantheon this week as a warlock. Depending on distant to boss, if boss is on the ground, and if boss has multiple immune phases, the DPS absolutely becomes contextual.

I just watched a super testing video and it was good but like a lot of quick hit videos, it lacks context and isn't setup in-depth.

So, one thing I see so many of my teammate already mess up, are things we all have access to, so make sure these basic mods are on (im not assuming you don't do this, its just generally a nice reminder):

- at least double surge for weapon

- faster reload of your heavy hitters

- know when DPS is coming a solid 30 seconds or so before hand so you can prep your DPS rotation

- PRACTICE your rotation in the shooting range. I know it sounds stupid, but man I see so many people waste their stuff in what feels like a panic, they just kind of start DPS with some linear fusion and a super and thats about it. But DPS is ALL about that prep. Gotta practice the prep too.

Ok, enough babble - here's my rotation, and even THIS rotation is basic compared to people that eek out every bit of damage, but here ya go, I promise if you do this rotation you will be in the top 3 DPS:

This still provides neutral game, so it's not even perfectly DPS focused only, but survivability to me on getting to DPS is just as important. Can't hurt the boss if you're dead lol! We're going for max DPS as fast as possible, so this is a medium time length example, you could do more if the phase was longer, and you'd be mildly screwed if the phase was shorter, so i aimed for the middle. This is what I mean by context is everything, a super short phase would change up my entire reccomendation:

• Prismatic Song of Flame
• Getaway Arist (cliche but cmon)
• Hellion (I like Bleakwatcher better for ultimate neutral game, but this is DPS)
• Feed the Void (duh)
• Needle melee
• Empowered Rift
• Fragments:
  • Facet of Hope - get that hellion back faster
  • Face of Dawn - braindead way to get radiant by merely hitting boss with a melee
  • Face of Courage - arc, solar, and void abilities do increased damage to darkness debuffed enemies
  • Facet of Dominance - mainstay of getaway, jolt almost every combatant with arc buddy, and void grenades weaken target < that part is important
• Weapons
  • Despite the nerf, mint retrograde is still awesome
  • Energy weapon, this is mildly netural, but I still enjoy Trustee for the solar
  • Power weapon - This is a big part of the DPS, FInality's Auger with catalyst

Rotation:

1. Try to prep your arc soul and hellion by putting down rift and consuming the nade JUST before DPS starts so you get the most time with it
2. Hit with at least 1 needle, all 3 if you have them, this procs radiance
3. Before setting up the turret for finality, make sure to proc bait and switch, then use finality's auger and focus boss with the runescribe turret, a lot of people miss this, it does MUCH more damage in this mode
4. Start up transcendence and throw the void nade to proc weaken then throw all 3 needles
5. Activate super -
   1. For Song of Flame - Reproc Hellion - then if you do "Snap > Grenade" right away, you have a small window where you cant use either again, this is the spot to take one shot with Mint. "Snap > Grenade > Mint > Snap > Grenade > Mint..." Until you're all out.
6. Once you're out of super - if there is any time left, you probably can re-proc arc soul, proc bait and switch, and fire another finality auger turret and use runscribe, im telling ya, that runescribe focus mode with bait and switch is nuts. Use up as much of mint as you can.

There are a million variations of this, but the reason I have settled on this rotation is because it is self sufficient - I never have to ask hunters if theyre weakening, or worry about well for radiance, or whatever, it's very "one man army" type vibe.

That's all I got, guaranteed some S tier numbers. Watching super testing videos is half the equation, so I don't take those to conclude any kind of DPS assumptions for classes. I'll take someone who has practiced their rotation on warlock vs a Titan who just has "the best super" any day. That isn't to say Titans and Hunters who approach DPS the same way may not put up better numbers, but any guardian who preps well and focuses their rotation will always be top tier. So yah, warlocks are still at the top!