[General] How to ask for help with your Mage

[Damien 1,514]

If you are planning on posting a question about why you are only doing X DPS even though you have Y average item level, please provide us with as many of the following details as possble:

• the link to your character's armory (such as http://eu.battle.net...odreth/advanced);
• a combatlog of the encounter(s) where you feel you are under-performing (ideally on www.warcraftlogs.com). In case of under-performing on a general basis a Butcher or a Gruul combat log would be the most ideal for analysis on any difficulties;
• the rotation you are using. If you are deviating from the rotation we advise in the relevant class guide, please specify to what extent (and why).
• In case you feel you are under-performing relative to another player of the same class and spec in your raid, include their armory link and any other details about them that you can. Moreover, in this case, we advise you to first raise the issue with that player, to find out what he is doing differently from you.
• In the title of your topic, please place a tag that describes the subject. Ie.: [Frost], [Fire], [General], [TC], etc.

Please understand that simply stating "I'm only doing 15k DPS in item level 388, what am I doing wrong?" does not help us help you in any way.

Thank you in advance.

Edited February 10, 2015 by Oltier
Some updates