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Sustained

WoW

Damage you can keep doing all fight, cooldowns aside. What raid DPS is measured on.

“Fury has better sustained than Arms, Arms has the burst.”

See also: Burst, DPS

How to use it

  • “Fury has better sustained than Arms, Arms has the burst.”

Related words

  1. BurstA lot of damage in a short window, usually with cooldowns. The opposite of sustained damage.
  2. DPSDamage per second, and by extension the damage-dealing role and the people playing it.

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