#balance

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dapper wing
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You are playable

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and are able to be brought to caster comp still

past iron
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Nah trust they will get buffed

delicate perch
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Very simple playstyle which is a bonus in keys

lofty depot
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lol, hope they buff raid and dont buff aoe

delicate perch
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Can muscle memory afk the rotation and still do decent

lofty depot
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fuck m+ers

past iron
dapper wing
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Ask Tettles

delicate perch
dapper wing
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you can do 1 button rotation and gain damage

lofty depot
dapper wing
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grosssss

flint stratus
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thanks for reviewing my logs really apprecitaed

lofty depot
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and add some duration to he buff

warm valley
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16 casts no proc

dapper wing
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Hey, we noticed Boomkin isn't doing great in raid, this raid has a lot of cleave. Here is a lunar calling buff and a starfall buff. Have fun

jaunty blaze
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Raise the cap of the 4pc again

past iron
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Class tuning will happen after rwf

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Alota decent classrs might get big nerfs anyways

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Druid might climb up if it does get buffs

lofty depot
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lol

jaunty blaze
dapper wing
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We are genuinely bottom of the barrel

lofty depot
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when have we climbed after buffs

dapper wing
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It's gonna take a lot of buffs / big buffs to climb anything lol

lofty depot
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blud is on some next level shit right now

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gotta be a mage player

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he dont know

jaunty blaze
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The only thing that will make us look decent by end of the tier is that boss fights are so short

dapper wing
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They don't know

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Ret is pretty down bad

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Give it another 8%

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Also wtf, why is arms performing so well in mythic atm

jaunty blaze
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You hate to see it

warm valley
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Over a 1M gap DistortedCry

jaunty blaze
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Lets see what they cook up for us

dapper wing
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TRUE

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Sand baggers the lot of us

lofty depot
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15x int, and some funny wrath buff

dapper wing
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Of course it's gonna be a wrath buff

jaunty blaze
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Take it or leave it

dapper wing
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It's going to be so fucking sad

warm valley
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30%

dapper wing
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reading 15% more wrath damage

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on tuesday

jaunty blaze
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Revert to 25x cap please

lofty depot
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they wont

forest fable
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At this point i'll take every buff we can get

jaunty blaze
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A man can dream

dapper wing
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I just want to see our double starsurge hit as hard as engulf does

lofty depot
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no u cant

jaunty blaze
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Sorry

dapper wing
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Even tho engulf is a 45? second cooldown

lofty depot
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whats ur point

dapper wing
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That our damage numbers are fucked and should be doubled

jaunty blaze
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Hire this man

dapper wing
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for the surges after dryad

lofty depot
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nah they need to hit harder than engulf

dapper wing
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That's not gonna happen

jaunty blaze
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The entire kit is fucked anyway

dapper wing
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True

fast parcel
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Revert tier back to HP based bear gimmick

dapper wing
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rework the entire spec

jaunty blaze
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Target switching is such a pain

fast parcel
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Anyways gave up on balance for raid and just healing this tier, m+ still do some keys when I can’t heal

jaunty blaze
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Why do i have to spend 2 gcds to start doing damage

fast parcel
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EC tier proc rng feels worse than ravage procs somehow

jaunty blaze
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Warlock presses funny havoc and blasts

delicate perch
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Orrr a HUGE starfire buff???

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Oh now I’m oldge

dapper wing
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You also have to go into an eclipse

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Which is another two OR spending CA for it

jaunty blaze
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I sure hope they get rid of eclipse

graceful plank
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But it makes total sense to have to cast 2 wraths into a pull with 20 mobs first before doing damage.

warm valley
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Gotta cast 10 moonfires first, oh packs gone

graceful plank
dapper wing
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10 moonfires, 1 sunfire hope it's all in range

lofty depot
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but nonetheless still cringe

smoky remnant
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How can we make blizzard bring back ravenous frenzy

covert coyote
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shut down the discord

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they'll have no choice

lofty depot
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Neither of those things are gonna happen

smoky remnant
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I swear

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How about we act like terrorists like the ret discord

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Untill they bring back ravenous frenzy

lofty depot
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Our mods are too sane for that

smoky remnant
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Unless....

round field
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Our mods are definitely not sane

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Thats a lie

lofty depot
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We don't have a TC or faq channel and u think they're gonna shut one channel down

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Big funny

smoky remnant
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Ye but we have like

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Dreamgrove

warm valley
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Guys with some patience, and a few decent buffs. We can go from bottom tier, to bottom tier but not as far from top spec, just like every other season in this expansion zPraygeHolyLight

jaunty blaze
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so real

livid jay
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at least back in the day we used to be op at the start and then got nerfed and nerfed and nerfed

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now we are just shit

candid dragon
lofty depot
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GJ reading

jaunty blaze
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bro complains about getting stopped from making mistakes

cloud plover
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why balance druid always angs

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angy

lofty depot
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Same reason you're always yapping

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We're built this way

dapper wing
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God damn

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Can they ever show their face again

lofty depot
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She will, cuz shes a yapper

proven token
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hello guys! am I missing something about the new tier effects? i just got 4pc and not pumping like before when i had 2-2 pieces

cloud plover
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I'm a yapper yipeee

plain fiber
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My guess is that the people around u got 4 set aswell and now ur specc is mid

round field
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Read a guide how to play it

proven token
cloud plover
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consider not using one button rotation

proven token
cloud plover
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oh, then maybe you should

proven token
round field
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Are you playing keeper or ec

proven token
round field
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Its not that big of a difference

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But thats besides the point

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Its hard to say

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What youre doing wrong from a screenshot of a m+ overall

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Theres not really a lot to fuck up as ec

proven token
round field
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Well my balance gear is 700 ilvl with house of cards and best in slot

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And the last priory i did 9 million dos

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It also depends on how long shit lives and how your tank pulls

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Again not something you can really judge

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But yes 4 million is like last season numbers

plain fiber
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And if u come up with an actual question then u can ask it

cloud plover
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i love doing minigame dps i want to maximize my minigame dps output though

round field
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Go grief hardmode or something

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Stop talking

proven token
round field
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Rare moment

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Usually i would insult you and leave

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Lucky day for you

proven token
cloud plover
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then that would be an optimal world

round field
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Dungeon logs are also shit

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Vods are better

tulip minnow
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Hello is it just me or does it feels like that balance druids are really weak against single target?

fathom nebula
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Pure ST?
Middle of the road? Slightly below average

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10-15% below top specs maybe

tulip minnow
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Yeah pure single target like patchwerk Bosses in M+ and raids I pretty much struggle to dps over 3 million

fathom nebula
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Raid overall and Fractillus (which is pure ST no damage amps)

cloud plover
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average balance druid in my keys

pallid bay
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based

tulip minnow
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Yeah okey i knew that we got nerfed pretty hard but now i know that we are in the same place as always, right in the bottom

blazing pendant
loud kettle
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damage to bosses is never a good measure

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for st dam

tulip minnow
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But Fr have played balance in every expansion except Vanilla and have always had 95+ parces but I most say that it really feels like we are at rock bottom in ST

loud kettle
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Classes that cant aoe in raid will always be overranked, and classes that can will underperform in that statistic unless they are a cheat class that does both

delicate perch
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@lyric kettle lifelined

tulip minnow
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Yeah but usually we’ve Been solid in both ST and Aoe but now it’s purely AoeVerySadCat

loud kettle
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When was this 💀

fathom nebula
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^ 😄

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Venthyr Boomie

loud kettle
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4 years ago

fathom nebula
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1 time 4 years ago with pretty specific circumstances that just made us bonkers 😄

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And.. are we even solid in AoE atm? Wont we fall further behind when mythic tier sets become the norm?

lilac citrus
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Aoe is not that great even on bosses like soul hunters we are not in the top 5

tulip minnow
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Yeah we need at least 10 mobs to excel on the Aoe

quiet musk
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is 60% haste too much in combat?

round field
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No

scarlet tapir
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so what you want to do is garrote one, garrote two, garrote three, rupture vendetta exsanguinate! yeah? then you're gonna fok fok, rupture again, you're gonna vanish, reapply garrotes, especially on the target you don't have, and that's it, then you're gonna ct (crimson tempest). Look at my damage, right now, fucking 40k, it's fucking over dude. Oooh. How the fuck though LETS GO

serene elk
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so in boomie
with the 4p, we prefer haste in m+ and crit in raid ?

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or always mastery/haste ?

scarlet tapir
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more like

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fatbrah

pseudo merlin
serene elk
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stats weight didnt work

patent girder
pseudo merlin
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use top gear and droptimizer

pseudo merlin
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using a rank 2 vers only gem?

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You didn't click the replace existing option

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You might want to add a socket to that first ring and then run a replace sim with proper gems, don't forget to select for the meta

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you're also running a rank 2 single stat haste gem

patent girder
pseudo merlin
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That's fine

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You still need to sim with the right options

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You're not simming the meta properly

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sec

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You're also running cursed ring enchants

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Make sure you sim those too, because that seems kinda sus but I might be wrong

serene elk
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how signet of priory can sim better than lily ? cuz he give 700 less but for 5s more ( and 30s more cd)

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( priory 701 and lily 710)

open harbor
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quick question:
We play kotg full ST on Plexus, Loom'ithar, Soulbinder, Fractilus and Dimensius, kotg ST with cleave on Araz and Nexus-King, EC on Soul Hunter, right?
obviously it might change on mythic at some point and is dependant on group constellation but overall this seems legit, right?

obsidian jetty
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generally the blue number will indicate that

patent girder
open harbor
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Wrong talents maybe?

pseudo merlin
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you still didnt do what I said

pseudo merlin
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But ignoring meta optimisation, a result like this isn't out of the ordinary

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Like recruitie said gem sims are often just within margin of error

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But you probably need to either optimise for meta or replace the meta

open harbor
pseudo merlin
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That too

open harbor
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wondering why u guys suggest him to switch this and that in the gem section but not mentioning the talents 😄

royal zenith
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cause he's specifically asking about the gems

small siren
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anyone have a Threat Plates profile for tracking important Dots as Boomy for RBGs and Arena?

royal zenith
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there's also no point in saying "if you swap to kotg it will be different gems"

open harbor
royal zenith
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cause the first question you should ask is for which content they are simming

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so you're all wrong

open harbor
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at least his talents

round oracle
obsidian jetty
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so instantly assuming they are playing the wrong thing is silly. As duex asked you should probe for more info on what they want

royal zenith
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the last sim, without all buffs, implies he wants to know - for M+ content

obsidian jetty
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They're also 2p2p, so haste will probably sim good as Kotg as well, doubt it will be as stacked. I also am not even sure if 2p2p keeper sims better on ST. Never checked 1v1

fathom nebula
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How do i set a specific sim time? I dont want 5 min +-20% but exactly 4 minutes as an example

pseudo merlin
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Feel free to disagree

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You can dm me any complaints

royal zenith
obsidian jetty
pseudo merlin
royal zenith
pseudo merlin
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Please allow 5-7 business days to process your request

royal zenith
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by that time Ill be playing WoW AND POE2

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too long

pseudo merlin
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Real

fathom nebula
obsidian jetty
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240 as mentioned for 4m

fathom nebula
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chatgpt gave me the wrong info and it ended uup with me asking this for a third time 😄

jaunty blaze
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clanker was really sure tho

mighty mica
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ew

loud kettle
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humanising ai smh

cloud plover
hollow mist
cloud plover
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stupid ass excuse of an ai it became dumber with the 5o model or whatever

quiet drift
pseudo merlin
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It's now second nature for me to end every google query with -noai

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wonder if there's a plugin for it

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It's unreal how fucking stupid that google search ai is

royal zenith
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good thing humans are very smart

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to compensate

pseudo merlin
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Actually it's probably not the AIs fault

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People are stupid, it's just repeating what they're saying

royal zenith
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it's just a system

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and you should fact-check anything

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regardless of it being AI, human or w.e.

pseudo merlin
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Did you see the guy who flew to like thailand or some shit

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without a visa

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Because AI told him he didnt need one

royal zenith
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no 💀

pseudo merlin
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Bro found out when he arrived

royal zenith
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yeah I mean people are also asking relationship advice

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or thinking there's a humans stuck in the bot

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this thing is unhealthy for humans

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next generation is fucked

pseudo merlin
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I think there was an anime about that

royal zenith
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yeah 'Her'

pseudo merlin
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ah

royal zenith
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(not an anime)

urban crescent
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wasn't there a case of a service pretending to use AI chat bots but actually outsourcing it to overseas workers

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or was that also fake news

royal zenith
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wouldn't be surprised

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it's the buzzword and thing to sell rn

urban crescent
royal zenith
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AI that is

urban crescent
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i don't even know how AI is a buzzword

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it doesn't even work

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why are people glazing it so hard

royal zenith
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yes but humans are an expensive resource

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so companies will always want to replace them

urban crescent
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oh so they just make people think they want AI so they can justify firing humans

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that makes more sense

pallid bay
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It seems like you're not in a position to determine if AI works or not

urban crescent
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i suppose not

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it doesn't work for asking it moderately complicated questions in my experience

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but i guess that's not what it's being used for

pseudo merlin
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I think it's just being used for generating gooning content

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Like the internet

royal zenith
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It's the same as using raidbots, plenty of people will find a way to not use it properly

urban crescent
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the internet is for porn

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as they say

royal zenith
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not that hard to wrap your head around

urban crescent
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as a wise man once said

obsidian jetty
urban crescent
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BASED

royal zenith
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damn

pseudo merlin
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Some people will somehow manage to bypass all the literal red flags and warning signs on raidbots, manage to track down the purposely hidden stat weight function, then sim stat weights and go into a class discord asking why the stat weight says the stat priority in <guide> is wrong

urban crescent
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defeated by a clanker

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:itsover:

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stat weights HUH

pseudo merlin
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ok disregard all earlier messages, I love ai

safe kite
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Getting bored running 10s for weekly I tried to run 1 floodgate with new 4 set as EC and one with the old 4 set from last season and I gained quite significant dps just running the old set. Up next 2p 2p, what an absolutely based season this is.

pseudo merlin
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One single key is usually also my benchmark for any theorycrafting

drifting nova
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how can someone be 3k

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with a highest key of a 5 depleted

craggy sonnet
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There is a secret trick and it usually involves you not updating your addon

safe kite
# pseudo merlin One single key is usually also my benchmark for any theorycrafting

Yea nah for sure, it was based on the 80 or so runs after getting 4 set and feeling like it was a dps loss and it very much looks like it is at least in the dungeons with larger pulls, backed up by the fact that those logs that have been done show a vast majority of the top dmg logs being done by people not running EC 4 set kinda seals it for me. It's a good thing though, means I never have to touch the garbage that is EC 4-set for the rest of this expansion.

pseudo merlin
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ah

wild dune
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tragic if true

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buff bamkin

quiet drift
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What is this EC 4pc hate campaign

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Last tier 4pc passive dmg = good

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Current = bad

fathom nebula
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Current is a ST tier set and we dont even pick Starsurge talents

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In what universe is this good

quiet drift
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Item level

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Youre never dropping item level to get 2+2

safe kite
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You sure as fuck are in weeklies. You don't nee the survivability

quiet drift
safe kite
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Because it doesn't function in a way that is conducive to a healthy skill expression. It's a random proc that sometimes runs out on its own, most of the time runs out because of the group, and the only real way to use it properly is to force your tank to get a weakaura tracking your buff and recklessly pull based around it. It's the anti-thesis to a weel designed set and even on these boards with some of the most ardent try hards the overall opinion is to literally just ignore the buff because playing around it is not only hell but in most cases entirely futile.

quiet drift
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?????????

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2pc is a random proc shroom

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That can also get kited out of

delicate perch
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skill expression

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nah that's bait

quiet drift
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So much skill expression when one pull wild mushroom is my 2nd highest dmg

safe kite
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Can you read what the 2 set does for me cotti

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there is a very important part

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that you seem to have missed

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what happens when you press CA?

delicate perch
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lmao

quiet drift
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Xdd

safe kite
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If using CA gave us 6 stacks of the buff, we wouldn't be talking. But it doesn't.

delicate perch
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I wonder who the better balance druid is cotti or feirbawt

safe kite
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Fucking hate that being able to read is not a requirement to be here

wild dune
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ok but the pwar breakdown is pretty funny ngl

delicate perch
wild dune
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50% damage tied to pressing tclap

drifting nova
round field
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in this spec

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you either proc or u dont

safe kite
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Reading is so hard.

round field
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ok

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whats ur point

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rewrite it

lucid olive
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If several people read what you say and have the same reaction, and you blame them for not being able to read, it is perhaps you not making your point clear enough

indigo barn
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my only problem with tier EC, why the fuck is it 40% proc? such a random number

round field
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its like

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fake

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i swear

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ive gone

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20 seconds of the buff

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without getting a single proc

safe kite
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Nobody claimed shrooms was skill based. It's a non random proc during CA and a random proc otherwise, you literally can not play around it or fail to play it. New set is 20 second buff that gets constantly fucked either by starfall not procing it, your group chilling and not setting up while your stacks are high, or not pulling when you desperately need to refresh it. Meaning that it's designed so that if you track it and try to play around it, it will just frustrate and fuck you over consistently, so much so that the general advice is to not even track it and just don't get ragebaited by it.

round field
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i mean

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you

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just ignore it

safe kite
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That's literally bad design.

round field
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like the previous set

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no shit

safe kite
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That's literally the fucking point.

round field
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bad design is a feature

pseudo merlin
drifting nova
round field
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if you want something that is well designed

lucid olive
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You had moments with old 2pc where it would proc on your first Moonfire in a dungeon and slow the mobs down and int your pull

round field
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youi dont play this game

round field
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that werent supposed to be

safe kite
lucid olive
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It is also hilarious you go after cotti for disagreeing and calling him bad when he's a better player than most people here

safe kite
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I love the fact that we are still moving away from the point of the 4 set being a terribly designed set.

round field
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i mean

safe kite
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I have not called him bad though have I?

safe kite
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I said he couldn't read, and that's true.

quiet drift
round field
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telll me one set

round field
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that wasnt badly designed

wild dune
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df s1

quiet drift
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Im disagreeing saying dropping the 4pc is a good idea

safe kite
lucid olive
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But it's still a dog whistle

safe kite
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Ok do you?

lucid olive
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No I'm not a dog

safe kite
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Do you need the survivability in a 10?

royal zenith
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@cloud plover is the dog

wild dune
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do you need the damage?

round field
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old 4 set is not more damage than new set...

scarlet tapir
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ur wrong

maiden pasture
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df s1 set was designed badly, there was just a bug which made it good

scarlet tapir
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old set is same damage as new set (class sucks so both do 0 dmg)

safe kite
round field
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well yeah

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cotti > piss random

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thats how it works

safe kite
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The only thing we've disagreed on is if you need the survivability of your 4 set in a 10.

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everything else was just simps going crazy thinking I called someone bad.

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When I didn'

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t

drifting nova
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if you dont need surv

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are you pulling enough?

pseudo merlin
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Don't need survivability in a 10?

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Try doing sentinels in ecodome

drifting nova
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saw a jank pull in hoa yday

craggy sonnet
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?

drifting nova
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pulled the central packs

safe kite
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I'm at 704, if I die in a +10 it's my fault at this point.

drifting nova
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it confused me

pseudo merlin
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what central packs

drifting nova
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EXACTLY

pseudo merlin
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the entire dungeon is played in the center

lucid olive
pseudo merlin
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No like what the fuck are you talking about

drifting nova
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no...no

round field
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whats the point of this then

drifting nova
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go right, get guardian, loop back go left

pseudo merlin
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and dies

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I'm so sick of it

lucid olive
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Gg..

drifting nova
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the central packs as in before the stairs

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before going down

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the mobs I've never in my life killed

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(yes he was like 10% over pull)

pseudo merlin
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you mean at the start

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before you go left

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you just go straight ahead?

drifting nova
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..right

pseudo merlin
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what

drifting nova
pseudo merlin
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wait

lucid olive
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Waiting

pseudo merlin
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this is my route

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point out on the route where the mobs hurt you Kekkers

royal zenith
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nice eco dome

drifting nova
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these plebs here

pseudo merlin
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WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HOA

drifting nova
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NOT EVEN IN YOUR ROUTE

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SEEE

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as you look forward

pseudo merlin
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you could have just said yes

drifting nova
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you said left

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but you go right first

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smh

pseudo merlin
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Yes

drifting nova
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my head

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I just vibe with the tank idk

pseudo merlin
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I have to constantly remind myself that everything you say is a bit

drifting nova
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hence why it confused me

pseudo merlin
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Or I will lose my fucking mind

royal zenith
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bad route

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grabbing a gargoyle

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yuckie

pseudo merlin
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wrong

drifting nova
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it's not on your route

safe kite
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And you all jumped on me when I claimed none of you could read.

lucid olive
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Yeah that route sucks

drifting nova
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I've never seen those packs pulled

pseudo merlin
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OK

wild dune
drifting nova
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in my life

pseudo merlin
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We are not here to criticise my pug friendly route

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WE were dogpiling kekkers

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and feirbawt

drifting nova
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lemme try remember the packs he pulled

lucid olive
pseudo merlin
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???????

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Ok what do you want me to do

lucid olive
neat horizon
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Its been more than 10 minutes, can someone please ask a question about gear so I can tell you to sim it? I'm getting the shakes

pseudo merlin
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don't sim, use stat weights

safe kite
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Should I still be using Jastor Diamond and Mug Jug?

neat horizon
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Sim it

lucid olive
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No

pseudo merlin
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probably

neat horizon
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Thank you ugh 🚬

drifting nova
pseudo merlin
#

im not replacing jastor till like mythic raid ring

lucid olive
#

Mug probably, Jastor not if it doesn't get fixed

drifting nova
pseudo merlin
#

Kekkers

drifting nova
#

brother was overpulling for next dungeon

pseudo merlin
#

wait

drifting nova
#

I DONT KNOW

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he pulled like 4 little goblin packs

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that stand at the dge

lucid olive
upper surge
#

If you time a 15 with 200% forces killed you get a handshake from Metzen

safe kite
fickle grail
#

c r a z y

lucid olive
#

We had 25 people with Jastor on Soul Hunters this week, 13 people with buff

pseudo merlin
#

what the

safe kite
lucid olive
#

Like 6 of those 13 people had 80%+ uptime and the others had like 5%

pseudo merlin
#

ok that's fucked

#

when did this start

lucid olive
#

With patch presumably

safe kite
pseudo merlin
#

fml

royal zenith
#

does it?

#

maybe the investigation has already been done

lucid olive
#

It has been investigated and uuuh unequip or play proc lottery

royal zenith
#

you're behind by a week give or take if you dont know about it

pseudo merlin
#

Do we have a number on how much the proc is worth

royal zenith
#

by now

dense steeple
loud kettle
#

Ur already playing the lottery anyway

drifting nova
#

need a var check SuspiciousChicken

loud kettle
#

Just commit

royal zenith
pseudo merlin
#

The lottery I'm playing is whether or not I get to raid in a tier, given I play boomie and ret

#

🙂

#

🙃

loud kettle
#

Yea ret is so unplayable rn

pseudo merlin
#

THANK YOU

#

Finally someone who agrees

royal zenith
#

poor ret

pseudo merlin
#

Crazy how the ferals are the sane ones

loud kettle
#

Needs nerfed by 20% to be playable

pseudo merlin
#

uhm???????

loud kettle
#

(;

pseudo merlin
#

i might swap to feral

lucid olive
pseudo merlin
#

but the feral compendium is so bad

drifting nova
#

does obr ret have more buttons than ret normally?

loud kettle
#

ya main reason id suggest not going feral tbh

pseudo merlin
#

real

loud kettle
#

The resources suck

pseudo merlin
#

IS anyone even maintaining them?

#

(doesnt look like it)

loud kettle
#

not sure

safe kite
pseudo merlin
drifting nova
#

divine storm

#

D I V I N E S T O R M

lucid olive
#

Spotify is blessing me today

drifting nova
#

and again

pseudo merlin
#

you should be playing ret kekkers

drifting nova
#

my first char was a paladin 🙂

pseudo merlin
#

Did you quit because it was too hard?

drifting nova
#

all those moons ago

#

I.. solo healed a giga boomer raid on hc ..so no?

lucid olive
#

My first character was a paladin too

pseudo merlin
#

my first character was a feral druid

#

in 2005

lucid olive
#

Female draenei paladin on a WOTLK private server

pseudo merlin
#

I saw the OG wow cinematic of that night elf jumping into a puddle of water and transforming into a panther

drifting nova
#

I guess technically speaking my first char was a tauren druid but it was a trial acc so

pseudo merlin
#

and I was instantly hooked on the fantasy

#

Then once I reached like level 8 after 10 hours of playing

quiet drift
#

Tauren hunter

pseudo merlin
#

My friend called me gay for not being horde

safe kite
#

a furry awakening

pseudo merlin
#

So I went horde

#

But I didnt want to be a cow

#

So I stopped playing druid

quiet drift
#

Killing myself to call my pet in the spirit realm

pseudo merlin
#

Wait is that actually waht tauren hunters do?

quiet drift
#

Idk

#

My guy did that

pseudo merlin
quiet drift
#

The pet did not come back

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And went next tauren hunter

pseudo merlin
#

I think that's on Blizzard

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Not on you

quiet drift
#

Real

loud kettle
#

My first character was a night elf priest

pseudo merlin
#

I forgot what nightelves had

#

starshards?

#

fear ward?

quiet drift
#

Fear ward was dwarf

#

Iirc

pseudo merlin
#

oh right

drifting nova
#

holy based level20 spell

minor condor
#

Is jastor still bugged inside manaforge?

cloud plover
fossil flame
#

howdy guys good afternoon

harsh jungle
#

when is the discord getting shut down?

dense steeple
#

Were not babies we wont shut down

craggy sonnet
#

on soulbinder .. do you hold double ca for 2nd add spawns at 4:30 or just send earlier? seems kinad tight to get in another ca convoke until boss dies

#

no way - top logs on soulbinder play ec 💀

lucid olive
#

are the other people hitting the adds in those logs

craggy sonnet
#

hmmm

#

prolly not as much as they could

lucid olive
#

yeee idk

#

maybe its an EC fight

#

its a meme fight anyway

#

1 pull prog fight

craggy sonnet
#

yea

#

its pad anyways

#

was just looking for the timers and saw almost no convokes on lorrgs

quiet drift
#

You can do competitive damage w Kotg

#

Boss is getting removed off Allstar sooner of later

craggy sonnet
#

not gonna play ec, all good

#

on araz generally worth to send a CA late into collectors to get 4 dryad surges into amp?

#

in both intermissions?

digital berry
#

It’s… tight

#

You have to bank on the fact that your team will kill them within 10 seconds once you make the decision

#

Also it takes like 3 seconds for amp to start

craggy sonnet
#

Yea, I saw that. Maybe I will just try to feel out the timing and then adjust if it's not consistent.

tacit heath
#

quick question, my second CA charge, do i use it before or after my 2 starsurges at the end of my window?

quiet drift
#

Before

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You want the Boat crit for them

#

and Dryad dmg

vagrant prawn
#

looking at logs for dimensious on archon its showing all the people popping incarn at start and then 2 more within 20 seconds, are they popping before they go over or that just a visual bug?

lofty depot
craggy sonnet
#

@jolly delta why can i only export to MRT from the timeline planner but not import, grr .. want to save setups

lofty depot
#

But 2 more withing 20 seconds is a visual bug probably. Which u should just use lorrgs or look at logs instead of use archon

crude turtle
#

is it worth do equip old 2p with new 2p tierset?

lofty depot
#

Yes

tacit heath
lofty depot
#

Yes

#

U should read the guide

tacit heath
#

i have but it isnt clear

craggy sonnet
#

depends on your FoN timing

#

you want to make sure both surges go inside FoN buff and are right at the start of 2nd CA

#

but generally you do overlap CAs

tacit heath
#

so it may overlap depending on the exact timing

#

cool thank you, the guide wasnt completely clear on that

craggy sonnet
#

it usually does

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unless you delayed FoN for some reason

lofty depot
jolly delta
#

hopefully in september I'll have more time

craggy sonnet
#

ok, dont stress it

#

not important

lofty depot
#

It's almost september

#

Surely he means next week

vagrant prawn
#

see how they are all using incarn at start and then again twice within 15~ seconds

tepid basalt
#

Hey guys, got a question about araz trinket, is it worth to use it to up the intel pool and make the intel cap of the 4p bonus higher ? (like we did with bear morph on the end of the dryad before modification)

craggy sonnet
#

thats why its good

tepid basalt
#

But you still using it on incarn's use or you delay it to get as much intel as posible at the end of the first dryad ?

jolly delta
#

after I finish PoE's patch

lofty depot
#

but yes they are using a 2nd ca at 15

#

but again, ur using a shitty site to see those uses

#

and should stop using it

exotic storm
#

lol, even the champ boots proc increase feels nutty

lofty depot
tepid basalt
upper surge
#

Are dots ALWAYS worth it for mastery damage buff if they don't tick for long? If you have a high prio add that doesn't instantly disappear but also doesn't live too long do you dot it before doing anything else, even if it's just gonna be like 5-6 seconds of fighting?

#

I know the easy answer would be "just hit boss, let burst specs deal with it" but that's not realy an option in pugs

upper surge
#

Thank you

tame dome
#

World first over now. Balance buffs when???

lofty depot
#

next week forsure

tame dome
#

What would be your ideal version of buffs for balance?

upper surge
#

delete other classes

lofty depot
#

well, the problem is what i think isnt gonna happen because they dont ever put us in the top mid of classes

#

but even though we dont really do damage to adds in raid and were only generally doing ST/boss dam, were not even the middle to top in that

drifting nova
#

is there a site for key overall dam

#

rio does not have it

lofty depot
#

bottom in overall damage, meaning both cleave and boss dam

#

kinda tied with 4-5 other specs for just terrible boss dam

tame dome
#

I’d like to see starsurge buffed by 20% and I’d like it to cleave to 3 stacked targets

lofty depot
#

and i would prefer if theyh didnt buff EC again

craggy sonnet
#

@lofty depot have you been prepping for forgeweaver?

tame dome
#

I quite enjoy both hero talents but I don’t like the poor cool-down sync of trees

gaunt lantern
#

please buff ec. like 200-300% please and thank you

formal crest
lofty depot
#

was gonna try out EC

#

see if i hate it

formal crest
#

I hate it in raid

tame dome
#

I also prefer no convole

craggy sonnet
#

wondering about grove inspiration vs potent on that fight and CA late in intermissions

tame dome
#

Convoke

craggy sonnet
lofty depot
jaunty blaze
#

what are you gonna do with ec on last phase

craggy sonnet
#

you wanna play ec on forgeweaver

#

no way

lofty depot
craggy sonnet
jaunty blaze
#

game PoppyNoted

craggy sonnet
#

last phase is super short anyways after nerfs

formal crest
craggy sonnet
#

so thats not an issue

#

but EC is just pad on that fight

jaunty blaze
#

and you do nothing during amp

lofty depot
#

ah i didnt show

#

one sec

lofty depot
craggy sonnet
#

adds are free

jaunty blaze
#

but not even good

lofty depot
#

guilds that dont have 3 ele's or 3 locks

jaunty blaze
#

like

#

whats your job then

lofty depot
#

kill adds dork

#

thats my job 😉

#

but idk it depends if its a problem or not

jaunty blaze
#

surely that 20% starfall buff next week will come in handy

royal zenith
#

😉

craggy sonnet
#

theoretically getting 4 dryad surges into amp has gotta be more dam right?

#

compared to playing grove inspo

lofty depot
#

yea, but i play around my guilds ability to do things

craggy sonnet
#

and your guild is not capable to cleaving adds?

lofty depot
#

this is without potent

formal crest
royal zenith
#

😮

craggy sonnet
lofty depot
#

whens htat

craggy sonnet
#

shortly after 6min

upper surge
#

How do you even fix not being able to deal with adds well without changing encounter design?

lofty depot
#

is it 30 seconds after 6m

#

or is it 610

lofty depot
#

the problem is when those other classes arent good at anything else

#

and the ones that are good at add damage are also good at boss damage while losing nothing to do add damage

craggy sonnet
#

more like 6:10

lofty depot
#

ye late

craggy sonnet
#

i know

lofty depot
#

with potent its probably right on time

craggy sonnet
#

i do be using the planner

lofty depot
#

2nd is very tight

craggy sonnet
#

with potent its super easy

lofty depot
#

ye

craggy sonnet
lofty depot
#

so yea, that would be hte idea is use potent assuming u get double amp

craggy sonnet
#

but idk if thats enough of a gain to win out over grove insp

#

(not that grove insp is big dam but its something)

dry compass
#

Encounter design is only one half of the equation

jaunty blaze
#

the problem is our aoe spender does fuck all

lofty depot
#

well its 4% when u get an extra one

#

so its gotta be more when u get extra one on amp

dry compass
#

Aff lock has the same exact problem but they have two other specs they can roll that don't suffer from it at all

lofty depot
#

and then u still get a single ca + convoke during the last phase at whenever u want 8m

dry compass
#

You can redesign our mastery and solve the problem instantly

#

But then the DoTs suddenly become a very awkward part of the kit

craggy sonnet
lofty depot
#

well they can have a talent be that dots increase ur damage to said target

dry compass
#

Because they do piss damage and without enabling mastery they aren't worth casting if the target isn't going to live the full duration

lofty depot
#

rather than it be hte mastery

royal zenith
#

it was never awkward in shadowlands

#

just something you want to have on at all times

dry compass
#

So you'd have to make significant changes to shift more damage into the dots

royal zenith
#

and there's still WT

craggy sonnet
#

if you do the 4 surges into amp its prolly also worth to have all 4 during trees, hey?

lofty depot
#

oh araz 630 or 7m fight?

craggy sonnet
#

like 7m

dry compass
#

In aoe scenarios

royal zenith
#

yeah but that's a good thing

dry compass
#

Neither of those existed in shadowlands

royal zenith
#

but in that case you would create talents making dots more impactful

#

and they still generate ASP

upper surge
#

remove dots

royal zenith
#

there's a ton of talents linked to dots

#

changing mastery so you can actually target swap is a good thing

dry compass
#

Meh, AsP generation is already very high and spender damage is so pisslow I don't think dot asp generation is actually that valuable

royal zenith
#

it definitely is, for movement

#

that's the whole reason they changed it or made it generate more

lofty depot
#

ur also forgetting shooting stars

fossil hemlock
lofty depot
#

which does like 8% of ur dam

upper anvil
#

do we get a quest for resi keys again?

royal zenith
#

it's not just a mastery change, it's a whole philosophy change of the spec

#

which I would always root for

dry compass
#

Man auto correct wrecked that sentence

lofty depot
#

well thats why they cant do it in the middle of the expansion because were not shadow priest

#

they can do random shit to shadow priest every patch for fun

upper surge
#

So question for people who have played this spec when it wasn't meh, when was it good and what made it good?

lofty depot
#

moonkin "oh its a give problem and needs an big expansion release and blah blah"

fossil hemlock
#

Don't worry, new DH spec throws stars so surely moonkin is being reworked

royal zenith
#

well we keep coping they do it during a new expansion

#

but jackshit has changed for 4 years

royal zenith
#

3 years *

dry compass
#

Frenzy is extremely popular because it was immensely powerful and game warping

upper surge
dry compass
#

I'm a big fan of WoD boomie because it was extremely rhythmic, had one of the higher levels of skill expression, and machine gunning starsurges was always fun

lofty depot
exotic storm
#

SIN CURVE

#

I loved WoD

lofty depot
#

and then 0 dps for 2 minutes

safe kite
dry compass
#

Boomies niche has always been two things, spread cleave and extremely bursty single target

royal zenith
#

not frontloaded burst and it was 3 minutes

upper surge
dry compass
#

Not always both at the same time, but always at least one of those

royal zenith
#

in current fight designs it's ass

lofty depot
#

SL u were miles a head of people for full minutes

#

right now, my feral catches me after 30 seconds

dry compass
#

Current tier set is bursty but like... 20% of what a good frenzy ramp got you

upper surge
#

I only healed during SL but I remember everyone wanting boomkins for every kind of content

exotic storm
#

I still haven't forgiven Owls for ruining Kyrian

lofty depot
#

ruining

#

hm

dry compass
royal zenith
#

no it was balance druid in general

lucid olive
#

classic kyle take

royal zenith
#

it fucked over resto druids

#

he's right

exotic storm
#

You got it nerfed for bears. MasteryStackers

royal zenith
#

and/or bears I guess

dry compass
lofty depot
#

imagine choosing to be a bear playing kyrian rather than other druid specs playing night fae

#

L for u ig

royal zenith
#

adaptive swarm and kyrian are fun concepts

dry compass
#

I miss swarm on resto

dry compass
#

The fact that feral got to keep it but resto lost it is a crime

upper surge
#

the ability feels very resto-y

warm meteor
#

Got a question about bursting in big pulls in m+, after you dot everything etc and press your CDs, by then you sometimes have so much so that is it worth it to spend it on Starfire or should you just spam Starfire or try to not cap it, basically going cap->starfall->Starfire into cap and repeat?

lofty depot
#

u need to not cap asp

dry compass
lofty depot
#

if u dont uncap, starfire doesnt proc 2p

warm meteor
#

So basically do the last point of the message?

safe kite
#

Why are you pooling to cap for?

warm meteor
#

Asking mainly when you are in the point where everything is off and you gain so much ap that a single Starfire caps you, kinda that scenario

lofty depot
#

as stated, u need to not be capped when u cast starfire

safe kite
#

The point is to get starfalls off so you play around that. I find it very unlikely where I would ever be in a scenario where i can't cast starfall but a Starfire would somehow overcap me

craggy sonnet
#

no thats not the point

#

starfire is more dam than starfall

#

hence you spam starfire

#

and only starfall to not cap

#

or build starlord

warm meteor
#

Didn't say you can't cast SF, rather if it's worth casting as many Starfire's as possible during your CD

radiant wyvern
#

is it safe to assume the gearset used in the simc sims is our BiS for ST KotG for the season?

safe kite
#

No, because of the set.

warm meteor
#

Ic

lofty depot
#

the gearset is just something that was used when simming and there can be differences or flaws in it

lofty depot
#

u still need to not be capped when casting starfire

lucid olive
#

BiS gear profiles don't really exist, there are several different items that are all within margin of error

#

the profiles used in sims like that are just defaults used when simming different APL options and talents etc in order to keep the results as accurate as possible

safe kite
lucid olive
#

and wowhead "bis gear" profiles also just use those to clickbait on their website

lofty depot
#

but u also just shouldnt be overcapping asp ever

#

thats a condition always

upper surge
#

So as long as it generates at least some astral power starfire is better than starfall?

#

Even if it's like 1 astral power?

tropic pollen
#

How do we handle swapping to shortlived prio targets? I feel like I struggle to get rolling against things like the Pulsar at the end of Gambit, the spirit in eco-dome, and the adds that spawn on the first boss in ecodome. It feels clunky trying to dot and then build astral power (I guess I could track timers more closely and make sure I'm pooled).

lofty depot
#

yes but u shouldve probably spent 2 starfalls in that situation

craggy sonnet
lofty depot
lofty depot
lucid olive
#

Sunfire boss, Moonfire add

upper surge
#

moonfire son or sunfire daughter?

lucid olive
#

how many of you have figured out last boss in Eco-Dome does the same pattern every time

safe kite
#

My teammates havn't figured out that you need to pick up the echo thing that is on the dmg slice first let alone that the fight is almost entirely scripted.

lucid olive
#

on the intermission you pick up the 3 ghosts in the same pattern every time

#

Furthest from entrance ghost first and then go right

craggy sonnet
safe kite
#

For sure, it's just that every group I'm in someone is typing about the encounter being bugged because they didn't pick the ghost on the dmg slice up before she went boom.

upper surge
#

It's really always the same pattern?

digital berry
upper surge
#

It's not a big deal tbh but it is very lame

craggy sonnet
lofty depot
#

which means ur then losing some

slow quail
#

Now that rwf is over when we getting our buff?

digital berry
#

My last key I realize I was bothered by the fact I had to spend asp, what a shitty ass tier set

safe kite
craggy sonnet
safe kite
craggy sonnet
#

but its kinda random anyways with shroom procs and shooting stars

craggy sonnet
digital berry
#

There was 0 reason the 2p didn’t trigger on starfall instead of starfire

#

It would make spending feel so much better even with the Lower dps on starfall

safe kite
#

Imagine the glory of starfall triggering a starsurge on every target. I don't care how nerfed it would be, I would just want that visual.

upper surge
#

doesn't help in ST

safe kite
#

If I'm pressing Starfire in single target as EC just make me press starfall in single target as well.

lofty depot
#

love that boomkin niche in raid they seem to think we have

royal zenith
#

are those destro's just bolting?

#

cause that's insane damage for a 2 target cleave

lofty depot
safe kite
#

It's just wither dmg

upper surge
#

kinda lame tbh

royal zenith
#

"just wither dmg"

#

that's one ability that clears our whole kit

#

wdym "just wither damage"

lofty depot
#

must be nice pressing a button 25 times in a fight and being #`1

safe kite
#

Before you get worked up you're reading it wrong

royal zenith
#

ah

upper surge
#

I think he meant "just" as "excluisvely"

safe kite
#

It's in response to the guy asking if it was chaos bolt

royal zenith
#

yeah that's me

#

do you even read?

#

:' )

safe kite
#

Never

#

I'm a boomkin I can't read

royal zenith
#

that's too ironic

safe kite
#

as "dot class" i too would like a single dot that does 50% of my dmg. Hell I wouldn't even be that greedy make sunfire do 25 and moonfire 25.

royal zenith
#

no just make starfall good

#

but my guess is they won't do that cause M+ and cry

dry compass
#

You're generally applying with soul fire or cataclysm and not wither itself

exotic storm
#

Wither damage increases based on you doing your rotation, you can't just cast wither and afk

dry compass
#

Yeah the dot itself isn't doing that damage the blackened soul effect is

lofty depot
#

actually i thikn its like 1/3

nova ocean
#

Race is over were our buffs reee

dry compass
#

I'm not saying the tuning is good, just that the number of casts of wither has nothing whatsoever to do with how much damage it deals

#

If you put 25 withers and nothing else you're gonna do 1% the damage of 120 starfalls

drifting nova
royal zenith
#

well that's besides the point

#

we were talking about balance druids niche

#

in that regard it would make more sense if Affli would be topping soulhunters

dry compass
#

Affi was topping until they nerfed it

#

And I think I've been on several rants now about how we're not even a top 3 class on the spread cleave council boss of this tier

#

Nexus King should've been an amazing fight for us as well

#

Add phase lives long enough for dot value, big damage amp to sent burst into

#

And yet

drifting nova
#

niches dont exist

#

too much work

#

why soul hunters doesnt share is my biggest quesiton tbh

lofty depot
#

u never want to be considered "the aoe" class

main narwhal
#

U mean lower alpha? Like seethrough? Or do u mean a different/darker color
My alpha is lower for oor and los, nothing with combat afaik

#

Also hey moonkin friends, sucks to be us right now

lofty depot
#

nono were fine

#

krona played boomkin for 1 pull on dimmy

#

were so back

main narwhal
lofty depot
pseudo merlin
#

Chat

#

what is this ball

#

is that Dimmy`?

lofty depot
#

need the 5+ videos of "boomkin needs buffs" "are the buffs enough?" "wee need more buffs"

lofty depot
pseudo merlin
pseudo merlin
main narwhal
lofty depot
normal pilot
#

recall naguura?

drifting nova
#

SuspiciousChicken pol arc

dry compass
#

Vid title: buff boomkin and free Palestine comments section: disaster

main narwhal
#

Hahahaha

safe kite
drifting nova
#

SuspiciousChicken so whens cloak upgrade

#

swear I've done everything

#

and nada

muted spoke
#

For the elune chosen build with 2 charges of incarn

#

am I sending both charges at the same time?

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or using 1 at a time?

safe kite
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Are you asking if they stack?

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or if you use them one after another?

muted spoke