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potent pivot
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yes

wet crown
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oh man sub is fried

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fuck that.

grave basin
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I mean they're keeping the vanish talents in class tree

wet crown
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i'm just gonna play outlaw and aff all expansion

grave basin
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Even when they're deliberately removing stealth reliance

radiant glen
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dw dw dw we will do dmg outside dance and we will do the same dmg inside dance and then its gonna be the sickest budget warrior u will ever see

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im so glad the game is getting pruned it was almost a bit more complex than mashing ur face on the keyboard

potent pivot
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all they needed to prune was modifiers imo

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not actual abilities and shit for the most part

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like

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we still have even bigger hero trees and apex talents coming

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i think they pruned the opposite of what they should have

radiant glen
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ngl i think rogue having cheapshot during dance was a bit hard for new players to learn and understand, so now they will have to count teh amount of cheapshots and guess the haste level of the rogue without addons :D

potent pivot
radiant glen
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it was also very unintuitive to have a new player see a 7 second blind and be unsure if they should trinket it, so now they can guess if they wanna trinket the axe toss, half stormbolt, coil, or quarter fear

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healers trading cds also a bit complex so we're removing half of them and just making flash heal do 300% more

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ok imma stop dooming and imma start looking at the league of legends meta

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inshallah ring of titans or w/e blows up idk

abstract stratus
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we thought not enough people played healer because its fundamentally the least fun role so we made all healers do 300% damage and tied all of their damage to healing so more people play healers HAVE FUN
inb4 all healers play like voidweaver

spring bough
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DH gonna still be omega s tier lol

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Can’t wait changes sound minimal and good

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Blur more powered up had to read that one three times

wet crown
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Gonna be sad since it seems like solo pvp is just gonna feel horrible on a rogue now lol

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hopefully I'm just wrong but man

gleaming sentinel
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it already does

spring bough
wet crown
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true

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this shit ain't helping

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can sin still spam garrote silences

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or is that gone too

dark kernel
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im genuinely so depressed every night I queue this game

wet crown
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real

dark kernel
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Like, I legitimately put every single minute of my free disposable time into getting better and improving and I haven't seen any improvement in months

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and my time is so limited I feel like at this point its actually just that Im fucking stupid

potent pivot
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garrote silence is still there

spring bough
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Think I’m doing a belf DH for remix

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Things gonna zoom thru all the dungeons. Tank for fast ques lol

abstract stratus
sharp sierra
grave basin
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Mages lost displacement blast wave and shifty p

dark kernel
outer sky
dark kernel
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Like you're trying to be where I am and I get it

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But I've now been hard stuck like 6 months and it's getting to the point that I am legitimately clinically, mood and life affected depressed

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At not being able to learn

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It's not even losing, it's the fact that losing means I'm not figuring things out

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I hit 2300 before and I'm struggling at 1900

outer sky
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record some games

dark kernel
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Anyway I don't want to aids chat here, the game needs less dps

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It won't matter

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I have before, I don't want to aids chat with depression again

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Like it's done

grave basin
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Priests no longer have void swap

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Sp doesn't have horror

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I mean ???

gleaming sentinel
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Dk might be insane

woven gale
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Rip got trolled out of my 6-0 thought I was gonna be done with Hunter.

woven gale
grave basin
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Shifting power

woven gale
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I straight up never understood why they kept that from Shadowlands

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It wasn't a fun mage ability it was just good

grave basin
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It was good for skill expression

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Using it correctly was a major DPS gain

woven gale
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It was also a boring skill

grave basin
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That's kinda subjective no

woven gale
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I run it on my mage cause I feel I have to, not cause I enjoy it

grave basin
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Was fun for me

woven gale
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I mean its literally just stand still wait a bit for your CDs to be refreshed

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Ill take 1000 hunt variations over Shifting Power

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Or Mindgames

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Or Divine Bell

grave basin
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Yea and if you get kicked or used it before you got off the spells you needed

woven gale
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Or Destro Bolt or Kyrian Spear...

grave basin
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You're not as good as someone who used it correctly

woven gale
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I never really had problems getting it off

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It felt like Leylines 2.0

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A mandatory power that just makes you stronger but doesn't actually do anything flashy or cool

grave basin
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It literally made you flash with power

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Aesthetically

woven gale
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Yeah but The Hunt

grave basin
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Not mechanically

woven gale
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When I mean do something flashy I am talking like how the new DH spec has the bomb

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Or how Ele in SL could send wave after wave of meatballs

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I'd rather have duel even as a mage than that cause duel DOES look cool and feel cool to use

wet crown
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So is it just me or like

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doesn't the change to DR inherently kinda make the nerf to cheap shot unnecessary

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Like IDK when cheap shot was ever a problem in pve

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and it's never looked weaker to me than midnight

potent pivot
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which is just an insane change to comprehend but yeah

wet crown
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But I've also played long enough to not instantly buy that lol

potent pivot
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legit every new player

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is just going to cry about energy regen

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watch

wet crown
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"OH THIS MEANS THEY'LL FIX THINGS"

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teehee

potent pivot
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even in aoe assa is going to be energy starved btw

wet crown
potent pivot
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outlaw is going to be way slower

wet crown
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Oh of course it is

potent pivot
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assa is going to be way slower

wet crown
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Outlaw actually looks good

potent pivot
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etc

wet crown
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Relative to most other specs

potent pivot
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idk i don't like it

wet crown
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Big question is if has any staying power at all in a pvp setting

vocal surge
potent pivot
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basically all 3 specs are going to be 'just do damage idiot'

wet crown
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I'm fine with that as a shuffle enjoyer

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I don't care for 3v3 anymore tbh.

potent pivot
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gutting cheap and leaving iron wire is also kinda crazy

wet crown
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losing the aoe silence garrote spam will be sad

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But we can still do it on st

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and that's funny to do

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just perma cc the healer, nothing they can do if they aren't a druid

potent pivot
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you can spread garrote with CT

wet crown
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Yeah but that doesn't apply to the silence

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presumably

potent pivot
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just not sure if that also spreads the silence until tested

wet crown
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I'm ASSUMING not

potent pivot
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i'd be surprised if it doesn't include the silence

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genuinely

vocal surge
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It'd be OP if it included the silence

wet crown
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idk that wouldn't really make sense to me

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garrote applies the silence, not the bleed

potent pivot
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no it wouldn't

vocal surge
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imagine Garrote --> Fok --> Crimson Tempest --> FoK x2 --> Crimson Tempest

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and you'd reapply that silence twice

wet crown
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it's the garrote actually making contact with the target that's the silence

wet crown
potent pivot
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we can already aoe triple silence a shit load right now

wet crown
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i don't think it'll work that way though

potent pivot
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it would still be worse

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than what we have rn

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by a lot

wet crown
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Like

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I just want to be able to have mini burst windows again between cds

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Feel like I'm fucking afk without deathmark

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Meanwhile crusader billy smashes his keyboard and has a wake of ashes go every 30 seconds

vocal surge
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and perma Slice and Dice

wet crown
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I want paladin to lose at least one safety net

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or 1:30 forbearance

vocal surge
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They gave paladins perma Slice and Dice xD

wet crown
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bro my mage can't ice block twice a minute, why can these assholes do that, and attack during it

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and have actual defensive cds

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that can't be interrupted

potent pivot
wet crown
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while also being able to give other players defensives

potent pivot
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like

wet crown
potent pivot
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how not

wet crown
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I don't think the mere act of applying the garrote is the trigger to begin with

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I think spreading the bleed is all crimson tempest would do, the silence needing you to actually use the garrote spell on said target

potent pivot
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IC spreads it just fine rn

wet crown
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I HOPE you're right but I don't think you are. Because that sounds way better for M+

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IC makes garrote cleave

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its different

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it's still garrote

potent pivot
wet crown
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Well we're losing ic so it's moot

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I don't disagree at all lol

potent pivot
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and i feel like there's no shot they don't give pve players a way to spread silence

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on packs

wet crown
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Wouldn't surprise me at all tbh

potent pivot
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its not moot in the fact that like

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completely removing something that is that important

wet crown
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this is the most important time

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to raise complaints to blizzard

potent pivot
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compared to giving a watered down version of said thing

wet crown
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lots of negative feedback will make them change at this stage.

potent pivot
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like now you have to waste a global just to spread to 2 targets

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instead of it happening automatically

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and you also have way less of a window to do so

jaunty mirage
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I really hope that micro cc gets looked at

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It’s one of the biggest issues with the game the last few expacs imo

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Makes it so like melee HAVE to have a ton of gap closers

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If you remove a bunch of micro cc then you can also remove SOME gap closers and make casters have to cast again

wet crown
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I mean

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I play a warlock and a mage too, so it's like

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IMO melee mobility is way more of an issue than caster mobility/casting r/n in pvp

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Something like a warrior you legit cannot out maneuver no matter how hard you outplay, unless you're a mage with shimmer

potent pivot
jaunty mirage
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I mean yeah I’m just saying it’s all connected

wet crown
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Like it's not really an issue for rogue sadly

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but it's absurd

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warrior, dh, a ret pally, a fucking dk or a monk are on you as like a priest or lock without peels, what do you even do

potent pivot
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You say that after the last frost mage meta

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Kinda crazy

wet crown
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well again

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I did specify mage

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is like the only one that's just as bullshit

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but they also kinda have to be so lol

jaunty mirage
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It’s just sort of been an arms race between mobility and casting

wet crown
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It's either that or we give them deep freeze back

potent pivot
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The amount of roots, movement and knock is insane to me

jaunty mirage
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Yeah

wet crown
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Personally I'd love having deep freeze again on mage

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instead of just running away from 80 gap closers

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that's like my #1 issue with mage pvp, there's a lot of situations you can't punish that most other classes can.

jaunty mirage
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They have always had a hard time figuring out how to make casting good in pvp without making it toxic

wet crown
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Also since stacking ua is back

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we are absolutely going to see healers just randomly explode

jaunty mirage
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Destro is basically the sub rogue of casters, blizzard doesn’t know what else to do with them so either they can kill you in 3 bolts, or they straight up suck

wet crown
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I wouldn't say destro is sub

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Destro always has damage

jaunty mirage
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It’s been easier for them to just give casters more instants then try to figure out how to balance it

wet crown
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sub has a very small window

jaunty mirage
wet crown
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Ah, right

jaunty mirage
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Sub can either kill you in a cheap and everyone complains, or it’s just not threatening

wet crown
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I feel like destro is usually fine balance wise, in that if you let a hardcast chaos bolt hit you uncontested you probably deserve to eat that hit usually.

jaunty mirage
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But that’s the design they backed themselves into a corner with

wet crown
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I think the worst part with sub is that the changes don't really seem to positively address the specs issues at all.

jaunty mirage
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Destro they went all in on chaos bolt which results in being stuck in a very similar corner

wet crown
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Like before legion, if you damaged someoen without shadow dance

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You probably wouldn't kill them but you'd be a threat

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and if you get trinket before dance gg

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ther subterfuge openers were fun

halcyon timber
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Cant do that, cult gets pissed

wet crown
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which cult in this context

halcyon timber
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Just hiveminds of dance bs

wet crown
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dude sub used to be my favorite spec in the entire game and now it's just like, I kinda hate it lol

halcyon timber
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Yeah , slowly changing. Happy to see some pre legion influence

wet crown
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I genuinely don't see how afking while waiting for shadow blades, mashing shadow strike and then being a cc bot for aminute is fun

stoic spruce
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I still can't believe they just said no more vanish outlaw

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It's cool that they get to omit vanish though

wet crown
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At least crackshot kinda lives on

stoic spruce
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Make themselves unique

wet crown
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Everyone else gets fucked

night vector
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These haste changes for sub feel like theres gonna be a single breakpoint you need and thats it, doesnt feel like the stat matters to us yet

wet crown
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I'm not convinced it'll even feel better to play

night vector
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Because you gonna lineup with symbols, so whats the point

wet crown
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I thought it was hasted +cdr at first

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This sounds awful

night vector
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Just bake them together at this point, theyre talking about removing bloat skills but we still have dance and symbol that are used at the same time buy cant be macroed

wet crown
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My #1 want

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Is for outlaw to have sustain in pvp brawls

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Like if you see a dk, warrior or paladin, you have a fighting chance slugging it out

night vector
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Making symbols only buff finishers means u want to dance->builder->symbol->finisher

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So 🤷‍♂️

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Tried to read if retri gets adressed at all but all their skills have the same name

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Holy this, avenging that

halcyon timber
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They did that shit with sanguinary vein fuck that

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Its how we ended up in the clown carnival that even the pve kids gripe about now . This is them moving the needle a little bit but not full swing and is healthy

halcyon timber
# wet crown I thought it was hasted +cdr at first

Dunno prob a “fixed” dance like the old days + small haste boost. Its a 45s cd which i remember talking in that chat when realz was in there back in alpha and beta talks.

We still have more talents in ds and trickster and apex. People need to calm tf down

stoic spruce
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No WAs in pvp

halcyon timber
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They said in end game so i assume so

stoic spruce
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Blizzards tracker tracks all sorts of stuff buy I wonder if they'll track the opponents stuff as well

potent pivot
halcyon timber
potent pivot
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And desynced

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Dance/symbols/sec tech

halcyon timber
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Tuning and sshit etc

potent pivot
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It just comes off as disconnected

halcyon timber
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I read it all, have to work it out and such

wet crown
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I want it to be good so bad

halcyon timber
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Shall see

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F the hivemind nonsense

wet crown
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I'll take haste mast over mast vers

halcyon timber
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Devs likely got tired of dealing with the bs

night vector
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Skullsplitter removed from arms, goated decision

wet crown
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I hate pvp gearing with vers so much

night vector
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Remove versa, bring back multistrike

wet crown
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Haste vers sub with no mastery would feel shitty

halcyon timber
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I hate existing only in cds and hyperfixating on one thing of the kit every damn expansion since legion

wet crown
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Fuck multistrike in pvp though

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Was nerfed from the start, better in pve

halcyon timber
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They specifically said that will never come back

wet crown
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Good

night vector
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It was such a weird test, but ngl it fit the rogue theme well

halcyon timber
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Was a disaster to balance

wet crown
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All the specs I played liked multistrike

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Which gimped them in pvp

halcyon timber
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Classes kinda have that via added effects anyway pending how they talent

wet crown
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Lol

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Like we are essentially forced to choose between more burst and our burst actually being scary due to half our stats always being devoted to vers

halcyon timber
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Avoiding windfury memes

night vector
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I think rogue had one interaction with it iirc?

wet crown
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Sub had the bleed accelerant

night vector
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Oh yea

wet crown
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Which I hated because it fucked with our burst a lot

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Sub in MoP was peak

night vector
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I was combat enjoyer in mop

halcyon timber
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Kinda nudging in pre legion direction and that is healthy

night vector
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Bandits guile went brrrrr

sharp sierra
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How do we think outlaw will be now

wet crown
halcyon timber
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Yeah i didnt get to stick in mop long. Had a lot of bad shit happen in life. Cata was great too.

night vector
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Only change i truly dislike is removing new tmog from upgrading gear

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Dadgamers lose mythic tmogs

halcyon timber
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New cold blooded killer cbk is cool too

wet crown
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Cata pvp was great till everyone got legendaries and broke the game lol

halcyon timber
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Yeah they need to cut that shit out

wet crown
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Then in dragonspul you had gurth and the rogue legendary making it so much worse

halcyon timber
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I saw searing glare is on a choice node with blinding light for the pink kids. Hopefully that classifies as a disorient

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Instead of this bs it currently is

wet crown
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Cold blooded killer looks really cool

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I think it looks better than cold blood

halcyon timber
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Yeah good reactionary gameplay

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Yeah i like cb but oh fuck sometimes man

wet crown
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I rarely think a change like that is good, but that's a good one

halcyon timber
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How did supercharger change for Outlaw and Assass? I see for us Subtlety they put it in dance

wet crown
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Outlaw is ar

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Idk sin

halcyon timber
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Right on

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I glanced over it but didnt check much

wet crown
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I think they should add a thing to cbk

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Where killing something also triggers it

halcyon timber
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So 1 supercharger per adr? Or were notes dropped?

wet crown
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Not sure, I get alpha tomorrow though so

halcyon timber
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Cbk like old talents in old bc trees? Cant remember the talent

wet crown
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Cbk is new pretty sure

halcyon timber
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Was a finisher buff or some shit

wet crown
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It's just cold blood

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But now passive and way better for the modern game

halcyon timber
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Yeah i know that but there was an old talents back in the day where you killed something and got a buff

wet crown
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Oh uh

halcyon timber
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Was early in assassination tree iirc

wet crown
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Classic we had it but it was like a crit buff for ambush or ss

halcyon timber
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Cbk not doing that prevents mfd cheese

wet crown
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Man

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Mfd

halcyon timber
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Bc that is part of the reason that shit went away

wet crown
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I miss the old ambush animation on that note

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Current one looks so stupid

halcyon timber
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I just miss when ambush was a fucking ambush

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And not hehe generator no do dmg hehe

wet crown
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Ambush cranked more than finishers lmao

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Get crits and gg

halcyon timber
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It was a god damn satisfying crunch

wet crown
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Cp management and different openers

halcyon timber
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I dig what were are slowly rolling to though. Finisher kids still get their stuff too

wet crown
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As opposed to mashing cheap and ss

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Garrote, remember that, wasn't just a sin bleed

halcyon timber
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I just dont believe at all that any reasonable ability should be shit

wet crown
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Wasn't garrote the sub tree too, I think it was

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Well not tree, classification

halcyon timber
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Way back in the day we all had it yeah

wet crown
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It was under sub I think lol

halcyon timber
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Old sanguinary vein days for sure

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Was an interaction with serrated blades too etc. yeah

outer sky
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Wait does Cloak not work on Kingsbane?

grave basin
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Any1 watching alpha content ?

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Fire mage had
more complexity

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In tbc

outer sky
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I hear a ton of classes are getting toned down

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which i support to some extent. but i hope they don't make it so simple that it becomes trivial

grave basin
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And priests

outer sky
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Ayeee i have a fan

outer sky
grave basin
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Tell him you're teemu ivanrah

outer sky
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Some classes really do need to be pruned though

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Like Shaman

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Way too much button bloat

grave basin
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Yea agree rsham has a billion buttons

outer sky
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Every shaman spec does

grave basin
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Eh enhance isn't too shabby if you play stormbringer

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Totemic is a mess though

outer sky
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So theres 2 big concerns I have with this path theyre going down.

  1. Making it too simple. For obvious reasons going too far in that direction is not good for the game

But 2. One issue I have with the game even now is how many things a single button does. And im afraid if they reduce the button bloat too much they'll just compound that problem where a single button does like 15 things and I dont like that.

In vanilla and TBC you pressed one button and it swung your axe. Thats all it did. Now that same button swings your axe, applies a healing reduction, gives you a proc, buffs another ability, and turns off your enemy's PC. I dont like that either

potent pivot
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That’s way too far

grave basin
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That's classic fire mage

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Kekw

potent pivot
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The guy has 4 abilities

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wtf

grave basin
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No phoenix flames

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No scorch

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No skb

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No cdr

potent pivot
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It has CDR

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It’s just baked in

grave basin
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I mean shifting power

potent pivot
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Oh

grave basin
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No active cdr

potent pivot
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Either way that’s just too much

grave basin
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They pruned that from every mage spec

potent pivot
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Like at least leave phoenix flames

grave basin
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Yea that's insanely bare bones

outer sky
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I mean i get wanting to dumb it down a bit to minimize the barrier to entry and attract new players but new players won't want to play if its boringly simplistic either

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And neither will the current players

potent pivot
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I think we have a similar outlook

grave basin
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I feel like they alrdy had the right philosophy with choice nodes

potent pivot
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I think that the backend passive shit is too loaded

grave basin
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Let people opt into complexity

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Like bloodtalons Vs lions strength

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That's the literal perfect solution

potent pivot
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And instead of cutting all that passive shit they’re pruning even more active abilities

grave basin
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Why isn't that just across the board

potent pivot
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Which is not what anyone wanted

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Like I can understand the really bloated classes like shaman getting more buttons pruned

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That’s obv

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But most classes were close to a good amount of buttons

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Shamans and druids stuck out as bloated to me

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Maybe mage had 1 or 2 buttons that could be cut

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But this is cutting like 5? More?

outer sky
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Yeah, i can see cutting a bit of button bloat but it looks like its getting dumbed down to the point of making it a different game like all these other MMOs like GW2 where everyone plays everything the same because an ape could do it so it doesnt even matter

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Like I dont want to only have 4 or 5 buttons lol

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Something that makes this game more fun is having options with what to do

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In a match

potent pivot
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Did sub even lose any buttons

outer sky
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I have no idea. But from what I've been hearing, every spec lost some stuff

potent pivot
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I don’t think sub lost any buttons

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Idr if outlaw lost any, maybe one

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Assa basically lost shiv as a rotational ability

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I think that’s it

outer sky
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And CT

potent pivot
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Assa still has CT

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As a button

outer sky
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Oh right

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They just changed it

potent pivot
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It’s just bootleg IC now

outer sky
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Did you watch the preheat video?

potent pivot
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Up to the start of the fire part

outer sky
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He says he thinks theyre trying to get the specs to a place they can "build up from"

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So maybe theyre stripping everything down to the most basic functions

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Then adding stuff back until they think its adequate

harsh kiln
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I thought he meant like start as in midnight and the buildup is over later expansions

outer sky
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Because I watched it all and even Preheat is like "yeah all of XYZ is gone you just do this now"

harsh kiln
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But what youre saying also makes sense

outer sky
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Well like come on theres no way they're just gunna leave it like it is in that video

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They cant

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We'd all get bored

grave basin
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Lol

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This is the same team that gave us frost dk

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Have you played reworked fdk

outer sky
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There's no way theyre delusional enough to think thats what will boost their player base

grave basin
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Fdk is basically 3 buttons too

harsh kiln
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I mean were super early in alpha though, fingers crossed they figure it out

potent pivot
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not unless it bites them in the ass after release or something as usual

outer sky
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I just feel like theres an obvious middle ground

potent pivot
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the game has only gotten smaller and smaller over the years

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so they're trying to get new players in any way they can

tight hill
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I heard a theory that they want to release on console eventually or sort of, figure it out for a theoretical wow2

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the changes kind of make sense from that lens

potent pivot
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wasn't console release already done

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or at least announced ages ago

night vector
potent pivot
outer sky
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They just need to remove a lot of the passive stuff, then cut out a few buttons here and there from each class, and maybe redesign some specs because of that like they do from time to time anyway

harsh kiln
#

What they need to do is remove the subscription paywall

#

No kids cba paying monthly for a game JUST to play it

potent pivot
#

kinda true lmao

#

never gonna happen though

harsh kiln
#

yup

outer sky
#

Its $15/month

#

Thats nothing

#

I cant imagine that stopping anyone who wants to play it from playing it

harsh kiln
#

anyone who wants to play yeah

#

but anyone new trying it out?

#

i'd say that's a pretty big hurdle

outer sky
#

Try it for a month and of you dont like it unsub? And youre only out $15

#

Idk

#

I just dont think thats it

#

Also games that are pay to play are much less likely to be pay to win

harsh kiln
#

im not saying it's the entire problem, but i think it's part of it

#

like a big part

potent pivot
#

look at how popular free games are

harsh kiln
#

but then again what do i know, im no marketing expert nor a game developer, maybe i just enjoy my 400apm ADD outlaw and dont want it changed :>

outer sky
#

The game used to be WAY more popular and the subscription fee was pretty much the same i think.

#

They just need to make the game good

potent pivot
#

yeah but back then it was the only game of its kind really

harsh kiln
potent pivot
#

nowadays there's so many other options

outer sky
#

For MMO RPGs?

potent pivot
#

yes

outer sky
#

Final Fantasy

potent pivot
#

and games in general but yes

#

i'm playing a cheaper mmo right now

outer sky
#

All i can think of is FF and GW2

potent pivot
#

OSRS

#

BDO

outer sky
#

Runescape was around back in the day too

#

God thats a throwback

potent pivot
#

yeah but it was very different

outer sky
#

I havent played it in years, like maybe 2017

potent pivot
#

i played osrs over wow back then too

#

original rs2

potent pivot
#

lot of wow players coming over to it

#

but ye the other mmo's are kind of a drop in the bucket compared to other general games

#

league, fps games, etc

grave basin
#

Ripbozo

outer sky
#

Sure but ultimately people play them because theyre good games. The problem with WoW is the gameplay just isnt that great anymore

grave basin
#

No more mass barrier too

#

No more ice floes

outer sky
#

Honestly im glad their mobility is getting fucked

grave basin
#

No more supernova

#

Mages just got P R U N E D

potent pivot
#

the seasonal game concept is just dead to me

outer sky
#

They kind of have to nerf ranged mobility if theyre nerfing CC

grave basin
#

yea but mages have nothing now

#

They're gonna be tanks again like with triune

#

Is that really better ?

outer sky
#

Honestly yes

#

Because if I cant kill the mage at least he cant root me all game to keep me from killing someone else

outer sky
potent pivot
#

there's ways

#

i just don't know if they'll ever bother trying

#

too big of a shift

outer sky
potent pivot
#

pretty much

outer sky
#

Ngl if this game ever truly dies it'll take part of me with it. Im 31 years old and ive been playing this game since I was 13.

potent pivot
#

the main thing all the big wow guys coming over to osrs have been saying

#

is that they love how the progression is never gone

#

like with wow's seasonal model, its just endless seasons and you start over from zero every season

#

at the end of the day its just a hamster wheel of a game idk

#

pvping is fun, even pvm can be fun

outer sky
#

The progression ends when you finish every quest and get every skill to 99 doesnt it?

potent pivot
#

but the amount of unnecessary shit that comes along with both of them just kills it imo

potent pivot
#

it is basically impossible to "completionist" osrs in 1 lifetime

outer sky
#

I remember when I played RS, leveling was a grind

potent pivot
#

getting all the quests done merely puts you in the mid game

#

leveling is a grind ye, but you can basically afk most skills

outer sky
#

I mean combat level

potent pivot
#

the fun parts of the game are pvm/pvp

outer sky
#

Its 120 right?

potent pivot
#

grinding combats is easy

#

every skill goes to 99, max combat level is 126

outer sky
#

126 yeah thats it

#

I wonder if I can get my old account back

potent pivot
#

you can grind that in a few weeks really

#

with enough gp

#

but maxing combat isn't that important

outer sky
#

I dont remember if my old account was OSRS or RS2...

potent pivot
#

its not like wow where you need to hit max lvl to start doing content

potent pivot
#

do you remember the name?

#

i can check it

outer sky
#

My character name?

potent pivot
#

yeah

outer sky
#

Thundermax6

potent pivot
outer sky
#

Hell yeah bro

night vector
outer sky
#

I used to play a Thief

night vector
#

Pvp is shit but wvw was good

#

And they killed it

potent pivot
#

i can't find a char with that name on either game

outer sky
#

Well that was 100% my name

#

Ill never forget it

potent pivot
#

the name may have been flagged inactive

#

so if you can get into the acc it'll prompt you to rename or something i think

outer sky
#

It was the same account I made when I started playing runescape back in 2002

#

Does that narrow it down?

potent pivot
#

sounds like it would be an rs3 acc, not osrs

outer sky
#

Dammit

potent pivot
#

but i checked both versions of the game

#

so it likely got put as inactive or something

#

can happen after years of not logging in

outer sky
#

And i cant get my old character on OSRS if it was on RS3 can i

potent pivot
#

wdym

#

they are completely separate so like

outer sky
#

Yeah

#

So i have to start from scratch

potent pivot
#

if you leveled it on rs2/rs3, those skills are stuck on rs3

outer sky
#

Yep

potent pivot
outer sky
#

Fuck bro I dont want to have to do Monkey Madness again

#

The dragon at the end of the quest destroyed my cannon

#

I was so mad

potent pivot
#

its easy these days

#

nowadays we have much better game sense lol

outer sky
#

Yeah maybe things were harder back then because I was just a little kid

potent pivot
#

for sure

#

there's quests that are way harder than the old ones now

#

they're still easy, just so much different than the old shit

outer sky
#

Do they do patches and updates to it? I imagine not much in order to preserve the "old school" part

outer sky
#

Arite sold

#

Im gunna start playing

potent pivot
#

they've added like

outer sky
#

How much is the sub?

potent pivot
#

50+ bosses since bringing it back

#

like 12 i think?

#

lemme see

outer sky
#

Do you remember Woox? That guy was a fucking hero to me

potent pivot
#

mems is 14 now damn

#

i usually just pay for it with gold

outer sky
#

What server should I make my account on

potent pivot
#

there's no servers

#

you can change worlds whenever

outer sky
#

Oh right I forgot

#

Every time you log in

potent pivot
#

yea

#

you can fast swap while logged in now as well

night vector
potent pivot
#

i almost did 99fish in rs2

#

back in the day

#

i got to like 94 before quitting

night vector
potent pivot
#

its actually crazy how much its changed

outer sky
#

You think they'd have updated the graphics by now

potent pivot
#

there is, but most people prefer to keep it OG

#

sec

#

also

#

your acc is prolly fine

#

it just doesn't show on the high scores list from being inactive

outer sky
#

Yeah but its an RS3 account

#

So who cares

#

Nobody plays that game

potent pivot
#

kinda true yeah

potent pivot
mortal jay
#

hi friends

potent pivot
#

sup

mortal jay
#

just getting back into wow and pvp and stuff. icy veins hints towards deathstalker but murlok and other spots suggest fatebound for arenaas.. opnions?

mortal jay
#

is that due to the slight survivabilbi8lbity increase or does it actually have a higher output?

outer sky
#

Deathstalker is fine you can play it if you like it. I play it into some things but if you want a build to lock in then go fatebound

outer sky
potent pivot
#

fatebound is more ST/burst

#

deathstalker is a bit more aoe/rot

mortal jay
#

with a focus on cold blood ?

potent pivot
#

you just macro it

outer sky
mortal jay
#

is there a sticky for macros? i havent used them much historically

outer sky
#

#showtooltip Kingsbane
/cast Thistle Tea
/cast Cold Blood
/use 14
/cast Kingsbane

#

Change 14 to 13 if you want badge in slot 13 (the top trinket slot) instead of slot 14

#

But make sure you still have thistle tea on its own keybind

mortal jay
#

i shall give this a try then. i had tried the rotty deathstalker .. but it seems to not be effect4ive in solo. perhaps coordinating a rot comp with a ret paladin and a mage who probably dont like me might be ineffective. perhaps " go on the shammy" will be less offensive to them?

sharp sierra
#

I love death stalker but it really is a gamble

grave basin
#

Just saw that my sv lost scatter shot/bursting shot/explosive trap/tar trap root????/ ros

#

I'm at a loss lol

#

How tf do you kite now?

#

You also have no reliable way to peel now

#

Absolute piss changes

tight hill
#

what buttons does sv even have left monkahmm

sharp sierra
#

Not a fan of the whole range only playstyle it has rn

#

WAIT NO CORD ASSAULT???

grave basin
#

It's renamed

#

Basically combined with flanking

#

Cause delve Davids can't press more than 3 buttons ig

grave basin
#

Sv iPad edition

tight hill
#

i hope they do more dev interviews to explain as i don't really see what they're going for rn

glass hazel
#

assa changes so good so far

#

sub doomed

#

outlaw not sure since never played that except for mage tower appearance

#

just pressed what is glowing and brute force it somehow

potent pivot
glass hazel
potent pivot
glass hazel
#

new cb looks kinda nice as well

#

should proc more i guess

potent pivot
#

I’m glad we’re moving back into a ST/envenom based spec

#

But

#

They’re kinda gutting a lot of shit

glass hazel
#

they removing a lot from other classes as well

potent pivot
#

Ik

glass hazel
#

hard to tell how it going to be for now

#

still i'm positive, that they start to change stuff since rogue now least played class

#

esp outlaw

potent pivot
#

I think the biggest shock

#

Is just how much cc we’re losing

nova viper
#

2300 glad? Crazy

harsh kiln
#

omg

#

what a struggel

#

struggle

#

it's done though

gleaming sentinel
#

You’re a stud

harsh kiln
#

diehard outlaw onetrick

gleaming sentinel
#

Inspiring brother

stoic spruce
outer sky
gleaming sentinel
#

Isn’t everyone losing like all their cc?

outer sky
#

No lmfao

#

And even if they were

#

So what

#

Its a bigger part of our kit than others

#

So if everyone loses a lot of CC

#

We get hit harder

#

Warriors CC because they want to

#

We do it because we have to

outer sky
harsh kiln
#

had a pretty good run up from 2k though

outer sky
#

Keep pushing

sharp sierra
#

Let the man breathe 😭

sharp sierra
#

You gotta be at least rank 5/23 outlaws for sure

harsh kiln
#

oh yeah for sure

outer sky
#

Hes rank 6 EU

sharp sierra
#

Insane

harsh kiln
#

5 if you remove whaazs alt.

#

but then again, there's like 23 of us in total like rune said

sharp sierra
#

I’m a 1800 sin rogue you better watch out

#

I’m up next

harsh kiln
#

i'll wait for you

sharp sierra
gleaming sentinel
# harsh kiln

Any basic tips? Im ready to get hurt again and push my outlaw

outer sky
# harsh kiln

Lol that 2399 mustve pissed you off. I hate when shit like that happens

harsh kiln
#

managed to sneak a 4-2

outer sky
harsh kiln
harsh kiln
vocal surge
molten hedge
dark kernel
#

I lost so much lat night I'm genuinely considering getting my account perma banned I'm so done

vocal surge
dark kernel
#

I cannot handle not improving it's just draining my mental

vocal surge
dark kernel
#

I'm playing a little diablo

#

It's just not about the game only isnall

#

It's about self improvement

#

Rating is and the game is really just an allegory or some shit for being able to adapt.

#

And I'm failing and that fucks me up

#

It's like showing that you're older and unable to grow

vocal surge
#

D1?

dark kernel
#

Nah 2 and 4

vocal surge
#

F

#

Atleast 2 good

#

4 eh

dark kernel
#

If you had a single player mode, and Diablo 4 on switch or steam deck it would be amazing

harsh kiln
dark kernel
#

It's just got a lot of content

vocal surge
dark kernel
vocal surge
#

and the initial grind

#

+100 dungeons mandatory

dark kernel
#

Oh yeah the initial grind for Diablo when you had to unlock all the renowning s*** was awful

vocal surge
#

Not optional like previous games

#

it was mandatory

#

xD

harsh kiln
#

like honestly

dark kernel
harsh kiln
#

yeah those are gambles for sure

#

triple caster = 1-5 or 0-6

#

melee cleave is the same

#

best bet is caster/melee lobby

dark kernel
#

That was almost my best lobby

#

I should have had a 33 in the caster lobby. I legitimately fat fingered my death from above and I animation locked myself against an elemental shaman with 1% HP and he killed me instead

harsh kiln
#

ouch

dark kernel
#

I almost broke my screen

harsh kiln
#

i would've too

vocal surge
#

Same

dark kernel
#

I guess we all like to suffer

harsh kiln
dark kernel
#

I get it.

harsh kiln
#

and my mmr has been so high so even if i went 2-4 i gained rating

dark kernel
#

I've been sitting at like 2k all season and in the lase seasons past I just always have been lazy and I wait for inflation, but I am really wanting to get better, so it's just been piddling at 2k

harsh kiln
#

had a game where i went 1-2 because of a leaver, even that gained me rating. so i've been lucky

vocal surge
#

Imma wait until Conq uncap before I continue queuing for SS

dark kernel
#

Like Outlaw sucks, but it's nowhere as bad as the last season

vocal surge
#

rn geared to have fun in non-rated PvP environments

#

ie Slapping people with Main Gauche procs

harsh kiln
#

last season was horrible

#

last season i did what you described, sat and waited for inflation, pushed 2k4 like the last couple of weeks

#

iirc

dark kernel
#

Yeah, and that's why I'm so disappointed because last season was horrific and I still managed 2,300 and I talked out at 19 on the ladder, so I shouldn't be struggling this bad you know

#

I didn't keep that rating but I accomplished it

harsh kiln
#

what i've noticed now comprared to last season is that, this season i dont have to focuss on doing damage as much

#

since everything else is so good, i mainly just need to focus on controlling the enemy team

#

where as last season i had to do damage aswell

vocal surge
#

Had the most free paladin kill

#

He BoPs opener

harsh kiln
#

like i'm literally last on the dmg meters in every round

vocal surge
#

and my assa rogue still goes Destro lock

dark kernel
#

I am too

harsh kiln
#

lmao

vocal surge
#

despite the smoke bombs

dark kernel
#

I'm going to try streaming so I can record the game

#

Wait how long does twitch keep a VOD now if you're nobody

vocal surge
harsh kiln
#

warcraft recorder

dark kernel
#

Yeah, I've used Nvidia recorder, it's just the file size is so bloated I don't want to save that on my desktop

harsh kiln
#

yeah aight

dark kernel
#

I've watched my own thoughts before, I know I'm terrible. And I've had sandor who is one of the 2400 outlaws in a multi-glide watch my vods to

harsh kiln
vocal surge
harsh kiln
#

i'm in the same situation, i'm under no illusion i'm actually any good vs a Good/Great rogue. but i'll hold my own for sure

dark kernel
vocal surge
#

Ayyyy

#

I beat him 2v2s

#

2-1 W/L

harsh kiln
#

😅

dark kernel
#

I'm not going to lie he might have been uhhh

#

Playing with a less than substantial player

vocal surge
#

The last game, me and my partner were screaming

dark kernel
#

But yeah he's really good

vocal surge
#

"PVE COMBAT" in comms

#

as we PvE'd them down

dark kernel
#

Yeah that's kind of why I don't play twos

#

Maybe I should

gleaming sentinel
#

I think playing a balance of m+ raid and arena / blitz is crucial personally

dark kernel
#

I need to ultimately redo some binds too but I have been lazy

#

Alt binds are no good they flub stuff open a lot

#

I'll hit a macro bind that's like alt+g as I click another button and it'll incidentally open the travel log once in a while

vocal surge
#

He was fun to fight in the arena lol

dark kernel
#

I'm not super close but if the opportunity for sure. He plays absolute degenerate hours

vocal surge
#

Ye

dark kernel
#

Like he wakes up at 11pm

harsh kiln
#

I hit 2k4 back in s4 BFA for the first time ever, started to enjoy pvp alot more in s1 BFA, but didn't really try for 2k4 untill s4. (yes corruptions). i made a pvp video of it just to test what video editing was about really, i'm watching it back now. it's hella cringe because i was the biggest noob, but it's also really fun because i get the dumbest grin from watching it

vocal surge
#

midnight

harsh kiln
hidden moth
#

Self promo

harsh kiln
#

I didn't even know what the abilities of the paladin at the last game was called

#

nah

#

well

#

yeah

#

but not with that intention

#

just wanted to send slitelohel some love to since he's feeling like he's struggling with outlaw, look where we started man. here we are

#

rogue love

vocal surge
#

Aye

gleaming sentinel
#

Shuffle is such a brutal way to measure your progress man. Too many variables

#

It’s so easy to go from winning a lobby to losing if a team mate doesn’t press

vocal surge
#

mfw I die to BM pets auto attacking

#

and the hunter acting like he's playing on Windows XP using arrow keys for movement

#

barely does his rotation

dark kernel
#

I just want to get good enough and maybe send one single season

#

It's just a process.

spring bough
#

Pet melee does a ton of their dmg its kinda crazy. Wish outlaw brought back the melee damage meta like that lol

vocal surge
#

Aye

#

I just brute force coins on this warrior

#

and overpowered the HPS output of a MW monk

spring bough
#

War was prob fuming lol

vocal surge
#

Sadly it was a 2v3 lol

gleaming sentinel
#

What a goat

dark kernel
spring bough
#

It’s scary lol

dark kernel
#

Yeah my buddy rolls with it

#

He literally gets RNG 8mil crits

spring bough
#

Time that tier get two beasts out and push a fenryr and shit pops off

dark kernel
#

So stupid lol

spring bough
#

I mean the bear averages like 1.5mil a hit

#

All of it’s crazy. Midnight changes seem even better for BM too

#

No more stacking barbed buffs it just auto there frenzy

#

BM gonna be op for the season 1 of midnight too calling it now. Stampede staying too

vocal surge
#

I've been listening to the same song for the past like

#

2 days

#

Today being the 3rd day on repeat

#

non stop

#

~500 times on repeat now

harsh kiln
#

Which one?

#

I have pink pony club stuck in my brain

vocal surge
#

Arknights OST - Battleplan Extinguished Sins BGM

molten hedge
#

Sub not ded

spring bough
#

Blade rush is so back for outlaw PvP

#

Can’t wait to close the gape easier again

dark kernel
#

Having no modifiers is cool, if vanilla eviscerate still does 5% player health in damage then you might as well throw the spec in the grinder

molten hedge
#

Kalv said it. It’s gospel. Accept it.

#

This is ur truth now

dark kernel
#

Nah

tight hill
#

the cheap shot cd will have biggest effect in bgs also

dark kernel
#

Forcing sub to gear haste is the biggest question mark ever

#

We literally just went through this

grave basin
#

@potent pivot have you seen any rogue content creators

#

with alpha content

#

so far i havent seen any to go through with gameplay changes

spring bough
#

Maybe Kalvish has it? Or Whazz? Some of the only rogues streaming lol

grave basin
#

lol

molten hedge
#

This is for the cc change not so much rog changes

#

Mr whaazzlysnips

gusty hedge
#

Potential A / Potential B Outlaw HO Path (non Kir Build)
Both 28/30 points Circled being potential picks for last 2 points, (assuming we have 30 only into next xpac)
PVP, Hot take atm
@spring bough @stoic spruce @dark kernel @vocal surge

spring bough
#

Damn you putting in the work lol

spring bough
grave basin
#

bro really out here theorycrafting in alpha builds

vocal surge
#

^

#

Popo got muted Deadge

spring bough
#

Hell me and Verm did it last xpack lol

gusty hedge
#

trying to cope 😭

grave basin
#

also 7pm EU time whaaz said theyre giving out alpha invites @spring bough

spring bough
#

We were on beta trying some crazy shit

grave basin
#

so hopefully he gets one

vocal surge
#

I was thinking of running a Sinister Strike build

grave basin
#

im like 99..99% pika and xaryu will get alpha

#

probably venruki and supa as well

spring bough
#

Same with pistol and FTH

grave basin
#

nah fam UH dk goes hard

spring bough
#

Till they get nuked by the new outlaws

vocal surge
#

lemme build what I want rq

gusty hedge
#

Potential C

gusty hedge
grave basin
#

just shuffle things

vocal surge
dark kernel
#

I think the pseudo sub rogue outlaw is fun

#

If we just had more damage

molten hedge
spring bough
vocal surge
#

Ye

spring bough
#

Big balls of steel thinking energy isn’t gonna be starved with only 100 lol

vocal surge
#

I think Vigor is cringe

#

and for the weak

spring bough
#

It kinda sucks now without it playing KIR in PvP when buffs aren’t right. But hoping with all these new modifiers it is a lot better

vocal surge
#

Ye

spring bough
#

Tbh

#

Could drop 3 points from vanish and subterfuge

#

Don’t really need those much anymore except as a life saver

#

And then have leeching and vigor

#

And have the best of everything to stand and bang

#

Would probably still pickup blackjack over cripple poison one too

#

Ehhh idk tho aoe blind seems meh

vocal surge
#

I picked Gouge

#

xD

spring bough
vocal surge
#

Ye

spring bough
#

Airborne does some other shit

#

Haven’t even read it lol

vocal surge
#

-80% CD and -80% Duration

spring bough
#

Only other thought… feint without CDR… is elusive > cheat death or will cheat death make a comeback

vocal surge
#

I think Elusive goes hard

#

Just because we dont sit in CC chains as long as before

spring bough
#

Less uptime on feint but I guess it’ll still be good

vocal surge
#

and mitigating damage proactively is more important

#

than surviving a chain stun with no mitigation

#

Btw

#

AOE Blind w. Airborne Irritant is a 24s ability

glass hazel
#

that talent just omega bad

#

i dunno how they come to idea its good

vocal surge
#

PvE

#

Its really good for M+

glass hazel
#

but we pick gauge anyway

vocal surge
#

Outlaw was lacking in the AOE CC department

glass hazel
#

so whatever

spring bough
#

Maybe airborne with blackjack will be a thing idk

vocal surge
#

is it all CCs

#

or only 1 CC archetype

#

that the 2 CC limit system affects

spring bough
spring bough
spring bough
glass hazel
#

yeah gouge

#

airborne kinda useless in arena

gusty hedge
#

this might actually be good, if its anything liek the augmentation evokers time rewind
should be able to get adr back up after 2-3 globals -5 -10 secs
a 2nd Adr charge would have been better tho

glass hazel
#

blinding bm pets? kekdog

nova viper
#

i know its warrior

#

but its gonna be pain in ass boyz xD

spring bough
#

I can’t imagine losing solo to a warrior that has that active

#

Would be a rage fest

gusty hedge
spring bough
#

8 seconds of a warrior just going completely ape shit and u can’t kill it

#

5/10 he probably gonna end u or ur teammate lol

#

They gonna get smart and save CDs for that and just dump dmg and take none

vocal surge
jolly sierra
nova viper
#

sexoooooooooo

jolly sierra
dark kernel