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marble hemlock
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thats like

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a decent dps gain

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when it was the differnece between getting 1 finisher into yellow and 1 into red

balmy condor
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what

marble hemlock
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or both into red

balmy condor
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what spec are we in seli

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go back to bed grandpa lets get you tucked in

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the delusions are back

marble hemlock
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well i said bandits guile, which obviously meant combat

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you didnt argue that point before didya

balmy condor
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no because fuck outlaw

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who gives a shit

marble hemlock
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yeah, fuck outlaw

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combat =!= outlaw

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combat was goated

limber lion
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Rose-tinted glasses

balmy condor
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^ notice this, insight obviously is a reason

night delta
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combat was identity-less

marble hemlock
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anyway, anticipation sucks cause it basically just servers as a way to not worry about RNG overcap

night delta
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play rogue but actually play war

marble hemlock
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so i win

balmy condor
night delta
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I mean outlaw got the pirate vibe going on

marble hemlock
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combat had the highest value in pooling/strategically delaying CDs

limber lion
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Pirate warrogue

balmy condor
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that it did

marble hemlock
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not a LOOK ITS A PIRATE identity, but like, it had great skill expression and struck at the core of what rogues used to be in the old days of energy being tick based and how that affected your rotation for small burst windows

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so it was very rogue~ish still in terms of wow class identity

balmy condor
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I am a combat enjoyer, insight and anticipation worked

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but for sin?

strange python
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Tick based energy despairge

balmy condor
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no fucking shot

night delta
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tick-based energy ended at 4.0, no ?

marble hemlock
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i dont even remember

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if sin didnt just play deeper

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cause rupture had higher AP coefficient with more CP

balmy condor
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tick based energy was 4.0 I think yeh

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but haste tick rate increase wasn't till 8.0

limber lion
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If Combat was so good and amazing and everyone loved it, why did they rework it/remove it? aMonkaHmm

marble hemlock
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thats the question we all ask ourselves on the regular

strange python
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Cuz change for sake of change

marble hemlock
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they couldve made it outlaw in the theme, but not change the actual spec

night delta
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Cuz it was basically arms warrior with other mechanics

marble hemlock
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please

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get out of here with your arms warrior stuff

night delta
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played differently, looked the same from outside

marble hemlock
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it wasnt even remotely close

limber lion
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Sick

marble hemlock
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arms played like sub more than it played like combat

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with CS burst windows and shit, similar to dance/fw windows for sub

balmy condor
marble hemlock
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except assa

strange python
balmy condor
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need new identity

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help

strange python
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Good ol assa

balmy condor
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rework the talents

subtle tundra
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yes i do enjoy having played the same thing for the past 8 years

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🥰

night delta
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plenty of specs didn't change core identity like, AT ALL in legion

marble hemlock
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when the biggest change in 10years is that garrote is now a rotational ability with a cooldown

limber lion
balmy condor
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I miss wod sub and outlaw so fucking much

night delta
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they just felt like some needed it

marble hemlock
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so you get 2 instead of 1 bleed, so they reduce VW regen and call it a day

subtle tundra
marble hemlock
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i miss VW doing damage on proc

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that was nice

limber lion
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Why

night delta
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I mean why not

strange python
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I’d want wod classic to try wod sub

night delta
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but it's completely uninvolved

strange python
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See what the fuss is about

night delta
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it's basically just poison procs, but coming from bleeds

balmy condor
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3 minute shadow dance big burst dk

strange python
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3 minute

limber lion
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Sounds creamy

strange python
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That shit better have been venthyr chicken nuclear wtf

balmy condor
# strange python That shit better have been venthyr chicken nuclear wtf

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strange python
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Isn’t this hfc

balmy condor
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yes

marble hemlock
# limber lion Why

cause it allowed us to scale into aoe without affecting our st very much

strange python
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But thats cheating

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Hfc was propped up by soul cap

marble hemlock
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it was a good knob to tune if you wanted to improve or lower AoE output

balmy condor
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this video doesn't have soulcap

marble hemlock
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wanna boost aoe? increase VW damage. st is 2% too high now? lower mutilate damage. done.

strange python
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Alright lets see it then

marble hemlock
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and it also effectively incentivized you to bleed beyond an energy-sustain level, that was absent for a long time

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cause you only went for sustain in legion to spam fok with MAlch/PK relics, and in bfa you had echo

strange python
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Sub on top on pull

marble hemlock
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i mean sub was busted

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in cata/mop/wod

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mostly cata

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combat was busted in mop/wod

balmy condor
marble hemlock
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and then ring+soulcap made sub busted

balmy condor
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class trinket was just straight ambush damage buff

balmy condor
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200k opener was dogshit at the time, with the full combo was banging out like 500k

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big nut

limber lion
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Is that hemorrhage

balmy condor
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it is

limber lion
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Monka

balmy condor
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multistrike was a stat back then

marble hemlock
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hemo snapshot

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in FW

limber lion
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Hemorrhage, rupture, slice

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Christ

balmy condor
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and whenever you multistriked with a backstab on sub, it advanced your bleed ticks

marble hemlock
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sub was the maintenance spec in cata

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you had to maintain slice, rupture, hemo and recuperate

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(since recup gave energy every tick)

balmy condor
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so a 20 second rupture on wod sub ended up being more like 12-14

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the OG exsang

marble hemlock
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and hemo applied a bleed based on its initial hit, so you wanted to get a juicy hemo crit during find weakness for max bleed dam

balmy condor
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but better because it fucking made sense

marble hemlock
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sub opener in cata

night delta
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exsang would make sense if bleeds were 50%+ of our damage profile, me loves some burst windows

strange python
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Ye

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Better days for sub

marble hemlock
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when dance was a fucking massive cd

balmy condor
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doesn't matter if it's 10% or 50%

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if you aren't buffing that windows alongside exsang

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exsang sucks

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without a short term steroid, dot compression just adds more regular ticks

marble hemlock
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the good ol days

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of rogue being a dps god

balmy condor
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and it does that in the form of having to refresh the dot earlier

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which means you replace an envenom with a rupture

marble hemlock
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no raid utility but it didnt matter

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cause you were pumping harder than anybody else by a mile

balmy condor
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you're not really getting more cp or anything out of it

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the gain is just the difference between a normal rupture and an envenom

night delta
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yes, not arguing it's a dps increase overall Whispyr

strange python
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Dot compression may make sense for once with shadow dance

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Exsang good

night delta
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but it's a short-term burst-ish window

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which is bad atm and because of our damage profile

marble hemlock
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i hope to god they nerf dance

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cuz with NS its just too good

marble hemlock
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30% amp

marble hemlock
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dance in DF tree atm is just vendetta

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but better

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and aoe

limber lion
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With or without 4p

strange python
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Ye seli kekW

limber lion
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Because with 4p bleeds are at the top

night delta
limber lion
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?

night delta
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so you'd be using it out of Vendetta

limber lion
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It doesn't?

night delta
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I mean, I assume

limber lion
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Well you assume wrong

strange python
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I just want dance to be a nuclear bomb cooldown again for sub sad

marble hemlock
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yeah its sad they never made the concept work of being able to choose between high dance uptime but low amp, or low dance uptime but high amp

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closest we had was TFD sub in bfa with NS+DShadows

strange python
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Yea its hard to balance

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You have the find the right middle ground on base spell values

marble hemlock
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i mean sub just lacked the resource gain to support a non-shadowfocus dance

strange python
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Ye

marble hemlock
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NS/DSh will never be a viable alternative if you cant use every GCD within dance. and increasing dance duration with SL only made things worse

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fights like sunking for example i couldve easily seen an NS/Dsh build work

strange python
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I think it would have been neat if Dark shadow changed the deepning shadow passive in some way

marble hemlock
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just to omegablast the shield

strange python
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Big issue with the whole thing was symbols lol

marble hemlock
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hmye

strange python
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It feels really fucking garbage to play

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When your 1 min dance is still being cdr’d 1 sec per cp spent

marble hemlock
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couldve just given dshadow symbols on shdance cast

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for extra symbol uptime

strange python
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Yea true

marble hemlock
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desynced CDs always suck when you bring cdr into play

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its fine if the CDs are static cause then you can play around it

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play and plan

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if you know fight is gonna be 5min30, you know when to sync and when to send on CD etc.

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god i hate CDR as a mechanic

strange python
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Ye its kinda aids

limber lion
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Same, not a fan

strange python
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At least some of that is shaved off with ES talent being deleted in sub

storm onyx
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Haste was a thing for that build due to auto-attack poison applications; un forseen interaction that deadly forcing instant poisons. got nerfed Bad, nm

dark garnet
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Cdr is cool when its the only cd/cds you want synced has same cdr

vestal wren
strange python
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.5 cdr is shaved off

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Thats what i mean by es brotha

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Making 2 charge a talent in sl was a mistake anyway

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Might as well have been baseline

vestal wren
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it kinda is in sl, even tho you could in theory go with 1 dance charge or even dance-less

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but with how much of the tree depends on shadow dance, going danceless is rly only a option for sin/outlaw

strange python
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Ye in theory you can also just only press backstab the whole fight

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Can do a lot of things in theory

vestal wren
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I think the main issue for sub with a one dance build is that the alternative paths might not give you strong enough options

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so your gain from the loss of one charge is hard to justify (also FW)

strange python
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Unless you wanna play without symbols 1 charge is a terrible idea

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Just take 2 charges and call it a day

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1 charge with cdr is terrible gameplay when symbols is involved

strange python
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What's the general consensus on deathmark after lethal dose gets nerfed? Seems pretty weak for a cooldown unless you combo it with something like shadow dance and exsang which is a lot of investment just to make it good

balmy condor
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very good

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the damage gain from having 4 bleeds instead of 2 is already big

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there's also a strong shift to poisons

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and it doubles that too

main blaze
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Its kind of like a different version of our tier bonus right now. With a little more added to it with damage and poison being duplicated.

balmy condor
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honestly deathmark might just be stronger than vendetta baseline already

night delta
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basically exsang if it didn't half duration

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plus a boost to poisons too

balmy condor
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yeh

night delta
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though I wonder how double amp poison is supposed to work

strange python
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Right, do we know if it doubles the 3% DR poison to 6% during its effect?

night delta
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double bonus to envenom when both at 15 stacks ?

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or stacks twice as fast ?

balmy condor
strange python
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Ah, shame

balmy condor
night delta
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so maybe a strong envenom window if we can stack amp quickly enough

balmy condor
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yeah but it needs time to ramp up is the issue

night delta
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(yeah i'm still on that "making envenom good again" copium blimp)

balmy condor
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and if you deathmark, it's not going to duplicate the stacks already on there

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so there's a good chance you just deathmark, get one of them to 15, the other is at like 9

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and then you consume the first 15, get the seconds one to 15, consume that

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which would be twice as often, but not twice as strong

steel ridge
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feint @ martyrdom, yay or nay?

balmy condor
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alternatively, it could also just give twice as many stacks per application

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which would probably be worse actually

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imagine you envenom at 13-14 stacks, don't get the benefit, and then proc 3 times with 2 stacks each

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now you're overcapping before you can get the next envenom off

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since it maxes at 20

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that sounds like a nightmare

night delta
strange python
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Any word on the nasty three pointers getting changed btw? Stuff like zoldycks and alacrity

balmy condor
balmy condor
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as of now there's no word on changes

strange python
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I think a six point investment for a three point node like zoldycks is ridiculous when you consider how much pathing freedom classes like shaman have in their trees being able to pursue an entirely different build for just three points

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Same with deeper strategem requiring three alacrity points before it can even be considered

night delta
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with two 1.8 daggers and no haste or buff whatsoever we put up 1 attack every 0.9 sec, correct ?

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(trying to calc how quick the amp poison would stack theoretically)

warm stratus
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Hey guys is this just retail chat for rogues or classic as well?

balmy condor
balmy condor
night delta
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also, does haste stack additively with SnD or multiplicatively ? In regards to attack speed

balmy condor
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haste applies to baseline attack speed, which is then multiplied by snd

night delta
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alright

balmy condor
night delta
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I like math lol

balmy condor
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aight well you do you

vast loom
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Are we worried about needing to save shiv for bigger dr for raid mechanic stuff?

balmy condor
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no

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kinda questionable if it even works atm

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good chance it doesn't interact

strange python
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Is kingsbane going to be a choice node with sepsis?

balmy condor
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it's possible

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if kingsbane comes back it would be a choice node with tiny toxic if anything

strange python
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That would make it impossible to get unless they nerf dtb no?

balmy condor
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the idea is to make it competitive with dtb

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dtb is only op because of lethal dose, which is getting nerfed

strange python
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Wouldn't amplifying poison still be too good to pass up?

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Probably not if kingsbane is good but yeah

balmy condor
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amp poison currently is pretty terrible

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30% increased damage on an envenom every now and then isn't really that impressive

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if the nature poison on it is strong I guess

dark garnet
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All gonna change with tuning

balmy condor
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correct

strange python
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Nerfing things a little bit and allowing people to take two cap stones would be very interesting

balmy condor
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yeh I mean at the end of the day, the idea is to make it interesting and not have giga op talents

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stuff isn't implemented on alpha yet and it's the first iteration

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we have a long way to go

strange python
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With only one cap stone there is not much room for experimentation

balmy condor
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then take 2 capstones

strange python
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Hopefully you'll be able to do just that after a few tree updates

night delta
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yeah, right now amp is just a little less instant damage than deadly poison and no DoT, but boosts an envenom once in awhile

balmy condor
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I mean you can right now

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there's nothing stopping you

dark garnet
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You can have 2 as is

strange python
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Well you can but it doesn't really work

night delta
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if it's an increase over deadly poison it's not by much, and not worth talenting into it unless you also go for DTP

balmy condor
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this looks fine to me

brazen zodiac
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epic

balmy condor
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do a little m+ play 2 different capstones

hollow river
balmy condor
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the world is your oyster

gusty mirage
hollow river
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If it truly becomes Kingsbane

gusty mirage
hollow river
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I’ll eat all the oysters

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I’ll be clammed up

balmy condor
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could even do some crazy thing like this

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who's stopping you

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that looks fine too

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big generators, little sepsis actually

brazen zodiac
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lots of options

balmy condor
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no capstones needed

strange python
balmy condor
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the whole point is being able to just make a tree

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if you wanna be bleeding edge top dps

hollow river
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True

balmy condor
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then come back in 4 months

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cause everything atm is irrelevant to you

hollow river
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Role players unite

gusty mirage
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Why is everyone so obsessed with kingsbane? Genuine question

hollow river
gusty mirage
hollow river
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And pins say kingsbane may come with ttb

brazen zodiac
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oxi!

hollow river
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Idc about kingsbane tbh

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I know many people do

gusty mirage
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Kingsbane was on most people’s wishlist

hollow river
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But it doesn’t change playstyle either

spice spire
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Name brand shiv

balmy condor
hollow river
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Iirc?

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I mostly want shrouded suffocation

balmy condor
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kingsbane is just sepsis, but it ramps up with poison ticks

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instead of whatever sepsis does

hollow river
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Because I never played with it

gusty mirage
night delta
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can deadly poison still proc from builder abilities ?

gusty mirage
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Yea

night delta
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If so one would assume amp poison would too then

balmy condor
gusty mirage
brazen zodiac
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free ambush pog

dark garnet
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Ambush lacks interactions with the spec

gusty mirage
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Ambush lacks the damage to be worth pressing

hollow river
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^

gusty mirage
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Vs losing a combo point

hollow river
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Was bout to say just make it do more damage

gusty mirage
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I can’t wait for varas’s no seal fate build

hollow river
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Sin should have a nature damage stealth builder

ebon notch
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Give a node that makes ambush do 500% damage after a shadowstep

hollow river
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Instead

ebon notch
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Make it real spicy

hollow river
spice spire
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Fok for 1

gusty mirage
spice spire
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Just as god intended with 45% crit

ebon notch
gusty mirage
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No other ability, shadow step just kills the boss

ebon notch
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You are very talented Oxipital

hollow river
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So dfa one shot?

gusty mirage
night delta
gusty mirage
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I got loads of terrible ideas

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Lemme design the tier sets

ebon notch
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Hit us

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What you got

brazen zodiac
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what would your tier set be oxi

gusty mirage
spice spire
strange python
ebon notch
spice spire
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Nah even before it was brought up

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Kingsbane was asked for ad nauseam

gusty mirage
ebon notch
gusty mirage
spice spire
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Sin KS YEP

ebon notch
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Y'all haters

gusty mirage
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4pc turns you into a Furbolg and you call everyone from Timbermaw Hold to fuck up your enemy

spice spire
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2p is just blade flurry for assassination

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God bless

ebon notch
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If you could see what it looks like in my head then you'd like it

brazen zodiac
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..

gusty mirage
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Think about it

brazen zodiac
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good idea oxi but

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do u have a real idea

gusty mirage
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No

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I do not

brazen zodiac
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ok np

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ur onto something gamer

gusty mirage
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Brain mush. Helped a friend get to 2200 io from 300 the last 2 days and then I finished out my duelist grind

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Brain no workie no more

brazen zodiac
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did u try turning it on and off

spice spire
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Today is reset day too oxi Sinscheme

ebon notch
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Who knew oxi had hands

brazen zodiac
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or maybe just replacing it all together with the newer model

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brain 3k?

gusty mirage
spice spire
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Bro?!

gusty mirage
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I did god’s work

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In 2 days.

spice spire
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I’m gone from Thursday on Smdh

gusty mirage
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It’s 350’io fuck you you do it

spice spire
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Val had some shit planned or something

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Something about putting me in a retirement home despairge

dark garnet
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2p ambush also shiv your target
4p shiv has a 20% chance to apply sepsis

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Ttb stonks

gusty mirage
ebon notch
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Am I using it right @echo geyser

spice spire
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No

ebon notch
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Quiet old person

spice spire
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boomer is me this week

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Leaving the 20s

gusty mirage
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Kek

spice spire
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Ttb stonks

strange python
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Shadow dance ttb burst builds

balmy condor
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I hate it here

gusty mirage
dark garnet
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Just as god intended

spice spire
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Pause

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There is nothing holy about ttb

ebon notch
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You're here forever whisp

balmy condor
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this is my penance

dark garnet
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Ttb is based

ebon notch
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Oh no what did you do

spice spire
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He was in sub for the first half of the tier

gusty mirage
dark garnet
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Cant wait for shiv to be top dam in my m+ dmg breakdowns

gusty mirage
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You must be planning on waiting a long time

ebon notch
balmy condor
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but I literally play in <doms>

gusty mirage
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Got em

balmy condor
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<subs> is our alliance guild

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I would never

spice spire
lucid birch
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Gm

spice spire
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GM mister dsnow hope you have a banger day

lucid birch
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You too mr makeitquake

night delta
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So this is a quick calculation I made about amp. poison procs and envenoms empowered by it (when at 15 stacks).

It is made assuming Improved poisons x2 (+20%) and that the baseline 30% chance to proc per hit are not a tooltip lie ; it could very well be though and if so tell me so I can know I completely wasted this effort ^^'

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tell me also if there's a glaring calculation or starting point (like attack speed) issue

balmy condor
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idk what I'm supposed to get from this honestly

night delta
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it's just a quick study on how often amp poison would make envenoms empowered in several situations

balmy condor
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okay so where's the envenom uptime

night delta
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the column NbSec counts how many seconds we get of envenom buff before the next envenom ; made assuming we don't cast envenom until it's empowered again

violet jackal
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I don;t know but that graph says twist the knife is good, I think so it must be true

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Pretty graphs are always correct

strange python
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I wasn't sold on twist the knife before but now I'm a believer

balmy condor
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and you accounted for the fact that envenom is not the only finisher we use?

night delta
violet jackal
night delta
balmy condor
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okay

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cool I guess

night delta
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the interesting thing - which didn't need a graph or a table I guess - is that amp poison makes haste compound into envenom damage - in more ways than providing the energy for it I mean

whole mason
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Maybe add auto miss into the table?

night delta
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should cut by 0.83 the attacks / sec stat to account for it

whole mason
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I did some napkin math myself, the number I got is around 15.4 sec for 15 stacks; I didn't consider builder's contribution, but I'm glad we can get them sooner.

night delta
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yeah with 0 base haste and out of deathmark I get to around 12 seconds of lull

whole mason
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Certainly the builders will contribute a lot. 12sec would mean something like every shiv we have an impowered one.

night delta
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deathmarks also looses 1 sec to the miss mechanic

night delta
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oh no nvm got it switched

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every shiv you're right

whole mason
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Every other impowered env comfortably sits in shiv:)

night delta
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also means that we can only ever fit 2 empowered envenoms during deathmark+shiv

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at least with crap haste, like we have in .0 patches

burnt latch
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hi @limber lion i was wonder for s4 9.3 do u have bis item list i can farm from keys? Im like a minmaxer so want the best gear early to do +20 keys and higher

gusty mirage
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Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

burnt latch
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for other slot no good item or list not rdy?

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where jaither? mechagon?

viscid spear
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Isn't Jaithys from Kel'thechud?

burnt latch
#

thats the S2 9.1

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low lvl gear

bleak sky
burnt latch
#

thats an anduin parse

viscid spear
#

I did nothing last week, empty vault

burnt latch
#

link???

spice spire
kindred rapids
#

Wordkiller is a staggering 9 DPS upgrade if I socket it

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Worth?

gusty mirage
#

Uh well it’s the last week of the tier, you can either hold on to the tokens for hope that they introduce a socket item next season, use the tokens for gold, or yeah

kindred rapids
#

lol yeah it would potentially cost me 2 sockets since since I'd have to take it from my vault

woeful meteor
#

use tokens for genesis motes to get more Mounts becool

gusty mirage
#

Genesis motes boa when

balmy condor
spice spire
viscid spear
#

Combo breaker!

pulsar apex
#

Heya. My stupid question of the day. This one may be very stupid… I’m used to playing classes that a either rotation CD based or GCD locked (at least partly) in some way. With energy (and combo point) if energy is recharging and CP is not capped (or -1)…. Nothing is “lost” if I don’t press a button NOW? Right? Like it’s a…. closed system?

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Hard to describe what I mean.

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ie pooling and condensing vs cadence using is … somwhat the same?

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All things being equal

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(Target moves off/needs to die now/phase change).

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I hope I make sense.

vast loom
#

yea in theory as long as you arnt in some sort of CD window IE Dance/Vendetta you shouldnt lose anything if you arnt wasting either energy or CP, but once you get some gear and shit you arnt really pooling much

balmy condor
#

you're correct

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energy = combo points

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as long as you don't overcap energy

#

you're free to just wait

pulsar apex
#

Right. So I dinged 60 last week in greens. This week I’m 249 and 4 set. I’ve gone from slow to having a LOT more to do even in that (crappy gear). I just feel not pressing something every 1.5 feels maybe wrong.

#

Gotcha.

balmy condor
#

sin generally will be slower like that

pulsar apex
#

But in a fun way

balmy condor
#

there's gonna be points out of cooldowns and stuff where you're just waiting

pulsar apex
#

Again that’s hard to describe.

marble hemlock
balmy condor
vast loom
#

yeah assassin is very "fast" in CDs but is very methodical during "filler"

#

but thats only because of 4p really

marble hemlock
balmy condor
marble hemlock
#

Here's your sentence: The dev designing the spec for Dragonflight calls it Assa, thus proving my point.

vast loom
#

Ass rogue > Sin rogue > Assa Rogue

marble hemlock
#

yeah

#

typical

#

thrusting your fingers into your ears so hard youre getting braindamage from it

pulsar apex
#

I’m finding it fun. Because if you have a button that generates a resource on a X second timer (like Ret for example) you HAVE to press that button. No ifs or buts when 0.5s comes up you press it. But with Rogue resources it’s a bar for you to prioritize how you spend that moment. I know this is REALLY basic stuff for you all but it’s new and fun to me.

balmy condor
marble hemlock
#

years of hanging around jez have taken their toll

vast loom
pulsar apex
#

I used to main (and be good at) Enh back in MoP and it was all GCD lock CD “what’s next roulette”.

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Like playing slot machine

vast loom
#

i like to think of Melee specs in mainly 2 camps, you got Builder Spenders and then you got Whack A Mole lol

pulsar apex
#

That’s it. Whack a mole.

cerulean nest
#

new build today gents?

oak sky
#

Not yet

devout shadow
#

anything changing for S4 in terms of builds or theorycrafting?
what happens to leggos btw? still 291?

woeful meteor
#

no official info yet

devout shadow
#

a bit weird considering we have like 1 week til S4

#

but fair, thanks!

astral imp
#

How is sin in M+? Im debating switching back to sin from sub for season 4, but if sin is super underwhelming in m+ ill just stick to sub for the time being

balmy condor
#

currently not great

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it does good single target

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but with sub getting dagger back in season 4 I'm not entirely sure sin has a real leg to stand on

astral imp
#

ah 😦 well, i hope sin will return to its former glory in the upcomming expansion

vestal wren
#

i think the current outlaw hype could also make sub less appealing

dull cloak
#

so it's not just me on the outlaw feeling much stronger than sub

vestal wren
#

outlaw is better on cleave fights, so if you raid you will have fights sub feels worse because it atcually is

#

outlaw does similar levels on single target

#

sin does similar levels of single target

#

both offer better performance on specific fights, so they should feel better

dull cloak
#

feels like the only place sub performs somewhat close is huge pulls or boss damage funnel

vestal wren
#

i think all 3 are fairly close on most fights

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so it rly comes down to the bad fights for the spec

desert orchid
#

so what's the trick to get dps up for m+ as sin? I gave it a try, and seems like I was messing something up fundamentally. Keep in mind, I sat this tier out, so still not used to the set bonuses and that either

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I'd like to get sin to work descent, but I had to be messing something up

#

although could be just the gear affects my sin spec more than it does my sub, I do have some pretty lower ilvl weapons and bad trinkets

balmy condor
desert orchid
#

ah, so my problem was trying to aoe heh

balmy condor
#

correct

#

sin aoe currently is CT

#

and

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that's it

desert orchid
#

still FoK spam to build cp's? Or is that even worth it?

balmy condor
#

fok replaces mut on 3 or more targets

desert orchid
#

so 3x garrote, make sure snd is up, get a rupture up and a ct and then focus on the single target burn for the vendetta target basically. And during vendetta, you don't really bother envenom, it's just keep up garrote, ct, and rupture?

balmy condor
#

yeah that's pretty much it

#

there's a little more nuance

#

but it's not like you're missing 15% damage

desert orchid
#

and it's keep the CT up on the vendetta target too right? Not just wait for it to drop off them all

balmy condor
#

yep

desert orchid
#

well, my tank totally fubars pulls. I never get to stealth on my rogue, but he never chains when I'm on a class that needs the chain pulls heh

balmy condor
#

that's fine

#

chain pulling isn't actually that much of a loss

desert orchid
#

not getting a stealth x3 garrote up isn;t?

balmy condor
#

getting 0 restealths the whole dungeon is like 2.5%

desert orchid
#

was probably missing some shivs there too, which is probably big

cerulean nest
#

wheres this new build bruh

desert orchid
#

felt like the energy regen wasn't what it used to be too

strange python
#

ECKS DEE

#

First sigil and first rygelon dagger I've seen all tier

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Both in my vault, and we're on break this week

jaunty crystal
#

Moved some legendaries around and gained 150 dps. Good feeling after a bad vault 😛

desert orchid
#

there are times I despise the vault, 4 weeks in a row of nothing but necklaces and rings

jaunty crystal
#

I’ve had the ryg ring two weeks in a row. Give me any other 285 item pls.

bold drum
ebon notch
#

POG

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venomous wounds has moved up also

bold drum
#

kingsbane over ttb every day of the week, great change

sharp falcon
#

feedback on changes is welcome ofc

ebon notch
#

is that feedback

sharp falcon
#

only a bit of stuff has changed from [NYI] in this particular build, next week's build will have quite a bit more working --- not everything, but a lot more

#

quite a few tree changes this round tho

bold drum
#

bone spike Pog

dawn merlin
#

tree is looking pog

bold drum
#

no fucking way

copper hazel
#

fuck YES

bold drum
#

idk i must be on some weird shit dreaming or sth this looks unreal

drifting light
#

Boyyyyyyyy

ebon notch
#

SBS ShS and kingsbane

dawn merlin
#

ye I mean, this is superb

bold drum
#

assa kinda looking very very good on paper rn PepeLaugh

dawn merlin
#

naturally people will find tweaks to be made but it's awsome to see it evolve

bold drum
#

ye im just glad that our feedback is being worked into the tree even if numbers change

dawn merlin
#

exactly

bleak sky
#

AYO

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i am COOM

ebon notch
#

seal fate

#

100% chance

#

@sharp falcon thats different from before right

gusty mirage
#

everyone talking about kingsbane

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and sbs

#

y'all high af

ebon notch
#

we said that already

gusty mirage
#

shut up yellow name

bleak sky
gusty mirage
#

no one asked you

ebon notch
#

😦

gusty mirage
bleak sky
#

I do

gusty mirage
sharp falcon
ebon notch
#

ok cool

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sry for the ping

sharp falcon
#

yeah i was mad

gusty mirage
strange python
gusty mirage
ebon notch
#

leave me alone 😦

fleet anchor
# gusty mirage y'all high af

lol I dunno, I'm actually more excited about Kingsbane because I've been begging for them to make it core since BfA alpha 😛

toxic locust
#

KINGSBANE'S BAACK

bleak sky
gusty mirage
strange python
#

I mean saying "you don't have to play it" is kinda bullshit if it's ever bis

gusty mirage
#

we might not be useless in m+ yejoice

fleet anchor
#

Really like the updated trees in general. Realz killing it.

balmy condor
#

I was literally spell checking my impressions article

#

5 minutes ago

balmy condor
#

I mean

ebon notch
#

is dragon-tempered blades mandatory now?

#

cause of kingsbane?

balmy condor
#

thanks for the updated tree

#

but also god damnit man

sharp falcon
ebon notch
#

is it a good choice

sudden brook
#

You fuckers stole my bonespike

ebon notch
#

with kingsbane

sudden brook
sharp falcon
ebon notch
toxic locust
#

you can't get dragon blades and kingsbane at the same time

bleak sky
toxic locust
#

it's impossible i tried

#

don't worry realz

strange python
ebon notch
#

oh you cant lmao

#

i hadnt even tried

sharp falcon
#

An unfortunate reality of offering Kingsbane as a gameplay choice, means denying having it at the same time as DTB because it'd be the only way to do it

ebon notch
#

i made realz sweat for a second

hollow river
sharp falcon
#

it was more like, "oh no, he doesn't know"

#

And I didn't want to shatter your dreams

ebon notch
#

yeah yeah

#

nice save bud

#

im onto you

bleak sky
ebon notch
copper hazel
#

you mean crayon surely

hollow river
#

sick changes

toxic locust
#

i'm more excited for the rogue tree updates than the mage and paladin trees

#

wtf

bold drum
#

making an assa build might turn out quite hard since all the capstones and the abilities just before them are quite attractive

strange python
bold drum
#

ye thats what i thought aswell, mainly focus on middle and left for st/raid and carnage for m+ and heavy cleave

bold drum
strange python
#

Biggest problem with Kingsbane seems to be the two talents leading into it

balmy condor
#

what

bleak sky
#

zoldycks good

#

ttb is nerfed and mandatory now to get kingsbane

strange python
#

I meant ttb being two above

bold drum
#

zoldycks is sick with it leading into kingsbane

bleak sky
#

ttb was 500% right? I'm not crazy?

bold drum
#

correct

lilac haven
#

dont we get 2 shiv charges now as well

gusty mirage
ebon notch
#

bro im glad we have execute now

#

finally

gusty mirage
#

go get carpal tunnel playing kyrian

toxic locust
#

2 shiv charges, kingsbane and SBS

bleak sky
#

where's the second charge?

#

OH

#

I'm dumb don't mind me

#

didn't even look at the rogue tree PEPELA

night delta
#

oh they also severely buffed poison bomb to work with envenom

balmy condor
#

I'm

#

so defeated

drifting light
#

Is @sharp falcon gone? Any plans to look into exsanguinate?

bleak sky
#

why is that sweet child

balmy condor
#

I spent all day

bleak sky
#

mix up the words a little bit

#

sprinkle "shrouded suffocation kingsbane" for the SEO

#

and you're golden

balmy condor
#

no it's just fundamentally different now

#

the new tree fixes like 15 different problems

#

that I talked about

bleak sky
#

but now it's SECOND impressions

#

not the same thing

balmy condor
#

I gotta find new things to talk about

bleak sky
sharp falcon
# drifting light Is <@167131381988720640> gone? Any plans to look into exsanguinate?

what about it do you think needs to be 'looked into'? Is this one of those, "I don't want to be confrontational but i have a strong opinion" type of questions? E.g. "Have you ever considered letting Assassin have +100% increased damage at all times?" -- You won't hurt my feelings if you tell me the problem you see and what you think should be done about it, as with the example given, "I think Assassin should have +100% increased damage at all times"

balmy condor
#

new things to complain about

bold drum
#

new things to complain about a almost perfect tree

balmy condor
#

It's literally my job

sharp falcon
#

oh I'll start

balmy condor
#

I'm paid to criticize the tree

#

yes it's really good

#

I agree

#

that makes it difficult for me

bold drum
#

ttb not doing 10000x increased dmg smh

sharp falcon
#

"Assassination still looks like it will be the worst for most M+ dungeons. How do you plan to FIX this PROBLEM? Specs cannot be different, they must all be equal in all situations, SMH"

#

am i doing it right

bleak sky
#

yes

#

keep going

balmy condor
#

I can't write 3000 words of "it's good"

toxic locust
#

sounds like the average forum poster

copper hazel
oak sky
#

Kingsbane happy_holiday_pepe

night delta
bleak sky
#

THOUGH 1.5min cds in dungeons are shitty to play around right now sin is looking pretty decent for m+ ceteris paribus

balmy condor
sharp falcon
#

like, it's kind of outside what this particular discord audience cares about, but I also hope there's like, "Dopest Assassination Questing Spec!" builds and videos out there in the community, there's content in the game that isn't literally Patchwerk

bleak sky
sharp falcon
#

we'll see how it plays out

#

it shouldn't be up every pack

bleak sky
#

fair Madge

#

you're not wrong I'm just madge

#

planning cds is good, having them up for every pack is brainless gameplay

true pelican
night delta
#

Now it'll be down to tuning if the choice between Kingsbane and DTB is meaningful or a no-brainer

#

both sound exciting in their own way

true pelican
#

although the desync with deathmark would be pretty weird

drifting light
# sharp falcon what about it do you think needs to be 'looked into'? Is this one of those, "I d...

Ty and sorry for the ping. Exsang been discussed here recently, I think it just makes us do more work for not enough payback, having to reapply bleeds faster, less globals for envenoms. Suggestions included giving rogue some buff while the faster bleeds tick. Been a cool concept since Legion, but with very little use when undertunned, so giving it some function/interaction could make it more appealing.

sour wraith
#

thistle tea good now 100 energy all the time poggers

sharp falcon
#

Exsang has always been hit-or-miss depending on the player. If that continues to be the case, I think that's fine.

balmy condor
coarse tusk
#

yo is tricks supposed to increase your target's damage now?

gray warren
#

KingsBANE YOUHOUUUUU

sour wraith
night delta
#

I see exsang as not really a DPS option, rather a pseudo-utility one

sharp falcon
#

LOL we didn't change anything about Tea yet, that's funny

balmy condor
night delta
#

a short CD soft damage steroid

elfin valley
#

he said yet

night delta
#

that doesn't affect overall DPS

elfin valley
ebon notch
#

more dps cds

balmy condor
#

wait

#

realz no not like this

toxic locust
#

thick as thieves is a pvp talent

#

lol

balmy condor
#

so no tricks dps in pve

#

yes?

sharp falcon
#

no

toxic locust
#

yes

sharp falcon
#

or rather

bleak sky
# gusty kestrel whys that

minute you have it up for every pack almost, 1.5 min you get them either late in the pack or somewhere before the next next pack

sharp falcon
#

yes, it's a pvp talent and no it does not work in pve

bleak sky
#

but that may just be me

balmy condor
#

okay, I will continue to search for things I can complain about then, I haven't found anything yet and it's concerning

sudden brook
#

r u guys dumb

#

it says "thick as thieves"

gusty kestrel
sudden brook
#

thats the pvp talent

night delta
#

I really like incorporation of poison bomb into evenom as a buff for the finisher

sudden brook
#

i expect better from this channel

gusty kestrel
#

THANKS GUY SOMEONE SAID THAT

#

BABOON

night delta
#

with the highly increased proc rate

copper hazel
#

damn it, i was looking forward to tricking the WL in raid after he also gets PI, etc then watch him die to aggro

sharp falcon
#

it's a perfect pvp talent, threat is irrelevant in pvp and it gives a fun thematic way to make a useless button into a useful one, for those who want that. Yeah, not a pve thing

bleak sky
sudden brook
#

how do u guys get baited by that its a pvp talent

midnight mist
#

whats this

ebon notch
#

guy we already knew that

sour wraith
#

guy in assassin channel? 🤔

sharp falcon
#

tricks has plenty of pve identity already, it's about threat

ebon notch
#

stop being mad you dont have sbs

sudden brook
#

im here to laugh at you guys and thats it

balmy condor
regal cape
#

Kingsbane!!!!

balmy condor
#

how is that highly increased

night delta
balmy condor
#

this was old poison bomb

#

it's 1%

night delta
#

oh nvm I was making maths wrong in my head

toxic locust
#

its a 25% increase

fallen plover
#

ahh all these new things youve added realz you might be the most based class dev sir, you actually listen

lilac haven
#

does the 2 point increase damage or % chance

ebon notch
#

@balmy condor write an article on ER sin build

#

thatll take you a few days

sharp falcon
#

it was 20% chance envenom/rupture when spending 5combo for 1pt. Now it's 50% chance envenom only when spending 5 combo for 2pts

grim tangle
#

venomous wounds doesn't work on internal bleeding anymore? wtf big nerf

night delta
#

ah yes, my math wasn't wrong I just forgot it went to 2 points

#

so nvm the nvm, yeah, exciting change

sour wraith
fleet anchor
# sharp falcon what about it do you think needs to be 'looked into'? Is this one of those, "I d...

Mostly the problem with Exsanguinate is that it doesn't actually generate any damage on its own at all. Only indirectly via snapshotting (super unintuitive and usually requires access to haste On Use effects) or through Venomous Wounds. It's almost always a trap ability and only really makes sense in hyper specific situations that require a lot of conditions. It's maybe worth leaving for those edge cases but you'd kinda need to be willing to accept that there is likely a strong possibility nobody will ever take the talent for any good reason any time in the foreseeable future.

balmy condor
toxic locust
#

it makes your dots go brr

#

deathmark gives you double dots

#

double brr

balmy condor
#

does it

sour wraith
#

yea

balmy condor
#

oh it does now

fallen plover
#

is there a new updated tree to go along with these changes?

tidal gorge
#

/doesn't come into this discord for like 2 weeks
/comes in and Koji is still talking about exsang

sour wraith
oak sky
#

Wait yo

sharp falcon
#

oh wowhead doesnt have new icons yet?

bleak sky
oak sky
#

Realz if ur here i love that you moved ttb to not be a capstone ur a real one

sharp falcon
#

let me know if u like deathmark icon when u see it

fleet anchor
#

Exsang is probably the mechanic I've spent the least amount of productive time on since Legion since it's a huge amount of work and has been a DPS loss like 99% of the time 🤣

true pelican
#

what does the new lethal dose tooltip mean?

ebon notch
true pelican
#

oh I see instead of all damage being increased

sharp falcon
#

the animation 'draws' that same thing into your target // in front of your target, someone should make a gif from the alpha

true pelican
#

it's the bleed/poisons being increased

zenith sable
#

quadruple brr

night delta
gusty kestrel
fleet anchor
#

It is remotely possible that it could work decently with Kingsbane.

gray warren
#

looks like i'll play assassin

night delta
#

basically less things give buff, and the buff affects less things

sharp falcon
#

oh yeah lethal dose much less lethal now, no one complaining, heh GOTEM

fleet anchor
#

But I think the easiest way to "fix" Exsang would be to add some "And deal 10% more damage" text or something

toxic locust
#

all the complainers were given a lethal dose

drifting light
slim hedge
balmy condor
#

I actually can't complain except tiny toxic still existing but it's a 1 pointer travel to kingsbane so even that's fine

#

what the hell man

south umbra
#

kingsbane is back, poggers

grim canopy
ruby oar
#

Hugeeee shroud of suffocation

toxic locust
grim canopy
#

omg

balmy condor
#

sbs kingsbane and shrouded

grim canopy
#

thats all i wanted

toxic locust
#

and shrouded

#

and 2 charges of shiv

night delta
#

shrouded gonna be lit on AoE

subtle kiln
#

@sharp falcon thanks for listening to our feedback. feelsloveman

grim canopy
#

wtf shrouded + carnage = ?

night delta
#

BfA sin M+ is almost back

sour wraith
#

carnage is capped at 8 targets now though

misty holly
#

I'm glad Lethal Dose still looks effective, and has the bleed/poison synergy without being so OP. And omg SBS back makes me so happy. ❤️ Realz

drowsy musk
#

Too bad you can't have Kingsbane and Dragon-Tempered Blades Sadge

balmy condor
#

that was the whole point

#

of making pb 2 points

kindred rapids
#

I guess if we have nothing to complain about there's always target caps :pepeclown-1:

balmy condor
#

to lock that out

upbeat tinsel
toxic locust
#

it does look sick

night delta
#

I'm worried though that early in the expansion the energy starve will be so bad Dashing scoundrel will be too good to pass

grim canopy
#

hmm deathmark and kingsbane

night delta
#

and that we'll be pigeonholed into not taking Kingsbane

white orchid
#

Nerf to Icarnage? That hurts

kindred rapids
#

That's quite a hypothetical

sour wraith
balmy condor
#

carnage went from reduced past 8 to hard capped 8

sour wraith
#

and you only need the 1st point for the energy

balmy condor
#

I don't think it's that bad

night delta
balmy condor
#

what are you gonna do with more than 16 bleeds out

#

overcap another 70000000000 energy?

sour wraith
#

crimson tempest spam harder >:)

oak sky
kindred rapids
#

We need a mega energy dump

white orchid
#

Wasn’t it more about the damage

night delta
kindred rapids
#

100 energy spender

night delta
gusty kestrel
#

has been deleted...

copper hazel
balmy condor
gusty kestrel
#

but my scent value...

true pelican
#

I forgot what the class tree looked like, did we gain some connectivity at the top?

balmy condor
# gusty kestrel my strat

yah sure, hidden tisu tech once you hit 20 bleeds out at a time you skyrocket to the moon for sure

gusty kestrel
#

bro imagine de other side big pull into dealer

#

carnage like 30 mobs

#

sepsis deathmark exsang

fleet whale
#

yes kingsbane is back!

balmy condor
#

you still do that

fleet whale
#

also finally ambush is on venom rush

balmy condor
#

it's still value

gusty kestrel
#

but I dont get 30 mob scent value anymore...

#

dealer will survive...

copper hazel
#

no deal for you then tisu

fleet whale
#

ambush build for Sin inc?

night delta
#

mixing up gameplay

ebon notch
#

Bruh with that rupture agi talent we get prio damage

#

Poggers

tidal gorge
#

Actual builds. These changes excite me

obtuse robin
#

OMG SS

upbeat tinsel
#

not good at editing stuff

obtuse robin
#

sorry caps

upbeat tinsel
#

that's deathmark

sour wraith
ebon notch
fleet whale
#

these are some really good changes

#

Realz is a real one

gusty kestrel
#

I really dont want to take TTB tho

fleet whale
#

that's for sure

drifting light
gusty kestrel
#

can we delete

slim hedge
#

Presuming the kingsbane snapshotting will be the ST go to

obtuse robin
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dam ss with dmg increase to

balmy condor
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kingsbane SNAPSHOTTING?

obtuse robin
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lewts goo

balmy condor
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snapshotting to what

drifting light
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The moon

night delta
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shiv ?

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I mean, WRONG

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but maybe they thought that

fleet whale
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wait are we supposed to have 2 charges of shiv now?

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or is that a mistake

hollow river
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bro that animation is GIGA poggers

balmy condor
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people deadass just saying snapshot like it'll triple the dps of whatever they're talking about

gray warren
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please make it 2 shiv stack

fleet whale
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hmm interesting

obtuse robin
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what used to be in nerves talent again i forget

gray warren
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Omg that spec is everything i dreamt for since legion

night delta
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Deathmark does look sleek

toxic locust
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it's two shiv charges

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ye

night delta
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oh wow I didn't even see that

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makes sense that shiv returns to the class tree

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would be bizarre to deprive other specs of their de-rage

obtuse robin
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garrote baseline nice

dense herald
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Bro shrouded suffocation back?

night delta
obtuse robin
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yea and vm is now 7 energy

grim tangle
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sub and outlaw do not get garrote

dense herald
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Ooooft the possible return of exang?

obtuse robin
fleet whale
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and why does PB have 2 ranks?

warm parcel
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so you cant have 2 capstones

toxic locust
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garrote is sin only, realz said so

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was kinda looking forward to it for sub but it's understandable

lilac haven
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2 point pb makes it 50% chance for pb on envenom

drifting light
obtuse robin
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better then adding talents to make it better for law and sub i guess

night delta
warm parcel
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ye but zoldyck and PB being multiple points is literally to prevent 2 capstones

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so you cant double down on KB and 2 lethals

fleet whale
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yeah KB with two lethals