#assassination

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dark token
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Bruh fan of knives popoff in m+ trust

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Echoing blades 2.0

balmy condor
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you guys can drool into your cheerios alone

subtle tundra
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and take deez 2

bleak sky
dark token
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No

balmy condor
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really good

subtle tundra
slow marsh
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Vicious venom pog talent

dark token
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I have 2 points to spend with nothin better than that fan of knives node for overall m+ dmg

subtle tundra
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i am smart

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LISTEN TO ME

balmy condor
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you're just going to play whatever we end up saying is highest damage anyways varas

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what's the point

slow marsh
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I like new vv a lot better than the old one

dark token
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What's better iron wire or atrophic poison

subtle tundra
dark token
whole mason
subtle tundra
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pretty sure if i did i would be playing more necrolord in m+

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i play for fun, not for overall

whole mason
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Not sure about 1/3 alacrity and CT, but most of them are there.

vast loom
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yeah new one is better for sure than old one. it just seems pretty low impact, i never think to buff the dmg of mutilate, same with TTB 300% dmg on something that barely competes with offhand mutilate hits

slow marsh
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1/3 alac is maybe fine

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Unlikely you go 3 anyways

dark token
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All I know is the garrote build is back bitches I love this dev

limber lion
whole mason
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If not fine, I can sacrifice one lethality to alacrity

slow marsh
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I'm sad they nerfed ep

dark token
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Ep op

whole mason
brave gyro
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i wonder if they'll make CT worth on Single target

ebon notch
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and an adblocker

dark token
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I wish

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That way I can tell my RL I'm not padding it's max single target

vast loom
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it might be with lethal dose

dark token
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Also keeping up the additional bleed makes sin more interesting than just slamming CP into envonom brainlessly

whole mason
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CT will be some percentage itself and 2%for lethal dose. Maybe worth it?

slow marsh
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Ideally with proper tuning CT wouldn't be optimal for ST

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even with lethal dose

dark token
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Ideally it is ANGERY

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What's wrong with having a single target spell that's good in aoe

slow marsh
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As much as I pushed CT in ST in the past

whole mason
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Anyway, if tuned that way, I can switch it to MM

dark token
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Other classes have that too

whole mason
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Or something else

dark token
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Like dh eyebeam

slow marsh
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Because it's not good design

dark token
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Or dh everything

slow marsh
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Which is why I say ideally

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imo CT should be competitive on 2t if not slightly better, and strictly better on 3t. If CT is more ST damage alone, it's bad tuning

dark token
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That's why I always liked stuff like xuen or monk clones better as a 2mins than vendetta

whole mason
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Maybe not a good situational design? But goes with some adds contribution.

dark token
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It's good ST and not useless aoe

brave gyro
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On one hand, it can feel awkward to use CT on ST. But on the other hand I love slapping bosses with 15 different debuffs

vast loom
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Deathmark isnt gonna buff CT so it might be a lot less value than it currently is with vend

dark token
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We have other talents we can take for aoe now, CT baseline adding another bleed makes the spec more interactive than let's face it pretty boring gameplay just envonom

slow marsh
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I agree having another maintenance bleed / debuff is fun, but having it also be our primary aoe damage while being better in ST than other options is bad

night delta
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exactly my opinion

dark token
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Ask for hemo back Kekw

night delta
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it's completely counter-intuitive

dark token
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Yes and no, our aoe damage is not significant enough for it to be a problem and otherwise the spec suffers being silod into pure aoe or St

slow marsh
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I'm not necessarily for just envenom spamming, just so that's clear. Just talking from design stand-point

dark token
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And other classes don't have that issue

slow marsh
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Yes but you're missing the point

dark token
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Makes it much better on these st raid fights with small add spawns

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Anyway I hope that it breaks even

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So anyone can play how they want

brave gyro
vast loom
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i think we have enough points to get a good build with DR poison

brave gyro
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Now the question is, would it be better to have CT, or Shrouded suffocation, since its usually a bottom point

limber lion
dark token
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Max Dr build iron wire Dr poison reduce boss dmg by 18% !!!!!1!1!!1!

vast loom
balmy condor
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I'm okay with casting slice 6 times in a fight

vast loom
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is that

dark token
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^

vast loom
brave gyro
balmy condor
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no

slow marsh
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I'm the kind that would take 1/2 cttc and be ok with recasting slice

balmy condor
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that's actually just you basically never press slice

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it's not relevant to me

balmy condor
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just set it and then wait 15 minutes for it to expire

dark token
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I would always take 1/2 cttc

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And try to drop a point anywhere else in the tree

balmy condor
slow marsh
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I hope it wont

balmy condor
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and he's talkin about iron wire on top

brave gyro
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ah i see, ty for clarification

fleet anchor
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I talked about it a little bit last night, but looking at the grand scheme of the points layouts it's actually hard to make a strong argument for CttC being an optimal choice

dark token
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prayge shiv Dr poison gives rogue ice block for 1 sec

fleet anchor
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It's basically QoL with a small DPS increase

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But competing with a lot stronger options given its placement

slow marsh
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I think it's just about as perfect of a talent choice as you can get

dark token
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Everything outside of pure patchwerk the CT talent is way worth over cttc

brave gyro
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If CT is viable, maybe something like this

dark token
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Bonespike? St? 5079_weirdchampnono

limber lion
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Why not?

slow marsh
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I feel like if CT is viable then you'd probably also want carnage?

balmy condor
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bonespike st is fine

brave gyro
brave gyro
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cheap cp

fleet anchor
gusty mirage
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cheap CP & free damage

limber lion
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You're not choosing between Flag and Sbs here brudda

gusty mirage
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oh the humanity

dark token
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Unless you are going giga pad carnage build, in which case say more I'm interested

balmy condor
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we've come full circle

slow marsh
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I mean CT is pad anyways right

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lol

dark token
balmy condor
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the tree is so good, we're actually complaining about the best parts of shadowlands being dogshit

dark token
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Hahaha

fleet anchor
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I mean I don't personally think CttC is that good ever.

fleet anchor
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It's just people being lazy

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πŸ˜›

dark token
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My only complaint is that monk talent tree will be the last to release in about 3 months right before dragonlands drops

copper hazel
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have you recovered from your mental breakdown last night @balmy condor after you wrote the whole reaction post

gusty mirage
dark token
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I guarantee it

slow marsh
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And sometimes a little laziness is fine

gusty mirage
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but ngl

brave gyro
gusty mirage
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with the 4pc sometimes it feels like shit envenoming to keep up SnD

fleet anchor
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But let's put this into perspective

balmy condor
gusty mirage
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I'd rather hard cast it

copper hazel
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nice dood

slow marsh
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I mean just look at all the people that refused to talent mfd

vast loom
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with 1 point in CTTC how often would we need to refresh Snd? would 1 point even save that many casts especially when you want to go into a CD window with a good snd timeing

fleet anchor
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In many builds 2 points of CttC is gonna compete with Maim, Mangle + Blindslide

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Blindside alone right now is likely a 7-8% talent

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2 points of CttC is about 3%

balmy condor
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but having to update guides and write articles while being on a laptop with sketchy internet on vacation

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is not the move

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I'm not having a good time

fleet anchor
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It's not going to be taken other by severely lazy people

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πŸ˜›

dark token
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Cttc πŸ‘Ž

slow marsh
gusty mirage
vast loom
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i just worry we might have too many plates to spin if we dont have CTTC

slow marsh
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I thought it seemed quite good with the new switch ups

dark token
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Blindside felt a little strange actually

fleet anchor
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Maim, Mangle+Blindside will probably be like triple or more the DPS from 2 points as CttC so people are likely just gonna have to suck it up and cast SnD 5 times a fight. The humanity. πŸ˜„

slow marsh
balmy condor
gusty mirage
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that's the cool thing about trees vs what we have now

dark token
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Taking it felt bad unless low energy build, but a low energy build felt bad in general

gusty mirage
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you can make that decision if you want to

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sacrifice 4% damage for a QoL thing

marble hemlock
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nice

dark token
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So I never liked blindside despite it making the spec more interestive

marble hemlock
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took us long enough

fleet anchor
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lol I mean I've never liked it πŸ˜›

rich wren
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Good ol cttc

gusty mirage
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I like cttc shrug_idk

dark token
marble hemlock
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psure im the onyl oen who built his DF trees with EP instead of cttc

balmy condor
gusty mirage
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how

rich wren
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Lmao

slow marsh
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I seem to remember when they re-added cttc we were saying it's not as good as it seems

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but no

fleet anchor
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CttC is funny because frankly Assassination has the most chill time keeping up SnD because Assassination has fuck all to do half the time once DoTs are up. πŸ˜„

whole mason
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I cast SnD in early 9.0and it feels so normal and good actually.

gusty mirage
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there's an opportunity cost for keeping GM vs something that's passively caked into envenom

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????

dark token
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And it makes you cast envenom in m+ aoe which is also dumpster

gusty mirage
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nothing makes you cast envenom

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you can hard cast snd if you choose

vast loom
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yeah i guess without vend 4p we dont have 20 secs where we dont want to hit snd

fleet anchor
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Well tbf we had an opportunity cost for CttC

dark token
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Don't think that's optimal except pre pack

fleet anchor
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Because it was packaged with removing the energy regen component from SnD

balmy condor
dark token
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Hyperbole is fun

vast loom
gusty mirage
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I mean pre-4pc you'd want to envenom as a filler eventually anyway otherwise you'd sit on CP twiddling your dick

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seeing as we're discussing a m+ setting

balmy condor
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slice is like 50 seconds long

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it's not as if you have to sit there and refresh it every other global

rich wren
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Seems like there's a bunch of cp flowing too

night delta
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Agreed, cttc is only really impactful on a QoL standpoint

balmy condor
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if you're terrified about having to maintain a 50 second buff, wait until I tell you about garrote and rupture

night delta
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Especially rank 2 if you already have rank 1

rigid tartan
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honestly guys, what is your estimation which spec would be the best for castle nathria encounters next week? I am kind of leaning towards outlaw even before getting the proc effect weapons, with current max out mythic gear

fleet anchor
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CttC feels like it would be ok as a 1-pointer but 2 points is quite expensive given the tree structure

vast loom
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okay you guys convinced me CTTC bad, after thinking about how often i press SND on sub its really not that bad

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especially without 4p

violet jackal
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You won't catch me casting slice n dice more than 3 times per encounter

fleet anchor
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2 points on a so-so talent seems expected high in the tree if it's a required path node but if it's optional it's not really an efficient choice

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Elaborate Planning is obviously very very significantly better than CttC

spice surge
slow marsh
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yeah i dont see any path that you actually can afford cttc now that i look at it

fleet anchor
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And nobody will take Poisoned Katar ever so it's not gating anything important

night delta
vast loom
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okay diffent question, how much value is TTB? it seems hella weak based on the avg hit ive seen on live, it would hit for like maybe 4k i think

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wat

slow marsh
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TTB gets you KB who cares

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also saves you 20 energy

whole mason
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cttc isnot that kind of optional

fleet anchor
slow marsh
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is more important

whole mason
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EP or cttc, pathing nodes

vast loom
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double shiv does give it a lot more value

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well

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not realyl

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i guess

slow marsh
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Like this seems pretty good for now idk

vast loom
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its 1 extra in a fight right? unless you hold

slow marsh
whole mason
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And has to spend 2for next level, what a pain.

slow marsh
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I think PB will contend directly with blindside

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depending on tunign

vast loom
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shrouded > sbs?

slow marsh
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yeah shrouded cuz dance

fleet anchor
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SBS is probably better

vast loom
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i was thinking no blindside to have sbs and shourded

night delta
balmy condor
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I just want to point out 2 charges of shiv does not mean double the shivs

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It means 1 extra shiv on a fight

night delta
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TTB is just a (small) cherry on top

brave gyro
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i love sbs - free dam, cheap cp, perma 2% for lethal chefskiss

vast loom
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yeah i said that i thinnk

fleet anchor
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I feel like people atm are undervaluing almost all the Covenant abilities because we're used to it being a zero-sum comparison between Covenant abilities

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Going from nothing to SBS is like

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A lot of damage

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lol

balmy condor
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Yeh

vast loom
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sbs is just perma 2% dmg too

rich wren
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Low cost, high fun

slow marsh
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fair

fleet anchor
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Sepsis too

slow marsh
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what about sepsis in the dance build tho

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i was thinking about that

rich wren
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Sepsis actually is attractive in it's new place

sleek sundial
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with the change to PB did Dragon tempered lose favor?

night delta
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sepsis CD not align

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big sad

slow marsh
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sure it does

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every other sepsis is in dance

rich wren
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Every other

sleek sundial
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i love dragon tempered but also never played with KB

muted ivy
night delta
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every other is sadder than every 1 though

alpine latch
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!cev

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damn, there's not a command for his nameplates?

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Now I gotta search it like a pleb

spice surge
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Also isnt shrouded kinda meh, 15% is kinda low compared to the massive amount it used to increase in bfa

vast loom
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Double shiv just lets us get full shiv uptime during KB and Deathmark

night delta
vestal wren
fleet anchor
vestal wren
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does not change that echoing with 3(4) points seems not that appealing

vast loom
meager granite
slow marsh
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shrouded seems real good with sepsis

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as long as the sepsis stealth thing works this go around

fleet anchor
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Yeah we'll have to see about that

vast loom
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i just dunno if its worth losing 2% dmg uptime

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ontop of SBS dmg

muted ivy
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would be very annoying if it didn't :(

night delta
# vast loom

if your raid team isn't salty you don't pick Atrophic, you can drop it and shrouded for 2/2 PB

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which I think is a dps increase

rich wren
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Yeah. The odds of that for a lot of us are low though

vast loom
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ethical atrophic pick every time unless we have 2 sins lol

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another devo

night delta
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just wait until atrophic moves to the class tree

vast loom
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is just good

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now restless crew on the other hand thats just scary

main solar
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It isn't exactly another devo though, because its only from damage coming directly from the boss, not any environmental damage

vast loom
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true

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there might be cases where its bad

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but then its pog

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when we can unspec it

rich wren
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Yeah, but you also won't ever skip it probably. Why would you ever in a raiding scenario want the boss to do more dmg

night delta
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I agree on prog it's not ideal

spice surge
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Not in a raid, but in m+ you might want crippling instead

vast loom
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yeah M+ atro doesnt seem nearly as good

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maybe tryan you might NEED atro tho

rich wren
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Sure, farm you can not take it I guess, kind of a moot point to me though

manic matrix
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isn't exsanguinate + deathmark combo insane?

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with master assassin

main solar
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Not saying its bad, but we should probably set some expectations that its not as godly as it looks at first glance.

vast loom
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maybe if we need some sort of burst

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but i could see it being cool

marble hemlock
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what if blindside would give access to either ambush or stealth garrote? hmmge

vast loom
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that could be neat

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how long does blindside last?

spice surge
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Deathmark, kingsbane, shadow dance and exsang with a cold blooded stealth garrote

meager granite
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Stealth garotte ?

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Oh i see

gusty mirage
vast loom
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was exsang bad or was it just bad compared to alacrity?

slow marsh
manic matrix
main solar
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exsang kinda bad, long discussion though

vast loom
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it would let us fit a 2nd rupture/garrote inside deathmark

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but idk how applying a rupture at the end of death mark works

manic matrix
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I don't think it works like the current 4P tbh

manic matrix
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because it clearly says while marked

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in the tooltip

gusty mirage
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I simp you

vast loom
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yeah but the wording could mean that when it applies it applies 2 ruptures instead

marble hemlock
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you count for as many as your highest parse

main solar
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One of our community figures could do a much better job explaining exsang than I could. But if the only thing going for it is that it works with deathmark, it seems kinda shitty for a 45s cooldown to only be useful every 2mins

balmy condor
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I mean obviously you would use it between still

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It’s pretty extra ticks

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But the big value is Deathmark

vast loom
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it not competeing with alacrity is a big deal i assume

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but it also competes now with like every thing elseLOL

marble hemlock
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If you have a buffed bleed like a Stealth Garrote or Nightstalker Rupture, Exsang doesnt change the damage that specific application does. So if you have 15 ticks worth of big rupture, exsang will not change that number. All it does is make those 15 ticks go by faster, and the actual DPS gain is from being able to refresh it sooner, which would be an unbuffed rupture. So Exsang only grants a bunch of non-buffed dot-ticks.

The only value of Exsang is if it allows you to get more ticks into a certain window, i.e. if You could previously only got 8 ticks into a 100% crit window, Exsang would allow all 15 ticks to benefit from it.

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Thats the gist of it

fleet anchor
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I mean right now Exsang with our current snapshotting/4pc approach is actually a DPS loss

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Exsang is garbage tier lol

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It's like some poster child for "sounds cool but really isn't"

marble hemlock
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Thats why Exsang is potentially good in Combination with Deathmark/Shadowdance/Master Assassin and a bunch of other stuff

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But Exsang by itself has and always will be garbage

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Because it only gives extra unbuffed ticks

subtle tundra
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shrouded suffocated garrotes in exsang

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🀨

manic matrix
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Shiv won't buff bleeds anymore so yeah you won't gain much from it off of other cds

main solar
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Its also just unintuitive

marble hemlock
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Unironically, DF might be incredibly good for Exsang

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Since both Deathmark and Dance would be incredibly potent with it

fleet anchor
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Double Shiv charge actually further devalues Exsang because we will be able to bank a charge to have double Shiv during Deathmark for full coverage anyway

main solar
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most people will read it the first time and think "ticks twice as fast? double damage!"

marble hemlock
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Without 2pc shiv doesnt do anything for bleeds anyway

gusty mirage
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people read it the 100th time and still think that

main solar
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true

vast loom
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but it does buff KB

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kb big

fleet anchor
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Deathmark also basically generates infinite energy without Exsang on its own

marble hemlock
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KB has no relation to Exsang

fleet anchor
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By doubling VW

slow marsh
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What are the chances of exsang getting reworked now that the tree is just about spot on

sleek sundial
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is death mark considered as a bleed? like does it gives 2% on its own for lethal dose?

fleet anchor
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Realistically Deathmark does what people think Exsang does. Only Deathmark is actually good. 🀣

vast loom
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oh if Exsang makes deathmark go faster thats big cringe

balmy condor
sleek sundial
slow marsh
fleet anchor
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Vendetta window allowing reapplication is definitely preferred to the one-shot approach of Exsang right now

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But both are somewhat annoying in different ways

slow marsh
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I agree

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I much prefer mechanics like carnage or deathmark to just 'succ 2x faster'

balmy condor
marble hemlock
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else im calling feelcraft

slow marsh
balmy condor
manic matrix
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@balmy condor I meant that exsanguinate won't give us much off of bursts since shiv won't buff bleeds anymore

marble hemlock
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batchest

fleet anchor
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Also, funny observation with the charges. Shiv actually still buffs the damage of Shiv so with TTB we probably will often bank the extra charge so we can overlap Shivs. πŸ˜›

sleek sundial
slow marsh
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cap

balmy condor
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I mean poisons are getting buffed quite a lot, kingsbane is back on the menu, it’s obviously not 60% but we have a bleed tier set atm and it’s still around 30%

fleet anchor
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Remember VV too

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Bleeds = Poison also

slow marsh
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VV stonkers

manic matrix
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yeah but shiv buffing bleeds still would make exsanguinate much better in my opinion

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for those uses when you don't have cds

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in between

fleet anchor
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Well

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I guess depends on how Doomblade works

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πŸ˜„

slow marsh
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or just like idk, get rid of exsang

balmy condor
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There’s a lot of nature damage

fleet anchor
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Doomblade I'm expecting to be wonky with VV I guess

balmy condor
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Poison bomb back as well and buffed

fleet anchor
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Probably won't interact

slow marsh
manic matrix
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yeah exsanguinate doesn't do anything to poison right?

balmy condor
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Man fuck exsang

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Who cares about exsang

manic matrix
slow marsh
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like will the VV damage count for doomblade total or will we be able to drop doomblade for PB etc

fleet anchor
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I assume they are distinct procs with a similar logic

slow marsh
slow marsh
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I figure yeah it's an added effect and doesn't count

balmy condor
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It’s β€œextra damage”

manic matrix
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tbh I like when my dots tic fast and my energy fully blasts up but with all the stuff there is for free giving energy and CP you probably don't need it

strange python
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how would you make exsang good tho

slow marsh
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you delete it

strange python
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they cant just remove it, theyd have to make an entire new node to replace it with

slow marsh
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instantly better

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not having exsang as an option instantly makes exsang good

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It's good for like pvp to some degree but that's about it imo

marble hemlock
strange python
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Exsang is a cool concept, maybe it just needs a rework as to its functionality and it could be a beloved talent

whole mason
strange python
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You could have exsang extend your bleeds on the target by like 10s yeah

marble hemlock
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exsang needs this rework

balmy condor
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that's probably worse actually

strange python
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probably something more interesting but just throwing out ideas

main solar
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Is the tuning to Lethal Dose just mostly clarification that its just our actual bleeds and poisons that affect it and not things like trinkets or am I missing something?

whole mason
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Extend is also not more ticks.....

balmy condor
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exsang just extending bleeds would be 0 dps

slow marsh
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making exsang tick faster within the same period of time would maybe make it better. but then you get back into haste snapshotting and it's just a headache

balmy condor
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it used to be all damage, including autos and stuff

strange python
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What if it extended them and gave them a faster tickrate based ont he duration remaining?

marble hemlock
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replace exsang with vein ripper. keep the name.

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and remove the vanish conditrion ofc

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itd just be the button itself that does it

slow marsh
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Honestly I'd be ok with trading scent of blood for vein ripper

marble hemlock
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no

slow marsh
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seems more interesting

marble hemlock
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scent is gonna be massive

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even if its only 40 or 50% extra agi at like 8 ruptures, thats 50% more damage.

gusty mirage
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they can take it

whole mason
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Just increase ticks like every tick has X chance tick twice would be enough. No need to extend

gusty mirage
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and throw it in the garbage where it belongs

slow marsh
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I'm not saying scent is bad

marble hemlock
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exsanguinating smth and ripping their veins open is pretty much synonymous anyway. thats how you exsanguinate people. so it makes perfect sense.

strange python
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yeah atleast 100%

marble hemlock
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yeah a permanent 30-50% damage gain on aoe for 3points, how terrible

upbeat needle
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we love big number

slow marsh
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no exsang is bad design regardless of tuning

strange python
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Its a 1.5 minute cooldown, how is it permanent?

marble hemlock
#

carnage is a cooldown

#

scent is permanent

balmy condor
#

seli that would require scent to be 40 agi per point, per rupture

upbeat needle
sleek sundial
#

with that much agi, you could aa and the dmg woud be dece

strange python
#

it will likely be tuned so that the talent is useless under like 5 targets

#

for aoe purposes

marble hemlock
#

i mean im assuming the current number is just placeholder ye

gusty mirage
#

rn it's looking like what? 10.5 agi per rupture for 3pts? assuming the "agi by 3.5" goes up in a linear way?

balmy condor
slow marsh
#

Also is it flat agi or %

#

Do we know for sure?

gusty mirage
#

it's flat

marble hemlock
#

like, im basically looking at the bfa scent

manic matrix
#

could it at least be good in pvp ? KEKW

marble hemlock
#

and how much it did

lucid birch
#

I think it’s 69 agi per rupture but my math is old

gusty mirage
marble hemlock
#

bfa scent was incredibly strong in sustained aoe

slow marsh
#

Ye I see that for now, just wondering if there's a possibility to make it %

strange python
#

how good the talent is without IC will depend on the CP generation you have on multi target

marble hemlock
#

i mean, you can sustain 8 ruptures on aoe

#

with a 2fok>finisher rotation

#

considering rupture lasts 24sec

slow marsh
#

I like the idea of scent either way, it's that aoe payoff we've been asking about for awhile

gusty mirage
#

buffs our cleave too

#

it's nice

balmy condor
#

same way % mastery effects don't exist

marble hemlock
#

scent is echoing blades. only more thematic and not as braindead

lilac haven
#

Scent +ic is gonna feel nice

marble hemlock
#

i played scent in bfa s1 with great success. people were just hard coping on SS but scent was even better (except for st obviously)

sleek sundial
slow marsh
balmy condor
marble hemlock
#

the only issue with scent being flat agi, is that itd fall off in future tiers unless the talent scales with it

gusty mirage
sleek sundial
#

yeah we were talking bout new flag

balmy condor
sleek sundial
#

but thats sus

slow marsh
sleek sundial
#

yeah

gusty mirage
#

also arms 4pc gives stacking % to strength (granted it's dogshit at 2% per stack)

marble hemlock
#

but yeah you could theoretically push exsang to be our flourish

balmy condor
#

I assume that's just a tooltip thing

slow marsh
#

Although don't other classes have % stat increases somewhere or am I trippin?

marble hemlock
#

but that'd make it another aoe "cd" and it wouldnt do that much

balmy condor
#

% mastery does not exist

#

anywhere

gusty mirage
#

mage has it on their current tree for that talent no one takes cause it's shit KEKW

#

fire mage*

balmy condor
fleet anchor
royal lantern
#

isnt there a point in the mage tree where you get crit chance when using combust?

fleet anchor
#

Technically they can increase Mastery the same way as every other stat

slow marsh
#

I just want to know if scent could ever be worth taking as a one-of filler point to create even more diversity

balmy condor
#

well yeah they could

#

they usually don't

fleet anchor
#

It's just confusing because specs have different tooltip coefficients

gusty mirage
#

which no one takes cause it's bad

pulsar apex
#

did the dragonflight talent tree get recenly updated?

marble hemlock
balmy condor
#

seli shut the fuck up

marble hemlock
#

ill take every win i can

gusty mirage
#

whispyr's right though

slow marsh
gusty mirage
#

it's an odd fucking thing to see

#

the mastery buff from the new season 4 affix

#

gives flat mastery

#

rather than %

balmy condor
#

well yeah

#

that's normal

#

pelagos is flat mastery too

fleet anchor
#

For a single spec it's easy enough they just will code the coefficient into the tooltip

balmy condor
#

kyrian bond on boomkins is flat mastery

gusty mirage
#

yea

#

having it be % is extremely rare

fleet anchor
#

It also exists on Weapons of Order

#

And Seraphim

slow marsh
#

% mastery could get scary because of DRs right?

balmy condor
#

weapons of horderves

fleet anchor
#

%mastery is the same as any other stat there's nothing fancy about it

#

The problem is just that base Mastery in the UI gets multiplied by spec-specific coefficients to the "effect" of it

gusty mirage
#

yeah the only special thing about mastery is rating correlates to a dif % based on spec

fleet anchor
#

So it's messy to deal with

#

For tooltips

slow marsh
#

But if it's isolated to one specific spec maybe possible?

gusty mirage
#

yeah any "Mastery %" increase now is either found in a specific spec talent

fleet anchor
#

If you see how they do it for Seraphim

gusty mirage
#

or as with WoO

#

changes depending on spec

main solar
fleet anchor
#
#4 (id=843938)   : Apply Aura (6) | Modify Mastery% (318)
                   Base Value: 8 | Scaled Value: 8 | PvP Coefficient: 1.00000 | Target: Self (1)
#
and Mastery increased by $?c1[${$s4*$183997bc1}]?c2[${$s4*$76671bc1}][${$s4*$267316bc1}]%
gusty mirage
slow marsh
#

Ye that's gross

fleet anchor
#

So they just hard-code in the different Mastery spell references

#

For the 3 Paladin specs

gusty mirage
#

kek

fleet anchor
#

e.g. 267316bc1

balmy condor
#

I too have a cat that walks over my keyboard

fleet anchor
#

Refers to the base coefficient on spell

Name             : Mastery: Hand of Light (id=267316) [Spell Family (10), Passive] 
#1 (id=713921)   : Apply Aura (6) | Add Percent Modifier (108): Spell Direct Amount (0)
                   Base Value: 0 | Scaled Value: 0 | SP Coefficient: 1.60000 | PvP Coefficient: 1.00000 | Target: Self (1)
                   Affected Spells: Judgment (20271), Hammer of Wrath (24275), Divine Storm (53385), Shield of the Righteous (53600), Consecration (81297), Judgment (197277), Divine Hammer (198137), Justicar's Vengeance (215661), Templar's Verdict (224266), Wake of Ashes (255937), Zeal (269937), Expurgation (273481), Judgment (275773), Judgment (275779), Light's Decree (286232), Sanctified Wrath (326731), Final Verdict (336872), Final Reckoning (343721), Reckoning (343724)
                   Family Flags: 27
#

So basically * 1.6

copper hazel
fleet anchor
#

For Sub it's 2.45000

#

On Mastery: Executioner (id=76808)

#

It's not difficult to do, just annoying for them πŸ˜›

#

You wouldn't want to make a generic spell like the Azeroth buff in P4 with like 40 $? conditionals πŸ˜›

#

(The real question is why they haven't just had some programmer whip up a $masteryCoeff command for them...)

gusty mirage
#

too busy making more horse mounts for the alliance

fleet anchor
#

Like obviously it's cached for the purposes of the UI

#

Seems like it would actually be trivial for a coder to implement

#

And they've been hacking around it for like a decade πŸ˜„

gusty mirage
#

probably don't want to have to sort through all that ancient code

#

if I had to guess

fleet anchor
#

Probably one of those things that's never high priority but at some point I'd get fed up and walk over to a buddy and be like "dude. Plz."

gusty mirage
#

it seems every time they change something it breaks like 10 old things

#

and then the casuals flood the forums "LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE THIS COREHOUND HAS A LARGE NECKLACE"

fleet anchor
#

I'd only really be needed in the tooltip variable code though so probably not super dangerous πŸ˜›

#

Actually funny enough

#

Looking at the tooltip in the SL spell data

#

Wonder if they finally did get this added.

#

$mas isn't defined in this tooltip as a custom variable. Just kinda there.

#
Description      : Lash the target for $s1 Shadow damage, causing each combo point spent within $d to lash for an additional $345316s1. Dealing damage with Flagellation increases your Mastery by ${$s2*$mas}.1%, persisting $345569d after their torment fades.
Tooltip          : $?$W2>0[Nearby Rogue is tormenting the target, dealing $345316s1 Shadow damage for each combo point spent.][Combo points spent deal $345316s1 Shadow damage to the Rogue's tormented target. Haste increased by $s3%.]
royal lantern
#

and kealthas was bald?

gusty mirage
#

worthy sacrifice

sleek sundial
#

Guys I'm sorry I ask about % mastery

gusty mirage
fleet anchor
#

Some designer finally got fed up πŸ˜„

#

Maybe

gusty mirage
#

convos like this are fun

#

I get to learn some stuff from Koji

#

we get to meme about blizzard's spaghetti code

#

it's a win-win all around

fleet anchor
#

Maybe this means we actually do see more Mastery% things instead of hacky Mastery rating on universal effects

royal lantern
#

better then talking about exsang

fleet anchor
#

Feels like none of the Mastery rating conversions in universal buffs in SL were correct

#

They were all pretty largely underbudget

royal lantern
#

btw heres my way to fix exsang, page1:............

fleet anchor
#

Compared to Crit%/Vers% etc.

gusty mirage
#

yep

#

other secondary buffs just seemed better, even for specs that love mastery

sleek sundial
#

U know no one gonna pick the mastery buff in S3 right

#

Is so low compared to the others

#

S4*

fleet anchor
#

I think they buffed a number of them in 9.2 or 9.2.5?

#

But they are still a bit under

#

Before then some of the Mastery effects were almost half the value of the others

#

In a ratings sense

night delta
#

Such spaghetti code

fleet anchor
night delta
#

At least this one had an easy explaination

burnt latch
#

@echo geyser

#

this man cannot be stopped

#

absolute madness

ebon notch
#

my warrior outsims my rogue now

oak sky
#

Wait warrior is actually good?

ebon notch
oak sky
#

Oh with windfury

ebon notch
#

i mean

#

yeah

gusty mirage
#

is this skyhold?

ebon notch
gusty mirage
#

don't bring that garbage into here

ebon notch
#

yes sir

oak sky
#

Oxi peepohappy

scarlet sequoia
#

np

echo geyser
#

285 gavel

burnt latch
#

3x 285 weapons on rogue

#

gets bored

#

mythic gavel

spice spire
oak sky
#

I will never see a 285 weapon

cerulean nest
#

any new alpha builds since yesterday? interested in trying em out when im home today

copper hazel
ancient rain
#

Is there a proper way to offer feedback on talents that will maybe reach the devs here guys?

cerulean nest
copper hazel
#

yeh makes sense, i guess lack of talent points is a big problem in the dungeon settings

cerulean nest
#

yeah having to drop vigor for other stuff is kinda mandatory at level 62 it seems

#

which doesnt help

#

the big indiscriminate carnages are a lot of fun though

#

still not totally sure of its interaction with deathmark, when exactly to press each in a big pack

main solar
#

I mean, the logs show he never even used garrote. Whether thats a bug from things not being hooked up still or just the player not using it, who knows.

cerulean nest
#

i dont see how thats possible lol

#

also wondering what the best use of cold blooded would be. before a deathmarked garrote? first envenom in a shiv?

vast loom
#

stealth deathmarked garrotes prob

copper hazel
main solar
#

Probably thinks its still just a from stealth only thing. Someone who doesn't actually play assassination rogue and only know how they played from classic.

cerulean nest
#

oh i thought you meant this was like some known experienced rogue

#

if not then yeah hes just not pressing a critical button lol

copper hazel
#

no clue who it is, just figured it was looking weird

main solar
#

I doubt it. Its alpha and most people are just playing around with all the classes like blizzard wants them to, even though they've never played most of them before.

cerulean nest
#

also what are the best ways to optimize kingsbane? is it literally just full uptime during the dot

#

or should it be pressed during shiv

balmy condor
#

You press it, then press shiv a couple seconds later to catch the end

cerulean nest
#

or shiv on the 6th second maybe to maximise the end of the stacking dot

#

riight right

balmy condor
#

And maintain envenom during it

cerulean nest
#

testing all this stuff out without my weakauras makes it tougher for that stuff to stick

spice spire
cerulean nest
#

which poisons should we be using also? all of the new ones/talented ones are confusing

copper hazel
#

he does use garrote on other bosses in the log

#

but it looks like literally 1 cast, from stealth

spice spire
#

Second boss is 1 cast in 90 seconds

copper hazel
#

yeh theres just no way this is a legit rogue player

balmy condor
#

There’s only 2 new poisons, one lethal and one non-lethal

#

And they’re both talented

subtle kiln
balmy condor
#

Yeah true

copper hazel
#

makes sense

#

gaming laptop on one side of him, big G&T in his left hand, sun setting during his vacay

subtle kiln
#

if it looks bad on alpha and beta. we get buffs. peophammer

balmy condor
#

I’m limit testing how little damage a rogue can do

copper hazel
#

casually hitting 12121212 just doing mutis and ruptures

spice spire
#

(But on live servers)

oak sky
#

Alpha sounds lit

limber lion
#

:D

#

Sorry the bot is a bit slow today

alpine latch
#

Yeah I found it πŸ™‚

#

Naw you're fine man

#

I talked @rustic sonnet

#

into playing rogue

#

Your plater base is super solid, so I wanted to find it to send it to him

#

I thought there was a command for it in this channel, but I guess there isn't

limber lion
#

Yeah don't think there is.

#

But nice, good to have another rogue in the crew

alpine latch
#

For whatever reason I thought there was but it only worked in here. Clearly, I was mistaken

limber lion
#

My wago might have been linked in the pins at some point

alpine latch
#

probably last tier or something, yeah

cerulean nest
#

any basic idea for ST opener with kingsbane + shadowdance?

#

(idk if you can squeeze sepsis into the same tree)

balmy condor
#

Something like that

cerulean nest
#

i'll give it a shot

#

cold blooded after vanish I guess?

balmy condor
#

I’d cold blood the kingsbane

oak sky
#

why is cheat in such a bad spot when its mandatory

#

😒

slow marsh
#

Cuz they want to make it not mandatory

#

And technically it's in a decent spot

oak sky
#

""

slow marsh
#

It could be in the middle above ER

gusty mirage
#

for all intents and purposes we want dance

oak sky
#

yeah thats true its an obtainable spot

slow marsh
#

I would say desirable not obtainable

#

Every spec wants dance

balmy condor
#

Also just don’t use cheat idk

oak sky
#

i only say bad spot because its pretty deep and theoretically hardlocks us to that spot

balmy condor
#

Seli’s been avoiding cheat for years

oak sky
gusty mirage
#

use thistle tea bro idk

grim canopy
#

lol

#

uhh i can't fit feint in my thing

gusty mirage
#

besides seal fate name something there that's a must have

slow marsh
#

We can get dance + seal fate. Zero reason to complain imo

gusty mirage
#

vigor?

#

deeper?

grim canopy
#

i lose alacrity and feint

balmy condor
#

You can’t fit FEINT?

oak sky
balmy condor
#

Bro feint is like 1 point at the top with no competing dps talents

#

How can you not take feint

slow marsh
#

If anything I'd like to see imp ambush placed in a different spot but then the middle would be an actually useless path

oak sky
#

just dont take feint

gusty mirage
#

so it must be true

urban spire
#

play find weakness

grim canopy
#

or whatever its called

gusty mirage
#

so there's that

balmy condor
winter hill
#

potential execute tree?

#

raid

gusty mirage
#

tight spenders over nightstalker?

oak sky
#

bongcloud says improved ambush dance

slow marsh
#

Tight spender starege

balmy condor
#

Looks like a standard tree with blindside yeah

oak sky
#

he doesnt have dance so isnt tight spender just better

grim canopy
#

i want 3 more yards

balmy condor
#

Tight spender is fine

grim canopy
#

wanted

balmy condor
#

Nightstalker got nerfed

#

He’s not using dance

slow marsh
#

But yeah move cttc to ep and that's pretty much standard now

winter hill
#

don't have dance so tight spender after nightstalker nerf

balmy condor
#

No need

gusty mirage
slow marsh
#

Oh no dance

gusty mirage
#

vigor tho

vestal wren
#

maybe he wasn't born as a dancer

slow marsh
#

Vigor over dance is kinda weird tho

#

Like why not just dance

winter hill
#

yeah i'm just human. no dancer

oak sky
#

3 points in alacrity

burnt latch
gusty mirage
slow marsh
#

πŸ’ƒ πŸ•Ί

balmy condor
#

I mean all of these trees boil down to:

  • dance?
  • kingsbane?
  • dragon tempered?
#

And that’s it

#

Like you didn’t take dance, and then took kingsbane

slow marsh
#

And I'm kind of really ok with that

balmy condor
#

Gg

grim canopy
#

my dream of long ass daggers is dashed

balmy condor
#

Full build

slow marsh
#

I wonder if they buff er / rc or if they leave middle path kind of dead

balmy condor
#

I challenge you to make a build that is profoundly different from going 75% of the way down the right side, and then picking up a left/middle capstone

#

There isn’t anything there

#

It’s the same points

#

The choice is like are you taking a covenant ability/blindside/exsang

#

Other than that, it’s the same tree

#

No matter where you go

grim canopy
#

dang

slow marsh
#

I mean class

grim canopy
#

ele shaman one gets a lot of cool options

balmy condor
#

Class tree is just left side then right side ice

slow marsh
#

Spec tree is pretty close to perfect

balmy condor
#

Where are you going

slow marsh
#

That's my point

balmy condor
#

Spec tree is the same thing

gusty mirage
#

the issue with the middle isn't just ER

slow marsh
winter hill
#

the other rogue specs take the middle i guess

balmy condor
#

Pick your talent on the bottom, run to it, pick up some stuff on the opposite side of the tree, gg sin build

slow marsh
#

The other rogue specs shouldn't take middle tho

#

Why would you when all the best DPS talents are left/right

gusty mirage
#

trading coldblood for melee range, you're trading off crit chance on generators & poison dam or nightstalker/tight spender with versatility & improved ambush lol

balmy condor
#

What

#

Ambush +1 cp and 4% vers is huge

winter hill
#

4% vers seems rly insane to me tho

slow marsh
balmy condor
#

Why wouldn’t they go down the middle

gusty mirage
#

peeps just looking at it from an "assassination" stand point

slow marsh
#

Idk maybe they're allergic to damage

winter hill
#

and outlaw is prolly gonna go dance. so lots of ambushes. there's no doubt in my mind that outlaw is going middle

gusty mirage
grim canopy
#

every1 dances

gusty mirage
#
  • ER is giga for outlaw's CDR
balmy condor
#

Outlaw really boutta be like nah don’t give me the ambush cp, I want 2 points into weapon poison damage and then leeching poison bro

oak sky
#

this is it

balmy condor
#

That’s not even that cursed

oak sky
#

er no seal fate

#

πŸ‘

winter hill
grim canopy
#

oh god echoing repreimand

#

kill it with fire

slow marsh
#

I mean imp ambush is the best talent in middle for outlaw imo

gusty mirage
grim canopy
#

Shadowdance ftw

slow marsh
#

And it's only halfway

oak sky
gusty mirage
#

4% vers is massive dude

#

not affected by DR

#

its actually insane

oak sky
#

this seems like a number question

slow marsh
#

Same thing it's middle of the tree still

gusty mirage
#

I'm just glad that the spec tree has 3 viable capstones now

winter hill
gusty mirage
#

we get like ~8 presets iirc?

#

like

#

go wild boys

#

want something for out door random shit?

#

old content?

#

giga movement speed

balmy condor
#

SHADOWRUNNER

grim canopy
#

Vigor, seal fate, shadow dance

cerulean nest
#

having to commit so many points to get to atrophic is kinda butt

slow marsh
#

🧒

gusty mirage
#

improved poisons and venomous is so good though

gusty mirage
#

what

grim canopy
#

skip it

slow marsh
#

lol

ebon notch
#

atrophic poison is bad discuss

limber lion
#

@balmy condor see I told you

gusty mirage
balmy condor
#

You’re right actually, I hate taking the best nodes on the tree as well

oak sky
#

make the other rogue thats worse than you go it

slow marsh
#

Even if you have another sin rogue in group with atrophic, you still go down middle

ebon notch
balmy condor
#

What am I reading

cerulean nest
#

lmao i'll go back to the drawing board

gusty mirage
verbal mantle
ebon notch
#

theyll just make it non stackable

spice spire
ebon notch
#

once people learn how inconsistent outlaw cp gen is they wont want it

grim canopy
#

change to .02

gusty mirage
balmy condor
#

How did this chat

#

Go to hell

cerulean nest
#

having to commit 1 point to atrophic is kinda butt *

balmy condor
#

So fast

cerulean nest
#

fixed it

winter hill
#

this is the outlaw chat now @balmy condor

#

hahahaha

slow marsh
ebon notch
#

idk i just derail any chat im in

#

im sry

gusty mirage
cerulean nest
#

tell that to the guild

gusty mirage
grim canopy
#

did anyone sim dragon tempered blade vs kingsbane?

slow marsh
#

Daps truly embodying the yellow name persona

gusty mirage
#

then play outlaw bro or recruit another sin rogue to take atrophic

#

idk

balmy condor
#

What a shit show this is

verbal mantle
balmy condor
#

Feels like two minutes ago we were laughing about troll trees

gusty mirage
oak sky
winter hill
#

shit escalates quickly

gusty mirage
#

make it happen

#

hit us with the most cursed shit ever

oak sky
limber lion
#

@balmy condor how's alpha, did you get to play any yet?

cerulean nest
#

ruby pools is literally a mini dungeon

limber lion
#

:D

slow marsh
#

rate my tree

balmy condor
#

I wish I had time for anything

gusty mirage
grim canopy
gusty mirage
#

that extra time on rupture gonna be WILD

copper hazel
oak sky
balmy condor
#

Honestly the class tree isn’t even that bad

verbal mantle
#

this is your sim

gusty mirage
balmy condor
grim canopy
#

someone do a m+ tree

verbal mantle
verbal mantle
gusty mirage
balmy condor
verbal mantle
#

you will beat every dps in the raid

balmy condor
#

You may omegalul me but you can’t tell me anything different can you

slow marsh
verbal mantle
#

kingsbane POG

gusty mirage
oak sky
spice spire
#

No CD gameplay

#

Flat as the earth god bless

gusty mirage
# oak sky

someone teach my mans how to take a screenshot

#

pls

oak sky
#

im in an aram

#

sue me

balmy condor
gusty mirage
winter hill
oak sky
#

im in an aram

#

not taking time to do

limber lion
#

Man can make talent trees in an aram

oak sky
#

anything

limber lion
#

But cant take a screenshot

spice spire
#

Man’s a savant

balmy condor
spice spire
#

Talent tree extraordinaire

winter hill
#

nice

balmy condor
#

Not falling for that shit again

oak sky
#

there you go

#

m+

gusty mirage
# oak sky

remove venom rush and toss it in atrophic boo

oak sky
#

yeah

winter hill
#

hmh iron wire

oak sky
#

probably

grim canopy
oak sky
#

not needed

grim canopy
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oh ok

gusty mirage
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tons of bleeds = no need for vigor

balmy condor
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How to make viable m+ tree:

  1. Go to class tree,
  2. go down right
  3. then go down left
  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for spec tree
  5. You’re still shit at the game enjoy doing no damage bozo
oak sky
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type 5 again

ebon notch
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whispyr mean

gusty mirage
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the devs will do that without your help

grim canopy
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a lot of aoe dmg maybe every 1.5 min

oak sky
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i do kinda wish there was something i could take besides venom rush

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or atrophic

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i guess atrophic works

gusty mirage
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DR is just giga man

ebon notch
gusty mirage
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think how much people spend on avoidance boes

oak sky
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yeah i know its giga

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and it does fit

strange python
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What’s the question mark under atrophic again

gusty mirage
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deathmark

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the replacement for vendetta

strange python
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Ah ok thanks

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I just forgot

gusty mirage
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ye it had an icon on the last tree iirc

limber lion
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They have the icons ingame just not on wowhead

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A sad day indeed.

gusty mirage
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because I can't appreciate your presence

burnt latch
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@limber lion ur new realm sucks

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input lag very non pog

ebon notch
spice spire
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His new realm? huh

limber lion
limber lion
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Guess its time to go back to the reaver

burnt latch
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Reaver bis

ebon notch
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uh

burnt latch
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im somehow stuck on draenor

ebon notch
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its filled with finns

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did you guys forget or what

burnt latch
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idk how to get back to reaver

oak sky
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what happened

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shard?

burnt latch
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yes

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😦

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i want my finnish friends back

oak sky
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i want my warcieft back