#assassination

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distant mesa
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the guides are for pre-patch, is there anything for 70 content yet?

oak sky
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It could be envenom/ pb tier

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I think that would work

sand elm
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even simpler than that. if the tooltip says its a poison it should be a poison lol

dark token
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Yes

oak sky
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Not affected by zold affected by dashing

dark token
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This shit is getting really annoying

sand elm
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"injects a lethal poison" but syke its not actually a poison pepeclown

dark token
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So anyway I'd rather they bugfix everything to work as tooltips say they should then tune us after

oak sky
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But objectively kingsbane should work with lethality since its of course a generator

dark token
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Lethal dose works on sepsis but not kingsbane

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What

sand elm
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i wonder if its because they dont want kingsbane to be the go to pick so theyre intentionally making it an exception to not synergise with other talents

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artificially making it worse

oak sky
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I mean a lot of these poison effects are super inconsistent

dark token
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Then nerf it by 20%

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Same output except shit isn't confusing

sand elm
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blizz being blizz i guess

burnt latch
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hi i hope u all have a wonderful evening

sand elm
distant mesa
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so obo Alacrity needs taken at 70, but how would I replicate the Sin talent tree for 70 with our 60 talents. wanting to rotationally keep Kingsbane/Exsange in there

royal lantern
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did raid as assa and hated it

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❤️

balmy condor
distant mesa
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are we not going down the sub side at all with Shadow dance?

balmy condor
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god no

dark token
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Shadow dance blows man

balmy condor
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everything nightstalker and under is unplayable

dark token
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Shadow dance sucks, er is annoying, class tree is a feels bad despite all 3 specs having banger spec trees

distant mesa
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just what I saw in some of the guides, sorry

royal lantern
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all capstones are just so bad.....

distant mesa
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so sin tree looks odd to me without/ KB/Exsange somewhere

dark token
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Yeah unironically ds is the real capstone

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Cold blood, er, rc, dance all suck

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Zeal fate and ds the only good capstones

balmy condor
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ER RC is really good though

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and thistle is really good too

dark token
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Thistle is worse than deeper

royal lantern
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we have tea, aka "how did this even leave the drawing board"
er aka"nobody liked it as a covenant ability, never saw play as one except for 1 spec and its just annoying as hell to play around"
and "shadowdance, we nerf all stealth talents cus of it, and you dont play it, and its boring af for assa/outlaw, and sub NEEDS to skill it to actually work xd"

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i love it

dark token
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And er rc is bad for my mental health

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I will still use it but how did the bottom part of class tree get off the drawing board

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They forced thistle tea SO hard

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Everyone complained massively the entire time it was there

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For all of beta

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And it made it through

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I like the tree design up to acrobatic strikes and seal fate. Lethality is nice, alacrity is way shittier but w/e. The rest is just wtf

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No idea why alacrity changed to something that can drop sometimes

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Just nerf it's value if it was too much

balmy condor
south sapphire
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guys my head is hurting trying to figure out the KB exsanguini opening. Rn im doing Ambush > garrote > rupture > DM > Sanguini > envenom > KB > Sns > Vanish > Garrote > rupture, but it seems such a clusterfuck also feels bad to snd so late but also feels bad to snd early cus im wasting garrote DM seconds

south sapphire
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this rn, testing tea and what not

dark token
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Assuming u run deathly shadows

balmy condor
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sure

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that's probably fine

dark token
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Probably Mut to 5, envenom, kingsbane shiv tbh

south sapphire
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right so we skip doubling the initial garrote

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and just save vanish for DM

balmy condor
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you would double the initial garrote with shrouded

main solar
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I just dislike being forced to play like 7 different cooldown abilities rather than our capstones being something actually interesting. Hopefully they dont feel like they should wait for 11.0 before any major changes

dark token
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Yes cause we don't have shrouded suffication points

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Right now its awkward af without shrouded

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So that's why the vanish garrote to pandemic it before exang and to proc deathly shadows on ur burst

royal lantern
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with shrouded its really just

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garrote2x and you have cp

dark token
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It's weird cause u open and you expect to deathmark

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But nah you have to pandemic your rupture and garrote again

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Exang xd

royal lantern
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exsang

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is

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a

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mistake

main solar
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remove exsang club

royal lantern
south sapphire
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would that allow us to skip 1 mut gcd?

balmy condor
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+2

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you get 3cp from opener

dark token
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Yes but you can garotte snd garrote, and then use vanish during deathmark

balmy condor
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so you gar snd gar

south sapphire
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oooh

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gotya

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that sounds a lot more smooth

main solar
dark token
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Right now garroting 2x in opener is trash because 1cp

dark token
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Forgot you ran that

south sapphire
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do we tea at any specifics time, im guessing we always save atleast 1 for KB

distant mesa
dark token
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Nah tea at low energy

dark token
distant mesa
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oh, that yeah I didn't bother to craft that

balmy condor
dark token
balmy condor
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but if you just tea whenever you can max out the energy from it, you're fine

south sapphire
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ty!

main solar
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are we pretty much ignoring the mastery component of TT?

balmy condor
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yes

dark token
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Cool talent right

deep snow
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Envenom dmg bug still not fixed on live ? the 16 to 22% difference

visual hemlock
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did some heroic raids and did 200k-400k openers, man kingsbane build is insane

balmy condor
deep snow
drifting cloud
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never trust wow tooltips

balmy condor
deep snow
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well tooltip is correct, envenom barely hits for 6-7k with 50% mastery.

balmy condor
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it's 22% on both live and beta

deep snow
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doesnt feel right

balmy condor
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datamined from the server

main solar
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tell me about it.... leveling an alt warlock and it doesn't tell you at all that drain soul replaces shadow bolt, or that unstable affliction gets removed if you cast it on another target

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tooltips are a mess

oak pulsar
# balmy condor yes

is their an idea of how much mastery it would need to give to matter to us?

balmy condor
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no

south sapphire
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how naive of me thinking i needed to save tea for KB

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i just realized how much energy DM and sanguini give

balmy condor
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sims don't use tea until like 40 seconds in

deep snow
main solar
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you dont like your trinket wrapped into a capstone talent?

balmy condor
deep snow
grim tangle
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envenom is a filler, buff rupture

balmy condor
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it's the button you hit when you have nothing else to hit

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if you want it to do damage, play amp + pb

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that playstyle is available to you

main solar
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or sub

balmy condor
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like it's easy to complain about "oh envenom should do more than ambush, it's a finisher", but you have to realize that for where envenom sits in the rotation, it probably shouldn't be stronger. We cast about 2-3 envenoms for every ambush, the only thing we cast more is mutilate. You can't have a filler ability, regardless of finisher or not, doing bonkers crazy damage in comparison to the rest of the kit

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you only have 100% damage to allocate

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you can't make envenom do 30% of it and then go "aight and the rest just fits in, thank god envenom is a finisher"

south sapphire
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do we sanguini on cd or line it with KB?

balmy condor
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on cd

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doesn't interact with kingsbane

south sapphire
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right, was thinking for the energy gen but i guess we dont rly need it

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going from fury to assa is taking a toll in my brain

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rly enjoying it tho, ty for the answers

balmy condor
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np

distant mesa
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Exsange interacts with Deathmark yes?

grim breach
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Does exsanguinate tick down Deathmark faster?

balmy condor
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yes

distant mesa
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or am I blind at seeing that

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O.o

balmy condor
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deathmark is a bleed

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exsang halves bleed durations

grim breach
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So if you sangui, you get 8 seconds of deathmark

balmy condor
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yes

grim breach
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So the math, 16 seconds of dots, doubled, vs 8 seconds of dots doubled ticking twice as fast, is this the same amount of damage?

balmy condor
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yes

grim breach
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But in 8 seconds? so more burst?

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So it does interact if you need some crazy on demand burst

balmy condor
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yeah except the burst isn't crazy and we don't play it like that

distant mesa
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O.o

balmy condor
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we cast the exsang before deathmark in the opener

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and then on cooldown

distant mesa
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using it inside deathmark trucks tho?

balmy condor
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compared to what

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compared to tiny toxic blade yeah sure

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big deeps

distant mesa
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which guides rotation are you referring to?

grim breach
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Ok so the issue is that the CD does not align very well, so you will not keep it for Deathmark

distant mesa
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just testing it on a dummy lol, using a Shiv>DM>Exsange shot my meter up with an empowered Garrote

balmy condor
distant mesa
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ye, which one 🙂

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not tying to be rude, just trying to understand

balmy condor
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wowhead if I bothered to put exsang in there

balmy condor
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you gain nothing by exsanging inside of deathmark

distant mesa
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that makes more sense, thank you for explaining

balmy condor
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I fucking hate exsang

uncut echo
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Frankly you just get overloaded with energy

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In my personal exerpience

uncut echo
kindred oriole
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It's not the best design.

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For PvP maybe it's a bit different because it's more instant pressure, but not even sure.

balmy condor
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make it a pvp talent then

kindred oriole
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Yeah they could really.

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I dunno, I feel if you don't want to play with it, then you don't have to. Do we expect it to end up dominating other options?

balmy condor
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yes

kindred oriole
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By 'we' I mean 'you' of course.

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Meh...

balmy condor
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it's about 4% ahead

kindred oriole
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Wow... that's a lot.

balmy condor
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yeah and it's hard to tell why

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probably some mix of:

  • it was competing with alacrity so it was always seen as much worse than what it was
  • bleeds actually doing damage now
  • being able to convert the energy into meaningful damage
  • little competition
kindred oriole
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No but I'm thinking most talent points it's competing againts bring what? 2.5-3% dps per point?

balmy condor
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closer to 1%

kindred oriole
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So if it's 4% ahead, that's like a 7% dps increase for 1 point compared to others.

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Oh ok that low.

obsidian beacon
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What’s the issue with exsang?

kindred oriole
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Too strong so mandatory.

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And like unfun.

celest ruin
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it exists

obsidian beacon
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Oh like it’s flavorless

celest ruin
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thats the issue

balmy condor
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I should just write a google doc about why exsang is a dogshit designed ability that no one wants to play

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and just make it a chat command

celest ruin
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!exsang

obsidian beacon
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It sounds like the circle Leggo for feral

kindred oriole
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ha ha ha

timid cloud
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!exsangry

obsidian beacon
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Yeah I’d use it @balmy condor

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I’m rolling ass for DF and have never played rogue so give me like 1 month then I’ll probably be on the exsang hate train

timid cloud
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Realz putting in too much time into DH, & not getting rid of Exsang.

celest ruin
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okay hear me out

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what if outlaw gets exsang

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and we get blade flurry

balmy condor
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they talented it, used it

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and then were like "oh. I get it"

obsidian beacon
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I’m leveling an alt lol

timid cloud
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The worst part is.

oak sky
timid cloud
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This is gonna be even worse feeling than NYA.

obsidian beacon
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Does it replace shiv or mutilate or it’s another button

kindred oriole
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"Because it's a meaningful button to press"

balmy condor
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it's just a button

obsidian beacon
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😳

timid cloud
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Because we don’t have 1,000,002% haste

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Wait, do we have KB in the full talent tree & DTB? If so it’s gonna be like 5 GCD’s when we do CD’s, holy, I never thought about that.

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I’m passing away.

balmy condor
oak sky
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💀

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tbh like

timid cloud
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LOL

oak sky
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certain cds would feel really bad on gcd (theyre already off gcd)

timid cloud
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I could do my taxes in 14.

oak sky
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nothing to complain about really

celest ruin
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why is mutilate on the gcd

oak sky
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real

oak sky
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only finishers on gcd

balmy condor
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WHY EXSANG GCD WHY DEATHMARK GCD WHY GCD ON GCD WHY GCD JUST REMOVE GCD REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

oak sky
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its crazy

timid cloud
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Rent free.

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I wanna hit my buttons fast.

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Not slow. It makes me feel like I’m doing more damage.

balmy condor
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why are pistol shot procs on gcd

timid cloud
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I don’t want to stop damage, I want to DEAL damage.

balmy condor
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why is blade rush on gcd

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why is flurry on gcd

timid cloud
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Don’t know, I don’t play Outlaw.

drifting garnet
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whats the best trinket rn for assa?

balmy condor
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why cant I just smash my face into the keyboard like a monkey because my brain cells are already gone from complaining about worthless junk and theres none left for my rotation

balmy condor
timid cloud
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LOL

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Whispyr is in the Foreverguy villian arc.

balmy condor
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dude I'm so sick of it sometimes

timid cloud
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Lowkey, I just don’t wanna play exsang. It’s not that complicated.

oak sky
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exsang being bad has nothing to do with the gcd for me

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its all this stupid shit it makes you do

balmy condor
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"why deathmark on gcd"
cause it's the strongest cooldown sin has ever had and it's meant to be powerful
"yeah but it feels bad"
yeah so does eating dairy but I still down a pint of ice cream, feel better bro

timid cloud
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I’m partially lactose intolerant.

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I can drink milk & eat ice cream. But only sometimes.

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Make it make sense.

balmy condor
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I can eat cheese-stuff fine

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cheetos and cheez-its and stuff are okay

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milk and ice cream are a mess

oak sky
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i produce lactase

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W

timid cloud
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Make it make sense like making Exsang not having a hidden mechan—-

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Pardon?

balmy condor
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I mean I still drink milk and eat ice cream though

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like

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you think I'm gonna listen to my body?

timid cloud
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Yeah, it’s a gamble for me.

rich vine
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why acrobatic strikes dont work on exsang

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This is the only question I have

oak sky
timid cloud
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I’m so full of dairy products, YUM!

balmy condor
oak sky
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keep pretending thats how it works

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beat your body

timid cloud
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Eat Kafir.

oak sky
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do not work with it

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😈

balmy condor
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I will will it into existance

timid cloud
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It helps build bacteria in your tummy for that, no cap.

oak sky
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thats true too actually you could get some milk eating bacteria to digest it for you

timid cloud
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So the metaphor here is…

oak sky
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remove exsang

timid cloud
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The milk, is our CD’s, the lactose intolerance is Exsang.

oak sky
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i drink milk on cd

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thats all i know

spice spire
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What kind of milk tho

timid cloud
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We can cure it.

spice spire
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Is it 3%?

fading wigeon
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But but 8.3.

timid cloud
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I like all kinds.

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They treat the vanilla milk cows the best because it tastes the best.

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But I digress.

balmy condor
spice spire
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3

balmy condor
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I don't understand how that works

timid cloud
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We can curse the lactose intolerance (Exsang) by eating Kafir (Removing Exsang)

balmy condor
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is there more % milk

oak sky
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the % is the % milkfat

timid cloud
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That way, we can milk better (deal damage.)

balmy condor
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can I get chunky style fat-added milk

spice spire
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Wild

balmy condor
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can I have the % they took away from 2% and add it to my 3% to make 4%

oak sky
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tbh 2% milk goes incredibly hard

timid cloud
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Thank you for coming to my TED talk on Milk & Assassination Rogue.

oak sky
balmy condor
spice spire
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Bro?

oak sky
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🤨

drifting cloud
timid cloud
spice spire
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S2g I’ll @ Gabbi who is actually in this discord?! Why?!

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Bro

south sapphire
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rename thistle tea to Milk drink

spice spire
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Ain’t no way

timid cloud
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Why do you need the girl, when you can just milk your bro???

spice spire
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It just @‘d some rando

timid cloud
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Awkward…

spice spire
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This is getting out of pocket

timid cloud
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Yes. Next question.

spice spire
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Buff exsang peepoGiggles

balmy condor
timid cloud
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This is going into h||orny|| territory.

spice spire
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Ahhh that makes sense

balmy condor
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last time I set up the tricks event, I had to change the stage permissions a whole FOUR TIMES until it worked

timid cloud
spice spire
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I member

drifting cloud
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does anyone want to make a donation for my 1year sub

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everything goes!

balmy condor
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I'll donate feet pics

drifting cloud
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that should cover the next decade

spice spire
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Source I’ve received several

drifting cloud
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you just gotta get better with marketing

spice spire
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True

balmy condor
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you like long toenail or short toenail

spice spire
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Bro please

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Neither I hate feet despairge

balmy condor
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okay that sounds like a you problem

minor anchor
regal sable
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uhm

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gm assassination

balmy condor
regal sable
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glad to see everyone's doing well.... I guess

balmy condor
regal sable
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nnn?

balmy condor
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No nut november

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The holiest of months

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No month has as many holes, that’s a guarantee

regal sable
next arch
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Does feral have better single target in raid?

oblique jackal
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How noticeable are the buffs

balmy condor
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gonna say they aren't

balmy condor
oblique jackal
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Damn really ?

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Not noticeable at all 🥲🥲

next arch
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I know balance was really good, which probably means feral wasnt.

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Or atleast It was leaps and bounds ahead of feral so I just never saw them

balmy condor
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feral single target was good

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for most of the expansion

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but that's all they did

next arch
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Huh, neat.

balmy condor
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it was like sub rogue except you removed storm and powder

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and evisc was 60% of your damage

balmy condor
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top of the meters?

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5% buffs on half our kit doesn't really do anything

oblique jackal
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Anything better than being on the bottom haha

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Being on the top isn’t always the best

red tinsel
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So is Kingsbane the best built for Single target right now?

wise phoenix
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i believe so @red tinsel

red tinsel
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Anyone got the build setup?

regal sable
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wowhead

red tinsel
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ohh ok, I was using the previous one

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how do you guys properly use it? Set up all bleeds, Deathmark, then Kingsbane and spam Env?

hard gazelle
next arch
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Thats what Ive gathered, but that could be wrong.

timid cloud
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Forgot flag, while it’s still around.

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Also I thought the move was Gar-SND-Vanish-Gar for extension - Flag - Rup - Deathmark - shiv - KB - shiv

south sapphire
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dont forget exsangui

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before the DM

timid cloud
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Exsang isn’t in the KB build.

balmy condor
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I can’t wait to do more cooldown sims

drifting cloud
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me neither

timid cloud
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Back to the mines with you!

balmy condor
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8 hours of CT later

timid cloud
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I’m so full of CT spam, YUM!

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Also Whispyr, was that the right opener? I feel so outta whack with it right now.

hard gazelle
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Slightly off topic and months behind. How does double Edge if Night work?

timid cloud
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I just wanna go back to Dusk & turn my brain off.

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CP Spent = damage per stack

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More stacks the lower the bosses HP is.

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It’s pretty straightforward on the tooltip.

drifting cloud
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dmg is just doubled from two, proc chance stays the same

timid cloud
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Oh yeah, I mentioned that too the other day.

hard gazelle
timid cloud
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It’s an unreliable source. But someone said weapon procs are higher now?

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I think it seems a bit silly, because why would it change randomly.

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But when I see Banshees Blight at the top sometimes, it seems to put a bit of value to it.

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I’d be more accurate if I had a Vein-ripper right now, but I haven’t wasted a Dinar on one.

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Just wondering if anyone else had more thoughts on that.

next arch
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Or is the pandemic window huge for some reason?

hard gazelle
timid cloud
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I just was thinking extended DM empowered garrote did more & sped the rotation up without casting 2 mutis to get to rupture because of the 5 CP generated from Deathly.

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2 EON’s at 311 will rail you because of weapon damage being king & the damage dealt being more with having 2 daggers instead of 1 or none.

balmy condor
timid cloud
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I’m just looking for more clarification though.

balmy condor
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I don’t think shit changed

south sapphire
balmy condor
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Numbers just changed and edge stayed the same

timid cloud
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We just got weaker & that’s what makes blight carry us?

balmy condor
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Ye

next arch
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So gar vanish gar is just 2x duration? or does it just override

timid cloud
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I guess the simplest answer is usually the most correct one.

balmy condor
south sapphire
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gar vanish gar is 23s of imp garr

timid cloud
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I’m bad with math, I forget how much it adds.

next arch
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So why wouldnt you use vanish later and get the extra seconds? Is it just so it aligns better?

timid cloud
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4 seconds or something?

balmy condor
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The first is 18 seconds seconds, then you give it 2 seconds, so it’s at 16, you cast the second garrote, it gets the max 30% pandemic for 5.4 extra, so the new garrote is 23.4, for a total of 25.4 seconds

balmy condor
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Gar snd gar

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And then later on you vanish and extend that

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Am i missing something

timid cloud
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Okay, that was my mistake then. Which is what I needed to be fixed.

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Nah, I was just messing up the rotation, math brain is bad.

balmy condor
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Ah gotcha

next arch
south sapphire
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no cus imp garrote

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u have 3 sec

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after stealth

next arch
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NO WAY

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WOAH

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im so dumb

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I didnt fully understand that.

balmy condor
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That’s only with shrouded btw

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It’s not worth without the extra cp

south sapphire
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will it be worth taking just to smooth out the opening?

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guess it makes garrote do more damage too

next arch
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But isnt most of the right line sub optimal rn?

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in ST anyway

south sapphire
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hmm

balmy condor
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Right now the best idea is to take blindside, dragon tempered, bone spike, and imp garrote

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For single target

next arch
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So no kingsbane? 😢

south sapphire
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i think whispyr is talking about beta

next arch
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I figured, but I like kingsbane, if its not worth taking I will violently cry.

south sapphire
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its prolly good

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best? maybe maybe not

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but i think thats the point of the trees

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u choose what u like and blizzard is gonna try to make it balanced

next arch
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Yeah but we know every wow player picks whats optimal.

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But I guess If i wanted optimal why am I here kekw

south sapphire
next arch
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Kingsbane + dtb sounds kinda cool.

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we get 5 more points on each side right?

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If so not possible KB + dtb I think.

south sapphire
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its not

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by design

next arch
south sapphire
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anyway i just conviced myself to remove exsanguini from my bars

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fuck that

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im a filthy heroic raider, i can remove 4%

next arch
#

What was your build with exang?

#

I wanna try it out :)

south sapphire
#

u can prolly remove tea for strat, i barely feel like i need the tea

next arch
#

I dont think I can ever remove stat

#

Also acrobatic strikes is the best thing thats happened to sin

#

jumping between outlaw and sin back in BFA gave me cancer, having to literally succ the target im fighting.

south sapphire
#

ever tried playing arms

#

now thats a feelsbadman

next arch
#

Nah im not CRINGE

#

jokes, do they have the same problem?

south sapphire
#

yeah they do

balmy condor
weak horizon
#

what weakauras do you guys use?

#

i've been trying luxthos but i find it kind of hard to see when things are off CD

regal sable
#

I make my own

sand elm
#

afenar

weak plover
#

Are you playing with a blindfold?

next arch
next arch
#

Could always just try editing them to better access what you need

sand elm
#

exsang with the kingsbane opener is really fucky

indigo epoch
#

what PB build anyone rollin with?

deft vault
#

Does CB work on bleeds?

balmy condor
balmy condor
indigo epoch
#

😦

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i mean, we already not top DPS on prepatch, may as well have fun

#

but to be fair i havent come up with a build that isnt dog ass with it yet

low flint
#

assa will be more viable with the new talents than it was in SL? in mythic+

wise phoenix
#

is there a world where amp poison is better than KB

#

currently

balmy condor
balmy condor
somber fractal
#

is sin the only spec of any class that cant get to a certain capstone in pre-patch?

balmy condor
#

Nah

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I think mages got some fucky stuff too

#

But uh yeah

wise phoenix
#

also is it just always venthyr for now

balmy condor
#

Prepatch omegalul shit patch

low flint
balmy condor
somber fractal
#

just checked all the mage spec trees. you can get every capstone at lvl 60

balmy condor
#

Unlucky

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Random twitch chatter lied to my face

#

How could they

next arch
#

It was me 😈 (it was not)

balmy condor
#

I cant wait for prepatch to be over

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And the real game to start

oak pulsar
#

less then a month i am getting hype

#

that being said prepatch outlaw is ridiculous fun but im excited to get back to sin and getting ready to raid.

balmy condor
#

Time for more guide updates

#

This time for a REAAAAALLLL patch

#

None of this half baked shit

oak pulsar
#

looking forward to it i like all the stuff you put out

balmy condor
#

Miss me with the “recommend a legendary for a level 60 tree and a covenant” bullshit

#

Never have I been less motivated to put out guide content than prepatch

oak pulsar
#

we love and appreciate all the work and care you give to sin and this discord @balmy condor

balmy condor
#

I got big stuff cumming

proper tapir
#

Or at least until raiding starts back up and we get Brian back. That guy was awesome, he'd find gains and stuff; he's the reason I started snapshotting my bleeds.

balmy condor
#

Brian a real G

abstract junco
#

I enjoy making myself custom WA textures whenever new xpacks drop. Here’s the WIP I have going for DM.

hollow river
#

what is it meant to signify exactly? does it glow or pop up when DM comes off CD, or?

abstract junco
#

I usually tie a few small marker icons that follow my cursor and light up in different ways when active/on CD

dark shuttle
#

that is some good art, well done

fallen arch
#

Now I’m curious to see a screenshot if your ui

#

See if we can make sense of it

quaint sequoia
#

I don't get it, why are we using Deathly as Sin in prepatch?
I get that Duskwalkers is broken but shouldn't another sin leggo be better than Deathly?

steel ridge
#

which one would you suggest?

quaint sequoia
#

zoldyck or dashing

jade abyss
#

Today is a good day to bully exsang right ?

steel ridge
jade abyss
steel ridge
#

zoldyck doesnt do anything on sylvanas tho

balmy condor
#

it's prepatch

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literally no one cares

#

play a sub legendary

#

go wild

zinc vortex
#

is sin good at m+ atm ? or just meh ?

zealous summit
#

mostly meh

balmy condor
#

very meh

royal lantern
#

biggest meh

next edge
#

Kinda meh

fleet imp
#

Sussy meh

fallen arch
#

ready for big buffs meh

steel ridge
#

its not that horrible

fallen arch
#

it is

#

This is literally where sin is this pre patch

#

And its prepatch so who cares

#

But you can't say it's not bad

steel ridge
#

what even is this chart

#

almost no one even plays sin in raid these times

fallen arch
#

it's m+ dps

#

And the question was

#

is sin good in m+

#

and the answer is just plan no

steel ridge
#

m+ logs

fallen arch
#

ye so take em with a grain of salt

#

it is what it is

steel ridge
#

theres a whopping 19 parses for mythic sylvanas

balmy condor
#

sims don't have it much better

fallen arch
#

parses also super whatever with this fated bullshit

#

Shit literally falls over

steel ridge
#

not the point

#

point is nobody even plays it, so the statistic is worthless

#

whispyr got a point tho, sims look horribly low

fallen arch
#

ye and the reason nobody plays it is because there's a better spec by a landslide

steel ridge
#

still going to play some assassination in keys later today, out of pure spite

fallen arch
#

which is totally fine

#

I still enioy it too

#

But the dam could be better

#

And it already is a little better with the buffs from last reset

steel ridge
#

thing is, people are so bad at the game, i will still top details

fallen arch
#

Ye same, when you pug +15s you probably will

steel ridge
#

nah i will treat myself with some 24-25

#

stuff has to live through carnage

verbal tusk
#

hi

steel ridge
#

hi

verbal tusk
#

kings bane or shrouded suff for my last point?

steel ridge
#

thats not really a competition mate

balmy condor
#

in... m+? or

#

what

verbal tusk
#

not participating in a competition.. i'm asking which is a better option.

#

pvp ish

steel ridge
verbal tusk
#

but still good in dungeons

regal sable
#

kingsbane from those two, but rethink everything ur doing

balmy condor
#

I feel like kingsbane for sure

steel ridge
#

kingsbane is vastly more powerful than shrouded for ST tho

verbal tusk
#

hmmk. yeah I've been running kb.. was just going through my tree and seeing if i overlooked anything

steel ridge
#

go wild

regal sable
#

reminder that there are loadouts and you don't need to gimp a build for dungeons by half optimising it for pvp and same otherway around

verbal tusk
#

saw some other talents I had already picked that looked like they might synergize with shrouded

#

but yeah.. kings bane has been good to me thus far

#

i'll stick with what i have

regal sable
#

👍

verbal tusk
#

only pve I really do is fulfilling weekly quests. but I always seem to be on the low end of dps

regal sable
#

that is just assa tuning at the moment

verbal tusk
#

to be fair...i'm borderline brain dead when it comes to gaming. i'm too old to be doing this but .. i gotta have somethin to decompress

night delta
#

during deathmark, ignoring the energy side of things, would we capitalize on blindside procs, or ignore it for mut anyway ?

regal sable
#

probably ask whispyr for the latest but if I had to guess after the most recent buffs ambush beats out mut

#

im not a sim mastermind though :x

verbal tusk
#

should i use shiv...with the enhanced nature damage talent with it, before or after my set of bleeds?

night delta
#

I'm asking because I've come to see that, even taking all the energy talents, I can deplete energy quite a bit during deathmak, to the point I think it's possible to sneak in 1 tea and still not overcap on energy, or barely

#

but it requires I ignore blindside procs

#

seeing as tea gives out a mastery buff, I wonder if that buff and the tea energy is worth not using ambush at all during DM

limber lion
#

Not using ambush? How would that make sense?

#

It's still the better generator even if it did cost energy.

limber lion
night delta
balmy condor
# night delta during deathmark, ignoring the energy side of things, would we capitalize on bli...

I actually looked into this after the ambush buff out of curiosity, and you can take the W knowing that it's 0.03% better with kingsbane profiles specifically if you take 2/2 improved poisons, with the 2 piece tier. If you don't have improved poisons, or you don't have tier, or you're playing dtb, using that blindside proc will be better, but shit is really really close. Keep in mind this also requires doomblade as well. So to sum up:

If you have doomblade, and 2/2 imp poison, and tier from the raid, and kingsbane, you can avoid pressing blindside. It's statistically insignificant and I had to purposely crank up the accuracy of the simulation because the base accuracy isn't precise enough to tell the difference, but it is - by all accounts - technically better

#

and I lowkey was sweeping the mutilate during deathmark tech under the rug cause it was like 0.2% or something before, but I also knew that ambush was probably getting a buff, so I wasn't too concerned

regal sable
#

mutilate gaming

balmy condor
#

the thistle tea energy part is irrelevant though, the lowest the sim dips even using a kingsbane build is a deficit of 55, which happens 40 seconds in

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it only manages to starve itself 8 seconds later

#

from the point in time where it casts deathmark, to the end of deathmark, the highest deficit I've seen is a whopping 17 energy

#

which is not even in the same universe as a tea cast

#

you will never cast tea during deathmark

#

it just be like that

zealous summit
regal sable
#

thank you for this very very contextual information
ill proceed to ignore all the conditions and tell people mut better kekw unbind ambush
wowreally

balmy condor
#

well once deathmark drops you'll have to use the procs anyway

#

this is one of those worthless optimizations that no one on the planet really gives a shit about but probably is like 30 dps better in 3 patches when you hit some magical mastery breakpoint to make the poisons do enough damage

#

so uh I guess !remindme ambush during deathmark in 1 year

regal sable
#

waiting for the mastery breakpoint followed by a hotfix 0.4% reduced dmg of poisons

balmy condor
#

Oh also if at any point in time we stumble into improved ambush this logic also breaks

night delta
#

aight this was more than enough info for my pea brain, thanks

balmy condor
#

Yeah giga tldr: Button go blinky, Hit button

regal sable
steel ridge
#

ambush needs another 20% is what i am reading

balmy condor
#

Most TC ideas don’t work out, but this one was almost there

balmy condor
steel ridge
#

wdym i want bigger numbers

#

more ambush more good

balmy condor
#

Blindside is really good

steel ridge
#

yeah it is

#

i simmed with and without it, its alot of dps

#

and its fucking awesome to hit

balmy condor
#

Yeah

#

It’s kinda whack that blindside and sbs are so overpoweringly strong

#

But I guess it be like that

fallen arch
#

We got that going which is nice

subtle tundra
#

Delete exsang

fallen arch
#

yes pls

night delta
#

yeah well, it feels great but I have sometimes flirted with the 170 energy line when pressing it during deathmark

balmy condor
royal lantern
#

i wish i could

night delta
#

monkaS moment

royal lantern
#

at work and everything sucks pepehands

balmy condor
steel ridge
balmy condor
#

He opened himself to cyber bullying

#

It’s okay

night delta
balmy condor
#

Oh

#

Well yeh

steel ridge
balmy condor
#

Sims overcap fucktons of energy during Deathmark

#

It just doesn’t care

fallen arch
#

yeah we almost a range class now with the acrobatic strikes and the 3 charges of sbs

#

During Deathmark it's almost impossible I feel to spend energy and get below max

night delta
balmy condor
#

Build limiting

subtle tundra
#

Funky how we got nerfed to like 43 apm and now we're back to 54 or something

subtle tundra
#

Dumb af

balmy condor
#

Be like that

fallen arch
#

you rather chill at 35 apm?

balmy condor
#

Yes

subtle tundra
balmy condor
#

40 feels great

#

45 is good

night delta
steel ridge
balmy condor
#

50 is kinda speedy

regal sable
#

93 is great

balmy condor
#

Anything more is a disgrace

regal sable
#

I like playing osu with off gcd spells

subtle tundra
#

I want to watch movies during prog again... Watching a movie during sylvanas kill was peak assa

night delta
spare crow
#

is there a tool to measure apm?

balmy condor
spare crow
#

Or do you simulate

#

Is there one based on current apl

#

rather than player-based

sturdy merlin
#

more energy ?

balmy condor
#

I don’t understand what the question is I’m sorry

balmy condor
royal lantern
#

inc:dashing gets nerfed again cus of energy gain

regal sable
#

does log apm include me pressing ADADAD 20 times every global?

limber lion
royal lantern
#

its not 1of the worst talents allready for a 3pointer deep inside the tree

sturdy merlin
fallen arch
#

stand the fuck still

spare crow
regal sable
sturdy merlin
#

you gotta look carefully when you try to see how much apm you had in a log

spare crow
#

Where do I see the apm in my sims?

balmy condor
#

Full html Report

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At the top

spare crow
#

ty

#

Ah outlaw do be speedin

fallen arch
#

dumb spec

sturdy merlin
spare crow
#

prepatch

#

i just simmed myself

sturdy merlin
#

with shadowdust ?

spare crow
#

yes

sturdy merlin
#

i thought it was even faster

night delta
#

prepatch outlaw is silly

spare crow
#

true

night delta
#

is it much of a whack-a-mole spec or are the procs not that bad ?

#

I was discussing with a pal the other day and he told me outlaw is chill compared to ret, proc-wise

spare crow
#

I use both and that's false

#

Procs are fun on outlaw

#

but the moment you lose track of what you're doing you lose tempo and it all falls apart

#

again, i'm sure it won't be as hectic during df

#

this will be @ lv70 on df without legendaries/covenants/soulbinds etc

royal lantern
#

dead spec

sturdy merlin
royal lantern
#

how can ultra adhd zoomers even play that, 2digit apm

balmy condor
spare crow
spare crow
balmy condor
#

I’ve seen outlaw profiles pushing awfully close to 80

spare crow
#

it's way too hectic

balmy condor
#

Prot warrior levels of buttons

night delta
spare crow
balmy condor
#

Someone sent me a prot war sim sometime in sustained aoe and it was cranking 104apm

spare crow
#

in prepatch?

fallen arch
#

yikes

balmy condor
#

Think it was 9.2.5

#

But it didn’t get slower in dragonflight

#

So

night delta
#

who said prot war wasn't fun ?

balmy condor
#

Probably still reasonable

night delta
#

fun is when buttons push more buttons more fun

regal sable
#

BRB making a prot war

balmy condor
#

Prot warrior cures adhd

night delta
#

I like accelerated gameplay from time to time but wowzers that's way too much

uncut echo
#

You'll do more dam on prot warrior than sin in m+ lmaoooo

royal lantern
uncut echo
#

HAHAHAHA

spare crow
#

oh boy

royal lantern
spare crow
#

Guys let's all just pray that sin gets his deserved spot

royal lantern
#

im convinced a holy priest spamming holy nova would do more dmg

spare crow
#

in #1 damage st

#

#thedream

uncut echo
#

Fuck st

spare crow
uncut echo
#

It's all keys

royal lantern
balmy condor
#

Sin #1 single target dps for sure (windfury and 4 pi’s that should’ve gone to the mage)

spare crow
night delta
balmy condor
spare crow
#

me when i write that

uncut echo
#

Yo I played new fire

#

It does so much dam for free, but fuck me is it boring

#

You just hit 1 target

balmy condor
royal lantern
uncut echo
#

De?

night delta
#

ez nuts

balmy condor
#

DEez nuts

uncut echo
#

Deez jobs?

balmy condor
#

Deez viable specs?

uncut echo
balmy condor
royal lantern
uncut echo
#

HARDLY KNEW HER AYYY

night delta
#

isn't fire mage beyond viable ?

balmy condor
#

It’s in the blue area of the color wheel and is a ranged caster

next edge
#

Have you tried to use swords instead of daggers? Then the wound is more deep therefore you bleed do more dlg

#

I just saved sin

balmy condor
#

Must be good

next edge
#

Np

next edge
#

Maybe the problem is the weapon and not the spec

balmy condor
#

“Just play 3x echoing blades and equip double slappers on hivemind bro Just pad”

#

Still not a top 5 spec

#

Nice

night delta
#

was my life and blood (of the enemy) during that patch man

balmy condor
#

So

royal lantern
#

god i wish

balmy condor
#

How’s that feel

night delta
#

no fire mage in my roster that season ayyyy

#

(maybe that's why we never got past 6)

royal lantern
#

fire mage was the fotm all reroll shit during that time man, how cant you have a single one dracthyr_kek

balmy condor
#

My 9.2.5 guild roster had 3 warlocks, 4 mages, 2 boomkins, and 2 hunters while I took a break

night delta
#

cuz our guild was a bunch of otps

balmy condor
#

Thank god I didn’t play 9.2.5

#

Jesus

night delta
#

was lit seeing its life legit chunk by 15%

uncut echo
#

Damn, 9.2.5 looked like a sin dream

#

:(

spare crow
#

It could've been..

#

sinsational.

uncut echo
#

Ok

#

Pat pat

ancient rain
#

If only I looked at the main assa channel instead of only looking at the DF assa channel, I wouldn't have played with duskwalker all this time

weak robin
#

what is the opener currently on ST? do we do garrote, ambush/muti/ garrote to get longer improved garrote or straight up go garrote S&D as wowhead guide suggests

balmy condor
#

Gar snd without shrouded suff

#

Gar snd gar with shrouded suff

uncut echo
marble hemlock
#

Is the pandemic Garr for the damage or the CP gain?

oak sky
#

Rip df assa

silk jolt
#

if you want rips play feral

balmy condor
#

Like is close without the cp

#

But the cp are the thing that pushes it over

marble hemlock
#

Hmye basically just wondering if/how we'd setup vanish for it

#

Cuz iirc in BfA; we wouldn't double garrote in vanish anymore, and just send it since its already full pandemic duration after the first cast

balmy condor
#

Yeh same thing

uncut echo
#

Give it like 2 weeks, sin will get turbo buffed and exsang deleted

regal sable
#

give it like 2 weeks, exsang will be buffed and mandatory in every possible build

whole mason
regal sable
#

pog

balmy condor
#

Deathmark duped garrote from stealth giving shrouded cp?

regal sable
#

duplicate garrote duplicate cp

#

sin is fixed

sterile jackal
#

Wait, sin plays with exsanguinate now?

balmy condor
#

Just a normal dup gar

#

Weird

balmy condor
sterile jackal
whole mason
#

if you deathmark during a vanish/subt, it dupe the gar which is considered a target for SS and gives you 2cp. I think

balmy condor
#

Oh I must’ve missed the vanish

#

Thank god no one’s stupid enough to Deathmark during a vanish right

steel ridge
balmy condor
#

Surely no one’s gonna do that

whole mason
#

you vanish and refresh gar and deathmark is up, what to do then?

balmy condor
steel ridge
#

thats why its yielding 5 cp

#

interesting

balmy condor
#

And in aoe you gar again

whole mason
#

wdym?

steel ridge
#

huh

balmy condor
#

Your vanish and deathmark is desynced

steel ridge
#

👀

balmy condor
#

If you play your rotation properly you will never vanish before Deathmark

#

It just doesn’t happen

honest vessel
#

Dm first and vanish towards the end right?

steel ridge
#

oh thats what you mean

whole mason
#

dm normal gar and vanish somewhere it is up?

balmy condor
#

Yeah

whole mason
#

anyway, a bug is a bug

steel ridge
#

but when you go dm-vanish-envenom-garotte-evenom

#

the garrote gives you 5 cp

balmy condor
#

You Deathmark the empowered gar from opener and then replace it with a vanish when that drops

whole mason
#

it is not me who needs to do the fix anyway

steel ridge
#

thats what i did in raid yesterday

balmy condor
steel ridge
#

idk why i think the shrouded garrote double dips during deathmark

balmy condor
#

Yeh

#

Funny bug

steel ridge
#

what else am i supposed to do

balmy condor
#

Play a better spec

steel ridge
#

lmao

balmy condor
#

The bandana kinda annoying lowkey

#

Thought I would try it out

#

But man

steel ridge
#

yeah it is

whole mason
#

for me, I delayed the 2nd dm for exsang and er, but only this one, not the 3rd or 4th.

balmy condor
#

Worth a shot I guess

whole mason
#

which also makes vanish and dm lined up

steel ridge
balmy condor
#

Nah you’d get the single cp from the gar

#

Don’t think that’s how it works

whole mason
#

idk if it is worth it

#

gar->0 vanish gar 5cp env gar 5cp

marble hemlock
balmy condor
marble hemlock
#

well yeah?

#

so

#

if i say well yeah

whole mason
#

if vanish and dm linedup and no need for 2nd gar refresh, it is dm during vanish? no?

marble hemlock
#

thats your response too

#

so go sim

balmy condor
#

I did

#

I simmed sync logic many moons ago

marble hemlock
balmy condor
#

Syncing sucks

#

Don’t do it

balmy condor
steel ridge
marble hemlock
#

well yeah in the opener that makes sense

whole mason
marble hemlock
#

but youre not vanishing pre Deathmark on your second one either?

steel ridge
balmy condor
#

Deathmark comes up first

#

Slam

marble hemlock
balmy condor
#

Then vanish comes up

#

Slam

#

Gg go next

#

No sync

steel ridge
#

and than you go muscle memory and mut-env-mut

marble hemlock
#

that sounds like it makes no sense

steel ridge
balmy condor
#

And that’s super unlucky that it doesn’t

marble hemlock
#

it is isnt it

balmy condor
#

But that’s what sims have said so far

whole mason
#

is this no dps gain due to fight time thing?

balmy condor
#

This is no dps gain due to it being no dps gain

whole mason
#

but how can we explain it? we delayed dm, big deal, sync emp'd gar with dm, however not a good gain? so in total no dps gain?

somber fractal
#

2 empowered garrotes = 1 empowered garrote

#

cant argue with that

balmy condor
#

I simmed it on 5 min, 10 min, doesn’t make a difference, the only way you make it work is if you cut any variance and pick a very specific fight time that loses you no exsang casts and no deathmark casts and no vanish casts

whole mason
#

how about the 2nd dm delay also lineup with exsang? also no gain due to energy gain->insignificant since in dm we're energy capped? how about the bleeding damage?

balmy condor
#

It’s a fucking mess

subtle tundra
#

Me when none of our CDs have enough synergy to care about

#

So we just slam

whole mason
#

Okay, I think exsang fundamentally fucked sim.

balmy condor
#

Syncing vanish to dm sucks
Syncing dm to vanish sucks
Syncing exsang to dm sucks
Syncing exsang to vanish sucks
Syncing all 3 together sucks

#

Any questions?

regal sable
#

yes

whole mason
#

or DF sin destroyed sim

somber fractal
#

sin is turning out to be a big headache. probably gonna go back to DK unfortunately

regal sable
#

when maplestory?

subtle tundra
#

Penis

regal sable
#

👉👈

balmy condor
regal sable
balmy condor
#

Today?

#

Later?

#

It’s 5am I have no concept of time and exsang is back in the conversation

#

Gonna keep myself safe

regal sable
#

same

balmy condor
#

Fucking hate this timeline

regal sable
#

going to exsang myself irl in minecraft

whole mason
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it is all because exsang shorten dm, isn't it?

royal lantern
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dunno how good that actually would be tbh