#assassination
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works ty!

Dratnos is the Andrew Tate of Rogues
I think we will see sin rogue in race to world first and hopefully that gets us some more prominent people making some cool videos
Jp gonna play pirate
its in the newest podcast? i wanna find something to get mad at
Yeah he's a sucker for that spec
Is Assasination looking good for DF?
Yes
Good and fun from what I've seen
Big Antorus vibes
James will always play whatever spec is best for prog, if that happens to be outlaw he'll play that 
Is outlaw the clear winner for next tier?
Nope
I think at some point he will play sin the execute is pretty huge and they love execute on prog
Dungeonslice Comparisons for the IC buff
Before: 75.4k https://mimiron.raidbots.com/simbot/report/kNkCUXjbswwE77EJsgdyFd
After: 77.0k https://mimiron.raidbots.com/simbot/report/2X51Lg3DtF9gVWVXRe6FUK
2% buff in total :)
Does this make DTB bad? No but it wasn't the best before either, check the comparisons.
How does this change the rotation? You bleed less
insert really nuanced dtb vs carnage vs kingsbane solo capstone question here I'm glad you asked. The issue is, kingsbane sucks cause it's 0 aoe, carnage sucks cause it's 0 single target, and DTB is okay but not great at either. Reducing the cooldown on IC doesn't actually change any of those trade-offs, so none of the viability has changed either. It does shift us further to double capstone gaming though.
It doesn't sync anymore how do I play the game now? Use it at the start of packs from stealth. Mostly the same thing as before. If you want to sync with, that's a decision that you should make depending on the pull, if you need the silence, etc. I don't have an answer for every situation you will ever run into. When in doubt, ook it out, slam it on cooldown
IS SIN VIABLE IN KEYS NOW TELL ME IS IT OUTLAW DO WE PLAY SIN CAN WE PLAY SIN? SIN META? SIN M+? NO OUTLAW? CAN IT COMPETE? IS IT VIABLE?
It's really good, viability depends on the meta but it's competitive atm. Also you don't do keys where you need to care about the difference stop pretending like it. If you did do keys at that level, you wouldn't pop up like a gopher every time sin got m+ buffs asking this
🤣
So what I'm seeing is... Play pirate nice
Perfect.
wow no need to roast people like peanuts

you spelled demon hunter wrong
But we like roasted peanuts here
HAHAHA that last bit is legendary
Roasted em like marshmallows
"viable" should be blacklisted from discord
But honestly the 15 sec lower cd, will prob just feel amazing no matter how much more dmg it would deal
Viable should be the only word allowed
Was I having fun with Sin, yes. Will I continue to have fun with it? yes.
oh I need to add a bit hol up
monka
Frost Mage AoE got a nerf 
Now I feel like a Sin Rogue
locks got buffed
most annoying part for me from those notes is locks getting buffs lol
yes, I am petty
Locks the favorite child, no surprise 
Everyone calls mages main character but I believe it's locks
Mages are Naruto and Locks are Sasuke
Believe it
Rogues are Sai 
Shun the heretic
Demo is fun
Def most fun ranged class imo
warlocks don't even like other warlocks
dont be coming up in here with that warlock propaganda, you gun get bernt
an informative bit, not a "look in the mirror" bit
my chicken sandwich has a very long piece of chicken in a very circular piece of bread
I'm a little upset
that's not a chicken sandwich
the bread and then the chicken

damn I hope you will survive mate
🫡 yes, sir, yes
you say words in combinations I have never seen a human do
I swear to god this is the best server I've joined
I assumed telemarketer trying to sell me an extended warranty on my car.
(we all are)
(the warranty is assassination rogue)
Thats usually what it does to a man when they try the outlaw spec
(idk why we write like this cus i just opend the channel 2sec ago)
my fault.
Also how do I get rid of the outlaw tag on myself, I never want to even look at that spec again
#bot-spam type !outlaw
#bot-spam !outlaw
amen, im a proud father
you mean (my fault.)
@midnight mist is it true that rerolling rtb during db when you have op during kir ss ps gsw ftk is ar ks ambush rb?
depends
is it a full moon?
it can be
well then yes obviously
I can alter my rain dance for good rtb to include changing the moon cycle
sound like big gains
can you sim it?
simming as we talk yea
It works if you are Lucky but also toes crosses while doing it
cool cool
what if you dont have fury for blade dance
Check pins
do you still rtb?
idk, but my new br apl is about as much as the buffs you just got
that img needs to be a bot command
if you keep saying it enough
varas will play outlaw
do you really want that?
would love that yea

Tha whack a mole spec
😡
Our key guy 
im taking it
your new BRAP SKRRRRRRRRRRRRR KIYA BOOMBACLAT
as it stands i dont even think ill play an alt that much considering how much i love assa uwu
is it the br apl where you don't press br? @midnight mist
you guys need to get your orange guy to sleep

wish IC had some animation 🥺
Get on folyr
I woke up an hour ago you can't stop me

don't lie, you can't wake up when you never sleep
Do you play audacity now

Or was i dreaming
you can play whatever the fuck you want
folyr unngmmmhm mayhaps
ill have to wait and see
also friendly reminder to sin rogues, zac and solo are off limits to bullying
every single build sim the same
thats why outlaw is the true rogue spec
spec of the free
just go make a random build
and it will be iwthin 1%

Bully the xbox kid 
just put points and win
happy for you
thank you brotherman
will keep that in mind when varas come in outlaw chat
That might be a crime
can probably just unbind bf and do about the same dmg as sin in m+ tbf
lol
you don't
damnit, he's onto us
channel has exsang applied to it
didnt say quake or whispr, got it 
does the br apl account for actions+=/invoke_external_buff,name=power_infusion,line_cd=120
whispyr will bodyslam you guys by himself
he doesn't need me
and quake's a bitch
outlaw cant get externals, we are imune
he won't do anything anyway
@gusty mirage and you said he is off limit....
god i wish he would bodyslam me
oh shit that's a big buff
same
yep
he's an outlaw rogue and he's fr*nch
forgive him
by immune, you mean uselss right?
@gusty mirage will u kiss me under the tree?
no
Lol I remember asking for 45secs IC and people were giddy to just have it at 90...and here we are

damn
Yes so imune
wish I had that
I am a baguette aswell but i have dignity at least
no one ever going to press pi on an outlaw rogue, so I dont have to think about an apl for pi
whispyr is already working on his big PI apl rn
@gusty mirage do you want pi
all of us are as long as warlocks and mages exist
iv been in raid where i was pi target as outlaw
oh, NOW you want to give me PI?
LOL
cuz everyone else was so bad
I've been in raids when I was getting PI playing sub in 9.1
weird times
lmao
ive been in a raid where our prot paladin asked for pi
I had a guy DM me that pi was good in 9.2 on sin, and since 9.2 was "double dots during vendetta" and 10.0 is "double dots during deathmark" and we play exsang, which is "double dots for short time", it's technically 4x dots, so PI is twice as good now
and then asked for sim
and I'm like
uh
no
:)
Even weirder i was PI target as sub in m+.
iv been in raid where the bear tank was asking for pi
ok i go, cu oxi
the logic is flawless

yeah he went on to take my job at wowhead

That guy? Me
can a gamer tell smol-brained me, how are sin stocks looking now
in what situation
pretty good
they're bleeding out
M+, i mean

here we go

come on down dak, let me show you what you've won
you won a pin, not targeted at you specifically, but it has a very "I'm in this image and I don't like it" type vibe
just woken up whispyr is the best whispyr
I've nearly reached full clairvoyance
moving my mouse to the pin button, clicking the pins and reading is a tall order
atleast he is honest
mine is talking to women
its the meme of the sweating press button guy
one button is the pins
one is hitting enter on the dumb question in the channel
but what abotu talking to men 
Don't you have a gf?
to answer seriously though, sin m+ is banger, great damage, good fun
stock wise you're investing near the peak if you jump in now, might want to wait for the dip, but it has the possibility to diamond hands moon_emoji rocket_ship_emoji

yeah, for 7.5 years. She asked me out, and I haven't been able to look another woman in the eyes since
Dawwww
my mom keeps telling me to stop staring at her boobs though so that's a downside I guess
was it that traumatic?
lmao
Has she ever asked you if sin is good in m+
she's asked me what rip does because she played a feral druid to level 27 and then hasn't logged in since
all around me are familiar faces

I was seeing the 1 pixel boxes on my weak auras when I closed my eyes after spending 4hrs+ on them
very cool brain
@final star really cool wa pack
Vanish is staring into my soul
Wait. Was is intended that all icons with eyes are in the middle
you need to shrink the whole thing 2 subpixels horizontally to line up the cp gap in the middle
That's a mess I cannot be bothered to fix
Because then it'll scuff on 7cp

I can live with that gap
you just gotta find the lowest common multiple and make that the width
that gap was the first thing i saw when my eyes hit the image
No
wdym no
Is there 7 gaps
oh you're counting gaps
It's 320 rn
Would mean I'd have to change more sizes
More headache
Just to remove the gap on 6cp
🤢
🙂
or just gigachad it and use default
that's a nopers
That's a no from me bossman
default cps dont even work
the fact they didnt allow for the ui edit to move the combo points is tragic
JPC looking headass
(yes im also the one that got bullied for having Slice and dice on 2)
😬
Yeah since prepatch they've been quite weird
you don't have 2 keybound?
weird
also the middle of your name is getting more annoying to me the more I try to pronounce it
Mine?
either the R or the H have got to go
Whispyr wasn't it you who told me that reducing the CD more would be insanity?
it is
Mate i have no idea i just typed the first and best thing i could think of
this isn't the buff carnage needed
Oh you mean my discord name
yeah your char name is whatever
Certainly willing to hear commentary on it
Mostly aimed at smoothing out gameplay and not necessarily a massive buff

I do think it puts more eggs in one basket than I'd like VERY-long-term but have to use the tools available
what was the perceived un-smooth-ness from 1min
Now it's desynced from deathmark sadge
if you dont mind me asking
M+ pacing, mostly
I see
the "why am i always 10sec away" itch was really really common
feel that
I suppose you could make that assessment about anything really, but for now it's singularly carrying the weight of "dots matter in aoe too" gameplay. In some far-future world I could imagine a healthy way to spread that concept across the whole kit, or a wider range of talents that support that theme and have good gameplay pacing. I think this is about maxed out for IC and leaning into it any more heavily will start to feel warped (if not already, even if only slightly)
Regardless, I'm very interested to see how it goes
Mfw I started dialogue between Whispyr and Realz 
x is typing... for a couple of months at a time
and in that regard, this definitely hits the target. I think realistically, you would just end up holding it at the end of the pack for the next one and it'll be fine.
The issue I have with fiddling with carnage cooldown though is the reason why carnage "sucks" for a lack of a better word, is that it provides no single target, and the balance of that is the aoe is good. That's why we take both kingsbane and IC currently to sort of balance the two out. But lowering the cooldown just ends up making it feel a little hollow because you end up giving up a lot of the multi-dotting gameplay for "I have a button that will do it instantly, and I have it all the time". On paper, you can ER -> carnage -> rupture, and that rupture lasts 32 seconds on a 45 second cooldown
and that in my opinion is a little ridiculous. If the AoE was weak (I think it's fine for the record), I think it should've gotten changed in some other way rather than just cranking the uptime
pacing wise the choice makes sense but I get the impression it should've probably stayed at 1:30 to begin with if you wanted a 45 second timer
hi people
hello linux penguin
Idk based on dungeons I’ve done - I think I prefer shorter cd versus 1.5 min and stronger buff or something. Makes sin feel smooth throughout aoe
vendetta had no global CD but deathmark has it
you're correct
because deathmark is crazy strong
Bc it puts a dot on it
it does something insta
also hot take, you shouldn't be able to macro your cooldowns
yo realz you see that? you broke the penguin macro
they're your most important buttons
you should feel like you need to control them
that's the whole point of a cooldown
@midnight mist moment 
DTB is no longer a thing?
yeah it's deleted from the game

Bless up
I heard you get banned for exploit if you talent it

Kb only 
can I be deleted from the game?
if you'd like
Yes man
anyone caught playing DTB in the year of our lord 2023 will be removed from our earthly reality
no more
Omw my way!
mmkay, note to self play DTB to get removed from reality
Win win
Delete elves from the game
we get 1 month to play DTB before Whispyr comes for us
on paper why not, but when some specs got like 5 things to press all at once (1 GCD, 3 off-GCD, 1 Trinket)...
But, yes, this about carnage 100%.
don't want to be mozart playing piano chords
As much as I really like IC, the timing just seems way off some times.
Delet this rn nephew
Whispyr out here like pennywise feeding on our fear of getting deleted
Yeah like sub
for example i was using blood fury + trinket + aspect of the wild on my BM at season 4 before openers
I pray For it

Actually though dtb is fine, it cuts the difference between the other 2 capstones while being a passive option
Don't really disagree fwiw, but hopefully you can see why the change was made anyway
Easier gameplay and all that
DTB has some good fights (i think, probably)
what dtb means tho
Dragon tempered blades
Dragon Tempered Blades, 2 poisons
middle capstone
Deez tfucking bnuts

ah
Brother?
that looks op
I mean, I'm all up, big fan of Carnage, but when you're just standing there with it in single target and no use for a talent it just feels like dick.
I understand the pacing side of it yeah, makes sense why you would do it
Feels like dick 
pretty good feeling, for some
did u see PoE community lead make a 'deez nuts' joke, holy
Bex is a real one for sure
If he’s following us, surely
so from tooltip i understand 2 non lethal and 2 lethal so in total 4 poisons applied to weapons am i correct ?
Yes !
high assassin fantasy right there, top notch
Haha ur mother @spice spire
I actually love the 45 sec IC. So many times it came off cd what felt like 10-20 seconds into a pull- gonna be huge feels

Bro how can you do this to me 
Wait, I was in holidays, they changed stuff again?
idk, i just looked it in game
Ur mom so bad, she make exanguinate look like a good talent
Or something
I tried
so i feel like exang and kingsbane tend to overlap quite alot in single target gameplay, if both are up, is the play to refresh dots into exang - and then start your kingsbane window even though youll have to refresh dots again mid window? i assume you wouldnt hold kingsbane so you get a clean window? feels like im playing wrong by not just spamming envenoms during the windows

DTB the only talent u cant play in prepatch, sadge =*(
So true bestie 😦
this is some real bs, for real
gotta temper the blades in dragon blood first
lore accurate
Change the flavour text on Shrouded Suffocation to read "ur Mum sits on the Target"
if the envenom buff stays up kingsbane doesnt lose any value
yes yes, is 4 lore
Ah lol, I thought you meant the talent, not total, dayum, you scared me.
haha

God I hate the Linux penguin and his smug fucking face and his rotund tum tum
yeah was more around the shivs and feeling like im wasting em
nah its fine
ok sweet ta
And also, there's that, I mean 2 non-lethals in M+ is pretty neat.
I blame the community figures of RH for that
smh
hey im cute
No you're Seizy
thats also true
So true bestie

some youtubers out there with a few tier lists
still important to have both envenom and shiv up before you actually press KB tho right
I like it on pre-patch even so I guess pretty good.
It's not DECEMBER
DTB should grant both atrophic/mind-numbing in class tree 
SORRY MONSIEUR CASTOR

A++++ tier @candid crypt
God I've never been more attracted to you



God bless
need a RH emote. where he Ronkles
Was that too scary

Yeah
You can try it now on live to get the feeling of it, it's doing reasonable.
ily 2
I made you the poison monkey in my pokemon
you want dog emote?
I am a toxic monkey
sure. i can get you a better image. want silly or serious?
Something like that is good
i’ll teach her to cover her eyes too.
If you have a head tilt
yea
For a confused emote
gimme a few

Is this Oxii the @gusty mirage ?

yeah
Do Docks. 
@subtle tundra
Are you able to get a rupture off between envenoms and keep it up?? That'd be surprising at early xpac haste levels
Envenom buff is hella long man
Without ttk?
so if envenom buff was falling off during kb and rupture was down, envemon>rupture?
Ideally you'd wanna go into KB with enough time on rupture to not
doggo
yeah but alot of the time exang is rolling whilst during kb
so itll run out
My dog
haha confused ot2 for ronkles. lol
@subtle tundra are you happy king
He never is 
rupture pandemic should be long enough that you never choose between envenom uptime during kb vs having rupture up
I mean that's not entirely enough to get a second env when you rupture and consider energy costs unless head math is wrong
envenom mut mut rupture mut mut envenom
and thats absolute worst case
also envenom pandemics so
you might have a higher envenom than just 6-7s
my love for you pandemics
im creating a pandemic
i would cast 2 loves on you so i could get better value out of heartsang @gusty mirage


Sepsis was never supposed to give subterfuge garrotes during shadowlands
That wasn’t a bug
I've been trying to find a purpose for Sepsis post-dot ability the whole time, it's so sad it wasn't even 1 use without cost. 
I'm more worried about energy than casts tbh
We’re worried about energy?

do cocaine like an adult

based both past and present slang
tinfoil hat thought about IC change: they are testing exsa popping all bleeds and dropping it to us before launch
at this point i see 45 second cd i think of exsa. sorry 😛
i mean i stand by the testing part. could be for 10.1
gotta do something to pass the time till launch am i right?
nothing to complain aobut anymore
Does make you wonder tho, what would be the next thing in list people would complain if Exsa didn't exist tho.
they've started complaining about snd already
can u imagine though? "community complains about having exsa. lets double down and make it even stronger"
tbf tryan never stopped complaining about snd
Snd is a good boi.
imagine complaining about maintenance buffs as a rogue when outlaw exists.
Does outlaw have any buffs you actually need to maintain??
pulls up a picture of 37m snd
The next complaint after exsang is a philosophical debate about the design choices of the spec, how all the cooldowns are supposed to fit together, and then coming to an academic disagreeing on what each individual values in the class
Or shadow dance
Probably shadow dance
I’ve sort of accepted tea
for me like
how is the ST looking for all 3 specs in beta which seems to be better?
cold blood <<tea<=dance
Tea is dumb but I get why it exists
And it’s fine
It’s not intrusive
So idc really
just boring really
Sin is the best atm followed by the other 2
should be a capstone #hottake
Tea is a sippy
okay thank you!
I’ll take boring over actively harming my experience
And I hope they add a beer glyph for it
I think I’m in the same vein
nope. the no maintenance rogue alternative
it is
Which is a bigger issue imo
Yeah
Talent for talent though cold blood after exsang for sure
edge of night would have been a better capstone on sub side of general
dance just been a problem from the start
and idk how you fix without removing
All 3 specs use ambush to some extent, so that kinda fits (despite being boring)
it makes finisher rules real weird
i just woke up, what happened to IC
do you guys ever have energy problems?
Sin plays slow
60s --> 45s
oh, I think I like that as a band-aid fix

good for sub, decent enough for assa and outlaw. kinda what you want for a general
i mean
its strong and functional
but i think it has a lot of potential to fuck with finisher rules
which is like
janky
how do?
like
for sub it strike
you can get 5cp on strike for sub
for outlaw it’s a builder
you can get 4 for sin
feels like that's a huge buff
and?
anything knew is generally awkward at first
but like sin with no deeper ends up with a 3cp finisher
💀
luckily we play deeper
so
meh
its mostly fine
but just feels a little weird
in a month it won’t
you’ll just do it and be whatever
you’ve got enough cp options to mess with if you really want to finish -1 as assa with sbs
aren’t playing what?
new to assa, do we still use envenom during kingsbane in aoe?
imp ambush
depends on your priorities
if you want to max that kingsbane, sure
Those changes aiming to reduce aoe after 8 targets is only gonna benefit assass and outlaw right? Gonna bring down the giga aoe specs and not really change our aoe power?
if you're in a giga pull and trying to slam aoe and crank big aoe
then probably not
so just regular aoe priorities unless i have a prio target, just slam kingsbane for extra dmg?
yep
pretty much benefits any currently soft capped class
you just want to drop kingsbane down onto something every minute
if that something is important, you should aim to pump the kingsbane
what if the last hit of kingsbane blew up
alright ty
it was not
the artifact trait was that each poison application reduced the cooldown of kingsbane
😐
by like 0.3
I enjoyed running KB in heroic last night. stuff didn’t exactly live long enough for good execute phase but still cranked
Would anyone have any idea of how to do a couple things on cev’s plater profile?
1: remove the glow from garrote on the enemy name plate
2: instead of the enemy name plates going green when I sbs them, can I change it to turning green when garrote is up on them? (I assume it’s just a matter of changing some custom script from “sbs” to “garrote” but no idea where to find it
is it normal that with around 260 ilvl i feel like i have no energy reg at all?
depends on your definition of no energy regen
prepatch is also missing 10 talent points
so the spec just isn't fully fleshed out
yea just curious if it plays so slow, but i swapped from the kingsbane build to the starter build and it feels way way better now
probably a blindside diff
but we're still missing thistle tea and sbs and ER from the kingsbane build
so that's a lot of extra "speed"
i watched some streams of beta today and even tho it was m+ i felt like there is a big diffrence in the speed of play yea
also i remember if im correct that assa needs gear more than i.e outlaw but i can be completly wrong 🙂
There it is, scaling

what lethal poison should i use btw? or is there like a ranking if equipped?
thanks 🙂
"assa needs gear more" is a gigantic meme from like wrath that the community has just never let go
just btw
its just not a relevant thing to consider
ah ok i remember my guildies in legion telling me this every fucking raid 😄
yeah they're clowns
they heard some dude say that like 3 years earlier
and then just rolled with it
while not understanding how anything works
I've been fighting the whole "scaling" thing for years now
its just too wide spread
got it. will be weird first tier for me anyway, first time raiding world 500ish and swapping after 6 years of mage/warlock to rogue
Just to be pedantic it was actually the opposite, sin is doing well and combat is the gear reliant spec, but yeah we get what you mean
yeh
it just morphed to sin for some reason cause idk
slow spec and haste = faster
and faster = better
Blame seal fate
yeah that too
crit scaling xd
no other class in the game has crit interactions
maybe u should start youtube guides so u can fight the narratives 🙂
The thing is people consider the rate of power increase without realising the base power of a spec matters much more than their benefit from secondaries
Esp since the whole redistribution of secondary stat gain vs ilvl a few expacs back
was it bfa when ilvl was king ?
or when they changed the mainstat/secondary stat thing
It’s been ilvl is king since wod I’m pretty sure
Mop had some suspicious interactions for some classes / trinkets
I can’t remember exactly but they just made it so you mainly gain mainstat with ilvl upgrades - more so than secondaries. It was legion or later
the other thing is that people really easily tunnel vision into like "HASTE SPEED BLEEDS AND SEAL FATE CRIT GO GO GO GO"
and don't realize that everyone around them
also gain stats
and also get damage from stats
it's not like sin has a passive hidden multiplier that makes it get 50% more damage per stat
hey whishpyre, big fan. can you explain a little bit, ideall win only 2-3 sentences, how good assassination is scaling in dragonflight? thanks.
Honestly I feel like spec scaling over time in a tier is more so with kill times than gear
Some specs prefer it while some perform worse with shorter kills, ele in nathria is an example
and then like the whole thinking is that sin sucks early in the expansion because it doesn't have a lot of secondaries, but then gets better with secondaries? But you start the expansion with secondary stats, it's not like you have 0% of any secondary when you log in for 10.0, and if assassination is so significantly better with secondaries than other classes, you would expect them to be better at the start as well
unless you're on the breakpoint cope train where you think there some magical barrier of stats you need to cross to enter the holy land
yeah but we scale better than other classes, obviously
which is just even more deranged
like either secondaries are good, or they're not
you can't have both
well but doesnt it make sense if u would need to reach a cap?
They’ve bundled in a bunch of innate crit etc for any spec that needs it for reasonable gameplay / spell interactions
yeah but that would require breakpoints to exist, and breakpoints existing is even more insane than thinking one spec scales much harder from secondaries than other stats
there's like maybe 2 breakpoints in the game that sorta matter
but they're easily explained
Only breakpoints in modern wow are like shatter cap for frost and maybe gcd or haste caps for some specs
yeah
shatter cap and fitting another cast into your cds or something
well there isn't much borrowed power in DF
and "scaling" these past few expansions has really just been how good each spec interacts with their borrowed power
can u tell me the numeric value?
so it will be interesting to see what happens in DF
but I challenge those people to explain to me what sort of breakpoints exist on assassination
cause DF doesn't have that much borrowed power
What borrowed power do we even have in df
basically none unless if you count tier
more than you can ever hope to get
I’d imagine evo theorycrafters overanalyse the shattering star windows and have haste caps for fitting an extra disintegrate tick
and I guess a leggo may show up
exsang snapshot haste -> more stat more bleed /s
nah, tier aint no borrowed power in the sense of borrowed power
you can get 100% crit by full stacking it until like 600 ilevel and hoping blizzard doesn't release an expansion from now until then
fuck you're so based and true

how is tier not borrowed power btw
sounds like a foolproof rotation
Inb4 that meme pyroblast filler half duration combustion talent baits some mages into going crit
idk how you can overanalyze Devastation Evoker... I was playing it a bit and it might be one of the easiest specs to play in the game
you get it for 1 patch then replace it
at least in ST
have you seen preheats rotation guide
Consider that shattering star has a travel time, you can already fit an extra disint tick in by using it from max range vs melee
if u think about borrowed power u dont think of tier. logically it is borrowed yes. But i think about Artifact Power style stuff or the worst thing in game ever - corruptions
very straightforward but theres some micro things to improve dps by clipping disintegrate in cds
There’s a little nuance to the spells even if it’s overall low-key meaningless and boring af
????????????? corruptions were an added effect you had for 1 patch, tier is an added effect you have for 1 patch, what?
if 8.3 had a tier set that said "+80% haste"
they would be literally identical
Corruptions proved which specs S C A L e xddd
I mean I guess it can be difficult in the same way arcane mage can be difficult
like I get you can min max it, but like, there aren't many buttons
Yea i know but u cant buy tier for gold. We both know you are right but tier is still diffrent from corruptions. But what i was saying is that u cant farm tier cause u have to do 20 world quests a day
You sure you can’t buy tier for gold 🫣
that response might be even more confusing
yeah
aren't we all?
nah
To clarify you can 100% buy tier, game is low-key pay to gear / win etc as long as you’re willing to pay for boosts. Ruins the game for some but it is an option
I agree it's pay to gear, but I don't agree on the pay to win
i like the idea of exsang
I feel like blizz has been gaslit into believing that exsang is actually well liked by a lot of players because it was used in NYA and in sepulcher
if you're bad you stay bad
Sort of like Rune of Power for mages
it was probably just
an ability that existed
so it got added to the new tree
independent from people liking it or not
For sure, depends for some people if the kill is the goal or if loot is the goal of y’know what I mean
Okay, what i am saying is - for me, a borrowed power is stuff like the Artifact weapons, Heart of Azeroth where u could farm it endlessly, but that is just what I think about. I also know that tier, corruption, covenant stuff is a borrowed power and changes the character, hope that clears up what i was talking about. But i maybe see tier in a diffrent light cause it has been there forever
Borrowed power is literally power that you give up at the end of expac, it’s not permanent
You're trying to argue about the fact that tier has existed for almost all expansion and thus the true borrowed powers are the xpac-exclusive systems
which I get the point of, but it's still wrong
in your definition it would be patch/xpac cause u get another tier every raid
I bet you warlocks are going to be strong in DF
but It's well accepted by the community generally
correct.
cause it's not rly something you gotta do outside of the normal grind you would've done anyway
so it's a good kind of borrowed power
the not very good kind of borrowed power is the fucking rng corruptions
for example
god those were MISERABLE
I say expac because tier has been usable throughout an expac - there’s many cases of using past tier sets in the following raid. Either way it’s not something that stays with you - litterally borrowed
Syreldar is saying those things that are in my head in english and not jibberish, but maybe thats cause its 5:30 am here
Your line of reasoning could apply to legendaries, are legendary items borrowed power or not?
why do you hate gouge? lol
Well in practice they are borrowed power too
Many reasons 
If it's because it's an extra button, I get you. Sin has too many buttons with the current best build
Oh nono i'm all for the button bloat, I can handle those
I don't like the fact that you gotta face the target to use it, it's counterintuitive
love that final note in the most recent pin
there used to be a glyph that removed that requirement for gouge
we keep it lighthearted in here
(and a little jaded)

Whispyr spitting facts
on a daily basis
as per usual
I call those "common Whispyr W"
I have to tell my friend a similar line everytime they start getting twisted up over the meta. friend you barely do 10-15's the meta don't care about you

Nothing lighthearted about waiting three hours to get a weekly key 💀 hyperbole aside I think pugging as off meta can be miserable

So many buttons that I'm thinking about being a Demon Hunter
big true
waiting three hours to get a weekly key is a you problem not a sin problem
pugging can be miserable, you don't need the off meta qualifier
people see yellow class in their group finder, hover your ilvl and raider.io and move on
Most people just look at ilvl and score for lower keys
they don't go looking at your spec
they won't even notice until like the 2nd to last boss when they go "oh shit that's a sin rogue"
and hopefully you aren't a shitter and they go "that's pretty good"
Most people are even asking now. "Is assassination good now?" You just say, yes.
But trying to find keys as say survival in s1-2 was cursed if I didn’t push my own key
and not "man they fucking suck"
people not looking at specs is how feral druids have snuck into keys for a while now
They don't? When I wanted to TRY outlaw in S2 I got called the N word
By a raid leader in pug
People just don’t want to take a chance on an unknown variable even if it’s completely viable

Yeah but sin is currently ranked low in Sepulcher in pre-patch, clearly it's unplayable
/s

😱
Any idea why IC specifically was buffed to 45s?
Sin seemed to be doing fine with 1m
Idk, maybe to line up w/ Exsang? I could be wrong
Whispyr might give u a better answer
they wanted to make it so that it doesn't line up with Deathmark anymore
to annoy Whispyr when people here ask when to use IC
realz said he got feedback that m+ pacing was better with 45 seconds and he didn't intend for the cooldown change to be an actual buff, just a feel thing
you're not going to IC at the end of a pack anyway
so I don't think it actually changes much
It's too messed up sync with 1 minute in packs. You end up having it halfway through a pack that's about to die, which feels odd and off most of times to use it, then you wait for it not to use it again in next pack which only has 2 mobs, etc..
you're just gonna hold it a couple seconds now
Fair take, certainly does feel better. Now if only he could “buff” exsang out of the talent tree for feel 🙂

Plus, in single-target is useless, so it seems fair the buff.

how does it being useless in single target warrant a cooldown decrease
It buys you ST globals since you don’t waste time having to rupture stuff as often in say a raid fight
what
Speaking of which any add waves that IC now lines up with?
buff me 


There's just too many situations where it just stands useless for the content it was built for.
it was built for aoe was it not?
It’s useful in aoe, especially intermittent waves of adds
Yeah, but purely fully AoE so.. 1 minute for a okay talent. Bit high uptime in my feeling playing it.
I have no problems it having less targets, but less cooldown.
Our cds are omega binary
It's just the tab-targetting is a hassle.
It is what it is
I don't understand what you're trying to argue anymore
It’s supposed to remedy our lack of a bursty aoe cd like ravager and odyn’s fury for example
Nothing, just the 1 minute pacing seems off.
ok
You wanted it to be longer than 1 min cd ? Bruh
I thought it was fine at 1:30 but needed help in other ways that increased the general aoe, and didn't just crank the cooldown for more casts
and then it went to 1 min and I got spooked
and now it's at 45 and I'm like okay this is a little ridiculous now
The only thing, from my feedback, is that now at 1 minute, there's quite some situations where it comes up and then you save it, but then realize you're better even saving it even for the next critical pack after, so it ends up being shitty to time it, either use it on a pack that doesn't really need cooldown or use it on cooldown and then not have it at all for the harder pack.
45 no need to think, just use.
maybe just make it 30? or just make it toggle like blade flurry 
45 is okay.
yeh I mean I don't doubt that 45 seconds fits better, but it's getting to the point where it's carrying all of our dotting single handedly
I mean, even 1 minute is okay, but 45 is definitely smoother.
relying on 1 cooldown to be up every pack to do anything
Oh but, I guess all classes are getting it.
Even boomkins got it.
I guess they went on a dumb-down the multi-dotting philosophy or something.
Yeah I totally like it. The old assassination dotting was bit mess.
Nah I'm happy, even with the 1 min. I'm just more happy even.
I liked ic as a long cd because it felt strong but wasnt our rotation
Our rotation was still multidot
Now ic is our rotation
Spec just isnt designed for me in aoe it is what it is
Probably will still be fun just not what i want
And its gonna be better for the masses

So it was probably the right call
killing multi-dot is not the move long term
but this is a decent duct-tape until assassination can finally get a re-design
since the legion redesigns did nothing to fix the issues

sub got a full overhaul and complete ground up re-imagining
sin got....... shiv
I guess
the precursor of shiv
U mean in legion
I did say legion
Tbh sub got big aoe work from sl to now
Sub aoe is gonna be litty in df
not a fan of utility being a dps cd
the whole sin problem is that it's just not designed in a way that allows a coherent gameplay in aoe/m+ without some thing that just obliterates the concept of the spec to begin with
like 8.3 echoing blades made it good in m+
but you just spammed fok and it was giga degenerate
i love degeneracy though
But you still end up doing a lot of multi-dotting even with IC. Usually packs are going through 2-3 cycles of garrote. It's just the first one for free.
i mean generally
good, you should be
Yep
the other 2 specs have easy aoe
so i don't think echoing blades was bad
Bruh
it was very bad for the spec
It's a lot less dude, it's insane. Specially the opening is just crazy.
for a rogue to not spend combo points on a finisher
That was the only thing I was disliking in AoE Assa, is just the opening was soooo slow.
that's not okay
The initial setup was tears.
just spamming fok while overcapping over and over and over
should not be the gameplay
I understand, thought that was just "different" but yeah maybe that was a toxic kind of different
yeah
my bad
Spamming ct 
echoing blades is one of the most problematic things they have ever introduced to the spec
hands down
What would be the move? Blizz has shown they understand that having purely dot dmg for aoe isn’t up to modern wow’s standards of m+ and changed feral, shadow, affli and sin to reduce setup / ramp up time
Don't give them ideas. 
What about a talent that gave you a chance to proc echoing blades ONCE after a finisher?
you can multi-dot and still have that
would that be a good idea?
yeah sure
Or we gonna end up with a Cleave muti or something. 
empowered fan of knives after using 5 fan of knives or something
Id fuck with it
sure

I worry about the "after a finisher" part being just "spam ct over and over, you need to fok for CP anyway to auto-consume the buff"
but the idea as a core sure
So many interesting things can be done with this new talent structure
I guess that was more or less the idea they went with that talent that stacked up to 20 to do a super FoK, so I can see something like that yea.
We going to CT st in df? Assuming we have the spell talented
Lmao hb















