#assassination
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perfection
the high road
how do i make my name red bro im committed to the bit now
Is Exsanguinate still good?
Oh looked at one of zeras 24 freehold or spmething at work and saw him run this, so i was like why not test it out xd
Ah true, i simmed 5 min, ye makes sense
You takevaway sub and outlaw roles from yourself
Short answer? Ye
The pins don't say anything specific about Exsanguinate. They basically say "sim yourself," which I'd love to do, but for the past month everytime I try to sim myself it gives an error.
The main decision point I have is Master Assassin vs. Exsanguinate
Oh, I was reading the pins of this channel, I see!

sub or assa for experiments? assa benefits from the 2 target cleave?
i mean sub has 2 targets rupture aswell but i guess overall assa should win
prob SBS build
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!wa
Assassination WA's:
https://wago.io/SJLQKGjMM (Afenar's Group)
https://wago.io/LuxthosRogueDragonflight (Luxthos's Group)
https://wago.io/ByzCxPq-m (Devlin's Group)
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Single target
It's not really 2t cleave despite what people think
The times there are two bosses is pretty low and usually one is dashing around
yeah few pulls in after the 2nd i thought mayeb play for ct but after i asked i can see now its not needed
ty for response
since Warcraftlogs is down, what build are people playing on HC sarkareth?
single target
Thank you sir......Good luck on the prog man
ty
The first week I played IC/ ironwire to deal with adds which I know is troll... now they just get insta deleted
rookie move
the rule is you go single target
on everything
unless it's very specifically a full aoe fight
people are going single target + CT on assault even
Man has his breaking point after wiping to adds to many times
yeah I mean that's just play sub
playing assassination your instinct should never be "man I should aoe"
I just can't bring myself to do sub
Anyways after the exsang/sepsis build I'm sold... no more AoE griefing for me
Is there a way to ditch exang in the m+ build and if so what’s a viable option
what all is feintable on rashok?
you play MA into iron wire
instead of exsang
pretty much everything except the absorb
the leaps? feintable, the charged smash? feintable
idk if it works on intermission or the soak
I don't think they do
cause its dot damage
is it worth taking elusiveness? kinda feels lik eit
is intermission dam feintable normally?
Is there a video somewhere that shows the Sepsis single target opener? I'm having trouble picturing in my mind from just the faq how/when i should be using garrote in conjunction with sepsis timings
Like do I just use sepsis on cd?
or do i save it in conjunction with deathmark?
on cd always
so basically, sepsis, garrote on either end of the duration, then on the second deathmark, use vanish for improved garrote for deathmark
right?
@balmy condor where the heck do i put beacon in on the opener?
or anyone with a beacon, where have you guys been putting it in your opener?
you always sepsis->garrote, then it expires and you wait till the end of the buff
then garrote again
wherever you want
before deathmark I guess
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gotcha, thank you!
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@limber lion So i tested the luxtho's Sepsis
Maybe I misunderstood you or you me.
But it doesn't have the functionality i want to implement.
I want to differentiate the WA to show not only your own sepsis buff, but when the target has the debuff
With the goal to know when it's appropriate to use Shiv.
I'll work on it now.
I guess I’ve been a baddie holding sepsis for 30 seconds to make it line up with deathmark.
Messes with my ocd to desync but I will work through it with my therapist
Sophic devotion stacks on both daggers?
ye it'll give you double the agi
I'm using sophic devotion on my main dagger and sophic writ on my 2nd
Nice, thanks, didnt know that
@balmy condor what was your rashok build?
no exsang with a third zold
extra shiv?
why engi helm simming so high for me
are you low on crit?
i have 4600
i just see all the sims having life-bound was just curious, i didnt even think about it having 1 stat
changing 1 piece of gear
doesn't actually change anything
"bis" is fake news
cause there's like 4 helmets
and 5 chests
and 4 bracers
and they're all equal
thanks
heroic sark full single target?
yes
y'all mofos ever pool energy or do you just slam everything?
Slam
I know I wasn’t an arms warrior because I slammed it all
Wcl being down has me in shambles
Updated the Sepsis WA to include a Shiv reminder.
Basically: When the sepsis's debuff is applied to the target AND you have shiv ready AND shiv's debuff is not already applied - it will turn green.
https://wago.io/Lgy47ma7G
(No more forgetting to shiv before garrote in opener. Totally never happened to me
)
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hey, Are You able to make WA Icon with Garrote empowered by SS that hmm timer will be at green/red colour ?
sounds about right
Can someone plz explain why sin got nerfed week 1, but it's week 3 and devoker exists
I was told tuning would come at the pace it did on week 1 of vault?
Not super sure what are you asking for.
A garrote WA that shows you a timer of how long garrote will last on the target, and the color of the text timer will be green or red.. depending on what?
What's the goal you want to achieve?
i think he wants a WA that shows if the garrote empowered from vanish or sepsis
or even Exsang
diffrent priorities
the nerf made sense at the time it got applied
but everything else changed after, making it seem unresaonable over a longer period of time
I don't understand the importance of knowing what source of stealth empowered garrote.
either way, i'd recommend using Luxtho's WAs, that's what i use for tracking cooldowns.
i just use whispyrs afenar config
i think ppl tend to forget if they vanish garrote or not
Yes luxthos's WA shows empowered garrote.
It's the source that empowered it that is irrelevant.
in the latest version of his wa, the sepsis empowered garrotes are also implemented - same display as if stealth/vanish empowered. so it doesn't really matter
If you will not use sepsis, you do not need WA.
Think about it.

someone summoned me ?

hey guys, whats the best way to use the combination of Dragonfire bomb and Beacon? I find it suboptimal to have dragonfire bomb used in a Gloomblade/Sstrike/Mutilate macro, you will put Beacon on cd when you don't want to. Separate bind for bomb dispenser and beacon?
you can put it on a finisher
or like shiv, and have beacon on an actual keybind
thatway you have control over bomb but its still in your rota
beacon is kinda w/e when used anyway
you dont wanna miss a cast, but delay by 10sec doesnz really matter
dispenser you want to get out ASAP
sooo, i just put dispenser on garrote/rupture/shiv as a macro, and use beacon after DM when its ready 
where did you get it?
or do it like me, have 0 trinket luck, use grieftorch and brackenhide trinket and dont worry
Why would that matter?
The source does not matter
If you have a weak aura tracking vanish and sepsis, you don't need to know which source the garrote came from (even though you can tell by just looking at the cooldowns)
thank you
maybe i missspoke myself, but what I mean is that ppl need a WA to show them if the garrote is empowered regardless from the source.
but why would you need a wa for that? Like do you do something differently if you know where its from?
That's true. Knowing whether it's empowered or not is important, source not so much.
You do play differently depending on whether it's empowered or not
i mean refreshing i guess ye
i guess im just too used to remembering from where the garrote is that i dont need a wa for that
Weird I just macro it to my DM and just slam it on CD after my initial DM if the fights gonna be 6+ minutes and just hold for second DM if it’s gonna be shorter. I assumed that was optimal, but I am also the worse rogue in history which is why I read everything that goes on in here.
Wait I read wrong trinket
Disregard
I usually cast beacon right before the second shiv cast right when DM drops after refreshing rupture
fucking love that button
toxic footwraps is the play then right
@polar matrix Are you playing Sub also?
R Druid main speaking 🤨
If I have to help the healers it means they are bad
I am so bad.
I never feint or vial until cheat is proccd
And then the whispers proc
Why they let me die
so raw dmg slimy is still better than toxic?
Bro you need a spark to upgrade from 437 to 447?
Yeah when i crafted it originally
That’s gotta be a bug
What the fuck man
Omg
Thanks @storm belfry its early
i saw the slight purple in the background and i was like oh this for sure is the one
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related to the news pinned msg. I crafted slimmy boots already. i should still craft toxic patch next week right?
if you don't have anything else to craft...sure why not
yea cause i crafted dagger and boots with the first 2 sparks. going back and crafting another boots seems a little redundant
no
I wouldnt craft toxic boots for now
just wait until more people craft them
and use them
maybe they even get "fixed" at some point 
you can sim it, it might be a better decision to upgrade a weak slot of yours
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You can always sim yourself. I did and the new boots are like... ~400 DPS upgrade, which is <0,4%(considering that my gear sims >100k).
So it would have been a waste of gold. I think that there are other slots(e.g. neck for me), which could be much better in term of pure DPS gain.
^ what he said
swapping embellishments for minimal dps gain isn't worth it tbh
when you can craft another slot at 447 for sizeably more deeps
so i dont have any botts with embalishment , should i craft slimy or thorny boots ?
Pins 🙂
anyone could show the craft dagger?
What do you want to see about the crafted dagger?
Is anyone else having an issue where the first garrote from stealth doesn't show the empowered display? I've had that issue since the update
what is our second embelishment guys? Apart from the boots?
toxic armor patch
I think waist or wrists depending on what's a bigger upgrade for you.
nope, works fine.
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seeing as how im playing with engineering wrists and plant to continue will do waist
thanks
Thanks Notter, if you can think of any reason mine would be not working I'd appreciate it, I've tried reinstalling but it's still happening, thanks for your sepsis WA
What's exactly the issue, any garrote from stealth doesn't show the dot on garrote?
(real stealth)
The first garrote from real stealth doesn't show the empowered aura, I'm using luxthos, but the second will, it's not a huge issue but bugs me it's not working correctly.
By not showing "the empowered aura" you mean the dot on garrote?
Yeah
and if you vanish and garrote, it does show it?
Yep and sepsis works
I want you to go here and show me what's in your script
#assassination message
maybe someone the Stealthed check doesn't exist for you.
Thanks so much, I'll send that later when I'm home, I really appreciate the help!
It's not my WA so I can't guarantee technical support for it 😅
But that's the place where it checks to show the dot if you were steathed
your code should be exactly like in the picture
beacon, bomb and neltharion trinket are all considered bis right?
I thought it was irideous fragment/beacon/bomb
It is 
Do you expect assa to get a rework?
I hope not, most of us just want exsang gone and Kingsbane to be viable, maybe a little better aoe.
I'd hate for them to be like, "Sin renamed to Combat, new fantasy - swords"
Eh I wouldn’t mind a light rework of the trees
Anything beyond tuning these days is labeled a rework so like.
Yeah
Kinda
Please god no, I love my Daggers and Bleed fantasy
They have to rework all the rogue specs at least to some extent
Our point gates are the only ones that don’t follow the standard 4-3-3
3 point noders
We’re 3-4-3
Class treege
It’s actually not possible for them to make minor changes tbh
I am hard coping that theyre working on a semi large rework for sin and the left side of sub which is why they havent announcnced anything even though theyve basically put out holy pal, fire and arcane out
Exsang turns to death match or whatever the 4p was from Sofo
I can see them litearlly turning exsang to -> your bleeds bleed out 10% faster. and then slap a 5% nerf on all bleed dmage and call it a day
do you think the next ptr patch notes will contain assa rogue tuning ?
We’ll see when they release the next ptr patch notes I guess
🔮
Roll on tuesday
My money is on frost mage rework
cope
keep coping

I'm here to doom not cope
I don’t like dooming but then I see my damage compared to a shadow priest at the end of a dungeon and I’m like, am I bad? No, it’s blizzards bad tuning that’s holding me back. 
I could but sub just ain’t it for me
Once a week or so I’ll run a sub key and think damn this spec blasts. But then I switch back because I just don’t like it lol
What dont you like about it
Gloomblade spam single target
But thats not really going on too much in keys
you get a bit of this and a bit of that
I played feral Druid for forever so I like the spinning plates
Of multiple dots
in what world does sub beats shadow priest
My world? 
Fuck eranog leggoooo
Almost got the ring off NL earlier but the douche wanted me to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it
so i told him to go fuck him self
For some reason melandrus still sim quite good for me

only change i want is to be able to mog my dagger as fist weapons/swords and whatnot, i know it doesnt fit the spec but i like the mogs xd
i can't find the blue post where blizzard annouce the balance of rogue, mages, paladins did u have the link?
i need the link if u have it
its gonna be
Mage: " So we rebalanced a few talents and made some of them baseline"
Pala: "So we reworked holy paladin now its gonna be meta for 1 season atleast"
Rogue: "So we removed KB seeing how little play it got and it was only eating up space in our database"
At the bottom
Thnx a lot ❤️
@balmy condor hey why not run your rashok build on all other st fights?
Because the other st fights don’t end at exactly 6:30-6:40
Blade of Hakkar mog
actually looks cool
They shieth on your back also
for some reason my appearances tab was bugged, reopened it and now it shows boss drop
Ah kk
Common among rogues
ye though my blind is always on cooldown with the new affix
do i hold exsang in raid for deathmark always?
does fight last long enough for it to line up and run out?
if the answer is yes than you do
ok thnak you
did SV get a buff?
or how are they so high on the list
from being under assa
yep but still im confused
or was it always good
and people were sleeping on it
because the bow existed
Our resident SV expert in guild has been playing it on certain fights
on subcreation sv is the only F tier melee spec in raid
I'm a surv simp but I'd say it's always been fine in keys and still is
tierlists dont say much, but its good for one thing, seeing which specs are broken
They excel on really really big pulls
Yeah.. for spiteful week this is very accurate
Can't do shit.
I feel bad for the guild members who take me to keys
My brother in Christ
We have acrobatic strikes
Also iirc you can freezing trap the incorporeal
But you can also blind
freezing trap and scare beast
hunter can solo it
they are all enemy types at once
aka humanoid/beasts/undead/dragonkind/abomination/elemental/demon
so all CC spells work
Blind kidney gouge kick
The possibilities are endless
But having a lock or mage or Pali makes it soooo easy
rogue warrior and DK are the only 3 classes that cant really do big stuff there tbh
i love the new affixes
1 affix where you can help once every 2min
and the other affix where rogue cant do anything at all

i love not beeing able to help
I mean again, blind is good for it.
You’re a good back up at least.
And Acro helps.
Idk it’s okay this week
InCorp breaking stealth is a tilter tho
actually i feel like even kicking one of the adds once is really helpful
and i think its fine that different classes are stronger for affixes on different weeks
like would you rather have an entire affix be your responsibility all week
eh, not this week
spitefull is kinda w/e for me at this point
i just dont lik that incorp has me as backup at best
and that the dispell affix has me not beeing able to do anything at all
its just failed design imo if not everyone is affected by it
like, i want to help but literally cant cus no dispels
ok i have a potentially dumb question but am i supposed to send shiv on cd unless i have sepsis coming up in the next like 10 seconds?
and how am i supposed to use vanish in the opener? do i just use it after the empowered garrot falls off?
if you play with 1 shiv charge, just send shiv on CD
if you play with 2, you keep a charge for sepsis/dm
anyone else having issues when trying to copy the import for non exsang build?
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Don't vanish in the opener, save it for 2minute DM
!sims
Simulations:
Bloodmallet: https://bloodmallet.com/index.html
@balmy condor sorry for ping but i cant find your wa
the one with the garrote tracker wtih the green dot
!wa
Assassination WA's:
https://wago.io/SJLQKGjMM (Afenar's Group)
https://wago.io/LuxthosRogueDragonflight (Luxthos's Group)
https://wago.io/ByzCxPq-m (Devlin's Group)
I stole it from luxthos
👀 ???
411 torch and box I've been rocking, so probs defo upgrade
just a filthy casual 😄
Does grieftorch still sim weird or has it got some guess work done with it?
Sim options need input raid deaths here 😄
kk just checking, it is indeed wanting me to replace the grieftorch, maybe slap it back on for if I know people will get clapped
Bloodmallet is showing Matrix Restabilizer being as good as Harlan Dice. That's pretty solid.
yo whispyr, i'm getting different numbers simming with and without your apl on both nightly and latest right now
same on latest
Okay, so don’t sim nightly
although the diff is bigger on nightly
oh latest is newer than nightly, whoops
misunderstood that
Correct
Nightly is updated every day
Weekly every week
And latest within about 10 minutes of an update
any idea why latest has different numbers with and without your sepsis apl?
first is your apl second isn't
I have 19% vers and 29% crit and i hate my gear a bit
All good
What’s your mastery at
My stat weights are kinda wild right now
52%
I have 3100 vers, i feel like that's insane, i could almost pvp with that lol
my pvp gear from last season has 3500
it's low because i need a million crests and also I've done 1 heroic boss because im aotc andy
RIP
102.555
ah yeah then you got a bit to go
yeah i should be doing keys instead of day drinking into the night but here we are
I guess mine isn't too off, i just want more crit, bigger number make brain feel good
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My sub weights buffed is bananas
I have like 72% mastery with 42% crit
SHEESH
Is using Hekili still a bad idea? I'm not the greatest player (even for a casual) so I've been trying it out to see if I can make smarter choices, but some of the recommendations it makes seems odd even to me.
It’s not good for rogue
Thanks. It was a legitimate tossup as to whether it was me or the addon that was wrong
Really bad for rogue
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You prio getting rid of puzzle box
Are we suppose to stack that high of versatility???
Im at 37crit 35mastery 7haste and 11vers
Whew, for a moment there...I thought I was doing ti wrong.
@balmy condor in the current sub thread there was talk of dynamic buffing, as in rupture before dance and dance would buff it, is this why we shiv after sepsis? Does it really make that much of a difference, outside of timing cd's? Curious, please and thanks.
No worries. I’m behind on gear and have gotten a ton of pieces with vers on them for the slots I have replaced. Plus I got the class trinket which is more vers.
I think I don't get the question, the shiv buffs the sepsis
why sepsis -> shiv instead of shiv->sepsis is the jist i think
so that you get the last bonk in the shiv window
cause sepsis is a dot right
and the biggest bonk is at the end
Yeah sepsis won't snapshot the shiv buff
The issue is getting into stealth
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@gusty mirage so did you replace diurna's ring?
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The thing is, I feel like vers is fckn EVERYWHERE.
Even if you desire to avoid it because of 'worst dps stat', you cannot. Look at raid loot Pool alone, it's obvious Blizz is pushing the stat 
My first two vaults till now Was like: Take vers or take a socket 
What's the difference between a 90 and 99 parse? Does it come down to kill time, procs lining up with CDs, crits, and getting enough procs of things like an annulet?
In a similar vein, if I hit all my buttons right am I guaranteed a 99 parse?
Dude there are so many factors, I think it's impossible to give a general answer
Usually kill time,gear, and execution are the most important factors

like above said, not necessarily. If you play perfectly but you got some bad rng like your beacon didn't crit and your annulet didn't proc, in combo with a bad kill time, might not make it. Also highly depends on the actual fight. If you're trying to parse on heroic echo and you're in a big dick group, you're fucked. The boss goes immune, the adds get nuked, you can kinda do whatever you want but getting a 99 with that is already sorta boned
Is the cloak a bit of simbait? Uptime seems awful low for a lot of other melee users.
and your concern is what exactly, that the sim doesn't reflect the uptime?
just doesn't seem that big of an upgrade in comparison to another cloak of equal item level because it's like 5 seconds of uptime a fight
just figured I'd take a shot in the dark & ask if it's the move in the long run
it's bis and simming fine
Are we dropping Cut to the Chase in the new Sepsis build?? (Single Tgt)
it's possible to, but usually not no
I remember reading somewhere that the stat weights you want to aim for are the following:
Crit: 40%
Mastery: 40%
Vers: 10%
Haste: 10%
Is this (still) accurate?
Was it ever?
not really that simple, we don't go for specific stat weights
top gear sims can usually tell you what the best gear you currently have is
theres just a general priority of crit>mastery>=haste>vers
Ok, I can't remember where I read that specific stat weight. Served me pretty well last season!
It’s got the right idea and isn’t really messing anything up, but “aiming for stats” is sort of an awkward concept because gear just doesn’t work like that, and agility is worth quite a bit, so even within crit>mast>haste or whatever, a high item level vers piece for example easily crushes something lower ilvl with “perfect” stats
It’s
Idk
As long as you recognize that 40% crit doesn’t mean that for example 35% or 45% is in any way bad
The guideline works fine
Ok yeah, I never took it as one of The Commandments, but it was just something I generally aimed for at the end of the season, when upgrades were just coming from the Vault.
Yeah that’s fine, but that’s a very quick sim tbh
Open vault, /simc, top gear, there’s a button to select all great vault options
And you just rip it
Is there anywhere where I can find a aoe priority list? Like do I open with 3x garrote out of stealth, or do I garrote into fan of knives aoe, when do I prio evenom over crimson tempest?
#assassination-faq has an aoe opener, and from there it gets kinda hand-wavey. General rule is maintain enough bleeds for energy, maintain CT, maintain envenom, and then picking either envenom or CT if all that’s done
Poison bomb and CT do very similar damage, poison bomb is a bit better during the tier bonus, CT has a bigger range, envenom gives you some prio damage or funnel or whatever (it’s not too impressive)
You just kinda figure out what situation requires what as you play it
And it eventually it’s just intuition
Brother we got people playing flying daggers because the range “feels better”
M+ is a lawless wasteland

I have given up on trying to fight for m+
That shits on its own
10.1.5 surely will make our aoe make sense right
Reall
Surely
They could start by re-adding poison bomb procs to rupture, maybe even make rupture apply to two targets like it does for sub.
i gave up
we're not getting changes
10.1.5 is gonna drop in a bit over a month
But they said in the blue-posts they will do something with rogues 

This wouldn’t do anything but make it more complicated
Bro playing sub on raz almost made me drop the game already
Dragonflight sub is such a fucking mess
It’s unreal
It’s actually just the worst iteration of the spec I’ve ever played
what was ur ideal iteration
god i mis wod sub
And then close third would be 9.1 venth
Kyrian in 9.2 was okay
But dragonflight is just wtf
kyrian awful
I don’t mind kyrian that much
Making combo points interesting and worth thinking about is a good thing
Yeah shadow tech isn’t great
Idk
sub now = gloomblade spam into ooo dance time, back to gloomblade spam 😴
I just want sub to go back to being a burst spec with an actual cooldown
And not 70apm 65% dance uptime
played it for 3 pulls
gave up and never played kyrian again
i dont mind sub atm, the only thing i really hate is shuriken tornado
I always get so confused when people refer to covenants because I didn't play shadowlands
ah tyty
Kyrian light blue, venthyr red, fae dark blue, necrolord green

The goats, ty guys
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Mop and wod easily the best sub and imo, the best rogue spec all around
I did like dfa more
wod was fun because it was so bursty, and subtlety was quite op
but it had for my taste too much downtime between dances without much going on
i played back then and we made the joke that you can go afk between dances
I did catch a glimpse of Legion sub, the DfA into dance was really nice

My first 100 parse this xpac : )
2 PI that doesnt count 
ı already have slimy boots, do u guys recommend to have toxic ones instead ? + arent heal procs a dps loss
Guys, my guild just recruited another rogue and he's sub.
How screwed am I?
The Heals are a dps loss that currently isnt reflected in sims, once you get the next spark just sim, how much of a dps increase going to toxic thorn is compared to crafting another piece. Toxic are probably still better, but its hard to actually tell by how much
Just do more dmg than him and you arent 😄
Yes, but...
Sorting by all damage all bosses 
This
okay, which boss do you want to see
Doubt it looks better per Boss tho
Sort by rashok that’s the most relevant st boss that guilds are going to have an issue on
magmarox?
Magmorax sample size is still pretty low
rashok?
Not when simmed on heroic
There is almost no gap between rogue specs on that fight
i see like a 5k gap
Just play what you want they are close enough that player skill closes that gap
Besides the outliers at the top there is basically no difference
Heroic parses are memes this tier
it's the same in mythic my dude
esp on rashok where only thing that matters is dodging waves and pressing defs
Sub is objectively better.
A rogue doing + or - 5k is not the reason a guild isn’t killing bosses
No, but a guild will probably not want more than one rogue
Yes Sub is objectively better, but a rl that is benching someone for not playing the fotm spec when its the better player is clueless
Two rogues is fine 
you can play any raid comp(that has every raid buff) as long as everyone can hold their own weight
Not playing the Buffs is turbo int tho
Also what cooked rl is looking to replace a sin player
I can see the argument for not wanting sin on raz because of the aoe phases
But you can play full st on every fight this tier
And the three rogue specs are nearly equal on that
Sin on Sark is interesting, but we'll see once more people get to it
The public logs of sub on sark don’t even spec black powder
rwf guilds didn't either
Probably because the adds last like 5 seconds
Dslice should be fine
An entire guild doing that much less will matter on rashok and magmorax and it's wild to suggest you should be doing that while everyone else plays properly
If I showed up to mag and my DK was frost "because I like it" I'd be pretty annoyed.
And everyone likes to throw around "be the better player" but idk what guilds are sitting around on some S tier melee and B tier melee. Generally I see pretty comparable skill levels since everyone also apped and trialed to be there
Pretty sure frost is actually better than unholy if you dont get PI
Maybe in a top 200 guild but the requirements to pass trial in most mythic guilds is having a pulse
Frost seems to be better or certainly comparable on magmorax even with PI too
just meming but you should probably be frost on that fight LOL
Whatever idk DK shit
But you get my point
One player wanting to play noticeably suboptimally during prog seems awfully selfish, because if everyone did it, you'd be progging slow as shit
Being comfortable with your spec and being able to clearly focus on mechanics is way more important than swapping to a fotm spec and doing a couple percent more damage imo, but you do you
i think scana's point is that 1) sin being 5k below sub doesnt mean specs are significantly worse. just a little. (also for rashok specifically p3/after condiuits destroyed) is the hardest part. and sin probably does more damaeg than the other 2 specs there). 2)people always play better ont he spec they enjoy than the fotm. so if a really good sin player plays sub, maybe they end up doing the same damaeg
Especially this tier where there really arent any great damage checks
^ i would say the only damage check is actually rashok, and sin does really good in that fights p3.
Isn't the flip side of "be the better player" just responding to this with "don't be shit at your other specs as pure dps"
There's an awful lot of atrocious arguments around this shit whenever anyone mentions tuning. Tuning matters and cope nonsense to suggest it doesn't is stupid.
Not really
I mean, yes. "I'd you don't like sin being bad just play it anyways and be better than your other raiders" is just as, or even more, absurd than saying "don't suck dick at sub"
Thats not what was said though. We said a sin onetrick would likely be more useful to the raid staying sin rather than swapping to sub, even if they do slightly less damage
Like in liquid they had riku stay fury even though they thought swapping to arms wouldve been better because riku slept poorly that night and they didnt want him to have to learn new things and the dps didnt matter anyway
No its no.
Am I missing something in logs? people with slimy + toxic patch and those with slimy + shadow wreath have the same damage from "coated in slime." Shouldn't it be 2x? or does the toxic patch dmg show up elsewhere?
Shadowflame wreathe is the enchant, not the embellishment
Wait some rogues actually crafted shadow flame patch? 
Now that’s one expensive decision
oh duh, thought that was a new embellishment
There is
I think Sub goes shadowflame patch right?
But its not called wreathe
No.
some certainly are, i guess if they still use proc ring?
The embellishment is called Roiling shadowflame in logs
oh, meant they're using the enchant which is why i saw the dmg in logs
im about to craft boots and get with the program, but now i see a note that toxic boots might be better despite heal snipes...
It’s “better” if there are no heals probs but slimy just seems better overall.
Been spamming VT for the crit/mast neck, after several runs, pug tank gets the neck, and cant even trade me bcs his neck was 408 ilevel
idk we had a lot of trouble not getting hit by lava in p3. it was
harder to do good damage
maybe w're just bad idk tbh
honestly, I just hated the ending of that boss and was copign maybe sin could help burn the execute [hsae faster. for some fucking dumb reason i played rotten during our prog and it was not a fun time.
specially p3 i had to dodge waves and lost my vanish window and it just dropped my dps form 121 ish to like 115
it jsut gets more hectic as time goes by thats it big rooom filled with lava
its harder to do damage when theres more lava going out
I think his point is that if youre team has no problems dodging flames in p1 and p2 then it could be argued that increasing those phases by 5s each to instead reduce p3 where more people die to lava by 10s could be a worthwhile tradeoff
Not from a numerical standpoint, but from a "its easier for the team" standpoint
idk dude people killed it with 434 ilvl.
im sure your 440 sin is fine
yeah 436 sark died
Assuming everybody always plays perfectly on every single spec you should be sub or outlaw over sin for rashok yes
But that isnt the case in the actual world
point is -> if youre 436 maybe you need to play the absoloute best spec. if youre 442, then it doesnt matter as much. thats all.
Outlaw 
oxi stop bullying zac
Just say sub eleem
Yeah and I crit my two beacon casts on heroic rashok and did 15k dps more than my sim
imagine having beacon
its funny that people are coping about 5k dps this much when all you ahve to do is crit your beacons
That’s what I’m saying man
rank 1 rashok only crit 2/3
Just crit the beacons and you too can do devastation evoker damage
what a loser

Then your evo is bad 😄
I’ve found most evokers are really mediocre
Which is weird considering their rotation is 4 buttons
But also, if people really wanted to do the most damage they would play rotten sub, but i dont see much rotten at all, even on recent fights. Comfort isnt a measurement you can use to determine how many pulls it reduces a boss progress by, but it definitely exists
Our rashok kill was so scuffed if you look at the replay 
Our pally tank solo’s the last 0.5%
oh god no, i played that shit for our rashok prog. i was actually like 121-122k with boss at like 3% and was just starting my last vanish go with sepsis and everything up. and bam got a mechanic, lost my window, damaeg dropped to like 115-116
that shit is cursed af
I decided to surf waves at the end of it 
Ye because youre not used to playing it and not as comfortable at salvaging when things dont go according to plan
Yeah evoker numbers are giga inflated cause of PI right now
Which is the exact thing im saying 
I’m going to gray parse magmorax because other melee don’t soak far puddles ever 
So I voluntold myself to do them
So I’m standing 40 yards away with my dick in my hand
I save beacon for it to feel less bad
Youre talking about the puddles, oxi is talking about the swirlies, the soaks
Those can spawn pretty far from melee, esp infront of boss
I was running laps like Usain Bolt
do i bind irideus to deathmark or exsang or nah
B O M B A
Why am I getting double hit by the fucking soak
Proccing cheat death through feint is cringe
nah the best one is when you already went to east zimbabwe to a puddle, theres a ranged just chilling with a beam behind two pudldes he cna go left and let you easily take the right one, but instead he goes in right and sends you on another journey to china

Not every group has multiple monks and DHs in them
I have a gromnak clip for this actually
So you do need to run out a soak one sometimes, since 4/6 need to soak
And you probably have atleast one healer like a priest thats worse at moving than you are
?
dude im crying that was me the entire fight LOL
Not a lot of other people can do it
My group had 2 paladins, 1 dh and 2 priests
So if 3 of them spawn in africa
Some of us have to run
This was me our first 15 pulls:
https://clips.twitch.tv/AverageVibrantMochaDendiFace-zXNKhuVb446cz9N8
Watch Gromnak's clip titled "no mechanics no mechanics no mechanics no mechanics"
The other 15 people are not in the soak group i am in
Since you cant soak multiple
Like i said, you dont know the mechanics of the fight
And you flame me for being garbage at doing them 
Our RL goes “why is someone having to kite the beam to the opposite side of the room?” Pov: me in that gromnak clip
dude im wheezing this is the most real thing ive ever seen. i legit lost it when he gets pushed bak to lava too LOOOOL
I’m just running my beam for 20 whole seconds 
theres a reason I stopped trying to talk to him, he did the same thing to push and stealthi the other day. just non stop dumb arguing.
Yes i could just let our healers who are having to constantly pump hps have to move instead, that is correct
Holy paladins do a great deal of healing when standing far away out of melee range
But also this is like the most telling statement ever 
nah on liquids kill jpc went to narnia twice maybe three times. clearly dogshit player and awful guild who dont understand the fihgt mechanics
so is sep better now or is sbs and sep about the same ?
sep better
hmm not a fan of sep but i see they change it a bit
Who of y'all will use endboss cloak btw? Only havoc in my guild has it and all melees hate him now
why hate
me included of course
not meant that serious
smacktalk very common in our runs
I LOSE 30 OF MY SECONDARY STAT I TRY TO AVOID SO THAT SOMONE ELSE GETS 2K IN THEIR BEST STAT AS A PROC
THE HORROR

haste is often the 2nd best stat for assa wdym
When do you want haste more than crit/mastery?
when it sims better
idk haste is pretty much always my lowest stat when using my best gear
occasionally vers
doesn't seem like it ever does much but maybe I'm missing something about it
it does damage
so do all the others lol
and someone else having haste is almost always better than an assassination rogue having damage
having haste i mean
i mean yes having haste is technically better but I'm not gonna cry over someone taking it
just like our priest using PI on me would be straight trolling
How much does a 457 cloak steal??
even if it would increase my damage
60 or 80 idk
80 secondaries worth 3-4 dps each. Eh, whatever
So 500 dps stolen for 8 seconds per proc
and they get 2000 of the secondary stat in return when they steal it
it's so value it's insane
!whispyr
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depends a bit on who have the cloak, but voerall yes ^^
What? It doesnt depend on anything. If the mythic cloak procs they get 2508 of their best stat, while 4 nearby allies lose 132 of their worst stat for 8 seconds
Just a reminder, cause i've seen the Sepsis WA getting some downloads.
I have updated it to include a shiv reminder.
bruh my sim wants me to put haste so badly 😄 ı dont know what to follow at this point
ı am fairly new to assa rog only 3 Months, would u tell me how it benefits ? all the guides ı read says legit 0 haste is doable
haste = more bleed ticks, more ticks good
guys do u switch ice stone over storm during tyranical weeks?
no, because i always forget to swap the rings 
you have 2 rings?
yes
yes?
damn i wasted like 300 of those fragments to get even all the 4 gems and upgrade them, i legit couldnt bother getting another ring
I didn’t get another ring till this patch
Took me maybe 40 minutes to farm everything
On the second exsang+DM, do you vanish garrote before exsang or normal garrote exsang and vanish garrote once the exsang one falls off?
i personally always vanish garrote exsang
because vanished garrote does more dmg
not sure if its the correct move tho
Anyone know if Ominous Chromatic Essence
sims correctly?
It does if you set it up properly
What’s the fastest way to farm primordial stones?
do you have level 70 alts
and do you have an abundance of the elemental overflow
depending on those answers it's either going to be painless or a pain in the ass
how does elemental overflow help?
you can buy a bag from the dragonscale renown dude on the island that has a chance to drop keys
costs 2k overflow
hmm 58k gonna be enough for anything? maybe i will get a second ring xD
do most people play sepsis? or sepsis+exsang
ye that's a lot of bags 🙂
pooog
another cheese
is if you have level 70 alts
you just skip the intro stuf
do 2 quests
i know about the free 5 keys
and get 6 keys
already did that
ya
thats how i got my first ring xd
i run both
but the bags are giga for scammazing extra keys
so used to exsang at this point
what would be the usecase for both?
I run sepsis w/o exsang, because I hate exsang
would you just always want exsang since its more dps
understandable
exsang sims higher for me so i run it
1400 dps isn't worth me not liking the gameplay
i let my exsanged garrote and rupture run out befor reapplying right?
not in pandemic
yap
or like 1 second before it ends type shit
do you know which dude sells it?
Cataloger Daela
ah the only person i didnt talk to out of the group of people
because she had a quest marker
XD
thx

16 keys, time to pray
More keys than a locksmith
Based
Just did a few keys on Sub Rogue to see how the other half lives
My god they have it easy
glad to have you join the sub club
I'll never turn to the dark side

@balmy condor Hurry up and get Assa AoE reworked plz
Wouldn't even mind the Feral treatment of talents like Double Clawed Rake and Tear Open Wounds
jokes on you, i use the rotten build inside the vault
cause 2 gloomblades kill everything pretty much
Not my circus
give us aoe exsang, make it so now everyone has to play exsang or lose out on 20k dps, just let us burn easy
I want exang deleted plz and ty
everyone does
I'd legit be happy with garrote hitting 1 extra target and crimson temp being removed in favour of a better version of IC on shorter CD
that would make it boring
^
I mean that's a matter of perspective
at that point i can play sub
no front to sub rogues, but that would make aoe far too easy
I can say I'd find it fun
I quite enjoyed how Feral's aoe works now
But my focus is raiding and I much prefer Assa there
i liked ferals aoe too, but it was fun because of multiple talents interacting with each other. So reapplying rip made it actually use up some rip time and do that dmg instantly
also the free bites that did aoe dmg was fun
Ferals aoe feels pretty good now but they lost their single target for it
ye but i despise the new combo points generating so i cant play it xd
can we trade 1h weapons when we have daggers at higher ilvl?
dont remember anymore if that trade lockout still exists
@royal lantern yes but you need two one handers at high ilvl
…so no
so it still is a thing, gotcha
only if it explodes and kills us both uwu
!whispyr
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Anyone figured out how to burst totems as assa on last boss brack? No hearthing allowed.
rotate beacons ez.
You don’t
Best thing to do would be swapping into mfd I guess for brackenhide
And taking the L
But then getting envenoms off
But uh, still sucks
this season has way to many fights that fuck assa 
this season just sucks in general. im so happy im not pushing this season.
was watching asuna last night and dude never seen this guy hate the game so much
I like this season more than the last
Except vortex pinnacle
That’s just a shit dungeon
funny they were doing a vortex 25
they mindcontrolled one of the ads that perma heals
Stop trying to make 15 year old dungeons work in a game system they weren’t designed for k thx
to make mechanics matter they just ramp dmg up by 20x
it also gave them a buff like 3% of healer mana + 1% group heal per sec or something
and they oculdnt get the boss to even 70%
and unavoidable shit everywhere
Damn
but yeah idk other than brackenhide and neltharus the rest of the dungeons are kinda meh for me
neltharus is my most hated dungeon with VP this season lmao
allright in general, i dont like how many dungeons are "fuck you, unavoidable dmg+dot dmg the entire fight"
really? other than the mammoth boss its a banger imo
cant tell me the last boss is a banger 
fuck rng treasures
who thought that fits into m+
getting 3x charge is fun
its pretty chill now after the curse fixes i think
again, i dont know how cursed these are. havent done any of them above a 21.
just got my io high enough like week 2 that i can pug my weekly 20s without spending 20 min in q and sotpped
Mfd forget that exists... I'm totally gonna try this lol
I can’t recommend it without laughing but let me know how it goes
i didnt see on the wowhead guide but do i envenom in AoE to maintain the increased 30% poison app chance?
I actually like them bringing back old dungeons, but I like when they have the community vote on them, cause idk who decided VP would be one of the better dungeons to bring back
Facts
I don’t mind them bringing back old dungeons, but if they’re going to bring them back things like VP need full reworks to fit modern designs
i think rp trash with the balls was kind of stupid but at least there were a couple choices to make with trash
for iron docks
grimrail was pretty whatever just super linear
there were just different mechanics ppl needed to get used to and although there wasnt much choice I found it fun













