#assassination

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royal lantern
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and aoe its probably the worst Spec in the game rn

blissful forge
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if you wanna search for rotational mistakes a log review might help you

torn swan
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Yes, aoe thing is not even something i'm seeking, i'm trying to get better in ST

blissful forge
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yeah

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bring a log

torn swan
blissful forge
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and ppl are likely to help you and analyze the log

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start a thread pls

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with !log

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and post it in there

torn swan
prisma monolithBOT
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Wowanalyzer now has good initial support for Assassination. We suggest using it to quickly see any big rotational mistakes and analyze your ability usage

Link: https://wowanalyzer.com/

blissful forge
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does this work only in sub channel? @vestal wren

keen spruce
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i think it works in ol too

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but we have very nice wowanalyzer updates from last tier

blissful forge
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oh wowanalyzer works for assa? :3

torn swan
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Yep, just cheked

keen spruce
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primarily, it looks like you're wasting tea

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when you're at high energy

torn swan
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Looks like i missed a few teas

keen spruce
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and you're clipped a couple of improved garrotes

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and a few low cp envenoms

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this is definitely a fairly large mistake

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should be closer to 20%

torn swan
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I must confess, yes it is. But Rashok MM is like a try-not-to-panick-and-do-your-rotation-perfectly boss

keen spruce
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yep

torn swan
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I guess I'm getting old lol

keen spruce
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very rewarding tho cuz if you do play it well it's basically a target dummy as far as uptime

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but dodging lava tends to take priority

torn swan
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yeah... at some point it's just LAVE EVERYWHERE and i'm a bit panicking lol

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But thanks for the advice

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I'll try to get more focused šŸ™‚

keen spruce
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but to other people's points, at this point in the tier assas isn't really gonna be toppin any charts

torn swan
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I was afraid of that answer 😦

keen spruce
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oh you're also wearing a sporecloak

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that's not helpin your damage either

torn swan
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Yeah but that helps staying alive (everyone in our raid, while in progress, has to wear it)

keen spruce
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is this like a thing now MONKAS

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if someone told me to put a sporecloak on I'd bench my damn self and go find a new guild lol

torn swan
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On the progress phases only. The idea is if you don't (as a team) master a boss, then get yourself another chance to stay alive

slow sorrel
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do any of you play assassination on keystones?

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its prob the worst shit i ever did on wow

torn swan
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Yes i do

keen spruce
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a very dedicated few

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I think we're one of the only specs without 0 peopel in title range

slow sorrel
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I usually play sub or outlaw, I went to play assassin, and my god

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its terrible

keen spruce
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it's pretty cursed

slow sorrel
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rework pls

keen spruce
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it's comin

slow sorrel
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imagine

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a 45 sec cd

torn swan
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Yes, it's not really competitive, to say the least

slow sorrel
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to dot aoe

torn swan
keen spruce
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10.2 rogue class and spec tree

slow sorrel
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outlaw is lowkey really fun to play

keen spruce
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OL been pretty fun this xpac

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I played it in s1

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I think it's just feral druid, ass rogue, and uh dk

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have no one in title range

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atm

slow sorrel
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I was going to try to learn Assassination, but since there's going to be a rework and it's terrible to play, I'll leave it there for now

keen spruce
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oh and MM hunter

torn swan
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Better get interest on next patch, yeah

keen spruce
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I mean I wouldn't expect a super drastic change in play styles for any of the spec

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but probably some new emergent builds

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and lots of quality of life

slow sorrel
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fire mage rework changed a lot

keen spruce
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I mean if you've played fire mage before it was pretty familiar

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they jsut weren't playin flame strike in s1

slow sorrel
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this new way to play flamestrike

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is different

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it contributes to the hotstreak

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it's very different from shadowlands fire

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i hope rogue gets a really cool rework

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hunter too

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its needed

keen spruce
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realz is pretty tuned into the rogue community, i'm sure it'll be good

slow sorrel
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an outlaw who benefits from haste would be interesting

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uncaping his gcd

keen spruce
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i would not hold your breath for that one

blissful forge
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we just need to have trust in realz, he will do a good job for sure

keen spruce
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don't think any energy classes have variable GCDs with haste

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and OL already get's the bonus from AR

slow sorrel
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dh tank

calm bane
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I wish realz was a hunter dev

slow sorrel
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its not energy

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to be fair

blissful forge
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dh tank has energy? kekman

slow sorrel
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yep

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im wrong

royal lantern
slow sorrel
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but I find it very strange a spec with the highest APM of the game not to use haste

keen spruce
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yeah i mean haste as a stat just kinda contradicts the point of energy classes in the first place

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not in love with the design of it as a terc stat

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but it functions very well for other specs so idk

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rework haste MonkeyBlobRee

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or at very least stop making raid and dungeon bosses that are balanced around massive haste buffs

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and delete external pi MonkeyBlobRee

slow sorrel
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ye

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like

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lust for sub
does not do anything

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make a very important mechanic in the game, but create classes that benefit 0 from it

royal lantern
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you get 3more energy each second and slightly more CP from shadow tech

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but yeha, haste and rogue is......special

deft flicker
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Assa gets more frequent bleed ticks

royal lantern
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2specs where it litearlly does nothing, 1spec where it has SOME effect, but also nothing major like it is for everyone else

deft flicker
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Outlaw, subtlety and brewmaster though… yeah

deft flicker
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And do not experience the ā€œthis spec feels like shit but will get fixed with more gear now go grab some gear with unshittening or smthā€

hollow cedar
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Thats not a good argument, saying a stat has almost no value is never good

deft flicker
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That’s kind of the design point though: haste is bad because we sort of have 50% haste baked into out class by default

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We have slice for faster autoattacks, we have vigor for faster energy recovery, we have fixed 1s gcd as opposed to hasted 1.5s that non-energy users have

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Adrenaline is basically PI on steroids

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Also a huge part of every spec’s energy generation comes from non-hasted sources

keen spruce
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I mean i think that's kinda dookey design

deft flicker
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Yeah, big external haste doesn’t do anything, but idk if it can do anything without causing us to feel slow when haste isn’t there

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Does WW like haste on gear??

keen spruce
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it's their worst stat

deft flicker
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What about feral??

keen spruce
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better than vers

deft flicker
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They’d probably benefit the most out of energy classes

keen spruce
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tied with mastery

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bu they want crit

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i mean they like some haste for the same reason assas does

deft flicker
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Yeah, but besides DoT tick rate they don’t really gain anything

keen spruce
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but like we're not giving every energy class dots to make haste more viable

deft flicker
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I’m sort of fine with haste being the worst of 4 stats

keen spruce
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I would be fine with it in a world that didn't rely on dungeon/raid bosses giving massive haste steroids, and blood lust, and pi

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like a lot of the game is balanced around haste buffs

vestal wren
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iirc works in sub/outlaw but cf+ can always open a thread manual

keen spruce
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we just got lazy and didn't wanna do log review anymore Plotge

blissful forge
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haha

keen spruce
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also assas needs to do like 3 things correctly

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and wow analyzer accurately identifies all of them

blissful forge
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ok good to know, i didnt knew that analyzer was up2date otherwise i would've recommended it first

keen spruce
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it's very cozy for assas now

vestal wren
keen spruce
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I try to do what i can when i have the mental bandwidth

blissful forge
keen spruce
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except OL

keen spruce
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i never even looked at my own pirate logs last tier

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that shit is like reading heiroglyphics

blissful forge
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i also dont look at my logs since i know i dont fuck up my rota šŸ’€

vestal wren
blissful forge
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theres a reason why OL's pref vods instead of a log pepelaugh

keen spruce
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this was like rank 5 on magmo when i got it

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envenomed him with no rupture OMEGAKEKW

blissful forge
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only thing i look into my logs for is timings, nothing else, i mean sub isnt hard at all to perfect (atleast for me)

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sheesh

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wowanalzyer looks juicy

keen spruce
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but this basically covers everything for assas

blissful forge
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they changed the design no?

keen spruce
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assas is pretty custom

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other specs still have the old look

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they hooked us up

blissful forge
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last time i used it was in like idl bfa when i didnt had a clue how WoW works kekman

blissful forge
keen spruce
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but like this covers 99% of stuff that assas fucks up

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and if someone's looks pretty good but still parsing bad

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it's almost always trinket procs/beacon crits/ or really bad uptime for melees

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or all of the above

deft flicker
royal lantern
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just a normal dmg stat like the Others lol

deft flicker
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And how do you get that??

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Other than ā€œdelete energyā€

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I don’t really see a way for that to happen, maybe I’m just dense though

keen spruce
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i mean i can't think of a good solution

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short of like deleting haste and rebalancing around it not existing lol

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but i'm sure there's a better one

deft flicker
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There must be a better one other than ā€œdelete haste as a stat, turn all haste externals into raw damageā€ (because this screws up those who like haste) or ā€œturn rogue into a warrior with stealth by deleting energy privilegesā€ if you want haste to be a good stat

keen spruce
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I mean i'm in the business of identifying and/or creating problems

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not solving them

deft flicker
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Yep. So am I. And I have found problems within your problem-having problem

blazing jewel
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Make haste scale the energy procs for the three specs Okay

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Sin dot ticks outlaw attacks and sub shadow techniques (idk what it’s called)

deft flicker
blazing jewel
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We’re getting a rework talents will be changed

keen spruce
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and they could be changed again to accomodate a tertiary change

deft flicker
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Fair enough

robust sandal
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if we have enough ad damage in sark myth, is it worth going sin instead of sub, also, is sin hard to pick up from sub

night delta
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Problem with haste as sin is that even without it we're still barely energy capped at all, and we're a fixed GCD spec so its effect is almost exclusively on dots

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Which sure are a hefty dose of our dps, but crit affects 100% of it aswell as making SF a thing ; and our mastery scales strong enough on enough of our dmg profile that it's just better

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Iridikron burn phase go brrrr

clever sapphire
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from what i heard the cooldowns also kinda line up pretty well with the phases

robust sandal
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Okay! I’ll switch to sin and see how it feels, thanks for your response

clever sapphire
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just remember, since you wont do any add dmg, unless they stand in your poison bomb, remember to look at boss dmg and not overall

deft flicker
night delta
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Honestly, seeing our design space, having us balanced around not needing haste (or barely at all) for our energy gain is kinda baffling

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And i feel i'm far from alone being fine with having downtimes where i don't press a button every second, especially if that's a tendency that goes away as an expansion continues (because more stats = more haste = less energy problems)

burnt latch
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Haste should lower energy regen for rogue

spice spire
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Donathan Herbert hmm

burnt latch
spice spire
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Gesundheit

burnt latch
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Austrian royalty

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My family owns a castle near Zell Am See

vestal wren
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nice

burnt latch
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Ive had two flies in my apartment for a good week, cant seem to find a way to kill them

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Anyone got tips for that

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Cant get bleeds going fast enough they start evading

spice spire
burnt latch
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They keep hugging each other in the air

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Looks sus

spice spire
burnt latch
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Okay i got 2, one got away

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I sprayed them with this multi purpose cleaning solution i use to keep my place clean

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They call me The Alchemist

boreal cloud
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Chemical warfare Toxic

blazing jewel
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The full metal one?

burnt latch
spice spire
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No monkaOMEGA

burnt latch
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Could be a nice capstone

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Im laying on the floor most fights anyways might aswell clean them while im at it

clever sapphire
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someone gotta clean up all them corpses after the wipes

burnt latch
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Truth

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Aint good for morale seeing all that dirt on the floor be4 new pull

subtle stream
burnt latch
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My country doesnt believe in fans

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Never seen someone had one in their apartment ever

blazing jewel
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Susge herbo what’s cooling your gpu rn Susge

spice spire
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Hasn’t it been getting hot as fuck in the summers?

royal lantern
burnt latch
spice spire
earnest remnant
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@balmy condor sry for the ping, but im cooking up some assault speed for mythic and was wondering what a 40sec max dmg assa build would look like

spice spire
midnight mist
gusty mirage
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unironically

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he played it on a heroic run, can prolly find it on his logs

wary ice
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kingsbane lets go

gusty mirage
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yeah it's insane when the boss fight is less than a minute long

wary ice
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Kb value insane in keys if you use ur cc to only pull 1 thing every minute

royal lantern
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actually able to see yourself for once

gusty mirage
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I had a kingsbane wolverine meme

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idk what happened to it

royal lantern
gusty mirage
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too soon man

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even though it's been 8 months

sweet dawn
gusty mirage
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there it is

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I miss you so much kingsbane

royal lantern
wary ice
frozen iris
wary ice
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Massacred necromanced and massacred again pepehands

royal lantern
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one day

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it will return

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and we can have discussions about tracking KB stacks again

gusty mirage
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man

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those first two weeks of dragonflight were such a banger

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we had build diversity

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we had damage

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I blame warlocks

sudden canyon
gusty mirage
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yes he has

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there's a ton changing in the class tree

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things being removed/changed/tweaked/gateways being moved

clever sapphire
gusty mirage
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also a 10% aura buff does nothing for assassination

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so a bandaid will do nothing except make you feel a teeny bit better about yourself

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I'd rather them not waste time on that and fix the class and spec trees

toxic night
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i know its pvp but a 10% aura buff pushed outlaw into being played in both na and eu AWC finals and it dominated

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so sometimes aura buffs are needed

gusty mirage
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yeah but outlaw is in a much better position than assassination

toxic night
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true

gusty mirage
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sometimes it is just a tuning issue

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but assassination is just jank

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our ST is jank, our aoe is jank, our access to our utility is jank

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all of it

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and don't get me wrong I'd like a 5% aura buff to assassination

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then it'd close the gap between assassination and sub for me and I could just play assassination and not care

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but if it takes anything away from the rework I'd rather just suck it up for a few months, ya know

sudden canyon
clever sapphire
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what if they give us 10%, now after the rework we are too strong and we get a 10% nerf, now you feel shit cause "its only week 2 and we got nerfed"

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but in the end its just taking the bandaid off

sweet dawn
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The greatest psy op known to man

spice spire
sudden canyon
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No theyed likely remove the 10% durring the ptr as we are testing the new tree and seeing that maybe assa is doing too much dmg.

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what kind of take is that?

spice surge
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People still get massive upset, even if its a ptr nerf

sudden canyon
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no way

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If the dmg is the same why would ppl be upset? Its not like your losing dmg.

spice spire
gusty mirage
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outlaw melted down when they removed 1 combo point from fan the hammer

sudden canyon
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no

clever sapphire
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any nerf no matter when its mentioned gonna make like 80% of the specs playerbase mad

proven jasper
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^

clever sapphire
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doesnt matter if they are still meta and broken (see fire mage)

agile osprey
gusty mirage
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yeah it feels like shit to get nerfed, justified or not

spice surge
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"ye blizzard never allows rogues to be good, mages atleast had 2 weeks on live before they get nerfed while rogue gets nerfed on the ptr, its so unfair man"

gusty mirage
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and then it feels 1000x times worse when you see BM hunter and frost mage get buffed to levels beyond where your spec originally was

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but that's another rant for another day

spice spire
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10.0 frost mages were gonna be the death of oxi

gusty mirage
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they only do 1 million dps in aoe instead of 1.3 million dps

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dead spec tbh

agile osprey
spice spire
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We’re also in garbage time guys, I say this as someone still progging - this tier doesn’t matter at this point. I’d love buffs to do more dam. But I’d also rather have an awesome and functioning rework that’s tuned nicely than current iteration feeling slightly better for my ego which (might?) be gone in a few months

gusty mirage
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watching BM hunter, frost mage, and uhdk get buffed

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after we got beaten and thrown to the side

spice spire
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UHDKs are illegal

gusty mirage
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I'm convinced that the balancing team goes to chatgpt for advice

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no one can convince me otherwise

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"assassination is TOO strong"

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3 weeks later

spice surge
agile osprey
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We may have not killed echo last night, but I took another 300k from our warlock

spice surge
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(neither do they)

gusty mirage
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"we're buffing frost mage 2 times to do 138k ST dps"

spice spire
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UHDKs are literally my 13th reason.
Getting gaslit at the beginning of the tier that they’d lose so much dam because of tierset just for them to regularly be 150k+ per fight

gusty mirage
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which was 3k above where assassination was simming in absolute bis

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btw

clever sapphire
wary ice
gusty mirage
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no no

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I will never get over that

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ever

clever sapphire
gusty mirage
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I lived through the culling of sub rogue in bfa

spice surge
gusty mirage
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and then the balancing shit show on s3/s4 SL

spice spire
gusty mirage
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and then 10.0.5

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I was so omega tilted

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ask quake

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I was raging literally daily

spice spire
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Mf had the same affix daily

gusty mirage
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I've never been more tilted in my life

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and then my RL had me play indiscriminate carnage on dathea

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and sent me on a platform because our prot pally couldn't figure out how to divine toll properly

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and then vault was ruined forever for me

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I cast vanish 3 times n 8.5 minutes

spice surge
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Similar to the "i cant get invites anymore because exodia" rants in #subtlety every day now? kekman

gusty mirage
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THREE TIMES

spice spire
clever sapphire
gusty mirage
gusty mirage
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I told my new guild about that

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and they laughed

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they found it hilarious

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dathea actually broke me

clever sapphire
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i mean, if you put assa on IC for that boss, just get another dps in at that point dracthyr_kek

gusty mirage
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oh, it wasn't for damage

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it was for the silence

clever sapphire
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ik its for the silence

gusty mirage
wary ice
clever sapphire
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but just get a dk

gusty mirage
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our uhdk quit on us

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so you'd think the prot pally could figure it out

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right?

wary ice
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was he sad he had to keep playing after the first 45s of the fight?

gusty mirage
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so did I

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until about 10 pulls in

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I get asked to go up on a platform

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our shaman had a whopping 3 kicks in 8.5 minutes btw

clever sapphire
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i remember trialing on mythic broodkeeper. Havent seen that boss before and i got put on destroying egg duty, smashed it and was topping meters, then grieftorch went to a guy who was dead every pull

gusty mirage
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best kick in the game

clever sapphire
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quit that too

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xD

gusty mirage
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nbd

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get asked to swap sub

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my sub bars were from s3 of SL

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I still had macros from SL on my bars

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it was a disaster

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then I get asked to swap to control the adds on the platform

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and my mental was ruined for the rest of the tier

clever sapphire
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swapping specs is fine for a boss for all i care, if the raidlead tells me a few days before

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so i can get my head around what i wanna do

gusty mirage
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yeah I got a 2 minutes heads up

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lol

clever sapphire
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ah that sounds nice

gusty mirage
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had door of shadows bound still

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wasa very cool

clever sapphire
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sounds like vault was an insane experience for you

gusty mirage
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yep I had an absolute blast

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didn't get my brood keeper dagger until the last week of vault

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that was my reward

clever sapphire
gusty mirage
spice spire
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Surely

gusty mirage
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5 kills on mythic sark

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3 cloaks

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2 beacons

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0 daggers

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I have every 450 piece except the ring from echo and the dagger

clever sapphire
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the dagger doesnt look good anyways copium

spice spire
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No class trinket either yeah? Not rubbing it in

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Just keeping track

gusty mirage
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we haven't even seen it drop

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so I'm less upset about that

spice surge
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Unluigi

gusty mirage
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we've seen one echo trinket

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and it was a call to suffering

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or whatever the lock one is

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is that call to suffering?

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who knows

spice surge
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Suffering is ours

gusty mirage
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we've also only seen 1 chromatic essence btw

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ever

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and 1 anvil

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and 1 bomb dispenser

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lmao

silk bane
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god damn it oxi, i took 3000 gold from vault

sudden canyon
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they should make blindside give you an offgcd ambush so i can just macro it into mut.... change my mind.

silk bane
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what is this luck

sudden canyon
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remove blindside actually

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i need my keybind realestate

gusty mirage
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I have dogshit luck

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bro I took a socket last week

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and I have nothing to socket

silk bane
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i mean, i have 2 extra sockets in bag, and nothing to socket

peak bobcat
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same

silk bane
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so i was like fuck it 3k gold it is instead of a 3rd useless one

clever sapphire
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feels nice to press a free ambush

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into another free ambush

peak bobcat
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blindside is definitely not the problem

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good talent

clever sapphire
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the problem is that ap is under it

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so a useless talent

peak bobcat
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I don't even remember what assassination talent tree looks like

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it has been so long

gusty mirage
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just don't press N

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it's depressing

clever sapphire
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last time i pressed N was to respec into outlaw to see how shit dps i would do with that spec

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was for a quick sim

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went back to sub after

deft flicker
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That’s pretty much any rogue tree

peak bobcat
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im just gonna play sub and turn brain off

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until 10.2

sudden canyon
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is sub rly brainless?

clever sapphire
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in m+ compared to assa, yep

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atleast in my eyes

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but its more of "its just so much easier to play, almost brainless"

gusty mirage
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perks are we get to talk to @earnest remnant and he's cute

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so

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it's a win still

earnest remnant
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no, you sitti

earnest remnant
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that is just positively adorable

subtle tundra
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wat da helllllllllll

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rat?!?

gusty mirage
peak bobcat
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I told myself I would play outlaw for one reclear

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just to remember the buttons

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and I got like 4 bosses in and couldnt take it

gusty mirage
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yeah I rolled off spec on a 1hander

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might give it a go tonight

spice spire
pure moth
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My guild hasnt given me an outlaw weapon because they said id never play it lol

sudden canyon
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is the Nightstalker talent still broken?

spice surge
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no

sudden canyon
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does it snapshot the 8% dmg on bleeds?

balmy condor
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I think it should

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But I’m not sure actually

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Cause the bug was that it just wasn’t working on shit

deft flicker
spice surge
#

fairly sure it does for rupture as sub

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So should be for assa too

balmy condor
#

The fact that it didn’t snapshot was a design decision

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But yeh

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Think that changed

vestal wren
#

nighstalker works, but not consistntly on everything

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esp. multi part attacks like sepsis are potential fail cases

uneven hamlet
#

!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
spice surge
#

Ye nightstalker shapshots rupture, garrote (assuming you cast it while stealthed and not with improved garrote) and sepsis

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But it doesnt seem to do so in the sims peeposhrug

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Idk if its worth bothering looking into it seeing as theres a lot of new stuff coming soon anyway, but eh

sudden canyon
#

just tested a bit. NS does snapshot garrote and rupture, it also snapshots NS dmg on casts within subterfuge window (last i remember this was also broken)

#

it also snapshots dance but that one is more obvious

spice surge
#

It definitely does not have the NS effect within subterfuge

sudden canyon
#

Subterfuge still completely breaks Shrouded Suffocation

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coz it changes ur stealth

peak bobcat
#

outlaw on kurog with HO was fun but i cant get behind the current talent setup

vestal wren
#

^ when i tested it

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lmk if something was fixed

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or add a comment if something is missing

balmy condor
#

lemme get to my pc

spice surge
#

I can tripple check

sudden canyon
balmy condor
#

hmmge I'm seeing weird things for sure

sudden canyon
#

my garrote dmg when cast from stealth and when cast right after breaking stealth (with an autoattack) using subter are the same amount of dmg more than just a regular garrote.

balmy condor
#

well yeah in game it works fine

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that's not in question

spice surge
#

maybe if i spec out of improved garrote it works

balmy condor
#

oh subterfuge

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nvm then yeh that shits fucked

spice surge
#

2.590 Player 'No_NS' garrote ticks (2 of 14) on Player 'Fluffy_Pillow' for 16875.389063295643 physical damage (hit)
2.577 Player 'NS' garrote ticks (2 of 15) on Player 'Fluffy_Pillow' for 16875.389063295643 physical damage (hit)
two different sims, one with NS one without

#

Kinda sussy

sudden canyon
sudden canyon
#

this is straight from stealth w/ NS

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here i break with an auto and cast garrote durring subter

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same dmg

spice surge
#

Yes without improved garrote it works

sudden canyon
#

fucking jank

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xD

spice surge
#

But i just didnt consider ever speccing out of it

sudden canyon
#

yea i wouldnt either, funny how broken shit is

balmy condor
#

pray that subterfuge and dogshit nightstalker disappears 10.2

runic hinge
sudden canyon
#

i think with Imp Garrote, the game chooses the higher dmg mod (50%) over the 8% from NS, and subter buff lasts as long as Imp Garrote buff (3s) so youd just never see the NS dmg mod with imp garrote

#

my hypothesis

spice surge
#

?

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If you use it from stealth you get the bonus

#

So its 1.62

balmy condor
#

but not with subt right

spice surge
#

If you use it only during imp garrote and subterfuge (lmao) its only 50% because youre no longer in "stealth"

balmy condor
#

without subt

spice surge
#

Subt doesnt change anything

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Unless you specced out of imp garrote

balmy condor
#

oh I see

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fun

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I will forget this conversation in a week

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nightstalker could be like 20% and still be utter dogshit

spice surge
balmy condor
#

yeh just drop 1 min sprint

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very cool and good

#

play base ER

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very sick

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excellent

sudden canyon
#

im mostly considering it for my shadow dance memes in m+

balmy condor
#

sim number is green tho must play monkey brain is compelling me to follow the green number

spice surge
#

Well number should be even greener if nightstalker isnt properly being applied in simc

spice spire
#

Shadow dance enjoyers

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Im@gonna be sick

balmy condor
#

need 10.2 to drop right now so people stop doing the most cursed shit

gusty mirage
#

what the fuck is this

sudden canyon
#

Not that any1 should run subterfuge, but can sum1 else verify that Shrouded Suffocation bonus CP is just broken when running subterfuge.

balmy condor
spice surge
#

Bro people have been playing sub with 1 step and 2 min sprint the entire tier, surely assa can survive with just two steps kekman

balmy condor
#

"people have been playing sub"

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no they haven't

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those fucking lizard people aren't people

sudden canyon
#

but have they been enjoying it?

balmy condor
#

also bit of a false equivalency

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cause they play 1 step 2 min sprint for bigger reasons than a 4% buff on 1 garrote every 2 minutes

vestal wren
gusty mirage
#

alt f4

balmy condor
#

you'd catch me 6 feet in the dirt before you see me recommending nightstalker with the current spec

vestal wren
#

alt f4 is a good game

gusty mirage
#

5 weeks of full mythic vaults

vestal wren
#

alt f4 2 is poorly optimized tho

gusty mirage
#

5 sark kills

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no dagger

sudden canyon
#

bring back Shadowstrike teleporting you while casts in dance/steatlh RAGEY

sudden canyon
#

bring back Burst of Speed

balmy condor
gusty mirage
#

burst of speed is never coming back

sudden canyon
#

i know that shit was broken

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i cant believe it was in the game for a whole xpac

vestal wren
#

i mean we will see

balmy condor
#

nighstalker and subterfuge have been the most spaghetti code talents for like a decade now

#

just delete and move on

vestal wren
#

but NS and subterfuge seem to be at least candidates that would make sense

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subterfuge is popular in pvp tho

fallow canopy
#

Hello, is there a way to do a sim with beacon critting on every use? I want to see if the gamba degenerate play could be worth over my essence

balmy condor
balmy condor
#

a single beacon cast critting vs not critting is worth over 2k dps

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if you crit all your casts

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it's gonna be better

fallow canopy
#

I see, thanks!

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well time to pray on every pull

balmy condor
#

stay sane

gusty mirage
#

it's the best when you're at 52% crit

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and you crit 0/3 casts

fallow canopy
gusty mirage
#

pretty cool

balmy condor
#

so

#

definitely not

vestal wren
sudden canyon
#

whys ER supposed to be used at 0cp (vs also 1-3cp)

#

is bomb dispenser just macro'd (assuming you dont care about saving charges for prio dmg/burst)

thorn fjord
#

Can be... I have mine macro'd to Mutilate

balmy condor
balmy condor
vestal wren
whole mason
#

I wont pray that kind of thing. If pray hard can make things happen, I'll do it for heavy 3-hit ambush and FoK hitting target twice as well as poison fusion.

whole mason
vestal wren
#

well i am not a dev

whole mason
#

my understanding is that he would treat NS as a featured "passing" node.

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it fits his style

balmy condor
#

would giga suck if that were the case

whole mason
#

what case?

#

NS as passing node?

balmy condor
#

if nightstalker was a node in 10.2

eager solstice
#

@balmy condor did blizz ask you for feedback or nda?

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On 10.2 I mean

oak sky
#

Wait realz mentioned rift the other day

#

I think i played that a bit

sudden canyon
#

blizz asked me for feedback. no nda

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i told em to ask chatgpt

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seems like those madlads took the comment to heart

oak sky
#

Isnt there a dev update thing today

eager solstice
#

You’re telling me all this time it wasn’t chatgpt dev?

gusty mirage
#

are theorycrafters not allowed to speculate?

whole mason
#

sure they can. but please be consistent

gusty mirage
#

consistent in what

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it's all speculatory

spice spire
#

Consistent in speculation?

whole mason
#

if he was speculating, then he could use "was to be"?

gusty mirage
#

or you could not try to dissect someone else's english

balmy condor
#

I wish taco bell consistently offered quesaritos

gusty mirage
#

and not jump down someone's throat for being inconsistent in speculating something that no one has seen

drifting cloud
#

feel free to be consistently quiet for everyone else sake

eager solstice
#

I wish Taco Bell was nicer to my belly

whole mason
gusty mirage
#

it didn't?

vestal wren
gusty mirage
#

do you see a PTR? or have knowledge of some insider information that fuu would be privy to?

vestal wren
#

so its a guess, but overall some nodes qualify for that quit well

gusty mirage
#

literally everything anyone says until things hit PTR is speculation

#

just because YOU didn't know that

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doesn't mean it's not common sense

vestal wren
#

and everyon can type from:.realz in the search bar and make conclusion based on communication/messages

whole mason
gusty mirage
#

can we tell you to be more careful with your words then?

eager solstice
#

Stop fighting mom and dad

balmy condor
vestal wren
#

i don't have any insider knowlage, sadly

vapid sierra
#

call to suffering sims ahead of beacon 10 ilvl difference

#

interesting

balmy condor
whole mason
#

i didn't speculate, i read fuu's reply which didn't imply any speculation, that's why i try to confirm it with him. and it turned out to be a speculation. and I merely commented on it lightly. there is no any harsh word anywhere in the conversation.

vestal wren
#

think its fine

#

you now know what my speculation is based on, what do you speculat will chang?

gusty mirage
#

why would it need to imply speculation, 10.2 ptr isn't out yet

#

literally anything said is speculation

#

even things realz posts

sudden canyon
minor heath
#

hey folks, what tertiary enchantments would you guys recommend for mythic prog?

spice spire
#

There’s no insider info.
It’s just people speculating to converse

spice spire
minor heath
gusty mirage
#

leech will probably save you more than avoidance will

#

esp because if avoidance works, feint works

spice spire
#

Depends on your healing situation kekdog

gusty mirage
#

and you're already getting 40% reduction from feint

minor heath
#

oh true. were currently progging rashok, got him to 9% last raid

gusty mirage
#

avoidance is esp good on rashok

minor heath
#

if that changes teh math

spice spire
#

Oh shit GZ

gusty mirage
#

his leaps & group soaks are all feintable

whole mason
#

for this case, my understanding is if fuu read it as a criticism then it actually has no word cirticizing. if fuu comes with humor and think that's a kidding, then that was my intention. The thing is removing NS is happy and good. if it turned out to be not confirmed then that's just some exclamation.

balmy condor
#

rogue's really weak against ticking damage usually so leech is good

spice spire
#

Avoidance is really good - but on our kill I was top healing to myself and leech was over half of that

minor heath
#

Pog whispyr sighting

balmy condor
#

all the stuff on rashok for example is feintable so avoidance is whatever lowkey

#

just gonna make your healers overheal more

minor heath
#

ok facts that was my guess

#

i will keep my leech enchants!

#

ty guys

balmy condor
sudden canyon
#

how do you guys feel about dmg being tied to stealth openers in m+ when the game is trending more and more towards this solo player communication-less playstyle. I used to like it, it gave some spec identity but it just feels more like annoyance to me now.

gusty mirage
#

so avoidance will be a smaller + to your health pool than leech

minor heath
#

or basically

balmy condor
dusk summit
#

With 10.1.7 being released for September 5th anyone see anything about the love we getting?

gusty mirage
#

considering changes aren't coming until 10.2

#

no you won't see anything in 10.1.7

vestal wren
#

10.2 ptr is likely to get up soon after 10.1.7

gusty mirage
#

and probably 1-2 weeks aafter 10.1.7

#

we should see 10.2 ptr

vestal wren
#

just to be clear, this is just how it is usually handled

whole mason
sudden canyon
#

xD

dusk summit
balmy condor
#

and then got pushed back to 10.2

vestal wren
#

well you could technically say you will have the changes in 10.1.7

#

because the ptr will be up during the 10.1.7 patch cycle

#

just that they won't come to the live server before 10.2

dusk summit
#

Oh ic. That's kinda pooping. The fact it was pushed back twice.

drifting cloud
#

it wasnt.

vestal wren
#

it was only pushed back once

balmy condor
#

it was pushed back 1 time

vestal wren
#

from 10.1.5 -> 10.2

dusk summit
#

There was an interview with one of the devs that straight up said 10.1.7

balmy condor
#

there wasn't

vestal wren
#

i assume 10.1.7 dev time was already allocated and they have still a lot of things to do for avoker

#

so it makes sense to "slot" it in for the next cycle

#

just my guess

dusk summit
#

Oh it was adjusted almost right after the interview

balmy condor
#

there was an interview with ion that said it was pushed back to the next major patch

vestal wren
#

^

balmy condor
#

which is in fact 10.2

#

there was an announcement of rogue changes in the 10.1.5 ptr notes

that didn't come

we didn't hear much

interviews said pushed back to next major patch

realz publically said most likely 10.2

#

that's the timeline

whole mason
#

yes. ion made it clear the work was not passed to other dev and pushed back

dusk summit
#

I don't understand why it takes 2/3rds of an expansion to see progress on a class when virtually all other have seen some kind of tweaking or even major buffs in some cases.

balmy condor
#

we got a whole new capstone in 10.0.5

#

and sepsis changes

#

various tunings along the way

dusk summit
#

And yet we still are the least performing spec. And at the bottom in terms of DPS tiers. it's just a bit disheartening to see, that we are bottom of the barrel it seems.

balmy condor
#

least performing spec out of what

dusk summit
#

I think there is one spec lower in m+ on the rankings and that unholy.

drifting cloud
#

game isnt balanced around m+

balmy condor
#

most rogues playing m+ also just play different specs

#

but yeh

#

specs are tuned to be able to do +20's

#

blizzard doesn't tune for +29's

dusk summit
#

I guess that's fair. But you can't say we are on par with the upper classes/spec in terms of numbers. Even in 20s or raid content. Even siming backs that. I have checked in a bit but I skimmed buddies lock and my rogue and he was about 50k give or take higher on ST. With similar Ilvl I'm 442 he 445. (I think 50k). I'll double check.

balmy condor
#

we're well above average for boss damage in raids

#

highest of the 3 rogue specs

drifting cloud
#

50k kekman

#

you cant be serious

balmy condor
#

I wasn't gonna touch that ryler

#

I have 3 warlocks in my guild

#

prog would've been done much faster if they simmed 180k

gusty mirage
#

you never know with the purple class

#

their APL could have them casting immolate over and over and over

#

wouldn't be the first time

hardy plaza
#

For boss damage, yes we're higher than the other two. But aren't we like middle of the pack for all specs?

balmy condor
vapid sierra
spice surge
#

Boss damage is also famously kinda missleading

balmy condor
#

outlaw in this case is perfectly in the middle

balmy condor
vapid sierra
#

Guy

#

Me

#

And unmmmmm

hardy plaza
#

that's specifically 75th percentile though. is that pretty consistent for all the percentiles?

vapid sierra
#

Some guy on Warcraft logs with Asian characters in his name

gusty mirage
balmy condor
#

brother I'm not going to sit here and click through percentiles for you

spice surge
hardy plaza
#

Didn't ask you to either. Just asking.

balmy condor
#

it's above average

spice spire
vapid sierra
#

!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
woeful hollow
#

which trinket do i take boys the dragonfire can be upgraded to 441 or the frenzying ignoll flare can be ugpraded to 447

void mesa
#

Bomb

balmy condor
#

bomb for sure

dusk summit
woeful hollow
#

okay bet gonna run zskarn rq to see if i can get it so i dont need to take

brittle jungle
#

Hi all, is there a haste percentage to have in PvE Assassination ?

potent topaz
#

the normal answer would be to sim your character and raidbots will tell you, if you need more haste

#

but there are no fixed values for stats

vapid sierra
#

Do like other classes have a hit x amount of stat and stop because of hard or soft cap?

balmy condor
#

rarely

quiet oar
#

There are breakpoint for some classes

#

But its more relic of the past

#

Or Do i remember it False?

balmy condor
#

most of the breakpoints are mini things for like getting 1 extra gcd during cooldowns, or a slightly better timing on something that's reduced by haste

#

shatter cap on frost mages famously

#

but yeah

vapid sierra
#

Fire with skb

balmy condor
#

it's basically gone at this point

vapid sierra
#

One extra gcd at 25% haste I think?

balmy condor
#

something like that

vapid sierra
#

Yeah makes sense

balmy condor
#

its much more common on casters cause they get gcd and cast time

#

it just creates some weird timing shit

quiet oar
#

It was more common on previous expac right?

vapid sierra
#

Probably

balmy condor
#

hasn't really been more common since like legion

quiet oar
#

Yeah thats what i mean

balmy condor
#

bfa/shadowlands didn't have much

quiet oar
#

Yeah i meant Legion

#

But Legion Was weird

#

Where mainstat wasnt good

burnt latch
#

Ud lose your mind

balmy condor
#

yeh

#

there's a ton of shit like that

#

and the answer is always "it doesn't matter"

#

it's like assassination restealth in m+ conversation

#

over and over and over

woeful meteor
#

imagine hasted gcd and shiv debuff

burnt latch
#

Cant play assa on spiteful week starege

wary ice
#

And it's for being able to sneak 5 pyros into a skb and then 104 is "scorch casts faster than the gcd so fireball"

hollow helm
#

!spreadsheet

prisma monolithBOT
spice spire
burnt latch
#

The age of dilemma

spice spire
#

Mfs act like vanish doesn’t exist SMH

balmy condor
#

for how much I need to pad

#

if I don't get stealthed

#

I need to know how much I have to abuse the ghosties

#

maybe an augvoker will notice me if I do

burnt latch
#

From rough calculations around 30% of your damage would need to be on the shades for the damage to equal your stealthed garrotes

balmy condor
#

I'm on it

burnt latch
#

Dont bother double checking this is verified maths

balmy condor
#

using potions for shade damage

burnt latch
balmy condor
#

holding deathmark

#

calculating perfect positioning for crimson tempest spamming while they all run away from me

#

triangulating my poison bomb

#

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

wary ice
#

Whispbot

burnt latch
#

Shades never knew what hit em

wary ice
#

The skynet solution for digital ghosts

runic hinge
#

Spiteful week is great because it gives me an excuse to press evasion in keys

keen spruce
oak sky
#

fucking lmao

frozen iris
#

Is there still a dev update or was that for classic hardcore?

balmy condor
#

the dev update was for classic

gusty mirage
frozen iris
#

Bummer

burnt latch
gusty mirage
robust copper
#

Ohai, new face here and new-ish rogue player (at least for DRAGONFLIGHT). Had a trinket question, and wanted to know if the elementium anvil is swimming real high for anyone else? It's listed as a F-tier trink on wowhead guide but sims keep saying it needs to be picked over the Onyx Imposters Birthright ring from my Vault. Any and all help appreciated! ā¤ļø

runic hinge
#

Other trinkets are better but trust robot

keen spruce
#

I don't think it's F-tier. not sure when the gear guide was updated on wowhead but it kinda falls more in the low B high C category for most people's sims

#

not a bad option until you have access to other raid trinkets

#

or like a harlan's or something

#

and if you have bad trinkets rn then it'll probably outperform a lot of other random stuff

robust copper
#

My other trinket is the Nelth one. The one being replaced would be a Chromatic Essence

fading wigeon
#

Nelth and chromatic

#

Over anvil

keen spruce
#

is the anvil like much higher ilvl suss

waxen pagoda
#

I'm the best assasination rogue from my country yay!

robust copper
#

anvil would be 434 ilvl after i upgrade

#

nelth is 431 and ominous is 418 so itd be pretty large ilvl from ominous

keen spruce
#

so direct damage trinkets tend to get favored by sims when your character ilvl is lower

#

it would probably be a short term upgrade

#

but if you increase your ilvl in all of your other gear slots

#

you might see the sims shift in favor of the stat trinkets

robust copper
#

yeah like my boots are 408 lol

#

ok, that's good info!

keen spruce
#

like if you got an early beacon this tier it was kind of hard carrying your damage for a long time

#

but as people got closer to like 440+ ilvl other trinkets caught up pretty quickly

robust copper
#

beacon doesn't exist. literally never seen that thing drop since raid came out lol

keen spruce
#

and a lot of people dropped beacon in raid for class trinket and chromatic

#

or*

idle inlet
balmy condor
# robust copper Ohai, new face here and new-ish rogue player (at least for DRAGONFLIGHT). Had a ...

@keen spruce issue is who the tier list is for and the content it reflects, compared to all the other options. It’s already flawed to begin with in those regards. Could anvil be good? Sure. If the fight is long enough (like in mythic, it doesn’t have time to stack in normal/heroic). And also only in raid, not in m+. And also if you don’t have any of the better trinkets. Chromatic is equally problematic for similar reasons because if you don’t have all the buffs in your raid it’s just a bad trinket

#

It’s hard to fully pin down when trinkets are that complicated

#

Also just the fact that its a tier list

#

It’s incredibly cringe

keen spruce
#

yeah I was being a little hyperbolic for the context of the question

balmy condor
#

But they require it for our guides

#

So what can you do

keen spruce
#

all my homies hate tier lists

#

how much freedom do you have on the format of the tier list?

#

like can you change the S/A/B/C to something else? PES_Think

balmy condor
#

It has to be in the traditional S/A/B/C formatting

keen spruce
#

booooo

balmy condor
#

The structure of like tier - item - drop - explanation is locked as well

#

The best I could do is put the explanation in the note

#

But then it’s like a fucking 3 paragraph note

#

And the whole thing is unreadable

#

And then you just have no idea how good a trinket it

#

Cause ā€œoh it’s Aā€

#

But then the note has 25 caveats

robust copper
#

Oh that's lame. I thought the tier actually meant more than just a format as far as wowhead guides go but that makes sense @balmy condor . In any case that guide has been my sole guiding beacon when trying to do rogue things this expansion so it's very much appreciated!

balmy condor
#

And it’s usually fine but yeh

#

Shit like tier lists, gear bis lists

#

Functionally pointless

#

But have to be included

robust copper
#

Gotta get those clicks and search results!

#

I know the drill, sadly lol

balmy condor
#

Is what it is

#

I’m glad you enjoy the guide though

keen spruce
#

I know a lot of people get goofed up on the raid/m+ bis lists

#

not realizing it's just the best items from each form of content in a vaccum

gusty mirage
#

@keen spruce do I get nick of time

#

or no

keen spruce
#

also if anyone already has a nick of time

#

I have a tank that agreed to solo the 2nd boss so we can bring 4 rogues if we want

gusty mirage
#

nothing

#

next week for sure

earnest remnant
#

unfortunate

gusty mirage
#

6th times the charm

#

ya know

earnest remnant
#

cant get the dagger it would make you to op

gusty mirage
#

same with sark dagger

earnest remnant
#

im not even doing the mega dungeon for it

gusty mirage
#

but the CONTENT bro

#

its CONTENT

earnest remnant
#

id rather not

agile osprey
#

@keen spruce @pure moth we at 8 or 8:30?

keen spruce
#

i'm gud whenever

pure moth
#

830

#

Ill be on just before then

silk bane
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i didnt say it though, they said it

gusty mirage
silk bane
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but i didnt say it

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im just a messanger

gusty mirage
keen spruce
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I don't need no morchie helper

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grandpa eyes

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but also we're not

agile osprey
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2 and thru bb

gusty mirage
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imagine missing out on some mounts

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the true end game

keen spruce
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i'm just saving my mental for next m+ season

gusty mirage
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no you're not

keen spruce
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u rite

gusty mirage
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you're pulling sark with 19 people

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who you lying to

keen spruce
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we dedicated few

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o7

agile osprey
pure moth
keen spruce
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oh

agile osprey
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LOL

keen spruce
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I might have forgot to put that in the note