#assassination

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thorn fjord
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You are def a badass

ruby birch
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I mean you were aggressive towards me for no reason ICANT

thorn fjord
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Dont even front

limber lion
ruby birch
cursive owl
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i what O_O ?

ruby birch
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I gave just a friendly suggestion IF you don’t like demise

bronze pike
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i woke up as well

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cookin

cursive owl
# ruby birch

u said " if u dont like demise then dont play it "

bronze pike
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so i can leave for work later

ruby birch
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Yeah?

limber lion
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Which is true

bronze pike
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so overal solid day so far

limber lion
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If you don't like DTB, don't play it

spice spire
limber lion
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If you don't like Assassination, don't play it

ruby birch
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I gave an alternate option…

bronze pike
limber lion
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We all have free will

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Or so they say

ruby birch
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How is that putting words in your mouth

bronze pike
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but now i have a deathstalker cook

cursive owl
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well

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for me it did sound like u telling me that i said i hate demise 😮

ruby birch
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I said if

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Because I didn’t want to assume

cursive owl
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x)

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then let me tell you here for I do apologize for assuming a false intention, im sorry 😦

ruby birch
bronze pike
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deathstalker first talent makes you summon a perma stealthed rogue from the shadows as your partner, copying your abilities at a 70% reduced rate and shares your hp

ruby birch
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I’m trapped

bronze pike
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deatstalker last capstone active talent: your deathstalker explodes, killing himself and you to deal the combine total hp to your target

fallen arch
cursive owl
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shuriken ? will uaccept my apology ?

bronze pike
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cooked

cursive owl
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@normal mist i wanna know what i have done that u say that, im curious. i always try to help in the most generous way

limber lion
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Did you know that warmer weather causes more turtles to be born female than male.

shy pecan
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o rly?

normal mist
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You remind me of a player in #pvp that used to try to help others when he himself couldn't go past 1000 rating in pvp.
What I mean is, these past few weeks, especially with your talk about stats, we did tell you many times what to do and many times you didn't listen. And I saw you give bad advice once or twice and no I'm not going to go search for it

limber lion
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Or that polar bears actually have black skin?

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The fur is white but their skin is actually super black!

bronze pike
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did you know, that crickets are super lame

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and should just be extinct

limber lion
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🥶

bronze pike
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cause they always chip outside my window and i cant find them

normal mist
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Crickets lives matter

limber lion
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We ain't got crickets or grasshoppers here in Finland

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It's peace and quiet all day long

cursive owl
# normal mist You remind me of a player in <#226359213427916800> that used to try to help othe...

well i never played PVP, and i always remind ppl that i am building a Meme build. and i do know what the stat weights are. recently i was only taking about stats because i am in touch with mister Bonespike cause we talked about trinkets and crit procs. I do not have any intention of leading people into a false direction. and Hell no i ever will. so if U are in your Opinion that i am a Bed influence to ppl in this Discord and others, please let me know it i will leave imidiately. Thanks

limber lion
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!stats

normal mist
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I'm no one here

prisma monolithBOT
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There are no "recommended stat levels" or "breakpoint of X stat" or "required" amount of any stats. This is an outdated way to think about stats and simply is not relevant to the spec. If you're looking for a quick recommendation: Agi >> Mast = Crit = Haste > VersatilityIt's always more accurate to simulate your own character, as stat procs like Witherbark's Branch and Wafting Devotion can often de-value the stat in question. Stats are not a rigid construct, their values change constantly in relation to each other depending on your character.

limber lion
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Boom

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Get !stats'd on

fallen arch
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And here I am stacking speed

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Fml

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It isn’t even mentioned

normal mist
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I said it earlier, stacking speed makes you a better player

fallen arch
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Until
U kill your homies on AA first boss

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Cos u fast as fuck

normal mist
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I'm a shit HC player myself

shy pecan
cursive owl
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what i cannot stand are ppl who actually trigger me, i get mad at them, and it turnes out it was a misunderstanding and i apologize and they just ignore it. well done Grown up human

normal mist
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You sound like an adult because I can see myself in those words.
Still, you're fine, everything is fine, and don't let people on the internet dictate how you feel.

cursive owl
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alright

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thank you

fallen arch
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Maybe cut back on the uwus and owos a little

cursive owl
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like thank you for actually talking with me in a way that we can as "adults"

cursive owl
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dw i will try xD

normal mist
cursive owl
cursive owl
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😄

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thank your for your patience 😄

gusty mirage
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get lapped NERDS

cursive owl
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what the hell is htat

royal lantern
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@quiet oar wanna ride into sunset togheter for 880k fire dmg?

spice surge
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(whichever is closest)

gilded oasis
rough kraken
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what if the sunset is near you, then it loses value

cursive owl
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is that a new tww trinket 😄

rough kraken
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idk if the location of the sunset is implemented in sims either so will probably be wanky

gilded oasis
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is the sunset in the room with us?

gilded oasis
cursive owl
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mhm but it sounds funny

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can i imagine like a Hecarim ultimate ? where u just phalanx into the enemys with a fire horse ?

quiet oar
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if we ride in the direction of the sunset

royal lantern
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yes

fallen arch
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No sprint? Not my problem

shy pecan
quiet oar
shy pecan
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Invite me to the wedding, kthx

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(When you both have one)

quiet oar
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Sin OTP and Outlaw player, to unite rogue again

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Sub can be the kid that throws the flowers

shy pecan
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That'll be fuu

fallen arch
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How is one an otp and something else

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Oh nvm

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Im dumb

shy pecan
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Actually, make Hacha the flower kid kekdog

quiet oar
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Why not both

shy pecan
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Or Eleem could do it

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Eleem would be the perfect flower kid actually

spice surge
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Whats that supposed to mean

shy pecan
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Like that

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I could see you doing that, steal the show for a sec

sterile cypress
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Does anyone know if we can Cloak of Shadows the rock blast from Terros in Vault? (the targeted group soak mechanic)

hexed frost
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Yeah you can

royal lantern
shy pecan
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Yeah, I think Eleem would be best. The unnamed star of the show Smile

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unnamed, hidden, whatever you wanna call it

vestal wren
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subtlety is supposed to be hidden

shy pecan
vestal wren
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^ subtlety rogue

royal lantern
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video of seli playing wow

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wtf

vestal wren
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thats seli playing wow

shy pecan
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Damn fuu lol

potent raven
royal lantern
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birb gang birb gang

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your druid/hunters have it?

potent raven
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think most of them do

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im like one of the few who didnt

royal lantern
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bragging about having the mount while the hunters/druids dont have it is the best thing about the mount

potent raven
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lmao

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didnt know

clever sapphire
potent raven
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hahaah

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my dude!

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its the 2nd time i loot it lol i had to trade it w. the last guild 😭

clever sapphire
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well i didnt loot it dracthyr_kek

potent raven
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lmao

clever sapphire
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our hunter looted it, but he didnt want it and last time he got it he sold it for like 7M

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now he just had us roll for it

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and i got it with a 90

potent raven
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i see

clever sapphire
potent raven
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i just got it kek

clever sapphire
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i dunno man, we got a big pvp booster guy here who has more gold than he knows what to do with it

gusty mirage
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neat part is, your account now has that bird for druid flight form

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and your hunters can tame those owls

royal lantern
clever sapphire
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well i dont play druid currently because its boring

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and i dont play hunter because, hunter?

gusty mirage
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you log on

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swap form

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fly for 15s and log off

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like I did

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then send the screenshot to every druid you know

royal lantern
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"yoooooooo that looks so cool, why are you not using it???"

waxen oyster
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and never plays the class

amber stream
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!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
potent raven
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fckin ezz

clever sapphire
frosty bridge
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guys when i press

clever sapphire
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its just a fun bossfight

frosty bridge
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kingsbane natty without DM

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what are my next 3 gcds

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garrote > ambush ?

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or

lean portal
frosty bridge
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do i refresh rupture for the nightstalker thing or envenom

lean portal
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what build u played ?

lean portal
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unless its dropping

frosty bridge
clever sapphire
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question

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is it in aoe or st

lean portal
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true

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i assumed it was st

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mb

frosty bridge
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yeye st, just for raszy G

potent raven
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koldera coached official

clever sapphire
potent raven
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i got sarkareth mount too

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lolol

clever sapphire
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raza?

hearty reef
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@whuspyr

limber lion
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Hm

frosty bridge
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🫡

limber lion
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Let's not ping random people out of the blue.

potent raven
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My bad

hearty reef
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Np

cerulean maple
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is there a way to add caustic splatter to luxthos weakaura?

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like as a debuff tracker ig

hearty reef
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Luxthos? It's in the dinamic effects subgroup

cerulean maple
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oh really wtf

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i dont see it when i play

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also would u say to think of aoe rogue opener/rotation to basically just be

garrote all
rupt all/most
pick primary and mut + prepare for burst window
burst window
(normal priority)

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ive been struggling w it for some reason

normal mist
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You don't really need to garr/rupture all, a few is enough for your spam envenom (caustic) rotation

cerulean maple
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oh okay

normal mist
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garr/rupture take some time to deal real damage, and depending on your key level, garr/rupture like 5 / 6 targets is more than enough

cerulean maple
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ok! thank u

normal mist
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because rets and boomies will destroy the pack b4 you do damage

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also, this is extremely important

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For you do deal dmg with caustic, you NEED to mutilate your target while he has rupture and deadly poison

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this can easily be forgotten

lean portal
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garr actually deals dmg if you can have 9 its cool

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when its from stealth

cerulean maple
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rn i do

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2x gartrote, rupt

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garrote, fan, rupt

lean portal
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but rupture go for 5 max

cerulean maple
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then mut and fan+venom

normal mist
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thats 3 garrotes and tabbing so you extend to a non garroted target

normal mist
# cerulean maple garrote, fan, rupt

I'm not entirely sure of what i'm about to say so anyone correct me if i'm wrong, but depending on target count, you dont want to garrote after stealth window is done so you don't overwrite the empowered garrotes you already have rolling

cerulean maple
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oh i meant like

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garrote, tab target, garrote, rupt, tab target, garrote, fan, rupt

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so that u have garrote on 9 and rupt on 6

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or should you onl use garrote twice

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bc of the risk of ruining snapshotting

normal mist
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3x is fine for 7-9 targets yeah

cerulean maple
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for lower just 2x?

normal mist
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IC lasts 10 seconds, Empower garrotes last 3secs after stealth

normal mist
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most of your damage will come for caustic

cerulean maple
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ahh okay

normal mist
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But keep in mind, i'm taking into consideration this season meta, where it is full of classes with HUGE bursts that we can't keep up with

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before you even start to ramp up packs are already dead

cerulean maple
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yeah fair

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for lower keys do you prefer sudden demise or demise+arterial? or which build

normal mist
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I honestly usually play between 6 and 10 bcs im a pleb, and during S3 i ONLY played cleave build, this season i only played OL in m+

lean portal
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and waste cp

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cause garrote must come from stealth

normal mist
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and 3 seconds after

lean portal
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y thats why

normal mist
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which means garr garr rupt garr is fine

lean portal
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you have 3 stealth gcd

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means 3 garrote in a row

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wait

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maube im crazy

normal mist
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now even i am doubting myself

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ill test

lean portal
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XD

runic hinge
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Gar gar ct fok rup fok rup and then I’m into kb stuff

lean portal
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also dont play cleave

runic hinge
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That’s plenty of bleeds and ct gets snapshot and your caustic will carry you

normal mist
lean portal
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unless ure playing 15+ in tyra

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i like to ct during sd personally

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i go triple garrote rup fok rup mutilate snd fok envenom

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then cds

normal mist
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How important would SnD be on an huge AoE scenario?

lean portal
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very

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cause its mandatory for kingsbane

runic hinge
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Gotta have it up before kb but if you’re spreading bleeds it’s whatever I think

normal mist
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Yeah was thinking outside KB windows

lean portal
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outside kb whatever but usually you dont have time to drop it between two kb windows

normal mist
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I mean its still a stupid question since SnD usually doesnt run out during m+

cerulean maple
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why do the sims use ct so late

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like

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i get most of the damage is caustic but on paper crimson looks like so much dmg

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is it rly not that useful?

runic hinge
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Just be a chad and don’t follow sims

runic hinge
# cerulean maple is it rly not that useful?

I think the idea is that ct isn’t higher value than getting your bleeds for energy and scent stacks out and then you want to get into KB asap because obviously it ramps at the end and any time you aren’t ramping it is wasted almost

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That’s why the cleave build is so popular because then you don’t even have to think about it.

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I dont really do keys high enough that I care and I do think getting ct out early on large pulls is definitely more valuable than the sims make it seem. But it’s like if I only get 10 seconds of kb cause I used 2 globals for ct am I wasting “more” damage

indigo epoch
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Garrote garrote ct garrote rupture fok mut envenom is how I usually open packs 🤷‍♂️

normal mist
runic hinge
cerulean maple
balmy condor
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But like Tony said

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Using sims to learn your rotation

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Is very stupid

cerulean maple
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so it seems 💀

balmy condor
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Sims live in a half-state of realistically doable, but also still a robot

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We avoid putting in things that aren’t in any way reasonable for a human

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Like if there was an optimization that said always refresh rupture at 1.37 seconds

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That’s not it

cerulean maple
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LMFAO

balmy condor
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We don’t put that in

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But even then, a lot of the conditionals are still incredibly complicated

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And there are things in the sims that most people don’t bother with

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Because it’s not worth trying to min max that

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So especially if you’re just learning the spec

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Shit will just straight up not make sense most of the time

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It’s also the reason why rotation helpers are dogshit

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Aside from all their other issues

cerulean maple
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rotation helpers ie. hekili and the like?

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ive noticed anytime i turn them on i immediately play worse

balmy condor
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Yeah

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Turning on Hekili is a very easy way to lose 20% of your dps

runic hinge
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Hekili I’ve heard tries to play like a robot so basically it just takes the sim apl and says do this every time but in reality you can’t play like that. Stuff in the game is too reactive

balmy condor
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I mean it also just does it poorly

runic hinge
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True

cerulean maple
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yeah hekili doesnt match what sims say (for me anyway personally) half the time

runic hinge
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I just hit dummies for a while and then I got do low keys for a bit and invite bad people so I can do all the damage and then start moving up.

cerulean maple
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that is the way

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beating the shit out of dummies >>>> trying to figure out why sim does sim things

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idk if there;s a way to use raidbots or whatever this way but i wish there were a way to write rotations/openers yourself and test them in sims so u dont have to hit dummies for 30min

runic hinge
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I don’t really get into high keys either so sometimes I just play for sudden demise damage cause it’s funny

balmy condor
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Like the logic language for sims

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Doesn’t function like that

cerulean maple
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oh

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well

spice surge
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Its just a lot more complicated than you'd expect

cerulean maple
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i am very not coding literate

spice surge
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Overall optimizing the sim to do whats best is a lot more complicated and more effort required than one might expect

cerulean maple
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shoutout to all the sim devs tbh

spice surge
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And the outlaw guys already got their shit working for the beta, theyre actually completely cracked

cerulean maple
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for the war within?

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Also do you guys run acrobatic strikes just for easier uptime or thistle on ur aoe builds? i assume its just preference?

spice surge
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If you want acro you go acro+2x lethality instead of 2x alacrity+deeper

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You always keep tea

cerulean maple
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wait so instead of like this

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like this?

spice surge
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yes

cerulean maple
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is thistle mastery and energy regen really worth more than the extra damage on finishing moves and protection against overstacking from strata? woahg

spice surge
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yes

runic hinge
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I was running Acro earlier this patch but then I realized i don’t really need it and I’ve since switched back

cerulean maple
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im relatively new to endgame pve content so acro feels more comfortable since you have some room for positioning error

strong wing
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2/3%?

balmy condor
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And a Microsoft dev

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So

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Kinda stacked

spice surge
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Ye im not throwing any shade

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Yeah theyre just stacked

royal lantern
shy pecan
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My guess is Koji

balmy condor
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Levy

shy pecan
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Oh

slate crown
balmy condor
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Koji works at some unnamed game dev studio

shy pecan
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Got it

royal lantern
shy pecan
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Levy doesn't ring a bell though hmm

balmy condor
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Wdym

shy pecan
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I don't recognize the name

balmy condor
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He’s in outlaw a lot

shy pecan
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It's been a while since I've been active in there 😛

balmy condor
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He’s the guy that setup outlawmallet

shy pecan
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Got it

timid talon
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Worth swapping to sin if I'm not gonna get PI?

shy pecan
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Still worth, still do good damage

timid talon
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All I needed to hear

royal lantern
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do you like playing assa

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if the answer is yes, play it

balmy condor
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If you like playing it, play it

shy pecan
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^

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Third that

balmy condor
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I played sin on smolderon

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Post-nerf

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Was fine

timid talon
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You're just built differently

normal mist
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He values his fun

shy pecan
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I was wondering who the fourth was though. Guy, Solo, Koji I knew immediately

balmy condor
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Solo?

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Oh you said solo

shy pecan
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I thought zac was done

balmy condor
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What

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Zac’s around

shy pecan
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Yeah, but not TC'ing though?

balmy condor
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He was a couple days ago

shy pecan
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Ah

indigo epoch
runic hinge
silk bane
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bro shows up to packs starts rappin

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and the thing goes garrrrr garrrrr

runic hinge
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And every shadow dance I’m spreading more garrote and after kb is done if the pack is still alive I’ll spread rupture to anything that’s gonna not die soon

silk bane
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ct fok fok rup

runic hinge
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But as long as I have full scent stacks and my energy is Gucci then I’m probably just ripping envenom

keen spruce
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Da ting goes fok fok rup

spice spire
silk bane
gray sleet
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Why the fuck am i running out of energy so fast

slate crown
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poisons equipped?

runic hinge
shy pecan
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Kinda need more info than just why you’re running out so fast. Single target? AoE? How long into the fight?

radiant osprey
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hi do we not use crimson tempest in keys anymore

dark token
dark token
spice spire
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What frozen said

unreal parcel
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!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
faint vessel
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are any of you running caustic cleave on tyrannical vs the full M+ aoe build?

balmy condor
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it's less of a tyran vs fort situation

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and more of a key level thing

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most everyone running cleave are doing it above like 15/16

runic hinge
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I will never see a 15. Those people are crazy

faint vessel
rotund oak
runic hinge
fallen arch
runic hinge
# fallen arch Shouldn’t that first ct be a rup though?

It can be. Depends on the pull really. I just value the snapshot on ct over 3 ruptures. And I think getting CT out early on every target is a lot of damage. And if you’re waiting until after cds or during cds, ct is hard to fit.

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It also depends on what you’re playing for as well. Like if you’re just trying to kill a big guy or it’s like a small pull I think ct early isn’t as good.

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A lot of people play cleave because they will just Kb the big guy and then you let caustic do all your aoe for you. I play ap shock build because I like doing high overall and still contributing on trash when kb isn’t up or if my kb target gets focused down before I get full value

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So maybe I’m just playing for pad but whatever tops the meter

fallen arch
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I think that should be ‘whatever times the key’

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In a bolstering week unnecessary pad on smallies sounds like the worst thing u can do tbh

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But if you 2 chest your keys anyway, all good right

runic hinge
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Yes. You’re right

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The thing I think about is everything has to die eventually and so there isn’t really pad. And the best part of playing sin is just dm/kb the one scary big dude and you’re doing your job and also killing the small ones. Bolstering doesn’t usually become that big of a problem. Plus you’re a dot class you’re not like spamming divine storm when you wanna just kill one dude. You’re doting the other trash so everything comes down together

wraith spindle
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Hey guys! I’m new here. I’m trying to figure out which build does the most overall dmg in m+? Is it crimson tempters build or cleave build?

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Tempest*

runic hinge
wraith spindle
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Just spamming 8’s -10 range

wraith spindle
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And which is easier?

runic hinge
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Do the ap shock build

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And they play mostly the same

wraith spindle
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Okay thank you, is there a place where I can look up rotations and bis?

runic hinge
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Check wowhead

wraith spindle
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Will do! Thanks a bunch

cursive owl
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guys, i try to recall what was said yesterday to the AOE rotation with CT , so we do CT and perma try to spread garrote and rupture but need to run envenom buff , so if the buff i to vanish we refresh and continuew ct and ruptures ? or did i got that wrong.

primal jolt
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HELLO DEATHSTALKER ENJOYERS

brave gyro
balmy condor
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Where are these people you speak of

tropic tundra
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they're all dead(literally)

normal mist
cursive owl
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i see okay

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thanks :>

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so we play around caustig which means we ignore 4set ? or is it needed*

normal mist
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And as you said, refresh if necessary (since meta specs are so bursty, keys between 8-10 you barely have time to ramp up your damage properly)

cursive owl
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i see

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Ok

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and above 10 i believe cleave build is better anyway

normal mist
cursive owl
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true O-o well yeah xD

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noted*

normal mist
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4 set = chaining envenoms do big DMG

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Caustic = big damage

cursive owl
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oh ?

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so caustic proccs from 4set

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i see

normal mist
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Afaik yes, the explosion

cursive owl
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so caustic means realy " all posion dmg"

normal mist
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@balmy condor sorry to poke you, but just to be sure, caustic does work with 4set since it's poison dmg right?

balmy condor
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Yes

cursive owl
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ok

balmy condor
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Caustic spreads all class-based nature damage

cursive owl
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so all abilitys u posses not the item effects

balmy condor
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That includes other weird things like poison bomb

balmy condor
cursive owl
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Ok

balmy condor
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Items and class effects are usually completely separate

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So like shiv increases nature damage

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But items that do nature damage, don’t interact

balmy condor
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Caustic spreads all nature damage, but items don’t interact

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Etc etc

cursive owl
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yeye

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ok

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ty ^-^

normal mist
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Thanks mister Whispyr

cursive owl
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thank you also royal :>

peak quarry
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Should kingsbane only ever be used with Shadowdance?

balmy condor
#

yep

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macro'd

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shadow dance first

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ashes in that macro too

peak quarry
#

Okay, that actually makes it simpler than I thought

cursive owl
#

ill need to add this, 1 more button free 😄

normal mist
#

You either had it macrod to deathmark or SD, you were pressing it manually?

cursive owl
#

yes

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i had it on MB4

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x)

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kb SD in shift R

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shiv in ShiftE and tea on shiftF , DM is on E

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ill bind it on DM so i will switch DM from E to mb4

normal mist
#

Well you just saved yourself the trouble

cursive owl
ashen oriole
balmy condor
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correct

ashen oriole
#

is it a gain, neutral or a loss vs APL?

balmy condor
#

neutral

ashen oriole
#

doesnt it make sense to align it ashes with deathmark+kb instead of single kb?

balmy condor
#

what

ashen oriole
#

kb being on a 1min cd you fit 2 kb casts in a 2min window. every other kb is paired with deathmark. shouldn't ashed be used when deathmark is up too?

balmy condor
#

yeah, so you macro ashes to your dance/kb macro

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you open

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right

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so you deathmark, press the macro

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it casts ashes

ashen oriole
#

for now i have tried to line them up bc of their 2 min cds but looking at APL the condition only looks at KB

balmy condor
#

and then deathmark is a 2 min cd

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and ashes is a 2 min cd

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this is why looking at the APL for how to play is stupid

ashen oriole
#

ye right if they are macroed it will only be ready on DM

clever sapphire
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(i wouldnt macro it to kb if you use the dance/kb macro in m+)

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there will be times where you only wanna use a small cooldown because boss is comng up

ashen oriole
balmy condor
#

I mean the guides are simplified derivatives

ashen oriole
#

alright then

balmy condor
#

simplified to be ya know

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playable

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trying to memorize APL conditionals as a method of improving just doesn't make sense from a human standpoint

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you're not a robot

ashen oriole
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WA ftw

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but ye I understand where you are coming from

royal lantern
ashen oriole
clever sapphire
#

i have ashes macrod to dm

clever sapphire
#

i love sending all cooldowns on first boss

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on pull

ashen oriole
#

that makes sense I guess?

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binding it to DM

rotund oak
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ye,big window big buffs

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i also have pot on that macro

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DM+Ashes+Pot

grim jay
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And to kb for raid

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Switching build will switch out the macros aswell anyways

ashen oriole
#

how?

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what is this magic you're using

grim jay
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Separate Bars basically

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Theres a clicky thing somewhere so the Bars arent shared across builds

clever sapphire
#

so my bars are always identical

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im not using the default talent swap thingy

ashen oriole
#

same

clever sapphire
#

well then you cant do his way

balmy condor
#

there's talent tree addons?

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what the fuck do they even do

grim jay
clever sapphire
#

i dunno, i was messing around on all 3 specs in S2 and my loadouts were filled

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because of the 10 limit

balmy condor
#

oh

clever sapphire
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so i got myself the addon because that didnt have a limit

balmy condor
#

that's wild

clever sapphire
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i liked saving loadouts for some bosses and whatnot

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or just dumb things that i messed around with

balmy condor
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yeh that's fair

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I have like 3 setups

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1 for raid, 1 for m+, and like an alternate

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and I'll just change those around

clever sapphire
#

i think i have 3 m+, 1 raid and 1 council

balmy condor
#

like caustic is 1 swap

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so it's whatever

grim jay
#

Same

balmy condor
#

but I guess if you have a ton and the addon lets you get over the cap

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that's pretty chill

grim jay
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I never have any slots taken by outlaw

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So 10 for 2 specs is pretty fine

clever sapphire
#

its this one

grim jay
balmy condor
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didn't know breaking the cap was possible

potent raven
#

crazy how the only good parse i got was with pi

clever sapphire
#

eh i had like 3 for outlaw, 3 for sub and 4 for assa

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and i wanted to mess around more and save more talents

potent raven
#

wait nvm im lying i got pi on dathea but that boss makes me suicidal bro

clever sapphire
#

dathea is a shit boss

balmy condor
#

so what you're saying is you're 50% on parsing with pi

grim jay
potent raven
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idk not familiar with the raid that well

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kill timers kinda shit as well

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way too long

potent raven
grim jay
#

Because better

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Even if minimal

ashen oriole
#

with how much energy are you guys entering Kingsbane?

steel geyser
#

doesnt matter

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if you follow the finisher rules

rotund oak
#

no magic number

barren yarrow
#

Ok I still don’t quite understand pooling. Its waiting longer to cast spells? And what does it mean to chain env?

balmy condor
#

!pooling

prisma monolithBOT
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Read About Pooling
Video
TLDR:```- Outside of Cooldowns, you want to wait until your envenom is in pandemic/around 1 second in order to proc tier. This is the core concept of "chaining", where you clip envenoms back to back

  • If it's getting uncomfortable to chain, or you have to let envenom drop, pool back up to around 80% energy, and then start another chain
  • Always wait to envenom, never wait to mutilate/ambush. You want to generate your combo points as soon as possible, and then evaluate whether you should pool or use a finisher
  • Without 4 piece, chaining envenoms has no benefit and you can try to be above 50% energy for sanguine
  • With 4 piece, the chain takes priority over sanguine and you would play around the tier, not sanguine```The reason we do this is to maximize uptimes and tier procs which is a more efficient energy use
barren yarrow
#

So if you have a 4pc set you can do back to back env?

balmy condor
#

Yes

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That’s how the effect procs

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You have to envenom during envenom

barren yarrow
#

I’m losing out on so much damage lol. Ok I’ll practice that later.

balmy condor
#

Pooling perfectly versus just blindly slamming envenoms is about a 1% to 1.5% difference

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I wouldn’t worry about it if you’re new to the spec

barren yarrow
#

ok. I played a lot of sin in MOP and came back to it for our raid team.

balmy condor
#

#1 thing you need to do correctly to play sin at a decent level is make sure you’re not messing up kingsbane

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Kingsbane is the entire identity of the spec atm

barren yarrow
#

ok and as far as “pooling” is it safe to wait until 5 stacks to let gar and rup apply?

balmy condor
#

5 stacks of what to let what

barren yarrow
#

Umm our energy bars? Combo points

balmy condor
#

Gar and rupture have no bearing on pooling

barren yarrow
#

ok

balmy condor
#

They’re bleeds you have to maintain 100% of the time

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Or else you don’t generate energy

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And you die

barren yarrow
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so we pool to save energy and apply Env / KB

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right right ok

balmy condor
#

Pooling is just for tier/envenom

frosty bridge
#

Dumb question but since you are already answering, should I ever be in the situation where I have to choose if I should rupture or envenom chain? Or does being in that situation mean I messed somethingup

balmy condor
#

I think you’re really overthinking this

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Just make sure you’re not trolling your kingsbane every minute

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It’ll be fine

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Maintain gar/rup always

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Do cooldowns

balmy condor
#

Win game

spice surge
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If you have to drop envenom for it, then so be it, time to pool

barren yarrow
#

Haha yeah I am probably

frosty bridge
barren yarrow
#

I normally play KB around death mark.

frosty bridge
balmy condor
#

And dm isn’t

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So you still gotta do the combo

barren yarrow
#

right

balmy condor
#

But as long as you just copy paste your opener every minute

barren yarrow
#

well yeah I should’ve said I try to line it up

balmy condor
#

And remove the 2 mins when they’re not up

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You’re good to go

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It’s just the same thing over and over every minute

barren yarrow
#

I’m gonna check your guide again and do like an MRT note to practice it.

balmy condor
#

Yeh getting it into muscle memory is good

barren yarrow
#

You mean the death mark and KB combo isn’t the same every minute?

balmy condor
#

It is

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You just don’t cast dm/vanish cause they’re not up

barren yarrow
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Ohhh right

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yeah yeah! Ok so when I’m on DM vanish CDs I just do shadow step and into KB

autumn remnant
#

Episode 5

balmy condor
#

This will basically have every answer

barren yarrow
#

thank you 🙏🏼

royal lantern
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deathmark->shiv->kingsbane+shadowdance macro->garrote->envenom->use tea at 6seconds kingsband left and the 2nd shiv charge->use vanish at 3seconds left and re-apply garrote with that vanish

balmy condor
#

To every question ever asked

royal lantern
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thats kingsbane

barren yarrow
#

wait wouldn’t you want to shadow step first then apply KB? nvm lol I bet this video answers that

autumn remnant
#

Whispyr

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Did u change the title of the latest video

potent raven
#

why shadowstep wat

balmy condor
#

And yes

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They’re macro’d together

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Dance first

potent raven
#

macro them yea

balmy condor
#

Then kingsbane

barren yarrow
#

Yes I meant shadow dance lol sorry

#

Whispyr do you raid with sin as well?

spice surge
#

Sin very good in raid

hearty reef
#

Hi whispyr

balmy condor
balmy condor
barren yarrow
#

Oh cool do you ever stream when you do raid? Or

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do you post any of them on YouTube

hearty reef
#

I-i dropped the matrix reloaded with leech shy

balmy condor
#

But I stream all my prog

rotund oak
balmy condor
#

I just trimmed it up a little

rotund oak
#

u have the package man

barren yarrow
#

but not a lot of people I met want to pros in S4 which is understandable.

balmy condor
#

Yeh I skipped s4 in shadowlands as well

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Just can’t be fucked slogging through the same content twice

grim jay
#

Kinda like running GRs in d3

balmy condor
#

M+ has turned into gear grind for raid

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For me

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It’s just not fun to push or whatever anymore

grim jay
#

Thats like the first 5 days of a season and then im done usually

clever sapphire
balmy condor
grim jay
#

Thats such a big thing

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They dont realize

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That it just basically is an endurance test for guilds

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And guilds dont have it easy anyways

balmy condor
#

Shadowlands my guild was like oh we’re gonna raid it’s gonna be like a normal season

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And then it was hard like a normal season

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And it shattered so many people’s mental

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Started screaming at each other and not showing up and roster issues and people blaming other people

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Ripped my guild apart almost

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Luckily they just called it

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And managed to rebuild for Dragonflight

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But man

grim jay
#

I dont think its necessarily the difficulty. Just doing the same raid again for a long ass time already destroys the mental. If it was like 3 months

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Alright

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Would even be a good time for testing class changes, like an extended prepatch

balmy condor
#

I mean the Dragonflight raids at least are a quick smash and people are enjoying mop on the side

grim jay
#

Because you got all those different fightstyles

grim jay
#

But some guilds do struggle with amirdrassil

spice surge
balmy condor
#

3 hours of fated painsmith on a Thursday

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Is not it

spice surge
#

Some bosses like fyrakk still require a bit too much effort

balmy condor
#

Ye

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I’d much prefer it if every boss was 100 pulls

safe pivot
#

:O

balmy condor
#

Instead of the first 7 being 20

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And the last 3 being 500

safe pivot
#

fair enough

grim jay
clever sapphire
#

fyrakk is the easiest for my guild because half our roster didnt really play in S1/S2, so we are first progressing the endbosses and killing fyrakk for the mount weekly

spice surge
#

I meant fated tuning only, but ye ig thats a valid complaint

safe pivot
#

have yall checked out the beta talents for rogue?

balmy condor
#

There’s channels for that

safe pivot
#

Ah sorry

balmy condor
#

Which is insane

spice surge
grim jay
#

Like teams etc

balmy condor
#

Not that far ahead lmao

#

You’re basically saying the class changes have to be done and testable 7 months before an expansion

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Which is

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Just not happening

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In any universe

brazen zodiac
#

dat a lot of work...

grim jay
#

To 3 months

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So it would be like 4 months before

#

But ye still hard ig

#

Especially with Bugs

balmy condor
#

Okay but then where is the rest of the time going

grim jay
#

Like people wouldnt be happy to use the stuff thats in beta rn

balmy condor
#

You just removed a whole quarter

grim jay
#

Thats what I meant with idk how they operate and how far ahead. You just sometimes hear they work on "something" already, like they were working on the expansions at the reveal

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But in what capacity

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And which way

balmy condor
#

It’s normal for the big overarching story to be done like 1.5 years ahead

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But they’re cramming gameplay and class changes up until the end

#

Like they had to rush deathstalker and the rogue changes out of the door in time for beta

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Because they just weren’t ready

spice surge
#

Often even later than the release of the expac

#

Very often you have 1 or 2 specs/classes getting big reworks in .1 or .05 patches

#

Because they didnt have the time to do it properly before

grim jay
#

Yeah some things do look like they dont have enough time or capacity to act according to the timeline

#

Which is a shame but understandable

#

Things often dont go as planned either

balmy condor
#

Like the class tree changes on Alpha in mid-May probably were talked about no more than a month in advance

#

So being like “oh just release them 2-3 months earlier it’s fine”

#

Is just

#

Insane

#

And that’s without the nightmare of now everything is changing you’re mini-reworking all the classes for a pre-season

vestal wren
#

DF had a lot of reworks and chanegs after the major patches, whats a good thing
compared to old xpacs you had major changes every 2nd big cycle if even

balmy condor
#

So you’re going to have to balance that

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Who’s balancing that

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There’s an expansion to work on

grim jay
#

Yeah would kinda need more human resources

balmy condor
#

So now you’ve got a whole team that needs to push out all the class changes months earlier, and then also have them monitor live for balancing

grim jay
balmy condor
#

And then when things don’t work

#

They gotta rework them

#

Because that’s the point right

#

So if feedback is bad

#

Now you gotta still rework them

#

But what if you designed hero talents with the idea of something existing

#

And now it has to fundamentally change

#

Everything is falling apart

vestal wren
#

to be fair, a modern game development cylce could prevent some problems wow has

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e.g. deathstalker as is would never survive testing, even if you had very short test cycles

grim jay
vestal wren
#

the first person trying to get the capstone working on subtlety would have send it back to the dev team immediately

balmy condor
#

I don’t think there’s a better awakened season to give them more time

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Awakened is super easy to develop

#

And offers a lot for a casual

#

We’re just in a bubble of raiding where we don’t really care for it

balmy condor
vestal wren
#

would be interessting to have some data to support the thesis

grim jay
#

I think from a player perspective a raid from the previous expansion or like 2 expansions before would be more interesting, kinda like they do with the dungeons, just not as old

barren yarrow
#

The guild I’m in just built a weekend team and they’re treating it like a normal season so it’s a pain.

grim jay
#

But that would be more effort than current expansion raids

vestal wren
#

i played pandaland for over 2 days /played

balmy condor
#

Yeh treating this like a normal season is how you build apathy

vestal wren
#

and i found it to be not content for me, but a lot of people love it

balmy condor
#

Can’t recommend that

vestal wren
#

any form of data for engagement in contnet would be fun to look at

grim jay
#

But its fun nontheless I guess

vestal wren
#

i think its intentionally not

#

the experience of leveling is for pandaria a selling factor

#

similar to wow classic

grim jay
#

I mean you could kinda do the same just without the stat gems, but normal gear slots

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And the Panda rings, neck and trinket being as they are but with the tinkers

vestal wren
#

pandaria is for me a bit weird

#

because the time to get to the level of "fun" is extremely high

#

i did expect it to be a lot lower

#

but it fits the typical gearing paradigm of wow

balmy condor
#

I feel like they could’ve done more to revamp questing in remix as a way to find ways to make regular question not shit

grim jay
#

With the grind etc

balmy condor
#

But questing in retail kinda is just 10 hours and done anyway

#

So it’s whatever

vestal wren
#

most ppl on retail just buy boosts

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so they afk while somone carries them through stuff

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at least the top end

grim jay
balmy condor
#

Just something more interesting reward wise than a green item you’ll replace in 25 minutes would be cool

royal lantern
vestal wren
#

i remember quite some leveling boost things during DF

balmy condor
#

I really liked the zone rewards from WoD

#

Those were cool

vestal wren
#

wod had the best leveling

#

even if the xpac fell short on many other fronts

grim jay
#

Had a lot of freedom

#

Wasnt too long

#

And it bored me the least

balmy condor
#

Idk why they moved away from world quests and bonus objectives

#

Just as extra things to do while leveling they worked great

vestal wren
#

new player experience is still not great

balmy condor
#

Idk what they could take from it tbh

#

Cloak upgrades during leveling basically is just what heirlooms already do

vestal wren
#

making one xpac a consistent path to max level

balmy condor
#

They already did that though

spice surge
#

LFR and raids during leveling is kinda dope

vestal wren
#

^

balmy condor
spice surge
#

I like the world boss sweep as well

#

Besides nalak because he is far away

marble hemlock
#

problem with the current leveling experience in wow is that it doesnt prepare you for the max-level experience at all

grim jay
#

And that the skill unlocks for some classes are just fucked

vestal wren
#

you also often suffer through painful levels before unlocking core elements to make your class work

balmy condor
#

They’re sorta setting it up with follower dungeons and the delve NPC’s

grim jay
grim jay
balmy condor
#

Knowing blizzard it’s gonna take all expac to nail down

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And then right when they get it at the end of the expac

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They’ll make a big post about how much they learned and appreciate the feedback

#

And then delete it from the game and never talk about it again

vestal wren
marble hemlock
#

how did you arrive at that prediction?

balmy condor
#

Islands

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Warfronts

marble hemlock
#

seems like youre grasping for straws

balmy condor
#

Azerite

#

Artifact weapons

#

Crafting systems since WoD

#

Torghast

#

Legendaries in general

#

Mage tower

vestal wren
#

mission table

balmy condor
#

World events like broken shore

vestal wren
#

archeology

balmy condor
#

Player housing with garrisons

vestal wren
#

to be fair legendary items got a 2nd revision in SL

balmy condor
#

Yeh and then they got turned into embellishments

sonic schooner
#

0.2% upgrade embellish pog

vestal wren
#

and the concept of artifact weapon trees is present in:

  • neck in bfa
  • covenants in SL
  • (hero talents in tww?)
slate crown
#

Imagine trading MA legendary for BSL

balmy condor
vestal wren
#

it kind of makes sense

balmy condor
#

Slowly just fading out

#

They’re always so excited to say that they’re using the lessons and building on them

vestal wren
#

i think its not watered down, just a try to lower the effort of implementation

balmy condor
#

And then the improvement is just across the board worse

vestal wren
#

because having one more or less talent tree for each spec in the game is a hella effort

sonic schooner
#

And they fail the same way again and again. Only the names change

vestal wren
#

so neck went to "what if we had one talent tree for everyone"

dark token
vestal wren
#

and SL they ended up like "well one wasn't that great, lets do more than one"

balmy condor
#

Like you can say legion artifacts were the father of shadowlands soulbinds

dark token
#

I think they can design talents well for 1 spec if they really try

balmy condor
#

Kinda makes sense

#

Crucible are conduits

#

Etc

dark token
#

But for 2 specs so far it's not looking great

balmy condor
#

But soulbinds in every way were just worse

vestal wren
#

exactly

balmy condor
#

Very strange that they’re learning from their mistakes and then making the next version worse

marble hemlock
#

netherlight crucible sure was awful

balmy condor
#

Ye but conduits were worse

marble hemlock
#

hmmm

#

not sure honestly

#

NLC was really fucking trash

balmy condor
#

It’s not even close for me

sonic schooner
#

Maybe they re learning to make it worse. They never intended to do better

sonic schooner
#

Have you think about that?

balmy condor
#

Interesting theory

marble hemlock
#

needing the relic to titanforge and roll the best azerite trait and the best secondary traits to be an upgrade

#

and you only had 1 or 2 bases that were good for you

vestal wren
balmy condor
#

Seeing a relic drop was dopamine for me

#

Seeing the conduit I’ve been farming for 2 weeks drop from the only dungeon that drops it

#

Was just relief that it’s over

#

Like titanforging was shit

#

100%

#

But at least when you saw titanforge it was semi exciting

vestal wren
#

hot take, titanforging worked great in m+

balmy condor
#

Now every drop is just

#

“OH FINALLY AFTER 90 RUNS I GOT NICK OF TIME”

vestal wren
#

like

balmy condor
#

People counting how many courts they ran for their auto attack ring

vestal wren
#

do you prefere great vault roulette

#

over titanforging?

balmy condor
#

Or their trinket

#

I didn’t even hate titanforging that much

#

I think it was extreme for sure

#

But I’d want to see it return somehow

vestal wren
#

titanforging gave people long term motivation to run m+

#

no modern system manages that

#

(unless you enjoy vault roulette for stuff like nick of time)

violet jackal
#

Morning Doomers plink182

grim jay
#

I love them

royal lantern
sonic schooner
#

People love to count. I remember so many rogues counting how many time they did top for MA lego. Or idk what was the legendary there

vestal wren
#

legendaty items in legion ended up beeing their own beast

balmy condor
#

The best gearing I’ve seen was from runes of magic, gear would drop with like crit/mast, and you could melt it down and then fuse it into a base item to add that stat to the item

#

So you would run a bunch of dungeons and stuff to get the fusion stones

#

And you could get close to bis pretty quick

#

But it was a bit involved to perfectly fuse every ideal stat

grim jay
balmy condor
#

Would have to start hunting for certain combos and stuff

#

Was pretty neat

grim jay
#

One thats imo even worse

vestal wren
#

"OMG THIS LFR PLAYER HAS A BIS ITEM"

#

and you would always be like...

#

sure he has ONE

#

but he does not do any damage from this lucky drop

sonic schooner
#

i mean, when you re a HOF palret and u see those 2/9hm prog random ret with legendary in valdrakken

#

u can get pissed

vestal wren
#

why not be happy about him getting something exciting

grim jay
#

I dont like max gear being luck based even more if its that much better is my point mainly

royal lantern
grim jay
#

Especially on time gated attempts

spice spire
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It’s an item in a video game

royal lantern
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lol

spice spire
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Why let it effect you

vestal wren
violet jackal
vestal wren
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as much as i liked legion

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it very much had a lot of issues initially

grim jay
vestal wren
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ap grind, legendary aquisiton, infinite worldquests, ...

sonic schooner
royal lantern
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it was

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always

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lol

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mythic fyrakk always drops the axe

spice spire
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Why let things out of your control effect you was more the point

royal lantern
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for 1guy

marble hemlock
grim jay
marble hemlock
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so a champion item should be able to drop all the way up to 8/8 already

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if you get lucky

marble hemlock
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saves you some crests and shit

spice spire
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Annoying yes. Mad no

royal lantern
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that what i said before allready pepehands

balmy condor
grim jay
royal lantern
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i say it, ignored

green name says it, people agree

class divide in full force

spice spire
marble hemlock
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problem with TF was that it could just get +60 ilvl

spice spire
marble hemlock
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any arcano crystal traders

vestal wren
grim jay
balmy condor
royal lantern
royal lantern
spice spire
violet jackal