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its a meme where somebody went once and said "look, i can make the tree look like a crab" 
Good baseline is just to take the 5cp one, which I believe is 7.2s iirc
The wild part is it isn’t as dogshit as it seems

i mean, yeha, they made the trees a bit "foolproof" by default
gates, important skills not really able to miss etc....
Being able to completely skip our major CD was an interesting design decision
fuck me, i gonna try it now xD for low content, the build doesn't matter anyway. It's enough if you know what you are doing anyway
i think this is the thing i would NOT do xD
Honestly do it, finding ways to change shit up is cool. Often times people forget this is a video game
thats what i think too, you can switch to a meta build in mythic raids
As long as you’re having fun, that’s all that matters. And I agree, mythic raid probably isn’t the time to bust out the crab build but like lfr or weekly +8s-10s to fill vault? Fuck it
Probably does decent enough for heroic too tbh
Anyone have a WA that shows when a garrote is empowered?
!wa It requires custom code so I would yoink the garrote WAs from these packs
Assassination Weakauras/Plater profiles:
Whispyr's Afenar Edit
Luxthos's Group
LE's Group
LE's Profile (lots of one-off weakauras)
Devlin's Group
Ceverion's Plater
Whispyr's Plater
Pooling Practice Tool
kinda sad to see that even when playing as much as zerocool the highest he has done is 18 LOL
thats 3 key levels less than the highest
hmm also, there could be a good build somewhere hidden. Rogue is "not played that much"
Unfortunate side effect of yet another god comp emerging tbh
4 less if talking about av
thats a LOT
thats not even close to being a well balanced meta

That’s three times this expac now?
just look at tanks and the discussion about meta vanishes ^^
Is there anywhere I can post for log review?
and defend it
As much as people shit on bfa, bfa was significantly better balanced m+ wise (just ignore sub and survival hunter like blizzard did)
am i wrong?: the problem with dh utility was there the whole time, but it was not so populat to prefer utility over demage?
the utility dh has rn is a recent thing
You can just post it on here and I can make a thread for you
i mean yeha, but you REALLY have to try for that
the only season you could maybe play assa was the first one, and outlaw still was so much better
its like skipping PI on priest class tree, they made all the strong stuff behind Pi so priests are forced to take it
delete pi btw
yes
playing devestation on remix
insane spec
if i would play that one and then was told "Play aug now"
i would just delete folder 32
or maybe go back to SL dungeon design where time and dps was the thing that timed keys
not surviving 1 shot after 1 shot
wdym?
wdym wdym
wdym wdym wdym
you can play a spec and improve your gameplay to the top if you like it
ok nvm it wasnt outlaw that was so much better, it was sub
it was both actually
really? wow
now imagine you can play whatever you want at top gameplay, and 1 is better than the other
obviously better
top1% is still not high enough lol
like, meta revelance in wow is the REALLY really really high top end
top 1% is "does mythic raids"
depends
99,9% of all players feel like meta is relevant for them in their prospective 😉
and I AM A CRAB
and meta matters way more in scaling content than non-scaling content
i can afford playing assa as much as i want in mythic raid unless its actually dog water(like season 2, and i chose to still play it and get benched)
strong ^^
tbf, its also like
5man content
is just a shitshow
20 man raids? sure, every class is SUPPOSED to be in the raid 1x
but 5man group content completely throws that out of the window
kinda weird how RAID buffs dictate M+ meta
and it turns from "yeha, my class/spec is maybe not that great rn, but i still have my place" into "yeha, why ever THINK about me when other stuff is objectively better"
cus m+ is a mistake meme mode

m+ is so half assed, its incredible
ammount of work and improvments done on it over the years is near 0
and other things m+ players tell themself in the mirror at night to feel better

Unironically true
sure
The hamster wheel keeps people engaged
Because pvp is kinda non existent
2-3 months into the season raid is dead for most players
It’s mostly people gearing alts
and now m+ makes blizz do idiotic desicions in record speed all the time
Ye and also raid is something you do 6-9 hours a week if you’re not a total degen
cus they cba actually doing anything with it
Pvp queues are fucked because people love to sit on rating and make a “final push” so queue times are abysmal
M+ you can do all week long
Yep it’s either m+ or casual content outside of raid
And idk many people who are gonna opt to farm rep for a mount lmao
Ye and tmogs and finishing loremaster
unironicaly and not as a meme, more then probs do m+
Which is unironically a large part of the player base
Ye which are all or braindead easy or total rng
Yep
You can knock most of it out in a day too
A few hours for your rotation weekly
Ye exactly
like, reminder how absolutely low the ammount of people that do mythic raids and m+ beyond "weekly +8 for vault" is
"m+ players" that push is a ridicolous low number, not different then mythic raiding
Ye, mythic plus is great for the game but gets super toxic at higher levels
As in super toxic for the game itself
thats my problem with it tbh
like, high end m+ is basically a moba
dont learn and play your character
play whats best
20000x more easy to get results
and more effective
Ye that’s poor balancing
which kinda stands against everything that mmorpgs are about
Blizzard deviated away from their philosophy of “bring the player not the class” with SL
And idk why
like, i know "dae affixes bad" etc.....
but just the IDEA that affixes exist that some classes CANT INTERACT WITH IN ANY WAY AT ALL is pure insanity
like, who the fuck thought thats a good thing????
Increased unavoidable damage sources in keys where you’re kind of inclined to bring in classes with tons of utility
Ye fuck that
But I’m sort of doing the same
If I can choose between an Aug that is giving so much value for the last spot, or a super sick Frost DK
thats because high level m+ is something they literally dont really care much about
m+ is balanced until +10 where the last reward comes from
I know what I’m choosing
after that? wild west
every class and spec can do a +10? they achieved their goal
cus thats the end of what they want people to do
Which sort of makes sense
BUT
The competitive part of it is TGP this season
Which completely invalidates that logic
it also doesnt help that the "m+ community" is not much better then the PvP one
many of the changes we saw are results of their complaints
my man, i raided with him for a while, that was enough zero exposure

(he is cool in raids, dont worry, im just doing memes)
But I don’t think I could keep up with that sort of behavior
Desync PI once? On banlist
Overpull as tank? Banlist
But he’s probably just memeing
You play on Silvermoon then?
Is this build fine for lower keys? (up to +6 rn) or should i go with suddem demise + middle tree w/ amp poison etc.
Ye it’s next level clown
isnt that just shock
?
i.. i think so??
This looks fine
Looks good, sudden demise will carry when all the OP classes do a gajillion dps
Spread bleeds, and go ham
don't bother pressing KB on packs
Anything under like a +10 will die in like 15s max anyway
so more worth spreading ruptures than trying to prio burst bc shit just falls over?
So spread bleeds for the juicy sudden demise pad
Ye wouldn’t bother KBing unless it’s one of those named mobs with a billion HP
Garrotes > CT > Ruptures
With every build ever you spread garrotes on cooldown
on targets that don't have them
From stealth would cover most of it, but outside of from stealth ye you just spread garrote and rupture and keep up CT
If there's a target without garrote on it and your garrote is off cd, you press gar
i figured it would be more worth to just spatter prio one target than to use a gcd spreading non-improved garrote 
woops
glad i asked ig
It is worth it if you're slamming down during full DTB KB Spatter windows
But with your build and the nature of the low level of the key, it's not worth it
alright noted

Is there a faster way to find out what mythics will give me the biggest upgrades than running every single mythic through the droptimizer?
You can run all dungeons at once on droptimizer
!FUU
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isn't that a premium feature
the goat
Don't think so?
Honestly raid bots premium is the best $ I’ve ever spent lol
I don’t even know what it costs
Only that I’m happy with my purchase
you can always use the gear list from #tc-research and run more selective sims
Its a sub. Right
So much time at work spent simming instead of agonizing boredom
Ye
But then you’d have to actually craft theories
too many braincells involved
but getting permanent premium for theorycrafting is pretty cool
Do we play around this at all?
no
in aoe it happens by itself cus you have infinite energy there
in ST you ignore it and it just happens sometimes
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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
ty
so "If you are above roughly 80% energy, you're nearing the cap and should be starting up a new Envenom chain soon" we pool to 80% and then envenom chain until we can't anymore and then pool back to 80% and start envenom chaining again, if im understanding that right?
Yeah
ty
We all were at some point. (i still am)
When I was reading the icyveins guide earlier, I swear I saw that it said to Ashes when Kingsbane has 9-10 seconds left, but I'm looking again and I can't see anywhere it even mentions ashses. Is there a box I have to tick to find it
Just macro it on Deathmark and you're chilling
yy but I feel like I'm going mad because it was 1000% there but now I can't find the bit that says it
when single target bursting for opener, you press deathmark before dance?
Tyvm
and thistle tea?
awesome
Otherwise use tea when ur thirsty
hahaha ok! you guys are the best
So in the guide at the bottom it says "Refresh Garrote and Rupture during vanish" , but in the other section it says to just refresh garrote and doesn't mention rupture, and it feels weird to use rupture instead of envenom at the end of vanish since you still have your 2nd shiv up as well
So i guess my question is, am ia ctually supposed to rupture refresh there instead of enveonming?
It was a point of deliberation during the final days of sim testing after the rework
Ultimately
It doesn't matter
They're close enough together, and generally it's just less of a headache to use envenom and not worry about thinking about rupture
I just envenom
I shall envenom too, feels better
Does master assassin snapshot onto the entire Rupture if yo ucast it in vanish?
No
MA is literally just "while buff is active, damage events have +Crit", not a snapshot
The only snapshot effects we have are Imp Garrote (if you consider that a snapshot which I do, it is effectively one) and Nightstalker
ok ty
and last question I have rn is
Before going into each Kingsbane window, do I want to precast an envenom beforehand so i go into the window with the buff, like in the opener
It is ideal to do that, yes
Most entries into KB will look like Env -> (Deathmark every other) -> Shiv -> Dance/KB -> the rest
2 caveats tho
The goal is envenom uptime, the above is not necessarily required for that goal depending on the circumstance
As you get acclimated to watching your envenom buff, you can easily have situations where you go Env -> Mutilate -> Mutilate -> Shiv -> Dance/KB -> Env
As you learn best to stick to always doing env shiv kb, but just know you can look for opportunities to shortcut that as long as envenom is maintained
Second is in M+, a lot of the meticulous planning and preparations for an optimal KB window can go out the window
As you're just trying to get as much stuff out when you have the opportunity that you can
So you may initiate KB without envenom being active in M+ just to get it rolling sooner
shadowdance isn't on the GCD
you dance/KB at the same time
but you might as well have the initial hit of KB get the stealth benefits
I got a question for the bleed build guys, when running pug keys with large first pulls (Nelth for exmaple, tank pulls the first 2-4 packs) do you guys wait to open until the tank has stopped pulling so you can spread bleeds easier with IC, or do you just start spreading bleeds early and spread them manually after the IC window is down? I generally run a poison builds for the easier rotation but I'd like to get in the habit of pushing with the more recommended bleed build
Go with the tank and spread
The wardens aren’t dangerous
You can get your bleeds on them with out IC when they come in
Or with your vanish later
The bleed build isn’t that complex really. You’re dps just comes from different cooldowns in aoe. It’s all about shivs and stealths. Rather than KB/DM
Nothing wrong with waiting until he is atleast at the second group
Yeah. All I meant is don’t sit there in stealth waiting for the slow ass wardens to catch up
Once he gets the first 2 packs you can hit tricks and start ramping
Then send on the thermacharge
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!pooling
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
Guys any tips for bleedmaxxing? 
I'm running DTB+SD in keys and my sudden demise overall is staying at 2%, can't cross above that.
I'm keeping up CT and Scent stacks though.
Can't figure out what's going wrong
Running DTB means you are not running Zoldyck/AP and that's a massive thing for SD
If you spec out of DTB and use the Arterial Shock build instead, you'll see your SD skyrocket
Ohhh... But sims showed that DTB+SD was poggers
DTB spreads the damage more across other things
Dungeonslice sims are not super duper great
Sims cant take demise proc into account either
Try out the Arterial Shock build and see how you do with that
So all sims with that talent are gonna be inaccurate regardless of what you do
So AP+SD?
Yeah I have that saved, but was only running the cleave build so far
it owns trust
Cleave is really only good at higher key levels where stuff lives long enough to have KB for every pack and the mobs live through the entire KB window
I'm just KBing bigger mobs and ending up at 7-7.5% overall for my kb
what does "per critical strike" mean?
If you Mutilate and only one of your hits crits, you would generate 1 extra combo point. If you crit with both hits, you would generate 2 extra combo points.
As Mutilate is an ability that hits twice.
ok, well very weird formulation. thanks for the clarification
It makes more sense for fok
Where it gives you 1 combo point per crit, so it can be 1 per target if everything crits
Yeah, pretty much the same for all similar generators that have an upfront damage portion that can crit
Those currently only being Mutilate and FoK
ty
this build slaps
my aoe performance in mythics skyrocketed
i was also playing sd+dtb before
does this rundonw look good for raszageth
No clue, never look at details breakdown
Doesn't really matter to me
If you do good dam, then it's good
smiles
No
i cant get 4pc yet
Can’t mix and match S3 with S4
aw man
Ok. SD damage is now 6.2% of my overall, up from 2% 
i wanted to get 2pc s4
sudden demise?
Yes
404K overall, 6.2%, 6 BH
i was doing a 3 offensive
Dungeon dependent and tank dependent I guess
Peak bleedmaxxing
ong
Would be great if kb affected bleeds also
A 3 😭
Assa m+ meta
only vaguely related but what m+ keys should i be running at ilvl 500
Whatever you think you can pull off
Depends on your skill level and what you're aiming to do as well
Could do chill +5's or push 15's
gear up ig? but, essentially, does ilvl not matter as much as actually being good at the dungeon mechanics?
ilvl will just kinda hold you back when pugging
Your group matters a lot
Your route matters a lot
Your rotation matters a lot
Your gear matters a lot
io?
Rating
yeah
gearing up is like prio while learning and knowing everything else
Not dying and doing your rotation super well is a good place to start
And you gear up as you go
at 500 ilvl you probably still have a lot of gear that'll need wyrms crests so don't feel bad about running some 5s
like i learned my rotation first then doing boss mechs and then geared while doing it all
that's more or less waht i've been focusing on
whether the group was dogshit or not
ideally you do at least a handful of +8s for myth track gear from vault
oh good point i kinda forgot abt different key ranges dropping diff crests
what average key level do you need for vault to drop myth track gear?
im at 490 ilvl and i can't get into anything higher then a +3 lol and when i host my own group i sit here and nobody joins and my guild despises me
+8 or higher
ye unfortunately a lot of people in LFG just want to be carried :/
skill issue for me? probably
wtf i never had this issue
when realistically, anything up to a +10 is fair game if you're 490-500 ilvl
befriend a healer
because people were doing +10s week 1 with 482-486 gear 
oh holy
theres only 2-3 people in my guild who do keys with me but they arent online rn
the only people being elitist about ilvl are dickheads
that sounds rough LMAO
true its annoying af
then again if you're god gamers its just.. slower ig
cause tbh ilvl doesn't mean shit
I had a 525 elemental shaman who did 153k overall in a key
sooo

like i'd say im good at the game and can pull shit off
and I wish that were a typo
but im also not like serious over it but it would be nice to push keys and do shit
thats embarrassing...
never touched elemental in my life and i bet i can do better LMAO
The only thing that might hurt your chances of creating a group are weeks like this week and finding a healer and tank if you chose to pick up two other dps that don’t have cleanses.
yikes
I'm so bored I might log into WoW
!guide
Assassination Guides:
Wowhead: https://www.wowhead.com/assassination-rogue-guide
IV: https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/assassination-rogue-pve-dps-guide
Method: https://www.method.gg/guides/assassination-rogue
Group SSF 
is one of these better than the other
I'mma probably get a Ravenholdt private league going
Invite plz
host your own
I can confirm that seli consulted on a lot of stuff from whispyr's wowhead guide
ive never once been accepted into a group
at least if you host dungeons people like doing you can pick and choose
i sat here for half an hour and no applications the entire time :/
so the IV one is good, but I know whispyr went bananas on information with his
My computer can play PoE now so must play when I can
okay dope
Yeah it's how it goes, just sucks
thank u
mhm
wtf
Though, if you applied to a WME and didn't provide a password you won't get in
maybe im just very lucky
holy shit a +4 took me
guys hylia is smiling upon me
i did a hoi with a havoc that was playing rageheart
all of these dudes are way higher ilvl then me
and he wasnt a vengeance main
you do a low key
the healer left
i knew something was off
thats concerning
yeah keys below 12 you see some real creatures
the amount of instant ragequits and just like
salty ass people i've seen in low key mythics
it's ROUGH esp when you're just trying to learn your spec and the dungeons
right?

wish there were some like leaver timer tbh
but yh we had a run yday of doti (i think), got to 2nd boss, 2 people left. Run was perfect, 0 deaths, we were making good time as well
i died in an azure vault at one point and someone just said taxes and left 
im a creature :3
:3
I did a hoi with a vdh that ran no spirit bomb buffing talents
or focused cleave
wtf were they even talented into
dreams and hopes
People try random shit all the time. And some just do random shit or think they're the shit and then get the shit beat outta them in keys.
from the way that's worded im assuming they were just running the cheat build
I ran with some like 3k resto druid that played bear for the first time in some weekly 10 last season in BRH and died like 10 times to melees
What’s iron fur
31% uptime btw
idk what you call this
besides bad

Iron Fur in Diablo 4: Class, Cluster, Effect Description for each Rank, Requirements. Notes, Tips, Tricks, Lore and More for Diablo IV.
Damn data aggregation sites misleading people
idk why you would play no voidreaver
why even talent spirit bomb with no other of the buffing talents
Because it hits more than five targets? 😛
there is a difference between playing alot & spaming keys i timed week 1 and 2 in the season coz community wanna play only aug/sp/mage so i have something to play
also, last season 10s?
Err, 20s
thats not a 20 timer while chilling no but who's gonna invite a rogue to a 20 when the community is so washed to the Exodia comp
@subtle tundra like when i always read your comments i laugh so hard for how clueless u r ngl xD
getting reactions is what i like
if u dream about me at night tell me i can vanish so u stop dreaming about me
lol
seems like you care more about what i say than i care about you
youre just the only person playing assa so youre the only one i can type about
bro i dont care about u at all i get people whispering me in dms tleling me some random dog talking about u
why would i care about u
who the fuck are u xD
Calm down
what did i even say?
whatever man keep doing what u doing ❤️
stop playing a victim
inv
ill talk about everyone 🙂
am not playing anything i just hate people spamming my dms telling me about u talking about me
stop mentioning my name ive never mentioned yours
its so simple
huh
no
🙂
honestly now that i know it actively bothers you i might do it more often
!mute @subtle tundra 7d that's just straight up harassment go think about it man what are you doing
I really want tea but all the stores are closed and I don't have milk in the fridge.
:(
cev might be british
Ye cook me up a sunday roast with some good roasties
Ya only drink black tea with milk

does pandemic apply to rogues?>
yes
covid showed us that, yeha
its more like
you do until its not valuable anymore
during cds and burst windows you use every GCD, outside of them you start to go more into maintenance mode to conserve energy so you can keep envenom chains running as long as possible
!pooling
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
^ explains it
people dont think that way 
assa m+ meta?
assa cant survive 200000 1hit abilitys chained in a row mate

m+ is a well desinged game mode 
just revert m+ to fun aoe blaster game mode
we tried making it an esport
it didn't work
now make it fun

Yeah, less thinking, more blasting
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they need to
remove all melee only mechanics from this game
the amount of tanks unable to play with a melee is crazy
bricking keys because tank cant fathom that he doesnt have to ad spam and go in circles around mobs that cleave

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Whispyr's Afenar Edit
Luxthos's Group
LE's Group
LE's Profile (lots of one-off weakauras)
Devlin's Group
Ceverion's Plater
Whispyr's Plater
Pooling Practice Tool
Is there a list of abilities that are off GCD somewhere?
probably not
not sure that's really necessary honestly
ends up being uh
some defensives, shadow dance which is gone in 11.0, thistle tea, and cold blood
vanish I guess if you want to count that
it's a pretty short list
Well now there is a list
Applying stealth as well is off gcd
!wa
Assassination Weakauras/Plater profiles:
Whispyr's Afenar Edit
Luxthos's Group
LE's Group
LE's Profile (lots of one-off weakauras)
Devlin's Group
Ceverion's Plater
Whispyr's Plater
Pooling Practice Tool
if the community could only see
yeah I guess so
Just macro every ability together and see what goes on cd
Does assa feel even better in high keys? I just did a few low ones to start learning after coming from a healer and I’m hooked
Only 500 ilvl at the moment
Yeah hesitating with a KB etc makes me sad
you'll need to do that basically forever
I just feel good cause i basically insta delete a mob from a pack
and it's kinda whatever after that
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We're using Envenom on 4 or more combo points or something changed?
I thought it was 5
4+
and 5+ just before DM
Thanks!
4+ is only for envenom? Rupture is 5+?
Nice, thx
doing twice the dmg a ''3k'' frost mage does on a +10

bro must have forgotten his fingers or something
this season needs to go
and fast
!dagger
I see people using the spender energy % reduction node instead of the extra CP from ambush
Tried it and now I feel like I struggle to build CP in KB windows in ST
Are they close in output ? What's the benefit ?
It sims higher, the energy is more worthwhile than the CP
But its not a big difference either way
I don't ambush in KB windows anyway
You're not supposed to ? Why mutilate in SD ?
its some old thing
thats not really anything to worry about anymore
had to do with poison applications
it would only have a minor impact in the DM KB window
and even then its not worth the hassle
Couple of reasons to mut in shadow dance
- 2x poison applications
- MA in shadow dance means you have +30% crit during dance which means you have around 70-80% crit total. Let's say 75% crit as an example, this is a 93% chance of 3 cps (equivalent to an ambush), and a 56% chance at 4 cps (beats ambush)
I just completely unbound ambush from my bars
It's only used when forced blindside
Not a "hassle" imo
which is just worse
whispyr had a post about it for some time
and only using it for the KB DM window kinda is a hassle for the minimal gain it would represent
because you would need an extra bind just for that
unless anything changed from one season to another
More partivularly KB DM windows during Zoldyck
It's not worth the effort whatsoever
For a marginal gain if that
always mutilating in kb better than just mutilating in deathmark + KB, and it's easier to play with less hassle
and both options are always better than pressing ambush in all kb windows
(these sims were run on my character but its max gear anyway so)
so i just recommend people unbind ambush entirely and just mut
and this is why tight spender is just >>> the ambush talent
idk why people run it on logs they probably copy pasta their ST build from early s3 when blindside wasnt nerfed, its tight spender in every situation atm
This. I’ve gotten like full combo points from one garotte.
Ya I always take tight spender. Especially in ST / raid / tyrannical because you don’t have bleeds on as many targets funneling your energy regen.
and how would that work
maybe changed over the course bcs of secondaries
Garotte from stealth gives 3 combo points + more from the crit talent.
yes we have more crit now thats why i started doing it
Or in AOE your Garotte hits 3 targets from IC. so you get max combo points
did some sims and it was worth
Honestly probably changed because we stopped playing Improved Ambush
Which was a must-pick until high gear s3
ye this too idk if whispyr initial sims were with it or not
How’d you get that much avoidance?
hit the dummy and tell me it works like that for you
i have avoidance on 3 mythic tier pieces + my dagger
m+ beast gear but no invites
Sadge
Not on target dummies. On real pulls in m+
they literally work the same
garrote is 3 cp
you only get 3 cp from garrote since they bugfixed sin in early s3 i think
or maybe s1 even
it used to be 5 because you'd get additional cp from the extra targets
ye it was s1
people would garrote envenom garrote envenom in dance
realz didnt like that
no, that's always been the case but it's 0.2%
its more actually
with his sims
as "default apl" does muti on dm
correct, which has always been what you do
actually
it wasnt worth the hassle
so you didnt do any of it
because that was the 0.2
only ambush -> muti in dm was 0.2
unless I remember it completely wrong
but cev would remember it wrong aswell then
plus that was originally simmed before the blindside nerf when we took improved ambush
so the gap widens when you swap to tight spender
with tight spender and higher secondaries its a super braindead minmax of 0.7% to always mut
doesnt require any gameplay
just drag mut to stealth bar
Hey guys just game back to season 4, wowhead suggests crafting blue lining on lifebound wrists and belt, if I want to use engineering bracers for ress which slot should I put the second patch on instead?
boots or belt
neck
I would do neck/belt
i have crafted neck and i cant find a wrist/neck combo to beat it
because all the raid necks aren't anything special
sounds great I'll put it on neck, ty guys
head is meh because the enchant scales with ilvl
good crafted slots are neck/belt/wrist/boots, and ring if u dont care about diurna shield
yeah it was just a bandaid until I actually get a 528
I'll bandaid you until you get a 528
there are enough sparks anyways


yeah. I'll swap that once I get a mythic head, which might not happen the entire season anyways

crit head sims pretty good for m+ tho
idk I've been an engi all of DF
I just switched for it
because fuck the others anyways
except alchi
kinda getting you nowhere for the rest of the expansion, as the gold is eh
since like after week 6 or something of s1
guess you need a macro to prevent it turning into ambush regardless, similar to outlaw kir doing it for sinster strike
no u dont
free blindside procs are always worth to press
oh gotcha
yeah my outlaw brain just kicked in and filled in the blanks, still new to assa 🙂
i am getting up in age, so a bit lower apm specs are way more appealing to me nowadays 🙂
u will be pressing those envenoms as hard as sinister strike
Respeccing properly is so costly and tiring that I rolled a assa alt and got it to 2200 rating 
Just need ashes and grieftorch now
ahahahahahhahahahahhahaa
susre man
"how much haste do i need to not run out of energy?????" 24/7 is allready enough here


once acro is gone we will be having immigrants all over this channel
whispyr gonna lose his mind
there is nothing he can lose anymore
true and real
I doubt acro is any reason for people to swap specs
you arent rly reading the pirate channel are u
same here
but the drama is real in the pirate channel
dooming like a meteor about to annihilate mankind
I swear I can already see this group building the wall

Outlaws are already swapping because of it man
But... it's the same spec
We don't have Acro
Why would they swap to Assassination just because they lose Acro
age
Yes but outlaw is literally UNPLAYABLE without acro
is why i swapped
Damn
ar also changes to be not a permanent buff
Outlaw has been in flames for a while now because the removal of acro and haste mattering now xd
so at least two more noticable changes
But that's not what we're talking about Fuu
oh sry, i haven't followed the entire discussion
I mean acro does feel ass for outlaw since it affects bladeflurry too right
Not sure I don’t play pirate but
I mean if Outlaw is bad and feels bad to play, then sure
It does sound annoying
they increased the range of blade flurry
Okay then they can just stop crying

Brother I got tricked into playing the spec for some weeks of this patch because I was like ima play something that looks really broken for this useless season
I cannot tell you
HOW BORING
A spec can be
deva?
try balance druid next
I was a feral main if you think I didn’t try balance (because people force you into balance or you get benched) ur wrong
And yes
Balance is boring
But dev is even worse
Like far far worse
im still stuck between assa rogue, and havoc so... i can't say much
fair, i shelved my evoker after leveling
Good choice
haven't touched it since
Although Pres is one of the most fun healers from a non healer perspective
Has a lot of cool combinations and stuff
think i plyed my dh in legion more than my evoker in DF
Havoc got really fun with their rework tbh and is way off from the stereotype of being the easiest spec
yea
It’s proper fun now tbh and has a good amount of minmax
But also their playstyle now does have some problems
I would’ve benched myself on nymue if I was a havoc player
No way I’m doing that or any fight that is something where you don’t wanna zoom around 
Also if the only bandage holding Outlaw together is Acrobatic Strikes and 100% uptime on ADR, then the spec was doomed from the beginning.
Sounds like an easy choice
I made the switch to sin rogue for all content..was running outlaw for a while in M+ as @forest nacelle can attest, but my wrists started to hurt lol…something about getting old.
And then playing fury/arms on top…
But, who knows what I will play if. Our hero talents are as bad as they are now
its ok,slowly coming in,slowly but surely
Yeah a hard choice for sure
Assassination, Assassination or Assassination
I might just play Assassination
gonna buy some cheetos and read the pirate channel all day after the first ''tuning''
this gonna be rly funny
Fellow bleedmaxxers
1>Does applying CT on single target during execute phase a dps gain? Even at the cost of 4p dropping off.
2>If running bleed build, which is more important between applying bleeds and keeping up 4p buff?
3>I know that IC does smart targetting, in that it prioritises new targets, so if I keep garotting the same target, the bleeds will be applied to different targets automatically?
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You never press CT in single target or even on 2 targets. Only 4+.
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You want to maintain and spread improved garrotes and CT as much as possible and aim to have max Scent stacks as much as possible even if 4p drops. Aggressively over-applying Ruptures/normal garrotes and having the 4p drop is not worth it.
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Yes.
Outlaw was always an uptime based spec, but the S3 changes and tier was such a rabbit hole and uptimemaxxing was through the roof and made organic gameplay incredibly difficult.
We're not talking about people swapping to Assassination in S3. We're talking about TWW.
But yeh
Yeah I'm talking about TWW, like outlaw has gone into such a rabbit hole that going back w/o the current 4P will be really bad
Ah right, I see
It'll be fine
Fire Mage survived going from 8.3 to Shadowlands
Everything else can too
It is the first week of beta. I’m gonna trust things will change
Trust is a strong word for what I’m feeling
In blizzard we trust?
Always trust blizzrad 
BM hunter somehow gets even easier in TWW - at least the Dark Ranger version. Basically you can't make Barbed Shot drop even if you try.
It only took 15 years or so for our last rework lol
quick question, im playing the cleave build. How do i use my CD's like SD/kingsbane and death mark in an scenario? when should i be using fan of knives on X amount of targets?
A bit of an exaggeration but sill
CDs on the biggest target and pray it lives the full duration (probably won’t)
Fok always on 3+
Sin in low keys is cursed
true
some pulls SD is my top dmg
because im done spreading bleeds
and mobs are already 35%
so they go boom
!wa
Assassination Weakauras/Plater profiles:
Whispyr's Afenar Edit
Luxthos's Group
LE's Group
LE's Profile (lots of one-off weakauras)
Devlin's Group
Ceverion's Plater
Whispyr's Plater
Pooling Practice Tool
i trust them to make my hyped AF with announcments and still manage to dissapoint me somehow by doing the most halfassed and stupid desisicions after that

imagine getting hyped
blizzard wins the moment you get hyped
!talent
!guide
Assassination Guides:
Wowhead: https://www.wowhead.com/assassination-rogue-guide
IV: https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/assassination-rogue-pve-dps-guide
Method: https://www.method.gg/guides/assassination-rogue
!fuu
Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
hi whyspir
isnt that talent shit
idr vdh tree well
replied to the wrong message oops
but maybe they specced spirit bomb just to have smth for bigger pulls..?
No, gives you fel dev basically every 24-30 seconds.
i thought that was the "if youre about to die, you don't, every 8 minutes" (or whatever) talent
am i mixing things up
That's last resort.
Good day one can tell me why he says I should take verse instead of mastery although mastery is the best ? in general, someone can tell me what the best talent tree is
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.
my stat are 31% crit 13% haste i dont have ashe 80% mastery 27% verse
y sure but i have mastery ring from BH
sorry for my question but i am a new rogue player
It's okay
You care about Ilvl more than secondary stats. You can and should sim yourself
Yes. I read half the conversation and just gave him a tldr it seems lol
Assassination working the way it does makes the spec so simple and at the same time so hard to explain to players that are used to "X and Y stat are BiS and you don't want Z stat ever"
ah heroic log, i was wondering why i didnt find that dmg on mythic
Can we obtain transmog as character from talents? I think most similar is T2 red set
No
Welcome to the Valeera Sanguinar fan club
I particularly like the green highlights and the big boo-I mean the ti- I mean the uh uhh the boots yeah those.
I hope she have some subreddit 😄
Definitely the best part
And then the boots ofc
🧐

I said what I said
is valeera a fatebound or a deathstalker?
A legend
Idk why but i like the other one costume with bo**s 😄
Legend track character is higher than hero track character
so no need for hero talents
I'm almost sure that transmog uses cloth items
Head/pants
the classic mage T5 scam
!wa
Assassination Weakauras/Plater profiles:
Whispyr's Afenar Edit
Luxthos's Group
LE's Group
LE's Profile (lots of one-off weakauras)
Devlin's Group
Ceverion's Plater
Whispyr's Plater
Pooling Practice Tool
kind of silly request but
does any1 have a clip of playing assa in like a big mythic pull just so i can get an idea of what it SHOULD look like
i need to touch that ass
Is wowhead assa guide viable
Absolutely
Only guide worth a salt…
is there a way to make this only castable if youre in gcd so i dont accidentally desync them
is there a build for sepsis or bonespike being talented?
whats stopping you from making one
nothing really! was just curious if one was out there already.
Crab build crab build crab build
is crab build any good at all
so id really like to understand something, i watched whyspers video about how the websites that label things "BIS" should be taken with a grain of salt, but i honestly feel lost because i dont know what i SHOULD be aiming for or what dungeons to get.
im familiar with siming but honestly i have NO CLUE how to do the more specific things. I know how to quick sim and find upgrades but i guess this is the BIS symdrome will my stat weights matter the way i think they will?
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.
Simming whatever gear you have is optimal
all 4 stats are good for assa
You just don't want too much of a single stat, but to maintain them "leveled"
I mean there’s trinket bis
Other stats not really
One could argue dreamcarver is better for qol but the effects dont really matter.
where in details can i find when i vanish it doesnt reset the meters when im hitting target dummy?
!details
To stop details from resetting on vanish, go into the settings and under Overall Data, make sure "Use Dynamic Overall Damage" is checked.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/316923750073499648/1173432355785027584/details_vanish.png
^
Is there any merit to going lethality/acro instead of alacrity/deeper stratagem like kush?
Ye, acro is a dps increase even though it won't appear in sims
There is for now, but don't get too comfy with it
It is a comfy warm blanket that will get taken away from you
in 2.5 months no less
is your ret ready for tww
I refunded tww already
smart, maybe i follow your lead then. lost ark is starting to get fun
is rogue that deadge in tww ?,
I don't have incandescent stone yet. Do I use shadowflame enchant since i have the eranog ring? I do have grieftorch
no
just use a diff ring if you cant proc the effect or keep it if you need the vers
bsl is too good, the ring wont make up the difference in loss of dps
the difference isn't bsl though. it's wafting devotion vs shadowflame enchant











