#assassination
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My eyes ...
LMAO
HIS EYES
i need this on highrez
Deep down that dragon just wants to be loved and create friendships
Is Rogue really looking incredibly ass for TWW ?
In terms of numbers? Im hearing a lot of negativity
If numbers are bad they'll just slap a 20% aura on it and its fine
They have barely even started tuning yet, so worrying about numbers right now doesnt really matter
I feel like we had this conversation the whole day
Ass certainly is one of the rogue soecs
Outlaw kinda broken (in a bad way), assa, sub fine if tuning says so
The game play changed after deleting details?

Smh my head
I don't care about numbers
No, that was a question to your statement
I mean in terms of not being the poor cousin of other classes that have had a lot of love
it’s okay we accept it
Surely they won't let us go into TWW this undercooked right? Someone lie to me and say a last minute update is coming.
sin down
We are indeed one of the classes that unfortunately didn't get as much love as we might have needed (for now)
It's a waiting game now
Maybe dumb question, but if we dont use the second vanish in the last 3 sec of kingsbane, where do we utilize it? For another burtst rot?
if you use second vanish
So you use vanish to reapply improved garrote
ur hurting urself
hopefully we get some more love later on down the road
ok so dont pick up the 2nd vanish talent?
I see
yeah it's not especially valuable. especially because the node before it is pretty much a dead node for us

its locked behind a shitty talent? damn..
1hr 30 min left boys then the servers go live
I see, ty for informing.
We gain more value going e.reprimand than 2nd vanish
Well its a bad talent AND locked behind a completely worthless talent
wombo combo
Check the last video that Whispyr posted
It might answer you some questions
aighty
Good luck my friend
Thanks 🏌️

How have you guys felt about sin rogue in dragon flight? do you guys like the playstyle and/or kingsbane?
#bot-spam
it's a good spec, very versatile
do you find it fun tho?
yes
I like it.
I would just ask for a proc that lets you regarote as if from stealth. sucks when you cant restealth for the next pull.
Me too 🙂 just curious what the general consensus is
this is the assassination channel
ah yeah I see what you mean.
not the we-hate-assassination channel
That’s what u think
I hate myself
And I play Assassination
That’s a line
!restealth
Explanation of why restealths aren't as important as you might think:
- Garrote does roughly 14% of your damage overall in a key. This means from 100% improved garrote uptime to 0% improved garrote uptime, you would be losing 4.6% of your overall damage
- You can add in some sanguine/rupture value from carnage, but chaining allows for higher uptime and smoother energy overall, eliminating a lot of ramp at the start of a pull
- This is compounded by the fact that you simply do not lose that many restealths (chain heavy spiteful weeks are only about -30% on stealths)
- You still have vanish and shadow dance, which gives you MANY options to get your stealth effects
- This has been supported by logs and by simulations, for many years
Ive been assassinating peeps in arena. sin hits so hard.
you wish you could cast flagellation on yourself?
I like that its just tied to rupture now
so you chain it out to three targets right off the bat
awesome
Kinda indiff to it it’s a nice QoL
"You still have vanish and shadow dance, which gives you MANY options to get your stealth effects" damn you
I am never indifferent to QoL improvements
Less buttons always good
but the silence effect
Circling back to the hate myself bit
I don’t deserve the quality of life 
I also have P bound so like
What even is
Going to be a lot different without dance my friend - good it’s gone for pve but it’s going to be brutal for pvp
Welcome
stop saying that 
How can you hate what so many of us love?
yo
I’m a hater what can I say
how do i take off sub and outlaw and just make it SIN

go back to that channel, tag off the react on sub and outlaw
we all know what a perfect cutie george is, and dogs reflect their owners
you cant hide from us
Tryan speaking poetry



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Why did you extend the maintenance
It’s great, wdym
he is uploading the widest george ever, and it takes up all the processing power
Generational hating, frankly



It’s alright. I’m at work. Can’t play until later anyways
Same
ok so, because I am evil, here is a post that claims Sin and Outlaw are "very similar"

"all the specs play around stealth windows" is another reddit classic
theres been an upsurge of 'all rogue specs play the same' for reasons I can't even fathom
Ye buddy that shadow dance to buff my kingsbane by 10% is what i play around
Probably people that quit in like legion, have continued watching asmongold style content and just looked at wowhead to see what spells the specs have
Without having any idea how they actually feel to play
I don't play anymore and haven't for 8 years, but I have strong, unshakeable opinions.
Basically how every Reddit comment on r/wow starts
I can see people saying that the 2 min burst window of assa and sub feels similar, i dont really agree but i can see it
Saying assa and outlaw feels similar is just wild though
Every 2 min burst spec RN

^ this. So far on the forum we had that one dude that keeps saying everything is absoolutely perfect as it is no questions asked, and the 'all specs are the same' that creeped in
At that point every spec in the game is the same
Yeah its all generators and spenders and tracking procs
some a little more complicated than others but the fundamental gameplay loops are the same
frost dk is ez mode
Oh oops i meant to say i didn't vibe with it's flow really
I mean
I also suck at it

is this ability lighting up? press it
i might main frost in tww, the riders hero tree looks so much fun
I mean you can also probably play most classes at an lfr level if you just hit buttons that light up tbh
You can afk in lfr so I’m not sure what the baseline is
Not if everyone afks
I mean like you could have the entire group just hitting whatever lights up
when i click on the "rotation" link on wowhead's assa prepatch page, it takes me to spriest page. what are they trying to say with this?
@balmy condor Somebody forgot 

Whisp pushing me to reroll
Not me
shadow priests are funny because they all hate the design of their class every expansion but it's tuned so well its almost always A tier at least
Wait Whisp is telling me to change class? Damn... I am duty bound...
rip
wait what am i doing wrong
Bro they are dooming hard over there. I wanted to check in cause spriest has been my main alt forever and was thinking of switching but they are down bad with dooming
why does it take me to the assa pages
Yeah it's my main alt too and the class is perfectly fine and has some of the best animations in the game
Yeah the animations make me wanna switch.
ah found it nvm
plus if youre a boomer like me holy priest is ez af to play and get ez pug key invites
guide is giving this for opener
Cast Vanish in single target during the final 6 seconds of Garrote, and reapply Garrote to benefit from Improved Garrote
and this for subsequent vanish/deathmarks
Cast Vanish before Deathmark to apply Improved Garrote
does this force you to delay second DM a bit to wait for vanish to be back?
so fun fact, on the outlaw page its linked to assa 
yes
they are basically the same i heard
Outlaw should just link to the other specs should be intended
They're probably all offset by 1?
I’m down for blaming Ellipsis and Publik 
does sub link to outlaw?
yeah, probably a mess up with an array
ayo we tea-ing on both shivs or just first?
but who links to subs page
i cant find that one
i guess none of them are there for sub 
If Shiv active and tea not active and energy low, press tea
:)
Think finishers will still be four pt minimum, or will the idea be four pt minimum 5 if echoing is on 5th spot ? Curious on echoing gameplay or if it's just total filler and let the rng decide if you hit animacharge pt or not ?
awh man, i wanted to find sub rogue
NO NO NO NO YOU CANT REPLY WITH SCREENSHOTS
YOU HAVE TO TYPE IT
NO
STOP
why did the fix not happen like it does at blizzard
Hmm
what if i have dementia and forget?


also we still using trinket with 11 secs on KB or just with deathmark now?
Oh fuck we playing echoing reprimand 😭
no... we play shadow dance
misinfo
with kb like we did in s4
kk
sry idk if im blind or some shit i didnt see it under rotation on updated wowhead
ah its in the pins
it's also in the guide
Have you clarified what AoE means in the guide
no and I cba
Or are we gonna get dumbos
rotation tool is so omega dogshit
Good
?
oh you're talking about the echoing reprimand cp
yeh I guess I didn't mention those
Goes below the CP linr there
yea ER was what i was focused on my b for not clarifying im sure youre sick of answering the same dumb shit
hey guys between sin and sub is there a general idea between what we want for raid or m+ or is it all about the same do what we please
Go next
all those togglers actually make me suicidal
Do what you want homeboy
depends what tuning is like in 6 weeks I guess
yea hadnt seen anything really one way or the other as being just better even with out numbers behind it all, thanks
Super preference
if you ask this question the numbers dont matter. Play what playstyle you enjoy more. 🙂
@balmy condor
if i’m already in stealth
do i use vanish just to reapply empower carrot
garrote *

if you're already in stealth it would be pointless to vanish
Idk if troll or not
if you garrote a non empowered one after you active deathmark does it replace the replicated garrote too?
Are we active yet
Vanish = forced stealth @errant trail
The deathmark garrote matches your regular one
So yes if you vansih garrote and refresh a normal garrote during deathmark both garrotes will be empowered
So you gotta vanish then do death mark
No
you don't have to
its dynamic yeah?
If you have an empowered garrote and deathmark both are empowered too
yeah cool
What else can I do
What other dynamic is there
vanish during deathmark works fine
you lose like 1-2 seconds of garrote it's whatever
as long as its not like 8 seconds in
You are assuming 8 sec into the fight?
Are we vanishing only after 2 mins or delaying DM to fit that vanish garr DM?
you delay a bit
what
I'm talking about deathmark
what are you talking about
I believe in you
You do the opener, and vanish to refresh when your emp garrote is in the pandemic window. Later in the fight you wait a bit for both dm and vanish to be off CD and go into burst phase again
or, if your in m+ you shadowmeld and pray after about 35 seconds
It’s an active 
So by pushing our cds back a but to get the emp garrote under dm we are a solid 2:15 (ish) spec instead of a 2min
Thank you Tony, I do mix them up
That might be the case yes, I have a strange feeling it's something we did before, just can't remember in which expansion / season
Yea I recall similar in the past. It's gross but damage is damage
Well the next time you'd use it as 4:15, since vanish and deathmark is already lined up
But on a fight like tindral you'd just hold your first vanish to make sure you have the damage you need at roughly 2 min anyway
There is only so much articulation you can do in a rotational guide
Having trouble writing stuff Guy?
True only one delay the rest are synced.
chat are we cooked

I’m gonna get home from work and do some cooking
Define cooked



so subterfuge actually does nothing yeah? like literally nothing other than ambush?
Yep
severs back on?
yeah so first gcd ambush for deathstalker than you garrote and subterfuge is a dead talent
man its 7:00 est here
i thought you were supposed to tell us that
yep. so 8 your time. Hopefully.
Deadly precision.. does that make a garrote have increased 5% crit for its entire duration? and kingsbane?
yeah ive been running leathality and acrobatic instead of tea for high m+ and its been good
nice. Thanks!
Tea kinda good for mythic+ and eapecially big packs though
But if you cba pressing it then yeah fuck it
you dont need tea on big packs. all the ruptures and garrotes keep you in energy
you fall behind a bit on st tho
How many keybinds do we gain today?
We get echo and lose dance
Bone spike too?
passive
dance was no keybind tbh
Wut. This is the best
1% of my hp every 3 sec. 5 minutes and ill be ready to go again
Blizz will nerf that.
Hey sorry been working a lot, any new updates on rogue? Sry to ask a lot, just very excited when something new comes up
It’s been maybe a week since I checked
nope
At this point I think the best we can hope for is numbers tuning. Were stuck with the coin flip until next tier
Finally someone who understands me
If by cooked you mean undercooked, yes 🤣
dont say that we dont neeed no more nerfs
chat, real talk
are we fcked or could we get a rework in. in the month left
give it time brother thats what the others say
atleast a month too see what happens
In packs you use it for the mastery, not the energy.
Pretty massive stat boost
20% crit dmg bonus is pretty big too but the main reason is acrobatic. everythings a 1 shot eventually in m+. its a pretty big safety buffer especially without cd
legit 56 days until M+/Mythic release. There will be changes, dont hold your breath for a "rework" though.
i seen that i really like that
I personally think Acro is completrly useless
And the extra range is getting removed anyways
So gg

Ye new acro is not very good
yes it matters not now but 18 and 19 keys were death traps, especially something like BH where alot of trach has melee targeted mechanics and when tanks kite that leaves only you
Having Acro or not there does nothing
im still gonna pray for some positive changes for rogue
But yeah got a few more weeks until it's deleted from the game
So enjoy it while you can I guess
Few more weeks? 
agree to disagree.. but putting acro aside. 20% dmg bonus to crit dmg on your final ticks of kingsbane is alot. 13% mastery is a lot too but i doubt the difference is enourmous. im already running 90% mastery
Well its not 20% more damage
Tea is probably the biggest node in the class tree
Maybe mext to Vigor
But you do you
well your at 80% crit so
how do i take the outlaw role off
New acro seems to be a whopping 0.3% dps in sims on singletarget, very cool
I think it auto removes when you become old (24)
eh?
Loool
dang man
Read the pins homebiy
@balmy condor can you remove the outlaw role and keep the SIN , i tried the bot thing but didn't work
what else do i gotta do
bruh i dont see nothing about taking this role off
thank you .
Np
COO
Red best color
I thikn ironwire might only work with subterfuge after reading the tooltips which is kind of awkward
Yet you arent red, curious
No it works with improved garrote
for real? ok thats a relief
Nvm im silly, but ye it works with imp garrote
Soon brother, soon
Subterfuge is just useless
Too ominious
All the functionality was baked into Improved Garrote
so ironwire reads as "when used from stealth" and imp garrote says for 6 sec after stealth but sub says it allows abilities and combat benifits (whatever that is) that require stealth
so wasnt sure but if not need sub thats a win
Well it doesnt give any combat benefits despite saying that it does
It doesnt give MA
It was fixed?
Was it?
Not too long ago it did
LOL
Its still listed as bugged on the sheet but idk
I should be sleeping but can't sleep
;ler
It also doesnt work with shadowrunner, shadowheart or shadow focus (sub)
But if it works with MA thats good
I might get them confused the other way around because it's late
Probably doesn't work but should
Rather than does work but shouldn't
will be shocked if its not down all night
30% crit does sound like a 'combat benifit' to me
Tooltips are not really anything to pay attention to
They are very consistently flawed
they need advanced tooltips so u can see explicit interaction of how it works
Subterfuge is just a very massive pile of mess
The code is awful
A million branches and conditionals
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i honestly think if they had left shadowdance the way it was. got rid of nightstalker. made kingsbane 50 stacks like they have and instead just slightly buffed its damage to reflect the nightstalker change the spec would have felt so much better in m+
People vastly overestimate how much the dance matters for m+
All changes they did were good ones
the shadowdance change is a pain in the balls. its the only way i get stealth benifits on chain pulls which is like half pulls
Dance removal eats a bit from the flow of the spec but not that much
Most of the time you shouldnt even spread your bleeds during it, better to make sure your kingsbane did full damage

yeh but when they chain pull i shiv mut envonom then use dance to open kingsbane on the new target into double garrote envenom
then fok rupture or something. the point is i can spread bleeds while getting a kingsbane going
enoughf or energy
Even on chainpulls you can very often get a restealth in with good positioning
Unless the tank chainpulla when mobs are 50% hp
sometimes yeah. sometimes now
go nightelf, forehead
alot of pulling onto bosses
Idk the stealth thing is mostly a feels thing
Like most of the time you are getting your restealths anyway, even if you do the worst chain possible because of rp in a lot of keys

Boss is a different thing, but that's again not something where IC Dance matters
i dont see how it hurt the spec to leave it. they could have called it something different if they saw it as a shadow thing. It is a flow thing but its an important flow thing. groups have a tolerance limit for you asking stealth all teh time
Explanation of why restealths aren't as important as you might think:
- Garrote does roughly 14% of your damage overall in a key. This means from 100% improved garrote uptime to 0% improved garrote uptime, you would be losing 4.6% of your overall damage
- You can add in some sanguine/rupture value from carnage, but chaining allows for higher uptime and smoother energy overall, eliminating a lot of ramp at the start of a pull
- This is compounded by the fact that you simply do not lose that many restealths (chain heavy spiteful weeks are only about -30% on stealths)
- You still have vanish and shadow dance, which gives you MANY options to get your stealth effects
- This has been supported by logs and by simulations, for many years
you need the energy
No
You can have 3 bleeds up without IC
it might not be necessary but it doesn't feel lit spending 3 globals to get a rupture out in aoe compared to 9 bleeds in the same globals
It's tailormade for you
Absolutely, it's a feels thing not a major dps thing.
But yeah dance was played on all 3 specs which was weird
And adding it on the Assa tree doesn't feel right either
so am a noob sin rogue here(coming from shadow) what do we do if we can't get re's? just manually apply garrotes on cd?
but stealth as a mechanism to activate bleed spread is so free, and the random times we can't get it vanish is there. we really in a good spot only losing agency now and then
Yes and ruptures and CT and whatnot
Normal rotation
It's okay if it takes 7 seconds instead of 2
did they just extend another 2 hours?
ye
jesus
It sucks when tanks do gigabad chain pulls, like leaping to the next pack with 1 mob at 5% hp, but honestly that pull pattern is bad for everyone else too
But that's when you can restealth though
it's not bad unless that pull is close by, otherwise you can just finish that and move on
Not always
By not engaging the new pack
Literally always
If it's 5%
Literally always
It's a matter of positioning
If tank pulls ahead, stay behind and wait for the pack to die then stealth and go
Just because tank is in combat with the new pack, does not mean you are
make it more like 40% hp and one mob and i'm on board though, that gets the preparation h sales from me
I mean it’s possible but not always, but like really that wasn’t even the point of my statement at all. I was saying that bad pull patterns aren’t something that affect ass more than other dps
it still smooths things out a lot without a downside. its not like shadowdance (as you pointed out) was making the spec op (once you remove nightstalker)
we get stuck with snd as a gcd keybind but lose something like shadowdance thats actually a good qol
Having something more easily accessible inevitably means it has to be tuned lower
personally i think they just make vanish a 1 min cd rather than 2 stacks
Thats basically the same thing..?
yeah
But at that point why even remove Dance
it is
Lol
i dunno i mean we had dance + vanish so losing dance and making vanish 1 min is still a change that reduced keybinds by 1
I do agree that Dance was a good button and I'm sad to see it go
2 stacks of vanish is like.. you use 2 on pull then 1 for the rest of the dungeon so what does it accomplish>?
Nothing
It's a dead node for us
But for classes that are not 2min classes might get something tiny out of it
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They could also put more power into stealth for sin with a tier set, or later changes to the tree
Could make that 2nd charge actually do something
Bt for rn it doesnt do much
there's gonna be a riot if we get incentivized to go through two points into subt
That's not happening no worries
Unless they add the classic "15% more dam while stealthed" on the vanish node
Even then still probably dead
Lol
Idk if I’m in the minority but I wouldn’t hate having nearly 0 dps connected to stealth and instead just for the utility it offers
get rid of snd and make melee 50% faster baseline. make vanish 1 min. make master assin last 6 sec with subterfuge so going down into 1 min vanish feels good. make cold blood something interesting. thats i think all i got when i look at it to smooth it out
I like that stealth does dmage, at least a bit
Vanish utility is super in the past, we've been using it as a cd for so so many years now
I like that it does both
Personally I like that it does A LOT or nothing
Getting 3s of 50% MA with it in the past wasn't it
what we really need is enemies to pickpocket again. this is like the third expansion in a row now where enemies got no pockets 
where's my 10 copper
Well they promised us pickpocket buffs in SL
Those damn jeggings
But forgot to add it

They nerfed Crimson Vial
I personally would prefer if IC was removed and improved garrote was significantly stronger, but evidently blizzard and/or the playerbase at large doesnt really like that type of multidotting anymore
But forgot to add the pickpocket functionality
Same. Realz said that it's a dead archetype however and won't probably ever make a return
Multidotting manually that is
Need to grungle some npcs of their cash
Im so glad that pickpocket shit died
Shouldn't have touched vial though
Vial was so good in bfa

Idk i think it could work in keys in combination with talents like sudden demise, but ye i know

Yeah I agree, would be sick. I love the bleed build with SD interaction and Zoldyck and AP and CT and everything
I still have throwing knives in my bank
Ofc I want ammunition
I got the ammo already

@spice surge
Whoah
That’s an avengers level talent
Too bad that stop happening in higher keys
But with a stronger garrot
Maybe one day
is the bleed build competitive now if you dont go into caustic? i tried it with internal bleeding and spreading rupture and it wasnt aweful but not nearly as good. it did like 7% overall but with the tier set its a stupid idea. without tier set and kingsbane changes is it viable?
You always go caustic for aoe
Yoy always play Spatter
Me on bursting week in everbloom
Even with bleed builds
and the evoker dies every one of them
well my thoughts were now you have IB + bone spike so if that adds up to like 15% or something in a world without the tier bonus and the reduced kingsbane whats the dif between them
so is bleed build the one with sudden demise?
Anything but 1 target you go Spat
was more my thought provessa
Spatt on that thang 
and AP, yeah
But the IB doesn't really do anything
I get your thinking with the cool interaction
its about 6-7% overall with 500k overall dps
But it's bad
You will press Rupture the same amount
With or without IB
And Spatter just does better deeps always
Spatter is just too good
There is no competition
atm yeh it does heaps more. without 4p and with bonespike i was wondering how the gap closes
its prob spatter tho like ur saying
- burst aoe is generally always better
But why would SBS close the gap?
Technically you can make a timewalking set with 3x shrouded still and just glock everything in those instances 
If nothing else, SBS makes Spattet even better
Fadter finishers means more Envenoms
The faster you get ruppies up, the faster you slam the spatter target with envies
well it probably doesnt close much. im not disagreeing that i think spatter will end up still been much better. was just thinking outloud looking at the talent tree and imaging a world without tier set
also a world with smaller kingsbane and prob no pi :/
No in fact it widens the gap even mote
Just wondering about the thought process
That's all
It's all good
A world with no PI and tiny KB sounds like a paradise
I only came back to the game recently, i finally learned the new rotation and broke 5m dps for the first time last night on the first pack in AA with aug/priest group and a proper kingsbane.. just in time things to change 😛
i like kingsbane with the dmg more normalized and no pi sounds great i agree
atm (at least for me) i get very wide results with KB in m+
on the big pulls with lust i go anywhere from 6-11m and i dont know what im doing different half the time
ye it makes logging cringe
cause you have people who get PI suboptimally perma gapping u
if ur guild uses PI efficiently
Agreed
They need to make PI a 3 min cd
So it dies for us
What a dream
Or just remove it
i think pi makes priest to strong. in an tank dps shadow aug healer group its like a 2 min lust for 100% of the dps being buffed by an aug
Please
dk mains 👀
Makes sense why the best comps are aug shadow dps tank healer
yeah
the fact shadow not only give pi but has soothe, md and the best dmg is kind of broken
oh yo nicklah
Idk people yap about synergy all the time, but the reason priest is the best is mostly just due to it being tuned SIGNIFICANTLY higher than anything else
my oce brudda
Very much so
Otherwise you would be playing any priest
its always dps > all
But you want the shadow
spriest just happens to have top dps and top utility
and delusional devs not nerfing it
cant believe how bad blizz fuck up m+ balance this expac
same comp 3 seasons in a row
Probably realized all the fotm andies already rerolled and were just gonna quit if what they rerolled to aint the best
And everybody else aint playing s4 anyway
S3 was fine
sin was actually pretty good this season... it can replace the mage in the meta comp.. does more overall dmg but doesnt survive aswell and doesnt have mass barrier
if they want people to play they need to actually tune m+ correctly
sin was ok
warlock mage sp aug all better
ret also
no way way ret or mage does more overall than sin (in a meta comp with aug + pi)

warlock maybe
dude theres like 3 ppl playing sin
All I’m saying
vs 1m playing ret
is aug is the problem
most sin players will be playing raid builds in a none pi/aug groups while most pallys will have legendary
you need to take the top 0.1% and compare
ret is slightly higher overall but its less useful dps cause not prio yes
but they give way more util
no way ret is higher then a proper group
with sacs, offheals, bops, freedoms
that means I can brag about being top 3 ass rogue in oce, despite there being only 2 ass rogues in oce
I mean prio dps ain't necessarily always better
this graphic is comparing the top 0.1%...
i do like 2-4m dps every 2 mins on trash
its like only keys 19+
It's very good to also delete packs
Oce lucky nibren doesnt do keys
The less pressure on the tank, the better
Espdcially in TWW with all the tank changes
All the "aug is gonna be mandatory forever" andies are gonna be real surprised next season when a resto shaman + melee grugg ends up being strong
ye i could beat ret in almost all my keys sure
doesnt mean sin does more than ret if both played perfect
did final verdict get put back in it's place? it was like the best spell in the game at the end of s3 lol
Can't wait
No you can still cast it from a mile away
and it can still proc a free hammer
cant wait for ele to rise
100% i can beat any ret in any key if i have aug/pi and the pulls are designed around 2 mins vs a ret with whatever setup he wants. mage its much closer and prob depends on tyran or not cause sin ST on long fights falls way behind
I didn't mean from an accessibility standpoint, ret was super high on volocross damage and almost all that damage was verdict as an example of it's power in just slappin st
Prot warr, rogue, survival, frost dk, resto shaman
You heard it here first
yeh im looking forward to shaman in my group
Caster comps be like "heh look at all our synergy heh" while this comp goes "ME SMASH"
I was thinking rogue, frost and monk to buff all the melee andies even further
Oogabooga melee
Or rogue, dh, monk, war, sham
Unholy more fun
Dank
Maybe but monk is famously a windfury hater
if my guild didnt already have 3 fucking dks i'd be tempted to swap back
hard disagree with you on that one
breath of sindragosa
Can do brewmaster + arms though
miss me
That is very true
the other problem with metas is atm, melee is so much more dangerous than ranged.. normally thats offset my melee doing a bit more dmg or having a bit more cc with shorter interrupts but with how it works now when any disrupt resets the icd of trash abilities ranged dominate
my guild aint running any rogues except me, and only 1 dk. So I might be running a double toon next season
yeh u dont
Brew + havoc + arms + rogue + shaman 🚀 🌕
yeah but im not a dumbass, so i usually get a spot in mythic and raid
im a dumbass and still get a spot
Well in most guilds you can play anything
I'm ready
it isnt a disqualifier fortunately
Juice me up
as long as you’re a half decent player

i have 6 simultaneously running instances of hekili and maxdps, i cant fail
I can only offer unacceptable damage and half chimp mechanics
lol yeah, 50% of the time i dont die on cds 100% of the time
No PI though, guess its gonna have to be sub
i had a rage fit after an evoker flew me from the back of the group into the tank pull so i couldnt stealth
couldnt tell if trolling or braindead
ya
ret tuning rough in tww
they also need a way to redeem your cds when trash dies quickly. like a sudden demise for kingsbane. everyone else gets cds they can carry over
Gg
i expect a exodus of ret fotmers who rolled for damage
how many people rerolling to fire/arcane mage because googling "tww dps tier list" told them they were overpowered
When its a low mob count dungeon and the ret is talented into right side

That's why KB needs to et hit so that won't happen or it won't feel as bad
Remove KB

Make exsang aoe
uncap CT
CT is uncapped buddy
MONKAS
We had that
doesnt it max at 100 percent?
It was both good and bad
it was 8 targets wasnt it on 45sec
Yes
Yeah the damage scaling is capped
it should be uc on stealth and vanish should be like 30sec cd. without nightstalker ALL vanish becomes is a way to put up instant bleeds and then u just balance around garrotes dmg
MORE
Yep lets give all specs shadowcrash or primal wrath
Why have specs be different
When they could instead all be the same
its not the same. shadow crash is upfront, we still apply bleeds that ramp and lose dmg if stuff dies early
deal so much damage in a single pull that the game crashes
telling the aug and priest to wait 10 seconds before pi/breath lol
shadow crash does upfront damage but thats not where its actual value comes from
(just let me set up)
its value is applying dots in aoe
Yeah man is talking about applications
yeh ok mb
Well the bleeds just wouldnt do damage then
Ye
Like spriest dots
why do we run master assassin in M+ build still?
oh....the build in the pins shows we do
We do, but theres no good alternative really
but i was having a tough time figuring out why
I played sin in BFA when u had to manually apply 1 rupture and garrote to each target and it was fine and i didnt mind it but now they pushed toward more aoe coming from envenom/kb/caustic so it become more essential to get bleeds out quick and fast so u stay competitive on aoe dmg
Like you have the choice of imp poison, MA, vicious venoms or fatal concoction
Its MA because the alternatives are bad, not because MA is good
For all the KB fanatics
ahh i gotcha
I mean, not really. It's always been critical to get your bleeds up asap
That's always been the #1 thing to do
Nothing's changed there
It's just so much faster now automatically because of IC
okay sorry for the stupid question here....but was SBS reworked to be a passive ability based off rupture application now?
Previously the bleeds were the thing doing a major bulk of yoyr dam
Yes
i might be overthinking it. i felt like shadowdance was such a wonderful qol that smoothed everything out so well. its an extra button so just reducing vanish cd is fine by me
You're gonna have a bad time with no acro and no dance
did they buff the baseline melee range when they got rid of acro
I probs won't notice the difference
No
Everyone's got smol arms now
Even Outlaw
They buffed BF's range to compensate
wasnt the justification in the patch notes 'everything has kind of been made larger now anyway so its kind of pointless keeping this talent'
But that's it
Especially outlaw 
It's true 
Idk always thought it was a useless talent personally
Just a crutch for some people
acro makes such a dif on pulls like the trash before last boss in AA. i know u can go stairs but ppl just grip it all together where it is. BH has all the melee only mechanics they will only target you if tank kites. the extra 3 yards lets you get so much closer to your safe range when u need to move out
If BF range didn't increase with it, I'd be playing Grappling Hooks all day long in BFA and SL as an Outlaw
Well they said that but thats not true, but the other justification where they said attacking at that range looks stupid because youre not even close to hitting the boss is true
acro lets u keep attacking the wilted oak during slam or treemouth during grip
Obviously acro was good, but the game was played for like 16 years without it
or makes tanks say screw it and take a mage
Acro was nice for longer kick range. Otherwise it was pretty whatever
We'll be fine
Yeah that's gonna be the final straw
Rogue that does 100k more dps but can't hit during slam
Smh
Get them out of here
just throw a knife. ezpz
its just 1 example. like wilted has highest hp so its what u pop cds into
not moving out is nice. waiting 20 sec to pop cds is dumb
dont let outlaw dooming convince you that rogue is unplayable without acro
it'll be fine
Or you cd, do mechanic in less than 1s then continue
Evasion the slam and then take the grip for your tank and cloak so he doesn’t get shield. Ez
Use your buttons
normally wyrmstone. but anyway were getting bogged in semantics. point is it was another qol being removed
A crutch which should have never been introduced in the first place

It's easy to add stuff like Acro, more baseline movement speed, higher jump height and whatnot, than it is to eventually have to remove them.
while im on the topic of unpopular opinons im also of the opinion that rogues should only have 1 resource to manage and that should be combo points. i thnk energy is kind of an outdated model and it should be like ranged dps that basically are mana neutral outside of utility spells
That's why devs take a very long time before adding something that makes the gameplay feel a lot easier and smoother, because taking it away is gonna feel like shut to whoever used it
and defensives 
Yup 
That is definitely an unpopular opinion
yeah i know
A lot of us in here want much more focus on energy management
Why do you want to make all specs play the same lol
I dob't get it
i hate waiting for energy to tick up. i feel like it makes haste a stat that makes my class more engaging to play in a feedback sense where as i think stats should be things that arnt tied to how fun your class is but how much dmg you do in dif situations
Haste doesn't really do much though
but i realize im probably in a group of 1 in this opinion
Unless you get A LOT of it, like with Lust
Gcd doesn't change
During cds even without lust you're energy capped
Like idk why people think haste suddenly makes the spec better and faster
yeh i know but it feels good not to wait for energy ticks, its faster paced and more fluid. im not saying it should do more dmg, just that we should be able to cast non stop to fluidity and tie our resource management to combo points only
30% more haste congrats you're now 59 apm instead of 58
But there's no management to be made with combo points
personal opinion tho. not looking to change anyones mind
Building and spending at max-1 everytime ain't really interesting
There's no thinking involved
With energy management you have to think about when cds are up, how much energy each spell costs
With cp management there's nothing else but "I'm 4cp, so I'll wait to press Garrote in Pandemic for 5cp before finishing"
Which then comes back to energy management
Because you can't do that if you're energy capped
And you cannot do that if you have infinite energy
Because it would waste gcds
yes i said it was a personal opinion. i dont like the feeling of waiting. it only happens on st but i think its disruptive to the flow of combat. personal opinion
play ww monk
I like assination rogue. thats why i think about how i would liek to imrpove it. because i like it
anyway moving on
fair enough. I just suggested that because it sounded like you were describing ww monk
I'm interested in your vision of combo point management
What does that mean to you?
Yeah exactly, which is why I find it weird whenever people suggest stuff that other specs in the game already do
Like applying all Ruptures at once, not having energy and whatnot
Wise old Eleemo kinda said it best: If you have energy all the time to hit buttons, what’s the point of having energy?
Yeah, which is what Nicklah said that he would like to see removed
And something that I do not personally understand at all
So I'd like to hear his thoughts
Yeah. Basically turns you almost like an melee arcane mage (sorta) or boomkin because it’s just build until you need to spend.
It's basically just a Windwalker Monk
I forgotten how impactful energy is for them so couldn’t make that comparison 😛
I think both energy and combo points are mandatory for the spec to work and be interesting to minmax
Remove energy and it's just brainless 111211132111411121312
Remove CP and
Yeah
That's not a thing
literally
Even stuff like Mutilate crit rng and procs make the game slightly bit more reactive and fun to play
No procs, muti always giving x cp = castsequence your entire rotation
Could literally write out the entire encounter from start to finish
What if energy wasn’t a resource you cared about at all and instead of finishers spending all cp they spent a fixed amount per spell. Wouldn’t that be something
Absolutely, assuming we had more than one finisher
Could have multiple finishers with cds
What if you didn't care about energy, but all your spells just had cooldowns and/or cast times
But then again that's monk
:-----)
Yeah that was the bit lol
Lets just go for the Mage archetype since that's blizzard's favorite class
LOL

There is something to say for really liking the playstyle of a spec but not the flavor, or visa versa…but, can’t have everything
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The theme?
Yeah
The theme of sin is p good tho idk
Yeah that’s what i like, personally
I like it so much that I don’t care about not really enjoying the play pattern
The only things I don't like about current sin are slightly clunky tree with dead nodes, and Spatter/Kingsbane in AoE
I think sin is the best rogue spec playstyle wise rn
Oh for sure the best
I wish there was a better alternative to prio dam than Spatter
Like if I wanna go full prio, I should be able to
But if I wanna do AoE, I shouldn't be forced to still single target one guy in the pack
Aff should get spatter and sin should get rapture, is something I’ve thought in some capacity
I wanna hit em all and tab target, multidot, go ham, not full st with every build ever
Echoing Blades was better aoe gameplay than spatter 🙃
Kinda agree
At least it was different rotationally in AoE and ST
Compared to currently doing the exact same rotation regardless of target count
Except you use FOK instead of Muti and you might sneak in a CT once every 12s
But you ain't changing targets
Gotta pummel that big dude
It was boring, but atleast you made the choice to swap it up to FoK when you needed aoe and all the explosive FoK had a cool feel to it. I've always said we should have some sort of Echoing Blades that had a added requirement to it so it wasn't just FoK spam.
Like maybe it only splashes off ruptured targets
I love my spec being on a spectrum it just like me fr fr 
If ADHD is included in the spectrum then I'm part of the gang fr fr
it actually still shocks me with how popular echoing blades was at least for sin aoe players that it has not been implemented since
Because it was admittedly pretty cheesy
We taking bets on if it gets extended again?
everyone updating warbands at once alone gonna crash bnet
I almost want to wait a bit extra and let everyone beta test the conversion for me lol
i aint logging in till tomorrow
warbands is the most fundamental change blizz has done in a long time
Who remembers back during vanilla when Blizzard would actually gives us free game time whenever their patches took long? They'd never do that now lol.






