#assassination

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normal mist
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Lorewise kinda impossible

marble hemlock
normal mist
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My eyes ...

tulip kelp
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LMAO

normal mist
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HIS EYES

slate crown
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Look with your special eyes

tulip kelp
normal mist
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Deep down that dragon just wants to be loved and create friendships

strange python
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Is Rogue really looking incredibly ass for TWW ?

normal mist
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No

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It's looking pretty okay

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Ask again for numbers after tuning as been done

strange python
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In terms of numbers? Im hearing a lot of negativity

spice surge
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If numbers are bad they'll just slap a 20% aura on it and its fine

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They have barely even started tuning yet, so worrying about numbers right now doesnt really matter

normal mist
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I feel like we had this conversation the whole day

past forum
orchid pewter
normal mist
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Thinking about numbers when numbers were not tested yet

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It's just a waste of time

errant trail
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uninstalled details

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spec feels playable

normal mist
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The game play changed after deleting details?

errant trail
normal mist
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Smh my head

strange python
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I don't care about numbers

normal mist
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Weird

strange python
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No, that was a question to your statement

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I mean in terms of not being the poor cousin of other classes that have had a lot of love

errant trail
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it’s okay we accept it

rotund vigil
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Surely they won't let us go into TWW this undercooked right? Someone lie to me and say a last minute update is coming.

errant trail
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sin down

normal mist
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We are indeed one of the classes that unfortunately didn't get as much love as we might have needed (for now)

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It's a waiting game now

errant trail
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we abandoned homeless coin flip mafia

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fatebound all we got

narrow basalt
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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?

normal mist
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We don't use 2nd vanish

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We don't use master assassin

errant trail
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if you use second vanish

normal mist
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So you use vanish to reapply improved garrote

errant trail
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ur hurting urself

spice lagoon
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hopefully we get some more love later on down the road

narrow basalt
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ok so dont pick up the 2nd vanish talent?

errant trail
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pooling sanguini blades feels worse now

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naw don’t

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it’s deplete

narrow basalt
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I see

slate crown
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Sanguini blades

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my god

fleet pagoda
errant trail
narrow basalt
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its locked behind a shitty talent? damn..

spice lagoon
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1hr 30 min left boys then the servers go live

narrow basalt
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I see, ty for informing.

normal mist
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We gain more value going e.reprimand than 2nd vanish

spice surge
narrow basalt
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wombo combo

normal mist
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It might answer you some questions

narrow basalt
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aighty

normal mist
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Good luck my friend

narrow basalt
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Thanks 🏌️

errant trail
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linguini blades pump

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i feel so energy starved tho

spice lagoon
errant trail
spice lagoon
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can i get my own role in here whoever is admin?

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i do play SIN

narrow basalt
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How have you guys felt about sin rogue in dragon flight? do you guys like the playstyle and/or kingsbane?

marble hemlock
vale shore
narrow basalt
vale shore
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yes

north frost
narrow basalt
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Me too 🙂 just curious what the general consensus is

vale shore
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this is the assassination channel

narrow basalt
vale shore
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not the we-hate-assassination channel

spice spire
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I hate myself

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And I play Assassination

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That’s a line

marble hemlock
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!restealth

prisma monolithBOT
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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
north frost
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Ive been assassinating peeps in arena. sin hits so hard.

vale shore
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you wish you could cast flagellation on yourself?

spice spire
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Alright big dog we’re close to the kink conversation

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I was an sbs main tho

vale shore
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I like that its just tied to rupture now

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so you chain it out to three targets right off the bat

spice lagoon
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awesome

spice spire
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Kinda indiff to it it’s a nice QoL

narrow basalt
vale shore
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I am never indifferent to QoL improvements

spice spire
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Less buttons always good

north frost
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but the silence effect

spice spire
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Circling back to the hate myself bit

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I don’t deserve the quality of life madgeClap

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I also have P bound so like

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What even is

rain mortar
normal mist
spice spire
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Welcome

spice spire
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2 late Blud

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Hope they undo CttC

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Just to make the grind real

normal mist
spice lagoon
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yo

spice spire
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I’m a hater what can I say

normal mist
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A loved hater bro

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you and george

spice lagoon
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how do i take off sub and outlaw and just make it SIN

spice spire
normal mist
royal lantern
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you cant hide from us

normal mist
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Tryan speaking poetry

shy pecan
muted ridge
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!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
runic hinge
shy pecan
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It’s great, wdym

royal lantern
spice spire
runic hinge
spice spire
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Same

raven egret
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ok so, because I am evil, here is a post that claims Sin and Outlaw are "very similar"

normal mist
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Frost mage and fire mage are very similar

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both cast spells

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BOOM

raven egret
spice surge
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"all the specs play around stealth windows" is another reddit classic

raven egret
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theres been an upsurge of 'all rogue specs play the same' for reasons I can't even fathom

spice surge
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Ye buddy that shadow dance to buff my kingsbane by 10% is what i play around

spice surge
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Without having any idea how they actually feel to play

nova wolf
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I don't play anymore and haven't for 8 years, but I have strong, unshakeable opinions.

runic hinge
spice surge
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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

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Saying assa and outlaw feels similar is just wild though

raven egret
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^ 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

limber lion
cinder bone
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Yeah its all generators and spenders and tracking procs

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some a little more complicated than others but the fundamental gameplay loops are the same

severe sparrow
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I mean if we dumb it down that far yeah lol

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I'm trash at dk though

cinder bone
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frost dk is ez mode

severe sparrow
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Oh oops i meant to say i didn't vibe with it's flow really

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I mean

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I also suck at it

cinder bone
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is this ability lighting up? press it

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i might main frost in tww, the riders hero tree looks so much fun

severe sparrow
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I mean you can also probably play most classes at an lfr level if you just hit buttons that light up tbh

runic hinge
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You can afk in lfr so I’m not sure what the baseline is

severe sparrow
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Not if everyone afks

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I mean like you could have the entire group just hitting whatever lights up

nova wolf
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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?

sudden brook
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@balmy condor Somebody forgot PEPW

balmy condor
runic hinge
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Whisp pushing me to reroll

balmy condor
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I triple checked those

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tf

balmy condor
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yeah all the buttons are working fine

nova wolf
balmy condor
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oh

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I don't control those

cinder bone
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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

raven egret
balmy condor
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at least I don't think I do

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lemme check

clever sapphire
# nova wolf

it works normally for me? how did you get the SP guide there

balmy condor
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they're all shadow priest

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yeah

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that's a backend thing

nova wolf
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rip

clever sapphire
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wait what am i doing wrong

runic hinge
clever sapphire
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why does it take me to the assa pages

cinder bone
runic hinge
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Yeah the animations make me wanna switch.

clever sapphire
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ah found it nvm

cinder bone
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plus if youre a boomer like me holy priest is ez af to play and get ez pug key invites

timid coral
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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?

clever sapphire
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so fun fact, on the outlaw page its linked to assa dracthyr_kek

nova wolf
cinder bone
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Outlaw should just link to the other specs should be intended

main solar
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They're probably all offset by 1?

shy pecan
main solar
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does sub link to outlaw?

clever sapphire
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yap

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and shadow priest has no links

main solar
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yeah, probably a mess up with an array

balmy condor
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yeh

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devs are aware

cerulean nest
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ayo we tea-ing on both shivs or just first?

clever sapphire
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but who links to subs page

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i cant find that one

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i guess none of them are there for sub dracthyr_shrug

limber lion
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:)

balmy condor
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fixed

rotund vigil
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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 ?

balmy condor
clever sapphire
subtle tundra
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YOU HAVE TO TYPE IT

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NO

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STOP

clever sapphire
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why did the fix not happen like it does at blizzard

limber lion
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Hmm

marble hemlock
subtle tundra
nova wolf
cerulean nest
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also we still using trinket with 11 secs on KB or just with deathmark now?

slim pebble
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Oh fuck we playing echoing reprimand 😭

subtle tundra
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misinfo

balmy condor
cerulean nest
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kk

rotund vigil
# balmy condor

sry idk if im blind or some shit i didnt see it under rotation on updated wowhead

balmy condor
rotund vigil
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ah its in the pins

balmy condor
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it's also in the guide

limber lion
balmy condor
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no and I cba

limber lion
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Or are we gonna get dumbos

balmy condor
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rotation tool is so omega dogshit

limber lion
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Good

rotund vigil
balmy condor
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oh you're talking about the echoing reprimand cp

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yeh I guess I didn't mention those

limber lion
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Goes below the CP linr there

rotund vigil
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yea ER was what i was focused on my b for not clarifying im sure youre sick of answering the same dumb shit

limber lion
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Landing on animecharged cp means 7cp

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So you finish

balmy condor
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entire rotation tool is fucking cooooooooooooked dude

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hate that shit so bad

limber lion
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1cp, mutilate suddenly 7cp because animecharge

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Finish

merry onyx
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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

limber lion
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Go next

balmy condor
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all those togglers actually make me suicidal

balmy condor
merry onyx
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yea hadnt seen anything really one way or the other as being just better even with out numbers behind it all, thanks

limber lion
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Super preference

hoary remnant
errant trail
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@balmy condor

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if i’m already in stealth

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do i use vanish just to reapply empower carrot

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garrote *

balmy condor
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if you're already in stealth it would be pointless to vanish

normal mist
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Idk if troll or not

short flint
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if you garrote a non empowered one after you active deathmark does it replace the replicated garrote too?

spice lagoon
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Are we active yet

bronze pike
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whispyr

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do u believe in my sin capabilities?

normal mist
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Vanish = forced stealth @errant trail

spice surge
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So yes if you vansih garrote and refresh a normal garrote during deathmark both garrotes will be empowered

spice lagoon
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So you gotta vanish then do death mark

normal mist
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No

balmy condor
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you don't have to

short flint
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its dynamic yeah?

balmy condor
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you probably should

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yes it's dynamic

spice surge
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If you have an empowered garrote and deathmark both are empowered too

short flint
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yeah cool

spice lagoon
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What else can I do

bronze pike
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whispyr ignored my valid question

spice lagoon
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What other dynamic is there

balmy condor
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vanish during deathmark works fine

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you lose like 1-2 seconds of garrote it's whatever

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as long as its not like 8 seconds in

spice lagoon
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You are assuming 8 sec into the fight?

normal mist
balmy condor
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you delay a bit

balmy condor
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I'm talking about deathmark

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what are you talking about

normal mist
bronze pike
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ty

normal mist
short flint
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or, if your in m+ you shadowmeld and pray after about 35 seconds

normal mist
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Let's not bring race passives into this

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Might confuse more than actually help

runic hinge
coral stratus
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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

normal mist
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Thank you Tony, I do mix them up

normal mist
coral stratus
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Yea I recall similar in the past. It's gross but damage is damage

spice surge
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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

sudden brook
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There is only so much articulation you can do in a rotational guide

normal mist
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Having trouble writing stuff Guy?

coral stratus
sudden brook
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Nah just commenting on whisyrs breakdown

balmy condor
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chat are we cooked

royal lantern
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idk

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its almost 1am, get some sleep

slate scaffold
runic hinge
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I’m gonna get home from work and do some cooking

normal mist
errant trail
royal lantern
runic hinge
short flint
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so subterfuge actually does nothing yeah? like literally nothing other than ambush?

normal mist
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Yep

spice lagoon
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severs back on?

normal mist
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And mutilate>ambush

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So it is literally worthless

short flint
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yeah so first gcd ambush for deathstalker than you garrote and subterfuge is a dead talent

strange python
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Assuming they don't extend again

spice lagoon
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man its 7:00 est here

hexed willow
strange python
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yep. so 8 your time. Hopefully.

short flint
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Deadly precision.. does that make a garrote have increased 5% crit for its entire duration? and kingsbane?

limber lion
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Yupyup

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And Lethality increases their crit damage

short flint
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yeah ive been running leathality and acrobatic instead of tea for high m+ and its been good

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nice. Thanks!

limber lion
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Tea kinda good for mythic+ and eapecially big packs though

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But if you cba pressing it then yeah fuck it

short flint
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you dont need tea on big packs. all the ruptures and garrotes keep you in energy

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you fall behind a bit on st tho

slim pebble
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How many keybinds do we gain today?

unborn yacht
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We get echo and lose dance

slim pebble
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Bone spike too?

unborn yacht
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passive

royal lantern
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dance was no keybind tbh

slim pebble
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Wut. This is the best

short flint
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1% of my hp every 3 sec. 5 minutes and ill be ready to go again

unborn yacht
sick sail
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Hey sorry been working a lot, any new updates on rogue? Sry to ask a lot, just very excited when something new comes up

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It’s been maybe a week since I checked

unborn yacht
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At this point I think the best we can hope for is numbers tuning. Were stuck with the coin flip until next tier

short flint
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maybe ironwire requires subterfuge to work

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beyond the first one

normal mist
rotund vigil
spice lagoon
onyx scroll
spice lagoon
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;

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yo so which channel i go to change the colo to SIN

regal chasm
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chat, real talk
are we fcked or could we get a rework in. in the month left

spice lagoon
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give it time brother thats what the others say

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atleast a month too see what happens

limber lion
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Pretty massive stat boost

short flint
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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

unborn yacht
spice lagoon
limber lion
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I personally think Acro is completrly useless

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And the extra range is getting removed anyways

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So gg

bronze pike
spice surge
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Ye new acro is not very good

short flint
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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

limber lion
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Having Acro or not there does nothing

spice lagoon
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im still gonna pray for some positive changes for rogue

limber lion
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But yeah got a few more weeks until it's deleted from the game

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So enjoy it while you can I guess

spice surge
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Few more weeks? Syphahuh

short flint
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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

spice surge
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Well its not 20% more damage

limber lion
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Tea is probably the biggest node in the class tree

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Maybe mext to Vigor

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But you do you

spice surge
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It goes from 200% > 220%, so thats 10% more damage

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On crits only

short flint
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well your at 80% crit so

limber lion
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You can also run Lethality without dropping tea

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Won't be in TWW

spice lagoon
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how do i take the outlaw role off

limber lion
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#bot-spam

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Has pins with instructions

spice surge
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New acro seems to be a whopping 0.3% dps in sims on singletarget, very cool

spice lagoon
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i think it worked..

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okay its not working

past forum
pale nexus
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eh?

normal mist
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Loool

spice lagoon
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dang man

limber lion
spice lagoon
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@balmy condor can you remove the outlaw role and keep the SIN , i tried the bot thing but didn't work

limber lion
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!newmain is just a meme command

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Brother

spice lagoon
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what else do i gotta do

limber lion
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There's no need to ping

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Read

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The pins

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Litrrally

spice lagoon
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bruh i dont see nothing about taking this role off

limber lion
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Pins

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In #bot-spam

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You just type !outlaw

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That's it

spice lagoon
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thank you .

limber lion
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Np

spice lagoon
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COO

limber lion
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Red best color

short flint
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I thikn ironwire might only work with subterfuge after reading the tooltips which is kind of awkward

spice surge
spice surge
short flint
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for real? ok thats a relief

spice surge
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Nvm im silly, but ye it works with imp garrote

limber lion
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Subterfuge is just useless

spice surge
limber lion
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All the functionality was baked into Improved Garrote

short flint
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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

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so wasnt sure but if not need sub thats a win

spice surge
limber lion
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Other than MA if you have that talented

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Which you shouldn't

spice surge
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It doesnt give MA

limber lion
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It was fixed?

spice surge
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Was it?

limber lion
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Not too long ago it did

scenic nacelle
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extended moon2PAIN

spice lagoon
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LOL

spice surge
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Its still listed as bugged on the sheet but idk

limber lion
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I should be sleeping but can't sleep

spice lagoon
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;ler

spice surge
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It also doesnt work with shadowrunner, shadowheart or shadow focus (sub)

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But if it works with MA thats good

limber lion
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I might get them confused the other way around because it's late

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Probably doesn't work but should

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Rather than does work but shouldn't

cinder bone
short flint
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30% crit does sound like a 'combat benifit' to me

limber lion
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Tooltips are not really anything to pay attention to

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They are very consistently flawed

short flint
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they need advanced tooltips so u can see explicit interaction of how it works

limber lion
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Subterfuge is just a very massive pile of mess

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The code is awful

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A million branches and conditionals

spice lagoon
short flint
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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+

spice surge
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People vastly overestimate how much the dance matters for m+

limber lion
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All changes they did were good ones

short flint
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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

limber lion
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Dance removal eats a bit from the flow of the spec but not that much

spice surge
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Most of the time you shouldnt even spread your bleeds during it, better to make sure your kingsbane did full damage

limber lion
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Get summoned

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@sudden brook PogO

sudden brook
short flint
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yeh but when they chain pull i shiv mut envonom then use dance to open kingsbane on the new target into double garrote envenom

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then fok rupture or something. the point is i can spread bleeds while getting a kingsbane going

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enoughf or energy

limber lion
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Even on chainpulls you can very often get a restealth in with good positioning

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Unless the tank chainpulla when mobs are 50% hp

short flint
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sometimes yeah. sometimes now

unborn yacht
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go nightelf, forehead

short flint
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alot of pulling onto bosses

spice surge
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Idk the stealth thing is mostly a feels thing

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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

spice spire
limber lion
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Boss is a different thing, but that's again not something where IC Dance matters

short flint
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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

dark token
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love watching US maintenace from eu

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you guys dont get it till 10pm ur time KEKW

limber lion
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You don't need stealths though that's the thing

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!restealth

prisma monolithBOT
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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
short flint
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you need the energy

spice surge
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No

limber lion
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No

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Read the command

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Before you type more

spice surge
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You can have 3 bleeds up without IC

fleet pagoda
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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

limber lion
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It's tailormade for you

limber lion
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But yeah dance was played on all 3 specs which was weird

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And adding it on the Assa tree doesn't feel right either

distant geode
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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?

fleet pagoda
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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

limber lion
#

Normal rotation

#

It's okay if it takes 7 seconds instead of 2

lone parrot
#

did they just extend another 2 hours?

distant geode
#

ye

lone parrot
#

jesus

past forum
#

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

limber lion
#

But that's when you can restealth though

fleet pagoda
past forum
#

Not always

limber lion
#

By not engaging the new pack

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Literally always

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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

fleet pagoda
#

make it more like 40% hp and one mob and i'm on board though, that gets the preparation h sales from me

past forum
#

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

short flint
#

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

spice surge
#

Having something more easily accessible inevitably means it has to be tuned lower

short flint
#

personally i think they just make vanish a 1 min cd rather than 2 stacks

sudden brook
#

Thats basically the same thing..?

short flint
#

yeah

limber lion
#

But at that point why even remove Dance

short flint
#

it is

limber lion
#

Lol

sudden brook
#

2 stacks is better for outlaw and sub tho

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So

short flint
#

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

limber lion
#

I do agree that Dance was a good button and I'm sad to see it go

short flint
#

2 stacks of vanish is like.. you use 2 on pull then 1 for the rest of the dungeon so what does it accomplish>?

limber lion
#

Nothing

#

It's a dead node for us

#

But for classes that are not 2min classes might get something tiny out of it

inland jacinth
#

!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
sudden brook
#

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

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Bt for rn it doesnt do much

fleet pagoda
#

there's gonna be a riot if we get incentivized to go through two points into subt

limber lion
#

That's not happening no worries

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Unless they add the classic "15% more dam while stealthed" on the vanish node

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Even then still probably dead

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Lol

past forum
#

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

short flint
#

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

sudden brook
#

I like that stealth does dmage, at least a bit

limber lion
#

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

fleet pagoda
#

what we really need is enemies to pickpocket again. this is like the third expansion in a row now where enemies got no pockets disapawnted

#

where's my 10 copper

limber lion
#

Well they promised us pickpocket buffs in SL

past forum
#

Those damn jeggings

limber lion
#

But forgot to add it

spice spire
limber lion
#

They nerfed Crimson Vial

spice surge
#

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

limber lion
#

But forgot to add the pickpocket functionality

spice spire
#

If pickpocket buffs happen

#

I will return

limber lion
#

Multidotting manually that is

spice spire
#

Need to grungle some npcs of their cash

sudden brook
#

Im so glad that pickpocket shit died

spice spire
#

Worst foreverguy take

limber lion
#

Vial was so good in bfa

spice surge
waxen oyster
#

Was vial still 30% in bfa

#

Idr the legion value

sudden brook
#

U guys really wanted to COLLECT AMMO before raid

#

Thats what U guys actually want

limber lion
#

Yeah I agree, would be sick. I love the bleed build with SD interaction and Zoldyck and AP and CT and everything

spice spire
#

Hell yeah brother

#

I’m American

fleet pagoda
#

I still have throwing knives in my bank

spice spire
#

Ofc I want ammunition

fleet pagoda
#

I got the ammo already

spice spire
spice surge
#

Give me the real shrouded suffocation back

#

The azerite traits from bfa launch

spice spire
#

Whoah

limber lion
#

I love pressing my AOE bleed Shiv when mobs are like 30% ho

#

And they just disappear

spice spire
#

That’s an avengers level talent

limber lion
#

Too bad that stop happening in higher keys

#

But with a stronger garrot

#

Maybe one day

short flint
#

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?

spice surge
#

You always go caustic for aoe

limber lion
#

Yoy always play Spatter

waxen oyster
limber lion
#

Even with bleed builds

waxen oyster
#

and the evoker dies every one of them

limber lion
#

Bleed build is THE WAY to go

#

But you need Spatter

short flint
#

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

distant geode
#

so is bleed build the one with sudden demise?

limber lion
#

Anything but 1 target you go Spat

short flint
#

was more my thought provessa

strange python
#

Spatt on that thang Surebud

fleet pagoda
limber lion
#

I get your thinking with the cool interaction

short flint
#

its about 6-7% overall with 500k overall dps

limber lion
#

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

short flint
#

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
waxen oyster
#

Spatter is grossly strong

#

for a 1 talent node

#

early in the tree

limber lion
spice surge
limber lion
#

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

short flint
#

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 :/

limber lion
#

No in fact it widens the gap even mote

#

Just wondering about the thought process

#

That's all

#

It's all good

limber lion
short flint
#

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+

spice surge
#

Idk PI still being good but not being the best target

#

Is also kinda bad

short flint
#

on the big pulls with lust i go anywhere from 6-11m and i dont know what im doing different half the time

dark token
#

cause you have people who get PI suboptimally perma gapping u

#

if ur guild uses PI efficiently

dark token
#

its either all get PI or none get PI

#

best options

#

(prefer none)

limber lion
#

They need to make PI a 3 min cd

#

So it dies for us

#

What a dream

#

Or just remove it

short flint
#

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

dark token
limber lion
#

Please

dark token
short flint
#

it'll end up like lust and brez and shroud

#

most classes will get the same thing

limber lion
short flint
#

yeah

limber lion
#

Any dps and you'll do fine

#

One that gains something from PI evem better

short flint
#

the fact shadow not only give pi but has soothe, md and the best dmg is kind of broken

lone parrot
#

oh yo nicklah

spice surge
#

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

lone parrot
#

my oce brudda

limber lion
#

Very much so

short flint
#

hey

#

i just want sin to be the meta once. its been close twice but never the best

limber lion
#

Otherwise you would be playing any priest

dark token
#

its always dps > all

limber lion
#

But you want the shadow

dark token
#

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

spice surge
#

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

dark token
#

like i have no desire to play the game

#

if m+ is like this

#

i raid log

short flint
#

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

dark token
#

if they want people to play they need to actually tune m+ correctly

dark token
#

warlock mage sp aug all better

#

ret also

lone parrot
#

fk pallies

#

i hate em

short flint
#

no way way ret or mage does more overall than sin (in a meta comp with aug + pi)

lone parrot
short flint
#

warlock maybe

short flint
#

dude theres like 3 ppl playing sin

waxen oyster
#

All I’m saying

short flint
#

vs 1m playing ret

waxen oyster
#

is aug is the problem

short flint
#

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

dark token
#

but they give way more util

short flint
#

no way ret is higher then a proper group

dark token
#

with sacs, offheals, bops, freedoms

waxen oyster
#

How do you not have legendary

#

as ret

lone parrot
limber lion
dark token
short flint
#

i do like 2-4m dps every 2 mins on trash

dark token
#

its like only keys 19+

limber lion
#

It's very good to also delete packs

waxen oyster
limber lion
#

The less pressure on the tank, the better

#

Espdcially in TWW with all the tank changes

spice surge
#

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

dark token
#

ye i could beat ret in almost all my keys sure

#

doesnt mean sin does more than ret if both played perfect

fleet pagoda
#

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

waxen oyster
#

No you can still cast it from a mile away

limber lion
#

Windfury gangsters

waxen oyster
#

and it can still proc a free hammer

dark token
#

cant wait for ele to rise

short flint
#

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

fleet pagoda
spice surge
#

You heard it here first

haughty flicker
#

year of the spear?

#

im ready

short flint
#

yeh im looking forward to shaman in my group

spice surge
#

Caster comps be like "heh look at all our synergy heh" while this comp goes "ME SMASH"

limber lion
#

I was thinking rogue, frost and monk to buff all the melee andies even further

#

Oogabooga melee

lone parrot
#

im honestly so happy that frost dk is making a comeback

#

fdk was my first love

limber lion
#

Or rogue, dh, monk, war, sham

waxen oyster
#

Unholy more fun

limber lion
#

Dank

spice surge
#

Maybe but monk is famously a windfury hater

haughty flicker
#

if my guild didnt already have 3 fucking dks i'd be tempted to swap back

lone parrot
#

hard disagree with you on that one

limber lion
#

Oh yeah true

#

Fuck monks

#

Gg

waxen oyster
#

breath of sindragosa

spice surge
#

Can do brewmaster + arms though

waxen oyster
#

miss me

limber lion
#

That is very true

short flint
#

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

lone parrot
#

my guild aint running any rogues except me, and only 1 dk. So I might be running a double toon next season

waxen oyster
#

You dont need a rogue in any comp

#

tbf

short flint
#

yeh u dont

spice surge
lone parrot
#

yeah but im not a dumbass, so i usually get a spot in mythic and raid

haughty flicker
#

im a dumbass and still get a spot

waxen oyster
#

Well in most guilds you can play anything

limber lion
haughty flicker
#

it isnt a disqualifier fortunately

spice surge
#

Juice me up

waxen oyster
#

as long as you’re a half decent player

limber lion
waxen oyster
#

Do acceptable damage and dont chimp on mechanics

#

congrats

lone parrot
#

i have 6 simultaneously running instances of hekili and maxdps, i cant fail

slim pebble
short flint
#

lol yeah, 50% of the time i dont die on cds 100% of the time

spice surge
waxen oyster
#

I like watching evoker players

#

almost terrorize the raid

#

flying around

lone parrot
#

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

short flint
#

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

bronze pike
#

i expect a exodus of ret fotmers who rolled for damage

lone parrot
#

how many people rerolling to fire/arcane mage because googling "tww dps tier list" told them they were overpowered

waxen oyster
limber lion
#

Remove KB

runic hinge
#

Make exsang aoe

lone parrot
#

uncap CT

dark token
#

CT is uncapped buddy

short flint
#

IC should be uncapped

#

feral gets it

limber lion
#

MONKAS

dark token
#

We had that

lone parrot
#

doesnt it max at 100 percent?

dark token
#

It was both good and bad

short flint
#

it was 8 targets wasnt it on 45sec

dark token
#

Yes

limber lion
dark token
#

The easier it is to get bleeds up

#

The less dmg they do

lone parrot
#

thats what i meant should be uncapped

#

not targets hit

short flint
#

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

limber lion
#

Pull 17000 mobs and oneshot them all with a single CT

lone parrot
#

MORE

spice surge
#

Yep lets give all specs shadowcrash or primal wrath

#

Why have specs be different

#

When they could instead all be the same

short flint
#

its not the same. shadow crash is upfront, we still apply bleeds that ramp and lose dmg if stuff dies early

lone parrot
#

deal so much damage in a single pull that the game crashes

short flint
#

telling the aug and priest to wait 10 seconds before pi/breath lol

haughty flicker
#

shadow crash does upfront damage but thats not where its actual value comes from

short flint
#

(just let me set up)

haughty flicker
#

its value is applying dots in aoe

limber lion
#

Yeah man is talking about applications

short flint
#

yeh ok mb

limber lion
#

Not upfront dam

#

One button to apply everything in the world

short flint
#

i dunno, yeh maybe op. just make vanish a shorter cd then

#

thats all it needs

spice surge
#

Well the bleeds just wouldnt do damage then

limber lion
#

Ye

spice surge
#

Like spriest dots

ebon quest
#

why do we run master assassin in M+ build still?

limber lion
#

Or do we

ebon quest
#

oh....the build in the pins shows we do

spice surge
#

We do, but theres no good alternative really

ebon quest
#

but i was having a tough time figuring out why

short flint
#

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

spice surge
#

Like you have the choice of imp poison, MA, vicious venoms or fatal concoction

limber lion
#

Everything else bad gg

#

Imp Poison on top

spice surge
#

Its MA because the alternatives are bad, not because MA is good

limber lion
#

For all the KB fanatics

ebon quest
#

ahh i gotcha

limber lion
#

That's always been the #1 thing to do

#

Nothing's changed there

#

It's just so much faster now automatically because of IC

ebon quest
#

okay sorry for the stupid question here....but was SBS reworked to be a passive ability based off rupture application now?

limber lion
#

Previously the bleeds were the thing doing a major bulk of yoyr dam

short flint
#

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

limber lion
#

You're gonna have a bad time with no acro and no dance

short flint
#

did they buff the baseline melee range when they got rid of acro

limber lion
#

I probs won't notice the difference

#

No

#

Everyone's got smol arms now

#

Even Outlaw

#

They buffed BF's range to compensate

short flint
#

wasnt the justification in the patch notes 'everything has kind of been made larger now anyway so its kind of pointless keeping this talent'

limber lion
#

But that's it

spice surge
limber lion
limber lion
#

Just a crutch for some people

short flint
#

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

limber lion
#

If BF range didn't increase with it, I'd be playing Grappling Hooks all day long in BFA and SL as an Outlaw

spice surge
short flint
#

acro lets u keep attacking the wilted oak during slam or treemouth during grip

limber lion
#

Makes you think more about whete to position and what's happening

#

Good change

spice surge
#

Obviously acro was good, but the game was played for like 16 years without it

short flint
#

or makes tanks say screw it and take a mage

runic hinge
#

Acro was nice for longer kick range. Otherwise it was pretty whatever

spice surge
#

We'll be fine

limber lion
#

Rogue that does 100k more dps but can't hit during slam

#

Smh

#

Get them out of here

fleet pagoda
#

just throw a knife. ezpz

short flint
#

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

limber lion
#

It'll take people less than a week before they get used to it

#

It'll be fine

bronze pike
#

dont let outlaw dooming convince you that rogue is unplayable without acro

#

it'll be fine

limber lion
runic hinge
#

Use your buttons

short flint
#

normally wyrmstone. but anyway were getting bogged in semantics. point is it was another qol being removed

limber lion
#

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.

short flint
#

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

limber lion
#

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

limber lion
#

Yup bla

limber lion
short flint
#

yeah i know

limber lion
#

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

short flint
#

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

limber lion
#

Haste doesn't really do much though

short flint
#

but i realize im probably in a group of 1 in this opinion

limber lion
#

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

short flint
#

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

limber lion
#

30% more haste congrats you're now 59 apm instead of 58

limber lion
short flint
#

personal opinion tho. not looking to change anyones mind

limber lion
#

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

short flint
#

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

short flint
#

I like assination rogue. thats why i think about how i would liek to imrpove it. because i like it

#

anyway moving on

nova wolf
#

fair enough. I just suggested that because it sounded like you were describing ww monk

limber lion
#

What does that mean to you?

limber lion
#

Like applying all Ruptures at once, not having energy and whatnot

shy pecan
#

Wise old Eleemo kinda said it best: If you have energy all the time to hit buttons, what’s the point of having energy?

limber lion
#

And something that I do not personally understand at all

#

So I'd like to hear his thoughts

shy pecan
#

Yeah. Basically turns you almost like an melee arcane mage (sorta) or boomkin because it’s just build until you need to spend.

limber lion
#

It's basically just a Windwalker Monk

shy pecan
#

I forgotten how impactful energy is for them so couldn’t make that comparison 😛

limber lion
#

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

spice lagoon
#

literally

limber lion
#

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

past forum
#

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

limber lion
#

Absolutely, assuming we had more than one finisher

#

Could have multiple finishers with cds

main solar
#

What if you didn't care about energy, but all your spells just had cooldowns and/or cast times

limber lion
#

But then again that's monk

past forum
#

Yeah that was the bit lol

limber lion
#

Yehyeh

#

But honestly like the idea of finishers not consuming everything

main solar
#

Lets just go for the Mage archetype since that's blizzard's favorite class

limber lion
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But there's nothing to spend cp on

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:'(

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@sudden brook go on

sudden brook
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LOL

shy pecan
limber lion
past forum
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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

limber lion
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How does the playstyle and the "flavor" differ?

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Or like what do you mean by flavor

sudden brook
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sec

limber lion
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The theme?

past forum
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Yeah

sudden brook
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The theme of sin is p good tho idk

past forum
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Yeah that’s what i like, personally

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I like it so much that I don’t care about not really enjoying the play pattern

limber lion
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The only things I don't like about current sin are slightly clunky tree with dead nodes, and Spatter/Kingsbane in AoE

sudden brook
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I think sin is the best rogue spec playstyle wise rn

past forum
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Oh for sure the best

limber lion
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I wish there was a better alternative to prio dam than Spatter

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Like if I wanna go full prio, I should be able to

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But if I wanna do AoE, I shouldn't be forced to still single target one guy in the pack

past forum
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Aff should get spatter and sin should get rapture, is something I’ve thought in some capacity

limber lion
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I wanna hit em all and tab target, multidot, go ham, not full st with every build ever

main solar
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Echoing Blades was better aoe gameplay than spatter 🙃

limber lion
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Kinda agree

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At least it was different rotationally in AoE and ST

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Compared to currently doing the exact same rotation regardless of target count

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Except you use FOK instead of Muti and you might sneak in a CT once every 12s

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But you ain't changing targets

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Gotta pummel that big dude

main solar
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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.

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Like maybe it only splashes off ruptured targets

slate crown
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I love my spec being on a spectrum it just like me fr fr bla

limber lion
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If ADHD is included in the spectrum then I'm part of the gang fr fr

vital haven
main solar
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Because it was admittedly pretty cheesy

rain mortar
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We taking bets on if it gets extended again?

cinder bone
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everyone updating warbands at once alone gonna crash bnet

main solar
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I almost want to wait a bit extra and let everyone beta test the conversion for me lol

vital haven
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i aint logging in till tomorrow

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warbands is the most fundamental change blizz has done in a long time

main solar
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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.