#assassination

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rigid tartan
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you definitely will need the new gear atleast for stamina levels even to survive stuff if you progress

balmy condor
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It’ll be like 40 ilvl under the gear you’re getting

haughty flicker
balmy condor
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Fight could be a million years long

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If it’s shit it’s shit

golden spoke
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Its a pity thou such trinkets are pretty cool, and just completly useless with the new expansion start

fleet pagoda
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even if it was good enough going into tww prog, they'd nerf it so it's not. they don't want people doing that

golden spoke
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That can be a case although wasnt sylvs dagger very good for sepulcher prog>

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?

fleet pagoda
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more recent examples would be them nerfing trinkets tier-to-tier in DF

runic hinge
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That's a little different because it's just a tier instead of a whole expansion

balmy condor
fleet pagoda
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also, the rings from s1 getting nerfed to make them less valuable in season 2

golden spoke
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How is state of assa for raid right now on beta? Is it going to be good enough to not feel down comparing to other class and specs?

runic hinge
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it's goated

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#1 spec

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No bias tho

balmy condor
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Nothing crazy

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But tuning is all over the place

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Basically not worth mentioning atm

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They just buffed some warlock thing by 800%

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And they buffed us by almost 20% overall in the last 2ish weeks

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So like your guess is as good as anyone else’s

golden spoke
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One more is there a moments in fight besides kingsbane where we press envenom immediately after filling combo points or we always wait for enevenom buff ending?

grave rivet
balmy condor
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deathstalker capstone, if you really need the burst, or you have a lot of energy like in aoe

austere sorrel
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I'm not a pro, but I will do it immediately if I'm high on energy / about to cap, so you can build cp back up for a dot that will probably be close to needing refresh or whatever

balmy condor
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All the specs will end up fairly close

shut lotus
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!wa

prisma monolithBOT
rocky sluice
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guys

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is there a RLP bug

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where healer can't heal you

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on first boss

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like it's happened to me three times now

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and my trinket wasn't working either

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i thinkit's after vanishing once on first boss

haughty flicker
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Sounds like me as healer

rocky sluice
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there's a weird bug that always happenes to me

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it's happened to me three times now where the healer can't heal me

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I have a feelling it's a rogue bug I don't know

balmy condor
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First I’m hearing of it

balmy condor
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Ruby life pools

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Apparently

rocky sluice
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Yeah I have no idea

strange python
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This is not the first time I am hearing that

rocky sluice
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I have to like leave dungeon, walk back in

strange python
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3rd person I think

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And it’s always rlp

rocky sluice
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i'm just floor pov first boss lol

haughty flicker
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Every time I think I’ve heard the weirdest bug of this patch another one takes the cake

stark musk
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How to fix my energy bar, so I don't go low after few combos with assa? Guytypers

errant trail
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are warcraft logs bugged for you guys

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i’m checking my ilevel parses for mythic awakened abberus and it seems wrong

strange python
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How come you think so

errant trail
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idk says i got 100 ilevel find it hard to believe

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lol

gray flower
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so is Deathstalker just launching in this state or what. its still completely unplayable

strange python
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No it’s definitely possible

haughty flicker
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There’s like 10 people playing

errant trail
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we got fate bound

strange python
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Ilvl parses are a small bracket

haughty flicker
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So definitely possible

strange python
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And there’s not many logs period

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Even less in your ilvl bracket

stark musk
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I still get low after few mili damage

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With all Tea's used

errant trail
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that makes so much sense

balmy condor
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Correct

errant trail
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thanks for the clarity

balmy condor
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That’s how the spec plays

runic hinge
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I mean assa just plays like that

errant trail
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i was like i suck

stark musk
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Makes my sleep better

balmy condor
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I mean you kinda are

stark musk
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That's not goodie

balmy condor
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Cause it sounds like you’re not pooling

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But it’s like 1.5% dps

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So it’s whatever

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And it’s changing in tww a bit

stark musk
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To better or worse?

balmy condor
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Similar impact

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Just different rules

stark musk
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On the other hand, should I buy dagger now for 2 Antique Bronze Bullions or wait until new patch?

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Since I am running with some 460 ilvl dagger

balmy condor
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New patch makes your bullions worthless

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And most of your gear too

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Cause it’s the new expac

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So idk

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Would spend it

strange python
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Probably just spend it

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If not on the dagger then on transmog I guess

thorn fjord
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Can we use bullions on non leather tmogs now?

sharp viper
austere sorrel
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Trinket xmogs

untold rampart
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So, how do you guys feel about Rogue pushing higher-level keys in TWW? I'm trying to place the Rogue (Any spec, really) in the list of class priorities when pushing high keys. Yes, ultimately, you can play any class and find success, but let's wait to play that game. Will rogue utility continue to find them a place?

peak jolt
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What hero spec does we go as assa now ? Havent tested rouge at all yet.

wicked star
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continue to? rogue utility?

spice spire
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Deathstalker atm, looks like fatebound could be an option.

spice spire
balmy condor
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Continue to find a place in the LFG queue getting declined or ignored

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Poggers rogue util

peak jolt
subtle tundra
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Guys am i the only one doing absolutely dogshit dps

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in raid

peak jolt
spice spire
subtle tundra
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wtf?

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i cant play the game i enjoy

peak jolt
balmy condor
subtle tundra
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i lied

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i dont like this game

balmy condor
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Pugging is a nightmare I avoid at all costs

peak jolt
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Ye i got 2500 io on the rogue erali on in s4 and havent really touched rogue since went to play uh dk insted 😂

runic hinge
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I try to but my guild doesn’t play the game as much as me

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And my wack work schedule

stark musk
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I tried RET Pala today and hell it's doing a lot of damage Surebud

peak jolt
balmy condor
peak jolt
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My rogue is Bloodelf and i kinda want a undead or a troll

subtle tundra
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I DO VERY BAD DAMAGE........ i dont like

tawdry cobalt
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can some1 explain to me what this means? they strike an additonal time when seal fate procs?

peak jolt
balmy condor
runic hinge
balmy condor
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so if either hit of mutilate crits, you get +1

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if both crit, you still only get +1

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if fan of knives crits 1 target, that's +1

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if it crits 45 targets, also +1

subtle tundra
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spec*

peak jolt
peak jolt
balmy condor
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varas used to be competing for r1 assa

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now look at him

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washed up and unable to do damage

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this is what happens when you're old

subtle tundra
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we are 11man-ing

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the raid

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2 raids racing

balmy condor
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are ya winning

subtle tundra
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y

balmy condor
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rogue on top then

hardy venture
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Ya boy back with another dumb question:

BiS Rings are Diurna's Chosen and Seal of Filial Duty

I see Grieftorch as well.

Is Grieftorch the only fire damage to proc rings?

glass hemlock
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And head enchant

vagrant frigate
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Helm enchat

hardy venture
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Derp! Thanks homies

normal mist
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Btw

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the fire dmg ring wont deal a lot of dmg

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probably around 1% of your overall

hardy venture
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Ahhh good to know! I have 7 Bullions atm. I'll get the 2 trinkets and the Shield one for now.

normal mist
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ashes + grief

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Also, beware that weapons are also important in case you dont have them

hardy venture
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I got the Dreamcarver and the event dagger for now

normal mist
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yeah dreamcarver is alright

errant trail
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so

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seems like we

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are looking good

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even tho i hate death stalker

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we can still go fatebound

normal mist
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yes

errant trail
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those buffs are great

normal mist
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more to come

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probably

errant trail
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i’m sure whispyr is drinking monster rn

glass hemlock
balmy condor
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I could though

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considering it atm

slim hamlet
glass hemlock
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6.30am in Australia Whisp, load up on caffeine

hardy venture
balmy condor
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no

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ashes to kingsbane is the macro

balmy condor
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grief to deathmark would be

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well

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grief

glass hemlock
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Huge grief

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Hahahah

balmy condor
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you want to press your buttons during your cooldowns not stand there and waggle a fire stick

glass hemlock
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I’m gonna have to go hard af in S1 running a rogue and an aug for keys

normal mist
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Expansion is over in less than a month, don't force yourselves to farm items that will be obsolete in a few days

hardy venture
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Thanks all! You all are super helpful and nice to dummies like me ❤️

haughty flicker
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spend bullions on transmog

normal mist
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Thanks. Reddit says otherwise

balmy condor
glass hemlock
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Better then the aug discord when the nerfs came out

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My lord have mercy

hardy venture
balmy condor
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

hardy venture
normal mist
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I have no idea what happens beyond these borders

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The stories are amazing tho

glass hemlock
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Yeah I just go there for weak auras and basic questions 😂

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Aug is far easier then I expected too

normal mist
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The hard part about aug is probably the player and not the class (not memeing)

glass hemlock
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Pity I’ll barely get use out of it until +12 key lol

normal mist
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A good aug that knows when to pop stuff on your CDS is a god

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those that just pop stuff randomly in a key...

glass hemlock
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Hahahaha yeah exactly

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Hopefully I can still main assa for pushing but my tank really wants me on aug and I don’t hate it so

normal mist
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Therefore, i believe the class might be easy, but pushing it to the next level is entirely on the player

glass hemlock
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Absolutely

normal mist
glass hemlock
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Do you think they’ll change the ilvl different from raiding/keys?

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Gonna upset a lot of people

static glacier
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answer is not really

glass hemlock
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2024 people are FOMO addicts

static glacier
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it's an mmorpg this is what we signed up for

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asymmetric power based on gear is the definition of FOMO

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that mythic endboss item that's really strong is only cool bc it's powerful and hard to get

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bullion type aquisition pushes the game towards being more competitive since it's a more level playing field

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but blizz won't ever give us that, they know it makes people stop logging in when there's no more carrot

glass hemlock
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That’s certainly 1 interpretation. I don’t think the mythic enables item is only cool because it’s hard to get

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My brain says ilvl go up, damage and healing go up, key level go up

static glacier
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powerful and hard to get

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personally as a more competitively minded player I hate rng in loot aquisition

glass hemlock
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So the gripe is that m+ items are easy to get

static glacier
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and id rather them let us farm full myth track from keys

glass hemlock
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Cause there’s no lockout

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Yeah fair

short reef
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any racial that pulls ahead? orc/tauren/dwarf?

static glacier
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so I can compete with liquid players gear week 1, but they won't ever do that

glass hemlock
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If they said something like

static glacier
glass hemlock
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First 4 weeks ilvl gear from mythic raiding is higher, following that mythic+ ilvl gear will match

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Yeah dwarf nelf

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If you are super minmax

short reef
static glacier
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if you dont absolutely need stoneform / meld to play ur content

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id honestly say go for w/e you like the look of

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if you give no fucks about aesthetics or defensives then sim awaits

short reef
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outside of smeld / stonef is there a dps racial ?

thorn fjord
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in cow we trust

short reef
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^

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thats what im talking about

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XD

static glacier
thorn fjord
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3% crit and an aoe stun? sign me up

static glacier
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tauren** n dwarf are 2% crit dmg

short reef
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thank you

thorn fjord
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Thought cow was 3

static glacier
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nah, they do have extra stam tho :beefy:

short reef
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chonky boi

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thanks for the info btw was trying to make sure that deathmark + idk bloodfury interaction didnt pull ahead or something silly in pve

static glacier
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nah, for the most part

short reef
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havent pve'd in awhile outside of keys

static glacier
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the only notable stuff is specs with bursty 3 min cds liking troll (unholy before the changes) and specs with a lot of crit chance liking tauren / dwarf (fire / outlaw / frost mage ) though that is more relevant towards the end of an expac

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nelf lets you get restealths but they're a bit unreliable

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other than that they're all generally very very close (under 1% diff)

balmy condor
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racials don't matter for shit dps wise

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like actually margin of error

slim hamlet
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The only time you will see more than 2% difference in race is unholy DK and dwarf/tauren for shaman/outlul

short reef
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hey numbies is numbies even if im dogshit i want the best chance i can

slim hamlet
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You will play better if you play something u think looks cool

balmy condor
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not really how that works

slim hamlet
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Factual statement

short reef
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^ you're right

errant trail
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look

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from my experience dealing with bad tanks

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night elf can kinda restealth in m+

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not bosses tho but that’s BIG

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2m CD tho

slim hamlet
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I mean yea

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Night elf is also just good for mechanics in m+

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Every sinlge top assa rogue is night elf, doesn't mean it matters, just if you REALLY just only care about performance

errant trail
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feels more like a bad tank fix

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cuz tanks don’t care about restealth

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they literally just run 🏃

normal mist
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To be fair

slim hamlet
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!​Restealth

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Wtf

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!​restealtg

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...

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!​restealth

normal mist
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Given that Rogue is the least played class in the game, it's hard to find one tank that actually understands

slim hamlet
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Ok nvm

normal mist
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!stealth

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Hmm

slim hamlet
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Moroes is sleeping on the job

runic hinge
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!wa

prisma monolithBOT
runic hinge
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Nah it’s just you guys

normal mist
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Fuu is already hitting moroes with an hammer

vestal wren
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was !stealth removed?

normal mist
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It wasn't me, i swear

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Also, the M+ changes were reverted

vestal wren
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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 which gives you plenty of options to get your stealth effects
  • This has been supported by logs and by simulations, for many years
vestal wren
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maybe this one?

normal mist
glass hemlock
normal mist
vestal wren
glass hemlock
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So it drops at 2/6 instead of 1/6?

normal mist
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Yeah

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seems like it

glass hemlock
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Saves some crests I guess 😂

runic hinge
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15 crests times 14 gear slots is quite the savings yeah

normal mist
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In the case of, obviously, not raiding heroic and not having any other source of Hero gear

runic hinge
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I’m assuming worst case scenario

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Which is my usual gearing

slate crown
normal mist
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Y'all just gotta get there and loot the loot

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smh

agile geode
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!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
hallow token
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came in here to do that, lol

spice spire
normal mist
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Same quake, same

novel parcel
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What do I do when I'm playing with 2 fury warriors

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Do I just cry

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Since they murder my everything

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:(

runic hinge
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Just enjoy the carry and your key getting timed

novel parcel
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So I judt cry cool ty

subtle vale
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How are we currently using vanish in m+ do we stull use it before kb like dance or how are we using it?

runic hinge
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For imp garrote

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Probably when you don’t get a restealth and want one

subtle vale
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so just use to reapply garrotes like old times

runic hinge
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It doesn’t do anything for kb anymore

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Yeah

subtle vale
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kk cool

sick sail
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boys, might have to transition to alliance =/ started this new echo event stuff, all i see is ally

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always wanted to night elf anyways

sick sail
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just dont see enough horde to tag with etc

normal mist
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I mean, unless you're farming the event after the first 10ish minutes where you want to tag the rares and then the final boss

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I don't see it being a problem

runic hinge
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I do it in war mode and don’t see anyone else

slim hamlet
runic hinge
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Darkest night

slim hamlet
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Ah

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It is beginning to get dark out again here

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Would make sense

spice spire
slim hamlet
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Baguette?

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Oui oui

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That's about it, sorry pal

weak isle
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guys if u had to define Assassination with a colour yourself, would it still be red? ThinkPikachu

slate crown
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It would be red or green

slim hamlet
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Definitely red

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Or dark blue

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Could be like navy

sick sail
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red, black and green

slim hamlet
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Black is definitely possoble

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I think rosewood red would be bis

runic hinge
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Crimson

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No bias

errant trail
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a color for rogue

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WHOLE LOTTA RED

rain mortar
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i know prepatch is not a big deal but out dmg is kind of fat right now

errant trail
rain mortar
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spatter is huuuuge

errant trail
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that’s GIG

rain mortar
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yeah kind of big boy

errant trail
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sanguini huge too

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bro we all got sanguine rn icons

slim hamlet
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crimson WHAT

errant trail
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it’s a must talent

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u have 2 take it

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sometimes i press it if i can’t get in range

slim hamlet
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what?

rain mortar
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i was playin g the SBS build too so i could make CT bigger

sick sail
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damn ima practice some m+ CT rotation/sanguin

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guys can u remind me the one disadvantage to being a different faction from a friend?

slim hamlet
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How does SBS make CT bigger?

slim hamlet
slate crown
slim hamlet
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Also mists of pandaria got faction specific thing

slim hamlet
slate crown
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Correct

sick sail
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Ahhh okay, I think once I’m max level I shouldn’t need to queue up for anything with my horde buddy

shy pecan
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Probably not the best use of words there

haughty flicker
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was certainly a choice

limber lion
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Damn can't delete messages anymore

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Gg in the chat

slim hamlet
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gG indeed

spice spire
thorn fjord
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guys

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How do i normally fly

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w/o dragon riding i mean

haughty flicker
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should be a toggle in your mount tab

thorn fjord
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ty

spice surge
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Deathstalker 📈

fleet pagoda
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man they're slammin' the tuning through

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or beta updates in general*

sudden brook
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SIN TIER

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CHART TRENDING UPWARDS

limber lion
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Again

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🕺

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Assa tier every tier

silk bane
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bros gonna go bald

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DS tier is his biggest enemy

rotund oak
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deathstalker buffs?! starege

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is my hopium becoming reality

raven egret
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Deathstalker sucks no matter what they do to it

rotund oak
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if the mark mechanic changes its better

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and the consumption

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for DN

raven egret
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DS is basically: Mark + set of randomly selected buffs to random shit; Changing the mark is akin to just getting a new hero tree altogether, Deathstalker has to die

rotund oak
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kinda troll

raven egret
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Biased as I am, I think its the worst tree in the game, worst than the Oracle tree mini game

rotund oak
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thats not the deal with deathstalker though

raven egret
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I'm not trolling at all, its a terrible tree

rotund oak
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sin is gonna clap them bttchicks

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im actually hyped now

sudden brook
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Why do we hate deathstalker

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On ST

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idc about M+

raven egret
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yeah we have the only tree in the game that is ST specific, how does that make sense

sudden brook
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I mean idrc, one talent tree is just gonna be numerically better for st anda oe

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Not defending it but like, I don't really care

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Why is deathstalker bad on st tho

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Idk how ti works

raven egret
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just to be clear, was that question to me? because I wasnt saying it was bad on ST

rotund oak
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also outlaw still remains bad

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lmao

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tlaking about the worse tree

haughty flicker
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in st deathstalker is probably fine as long as it isnt an intermission boss

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there was talk of fok in st but that isnt actually the play yet, just a possibility

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you have the 7 cp envenom stuff which is a bit annoying

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but not game breaking

haughty flicker
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here we go

pure bridge
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Are the AP changes in the indivdual abilities' notes just reflecting the aura buff to rogue abilities or are they seperate changes to the skills themselves, on top of the overall aura buffs?

rotund oak
raven egret
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thing is, I dont believe for one second that if Deathstalker reigns on top of ST it will be left as is, its a one trick pony tree that does not have any future

raven egret
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I mean you can dismiss what I am saying all you want, it remains a fact that that tree is headed to be only really usable in a single scenario, pure ST.

sudden brook
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A lot of this game is pure ST, at least in a raiding context

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How good its cleave is doesnt really matter when rogues job every expac is just "do st"

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The class tends to specialize in that

spice surge
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Idk how bad it is to play in m+ is also a bit overblown

slate crown
# sudden brook Why do we hate deathstalker

I don't hate it. Honestly it's just a couple of things that I don't specifically like that could be changed.

I do not like casting a mutilate at 6 CP. I do not like the prospect of casting FoK in ST. Both are fixable.

I do not like the fact that echoing does not work with Mark or Darkest Night. This is also fixable.

There is also the possibility that we now need to hold Shiv for Fatal Intent pop which could be interesting but just as equally could be very intrusitve and frustrating to other CD alignments.

If you changed a couple of those things, I would feel fine to play deathstalker. I'm not looking forward to it, but fixing all or some of those things would raise its profile for me

silk bane
# sudden brook Just anybody

it has issues like:

  • if boss leaves, immunes, removes debuffs etc, you lose mark and its very hard to get it back as sin.
  • it promotes a flatter damage profile
  • it basically warps your entire gameplay to get as many envenoms out as possible leading to shit like : dropping almost all bleed related talents and taking vicious venoms instead, and like 25% of your damage is just envenoms.
  • it has miserable gameplay, with how often you get to 6 cp, then have to mutilate to 7 cp for darkest night. not only it feels bad, its also kinda makes you starved on energy since you have to add one more builder before you finish.
  • it breaks all the fun things sin likes, like pooling, chaining etc. this one just makes you hover over 50% energy and maximize envenom uptime
slate crown
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Anyways back to cooking

silk bane
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  • the gear that it wants is mostly just crit/haste making it harder to multi spec
sudden brook
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"it basically warps your entire gameplay to get as many envenoms out as possible leading to shit like : dropping almost all bleed related talents and taking vicious venoms instead, and like 25% of your damage is just envenoms."

slate crown
sudden brook
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I dont hate this

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I think, at least last tier, bleeds were p good for sin

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I kinda am down for envenoms to be OP again

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AT least for a tier

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Just a diff playstyle right

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Or like can u explain why it sucks more

rotund oak
silk bane
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well theres a few things like its litearlly unplayable on a few bosses in next raid.

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its not playable on council

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or first boss

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its not playable in a few keys

raven egret
#

I don't see whats fun about just being an envenom bot

silk bane
#

but other than that, idk, the playstyle it had, was not something i enjoyed for sin.

#

but thats preference.

sudden brook
#

Fair

#

It being bad on some fights kinda sucks, but Personally I dont hate mutalating at 6

#

I get why its icky tho lol

silk bane
#

I'd probaly prefer it over fatebound if Im playing sin though.

#

specially on farm

raven egret
#

I want to have something better than fatebound, dont get me wrong

#

deathstalker just aint it 😦

#

and I'm talking mechanically, fun wise

#

numbers are obviously whatever

rain mortar
#

They should just let us apply marks with max combo point Evis at anytime and remove the stealth requirement crap

haughty flicker
#

pretty hard for sin to use max combo evis

rain mortar
#

You know what I mean

haughty flicker
rain mortar
#

Don’t be a turd

silk bane
#

they could just make it so whenever you lost a mark for whatever reason -> you get darkest night

strange python
#

So you just end up envenoming every mob in m+

silk bane
#

and make darkest night last over a minute.

silk bane
#

this still doesnt solve the problem of council though. because youre not losing marks there, the boss just leaves and u cant go to it because youre stuck with your color group

rotund oak
#

irrelevant but i think sin will still be ok with spatter and CT buffs

#

its gonna be the go even for m+

sudden brook
#

new tier new spec idk

rotund oak
#

unless sub trickster is just better

#

yeah u r right here,new tier new spec

silk bane
#

betas up if anyone wants to test it. im in a tft game going 100% 8th

#

ill check it out after

sudden brook
#

Id think it'd be cool if more talent trees worked like that

silk bane
#

yes but unfortunately thats not how the game is tuned/designed.

#

a good example is sub

#

having a weakness doesnt mean you get to excel when the weakness isnt there

#

so just because your "best build" is unplayable in a fight, doesnt mean its really good when it is playable

#

but also, at the end of the day, its a new expansion, new features, we should be excited and looking fortward to them, (like me with trickster sub)

#

instead of finding ways to not hate them

blazing jewel
runic prairie
#

im looking forward to the 1hr tricks tech 😎

silk bane
runic prairie
#

blizz is gonna cap distance on tricks for sure

slate crown
#

Have not caught up but just to also mention, one of the things I didn't like before was that mastery didn't effect the plague damage, though that isn't because of gameplay interaction, it's just because it feels like it should. It's poison damage. Sin should conceptually be masters of poison damage, that's the whole thematic point, so when we have something that specifically boosts that, and doesn't interact with this new plague stuff, feels weird. Also though that's a lesser consideration as it's not a gameplay consideration (Which, now mastery does impact it, neato)

subtle kiln
silk bane
silk bane
#

i like how trickster plays

blazing jewel
silk bane
#

I like the new tools it gives sub

silk bane
blazing jewel
#

trickster sub wont be a problematic damage profile at all kekw

subtle kiln
#

Purple fart in ST. Great gameplay

silk bane
blazing jewel
#

he would be heavily armed too

#

isnt sin still a giga 2 min spec

#

or has that flattened a bit with the changes

subtle kiln
#

Assa 2, sub cooking to be 1:30

subtle kiln
#

He’s in LA. Ain’t coming for no one.

silk bane
#

racoon mans in LA now/?

silk bane
#

like its still a proper 2 min burst spec

#

but its not like s3 levels of burst, a bit lower

raven egret
#

technically it should flatten our dmg profile a tiny bit, lower highs, higher lows (not by a huge margin, just a bit)

limber lion
#

based

slim hamlet
#

Rookie numbers

violet jackal
#

Cev no longer green my life is in shambles 😿

runic hinge
#

Same tbh

haughty flicker
#

my life has always been in shambles

#

welcome to the club

rotund oak
#

Whispyr's asleep still huh?

#

man's gonna go berserk with the new deathstalker stuff

wooden jasper
#

with the new tuning buffs is sin super chilling?

#

I feel like people were already saying our numbers were good

#

then we get 2 back to back buffs which seem big lol

rotund oak
silk bane
#

youre actually like insane

wooden jasper
#

ooo

normal mist
wooden jasper
#

im hype

#

M+ enjoyer

normal mist
#

Does this have anything to do with what happened like 1/2 days ago?

wooden jasper
#

there was another post 4 hours ago

#

implementating those changes + more

#

like what sap linked

normal mist
#

I just woke up

silk bane
#

the rest is a sum up of the changes from the last couple of weeks

normal mist
#

Oh ok ok ok, thanks Armin

hoary remnant
normal mist
#

Back to sleep

runic hinge
silk bane
#

Wait till they figure out what fatal intents supposed to do so we can add it to the sims too!

#

Gonna be super stonks

steel ridge
#

thats what i gather

#

and a bit on top

marble hemlock
#

ye

#

really nice

#

the fact this still happens

#

still cracks me up so fucking much tho

#

ability never even made it into a full release, was canned in beta already, yet its still in the database and is still affected everytime they do an aura adjustment like this

rotund oak
steel ridge
#

spaghetti leftovers

grim jay
steel ridge
#

doomblade is fine, its just undertuned as heck

#

bringt back the 5% envenom dmg and its feasting

grim jay
#

Its an uninteresting talent and bad in aoe nonetheless

steel ridge
#

well

#

its a tax node for boner

#

and boner is omega goated for questing!

#

soooo it has that going for it which is.... nice?

grim jay
#

Idk about that

alpine nebula
#

man I'm so tired of playing kingsbane in keys - and deathmark just overkills anything that isn't a captain

grim jay
#

Nodes can still be interesting and kinda go with the trend of the following talents

alpine nebula
#

so it doesn't take any time off the key

balmy condor
#

dude I'm going to flip

#

why do they keep fucking changing the talent tree imports

#

every week

grim jay
slate crown
grim jay
#

Sounds like you are playing cleave

balmy condor
slate crown
#

Ok I go to bed now

alpine nebula
#

kingsbane and deathmark are standard in all builds

grim jay
grim jay
alpine nebula
#

I'm playing demise

lime crypt
#

It's that time again

grim jay
#

Tbf

alpine nebula
#

low keys = weekly 10

#

and holding DM/KB again is just wasting power

#

would rather have something else

lime crypt
#

Came back after extensive break, checked outlaw, got depressed. Guys tell me that sin is absolute fire for war within

silk bane
runic hinge
grim jay
grim jay
#

And outlaw often is depressing

lime crypt
#

Is it competent for m+ play?

runic hinge
#

yeah, it'll be fine

lime crypt
#

Niceee

balmy condor
grim jay
silk bane
#

how did it work for you? all my imports directly from game were fucked in mimiron

lime crypt
#

I'll give it some time before deciding to buy sub, low-key glad that rogue is not absolute beast on release as it tends to get triple nerfed shortly after

balmy condor
lime crypt
#

Good old DF treatment

balmy condor
#

game imports are giga fucked

silk bane
#

ah i see i see oki oki ty mr whispyr me learning

grim jay
lime crypt
#

Grrrr

balmy condor
#

what

lime crypt
#

(I don't know the situation about other classes and what happened to them past half a year)

#

But that shit was crazy in s3

balmy condor
#

not any crazier than we were

silk bane
#

pretty sure we were better in raid, they were better in keys

lime crypt
#

I'm looking mostly at m+ and I don't remember assa being giga big in there, no?

silk bane
#

but they dont tune based on keys

lime crypt
#

Yeah

#

Don't get me wrong assa orenerf in s3 was crazy

#

Loved it

#

Then I geared that spec and it got nerfed :0

alpine nebula
#

didn't assa take a 6% nerf and fall off the map? IIRC most of that damage was mis-attributed aug damage and being the PI target

#

and tswifty was an assassination rogue dream

balmy condor
runic hinge
#

They nerfed blindside and KB and then another nerf on top

balmy condor
#

guys it's been less than a year

#

how are we already forgetting things

runic hinge
#

I'm old

#

got older today even

balmy condor
#

assa nerf was around 4% in m+

#

and had nothing to do with aug

#

aug hooks got fixed week 2

grim jay
balmy condor
#

also has nothing to do with PI

runic hinge
balmy condor
#

because they don't tune on PI

alpine nebula
#

welllllllllllllllllll

#

they shouldn't tune on PI

balmy condor
#

great

#

glad we agree

alpine nebula
#

and wasn't caustic spatter misattributed that whole tier? let me check

balmy condor
#

no lmao

#

caustic was already fixed by decemberr

grim jay
# runic hinge source?

Got passed down in my clan for generations. Its written with blood on a scroll that the patriarch needs to freshen up before he passes the heritage on to the next head. dead

jovial jasper
runic hinge
#

like shrunken head

snow kindle
#

liquid played sin

#

on tindral

#

echo played sub

vestal cliff
#

Sin on tindral was just kreygasm

jovial jasper
#

one of those is the wf guild and the other isnt

snow kindle
#

you said guilds

jovial jasper
#

lil plural mistake

snow kindle
#

😭

jovial jasper
#

my bad

lime crypt
#

I got traumatized when I had to play sub on smolder

runic hinge
#

one killed tindral first tho

lime crypt
#

Quit the game right after the kill

jovial jasper
#

but nah shitposting aside assa like out of the gate was bigly busted but many people me included did say from day 1 that if assa gets nerfed it has 0 impact on rogue because sub was the second best spec in the entire game

lime crypt
#

Fk that boss and fk sub

jovial jasper
#

if your spec is ever an outlier like that it should always get nerfed

#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

#

sometimes it doesnt happen

#

like fire in nyalotha

snow kindle
#

sin was crazy since you needed nothing to invest into aoe very fun though

balmy condor
#

The craziest thing about season 3 was how sub didn’t get nerfed week after week

jovial jasper
#

idd

royal lantern
#

get it, cus its name is Sub

#

i stop

snow kindle
#

did they only nerf sin specifically cause aug/pi was giga for it

balmy condor
#

No

#

Why do people keep saying that

grim jay
#

Nerfing for aug would literally be peak brainrot

balmy condor
#

Frontal lobe melts into a soup the moment Aug enters consciousness

#

I swear to god

drifting cedar
#

Do we not pool or wait for envenom to get to 1 sec in aoe?

balmy condor
#

In aoe you have infinite energy

#

No need to wait for anything

silk bane
#

cuz yea...

snow kindle
#

idk why else they wouldnt nerf sub

#

besides that

balmy condor
#

Oversight

royal lantern
grim jay
steel ridge
#

delete aug

#

should have been done yesterday

runic hinge
#

they just nerfed aug a bunch no?

snow kindle
#

kinda

#

killed it in m+

grim jay
chilly mist
#

finally

royal lantern
#

it still exists, not nerfed enough

steel ridge
#

it has been dead for m+ many times and still came back

snow kindle
#

in raid youll still run 2 but i doubt youll see it in m+

royal lantern
silk bane
# runic hinge they just nerfed aug a bunch no?

awwww u think that mattered? Dorki was going through some logs from their keys today, aug was sooooo far ahead of the other dps in terms of damage that after a 30% nerf, theyre still ahead

snow kindle
#

20% eobn might nerf and no close to clutch

#

thats pretty big.

grim jay
chilly mist
#

hope they relax with rogue buffs though, dont want some giga nerf 2 weeks into season 1

grim jay
snow kindle
#

but still it was rarely the dmg that matter about aug lmao

silk bane
#

they already have.

#

but aug buffs your tank and healer

grim jay
silk bane
#

and that counts a lot

#

hard to nerf "your tank can tank more"

runic hinge
#

aug can buff dn

silk bane
#

or your healer can heal through this thing that woulda killed u otherwise

grim jay
silk bane
#

i mean they did.

#

they made aug do a lot of its own damage now

#

instead of a large part of their damage come from buffing others

#

and now theyre like the best dps in key

#

s

#

so u run them cuz theyre blasting

grim jay
#

No I mean the values of the tank and heal buffs

grim jay
#

If they blast they blast

chilly mist
#

@silk bane are you talking beta or prepatch? prepatch doesnt really matter

silk bane
#

beta

grim jay
#

Blasting isnt what secured their spot, every spec can blast

jovial jasper
snow kindle
#

are there any dungeon in tww that caut is op in

jovial jasper
#

the "fixes" to a certain talent resulted in you having 100% wings uptime

grim jay
jovial jasper
#

permanently in cds peepo

balmy condor
# grim jay Nerfing for aug would literally be peak brainrot

I think the funniest thing about people saying sin got nerfed because of pi and Aug is that the only reasonable way to think that’s the case would be to also think blizzard isn’t capable of estimating the impact of things

Like the community and TC’s have the numbers for how much PI matters, how much Aug matters, the Aug hooks all got fixed. But for some reason people are like YO IT GOT NERFED CAUSE OF PI BLIZZARD DOESNT KNOW WE GET PI!!!!!! Like please be so for real lmao are you actually so dentbrained to think blizzard isn’t capable of taking 5 minutes out of their day to estimate PI impact, or better yet just look at the vast public theorycrafting? It’s their job ICANT they got a whole team ICANT actual 0 critical thinking

snow kindle
alpine nebula
#

as if blizzard is infallable

#

we still don't have correct aug attribution according to max

#

and the same thing happened to demo in ............. S1 I think? or maybe it was shadowlands - huge PI value and they get overnerfed

jovial jasper
#

u are drawing lines where they dont need to be drawn

#

"oh this spec has good pi value and got nerfed must be nerfed because of pi"

alpine nebula
#

the line is simply that blizzard regularly overnerfs and overbuffs classes

jovial jasper
#

"no other possible explanation !"

royal lantern
#

drawing lines

grim jay
balmy condor
jovial jasper
#

i will say that their balancing team is also largely clueless and/or disinterested about what goes on in the high end of content

alpine nebula
#

Max isn't talking specifically about assassination

balmy condor
#

I literally said blizzard made a tuning oversight

#

Not 5 minutes ago

grim jay
balmy condor
#

But you’d be dumb to think blizzard isn’t capable of taking things into consideration when tuning

#

They literally have to

#

That’s how tuning works

alpine nebula
#

of course they're doing their best - and I'm not even saying they're stupid/incompetent/etc

jovial jasper
balmy condor
#

It takes near no effort to quickly eyeball how much PI is affecting specs

grim jay
jovial jasper
#

so because it's been awful before it means it has to be good now

snow kindle
#

i thought df tuning was p good for everyone

balmy condor
#

Like the less reasonable conclusion is that the entire balancing team is just looking at the numbers and woefully, ignorantly, just blasting past it

royal lantern
#

idk why max is used as a source tbh

21th raider MF, not even playing the game

watches his guys do the raid while filling the #21spot and then afk's until the next raid, and people act as if he is the WoW jesus with infinite knowledge about the game kekman

alpine nebula
#

when was the december rogue nerf, I can't find it

rotund oak
#

are u aware of the deathstalker buff

alpine nebula
#

I'm saying there's literally no way to accurately judge aug power without tooling - and the tooling was deeply flawed right up until the S3 rogue nerf. Kingsbane was nerfed 15% on Dec 5 it looks like

#

that's the thesis

balmy condor
rotund oak
grim jay
silk bane
royal lantern
#

some poopstalker stuff affected by mastery, thats all

balmy condor
rotund oak
#

as in the mastery

balmy condor
#

Yes that’s how it works

#

When things get affected by mastery they are affected by mastery

runic hinge
#

source?

rotund oak
#

yup,hold on gonna log on yt

#

maybe i missed ur vid

balmy condor
#

I didn’t specifically call out the mastery changes

#

You won’t find it

grim jay
balmy condor
#

But like it doesn’t really need to be mentioned does it

runic hinge
rotund oak
#

dw jsut sayin'

#

no panick or anything

#

wanted to learn if that makes deathstalker even better than before

#

or its within that .5% range it was mentioned on the vid

#

(in respect to fatebound)

balmy condor
#

No clue

#

I mean all the sims I showed were manual overrides they weren’t actual game data

#

I had to put in the buffs by hand

#

So its already inaccurate to some extent to begin with

#

0.5% here or there isn’t really worth mentioning

jovial jasper
grim jay
runic hinge
#

when it mattered for who? like 40 people??

jovial jasper
#

within the general hof range

#

no point in talking about anything below

runic hinge
#

no point in balancing the game for .1% of it either

jovial jasper
#

yes which is why blizzard doesnt do it

balmy condor
jovial jasper
#

doesnt mean i cant personally dislike it

grim jay
#

Meta exists either way for the top end

runic hinge
#

so then balance is good

jovial jasper
#

balance doesnt matter for anyone below like idk

#

the 2nd round of big nerfs

jovial jasper
#

so yea i gues

grim jay
#

Game needs to be fun

balmy condor
jovial jasper
#

doing big damage is fun

#

not balance

slim hamlet
grim jay
#

Imagine the game consists of many classes

#

With many players

slim hamlet
#

Yea but like

#

Make assa the best one

grim jay
rotund oak
#

they want deathstalker to be a pvp thing

#

thats why it has to crawl that way

grim jay
slim hamlet
#

All my homies can't wait to try deathstalker

runic hinge
#

PvP is a 4 fun game mode. They don’t even include it in vault anymore like pet battles

rotund oak
#

tree applies to the entirety of the game

grim jay
balmy condor
#

it's the 10% that REALLY blows

slim hamlet
balmy condor
#

I'm over it though

#

it's not like any of the just boring ass shit is gonna change

grim jay
balmy condor
#

I wish they didn't keep buffing mutilate in the mark tuning

grim jay
#

Cant imagine that being what they want it to be

balmy condor
#

I wish the auto damage wasn't a thing

#

I wish lingering darkness wasn't a thing

#

but like

#

nothing I can do

rotund oak
#

will that be a thing?

#

😅

balmy condor
#

ct as in crimson tempest?

rotund oak
#

yup

balmy condor
#

fuck no

#

what

grim jay
rotund oak
#

had nightmares about it,my fear is eliminated

#

ty

slim hamlet
#

CT will never be ST thing since its change to do more per npc hit

grim jay
#

Main hero tree mechanic aside, even some of the other classes arent really exciting

slim hamlet
#

Holy fuck they gotta buff it to oblivion

runic hinge
grim jay
#

Whispyr about to implode

slim hamlet
#

Can't wait to spec FoK and CT talents in sludgefist boss

rotund oak
#

bro is writting a new pin

balmy condor
# grim jay But on the other end, how exciting are fatebound nodes?

the thing is, fatebound is a boring passive overall, but the talents are interesting within that right? Like mean streak is "boring" but it fits within the coin, double jeopardy is passive but it's flips from stealth. Like the talents themselves are more interesting because they augment what's already there. Deathstalker doesn't have that

slim hamlet
#

So when will someone make this a gif?

balmy condor
#

why the fuck do y'all go feral every time I type

#

I'm just typing

#

chill

slim hamlet
#

Slowly

#

And it's like a roll of the dice

balmy condor
#

sorry I form coherent, thought out opinions before hitting enter I guess

slim hamlet
#

Yea

#

Personally I just send the first thing that comes to mind, which is clearly better

balmy condor
#

I'll use my 125 word per minute to just spew nonstop rot

cunning needle
royal lantern
#

type on CD

slim hamlet
#

Bro is never pooling

#

!pooling

prisma monolithBOT
#

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

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

there you go

rotund oak
grim jay
slim hamlet
runic hinge
grim jay
slim hamlet
grim jay
runic hinge
#

Damn the triple ping

balmy condor
slim hamlet
#

quadrouple

#

yea

grim jay
runic hinge
#

Oh shit

slim hamlet
#

2 of them being Davyn

#

Classic

runic hinge
#

We’re on our bullshit tonight for sure

slim hamlet
#

Tonight?

slim hamlet
#

I haven't slept yet, it's actually over for me

#

I give it 2 hours before I crash horrendously

grim jay
#

And people expect you to react if they see you typing right after

slim hamlet
#

Triggerwords sounds like PTSD

#

No one has asked about crit cap or poison use today

runic hinge
#

It’s just restealth

grim jay
slim hamlet
#

Smort

rotund oak
#

laughed so hard on this

normal mist
#

More importantly

#

Now this is the shit

slim hamlet
#

Guys

#

Remember how we have a talent that gives 2% leech for 1 GCD every 2 minutes?

#

I just remembered

grim jay
royal lantern
grim jay
normal mist
#

Only 2 days?

grim jay
rotund oak
slim hamlet
#

That is crazy

rotund oak
#

its buffling

slim hamlet
#

I thought it was a placeholder

normal mist
#

They nerfed across the board

slim hamlet
#

Yea with no thought

#

You simply can't nerf a 5% leech during stealth talent

dark crag
#

It's a placeholder joke that went too far

slim hamlet
#

Like I know why they did it

#

Doesn't matter tho

grim jay
dark crag
#

Intern work from a friday 30 sec before closing time

inner valley
#

!wa

prisma monolithBOT
sullen fjord
#

How are we feeling after buffs? Assa gonna be top DPS again?🥰

grim jay
#

Yeah, we are quintuple gapping everyone else PogO

#

Its still too early to guess anything tbh

royal lantern
#

im gapping you