#assassination

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prisma monolithBOT
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Explanation of why stealth benefits aren't as important as you might think:

  • For starters, "Chain pulls" are NOT when the tank pulls a new pack with 1% hp remaining on the previous mobs. That is called "Bad Tanking", and it sucks for everyone in your party.
  • Correct Chain pulls usually happen while the previous pack is still alive and not dangerous. This increases uptime on more targets, which is the biggest increase in DPS for the entire party. This is also the biggest reason why you see high key level players doing so much damage.
  • Garrote is roughly 7-9% of people's damage in a key, most of which is already empowered/cleaved
  • Most energy spreading will come from Rupture to maintain scent of blood, not garrote
  • Without a Trace (+1 vanish charge) only grants roughly 2 additional casts across a whole dungeon, but does allow for holding vanish for large chain pulls which improves the quality of each vanish
  • You can argue that it "feels bad", but numerically there is very little ground to stand on, the dps simply isn't there.
oak tangle
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MOROES

buoyant jacinth
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wahts th efunnest specd u guys would say

zealous moth
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thanks muffin

main bridge
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don't blame Moroes you just got it wrong!

oak tangle
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It used to work

waxen oyster
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comes to a spec channel

oak tangle
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Is the problem

waxen oyster
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to ask totally not biased responses

gritty laurel
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most fun spec is ret, you can play with your elbows

waxen oyster
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you mean bm

zealous moth
waxen oyster
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what else can i play watching netflix

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fulltime

oak tangle
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I don’t wanna seem out of place, but sub is more fun imo

zealous moth
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sub

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when out of dmg windows

oak tangle
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I’m just better at sin

zealous moth
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sub is fun

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i need to take some time to properly learn it one day

waxen oyster
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sub is fun until you get the 3 mobs at a time tanks

zealous moth
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and not in a "ranged dps are sleeping, go sub to kill barrels" situation

waxen oyster
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that chain into next pack of 3 at 5% hp

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then you want to send a bomb in his mailbox

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ingame ofc

zealous moth
oak tangle
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Eh, sub cares less about it than other specs

waxen oyster
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its just annoying

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like

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pull all of them at once

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wuss

zealous moth
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honestly i feel like it's annoying for every spec

waxen oyster
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ye

zealous moth
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does sub have funnel or is it just slam aoes?

oak tangle
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I mean yeah, I often say to my tank, yo pull more I got cd’s

waxen oyster
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no you're honestly anti funnel

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since your st rotation cleaves

oak tangle
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Sub just absolutely fucking blasts for 16s every 1.5 mins

waxen oyster
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Yeah anyone who says sub funnel

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is stuck in 2018

oak tangle
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Not that sin doesn’t blast

waxen oyster
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which tbh i've noticed wow players are very slow

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in adapting to changes

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that happened legit years ago

oak tangle
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But sub absofuckknglutely blasts

waxen oyster
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idk why

zealous moth
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outside of SD and major cooldowns

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sub just

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backstabs every 5 seconds

oak tangle
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Is worse than a wet noodle

viscid spear
zealous moth
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until they can evisc

waxen oyster
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idk if its common in other games but wow players will just

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talk about a game mechanic

zealous moth
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it´s just zzz

waxen oyster
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that is over 4 years old

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as if its still relevant

zealous moth
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guys remember garrisons

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those were the times

oak tangle
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You can get dances down to 30s ish in keys,

zealous moth
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(i didn't even know the game existed during wol)

waxen oyster
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yeah 30s cd dance is probably "average"

zealous moth
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do you guys think i can do good damage on sub with ass gear?

oak tangle
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Yes

viscid spear
# viscid spear

Would this a better option over a S2 Pacemaker for anything? (I'm having shitty Antenna luck antennaglorp )

zealous moth
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been wanting to try it on keys but don't know if the damage will be good for 13s

oak tangle
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We basically share the same stats

coral ibex
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!chainpull

prisma monolithBOT
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Explanation of why stealth benefits aren't as important as you might think:

  • For starters, "Chain pulls" are NOT when the tank pulls a new pack with 1% hp remaining on the previous mobs. That is called "Bad Tanking", and it sucks for everyone in your party.
  • Correct Chain pulls usually happen while the previous pack is still alive and not dangerous. This increases uptime on more targets, which is the biggest increase in DPS for the entire party. This is also the biggest reason why you see high key level players doing so much damage.
  • Garrote is roughly 7-9% of people's damage in a key, most of which is already empowered/cleaved
  • Most energy spreading will come from Rupture to maintain scent of blood, not garrote
  • Without a Trace (+1 vanish charge) only grants roughly 2 additional casts across a whole dungeon, but does allow for holding vanish for large chain pulls which improves the quality of each vanish
  • You can argue that it "feels bad", but numerically there is very little ground to stand on, the dps simply isn't there.
waxen oyster
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unless you have too much haste

oak tangle
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Sub wants more vers, sin wants more haste, but crit mastery works good for both

waxen oyster
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i cant see a s3 hero trinket

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losing to s2

oak tangle
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The hard part is learning the piano of presses to prepare for burst

waxen oyster
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both specs just really like mastery

oak tangle
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And not missing gcds

waxen oyster
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and then there's the screeching stepchild

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that is outlaw

zealous moth
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i'd assume more haste than crit qualifies as too much haste

oak tangle
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That’s about 13000 too much haste for sub

waxen oyster
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yeah sub really

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hates haste

zealous moth
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tbf, i did get another neck

waxen oyster
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thats one thing that has remained consistent about sub

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throughout the years

zealous moth
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had the haste/vers cabochon

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and got a bloodstained pendant this week

oak tangle
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The only benefit from haste is slightly faster rupture tick rate, and extremely minor faster sht stacks

zealous moth
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those are past week logs

waxen oyster
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idk haste has never been great for rogue

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due to our static gcd

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etc

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in legion haste jewelry in your vault

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was basically dead box

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go next

zealous moth
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so i should be around

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14k crit 7k haste

waxen oyster
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uhh ideally sub wants no haste

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that isnt from your tier

oak tangle
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I have less than 1k haste

main bridge
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why the obsession with stats in 2025

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speculation is not useful

oak tangle
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I think it’s literally 1 tier piece or something g

waxen oyster
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chest usually

zealous moth
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yeah

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i STILL have jastor for dungeons bc i have shit luck with drops

waxen oyster
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assa is just a joke to gear since everything is good

zealous moth
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and logic gate omega

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so that's about 3k haste

oak tangle
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Just cause sin wants ilvl doesn’t mean the other specs follow

zealous moth
frozen glacier
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yall ever stop doing your rotations just to hit envenoms to see how high you can get a single coin garf_sit

main bridge
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it's not a good question though because you don't need to think about stats at all and just sim top gear

frozen glacier
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my personal best is 26 tails garf_sit

waxen oyster
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the top loom log

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has like 60 ish heads

visual sun
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60 jfc

frozen glacier
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wtf

waxen oyster
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nvm 56 heads

zealous moth
frozen glacier
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i have to wonder if at a certain point its just better to send envenoms and nothing else until the streak breaks

zealous moth
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if i wanted to optimize my vault for sub i'd go sim, just wanted to know how it performs with assa gear

frozen glacier
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and kingsbane ofc

waxen oyster
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your vault spec dont matter

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assa or sub just leave daggers on it

main bridge
oak tangle
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i get your point

main bridge
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asking people for random numbers also makes no sense

waxen oyster
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Is my gear good for sub

oak tangle
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but haste is universally dead stat on sub

waxen oyster
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do you have prism

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if answer is no

frozen glacier
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what if i do have prism but i just suck at sub

zealous moth
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i mean i get your point but, seeing as we are on a rogue discord i don't see the damage on asking a general rogue question

pliant remnant
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what if I'm the best Sub in the world but I'm playing with an NES controller underwater and it's actually my little brother playing

main bridge
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the damage is that you form incorrect opinions based on speculation. maybe you don't care about that, but it just perpetuates the endless stats questions in here

oak tangle
waxen oyster
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i like people's aversion to versa

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yet glaze mastery

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as sin

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when both technically

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do the same

viscid spear
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Hmm, the Dslice sim is saying Prism is better than Araz

static glacier
zealous moth
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i literally just asked if assa gear is good enough for sub, people told me sub doesn't want as much haste as assa and we just went from there

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there is no opinions or speculation, just a normal conversation lmao

strange whale
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Hi, I wanted to ask a question. I'm learning to play rogue assa and there are some things that aren't very clear to me. It's more focused on M+.

If we have a very large pull of more than 15 targets, how many should we put rupture on? Then which ability should we prioritize?

Assuming we already applied rupture on our targets, would vanish give us any extra damage to use in the middle of a pull?

static glacier
static glacier
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After muting for spatter and assuming you’re out of IC you will use fok on 3 or more targets

zealous moth
static glacier
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And vanish can be used as a dps cooldown to allow you to reapply dots in aoe mid pull when your original does expire

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Hope that helps.

zealous moth
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and vanish techincally gives you higher damage because of Master Assasin, but you usually save it for either deathmark, reapplying dots or bad chain pulls if you want to not apply rupture manually

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also yes, FoK on 3+ targets for m+

oak tangle
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for reference, sub has one dot (~5% of total dps), doesn't rely on energy regen, so the only real benefit from haste is to shadow techniques for combo point resets, which is still not much

static glacier
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Ye, sub just can’t tolerate haste

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The other 3 stats are solid

zealous moth
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makes sense

waxen oyster
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sub rupture just exists because the combo points spent on a rupture

zealous moth
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i had the impression that crit was bad on sub, and you wanted mastery and vers

waxen oyster
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do more over full duration than combo points spent on an out of dance evis

zealous moth
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yeah, rupture is the highest dmg per combo point

static glacier
zealous moth
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ohhh that makes sense

static glacier
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In keys people run tea so crits value goes up again since it benefits sectec

waxen oyster
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also drs

exotic shuttle
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Hi, just a question, so i'm currently playing as assa, so with the bleed build who's the "normal" m+ build i feel doing bad damage on bosses, my question is if sub rogue does better on this, if they have a decent aoe and decent st? i feel like assasin lose so much ST to do AOE( but i'm a newb rogue)

waxen oyster
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season 3 you generally will hit it

waxen oyster
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sub has worse aoe better st

static glacier
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Sin does more consistent dmg while sub needs cds

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For aoe that is

zealous moth
waxen oyster
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key dependent

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floodgate is a sin key

zealous moth
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kinda

strange whale
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Everything you tell me is very helpful. Thank you for everything.

oak tangle
static glacier
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I’d say sin is ahead in overall but sub does more to time a key if you have bosses that you can’t pull mobs onto for funnel

zealous moth
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also with sin you can just ask your tank to pull adds with bosses for agi%

oak tangle
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eco dome just feels like a sub dungeon

zealous moth
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can i mention mythic stats or am i gonna get hated for using aggregated data again

oak tangle
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and halls feels like a sin dungeon

zealous moth
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in absolute overall assa and sub are basically the same, if you want to change between dungeons then yeah, sub does better in some and assa is better on others

oak tangle
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but that's just my personal preference

strange whale
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Just one more question. I see that the stats for the assassin are mastery and crit, but is there a minimum amount of haste/versatility that we need? I feel like I often run out of energy.

silk sundial
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You can pull mobs onto every boss in eco dome and halls. Both feel great as sin

zealous moth
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^

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the energy regen from haste is almost unnoticeable

oak tangle
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haste is a good stat (as much as it's dumb to talk about sin stat weights) because we do alot of melee damage, and our dots tick faster

zealous moth
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for m+ your energy sustain comes from ruptures

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and for bosses just be happy to be there

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if you can hit ~3m dps on pure st bosses it's probly enough

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unless your party is 3 sin rogues

waxen oyster
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you can do well over

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but yeah

zealous moth
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yeah, my baseline is

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i hit about 3.8m on bosses

static glacier
oak tangle
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i'm just still stuck on the halls i did the other day, where tank pulled mobs onto every boss

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best key ever

zealous moth
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when my tank is not sleeping and pulls correctly

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i end up with well over 7m overall dps

static glacier
zealous moth
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it also depends on how comfy you are with the class

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i can play sin with my eyes closed at this point

static glacier
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Eg 14 fg sin overall on details was like 9.3 and sub with the same group was 8.6 or so

waxen oyster
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yeah fg is a sin key

static glacier
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It’s like slightly ahead for me

zealous moth
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flood is 100% sin dungeon tho

sullen topaz
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on fractillus mythic with netherprism - do u send the prism with every deathmark? coz i see the guys doing it it the logs. I would think if i do like prism on pull, 2. and 3. one , i can then hold for one deathmark to go for 18 stacks into execute?

oak tangle
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i can see that, if pulls are too big sub will fall off

sullen topaz
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or ist hat not worth

waxen oyster
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big momma dies faster as sin

zealous moth
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i hit 15m dps during big momma last time i did it

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tank pulled adds into boss and i had so much energy and damge

oak tangle
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fg has a lot of largish pulls

static glacier
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Ye sin cranks it

zealous moth
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yeah

static glacier
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Sub is better at last 2 bosses

zealous moth
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yeah

static glacier
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Either way both perform similarly

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Pick whichever you enjoy / are best at

zealous moth
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i mean you can pull adds during swampface

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don't know about pulling those big dudes to last boss tho

static glacier
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The lil crab guys ye

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Issue is they don’t live long enough imo

zealous moth
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and that will help dps and sustain during swamp at least for your opener

static glacier
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Other classes just cleave ur funnel mobs

oak tangle
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ret pally pad their overall to fuck up ur funnel

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braincells dont activate in those guy's heads

static glacier
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Frostythe is giga guilty too

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And that ele shaman spec xd

zealous moth
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so

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acording to mythic stats, priory and flood gate are the only 2 keys where assa is beating sub in average

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but again, spec skill comes in

oak tangle
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makes sense, priory has alot of mini bosses to funnel into

waxen oyster
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also if you go left

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sin has less chance to onehit itself

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on reflect shield

oak tangle
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lol

waxen oyster
zealous moth
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if you get reflective

oak tangle
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healer mechanic

zealous moth
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during DM and with boss <35% hp

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you just insta die

waxen oyster
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nah you need to precloak

zealous moth
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yeah i always do

waxen oyster
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or the secret/coup hit will onetap you

oak tangle
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i'm the kinda person that would symbols into that coup to see how much overkill i can get

zealous moth
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20m overkill

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rip bozo

waxen oyster
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minmax shit

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supercharge both the secret coldblood

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and 150 coup

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tbh as soon as i saw the trickster bonus

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i knew sub was gonna see play

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at the higher end

oak tangle
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i still need to get better at watching for sht resets and using the storm between coups

waxen oyster
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yeah until my coup refund is delay

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and i storm between and get refunded

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looking like a dumbass

oak tangle
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yeah

waxen oyster
oak tangle
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+1 danse copium

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extra danse stacks is kinda the equivalent of "should i stay above 150 energy" for sin

little tulip
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so uh has anyone tried cleave?

lucid silo
little tulip
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is it net neutral with bleed right now or down bad

main bridge
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if you zone into a key with anything but the bleed build you just instantly die

little tulip
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lmao garf

lucid silo
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its bad if you're pushing but if you're chill vibing 12s or something its probably fine

coral ibex
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ur gonna have a worse time the lower your key is

little tulip
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no it felt horrendous week 3 im good

coral ibex
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bc shit just dies too quick

lucid silo
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there might be a key level where you need to do something else i dont remember if its the same as season 2

west crown
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Well they are doing 20s so I don’t think we are there yet

zealous moth
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afaik it's just bleed all the way

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the aoe is too good

west crown
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Actually now that I think about it. Caustic bug makes cleave down bad. No way to even consider it until that gets fixed

little tulip
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ye just melting trash packs is fine

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had a really good eco dome 13 tank pulling adds into the boss today which was a vibe

zealous moth
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now that i think of it

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eco dome is technically 3 st bosses

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it's over

little tulip
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but also pinging sub rogue on gamba

silk sundial
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You can pull mobs onto all 3 of the eco dome bosses

static glacier
little tulip
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also big momma is a harder fight for sub for sure, we always try it with one pad dps and a prio or funnel and it goes sideways toward the end

static glacier
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Arterial is massive

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We’re locked into bleed due to that primarily

little tulip
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tank has to not grab adds half way through or not send xbox huge packs into that boss

static glacier
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but sin does better with the adds up

silk sundial
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Imo what sin needs on big momma is to not bring the extra adds in on pull. But on the intermission.
With big momma and the bots you have 5 targets, that's scent and CT. The 2-4 extra don't add much. Bring in the extra adds during the burn phase. Now you have 5 scent and CT again

zealous moth
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honestly i just ToT and go pull them myself just before intermission

little tulip
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ye i think its just not seeing sub all that often, or getting adds while cds are already going out

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which griefs both specs

raw mulch
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Got a question about thisstle tea is it fine to let it get auto used or should it allways be used with shiv?

main bridge
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!shiv

prisma monolithBOT
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With this you will not accidently use more than 1 charge of tea if youre spamming:

/cast Shiv 
/castsequence reset=5 Thistle Tea, null

Use this to cast cold blood with Kingsbane, which is optimal for Fatebound. The order does not matter, as Cold Blood is only consumed on Envenoms.

#showtooltip Kingsbane
/cast Cold Blood
/cast Kingsbane

Assassination uses no other macros aside from standard Deathmark+Potion+Racial+Trinket

main bridge
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macro it like this

raw mulch
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which i have done 😄

red schooner
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It auto popping doesn't matter

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It'll happen sometimes

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and that's fine

raw mulch
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And if deathmark/KB isnt up but shiv is up should i use shiv or wait untill either one is up?

zealous moth
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im assuming you're asking if you shiv while DM and or KB are on CD?

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ok yeah

raw mulch
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sorry typed to fast for my own good KEKW

zealous moth
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so, for raid, the only moment where you shiv with both of those down

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is if you have Lingering darkness, the first stack of shiv after using DM and KB and your ds mark is on 1 stack to proc darkest night (or during DN if you don't have set)

solar wyvern
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Shiv is 30 sec, your cds are 2 min or 1:30. As DS you shiv twice in deathmark, once dry with darkest night in lingering darkness. And once again in kingsbane. Repeat.

As fatebound, shiv twice with dm, once with kingsbane. Simple

zealous moth
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that way, your darkest night gets buffed by shiv, 4set effect and DN

west crown
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And we don’t really play that build in raid. So you don’t need to worry about it 🙃

zealous moth
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for fatebound, you shiv ONLY during cds

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for m+ you usually shiv during DM and then you have 2 free casts between deathmarks

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you can use it for DN + lingering, in execute phases for more damage, in prio adds to try and burst them with ct

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it has way more uses and way more freedom

zealous moth
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feels good on that one

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on forgeweaver it just makes me wanna kms every time i lose my mark to a pylon

summer cape
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There's any way to make a macro to cast Shadowstep on a target? without focus or losing the focus from the primary target?

raw mulch
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Do you even play DS if the adds die to fast had that issue for me during our prog. or still worth going DS over Fatebound? ( forgeweaver)

zealous moth
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just cast it?

main bridge
zealous moth
west crown
summer cape
west crown
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Mythic probably only soulbinder/soul hunters

main bridge
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maybe but i don't know how off the top of my head

raw mulch
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I think for soulbinder i was DS not sure let me check

zealous moth
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can't you just do a macro for targetlasttarget?

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and that one changes target between those 2?

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i've never used it, genuine question

summer cape
# zealous moth if you say to swap between those 2 targets

It's a dumb and pretty useless thing i wanted to try, at 4th mythic boss i need go go away from the boss to do the soak and i wanted to shadowstep back and forth from and to the boss to the tank soaking, but in p2 the tank swaps for the soak so i can;t just target one

zealous moth
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yeah makes sense

humble verge
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or maybe Plan C

summer cape
zealous moth
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you probly need 2 slots, 1 with macrod shadowstep the other with just shadowstep

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and use 1 on tank and then the other quickly on boss

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that sounds so stupid but

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i don't know how to macro lol

summer cape
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I will need 3 slot, one for each tank and one for the boss in case

zealous moth
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so for the first one do what muffing did

summer cape
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pretty fucked up lmao

zealous moth
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you jus target the boss, use macro to shadowstep and immediately target boss

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otherwise, you can just take a mouseover macro for ss

summer cape
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Chatgpt says something like

/target [mod:shift] AltroTarget; SomeGuy
/cast Shadowstep
/targetlasttarget
zealous moth
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don't even need to target the tank

zealous moth
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you cast to 1 tank, shift cast to the other

summer cape
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Yeah

zealous moth
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but again, you'll need another shadowstep on your bar

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i'd just go with a mouseover

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no need to swap targets

summer cape
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i might do ctrl and shift for each tank and base on my actual target

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my raid frame it's pretty fucked up

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if not invisible at all cuz fuck dead people

static glacier
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but macro it

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and don't think about it much beyond that

desert crest
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Does darkest night envenom funnel back in or no?

zealous moth
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wdym by that

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with cs + singular focus?

static glacier
summer cape
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@zealous moth

/target [mod:shift] Tank; Tank1
/cast Feint
/cast Shadowstep
/target BOSS_NAME```

This works perfectly in case
warm vortex
zealous moth
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since we are talking macros, is there any way to cast ToT directly to tank for m+?

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i'm trying to see if i can free my focus for kicks

main bridge
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!tott

prisma monolithBOT
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Smart tricks WA on tank, this require the following macro:

/click SmartMisdirect LeftButton 1
/click SmartMisdirect LeftButton 0
summer cape
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Yep that works

zealous moth
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holy that´s so good

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thanks

next dust
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what does the macro do tho

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i mean left button 1 and 0

main bridge
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Just makes it so when you tricks it’s automatically on tank

zealous moth
summer cape
desert crest
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Gg

humble verge
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LOOKS LIKE IM NOT IMPROVING MY LOG THIS RECLEAR EITHER LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

humble verge
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wish i could

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honestly

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ive used

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2 pots

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and hs

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somehow cant stay alive

zealous moth
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seeing mutilate on 1 makes me feel weird

winter willow
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!gear

zealous moth
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isn't it kinda uncomfortable being constantly pressing a button?

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casino rogue

main bridge
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Well you don’t press one button constantly

humble verge
main bridge
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If you are you’re doing it wrong

zealous moth
severe meadow
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I paid the tanks…

humble verge
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ty

severe meadow
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no pookie

#

Np

vestal wren
nimble tartan
#

chat how is he out there

quiet oriole
#

Tell me you got eye beamed without telling me you got eye beamed

zealous moth
short sequoia
#

!wa

prisma monolithBOT
zealous moth
#

now i'm gonna spend 3 hours mad at mine trying to clean it up

#

thanks

iron ivy
#

Hi, I know jastor is buggy as hell, but how does the sim approach it? Does it overestimate the power of jastor diamond or does the sim represent the 'actual' damage?

main bridge
#

the sim models jastor's assuming it works correctly

#

it does not (and cannot) model the bug because it's not consistent

iron ivy
#

So if a ring gives a -0.3% damage, it might actually be an increase compared to jastor

main bridge
#

maybe? like i said it's not consistent so that's hard to say

iron ivy
#

Yea, okay thanks 🙂

viscid spear
humble verge
#

we are so goated

unborn rain
#

green parse hero lfg

humble verge
#

we are so ready to wipe for the next 2 hours

coral ibex
#

9 hours just to show up the next day is diabolical

balmy condor
coral ibex
#

why are you guys doing so much OT for nk

balmy condor
#

They just love the fight

coral walrus
#

do we wait with lily 30 seconds to line with deathmark always?

humble verge
coral ibex
#

lily isn't very good as a 2m trinket

#

a 704 prism is better than my 723 lily for deathstalker

coral walrus
#

i dont have a prism. atm i m looking on wowhead bis trinkets and all the trinkets i have are under lily. i dont have any raid trinkets (tried doing normal/hc raid every week so far been unlucky)

#

i have prism/ara/seaforium and empowering crystal of anub

drifting cloud
coral ibex
#

do you or dont you have a prism

#

you just said you dont

#

and then say you have prism/ara/seaforium and empowering crystal

coral walrus
#

i dont, it was a mistake

coral ibex
#

ok well in any case

#

bis lists are not real

#

the order of items

#

on a wowhead bis list

#

is not more important than the result of a sim of your character

coral ibex
humble verge
#

nooj

#

if you wanna see me struggle

#

im streaming

coral walrus
#

!log

prisma monolithBOT
#

Wowanalyzer now has good initial support for Assassination. We suggest using it to quickly see any big rotational mistakes and analyze your ability usage

Link: https://wowanalyzer.com/

coral ibex
#

you better not let me clear before you

coral walrus
#

is there a way to open a log review channel?

coral ibex
#

im raiding later tonight

#

no

#

just post a log and ask your questions about it

coral walrus
#

!fok

prisma monolithBOT
#

Fok Conditions Post-Buff
Fan of Knives as a generator to replace ambush/mutilate:

  • Baseline 3+ targets, -1 if talented into momentum of despair and thrown precision, +1 if talented into vicious venoms, +1 if talented into blindside. (Generally 5 with raid build, 3 with Bleed m+, 2 with Hybrid m+)
    Fan of Knives with Clear the Witnesses Up:
  • Baseline 2+ targets, -1 if lingering darkness is up or you aren't talented into vicious venoms. With Vicious Venoms casting during lingering darkness is dps neutral.
    Fan of Knives with Darkest Night Up:
  • Only on 2+ targets, or without Vicious Venoms talented. This is also a very very minor optimization

The most important to remember is the generator rules, clear the witnesses and darkest night optimizations can be effectively ignored as they are not meaningful DPS improvements

oak tangle
#

i'd review it but i'm literally falling asleep at my desk

#

i'd probs criticise your DS mark uptime on fatebound again

humble verge
coral walrus
waxen oyster
#

ctw kinda fucks with tier

#

on overall contribution

oak tangle
#

i don't mean your logs specifically, but i did it to someone else when i log reviewed whilst tired

coral walrus
#

ah, ok. 😄

dense cedar
west crown
#

Last eco I did was a 12 at like 7.7 or something? Idk but 7 is definitely low.

balmy condor
#

Rupture first is totally fine

#

Its logs

#

I’m more concerned about where the ambush is at the start of pulls

livid dagger
#

I thought that at first too but checked some of the top 18 logs and some had rupture as top

balmy condor
#

Or radiant power

#

Why are we using that

west crown
#

Yeah I should have phrased that better. I remember it being top for some pushers

livid dagger
#

Deff not it low keys cause stuff dies before you need to manually reapply for the most part

#

Just pew pew with spatter

balmy condor
#

Like what is this

#

3cp rupture into overcapping 3cp

balmy condor
severe meadow
coral walrus
# balmy condor

so, i'm missing deathstalker cause i m not using ambush, and i m overcapping on ruptures.

severe meadow
#

Need to garrote rupture rupture

livid dagger
#

lol

dense cedar
#

we ignoring the grief no boot enchant smh

coral walrus
dense cedar
#

go enchant ur boots

balmy condor
#

Which is part of the reason why your st sucks so much ass

coral walrus
#

could you give a bit of more actual usefull information instead of passive-aggresive responses?

#

Like, what, and where so i can actually learn? thanks

#

i dont mind the banter, but follow it with an example so i try to not fuck it up next time

livid dagger
#

How to not make ST suck ass ? pepehands

coral walrus
balmy condor
#

Well like look at your deathmark windows here

#

There’s no vanish

#

Your second shiv is 20 seconds later

#

Your entire st damage is your deathmark window

#

Missing half your cooldowns on it kinda not ideal

livid dagger
#

Nah I’m asking for myself lol

We get to boss and I hold down the bottom of meters and it makes me sad all the time

coral walrus
#

So i should try to line deathmark'+vanish+x2 shivs for every deathmark cd?

#

makes sense, definetly wasn't doing that. good.

balmy condor
#

Potions, trinkets, vanish, shivs

#

Like you throw everything into that window

#

Or it’s 0 dps

livid dagger
#

Nah I know we’re just not built for boss dmg . I used it all we just kinda fall flat ST in like 14+

#

My hunter friend carries dmg it’s ok

restive crater
#

Do the opener correctly, shiv needs to cover the entirety of every DM

balmy condor
#

Idk about darkest night cause there’s no ambush at the start of openers so it’s kinda kinda fucking with my timings

#

But just as a reminder, if darkest night is up, and you have caustic up

#

you slam darkest night

#

Nothing else matters

coral walrus
#

ok, so prio is darkest+caustic, then other stuff.

humble verge
#

@coral ibex im about to kms

coral walrus
#

i think i m fuckign up my mark yes, i try to pre-apply garrote and ruptures when tanks gather, and i run out of ambush to apply deathstalker, and i m shooting myself in the leg.

balmy condor
#

Get your initial gar/rup for caustic, then slam the dn yes

#

Yeh

#

Always ambush first gcd

coral walrus
#

nice. much appreciated

#

gonna go next to see how it goes. Thanks!

balmy condor
#

Np

balmy condor
#

MORE OVERTIME

#

I still don’t really know why they’re overtiming

main bridge
#

SIREN OT police open up SIREN

coral ibex
#

they must think hof is closing next week and they can prog dimmy in a week

dense cedar
#

@coral walrus not relevant to ur log but you should really bind KB and CB together on fatebound

balmy condor
dense cedar
#

play like hof closes tomorrow

balmy condor
#

I mean I guess you gotta be fucked in the head to do 7 hours of OT

dense cedar
#

go insane

balmy condor
#

So the overlap of doing that and thinking you can get HoF without having nexus dead

#

Probably high

sage spruce
#

assass bugs still not fixed?

drifting cloud
waxen oyster
#

This spec probably does do tank damage if you just decide to not apply mark for fun

humble verge
#

it was planned raid

#

today is a normal raid time

#

raid day*

balmy condor
humble verge
#

also

#

its really just 5h of overtime

balmy condor
#

I didn’t realize it’s only 45 guilds so far

balmy condor
coral ibex
#

a lot of guilds are on dim

humble verge
balmy condor
humble verge
balmy condor
#

Catch up to what

#

You tryna overtime into wr100 or something

humble verge
#

like

#

"maybe" HoF

marsh fjord
#

If your guild gets into WR 100 it can attract a lot of good people. Can be an valid arguement

humble verge
#

no we wont

marsh fjord
#

So you’re never replacing people?

runic hinge
earnest remnant
#

alot of hof raiders are just passenger princess's

livid dagger
# balmy condor Or radiant power

Radiant power really that troll ?

I saw a mix of people using councils guile and that on logs at least

Is it a sim yourself thing or objectively better

humble verge
marsh fjord
#

But if your good enough for HOF as a guild you can be the same 26 people over years i geuss

balmy condor
livid dagger
#

Fair ty

#

I just steal what ppl in top 20 are doing /shrug

One of the guys Chainbleed and a couple others that are up there used radiant so wasn’t sure if there was much diff

humble verge
#

35 minutes left

#

2 P3s so far

balmy condor
runic hinge
#

Enjoy your OT

cedar elm
#

!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
crisp zephyr
humble verge
#

23 minutes left

#

still no kill

vestal wren
#

copium next pull for sure

humble verge
#

well

#

we got to platforms

#

with 1 dead

viscid spear
#

Ara key falls apart on last boss because the other two dps just can't do Cosmic Singularity correctly

humble verge
#

its even easier this patch

#

what lvl was it

#

12?

viscid spear
#

8, I was on my chicken

humble verge
#

ohok

#

11 minutes left

#

still no kill

viscid spear
#

Key ran out on the Overseer adds but we decided to finish

#

Than the warrior and hunter kept getting murked by the suck in

#

I was even doing Starfall to hit the adds to drop puddles

balmy condor
#

stealing top 20 silly

humble verge
#

P3 wipe

viscid spear
humble verge
#

we

#

had

#

nobody died on platforms

#

1 death after

#

and then we just dont have speed for the run in beam

viscid spear
#

M Dim? (I haven't been paying attention)

humble verge
#

no

#

nexus

zealous moth
#

Nexus princess kyveza

#

We back to proggin NP

viscid spear
zealous moth
#

Bro i started mythic with a guild that was progging kyveza

#

They were like 200 pulls in

#

I was told to just not dps and avoid shit after dying 5 times

#

Feelsbad

unborn rain
#

that was me on mug last tier

#

luckily i got into a car accident nezt night and they killed the boss

rigid fable
#

rogue still buged? feelscryman

unborn rain
#

no

#

were fixed

#

check wowhead they just posted tomorrows hotfixes

west crown
#

Not fixed. We were “fixed” last time

tiny pollen
#

Bleed keep good for keys?

balmy condor
#

it's basically the only playable build, yes

tiny pollen
#

tyty

humble verge
#

alright

mossy sundial
humble verge
#

no kills

mossy sundial
#

Don't give me hope

humble verge
#

and i dont even know if we are gonna reclear or not

unborn rain
#

you were collateral

mossy sundial
red schooner
#

sweet, managed to request my own benching on soul hunters, I'm safe

#

I... do not vibe with that fight.

mossy sundial
#

Wym play bleeds and afk on uptime chillin

red schooner
#

Yeah I just... do not do well on that kind of fight.

#

Not my kind of thing

humble verge
#

@spice surge how many wipes did you guys have on nexus

spice surge
#

107

humble verge
red schooner
humble verge
#

we got him next week

gray hazel
#

I cant recall, what happened that made the Hybrid FI build die in keys compared to bleed?

spice surge
#

New tier set is way better for bleed

balmy condor
#

bleed buffs, tier set

gray hazel
#

ahh

#

tyty

red schooner
#

I have a random guild I'm watching just because they have some... interesting pull counts. Take a guess which boss this is. Mythic difficulty.

humble verge
#

loomithar

balmy condor
#

plexus

red schooner
red schooner
humble verge
balmy condor
#

35 pulls to figure out how to press the extra action button

#

I have understanding

red schooner
#

I found out about the guild after they bought a gally lockout to try and get CE last tier.

humble verge
red schooner
#

wait shit i forgot to remove the guild name

balmy condor
#

90% in 70 pulls is impressive

#

that basically means they spent all 70 pulls just wiping to first bomb

red schooner
quartz path
#

interesting

red schooner
#

They have a good mental game so

quartz path
#

I would love to watch a stream of this

red schooner
#

They were streaming and it was wild

#

The streamer wrote their own hekili rotation

balmy condor
quartz path
#

what does that mean

red schooner
#

that did an altered rotation.

#

Or something like that. Altered version of hekili

balmy condor
#

because they're delusional enough to think that they're better than sims I guess

#

or they're just so insanely confused that they don't understand why hekili sucks

#

and so they just heard "hekili sucks"

#

didn't think any further

red schooner
#

But yeah, fun guild to follow.

royal lantern
balmy condor
#

and then decided that they would be the one to fix it

quartz path
royal lantern
#

ever thoght about that????

balmy condor
#

ugly sandbagging tc

grim jay
lapis fossil
#

why does... Hekili suck?

#

just cause it can't keep up with all the changing condiitons?

main bridge
# lapis fossil why does... Hekili suck?
  • it trains you to press what lights up without ever understanding why
  • it is inferior to actually using your brain and understanding context
  • it can never adapt to changing situations, like understanding why it makes no sense to use cooldowns on a dying pack

it will always be worse than just learning the spec and using your brain

#

although i suppose there are people out there that cannot use their brain like this

hidden crown
#

Fellas

#

I need help

#

what can I approve on?

balmy condor
#

hekili sucks cause it operates under the assumption that sims are infallible, can correctly evaluate things in advance, and knows the fight timings

like if you follow hekili on soulbinder, you're never parsing because you simply don't line up cooldowns with the adds that way. If you follow hekili on forgeweaver, you're slamming cds into the collectors during the intermission instead of the damage amp, etc etc ettc

#

there's so much hekili doesn't know

#

and there's a lot of context from fights that sims do not account for

#

so like hekili might seem incredible if you're standing in dornagol slapping a dummy

lapis fossil
#

lol

balmy condor
#

but you get to something that requires actual brainpower

lapis fossil
#

makes sense, ty

balmy condor
#

and it just implodes

balmy condor
#

the vanish here

#

needs to be with dm/kingsbane

#

you cast it every 3 min roughly with deathmark

#

as long as you're getting extra edge case flips, which you're not

#

dotting adds like this is an utter waste of time, it's a rupture snipe not a rupture shotgun

#

hit the boss, stop rupturing every nameplate on your screen

royal lantern
#

can we call IC the Rupture Shotgun?

hidden crown
#

That would be funny

balmy condor
#

I think you got the cdr bug here

#

but this is just shit

#

you didn't get an additional cast from slamming on cd

#

you cast it like 40 seconds later

#

and missed your cold blood

#

don't do that

river vapor
#

Damn they still haven’t fixed the bugs on SIN?

hidden crown
hidden crown
hidden crown
balmy condor
#

also if you would've just held you wouldn't have had this giant gaping chasm mid-kingsbane

royal lantern
#

yeha, but you do that to 1 enemy when its about to die, not on 5 enemys

hidden crown
#

cuz its on cd

balmy condor
#

yes

#

that's the bug

hidden crown
balmy condor
#

you either have to commit to casting kb on 0:30 and then figure it out

hidden crown
#

so I should probably not take orb?

balmy condor
#

or you have to commit to 0:45 with cold blood

#

you did neither

#

I mean it's totally fine

#

you can take orb

#

you just cast your kingsbane immediately before it, messed up your cold blood, and then also had the downtime

#

so you legit fucked it like 7 different ways

hidden crown
#

so I thought MAYBE it does better dmg on the last tick

balmy condor
#

it fully caps out in 3-4

#

casting shiv where you do doesn't buff the coins, loses uptime during deathmark, doesn't buff the instant hit on kingsbane

#

like out of all the options, that shiv is the worst

static glacier
#

The bug doesn’t keep your kb cd at 30 right, it’s just for a single use - same for dm?

hidden crown
balmy condor
#

ideally you shiv->deathmark->kingsbane, but deathmark->shiv is an improvement as well

#

deathmark->kingsbane->shiv just whiffs everything

hidden crown
#

I was used to that rotation

balmy condor
#

yah we've never shiv'd there

#

and then big problem #2 is that you just beat your rupture key like it owes you money

hidden crown
#

lmaooo I just update it everytime when I switch target or doing mechanics and the boss too far to reach

#

😭

#

I will improve

#

Thank you 🙏 Whispyr anything else?

grim swift
#

hello

balmy condor
#

my heroic dimmy from august was like a rank 80 or something, but to put it in perspective

#

you cast nearly 50% more ruptures than me

hidden crown
#

HAHAHAHAHA

balmy condor
#

rupture for energy is fine

#

but you gotta do something with the energy man

#

you can't just sit there rupturing everything constantly and going "I do for energy :)))))" and then never cast an envenom with it

#

like what's the point of sniping energy for a rupture if you're just going to use that energy to go for another rupture and then another rupture and then another rupture

grim swift
#

i picked up this class only this season and ive been playing assassination, my dmg goes very high sometimes just dont know what gives

balmy condor
#

this one platform you cast 7 ruptures

#

SEVEN RUPTURES ON ONE PLATFORM

grim swift
#

on the cleave dummies something like 18m but i have a hard time doing the same on mythic pulls xd

balmy condor
#

I cast 20 in the whole 8 min encounter, and you just slammed 7 on an intermission platform that lasted barely a minute

#

diabolical work

hidden crown
#

Maybe they need to make rupture the main combo spender

balmy condor
#

so idk where that disconnect is

balmy condor
main bridge
#

probably attacking dummies in permanent execute range

balmy condor
#

trick your brain into using envenom every now and then ya know

#

it's a good thing you're playing fatebound cause if I had to go check your darkest night uptime with this many ruptures

#

I think I would faint

half tartan
#

Can we close the rogue discord please

balmy condor
#

as one of the head moderators I can assure you wholeheartedly, you have my word that we will never close a channel or the discord purely because some people on the internet bitch about rogues being slightly undertuned

main bridge
balmy condor
#

Rogues are supposed to be edgy, not cringe

#

the paladins can keep their cringe

pliant remnant
#

fuck 'em

hidden crown
main bridge
#

what

grim swift
#

cant look at my most recent log

#

xd

hidden crown
#

DOFLAMINGO!?!?

grim swift
#

yeah!

hidden crown
#

@balmy condor so when should I vanish?

balmy condor
#

every 3 min with your deathmark window

hidden crown
#

can I have your logs so I borrow?

verbal granite
#

What am I doing wrong when I stack up my netherprism on a turnip, pop the key and run out of dung until it starts and then reenter. My hunter friend dont loose prism stacks but I do? Do I have a wooden pc with too long loading screens so I actually dont get out in time?

waxen oyster
#

you have to be outside the instance when it hits 0

verbal granite
#

It seems I am that, but I might not be. Its quite close so might be my wooden pc thats too slow in the loading time

grim swift
#

also how do i log my every run?

waxen oyster
#

dont zone into until the timer finishes idk

hidden crown
#

and make sure "Advanced Combat Logging" is on

grim swift
#

ic

#

/combatlog when i want to use it?

hidden crown
#

you also need WoWlogs app

#

yes

balmy condor
#

!wcl

prisma monolithBOT
#

Getting Started with Warcraftlogs https://www.wowhead.com/guide/how-to-use-warcraft-logs-6341
Logging your combat is a very powerful tool, and the main way of finding mistakes and improving yourself. Logging your raid, mythic+, or even just when you hit a dummy can be great way to learn!
Here's some common things to look at for rogues:

Checking your resources/overcap: Table -> Resources -> Energy/Combo Points from the dropdown
Buff Uptime and trigger amount such as adr/envenom/symbols: Table -> Buffs
Checking casts: Timeline -> Casts (shows sequencing) or Table -> Casts (for cast overview)

grim swift
#

ah thanks

hidden crown
balmy condor
#

which one am I what

hidden crown
balmy condor
#

The first

hidden crown
#

I thought I screenshoted it but canceled it

#

I'll just look at yours and learn it from there

#

ty whispyr

waxen oyster
#

he has fans

prime hull
#

I wish they rebalanced our dmg to keep same overall but not make the ST a joke

waxen oyster
#

why do you care about st on pull

#

as long as you end fine its chill

prime hull
#

if i get 2 mins on pull i get a 2nd cd set off so my dps is better on the boss

main bridge
#

i think that's probably more of a skill issue on your part than an issue with the class/spec

prime hull
#

if its midway through the fight

waxen oyster
#

ngl if you care what your on pull damage is like

#

dont ever play sub

#

if you go into a boss without cds as sub

hidden crown
prime hull
hidden crown
#

S1 😔

prime hull
#

didnt play it in s2

#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

marsh fjord
#

S1 doesnt count anymore

prime hull
#

my 701 dk alt is doing more single target in dungeons than my rogue

waxen oyster
main bridge
#

impressive but that could be a screenshot of anyone's profile

waxen oyster
#

It's s3

hidden crown
#

its all in the Tier sets bro

#

DeathStalker is better in AoE at most

#

still decent ST

fallow canopy
main bridge
#

also me

marsh fjord
#

This is totally not me

prime hull
#

im not trying to show off or anything im just saying i know how to do the single target rotation of assa when trying to make a point about our boss dps in keys

abstract steppe
#

What? Pure ST if you can't pull trash onto a boss in M+ build is awful on sin if you're playing the standard bleed build.

prime hull
#

^^

#

yeah that was more my point

marsh fjord
prime hull
#

if i have cds on pull and execute im still bottom by a significant portion

prime hull
marsh fjord
#

nope

prime hull
#

regardless m+ is deathstalker anyway

abstract steppe
#

If you mean the DS raid build on fights with adds its not as bad for sure. But its a huge pain point for the spec in high keys is the bad boss damage.

marsh fjord
#

You should have netherprism

#

so you vanish before DM

prime hull
#

i dont have one

marsh fjord
#

thats not you

#

fake rogue

#

confirmed

prime hull
#

723 lily

#

704 netherprism

#

lily is winning

marsh fjord
#

fake rogue

waxen oyster
#

I mean...

prime hull
#

if you dont have funnel on the boss

#

and some bosses you cant

waxen oyster
#

you do like 3.5

prime hull
#

you are HARD on the bottom

waxen oyster
#

its fine with your aoe

#

something has to give

marsh fjord
#

I mean ST is just dogshit bro

abstract steppe
#

Well, other classes are doing a lot of AOE and also reasonable ST (BM, FDK, even sub to a point though boss kill times matter quite a bit for them too with CDs)

prime hull
#

if my 701 dk can beat my 713 rogue in boss dps in keys

#

something is wrong

#

with a 684 weapon

#

my rogue has 723

hidden crown
#

Because DKs are busted

#

and ignoring half of the mechanics with riders

#

they dont care

waxen oyster
#

We do more aoe than fdk

#

so like

#

bad compare

#

XD

hidden crown
#

fr

prime hull
#

they arent a slouch either

waxen oyster
#

still behind

#

kill time is a bit of a bad argument since if boss ends shortly after a dm set

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assa st is "ok"

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the difference between a dk and rogue rn with Arakara is HUGE

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but if i dont have dm on pull to do this

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prot warr is beating me

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xd

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you just dm late

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in execute

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and you do more

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if i run into a prot war that can do like 4m ill be impressed

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prot can at least do over 2mil

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every tank can this season

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LOL

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bad tank if he cant

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ik so im confused

waxen oyster
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me last season when i would pug priories for tome on pwar

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and beat 90% of rets

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on braunpike

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demolish go brr

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me back in S1 spamming Ara kara as DK

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*deaths advance

waxen oyster
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Idk the dk in my guild

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wrote essays every other day

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complaining about DB

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it was funny

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Wait DB?

waxen oyster
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bro was complaining about reaper mark resets

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yeah

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I mostly complain about getting stunned while mid sindragosa rotation lol

waxen oyster
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ibf

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idk why dk needs that

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and ams

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and lichborne

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and antimagic zone

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ehh i was more listing avoid mechanics buttons

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meanwhile warrior

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warrior damage is so stupid

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more dmg

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less defences

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5.2m on a heroic loomi

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at 701

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kek

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good

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hope its a fury warrior