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You’ve never seen difficulty this insane
Gar -> rup -> cds
Mut -> mut -> env
Or
Ct x253 -> maybe envenom

I can’t fathom pressing more than 2 buttons
you just wouldnt get it whospar...
I'm a little late to the conversation. I remember someone asking you the other day is using CT was better than envenom at a certain point. Is this about the Sims you said you'd run to check it?
Correct!
Yes
What was the verdict? At what point is using your finisher a dumb move
Whenever something isn't bleeding?
If you can bleed things, you bleed things
Can't wait for a 30 mob pull where I'm just assuming there's not enough bleeds out.
I'll just count my CTs
Slam it a couple extra times what’s the harm
Does nearly 70% of an envenom at that target count anyway
Not like you’re losing out on much
Is it still soft capped at 8 despite the tooltip saying 5 btw?
If I break stealth and I'm at 4cps, I still mutilate again before I can rupture right? Always 5cps? Even in AoE?
Yes
I mean obviously don’t mutilate in aoe
But yes you would generate
Does thrown precision always apply non-lethals too?
Apparently a rework is not enough to put accurate shit on tooltip
Or wait maybe secondary doesnt work with fok
Doesn’t work with fok
It’s a very strange talent
I thought it wasn’t doing the instant damage on deadly at first
And then eventually realized it was just proccing from crippling
Tbf it doesnt specifify that its only lethal, but it obviously should be
Yeah I mean in hindsight reading the tooltip after knowing it
It’s like well yeah that’s what it says
But it’s so giga weird
Excuse me wat
Pressing envenom at 5+ combo points = Insane difficulty
Tracking your sht stacks to make sure you only strike at 7 cp with 5+ stacks = Easy Mode
Imagine that this graph is easiest to hardest, petko’s tier list is the red box and just saying it’s insane difficulty
Because fuck it why not I guess
Even with the comment, I mean no disrespect, I love my class and spec, but I played wow for like 4 months and was rank 4 on frac. Our spec is piss easy 
It's hard to play because it's looking trash 😄
It’s looking good
I see
you see eleem, most wow players just press buttons without thinking leading to gray parses, petko's list is about playing the spec at a high level (going the entire key without activating ds as sub because you just spammed storm/bp for the entire dungeon)
Read like a fucking book
Smh my head secondary poisoning doesnt work with poisoned knife
Spec is unplayable fr fr
Honestly forgot that ability existed still
Blizzard finding ways to stop us from using the goat 🥀
Every expac I swear it got pruned alongside tricks
can we get the best poisoned knife build?
im playing ffxiv until midnight and theres fkn 30 min guides theres no tldr
I mean you write the guides abarely get past 3k rio
TLDR press buttons don’t stand in shit
bro its so hard to remember 30 mins of guide
theres 4 end game bosses im at the 2nd
damn gottem
🙂
But yeah prepatch is legit irrelevant
You doing another guide when live live hits? Or just updating the written one
You do 30 min of beta and realize prepatch makes absolutely no god damn sense
But for some reason blizzard was like yeah sure let’s tune beta
its rog good for m+ havent played since tww 2nd season
And then just copy paste all that tuning onto prepatch
With classes that are -10 levels
Better than before
Assa at least
For me
this entire pre patch made no sense, to last nearly as long as it has
Both
is rogue meta or nah
i remember dk was meta but i was pumping same dps
Whispyr correct me if I am wrong
You don’t like sitting on a floating rock and sprinting to a rare every 5 min for 2 months?
What’s wrong with you that’s peak world of warcraft
We need dirt to dig at least
Gotta log in to collect twigs in my neighborhood man
I don't like it so much i didn't do it, pre patch was so bad, I played league for a month, thats how bad it was to me.
the jump puzzles were kind of legit in the neighborhood at least?
Slap a fence a couple times or whatever
be carefule they dont steal ur account

don't be mean, you can now go collect 1000 of each lumber-shit-thing so you can "DRUMROLL" have flying to collect MORE lumber
win
Can proudly say I have never collected lumber, don’t know how to, or why I would want to
I messed around with housing but when i found out i had to pay for each individual peice, went nope not wasting my consumable money on some b/s windows
Wake me up when the outdoor budget is bigger than 3 rocks and a fence
Mounted lumber collecting is pretty sick idk, good for those who enjoy crafting
I don't care if they want you to pay for each placement, but don't make me go back and buy each item from a vendor
make it just cost gold to place or something once I aquire it
but lumber is soulbound no?
so after collecting 1000 of each or whatever, why TF would you wanna collect MORE?
oh i like this window design, "thats nice now do this 4 hour quest chain to unlock it, and you only get one per week on a random rotating schedule, Thats definantly what the players want"
Change crests for some reason
Now you can be excited to craft gear because it says 40 crests
Yippie
I think removing valorstones possibly broke something and the system needs a second currency in there to function. That's my theory anyhow.
It definitely didn’t do that
Or at least some way of figuring out why they put gold in there
I'm still trying to figure out how they broke the warbank
They put gold in there because they don’t fucking know what to do with gear anymore
I was just trying to think of some reasonable explanation for it 
I’m pretty sure they considered finally changing the stupid ass 4 secondary system
But in doing so the game would catch fire and every server would explode instantly
Imagine a world where secondaries aren’t just 4 versions of vers
Yeah but we cant have stuff like cooldown reduction as stat because then there will be specific breakpoints you want to reach and then not get much more after that.....
Unlike haste which..uh...
bring back Multistrike?! 
They could always bring back reforging and make us min max secondaries even more
Do not miss that system
is this that sim based on shindig's question? if so what's the context, is it dslice? x mobs
lets bring back rng legendaries that made it so you had to reroll a character if you got the wrong ones while we are at it. lol
Man I loved that xpac
oh you mean when the system was like HERE have the secret ring...it will help your guild (evil laughter as you get benched)
First leggy getting Anger ring on Havoc
15
bro it's so fucking over if envenom doesn't beat 2 ruptures at 15 mobs
jfc
i was lucky and got the shoulders first shot was insane that your entire raid damage profile was who got lucky iwth legendaries
Lowkey they should bring back some form of grind, people love all the rep shit in BC as an example. And when theres nothing you need to grind for everybody just fotm rerolls, which means blizzard doesnt want to nerf stuff because everybody rerolled already
they need to make it so if your grind you get something useful, not bullshit for alts
I gave up on building my fence halfway through because of this 😭
Ct itself is doing half an envenoms worth of damage
Before any poisons
Or the bleeds
I do remember it hitting quite hard ye
im predicting them to dial back the spatter changes
Blizzard just forgot how numbers work, all good though
how're poison bomb stocks looking this time round?
It’s a talent you take
and env still loses on aoe kekw
babe wake up, fok spam is back
I don't think it's been powerful for a while
last time I remember it actually putting out numbers was raszageth adds
the 2nd intermission
Was better with 40% caustic 
ngl the venemous wounds change created this issue
Would’ve been more strange if a poison didn’t spatter tho ya know
if you decouple energy from extra targets the aoe damage has to be made up somewhere, and it looks like bleed / ct dmg is where the power showed up
Ye
I remember back then when it still procs on Rupture
Really wasn’t, blizzard just pulled the wrong lever for some fucking reason
Energy is basically where it’s always been
🙂
But they decided ct needs to hit like a truck for no reason
And then also decided to destroy caustic
Any of those individually is fine
But they actually just tuned themselves into problems
Unprompted
Had they left it and just aura buffed we wouldn’t be here
If they dont intend on returnung caustic to its glory. Is the solution simply reduce energy on CT and reduce damage? It kinda needa decent dam if its so expensive.
Clearly it doesn’t need it since we’re just skipping envenom
this isnt really what i meant when i said i want bleed build
Yeah in insane mass aoe, but clearly 5 target is a struggle
meow..
The solution should’ve been nerf damage on ct, buff fok and env/rupture simultaneously
...I've missed things. We just... Not envenoming in AoE now?
i never did. i only do ethical bleed dmg
Yeah you can do it on lower but it’s just what you were doing before so it’s not different right
FOK still bootyhole even with the 25% buff and our 4set in Midnight?
Fok is good
Prio loss though, why bother spreading rupture to pissers instead of envenoming the big guy 
maybe it's just noise by the apex not working back when I tested it, idk it's wierd - energy feels notably higher when compared to non IC situations (think stuff like first boss algethar spawning mobs) but other than that we were strictly gcd capped before. st feels better imo. I imagine actual numbers can confirm or deny what i've observed
I mean yeah but my point was moreso, in 5 target its so expensive so the damage was justified. In mass aoe with extra dashing procs and stuff clearly the numbers just get out of wack
But ye, ez fix is lower damage buff fok to compensate ig
You’re not pressing it more than twice in 5t why would it need to do damage
my one guess about this is that barely anything buffs CT so they made it inherently powerful, compared to say FoK and its multiple big modifiers
Yeh idk
Maybe
But whoever is doing the napkin math back there ain’t doing their job
Cause youre spending a ton of globals ramping so theyd want those globals to at least do damage is i imagine the design thought process
Not saying i agree with it
But… it’s 2 globals
the issue is the bleed spreading makes the damage per energy of CT monsterous
meow!
Idk it just "feels bad" i dont know how else to explain it
Less if u have DM up but ive had pulls where i literally garrote garrote fok rupture ct ct. And then im ooe already
If no tea u cri
yeah but fok is 35 energy you should get that quite quickly right?
and so is envenom, you might be at low energy all the time but its not like you cant use stuff
but idk
i havent played
you played me
meow
Its just if u dont crit much on ur first 2 foks, youre kinda starved since you havent envenomed yet so your poison application chance is actually quite low and sometimes deadly isnt even on one of your targets and then youre waiting for energy again. Like its not common but it can happen.
Maybe i just dont like empty globals in aoe makes me feel yucky
Like its fine at the end of the day, the damage will be fine once its tuned correctly
remember sbs
Imisssbs
that shit carried opener so hard
Ye i started playing haste just to not have as mant empty globals lmfao
I dont think its very good tho
I think we're just gonna have to get used to it, idk why but I kinda miss master assassin
stealth effects 🤮
yeah bro i love begging for a restealth
yessssssss
please my team be slower for me ;3;3;3;3;3;3 pleaseeeeeee
Could be worse,they coulda made it so every 5th poisoned knife gives u MA
For funsies
We need poisoned knife gaming ima say it
Last titan new talent leaked
!!!!!🚨
the stealth aspect was dogshit
but that amount of free crit
Just open trade with tank before dungeon to bribe for restealths 😏
you know what I'm gonna say it. Spamming CT to spread bleeds being optimal in aoe over envenom spam sounds fine. Am I cooked? Maybe they should add a way for it to eat combo points 
Ty kitten
that was mine
They’re right
is it really worth to just ct over fok all the time or is it just a meme ?
can not tell anymore
so just like the guide says until every target living long enough has bleeds up? nothing new?
That is not what the guide says
It’s like 20% better to ct spam
Over 8 targets I believe
Again, you dont spam
You CT until everything has bleeds on them
Before you envenom
i thought thats just ct until 5 -> finisher -> not every target has it? ct and so on
Yes, and that is different than what i just said
Can not follow you right now, what do you mean
i did not saw your replay above, nvm
finishing at 5 was implied from me
yeah you are cooked

@spice surge you say this is not what the guide says
But is this not the same thing?
i guess he understood it that i want to spam ct even if i have full cp, which you will not do
I think that is exactly what you do
At least this seems to imply it
true, i misread that too
Guide says CT until 5 combo points > envenom
I said CT until everything has bleeds on them
is CT still bugged?
Even if this would take you over CP cap you just do it until you have full coverage?

yes
odd question, is there anywhere like fuu's sim sheet that shows the dps of all classes>? like to compare where we sit?
No, and if there is i wouldnt trust it
all 3 of our specs are pretty close, but i just wanna guage where the other classes are at dps wise currently.
We’re 2 weeks away from a new xpac it does not matter - even for the xpac as tuning will happen often until 2 weeks after raid likely so nothing matters atm just play whatever
idk why i thought the sim sheet was for beta and not pre patch lol
Well if ur talking prepatch then Rogue is wayyyyy behind
anyone else having energy regeneration issues?
Intended
im constantly starving for it, ... and if im below 30 energy it drinks tea for me automatically?
it indeed does that
doesnt really matter as it only gives energy
pooling for burst
and during cooldowns you dont run out of energy ever
would say it was more "annoying" when it still gave mastery
but tbf im not entirely up to date with Assa in terms of pooling rules anymore
You do not need to play around tea in any capacity
You can go to all class discords, collect the data and do the sheet yourself. Be part of the solution, not the problem
do the seet? you mean become part of the problem then
does anyone play rouge on tbc im new to wow and could do with some tips i just hit 70
hey, this chat is for retail rogue. You can ask in #classic-discussion
im pretty sure theres a rogue classic discord
okay thanks m an
just saying giving us the option to use it when we choose, and to not have it automatically trigger would be better playstyle
do you know what iy is can you link it to me please
Yeah but blizzard doesnt think so

i think its https://discord.gg/6RxQ3SyN
is assa best st rn ?
!fuu
Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
You can just watch your energy
Though during cds energy is like not an issue
I'm new to assa, why is energy not an issue during CDs? Does DM give energy somehow?
Pressing an extra mutilate outside of cds really isnt gamebreaking
It does, check the tooltip of it
Ah shiet, I thought it still duplicates bleeds and stuff. I gotta reread everything
Thank you
that was to compensate losing the full dupe wasnt it
probably 
My name is button do you hit me
Yes

Playstyle in Midnight will basically be the same as TWW, right? If so I'll level as sub to start learning it
Yeah basically
our time to shine
is he streaming rn or is thsi a video
live
sus
i mean
hes a shaman player
so i dont think it'd be him
hes offline as well on bnet
w zorthas sandbag
he put us second last in his thumbnail and now he is getting slapped by brew, next week roingus getting juiced
Mm cant wait to see that log
tomato speaks blizzards listens
The tomato is very wise, must not be mean to him
(just don't look at his house/room tour videos)
I think
The holy trinity
You mean the first key tomato does on the spec without reading anything online wasn't played pixel perfect?
Unbelievable
Clicking on the other dungeon clears was a crazy whiplash
i clicked on
this one
and i thought "man its so stupid that mage and warlock are playing with brew"
but its not brew
they need to inject rogue with some hopium on the next tuning pass ngl

something man idk
remove skyfury and we are back
delete shaman honestly
and we are back
and death knight
we might get played
I mean surely all 3 of the rogues played really bad
no its
you lose insane damage without giga buffs its not even funny
on every spec
im sure they didnt play stellar but
tomato is very wise
(don't check the math on his defensive video)
He didn’t make mention of sub mogging assa and outlaw defensively either
Having two extra defensive nodes
The takeaway from that video is that DK is OP and should get nerfed, everything else is tertiary 

yeah
if you count will of the necropolis or whatever
as a passive defense
and then also add the numbers up additively sometimes
I mean you probably should though?
If youre looking at oneshots you would include it, similar to how you would include stamina
yeh
I just don't know how
he got to 37%
cause even with 4 riders active, which they aren't
the math maxes out at like
34%
or something
the math just
doesn't make sense
My dad said he would be proud of me if I mained assa, should I make him proud?
What does your mother want you to main
Daddy @balmy condor hasn't remarried yet
Should prop main assa so he doesn’t beat you for being naughty
Not seen it yet but Aintnoway people stopped taking the free ams
I live to serve
eh, i don't mind dks being really tanky.
I think themetically it makes sense, plus the fact that they are turtles in terms of mobility
Theyre not really anymore though
(note that im not actually serious that dk needs defensives nerfed)
Well then nerf unholy's ranged capabilities and I guess their mobility
I don't think DK's defensive capabilities should be the thing that gets nerfed though
Very immobile
but yeah they definitely arent super slow atm
ah ok
plus can take wraith walk for another 70%
Tbh i feel even just DA kind of makes bad mobility a non issue
although i dont think you normally do anymore
To make it into my loving arms faster



me when my theme is just to be op af
I dont think deathstrike being OP is a problem, just like feint it has opportunity cost
But the enormous passive DR thats bigger than some classes active walls is a bit silly

is rune of the apocalypse actually just 18% passive dr
mfw i play priest and using my gcd to cast flash of light + use fade is barely better than one random passive dk has
yeah ofc
it just sucks when you're making a good point
with shit math
cause then like
why should I trust you
can't even multiply numbers together like bruh

A little off-topic but does anyone know why one icy veins that utility has a "purple" ranking for sub and outlaw while for assassin it's "blue," when the utility for all three specs are almost the same?
petko moment

I think seli assumes the aoe blind is staying
Whereas i was writing with the assumption that it wasnt
ah ok
some of them are little funny though when looking at other classes though
Ret paladin one especially is quite funny
they're nerfing airborne irritant in pvp, i wonder if they glanced at it and realized it was aoe
yeah its very nice
jfc
im in a guild gally mount run and our bear tank has been doing more dps than me
and ive been like bruh what the fuck
we're in a shit spot but that bad

i did not realize blizzard reset talents cuz they didnt tell me
xd
you can still purple parse under the tank btw
Yep....parse purple and do literally HALF dps of a DH or DK now in prepatch
clown fiesta patch
Devo DH's may do great dps but I tried leveling as one it was painful af
yeah i imagine that wouldnt be very fun
I died trying to solo a rarespawn... lol
The tomatoes brain is 5x that of us normal folk, that's why his head is so big, we cannot understand his ways
Too late, everyone asleep now
link DN
Gotchu
I mean, what's your definition of burst
More of an ooze than a burst
A strong dribble
whispyr still alive nice
A single spurt
there's levels to it
Cooldowns 
what did you play in s3
i thought i can play mage in midnight , but it got nerfed hard
they might just nerf w/e you are rerolling too aswell

unless ironically it's mage, cause mage always wins
mage or lock usually
always have atleast 1 spec in top 5
the last time it wasn't a mage season, dinosaurs roamed the earth and stones weren't invented yet
well frost specc is for ppl who also play BM hunter
Whats simc dps tho
thats just midnight in general
i want at least a FUN clas not a 1 button rotation
think the last time mage wasent a top contender in raid was like Amirdrassil
fyrakk was a dinosaur
yeah amirdrassil was rough
so whispyr is correct
but fire was still like
pretty strong
you know what, lets go look

I was slightly incorrect
still top 5 tho
sepulcher was a bad mage tier I think no?
iirc 10.2.5 came quite fast so this is the tuning most remember from raid
bruh 3 specs in the top 4 ranged specs

ele sham
mage
mage
mage
that's crazy
true actually
sepulcher was def a 1 mage only tier
how is this even allowed
it was just warlock playground that tier
after stat squish, whats a good dps target on dummies? im getting about 22k
that sounds about right
wow is fked anyway
warlock had fun that tier
i just wanna look for a burst class to have fun

Holy destro gap
They weren’t even playing the good covenant btw
That was the tier where I stepped in and fixed their venthyr sims
Because their sims deadass just didn’t use the venthyr ability
+80% dps in aoe sims overnight 

Was like 15-20% ahead in dungeons compared to whatever they were playing at the time
And just no one played it cause the sims were giga shit
bro saved Warlocks and condemned everyone else
I went to warlock discord and was like hey do we know that this just… doesn’t work
And they legit went “oh yeah good fine, we don’t have a destro tc right now”

Can't believe he helped warlocks
all my homies hate feral anyway
This isn't my president
cuz thats totally the point
Yeah that is a little silly
Maybe we get the strongest Rogue tier ever if you take a break for a tier

warlock theorycrafters get consumed by their patron every tier. no continuity
Good point
I have taken a break for one tier and it was crucible
they cant keep anyone to save their lives
Did you just have an obession with venthyr sims that expansion
As u also did sub in season 2
No
It’s just everywhere I looked venthyr sims were broken
Cause I fixed obedience after you and push were like nah this is crazy
Just happy coincidence that venthyr was stupid in multiple specs
No we don’t 
That frostbolt was personal
how we feeling about Sin right now boys?
Guys how important is it to get first caustic up? Do we do it asap or not care about it and get it up with first env/kingsbane not worrying about it just following prios and rotation?
looking pretty good in beta
it auto-applies when you kingsbane and envenom, which is the majority of your caustic damage
certified dumb reporting in
Sweet, either way my true love is with sin
Dumb question but do you think the s1 tier set will change any gameplay? Or will it just end up being a damage buff?
crimson tempest is still giga in AOE right? compared to FOK with buff?
i missed the convo above
roger roger copy
Hopefully not back to the DS mini game 😭
Fatebound will be fine
you think they buffed it so much to compete with CT?
sweaty bitchless grass allergic minmax in m+ will still be ds probably
Idk what the fuck they’re doing anymore
We obviously needed more aoe tuning
Everything was making sense until like a month ago
And then they started turning knobs that didn’t need turning
And turned certain knobs way further than they should’ve
I hope they buff caustic by another 1% and nothing else
It’s like they saw that things were close and said “you know what…. We need to pad our work metrics”
And then just added some bullshit they have to tune around even more
Legit just pointless busy work
Like the CT/fok balance
We already had it
It was exactly what they intended
to be completely honest, im surprised they didnt just nuke FOK and CT into one ability
maybe im just in the spirit of pruning, but atp it just seems like that would make the most sense
now there isn't much of a point to fok over 7-8 mobs right?
for the kind of gameplay they're going for with this pruning
And then they obliterated caustic and ct hella good kicked fatebound in the teeth
And it’s just
?????

That would legit be so fucking boring
I bet it was a Mage who did all the rogue tuning.
I just rerolled rogue for next season
What
i dont disagree, but considering how other specs are playing cough sub, i wouldnt be surprised lol
Whispyr made me question my choice
You just get bleeds on everything and then FoK
I thougth I read you saying you just ct spam over 8 mobs?
Yeh true
I probably misunderstood though.
Is it spam till bleeds up then you can switch back to normal fok/envenom?
I thought with the higher mob counts you were saying CT hit within a decent percent of envenom
It does
If you’re needing to spread
Ct takes priority over envenom
If you don’t need to spread
It’s a dogshit button
Got it!
If you’re fok->envenom spamming
And overcapping on energy
Then maybe you hit it once or twice to burn energy off since it’s hitting harder than fok atm
And that’s about it
And apparently blizzard thinks buffing fok is the solution instead of nerfing ct and buffing envenom to compensate
But what do I know
Ah ok, I misunderstood the last bit. I appreciate you clearing that up for me.
I hate how this is unfortunately gonna be the case for singular focus alone...
Lemme pad aoe 😠
131k dps garrote isnt it beautiful
This is how god intended us to play, fatebound only roll heads...
KB 32k 
bleed build in full effect
i mean tbf with garrote being so much of our aoe, tier set is gonna go giga with the buff lol
Sins going to be the go to raid spec?
I’ll let you know when we start raiding
Yea
Blizzard be turning some random knobs right now lol
It’s beyond my understanding
Yeah I just let them stress @balmy condor out
sims without apex talents kinda stinky
Do we have a ballpark for sim profiles with rogue yet or still waiting
hot take, give our kick a combo point modifier, and the amount of combo points determines silence duration
make us good in m+ again
kingsbane apex talent looks ye
even if deathstalker is a lil cursed it works better on sin for what its worth
redirect on deathstalkers mark would be kewl
once a minute let us swap it so we can fish for kicks and cc stuff
redirect dn
hi, whats the deal with shiv and tea now in midnight/prepatch, supposedly you dont press shiv, and leave tea auto but ive seen many logs where theyre pressed intentionally both in m+ and ST
i think it flips a coin but don't really remember
or applies a stack of non lethal poison it's one of those
non lethal yes
@balmy condor i was actually meaning to ping you about the CT thing few days before you said it but just never got around to it lol. I finally figured out the custom APL Stuff and this is what I did to test it wanted to make sure same thing you did
actions+=/call_action_list,name=core_dot
#new entry
actions+=/crimson_tempest,if=!variable.single_target&(active_dot.garrote<spell_targets.fan_of_knives|active_dot.rupture<spell_targets.fan_of_knives)
# Build combo points until 5, or max with darkest night
actions+=/call_action_list,name=generate,if=!buff.darkest_night.up&combo_points<5|buff.darkest_night.up&combo_points.deficit>0
actions+=/call_action_list,name=spend,if=!buff.darkest_night.up&combo_points>=5|buff.darkest_night.up&combo_points.deficit=0```
I saw up to 3% extra DPS on large pulls, with no negative on DS or small pulls either.
My current cook is avulsion > apex 4
Do i want 14 stacks of kb or do i want 20% extra damage to 98k dps?
is that that first big pull in algethar?
Ye
ded in 1:13
damn sin simming 98k
Does the tuning today also have us using CT until everything is bled and only then using finishers
yes
this has been true since caustic got nerfed
yeah or they could just do the class a solid and replace the mechanic entirely
i mean using it from stealth was only like 50% of the problem
and they fixed that and said ok good enough
so are rogues still in a meh spot?
Charrend has the midnight sim
so what is your conclusion so far
If u meab numbers:
Sub was probably in top 7 specs
Assa way undertuned, today may help a lot.
Outlaw is fine, probably needs like 3-4%
Gameplay: sub has optimizations but theyre rather small, i could find it very boring if it remains this way for more than a patch.
Assa is kindof enjoyable, being forced to hard stop envenoms at 80 implacable stacks is xd. The new CT spam tech is also XD. But it plays rather similarly to before.
Outlaw is fun if u didnt enjoy the perma ar crackshot playstyle, maybe still fun even if u enjoyed that style, its just slower now. Capstones need work. Deft being 50 energy feels bad
Thats just my feelings on it rn
Id say not meh, but decent and better than some other specs
hi, im looking to make a character that will be least played race/class/spec combo in midnight. would i be right in thinking that alliance earthen assassination rogue would be pretty near, if not at, the bottom of the list of 'popularity' ?
Itd be that or sub probably ye
which is performing worse at the moment? tho obviously i get that may still change with tuning?
Ye tuning dependant
i bet outlaw is less played
In prepatch Assassination is awful
yeah but thats prepatch
I thought that's what he meant when he said 'at the moment'
i didnt catch that mb
It’s either rogue or WW Leveling both waiting for heroic release
thing is theres tuning related to beta happening but its going on live rather than beta
and they will merge in release
so theres no way of knowing how things are atm
ahh. okay. so no way to know which will be worst? I very much want to play the worst class/race/spec combo
no way, the recent balance tuning is not on beta
well, worst/least played, I assume that'll match
least played and worst isn't the same
ok ill just wait
yeah I mean least played primarily
Worst race is probably undead
you take that back
I just assume the worst SPEC will be the least played
for rogue specs
assa is usually most popular rogue spec by a decent amount
earthen sub/outlaw is prob the move
okay ty
hows the new race btw, the haradiir or whatever
yeah earthern is bad too, and way less popular than undead
Not horrible
They have half of dwarf/tauren racial
yeah you can never get primary stat from food and their racial damage spell I think would be awful for a rogue. It's great, I can't wait to play it.
yeah, i assume they will be decent dmg wise
Panda male is generational aura farming though
i read someone saying the racial does quite some healing and dps
but i have seen 0 of them
yeah but its channeled
so like... Id think itd be a dps loss
unless for some reason you're stuck at range for a mechanic I guess?
haranir or earthen one?
earthen, azerite whatever beam
i havent looked at haranir at all, since i was too cheap to pay for beta
New to rogue and is assassination relatively easy to play?
yep
I think outlaw is the most "complicated" atm. Sub also really easy
Especially if you macro things together
Thanks for your answers, I’ve always wanted to play rogue but couldn’t be arsed learning it so picking it up now since it seems easier
Assass is probably the most forgiving as well, and plays really nice. Good class fantasy. Good recommended entry point to rogue I think
I really like survi hunter playstyle but fucking god that shotgun ability, boomstick, why 😄
you could play sub rogue with your toes
"assa buffs" live rn?
Should be
Someone needs to check if everything hit tho. A lot of buffs nerfs were not implemented as stated in blue post
bleed build p2
more a meme, but it did more dmg than i was expecting tbh
finally
i want to be deleted from the game
bro im reading other discords, and its BAD
MW got nerfs intended for WW
ww fof SP perk was only 50% and not 60
WW go completly different numbes of what was announced
UH dk pet is not using its main ability
and xuen damage was NOT nerfed
and it was supposed to
Similar idea but I don’t like putting button presses into the base list generally, the base list serves to call other lists, so I just wrote the logic directly into the list call. Curiously I was seeing way more than 3% though
yeah i thought about it should have j ust appended it to core_dots. what settings did you see more than 3% on? Im not 170 though and im not sure if you are doing beta vs prepatch, im just on prepatch, but I did like Hectic Cleave 3 Bosses which I felt was reasonably closer to a large pull
the sims i had default: https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/p6B6E9Ro9TNEQTuEQxD9CF
ct focus: https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/cmGbHswVaU4fDjB8vuowPL
shorter fights had bigger gains
i think i saw biggest on the 1min duration which is prob closer anyways
any way of having the build ? For a friend :d
Abysmal
DS imbalances the question since CT Focus is irrelevant on ST bosses. i dont see a better option for larger pulls besides a patchwork fixed target to also throw in some movement too
I can send you the sim I did in a bit
i did some with 3 target too thats just one i found a link for
I mean yes, you would want to do patchwerk aoe
i did all kinds of settings to see if any was a net negative and none were
Movement isn’t really relevant for 99% of tc work on melee specs
Movement in sims just adds a break where you stop casting and autoing
Doesn’t really do much other than lower your number
So Ass is abysmal boss damage in both prepatch AND beta? Not looking good boys -_-
No I was just messing around with a meme build, our ST in pre-patch is pretty solid rn
It’s good in beta
Idk about beta
Solid in prepatch? I'm getting out dps by 30k by both DH/DK on a 99 parse xD
If you’re in an m+ build it’s not the best. ST is fine. Good even.
oh we're talking about strictly m+, mb
I’ve been so surprised by how many people are unaware that prepatch has had literally zero tuning
And are trying to draw conclusions
But I guess I’m just chronically in discord so
A couple of my guildies have switched mains several times already based on pre-patch lmao
“Unholy DK really resonates with me” as it’s overtuned by 30%
“Affliction lock is what I always used to play, it feels good!!!”
It’s fun to do big numbers. But……at level 90…..I have some bad news for them regarding DKs. Are they sitting down?
Simultaneously probably have had a ton of people switch away from devourer not realizing how much their apex talent affects the gameplay lol
Opposite tbh. They’re basically #1 in all pre patch content
The “I really love the spec” crowd when they can’t admit that they just like big number

Also DKs were murdered this morning during patch. DoA, unholy at least.

i feel like im always drawn to the underdog lol
The best place to be is on a spec that’s slightly undertuned but fun as f to play
In prepatch / before heroic week
At least
Just have fun during pre patch it’s what it’s for imo. If you’re wanting to get that sweaty you should be on beta not pre patch. Pretty sure it’s open beta at this point no?
unholy is still fine, idk where that conclusion is coming from
I think the point is that if it’s more in line with other specs numerically then all of a sudden a bunch of folks might miraculously no longer vibe with it as much
just dont play pre patch
as soon as prepatch hits i tlel my guild im not playing
grind league for 6 weeks
Prepatch really is just the time to vibe in another game and catch up on single player backlog
If you’re talking about pre patch, sure uh is alive and kicking. If you’re talking about beta after today’s nerfs, I’d like to have some of whatever drugs you’re on. They got heartily “balanced” with today’s patch
Ye just like everybody else
can just play magus again, and yeah, everyone else did too
K
Multiple specs got hit with like 15% ish level nerf not just unholy
Yo I heard we’re tagging @spice surge
There was no beta changes, the tuning was only deployed on retail
As soon as pre-patch dropped they should’ve just made myth gear available at vendors, I mean literally nothing matters, easy to gear alts, fun to mess around with
Or rather just make the event drop myth gear
Would be fun
Nah, better to go fetch a rare every 5 min and sit in a rock while waiting
Not a good prepatch
I enjoyed tww prepatch a lot more and it wasnt that good either
yea - D2R ladder reset Friday 
Overwatch hype
Hey, everyone. I'm quite the newb when it comes to assassin/energy. Should I be pooling my energy so that I'm not activating thistle tea, or does it not really matter?
I assume thistle tea is good for burst windows so that when I pop kingbane I'm not starving for energy.
It does not really matter
The absolute vast majority of your KB poison applications come from auto attacks anyway
Oo okay. Tyvm! Looking to start raiding in Midnight and didn't wanna look foolish in front of my guild lol
i just stop spamming actions if kb is about to come up to let energy get maxed out, but outside of that just let it rip
just stay tuned to the pins in this channel as the expansion drops
I appreciate it 😄
Is it worth to track fatebound coin buffs? It wont change anything in my rotation or?
It doesn’t do anything
you can get annoyed if you constantly see chains breaking at 2 i gues
making your own mental worse
ya only use shiv with toxic stiletto to get to 7 combo points when at 6 on deathstalker right no benefits for fatebound?
Hello - wowhead says to use finishers at 5+ combo points, is it ideal we use Rupture/Envenom at 7 combo points or is using at 5 okay?
Thank you
You think rogues are going to get another tuning round before end of heroic week?
Blizzard is doing random ass tuning so probably
must resist temptation
im so sorry

Charrend explain
you garrote garrote get 5+ cp rupture
then u deathmark
then u kingsbane
then
ct ct ct ct ct ct ct ct ct ct ct ct ct
!!!
we built this ct on en-ven-om's-corpse
roughly how many times am i supposed to ct
ballpark number?
Till theyre bleeding like its a heavy day
like around six times?
maybe seven
anyway
isnt it beautiful
CT 40% of spatter
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
the no apex 4 cook is dead i think
Avulsion gained me 9.4m total damage for 1 talent point
but at the cost of ST dam and probably like 5mil kb damage
but i also played ds instead of fatebound that key so hmmge
is ds looking to be main hero for midnight?
ds is probably better for key speed but fatebound is better overall
tldr if you want to pad and post details screenshots like #outlaw players play fatebound

This trinket gives 535 stats on a 2 min cd. Puzzlebox is 789 at the same ilvl
if you want to not play ds, u mean
The 90s haste one gives more than the one you linked too
Its a bit more since itll be 289 ilvl but ye
Well no because its impossible to move it now
its a non issue until you need to swap it
or the enemy flies away
or goes immune
Ofc but puzzlebox is also more
or just bugs again
Hence the "same ilvl"

Before you could vanish and move the mark if you needed to
WoW is a bugfree game
Now you cannot move it without darkest night
Ye that trinkey probs needa a buff i was just tinkering around
Channeling pbox is cringe amen
You get fucked
Genuinely just have to wait for the mark to time out on that mob
You can watch your mark expire and cry
is ds even good prio damage
Ye
bet
Did 8.65m in that 17 pit
sl sub "prio" damage "good"
i mean our ability to target swap now is not bad at all without mark being considered
you press ct once and dont even have to mut for caustic
Probably would so more if it actually spattered or my tank pulled more than 8 mobs
you're immediately full strength
meh i feel sub/outlaw are still better at it
But yeah anyone who said sub had good prio damage in SL deserves a lobotomy.

proud black powderer
real
"funnel damage"
Missing sub funnel in bfa first season zul



