#assassination

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chilly herald
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Though I learned to level tank first and then dungeonspam

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Bear gonna go hard

kindred cipher
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i also played enhance last season, so calm down lil rogue fellas. u dont understand buttons until you played ehance

jaunty notch
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I ragebaited the ragebaiter garf_sit

kindred cipher
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why do you think im complaining about sin having extra buttons?

blazing totem
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I mean if that is your concern, isn't it just better to pay someone to power level you?

shrewd night
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Once the ragebait gets boring, I have a oneway ticket to Bahamas ready, so dont let it get to that.

chilly herald
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Echo and Liquid crying coz Hanasong rejected their inv btw

kindred cipher
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im tired boss

blazing totem
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you never gonna be efficient solo grinding anyways

kindred cipher
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i just wanna chill

earnest remnant
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good thing there are other classes to play then!

kindred cipher
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lol i never said i was good enough for good guilds?

earnest remnant
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dont gotta take away other people's fun just cuz you dont enjoy it

lethal arrow
chilly herald
shrewd night
kindred cipher
earnest remnant
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blizzard didn't

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so they changed it

lethal arrow
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Still a wild statement

kindred cipher
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and then i got attacked

runic hinge
jaunty notch
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you said you hated it

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liar

haughty flicker
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Thats certainly one way to represent what happened

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Im impressed this is still going though

shrewd night
kindred cipher
haughty flicker
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Or worried

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Not sure which

earnest remnant
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nerf feral

shrewd night
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We are already below bears what du you want orange man??

lethal arrow
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Hell would probably freeze over before our raid lead swaps off feral

shrewd night
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@jaunty notch Stop that

earnest remnant
jaunty notch
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sorry

wooden timber
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i hope ferla is the strongest

jaunty notch
kindred cipher
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im just saying, i told the subs like an hour ago i hated shadow dance. no one gave a fuck. u guys got probs

runic hinge
lethal arrow
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Say it again

earnest remnant
earnest remnant
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and just decided to not pay you heed

lethal arrow
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Cuz thats a weird ass statement too

kindred cipher
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or opinions at least

shrewd night
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If they were legit, they would have engaged with you garf

kindred cipher
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would they. how vitriolic u guys are, i dont know

jaunty notch
lethal arrow
earnest remnant
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i read it, dont agree with it in so didn't really care to engage all that much

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more busy playing with pup

lethal arrow
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I actually want to play sub like it is in mop

vestal wren
kindred cipher
vestal wren
wooden timber
earnest remnant
wooden timber
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ok ill go find

lethal arrow
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No way!

wooden timber
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i am fluffing up my cat he is so cool

vestal wren
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oh true, i forgot that the thread is not cats only

worldly sail
earnest remnant
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also posted her in the portal room fwiw

shrewd night
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I only saw one doggo, but you said you had three, so Im getting scammed

earnest remnant
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other two aint home

shrewd night
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SCAMMED.

lethal arrow
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Bring them home

earnest remnant
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they wont be for about a month until puppy is settled in

kindred cipher
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i see some other names are here tho now. is it strange for people to mention a build in your spec sub and things to get this antagonistic?

shrewd night
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Define antagonistic

earnest remnant
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depends on you go about it, if you show up with 0 data and its all about feels, you will be called out

cunning needle
kindred cipher
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immediately rejecting that persons hypothesis

cunning needle
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bro you didn't even have a hypothesis

shrewd night
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Disagreeing is not antagonistic

kindred cipher
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noit mine

cunning needle
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you talked about some secret build on a youtube video

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and didnt drop it for 25 minutes

kindred cipher
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it wasnt a secret...

jaunty notch
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Whispyr did explain tho

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you are just not reading blud

cunning needle
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idk you dropped some random vague statement about a build

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and then went "prove me wrong"

jaunty notch
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@cunning needle how was food ?

cunning needle
kindred cipher
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yeah, and he said he didnt understand it. which is fair

cunning needle
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still tasted okay

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but was too soggy

shrewd night
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I love it when ur soggy

cunning needle
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i was trying a new method

cunning needle
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basically was boiling the onions instead of frying them

kindred cipher
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why are you guys so opposed to hearing a diff pov?

cunning needle
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dont think i'll do that next time

cunning needle
kindred cipher
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or even someone asking questions

jaunty notch
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bc what you said was non sense + 0 evidence of what you said

cunning needle
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you won't believe this, but rogue discord is acutally one of the better class discords for both research and questions answered

shrewd night
cunning needle
kindred cipher
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ehhh i have response, but i wont throw someone under the bus fo rit

shrewd night
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Okay, so no data, gotcha

kindred cipher
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yeah, no data, but im not a dick head like u guys so...

shrewd night
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I see, well, let me get this ticket for you

jaunty notch
lethal arrow
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Sawgy

kindred cipher
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listen, if i cared, if throw him under. and tbh idk if he would even care lol. but you have to have your own principles

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not like youd understand

earnest remnant
jaunty notch
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dont ban him, he is my distraction for work

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I dont want to work

worldly sail
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he's about to ruin whispyrs career... monkaUB

civic trellis
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nooooo

orchid spear
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how can we fit drama between our gcds? I'm lost

jaunty notch
shrewd night
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Let me know in a day if you want to continue on the path of vagueposting and just generally insulting the intelligence of the channel. ShienCatSmile

cunning needle
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booooooo

red schooner
haughty flicker
jaunty notch
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rip

civic trellis
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fun police

shrewd night
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Funs over, this chat is now about why stealthi hasnt posted pictures of all his dogs

lethal arrow
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Mods chop his balls off

cunning needle
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wait stealthi has multiple?

cunning needle
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@earnest remnant dogs where?

red schooner
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Where's the dog pictures @earnest remnant ?

earnest remnant
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you just never paid attention

shrewd night
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Its because I was too focused on paying attention to you

lethal arrow
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Asking for his dogs and bros gunna post his feet in here

earnest remnant
shrewd night
earnest remnant
blazing totem
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what guardian form is that?

earnest remnant
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feral

shrewd night
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farole

blazing totem
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pog

jaunty notch
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I have a sausage dog

ancient pier
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Whitch spec feel best for raiding from beta right now?

strange onyx
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Rogue

lethal arrow
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I'm gunna wager a guess and say it's not outlaw

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So u can flip a coin for the other 2

sharp viper
old thistle
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it might be easier to swap around sin-sub than outlaw

lean plover
lethal arrow
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esp now that sub scales with haste

shrewd night
stray ivy
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Sin seems like it will suck for lower keys

blazing totem
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was always kinda the case

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it's where SD comes in and makes you feel good

weary stump
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Plus lower keys are fine to kinda suck at anyways as long as your spec of choice feels good in higher ones

sick edge
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If you suck at lower keys it means that the overall group dmg is decent, in which case it doesn't matter if you suck. Lower keys will always favor the most bursty classes/specs.

runic hinge
shrewd night
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Yuh, lets see what happens tomorrow

runic hinge
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Okay I’ll see you in bot commands

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I’m still standing

royal lantern
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you mean friday

shrewd night
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Tryan missing critical information SMH

spice spire
rotund oak
rough rapids
jaunty notch
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3 monsters + coffee + remote work on friday

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ez

severe meadow
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Oh but I drink a few red bulls and get kidney stones

onyx crane
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so should I reroll next xpac or can I do still do my 3k score and curve runs on rogue

stiff fern
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you can do that on any spec in the game

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play whats fun

lethal turtle
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Just wait. Till the 24th

deep lily
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ill be getting my sin to 3k but its going to be awful lol

subtle crown
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Do we have any sim info available yet from beta like we have before with the patches in TWW?

deep lily
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i've been running beta and consistently 30k behind other classes unless its lock or mage then the gap is like 50k

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the pooling does not feel rewarding at all either

subtle crown
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Ouch that hurts

deep lily
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i hit 3200 before prepatch on the rogue so not the highest tier but not super scrubby either if that tells you anything

subtle crown
deep lily
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it helps for sure but the burst just isn't there so you pool to get not a lot out of it

subtle crown
deep lily
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but maybe someone else has thoughts on it or played it but its looking bad imo sub feels good but after 3 min of it im like oh hey squirrel

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by feels good i mean does the most damage roguewise

subtle crown
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Fair

real pike
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Please be true

deep lily
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i hadn't seen that yet

jaunty notch
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it's impossible to get aotc unless you play bm

scenic jetty
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Or is that London time release?

deep lily
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it releases 26th at 3PST

shy axle
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if you are in europe it is 0:00 from 26th to 27th berlin time, -1 for london?

rough rapids
severe meadow
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Thank god

runic hinge
hazy sundial
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I need an addon that shows me how many targets in combat do not have bleeds up on them
Is there such an addon?

runic hinge
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No I think they killed things like that

spice surge
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Nope, and you cant make one

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It also doesnt really matter that much

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Most of the time you probably aint gonna spread bleeds to all of them anyway, since theres likely a big prio mob you care more about than some small trash mobs right next to it

stuck lodge
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Oh man, the drama dude got 24'ed. What am I supposed to do until tomorrow now

runic hinge
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If he actually had any log showing anything to back up his original argument maybe it wouldn’t have gone so bad for him

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He just feel craft and vague posted his way to a mute

obsidian bear
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How strong will sudden demise build be early on? Last time I played assa was tww s1 and sudden demise build went hard

runic hinge
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Probably fine

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Slightly worse on bosses. Better on adds

stuck lodge
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Did the guides get updated for midnight now that we aren't getting any changes? I need something to shameless copy so I can feel like I will be productive in my m0 dungeons

spice surge
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Guides should be updated soon or even now, depending on which one

runic hinge
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I think whisp said today

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But maybe that was yesterday

cold crow
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12 second cd on cheapshot okay with us? really makes subterfuge way less valuable

analog field
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I don't think anyone played subterfuge for cheapshot

runic hinge
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They’ll know

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This channel is more pve

analog field
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yeah wanted to add maybe for PvP it's a thing

cold crow
runic hinge
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Np love you

onyx crane
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if assa does no exceptional dps there is no point in picking them in any comp sadly

runic hinge
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That’s true of most specs. If you do good damage the utility and route will get worked out

onyx crane
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but rogues have very little utility

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I mean they have good CC

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but even that can be compensated with other classes

runic hinge
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If rogue does the most dps the comp will get worked around rogue being in it

subtle tundra
runic hinge
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Didn’t you get a 72 for something not that long ago

subtle tundra
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it was quite some time ago

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im due

runic hinge
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Time is weird now. That was a while ago

subtle tundra
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yea my pregnancy is worrying

runic hinge
granite quarry
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how does ass feel in raid for midnight?

haughty flicker
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I love ass in any context

twilit python
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i miss boner ass

bleak star
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Where does one acquire such statue

vernal hatch
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looks sick

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gg damn

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didn't even get the number right

haughty flicker
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its giving you a discount

vernal hatch
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2700 usd, statue looks big asf ngl

fleet whale
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How many people do you think will simp for Valeera in Midnight?

hallow glade
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assa bros...

spice surge
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Schizoposting

vernal hatch
lethal turtle
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eating popcorn waiting to see how they fix this class balance

fleet whale
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It’s hilarious how half baked Devourer plays atm in pre-patch and yet it crushes everyone damage wise

haughty flicker
lethal turtle
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rogues in 80s. locks in the 150s. 17th bout to see some clown lvl buffs and nerfs

limber granite
fallow canopy
lucid kite
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Does assa feel like fucking shit in the prepatch due to the lack of apex talents or are the energy issues the same in midnight?

Anyone know

coral ibex
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yes

spice surge
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You still have a lot of empty globals

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Because thats what the spec is designed around

coral ibex
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assa does blow in prepatch but its still gonna be slower than tww when midnight actually drops

lucid kite
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Slow is fine, but not dealing dmg or be able to keep dots up properly because u have no energy after 20 sec

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Did a +14 key and on many pulls the spec just felt awful

severe meadow
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Pre patch is a bit of a shit show

lucid kite
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Mostly just wondering if ppl from the ptr felt like the apex talent and chaining envenoms makes the spec feel fluid

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Because now it does feel like a shitshow, but does not matter if it is fixed at lvl 90

royal lantern
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how can you not keep dots up lol

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like, thats not "wtf energy" (which is basically the same as it was in TWW, and it will get only more during the expansion itself)

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thats "what the fuck are you even doing"

coral ibex
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press CT twice type beat

royal lantern
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not enough energy to press garrote and rupture once every 25 seconds?

royal lantern
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mate, if you spam envenom and dont look at dot timer to refresh them

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thats you playing bad

lucid kite
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What do you mean?

royal lantern
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nothing else

lucid kite
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Dont agree with you at all

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The spec does not work as intended atm

royal lantern
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frking tourists jesus christ

lucid kite
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Aaahh yes, someone disagrees with you and they are tourists

stiff fern
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The apex does help with energy yes

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Envenom and dot uptime don't feel problematic on beta

lucid kite
severe meadow
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We should also have a guide up today at some point if it’s not already up

lucid kite
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Been playing assa rogue since cataclysm, never felt this energy starved

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Was just wondering if the spec felt like this also in midnight or just pre patch

severe meadow
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We do feel pretty bad in pre patch

mint urchin
lucid kite
mint urchin
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If you let dots drop it hurts your energy income which exasperate the feeling of starved

severe meadow
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Tldr just log off and slam early access tomorrow or when midnight goes live o7

mint urchin
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The apex will make it better

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But it's not going to remove it

spice surge
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Apex is ~10% more energy

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But also fwiw the spec is pretty much the same pace is was before

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Just that you dont have infinite energy in aoe

lucid kite
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And in some big pulls, keeping track of energy and dots just didnt feel to good compared to what is used to be

mint urchin
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Well dot tracking you basically just track your main target now

lucid kite
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And on bosses when you run out on tea, also felt really slow

mint urchin
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You spread until you are content and when your main target is about to expire you start over again

lucid kite
buoyant herald
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Yeah idk I really haven’t felt much issue with energy on prepatch either, would definitely agree that it feels about the same pace as all of TWW

severe meadow
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Without energy sniping some stuff feels a bit worse but yeah

buoyant herald
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But seems to be very common feedback so maybe it’s just different points of view

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And how acceptable slowing down is to different people

mint urchin
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I think in ST it feels basically the same

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You do very much feel it in AOE just because we are all used to unlimited energy

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But I also think it feels smoother now that you don't have pre conditions to get Caustic up and you can start spreading immediately as opposed to waiting 5 business days for the tank to finish his pull so you can leave stealth

lucid kite
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And the rework overall seems to be in the right direction, but something in pre patch feels abit off for me atleast

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CT now a builder and spreading dots also a great change

buoyant herald
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We’re one of the lowest number specs in prepatch due to (lack of) tuning for these 4 weeks

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Which inherently makes anything feel bad

lucid kite
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Hah yeah, tried sub and that felt bad also in a +15 key

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Dmg wise atleast, devour DH was doing some insane dmg

buoyant herald
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Sub should be ok, the burst is nuts and shows up pretty well in all but the highest keys

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Dev is one of the more highly tuned specs right now so not surprising

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Both devs actually

exotic hazel
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As long as our damage is good enough through dots during pooling phases, and the burst phases are rewarding, then it'll be fine - just need to get used to the downtime

buoyant herald
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I have absolutely no concerns

stuck lodge
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Aww man, new guide says I have to learn deathstalker for M+

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boo, my all passive hero talents

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though it looks like its basically just tab target envenom when you have the buff

iron carbon
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@balmy condor I think you put wrong build on wowhead brother ftb ST

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Just for info

exotic hazel
quaint nimbus
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Honestly
I just make my DS target my focus and keybind target focus target so i can quickly turn to do whatever cc is needed to casters then swap back to what has DS on it

lucid carbon
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I'm old and washed up now so the lower APM and the downtime is excellent.

exotic hazel
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I raid Heroic, push 2.5-3k io, and have a great time with friends

lucid carbon
exotic hazel
scarlet cliff
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If I wanna swap between sub and sin this expac should I just gear for sub like previously since assa was in a "all stats are good situation" during tww? or do our secondaries matter more in midnight?

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Im assuming secondaries still don't have a major impact for assa

haughty flicker
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its looking like sub will have stricter haste requirements

lucid carbon
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I think people were suggesting haste/crit/mastery > Vers

haughty flicker
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i'd gear for sub then just get some rings/neck for assa if there ends up being enough of a difference to care

scarlet cliff
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cool cool ty

foggy jasper
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So, the apex talents will not change the energy starvation, especially in m+ ?

exotic hazel
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They will help

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Will they give you as much energy as you had in TWW? No

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But the gameplay has changed

tight ginkgo
quaint nimbus
haughty flicker
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ye im still maining priest

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gonna still have rogue as alt though

lucid kite
quaint nimbus
exotic hazel
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My only standing complaint is that Thistle Tea and Improved Garrote made it through the reworks

lucid kite
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just more dmg frome garrote overall then or?

exotic hazel
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Should have just removed them all imo

lucid kite
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and compensate for it how?

stuck lodge
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Yeah the stealth weaving stuff could be left to sub

lucid kite
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just more bleed dmg overall?

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I could get behind that

exotic hazel
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I'm not a dev, so I won't pretend to know the ins and outs of balancing and how just moving the damage baseline would affect things

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But yeah, I don't like that it's the last remaining stealth requirement on a spec they specifically stated they were removing stealth reliance

runic hinge
mint urchin
lucid kite
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yeah I see were you are getting at, just keeping improved garrote seems abit counter intuitive

stuck lodge
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Tea is a little awkward because it makes your opener and first couple rotations feel really good

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and then its just gone

exotic hazel
lucid kite
exotic hazel
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Also yeah not a fan of a charge reliance like that

mint urchin
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I mean it serves its purpose, it's there helps you in opening burst in lust and with spreading dots in AOE m+

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Then you are just managing energy

severe meadow
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It's also just a button you don't need to look at

mint urchin
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It would be worse without it imo

stuck lodge
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I think in M+ you are going to get the full benefit like once, and then chain pulls means its sorta just there sometimes

exotic hazel
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Obviously they'd need to compensate

mint urchin
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You only need it once because then the dots are helping generate energy

exotic hazel
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Just not with a 3 charge energy shot

stuck lodge
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and you wont have 3 stack tea for that

mint urchin
mint urchin
# stuck lodge after the first pack, you need to reapply every time

If you are chain pulling the mobs still have dots generating energy, you also have travel time to regain charges. If you are not then either you aren't really chain pulling and kinda just griefing or doing small pulls which shouldn't require much effort to get dotted

exotic hazel
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Unlike a lot of people I won't say "do this instead" because I'm not arrogant enough to believe I know the perfect solution

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But I can safely say I'm not a fan of Thistle Tea

mint urchin
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I mean it's perfectly fine to dislike it, but it's completely passive and is just free energy. It's like slice and dice

exotic hazel
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Slice and Dice doesn't have a charge system or long cooldown

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So not really the same

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I get that it's a passive proc now, but it's the finite resource spike on a 1min CD logic I'm not a fan of

foggy jasper
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On how many targets we start using FoK ?

stuck lodge
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2 is what I have been told

haughty flicker
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faq op

severe meadow
sinful verge
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Why does blindside push muti up to 2 targets?

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all it is is 15% increased chance for ambush proc?

exotic hazel
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Assume it's because the CP generation of Ambush procs plus the damage etc works out better than FoK

stuck lodge
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chance at bonus dmg so you wanna mut probs

haughty flicker
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i am not a knower i am simply a parrot

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but you have to ambush or mut to proc blindside

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so using it at 2t for chance at the free one is apparently worth

exotic hazel
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But since the current build shown for M+ doesn't have Blindside, it's 2+ targets 🙂

haughty flicker
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unless you're on one of the raid fights with adds

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so all of them

exotic hazel
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In Raid yeah, 3+ as you'll have Blindside

lucid carbon
fair blaze
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!bugs

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we are free of bugs pogchamp tf

exotic hazel
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Or, so many bugs it bugged the bug command

fair blaze
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Don't say that

lucid carbon
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I feel like the biggest bug for Assassin is that Ret Paladins can see stealth for 30 seconds.

cunning needle
gusty mirage
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nah its ret pallies, probably intended

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the melee class that can do their rotation from like 15yds away

haughty flicker
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uhdk beats them at that now ngl

gusty mirage
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outlaw rogues in shambles

haughty flicker
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stack a couple festering strikes then leave melee for 30 seconds

proven latch
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ret AND uhdk? must be a plate problem - nerf arms

gusty mirage
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the appropriate response tbh

haughty flicker
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real and true

exotic hazel
lethal turtle
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Buff sin by 15%

gusty mirage
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ngl I was a ret enjoyer at the end of DF

thorn thorn
gusty mirage
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pressing 3 buttons and shitting out the DPS

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unlimited utility for keys

stuck lodge
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There is definitely the bug from stealth where garrote isn't giving 3 cp per use. The wowhead opener in AoE says to use garrote twice then rupture, which should put you at 6 cp, but instead you are at 4

stuck lodge
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opener

exotic hazel
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?

stuck lodge
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Pretty sure I said AoE in the comment

exotic hazel
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Ohh AoE, you did - my mistake

stuck lodge
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I asked whispyr about it and they said it was just a bug and use a FoK or something in between for now

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because garrote, garrote only gets you 4 cp

exotic hazel
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Fair enough, he knows what he's talking about

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Well although tuning dates have been confirmed for 17th March

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We still might see some big fixes before then

glass viper
stuck lodge
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how bizarre

glass viper
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I thought I was going mad, or the ability/talents had changed without me knowing

foggy jasper
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Should I pull energy for kingsbane windows ?

spice surge
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Not really no

foggy jasper
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I assume this will also not give a noticable gain in energy regen ?

solar wyvern
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It is part of why fatebound plays way better

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That and deal fate

hallow glade
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would you rather have extra energy and combo points or not be able to change targets

solar wyvern
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At 20% haste ur basically never dropping globals with fb

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Except intentionally

solar wyvern
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And corrupt the blood xd

stuck lodge
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but ds is more dps in aoe I guess

exotic hazel
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Only if you play it right

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Fatebound plays itself, and is pretty close

floral gorge
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Is Whispyr aware that the consumables page in the wowhead guide isn't updated?

subtle drift
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Quick question, do i need a hotkey for Thistle Tea for min max or just use it automatically?

floral gorge
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auto is fine - the mastery buff is gone

severe meadow
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now this is content

haughty flicker
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tierlist tierlists are hype

floral gorge
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are we getting a tierlist of tierlists again? 😮

floral gorge
balmy condor
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no worries

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the wowhead guides went up early this time around

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so there's some stuff that just is lagging behind

thorn thorn
#

My tierlist of specs based on how likely you are to have a specific relationship with them

floral gorge
#

yeah, was wondering why there was no big post for the class guides

upbeat crown
#

Hello, hello! Has anyone gained experience through the beta that Assa feels better in Midnight than it does now in the pre-patch? I love the spec, but in the pre-patch I somehow feel the Sub more.

balmy condor
#

feels better how

upbeat crown
balmy condor
#

damage is better in beta, yes

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the damage breakdown itself is similar to beta though

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so like, if you think bleeds and poisons do nothing, they will still do nothing

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although bleeds are incredibly strong right now so I'm not sure what gives you that impression

upbeat crown
upbeat crown
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thank u :3

balmy condor
#

np

graceful bane
haughty flicker
#

ww celebrated when their sef homies got murdered

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fake friends

graceful bane
#

ya know sometimes ya just have a crash out cant be stuck as a punchin bag forever

graceful bane
#

lmao

thorn thorn
#

The one you always like to see but wouldnt hang out with outside of work

tawdry halo
#

wake me up when tierlist season is over

haughty flicker
#

deer god

tawdry halo
strange python
#

@balmy condor thank you sir

balmy condor
#

np

thorn thorn
balmy condor
#

Midnight Guides

My Midnight Guides are now updated on Wowhead, and @marble hemlock has updated the icyveins guide as well if you prefer that format. For any questions regarding the spec, please check the wowhead guides below first:

Beginner

Talents

Rotation

BiS/Gear

or the Icyveins guides here:

Easy Mode

Talents

Rotation

Gear (including preseason if you're interested)

Additionally as you may have heard, I am now also the class guide manager at wowhead, and some of these pages have received a face-lift and a new template. If you have constructive feedback regarding the pages and the guide in general, please do let me know so I may better serve the community. I cannot guarantee that every class and spec has a perfect guide or that your suggestion will be put in, but I care deeply about the guides and the community. Thank you guys for your patience and support, I hope you all enjoy midnight!

P.S Sim updates and videos soon maybe (it's been busy time at wowhead as you can expect)

thorn thorn
haughty flicker
quaint nimbus
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Puzzle box is bis again

quaint nimbus
spice surge
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Especially for aoe

haughty flicker
solar wyvern
balmy condor
solar wyvern
#

Did i miss something

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Wildin

haughty flicker
#

is this meant to still say s3

solar wyvern
#

Also just a lil qna but your pure ST page and normal raid page show identical talents just fyi

balmy condor
# solar wyvern Wildin

on this breakdown, lethal dose affects 46% of your damage, 1% of which would be 0.46% dps added, poisons are doing 10% of you damage, so 20% added is 2% dps

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it's like

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not even remotely close

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well 0.46 per stack

#

so still <2%

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and also fatal conc right

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more prio

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big

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well, outside of cds

solar wyvern
#

Okay so who the fuck was tellin me that fatal conc was trash man

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Zzzz i was jebaited

balmy condor
#

in m+, especially bigger pulls, lethal is totally fine

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to be clear

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like if you're CT spamming giga bleed go go

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then yeh

solar wyvern
#

I took someones word for it but i was like theres no way fatal conc is bad

balmy condor
#

but it's worse in cleave

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and ST

solar wyvern
#

Ye makes sense

balmy condor
#

but yah like in raid when you transition to more AoE talents for cleave fights or whatever

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after doomblade, which is like, dogshit pure ST talent

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the next talent to drop is lethal dose

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it's one of the weaker talents unless you find yourself in big boy aoe

solar wyvern
#

One day doomblade will rise

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One day...

cunning needle
severe meadow
#

Doomblade stocks about to go up

solar wyvern
#

Imagine the only buff is like 250% doomblade kekdog

haughty flicker
thorn thorn
#

PUZZLE BOX PUZZLE BOX PUZZLE BOX PUZZLE BOX PUZZLE BOX PUZZLE BOX PUZZLE BOX PUZZLE BOX

Please no Sad

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Oh well, I will simply manipulate my rng so that I never get one KEKL

thorn thorn
#

Who actually wants to use puzzle box

haughty flicker
#

pharaoh

balmy condor
haughty flicker
#

is your spacebar also not updated

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the guide looks good though

thorn thorn
#

@severe meadow Fuck you mean me

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I aint using no puzzle box

severe meadow
#

CE and all orange parses

thorn thorn
#

broski

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Orange is so far out of my reach

severe meadow
#

Rogue parsing was so pog in s3 tho

haughty flicker
#

rogue [ pepehands

thorn thorn
haughty flicker
haughty flicker
#

plume gaming

thorn thorn
#

im going with whatever on use I get

severe meadow
#

puzzle box

thorn thorn
#

God I hope not

#

If I get a puzzlebox in my vault someone is gonna get it

balmy condor
#

First week myth puzzle box in vault

thorn thorn
balmy condor
#

No other good options

thorn thorn
#

Please no

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Not like this

haughty flicker
balmy condor
#

2 wrists, a cloak, 2 tier slots but it’s not tier

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And the myth puzzle box

#

Curse of ra be on you

thorn thorn
#

Why do you do this whispyr

severe meadow
#

It's a 2 second cast, yeah?

thorn thorn
#

Ya

haughty flicker
#

iirc you can start the cast during a gcd

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so it ends up slightly faster kinda sorta

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but i wont be using it anyway

severe meadow
#

Priest life

haughty flicker
#

i havent even looked at what trinkets are being used

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the op one but idk what the other is

balmy condor
#

And casters are aln + that blue dragon eye thing

haughty flicker
#

yeah thats exactly what it ended up being

balmy condor
haughty flicker
#

seems to give a fuck ton of mastery

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i like this part of the priest guide

spice surge
desert salmon
#

Basics section newly added? logs

balmy condor
thorn thorn
#

Are they using a shiny new template

#

The guides in general

fallow canopy
#

Why is puzzle box back dead

thorn thorn
fallow canopy
balmy condor
#

The season guides will as well

thorn thorn
#

yuge

balmy condor
#

Slow upgrades

cunning needle
haughty flicker
ebon tundra
#

Am I correct in assuming these bullet points are prio in the order (so envenom at 5+ even if some targets dont have bleeds, then CT again after to continue spreading)? I tend to overthink things Dumbass

spice surge
#

"Until either"

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So the order doesnt really matter

ebon tundra
wild spruce
#

Spam CT that’s all from what I see!

severe meadow
ebon tundra
ebon tundra
stuck lodge
#

it seems a little crazy to me that secondary poisoning would beat out flying daggers in M+

#

Not saying the guide is wrong, just definitely not what I expected

#

and that either would be taken over flat 20% rupture bonus dmg

spice surge
#

Because it says if you hit 5 cp OR all targets have bleeds stop casting crimson tempest

ebon tundra
spice surge
#

With an asterisk right next to it that the cp thing can be ignored in high target counts

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(because its probably getting nerfed to not be the case fairly soon, so its in additional notes rather than baseline)

spice surge
ebon tundra
balmy condor
brazen pine
#

Guide looks good Whispyr. Grats on being guide manager!

balmy condor
#

Thank you

ebon tundra
#

also the second line changed since the last screenshot peepoShrug

balmy condor
#

Caching I assume

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I haven’t been home in two hours

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Couldn’t have changed it even if I wanted to

stuck lodge
#

Can anyone help me understand when I am supposed to be using shiv as fatebound? I see we spend a point to improve it, but its not in the rotation and I didn't even have it on my bar tbh

balmy condor
#

It’s a utility key to soothe enrages

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Like kidney shot

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Or blind

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CC type button

haughty flicker
#

use it for the love of the game

stuck lodge
#

When that seems so niche compared to kidney or blind etc

balmy condor
#

It’s not that niche really

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But also

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Where are you putting that point?

ebon tundra
#

the only other options for that gate are gouge/reducedblind cd or faster in stealth right?

stuck lodge
#

Zooming in stealth ofc

#

Are there a lot of enrage mechanics?

ebon tundra
stuck lodge
#

I should probably put it on my bar then

balmy condor
haughty flicker
#

it doesnt look like it is

velvet ridge
#

we got poison tracking woooooo

ebon tundra
stuck lodge
#

In terms of pure dps I can imagine reducing shivs energy cost makes sense, because it will eat less when you are forced to use it mid fight

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Whereas the other options are utility

balmy condor
#

Well

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Regardless

#

Useless utility points

#

What can you do

haughty flicker
#

until/unless they fix airborne irritant making blind aoe its probably pretty important to take still

#

but if we're assuming that gets fixed then yeah not really something that matters

thorn thorn
#

Bel

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Arent you like

#

A shadow priest now

ebon tundra
haughty flicker
#

well

#

it would make rogue the only class in the game without an aoe stop

#

which i dont think they would intend to do

stuck lodge
#

Still probably worth as a hard cc in m+ on a shorter cooldown

thorn thorn
#

Rogue pocket sand

ebon tundra
stuck lodge
#

Maybe, more kicks more better usually

lime onyx
#

Hey just checking the guide. In the opener, it appears we’d overcap after implacable kingsbane with this sample opener. Idk if we have enough time to hit envenom before reapplying imp garrote. What do you think?

haughty flicker
#

its just not in the tooltip

ebon tundra
thorn thorn
#

bel

haughty flicker
thorn thorn
#

When play shadow

haughty flicker
#

ive been playing shadow ever since prepatch

#

im actually working on remaking my ui with arcui instead of bcdm atm

thorn thorn
#

hmmm

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are you maining shadow in midnight

haughty flicker
#

yeah

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potentially healing if any of our healers gets shot or something

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but shadow main

ebon tundra
#

Do I use my free boost to make an arms warrior in anticipation for the inevitable giga buff? Clueless

thorn thorn
haughty flicker
#

surely

spice sentinel
#

is there any sort of playaround with puzzlebox to not be super toxic cancer and murder improved garrote?

#

guessing garrote, mute, rupture, puzzle box > garrote?

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or just fuggit

balmy condor
balmy condor
balmy condor
#

Would have to like gar mut rupture gar mut mut env box cds

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I still need to sim cd logic with box to be fair

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Like it “works” atm

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But it’s not great

spice sentinel
#

i prob wont play it unless its just giga better

#

just because.. you know

#

but its going to be farmable early and given how sims will turn out for loot prio im mentally preparing myself

solar wyvern
lime onyx
solar wyvern
#

Or is that strictly worse?

balmy condor
vocal basalt
#

Are we depending on Blizzard to fix shrouded for double garrote in aoe?

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Or just double garrote anyways and cry internally

balmy condor
solar wyvern
balmy condor
lime onyx
#

On preseason I garrote mut rup mut garrote envenom into CDs

vocal basalt
#

so double garrote FOK then rupture into CDs?

solar wyvern
#

Ye u just wanna start mashing ct asap tbh

balmy condor
lime onyx
balmy condor
#

You’re wasting time on imp gar

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As of right now, the combo points from implacable are not worth it

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You just ignore them

lime onyx
#

Hmm okay

balmy condor
#

Maybe if I fix box timing then that’ll change

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But like with current info it’s just fuck the cp

solar wyvern
#

We talking aoe yes?

lime onyx
#

I was talking st

balmy condor
#

St

vocal basalt
#

I was speaking about AOE myself

lime onyx
#

Seems odd to me considering envenom still our best dmg but I trust the data sniffer

solar wyvern
#

We dont care about implacable strikes cp ? Sheeesh

balmy condor
#

No

solar wyvern
#

Oh i see what were talking about

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I didnt read far enough back

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I mean technically in the opener, u can land on 6 if kingsbane doesnt crit so the IG isnt wasted cp

lime onyx
#

Don’t you still get like 3 cp from it with the shrouded suff

solar wyvern
#

Shrouded is bugged rn

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Only the initial from stealth cast

lime onyx
#

(Assuming it’s fixed)

solar wyvern
#

But even then, who cares about 2 cp in our cd window

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Were energy saturated

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So "inefficient" globals are still good if they come with benefits other than cp

lime onyx
#

I feel like I’m not fully energy saturated during cd’s tho. Like it’s way more energy but not unlimited spam

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Still talking ST for raid

balmy condor
#

It’s pretty close to unlimited

#

Especially if you lust on pull

lime onyx
#

Yeah list is different

balmy condor
#

You are physically not able to spend the energy

solar wyvern
#

U have to not proc blindside once i feel

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And even then, without it talented on m+ beta my cd windows were unlimited

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Maybe haste issue

lime onyx
#

I guess it is unlimited if it’s out the gate with mana tea stacks

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Thistle tea whoops

solar wyvern
#

I dont even proc tea during dm

lime onyx
#

Yeah I’m still in a build with like barely any haste so that might be the diff

solar wyvern
#

If ur ds u can run out

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Fatebound is like unlimited tho

lime onyx
#

Ah well anyways I’m excited love how sin is feeling and hope it’s the go-to rogue spec for Raid this szn!

solar wyvern
#

Surely blizzard doesnt leave the ST execute rogue spec at 85k

#

Surely.

balmy condor
#

Surely

royal lantern
#

whisp

#

what does class guide manager mean

velvet ridge
#

he manages the ppl that make the class guide

royal lantern
#

so he is whipping the slackers?

drifting cloud
#

he pings guy to update outlaw guide

balmy condor
# royal lantern what does class guide manager mean

I make the templates, do the reviews of all the specs, fix whatever issues the writers have, instructions for the patches, compensation stuff for their work, look for new writers to replace ones that have quit, mass update the navigation bars and titles, work with SEO to optimize pages, etc etc etc.

Basically everything other than filling the guides with the info for the spec

royal lantern
#

damm

balmy condor
#

I say hey, here’s new templates or here’s the updates for your guides, they’re due X day, they write the guides, send them back

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And everything before points and after that point

#

Is me

#

I also am the guy who’s like hey the guides would benefit if XYZ was something we could do

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And feature request from the devs and stuff

#

Busy busy busy

#

Is the tldr

spice sentinel
#

just put the wowhead guides in the bag little man

mint urchin
#

He also has to fit in lots of Maple Story between each line he put above

balmy condor
#

I haven’t actually played all week

royal lantern
balmy condor
#

My friends convinced me to do like 4 games of Aram mayhem

#

And erm

#

That’s kinda it

drifting cloud
#

hes now buying monsters by the case

spice sentinel
#

thank god you arent missing much in wow lol, this is the deadest the game has felt since ive come back

balmy condor
#

I didn’t show up to raid sales the last 2 weeks either

spice sentinel
#

def felt like i missed out playing something like fellowship or arc raiders

royal lantern
#

its the weeks before a launch

#

what did you expect lol

drifting cloud
#

yeah wonderful time, always people with insanely deep insight that joined the discord a month ago

#

and by may most of them will be unsubbed

thorn thorn
#

Oh no you missed one of the worst balanced prepatches in probably the games history

#

Anyway

mint urchin
thorn thorn
#

Idk I have only see DF and TWW prepatch

drifting cloud
#

nah this might be the worst prepatch in the games history

thorn thorn
#

This one is the worst and its not even close

mint urchin
#

TWW prepatch was also brutal with some classes just being 2x others, it just didnt also have jank scaling

drifting cloud
#

mythic raid nerfed to easier than week1 heroic

balmy condor
#

This shit

#

Was so bad

#

Tww prepatch was great in comparison

thorn thorn
spice sentinel
#

NEVER thought id say that lol

drifting cloud
#

the event is killing some rares that now spawn every 5min for 90min

#

after 3 nerfs to the event

spice sentinel
#

but yeah i yearn for TSS prepatch vs thsi shit

thorn thorn
#

This is also the worst prepatch event I have ever seen

mint urchin
thorn thorn
#

Ya but that was for TWW prepatch you mentioned

#

So far midnight prepatch/beta balancing is like

#

Cataclysmically bad

#

Idk how bear was just allowed to beat most of the dps in the game

#

And how its this close to launch and hasnt been addressed

mint urchin
#

I mean I dunno, Fury War/Ret Pal and I think it was Udk? were also just miles ahead in TWW prepatch. But I will say the stat squish scaling stuff made this one worse because it killed any difficulty

thorn thorn
#

ya, which is still less than how fucked it was rn

severe meadow
balmy condor
#

The tuning has always been shit during prepatch

royal lantern
# balmy condor Was so bad

common it wasnt sooooo bad

until i saw the guardian druid on #5 dmg done and thought "oh cool, no balance updates until 17th"

balmy condor
#

But this is especially shit

royal lantern
balmy condor
#

And the content is shit

thorn thorn
#

Ya this is like

#

The worst one

drifting cloud
balmy condor
#

And the handling of patches and then a second patch

#

Is even worse

drifting cloud
#

took what, 4? months

mint urchin
#

I was more joking around that every one is bad not that this one is good, but yee

drifting cloud
#

for them to fix most of the absurd balance

thorn thorn
#

@frosty briar You are my witness

#

Is this the worst prepatch in the games history

frosty briar
#

yes

drifting cloud
#

in modern wow it probably is I think tbc or cata had a terrible one

#

aswell

royal lantern
balmy condor
frosty briar
#

at least since I've played (mid-cata to current)

balmy condor
#

I don’t think it’s even close

thorn thorn
#

The TWW one was pretty bad compared to DF but this one makes it look like perfection

#

The event isnt even interesting to make up for the terrible balancing

royal lantern
#

TWW prepatch was just Lame

mint urchin
#

Nah the event this time was real bad

royal lantern
#

Midnigh prepatch is BAD

mint urchin
#

TWW event was okay but this one is just hard pass

severe meadow
#

Could've been a sick event too

#

Was incredibly lazy tho

thorn thorn
#

Instead I got to see @severe meadow parse a 100 and still do less than an ele shaman parsing a 45

#

Prepatch truly is a magical place

severe meadow
#

was a 100 of all time

drifting cloud
#

on soulhunters or?

royal lantern
#

on bosses that die in 40 seconds

ebon tundra
#

Not just pre patch but for most of the first patch of BFA if you played Feral, you did less than hunter pet damage 🤣

royal lantern
#

isnt that the normal feral experience

drifting cloud
#

was that bfa, thought it was shadowlands aswell same time as assa

#

or maybe it was both times for feral ...

ebon tundra
ebon tundra
twilit lagoon
#

CT spreads garrote, and the tier set says Garrote applies weapon poisons. Does the Garrote spread by CT also guarantee poison application?

mint urchin
#

CT already applies poison

royal lantern
#

the "garrote applies poisons" part is a giant meme

#

like, its legit padding text

ebon tundra
royal lantern
twilit lagoon
royal lantern
#

i mean yeha

#

it is

#

but like, its poison applications, they are up 100% of the time anyway if you do like, anything

twilit lagoon
#

Coping hard

royal lantern
#

thats kinda what that tier effect is

twilit lagoon
#

Well shucks

ebon tundra
#

if ct does spread the poison, at least it will speed up the energy return and feel smoother

royal lantern
#

.........what?

#

man, everything you do spreads poisons by default

royal lantern
#

like, you sit at a 99-100% poison uptime allready

#

nothing changes there really

#

its really just them adding text so it doesnt look like the extremely lame "% more dmg" that it is

ebon tundra
mint urchin
#

You will be pressing CT enough times back to back that you will just have poison on everything

#

be it the second gcd or the 3rd

balmy condor
#

There’s a reason the default UI doesn’t track poisons on nameplate

ebon tundra
#

fair, just me overthinking shit more than likely KEKW Occam's Razor is lost on me haha

sacred schooner
#

is implacable trackable now?

#

or not yet kekdog

solar wyvern
#

Whispyr

#

I think ive been sandbagging assa on beta

#

by not playing 2x fatal conc...

#

Also thoughts on dropping secondary poison for 1x lethal dose in large aoe dungeons? i cant gauge the value on secondary poison well at all.

#

Event ho secondary ges even better with 2x fatal conc

balmy condor
balmy condor
#

Secondary is very good

#

It’s just very hard to see the value

#

But like for a rough estimate right, since you’re running dtb

solar wyvern
#

ik its really annoying trying to parse through my logs and evaluatuing where its coming from

balmy condor
#

You can check the hits from secondary

#

And divide by 4

#

So if it did whatever 2000 hits

#

That’s 500 deadly, 500 amp, and 1000 with crippling + atro, which we don’t give a shit about

#

And then you can check the average damage per hit on amp, and the average crit rate

#

So like 35% crit chance on amp? That’s 350 crits, 500+500, so that’s 350 energy from dashing

#

And then average hit of whatever 2k, on 1000 poison hits is 2mil

#

It’s a bit of a mess, but you can add it up like that

#

And then compare that way

#

It won’t be PERFECT

solar wyvern
#

oh shit i didnt even consider the extra energy

balmy condor
#

But it’s close

solar wyvern
#

yeah thats turbo actually

balmy condor
#

Yeh that’s the real value

#

Cause you’re essentially giving dashing a multiplier

#

Like if you imagine you had 100% crit chance, secondary basically says you get 1.5 energy from dashing instead of 1

#

Obviously a lot messier with variable crit and all that shit

#

But it’s pretty good

solar wyvern
#

hmm okay then good comms gonna keep that one in mind

balmy condor
#

Like secondary isn’t great in aoe obviously

#

But even just from autos

#

It essentially just says “your poisons have a 50% chance to trigger twice”

#

That’s the talent

#
  • some extra damage
solar wyvern
#

yeah im kindof convinced

#

that assa is gonna be completely busted in key and aoe situations

#

in like 5 weeks

#

when they tune it up cause its gonna underperform in raid early

#

like this. this is illegal prio

balmy condor
solar wyvern
#

HAHA

#

2xlethal dose 14minutes of pit

hazy helm
#

Feel like same story different xpac, we get hyped about assa in higher keys, tuning happens, you re roll to DK

solar wyvern
#

2x fatal conc without secondary poison

#

ye its kinda goated ngl

hazy helm
#

At least lethal dose got kingsbane above FoK

#

+1 for prio

solar wyvern
#

eh thats just a result of me pressing fok more due to route

#

but on avg the deadly dam is way up

#

so W

hazy helm
#

Is that squeezing out more overall damage at the cost of boss damage?

#

Legit question

solar wyvern
#

no fatal conc is higher boss dps

#

its just better in every way

hazy helm
#

Well slap my ass and call me shindig I learned something today

solar wyvern
#

same xd

ebon tundra
hazy helm
#

☺️