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Its not about the caffeine, its about the nice warming feel that a cup of coffee gives
I drink coffee plain. Idk if it’s a warm feeling I feel
Same, all about that black coffee
What if the warm feeling I get is my arteries pulsing through my skin
Feels like I’m licking deaths bhole
Do some blood letting
Thats truly the rogue class fantasy
is it worth to skill engeneering and get the leather boots for rogue? whats special about them compared to lets say the ''usual leatherworking boots'' ?
Too busy making gems
Let unc chill, he is polishing rocks for the rest of us
Harandar makes me want to summon Ragnaros
I want to be a cat
how do you get that one
i havent checked yet but the deathclaw fuckers are beasts
so i really hope hunters can tame them
Pick moths until your eyes bleed
WoW players force something that you couuld do organically in a couple months while doing stuff in 2 days, and complain about it being grindy

I am complaining
God bless finally I have a source of self worth
My thing? Big smile, I just do big smiles
I derive purpose from being a hater
I know ): Thats why you timed me out for 24 hours
i dont like eversong that much tbh
they try to put way too many different themes into it, which makes it feel very disconnected
I foresaw the Assassination rework before alpha came out smh
Based
Timed you out to stop yourself from breaking NDA
Really I’m just always the good guy never done anything wrong tbh
Flawless human
what about that one time
Whispyr ghost poops everytime
was nice knowing you
Perfect human
I am a prophet like Zul. It's gonna take 4+ sub rogues to take me out
but zul was a fraud that made shit up for his own benefit

My toilet bowl stays empty and perfectly porcelain white because I poop in the shower and stomp it down instead
Lil cleaning hack for you
@thorn thorn
its just his german side speaking
not wasting water
-25 grad, is aber zeit zum lüften
Alles mal aufmachen

Og jeg liksom bare omg de snakker tysk i rogue discorden 🎿
no french allowed
Is Swedish just German French
Imagine if Swedish 🤮🤢🤮🤢
if i ask my dane guildmates, they will tell me hat swedish is a warcrime
like danish is any better
those guys up there all hate eachother and nobody can understand them 
Sadly we can understand you 😔
If you give a monkey on a typewriter an infinite amount of time, it will write Shakespeare
If you give it 15 seconds, it will write danish
I'm used to absolutely smashing buttons constantly as a fury warrior, is it okay to have what feels like downtime playing sin? just seem to be waiting for a bit of energy/apex to refresh me a lot
That’s the design yes
blizz really screwed me over, expecting me to be able to count for my apex talent
that's tough. Time for envenom spam and let my energy limits tell me when to stop
Why tf does the cooldown manager not allow us to track it 😅
blizzard pulled a little silly
it will probably get added
like, its near 100% that they just screwed up something there
Aye... seems so dumb that something so core isn't trackable
when the sub apex has a frking custom proc indicator, but the assa apex talent rn is not trackable at all, it doesnt feel intended
I know sin takes time to ramp and stuff. But is it just me or do we do considerably less damage than sub in dungeons
Well you can track then energy regain buff period
Just not the part you actually would care to track
assa is undertuned rn
thats all
tuning is all over the place mate
guardian druid does more dmg then half the dps specs
unholy dk is unholy dk
arcane mage and ele shaman just do 2billion boss dmg

How is the gameplay feeling at max level? Not the numbers but the actual gameplay
For sin
same as always
assa got no real gameplay changes
speed is the same, apply bleeds and then spam envenom is the same, use cds on cd is still the case
Once I hit 90 and got a set of mostly 220s it actually felt quite good
it feels absolutely terrible like levels 87-90 with no gear but it improves a lot with more haste and all your talent points
i just switched to sub because doing quests as assa was so much slower and sometimes it felt i take insane dmg even while pulling just two mobs
i mean im 90 already but doign side quests and stuff
i mean
thats basically every dps spec in the game
cus lvl scaling and stuff
after 86 you get a HUGE power drop cus your old gear doesnt let you overgear everything anymore
and then its slowly going back up again
and when raid releases and people have their normal/heroic gear again, stuff falls over in 2 gcd's 
We're just back to bfa. Pooling and ignoring our spenders in mass AoE.
Is fatebound ok in m+ or deathstalker is way better?
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Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
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Read wowhead again
Well they reworked the talents that were dogshit and made them good
Whereas deathstalker they made worse
word word
no more "do less damage when more targets" bullshit

hope whoever came up with that one got fired and then rehired and then fired again
double gathering proved to be shit this time around
because all are doing the same thing
idk seems pretty good to me
Duality of men
Our class dev quit didnt he

do you mean 100k vs 10k?
i mean TWW ea
we don't have a class dev, its a team
yes but it is 1/10th of the price it should be
r2/3 items are less needed, you get the r2 items way quicker
idk i dont engage with crafting at all
like, im sitting at 70 enchanting with only the disenchanting basic tree maxed out, and i allready get the gold rank disenchant stuff 60% of the time
with green prof gear
in tww you needed the basic disenchant tree + the specific gear tree + maxed out prof gear to regulary get max rank disenchant stuff lol
yeah it is really funny reading reddit, I went to try double gather and people were saying expect like 1 mil gold after 8 hours
The crafter cartel is in shambles
That’s funny
Literally what are you gathering that sells for that much, basic ores for 500g a piece?
Best way is warband flipping between realms or finding an efficient crafted reagent and playing on volume
ofc but it needs more preparation and studying
while double gathering for 2 days is w/e
number 1 rule of WoW: when reddit says something, it doesnt work like that and they talk out of their asses 
I know ppl also that have done it
i mean now with the change to mats and ah
I understand why the prices have tanked
also many more ppl doing it now
Every 2 days there is a post in reddit by someone knew wanting to go double gather
i mean, the REAL money is always crafting itself
not gathering
but like, doing proper crafting with a plan
crafting solo vs all these bots etc is kinda hard though
Half of the leather working mats are set at 90k a piece lmao
thats just people trying to flip the ah tbh
I've heard the drop rates are also bugged
Making them far rarer then intended
But the plumes, canines, and rare furs are all 80-90k at least for my server
AH are region wide btw
So prolly 80k for your side of the world
Ah right, they are. Regardless,it's expensive lol
The rare stuff? The purple ones are 40k on my realm now
And dropping fast
Even so if you’re relying on rare drops from skinning for your cool milly/8hrs then the variance seems pretty risky
Yikes plumes are 10k on frostmourne
Furs were down to 3-4k last night
For the past two days the green stuff was 90k, as Tryan said it's a combo of low availability and people trying to flip
I wonder if they’re selling though
Doolb stealing all the daggers
daggers are hunter weps now
A decent amount of people play survival now as it’s the strongest of the three hunter specs atm
I'm here with you @signal ridge
Question about fate coins: They're jsut entirely passive bufffs right. No need to track?
Blocked
Yes
I have yet to hit lvl 90 
Resi 9 happened/is happening
You are literally satan
Worse
Survivan can use 1 bomb in a 10sec fight and rogues cant even catch up😂
"survival mains" when survival is not broken because of weird early tuning anymore
so, fatebound is the way to go if you want to keep it simple
are there any general feedback I can have? I feel like on Assassination i'm far behind everyone. I know my rotation isn't perfect but just i wanted to do the highest dps in follower dungeons.
P.s. is there a big difference between Deathstalker and Fatebound? I know Fatebound is better than Deathhstalker but is deathstalker unplayable? Also I was playing around with Demise instead of Tempered Blades, is that a huge dps loss?

Demise is kinda stank and I don’t think works properly in open world
Deathstalker and Fatebound are both viable this time around
Deathstalker is just open to bigger mistakes due to how shitty mark can be to manage
Hey guys, quick question. Since I am old and worn-out and dead inside, always managing Implacable perfectly is a bit too hard for me. Is it a huge DPS loss to not play around it optimally?
1-2%
If the reality is that you’re going to be ripping it at 3 or 4 stacks sometimes or not stopping and resetting at 5 then no not really.
but high chance that they add it to the CD manager, because its really fucking weird that it isnt on it in the first place
Not only is it weird it’s not on there, it’s weird it still hasn’t been added
That's my primary issue at the moment, yeah.
Thanks for the reply!
which target count do we use FoK?
2
tyty^^
90 yet?
time for meds
ask no questions hear no lies, lets not report it haha
is sims still busted for us?
people must be on crack with these lw material prices
no way am I paying 9000g for a plume lol
supply and demand
skinners don't have the knowledge points or the tools to proc a lot of those things
nah, just greedy people. I will just wait for prices to drop or farm my own.
well one could say you are greedy for being unwilling to pay 9k
when you need like 35 of em? Fuck yeah I won't pay that lol
The skinning stuff is not easy to get atm
I press X to doubt. I suspect some people artificially manipulating the AH
Well both of those things are true
or blizz fucked up
Its hard to get and people are playing the market
i can tell you as a long time goblin, not in any real meaningful way.
and made drop rates too tiny for mandatory mats to level lw and so almost no one will ever level it
regular leather mats are pretty cheap
Holy shit, Crimson Tempest as a builder that costs 60 energy and requires you to put up bleeds before using it feels horrible
yes those were all fine
Who designed this
i believe it's balanced for level 90 and should feel good at that point
Does it get better at max level? At 82, everything is dead before I get to press the button
yes, there's a whole bunch of stuff that make it way better at max level
I guess I will talent out of it currently, but currently my wife is outdamaging the shit out of me as a Ret paladin, completely effortlessly
Interesting work Blizzard
ret is intended to be totally brainless and easy
Ret Paladin 
Ret is also just omega bursty so you won't ever beat it in levelling content anyway
i feel like my damage is pretty good level assassin right now
Also, Subterfuge needs a rework. The loss of Master Assassin giving a large buff during the Subterfuge window, Cheap Shot being given a 12 second coodown (meaning we can no longer Vanish -> Cheap Shot, Cheap Shot, Cheap Shot as mass CC in an emergency situation), and Improved Garrote being basically unskippable as a node all just sort of add up to a giant question mark regarding how they thought Soothing Darkness, Subterfuge, and Without a Trace were appropriate as a talent option for our class tree
Assa is a ramp class, not too much instant burst
Regarding some positive thoughts about this xpac, the UI changes are incredible
Echoing Reprimand: why is this still a choice node? Absolutely nobody took this in the terrible form it's in, and I can't believe it still hasn't been changed to something useful
Secondary Poisoning: Awesome talent, but why is this a 50% chance and not 100%? It's obviously not game breaking, it only hits 1 target, it's halfway down the tree, it should be 100% chance
is there anyone who thinks its good weak auras are gone?
For raid yes, for QoL I miss a few things
Its just gonna be replaced with more obnoxious workarounds
Yeah
Me. The biggest issue with WA is how it made encounters an effing clownfiesta
Did it though
Yeah. It is great that WeakAuras are gone, because it should mean devs can design the game to be playable now without a Matrix-style UI of 1's and 0's filling up our entire screens
yes. the entire undermine raid turned into World of Weakauras. and most of the rest of the raid encounters as well
^
Theyre still gonna make dogshit bosses
But instead of a WA
You now have to do the dogshit stuff manually or have a stupid workaround
Envenom no longer overlapping to increase its duration, and Envenom only lasting 6 seconds feels like dogshit
Good bosses didnt require a WA
I 100% disagree. All the dungeon bosses so far have been pretty damn awesome with environmental cues all that is needed, no WA's
Yeah, I agree with Eleem.
You never needed a WA for dungeon bosses
Didn’t really need WAs for m+ lol
Well designed boss fights should be intuitive via the base game providing the visual or audio or textual cues required to beat them
If the base game isn't doing that, the base game is failing
Idk looking at the raid theres no evidence that theyve changed anything with their design philosophy
You do any raid testing Eleem?
Fractillus wasnt an unfun bosses because of WAs, its an unfun boss because its not designed in a fun way
No
There are a couple issues getting fixed
Supercharger being tied to Kingsbane, which is an optional node in the opposing tree, is terrible design. They need to stop providing talent options (especially near-capstone ones!) that are only usable if you take a specific node in the opposing tree
the one after stix was absolutley mandatory WA fight
Well kingsbane is mandatory anyway
Because the apex revolves around it
Yes. Case in point lol
So make it baseline then, and replace Kingsbane with something else
"Improved Kingsbane" would make logical sense
100% is far too strong, it’s already strong at 50%
I get what you’re saying but at some point we have to stop allowing players to be unable to read
I do vaguely agree that it’s not ideal you can take nodes that have literally zero value based on unconnected other nodes
They could definitely do better
Hi Whispyr! Any idea why I'm not seeing Poison Bomb in my Blizzard DPS meter?
Is it counted as Envenom damage?
Blizzard meter sucks
Great lol
As much as I am complaining, because, based on years of playing Sin, this does absolutely feel atrocious, I'd like to say that a lot of things about this xpac are awesome. Housing, amazing. UI changes, amazing. Some of our new talent changes, awesome.
But the placement of some of these Sin talent nodes are wild. Dashing Scoundrel, an Envenom based talent, seems like it would have been the logical capstone for the middle section that deals with overlapping Envenoms. Is that a crazy thought? But they put it below Zoldyck and Blindside. Like, what
Housing is just garrison 2.0
Is DTB still too strong that it requires a reduction in application chance? Since we can no longer overlap envenoms, we don't have the crazy poison application buff uptime we used to have
Yes
Scent of Blood is just such a boring talent. So good in Mythics, and so bad for solo and single target. Would it be nuts to have it provide some small bonus for the single target fights where you only have 1 stack of it?
You do benefit when you only have 1 stack
It’s an aoe talent by design
Idk if every talent needs to be good in every situation
That kinda defeats the purpose
I agree with you, but it's a 2 point talent that's 1 below a capstone
That is a huge investment for what ends up being 4% agility on a single target fight. Quick Fingers is a 1 point talent in the rogue tree that gives 3% agility with absolutely no requisite of needing Rupture up.
Idk how much of a “requisite” that is
But quick fingers is also objectively awful compared to scent of blood as a talent
Not in a single target situation though?
anyone else think the story is straight trash? went from fighting gods and titans to a group of animal spirits providing a blessing cause we helped fill the watering hole a few times
Like you could make the same argument about blindside
Oh man blindside is so good in single target, but when I have multiple targets, it doesn’t do anything!
Shouldn’t blizzard add something to blindside to make it good in aoe?
blindside my beloved
happens every expansion
I think the story in eversong was written like shit but I don’t mind the actual downgrading of the story. There’s only so many cosmically large gods to fight
It is though. It does prio damage on low HP targets, so there might be situations (A prio Enemy target that's > 35% HP despite you being in an AOE situation) where you might want to use it
we go from fighting world ending threats to dying to a couple large cats
My main complaint about the story is that the harandar story feels like it was cut content from TWW, with all the azeroths song and all that
The shit they mention in the cinematic and then kinda never again
yeah ive seen a lot of people say that
That’s your cope? 2% agility from scent of blood in single target is shit, but blindside in aoe is good maybe if you want to do less damage and you’re gonna press mutilate for the prio even though you have no reason to do so
This Lightfrenzy Demolisher plant should have been the one to fight Sargeras, idk what we were thinking
(I would also say that Blindside could proc off your Mutilate while you're trying to reapply Caustic Spatter, but they mysteriously changed that too)
I just said that
Why is that a mysterious change
That was literally one of the biggest complaints about caustic
Was it? I liked that lol
No one else fucking did lmao
Couple large cats vs Dimmy
Who wins
the blood knight recruiter couldve soloed dimi
dude has hands
idk why we didnt send him

But like idk, there’s no situation even with prio where it’s worth pressing mutilate, just the cp difference alone makes it a bad idea
2% agi isn’t great
But at least it’s something
And in aoe, scent is a ridiculously strong talent
I think it's 4% with 2 points but yes
It is a hell of a lot of ramp in order to get Caustic Spatter up now, right? Previously it was, Ambush applied it, so you could easily weave an ambush into your initial opener (with Subterfuge) and you'd have it up. Now, you have to: Garrote, Rupture, build to 5 points, Envenom, and now you have Spatter up. That's how many seconds of ramp? How many globals? Compared to how it was
But it’s kinda questionable
??????
What the fuck are you talking about lmao
Before you had to get rupture up and mutilate
Now you don’t need rupture or mutilate
And you just envenom
In what world is that a ramp
Hell
You don’t even need to envenom
Just press kb if you’re that anxious to get your aoe out
Kb auto applies it too
So i hit my dalaran stone and it put me into this huge hole. wheres Dalaran?!
That is an improvement, I think, probably, I'll have to try it that way
Hello! Kind of a dumb question here, but any advices on how not to dry out as quick in AoE? Never had an issue before before the rework to VW, and I'm struggling a bit keeping my energy up. Not used on running out of energy in AoE. Thanks for any recommendations!
bless up. Ty king.
the only ramp we're goin on is the wheelchair one, rogue suck, F tier class
what a unit
wait i didnt know this actually
caustic op
holy
It’s okay, sims didn’t know envenom applied it


(It did but then some backend change to the core about how passives are handled broke it)
Is there any way to track implacable stacks via the CDM or do we have to look at our buff bar to see it? so far I can only find a way of seeing the energy buff, but not the building stacks to get to 80
You cannot track it via the CDM no
surely we just get a moroes command for it at this point lol
I'm not online but doesn't it say right on the caustic spatter talent?
its very possible
That would require reading
but im not playing my rogue so

hard to read the tooltip of a class im not playing
using the official Wowhead Midnight Calculator....
How was sp leveling? Tolerable or miserable
it was fine
for most of it you just kinda tag a bunch of stuff with pain and burst it down
was only a little rough for the last couple levels
Isnt the 2nd garrote wrong? It doesnt extend the dmg on my test. It just replaces it with the non improved
It does extend the duration, and it is improved
So everytime i use it without the bleed falling off it stays improved?
Is there a way to track what implacable is at? My cd manager just shows when it's the actual energy regen instead of the buff showing what the regen will be
"and for 6 sec after breaking stealth"
no
Oh thanks
does anyone know how to turn off these combo points
i have no addons on right now and it's displaying there lol
hello, could you help me decide between assa and out?
i know outlaw will perform better in m+'s, but do you think i could be able to do high keys with assa? i love the playstyle more
is this red text means that theyre inactive?
idk if outlaw is better in m+ really
yes
In higher keys sin will be fine right now targets die before 5 seconds of vendetta
sure why not

man the one thing i really wish we had with leveling is like a way zoomier out of combat regeneration on thistle tea
like i feel my damage is fine if i can hit buttons, but when i'm out of energy and have no tea it's so feeslbadman
leveling at least you can just kinda tap bleeds and walk away
it's worse when you're at max without gear
eeeehhhh yeah i get ya but i wasn't exactly in full mythic raid gear coming in
anything with significant health doesn't die unless i can hit some buttons
try playing sub while levelling
20 second sdance cooldown so it's up quite a lot
i played whisper vids while leveling, made me drink lots of monster
whisper vids? kinda not up on the lingo around these parts mind filling me in?
If I'm wanting to run sudden demise for whatever reason, am I better off dropping points from the center or left side capstones?
Both seem to have pros and cons during play (losing left is heavy energy starvation, dropping center loses the envenom 1cp back and big envenom dam/amp poison)
you'd drop the middle
Just the bottom 2 points and keep the 30% envenom node?
Or is it worth shuffling those around too?
it's the only way for the build to do more than healer dps in ST tbh
Totally makes sense. Dropping the middle seems like it'll lose an enormous amount of ST for sure
I'm very much playing for vibes personally, and blindside just feels nice to play so I'll take it haha
there's been quite a few sim fixes lately
it's surprisingly only like 1.5% behind the regular m+ build
in ST
but idk if I believe that yet
yes
just make sure you sim on latest
if you sim nightly right now all sorts of things are giga fucked
I'll probably put a video out about it tomorrow morning
I'll keep an eye out for it
if you take improved ambush it's like
basically within 1%
and I just
it makes very little sense to me
Agreed
Especially with the bottom right points basically contributing nothing outside of 4% agi and 10% bleed
In st
The math ain't mathing, at least up front
DTB allowing amp poison alone is like 7% while sudden demise giving 10% bleed is like 2 - 2.5% 
like I know blindside is really strong in ST
but good lord
it can't be that good
Not to mention more dashing procs, faster kingsbane stacks
Unless the energy saved is that valuable from blindside or something? I have no clue
I can certainly see it smoothing things out from a feels perspective
the cp you get from poisoner's is basically the same you get from blindside
like they're roughly comparable in that regard
Ahh
Speaking of this build, is SD still bugged at 90 in open world/delves?
It seemed to work during leveling, but I'm curious if level scaling just breaks it again. Just dinged 90 before bed so I never checked
it's been working so far for me
which is a bit weird cause as far as I'm aware, there was nothing changed that would've made it work
I don't use it all that much anymore and just kinda run around with the m+ build
I think the thing is i really like assassin. it's got a unique flavor that agrees with my sensibilities. i can sorta kinda deal with outlaw, but sub i just can't get with.
like a 500% ooc regen on thistle tea would make it feel a lot better
outside of instances at least
yeah i get that, but consider the following.
this levelling time is the only time where what you play and how you play doesn't matter. this brief period is the best time to try out a new spec
I almost think the opposite. Now is the one time I can play the spec I enjoy most, even if it means it's not the "best" cause I just get to enjoy the story. Favorite spec and class flavor for story time is always the best IMO (personally).
i main mage. look at my name... i play fire almost exclusively. For a very long time, earlier in wow's life, the meta was to level as frost and then switch to fire or arcane at max level. I stopped doing that in 2009.
i've sampled almost every spec in the game, and occasionally i find one spec i hated has changed to be a lot more fun (holy priest is a good example)
but usually i just like what i like. like if arms was the 50% better way to level versus fury, igaf, i'm not playing arms
In theory you can always play the spec you like the most unless you are focused on going for rank title keys.
it's really hard to do this early in an expansion's life cycle. like really really hard.
if you are doing anything above like normal raid, this is nearly impossible for most poeple
Very true. I think most specs are more than viable outside the 1% sweaty content. Problem is, the community focuses on meta so much if you pug at all, it's a real hope and a prayer kind of experience lol.
unless you are the rare person with actual friends and a steady team you play with that doesn't mind you playing dumpster specs
Not really. I've often played off meta specs and performed better than "Meta" ones just because people don't even play those meta ones to their strengths like they do in top pro play
again this works if you have friends/guild/team you play with regularly. otherwise it's nearly impossible
So it doesn't make sense many times for people at lower levels of play to follow those meta trends if they don't even understand how to extract value
actually not only do i disagree, it's actually worse at lower skill levels
I think it's the opposite as you said, people at lower levels of play won't see the same results on meta specs since they often require to be played in specific ways
Like playing around specific pulls, CDs, etc
the problem at lower levels is more a function of being able to complete basic content.
Which never really happens with pugs or people not really pushing that high.
spoken like someone who has never been in ELO hell lol
I've seen many people trying to follow the meta and then they perform poorly because of exactly those things I mentioned above
So there's a lot more to class viability than what tier lists show you on YouTube
Or what Simms show
i understand that. like a tank allowing .5 seconds for a rogue to re-stealth for trash is a small nuance that a higher tier tank will understand versus a lower quality one.
Yeah or playing around breath of sindragosa for frost DK in the past
I think spec/class comfort go further than most want to admit. I know people who have played sub tier specs or classes in top end content, but because they have always played just those specs they absolutely blast.
Everyone rerolled frost in S1 TWW and all pugs sucked becaUse they could never get the tank to play around breath of sindragosa properly
the secret is to suck equally at everything so you can play anything
i'm just talking from the perspective of a guy who has no real team, is kinda average to above average at the game, and has absolutely wiped/abandoned m6's and m7's first season early on because a 10% difference in dps effectiveness of a player playing one spec over another has been the difference between timing a key or not, and not just that, but there's a snowball effect
if stuff just dies faster, it's not just that you time the key, it's that you take less damage from trash dying faster
bosses dying faster. etc
but you're attributing people playing the "wrong" spec to just people being bad
its not like X spec has an automatic 10% damage amp
Not at all. What I'm say is if people are bad/below average, but their spec and class is performing well, the tuning of their spec makes up a certain amount of their gaming under performance, allowing for completion of the content.
Also classes perform wildly different in M6s than they do in 20s
So something that is perceived to be strong on higher levels might super underperform at that level
The only applies to specific team comps, versus classes performing on their own, so while you are right, this is part of the "elo hell" i'm referring to.
I understand your point, but I disagree with it. Maybe in raid content but honestly the biggest problem that people have in low keys for m+ is not pressing cooldowns
and that's not a spec exclusive thing
right i agree in principle, what i'm saying is that especially in the first season of an expansion, stuff tends to be more wildly unbalanced, so if you have that imbalance towards the top end, it really helps out the average player to complete bosses/m+/raids/etc.
I think elo hell as you refer to is 99% people not doing mechanics and playing correctly instead of class balance to be completely honest. I think if you attribute it to the classes then you are potentially missing the point
You should look at why people are failing instead of falling into the trap or putting on the spec they play
And that's how you will eventually push forward
i get what you're saying, but I think we agree that an m6 and an m20 are almost completely different games at that point
at a m20, trash packs are going to live for a while, and almost everything oneshots you. at an m6, playing specs that overpower mobs to just kill them faster makes up for any skill gap that would have individual players killed (like missing a key interrupt)
what i'm saying is meta specs matter at low levels, just in a different way than they do high levels.
so if we just look at this season, everyone as far as i can tell is saying BM monk and resto druid are top tier (as it stands right now). if you're playing your spec right, it shouldn't matter at lower keys. but if you kinda suck, having a BM and a rdruid could really carry a key with bad play at that m6-8 level with mid players.
Then there would need to be a different meta and spec analysis for people who play lower content and intend to stay doing that content to be able to properly evaluate what is the "meta" under those circumstances
You could be a pioneer in this topic
a bad player is going to a bad player no matter what, regardless of spec
but a bad player with a simpler/easier spec that can contribute effectively can help "carry" that bad player
that's why when ret is good the entire lower end of m+ is a lot easier for anyone slogging through the elo hell of m+ 😛
I mean how do you quantify that though
- did you comfortably time the key. 2. damage done on details at the end of the dungeon
yeah but I mean as a meta analysis
I think we are discussing two different topics, one is specs potential and place in the meta, and the other is specs' skill floor to perform at acceptable level in low content. It's two different things
simplest way is to look at raider io rankings.
as you get higher, specs are played close to their max
the lower you go, the worse the player
regardless of the spec they're on
bm or ret may well be braindead easy two button specs
but that doesn't stop players from being really bad at bm and ret
yeah, I did a key a few weeks ago with a ret that probably has to be reminded to breathe
he was competing with the healer for damage
the real test is when you find someone like this and they still top the meters lol
they don't though
^
if theyre topping the meters in the dungeon
it just means everyone else is even worse
in zero percent of cases is a terrible player just topping meters against decent players
we're talking people that can MAYBE get to 50% of the potential of a spec
at that point theyd be better off using one button rotatoin
okay so then our meta analysis would be class performance based on the one button?
would remove humans from the equation
Class performance based on people at lower forms of content at lowest possible performance, don't cooperate and dont intend to and don't intent to climb past 7s
That could be the title
I'm often reminded of the m+ log review I did one time where they didn't hit vanish once, had 8 shiv casts and 2 kingsbanes the whole dungeon
Did they use DM? 
dont remember tbh
How they feel when they just kingsbane twice in whole dungeon
No stress, no worries, just living life to the fullest
only reason I remember it is because when they reached out they were mad coping that their tank wasn't letting them restealth and since they're a dog class it's insane for the group to assume he could do damage in weekly 12's
he was getting beat by the tank
Sometimes the tanks just blast you. Nothing you can do
it's rare you get someone that disconnected from reality
I sent you that in private
I personally just skip everything and keep my envenom buff rolling as Blizzard intended
Guys, how can I track implacable stacks? Is there an addon for it?
Even Blizzard doesnt even know anymore
Obviously besides looking top right of my screen, searching through millions of icons
not gonna like the answer
Holy shit. This is so Blizzard….
Do we think Blizzard will make it trackable? Or do they just hate us
I mean it's just the wrong spell id
Does assa energy gen no longer scale with the number of ruptures/garrotes, or am i missing a talent here
Does crimson tempest apply poisons to aoe mobs, then, or should i be ensuring I'm fok enough then
ah okay, might just be used to the crazy upfront ruptures/garrotes of that tww talent that let me spread a ton for a few seconds
how have you felt about the rogues changes after getting to play them in live?
I love them
they didn't quite go far enough
but like, the changes they made are good
Whispyr indiscriminate carnage doesnt exist anymore right?
I guess another quick aoe question, does crimson copy the strength of the bleed or just a bleed of equal length? ie, should i spread my garrotes for those 6s, or crimson tempest them
I mean, it got baked into CT technicalyl
but no
you would apply garrote to your main target and then spread it
it copies imp gar
but it's not a snapshot, it's just imp gar
In the leveling guide
looking like implacable is not a buff able to be tracked .. weird
nvm
@balmy condor Do you know how the wowheads tier lists are formed? I don't put much stake in them , just wondering if theyre taken from class guide writers input?
i feel like im wreaking havoc in dungeons as assa which isnt supposed to be good aha
dratnos does the raid lists and tettles does the m+ lists
but also they're written from the perspective of like, actual keys
and not the (presumably) shit havoc player in your random heroic

Rude!
you were the havoc player weren't you
Include the absolute dogwater Devo DHs aswell
I mean, dogwater everyone atm
I’ll let you know Skooptwo is a respected member of the heroic dungeon pool
True, I am just kind to everyone I meet in heroic pugs
Its like visiting someone else’s country. I am tourist in heroic dungeons

matching your elo


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any know how to track the buffing stacks of implaceable with blizz CDM?
can't be done
aids
yeh
A little birdy told me after the tuning patch on the 17th you won’t need to track it 😉

I appreciate you being so welcoming to these undoubtedly repeated questions. Classic wow was most definitiely not that case (in the rogue disc)
I've been doing this far too long to care about repeated questions
but when the brainworms come out in combination of the repeated questions
then it gets a little rough 
people don't like hearing some answers sometimes
it is what it is
Don’t worry I’ll be here for you Whispyr
I try to remain as competitive as possible, so honesty whether positive or critical is the best
skoop can you buff caustic
is this man a dev
no but he would be a lot cooler if he was
I haven’t leveled my Evoker yet, but soon I’ll be dev on my DH
I’ll see what I can do. We are currently trying to make Deathstalker not actually vile to play
I have a suggestion for that actually
what if the mark didn't do any damage
and singular focus didn't do any damage
and darkest night was -60% instead of +60%
they heard that the stealth requirement sucked
and didn't bother listening past that
New hero talent node datamined: «Death comes for all». Using shuriken storm or Fan of knives applies a Stalker’s mark to target increasing the next instance of damage the target takes from Black Powder or Caustic Splatter
Just make the whole thing self buffs instead of single target debuff and the problem goes away
monkey paw, it increases the next instance regardless of target instead of buffing the entire cast
get ready for caustic spatter +5% on a random shitter mob and nothing else

Booo
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you're not having fun?
Thanks! Now I know I'm having fun.
lol
What do I enchant
Oh
sadly you arent wrong
And where is sims?
Is Amani canoo paddle good for m+?
why does x class sim dis and sin only sim dis?
Is rogue meta?
Yes.
no im adding to the questions, i been around. I just purged my discords when I quit wow on and off lol
At Whispyr should I spec into my new round hero talent at the bottom of the right side tree?
no, don't listen to lazy
man, it really IS like the start of season 1
Sims?
vague questions with no context, one word answer
then I have to step in and say the opposite
LOL
I'm home
Thanks dad.
LOL
exactly
EXACTLY
Dunno how i feel about Sin tho, last time i played it was TWW S2. Prob take a few more reps to feel it out.
I'm sure it will be fine.
When is the first raid releasing anyway?
24th right?
Or is it earlier?

What?
what
I'm confused.
yeah what else is new
Oi


Will I be benched this tier?
No
Neato
Got two rogues now

You're just better than the other rogue.
Ok mog the other rogue
survival hunter doesn't count
wait until I tell you that you can just do that
Okay daddy.
are you waiting?

I hate you
when is whispyr paying child support

Got two hunters
survival hunter doesn't count
Why not?
melee hunter is illegal
it's hard enough justifying 2 of any melee
but on a class with 2 ranged specs
and it's not a giga required raid buff?
doomed
Its funny cause even when survival is great, and does top damage. They are still not brought because of the melee 😄
yeppppp
Did you do raid testing btw?
every single one yep
Some raids are a bit more forgiving for melee than other raids ;c i haven't seen anything about the new raids so i'm not sure :C
At some point we had raids where you could have half ranged half melee. as of late that does not seam to be the case :C
Not gonna let them play surv
Let the bro's play surv 🙁
the solution is, don't do mythic raiding
then you can just be whatever you want
this is clearly blizz' design philosophy
?
If you want to play something and your guild wont let you. You just find another guild. 😄
Simple as that.
In the end its your game-time its your way to relax. If you have a great time playing survival hunter and your guild refuses to let you play that. I'd just find a guild that lets you. 😮
I see it as playing on a football team, if the coach asks you to play goalkeeper for a season instead of striker, ya do it
Haven’t played it yet
How’s Assa feeling
well, worse than my ww monk. so that makes me sad.
at identical ilevel it feels like an uphill battle to do these brawl pub fights on my rogue compared to my ww. but I got nothing else to do til Midnight unlocks later today
I moreso meant like enjoyment wise :>
or is that what u mean
Oh nah assa is fun
I just feel like a limp noodle hitting stuff. idk if apex talents fix that or not at 90
since I was moving this weekend I didnt bother buying the early access
Fair
I’ve tested out all 3 hunter specs but haven’t had time to touch my outlaw
Gonna go for all side quests today and try some outlaw id I have time
Or I could farm BoEs and sell them for stupid prices like I did last night
someone please tell im stupid or i missed smth
i went to try assa but i cant track implac buff? like how much % the buff is ast before envenom drops....did i miss smth or is the name different or can u actually not track it?
PLEASE TELL ME IM STUPID
can't be done
it sucks but it's not really world-ending
you'll be aight
they'll fix it eventually
can anyone confirm if damage feel better at 90 with apex talents and all?
compared to what
ye just wanted to fuck around with it in some heroics after trying sub but it'll be annoying to do
but thanks anyways <3
np
well that's the thing I guess. My WW monk feels way more impactful than my rogue rn at 80, same ilevel basically. and don't get me started on my demo lock, but from what I understand they're just kinda busted rn in general
ye
but I have no intention of maining warlock when they're meta, they'll be EVERYWHERE
Also hi whispy
!fuu
Rogue Spreadsheet - Light Version / Dark Version
Ah that makes me sad.
Meh WWs deserve some stuff
@balmy condor papa whispyr, do we stick to sub for a while or sin rogue is playable for m+?
well yeah
I feel as thogh it’s far to early to tell
Unless you're playing at HoF+ level or have exactly 0 friends and need to rely on being accepted for pugs, play whatever the fuck you like
aight so how does sin feels for leveling/delves?
I'm allergic to M+ so I only care about raid and solo stuff, and my RL always says 'play whatever you want' so I only have to care about how stuff feels on solo content.
makes life easier
I played SV for a few bosses last tier on mythic and dps wise I agree with that take
Defensive wise
Uhhh
Uhh……
Everyone always focuses on tuning and class performance but forgets the 10% damage buff you get from playing something you vibe with
couldnt tell you bout levelling I can't start for like 12 hours 😛
delves its great. at least on last seasons
I would if I could but I’ve not been able to touch my rogue
Is it 11pm correct time us regular release chads get to jump on?
Gotta say though
2/3 hunter specs feel swag
3pm pacific NA time. convert to your locale
Debating weather or not to stay up and do M0s w friends
As my Best friend is doing them and has an open slot
Are m0s out? Should I be aiming to hit max level and do a world tour before reset on Weds?
Not til EA is over
Unsure
I think?
Yeye
it's gonna be out at 3pm pst
So when mid comes our
Huh?
Anyone else having issues with stealth not being useable for like 10 seconds after exiting combat?
yep
I'll check Larias guide but assuming I should be aiming to get a world tour in before reset on Weds
know what really cheeses me off? When vanish resets Brawlpub fights YET ITS PART OF MY DPS ROTATION. gg blizz. top tier design.
Huh
What profession to take besides engineering? lw is too damn expensive
for fast 89-90 you should go tailoring
and you must get it at lvl 80 so you'll have cloth for crafts
since cloth drops only for tailors now
Wait hold up we'll be spamming m+ before raid anyway right? So no need to squeeze an extra m0 world tour in
m+ releases same week as heroic mode raids
16th or 17th of march
till that moment there'll be only weakened m0
and lower difficulties for raids
So that Weds is the classic day off work spam m+ from 7am shii
you'll have to be patient with vendeten
playing hunter has rotted his brain
probably hasn't read english words in a year
the moss green brainworms
Need a Public Skoop Announcement about Implacable not being trackable by Cooldown Manager, that’s gonna be the number one question once the floodgates open
btw what addons you can suggest for QoL?
leatrix is pretty gud
I haven't set it up personally but my guild has been singing its praises
oh also want to warn y'all guys
dont even think once to go for random dungeon spam for leveling
it will take you around 10 hours to level character
while campaing + sidequests is around 6-7 hours without % xp buff
blizz just fucked up dungeon spam
well yes, that is how timezones work
that's going to be around midnight time EU
Is that what you were originally saying
00:00
expansion releases at 3PM PST worldwide
take 3 PM PST
and convert it to your timezone
it does
I’m mid lecture so I can’t focus
it releases at <t:1772492400:s>
Nono I mean I thought you said it launches at 3PM for everyone
not totally accurate, there is an EU territory in North America. So not midnight for them 😉
I’ve already released tbh
That’s what i originally thought you meant
xd
Which is why I was confused
Because that’s not possible
So it was mainly me misunderstanding what you said
true
Huh it's 0825h in St. Pierre and Miquelon right now. So they'd get... 2030h launch time.
I am in a lecture so my focus isn’t on the chat
Also it’s funny when mobs identify pets instead of me
huge news for the 3 people in Miquelon
Turned a threat into a cheeky little compliment
ikr?
lucky buggers, best eu launch
3 billion iq
I'd suggest Canada instead, less chance of winding up in an ICE centre.
True true
or Brazil if you dislike cold
It’s like how you can plug your phone in and change the time to make it charge faster
I still gotta pick a 2nd profession. >.>
I kicked lw to the curb
blacksmithing maybe? 🤔
or JC
imagine not having all profs on seven alts
I don't level alts for months usually
(you could probably cut that down to six, IG)
I'm not a fan of alts
ngl neither am I, but I am a fan of being able to craft every-fucking-thing in the game
I don't like feeling like I "should" be grinding stuff out on multiple toons
legit spent half of TWW just getting every single profession from every single expac maxed out lmao
but I'm gonna level a mage normally (because you can't really level gathering cloth anyway, or at least it's too unfocused for me)
then level four more chars just flying around and mining/herbing
Are any of the rogue specs actually good this season
No, all F tier, go play warlock /s
Okay ty
though throughput wise I do believe all 3 are in the bottom 3rd of the curve.
Sub good, assa is fine, outlaw fun, but bad? This is my feelcraft
archon has assa as last for M+ tier. No idea if it's accurate or not, I have no idea how they get their rankings.













