#assassination

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shut sand
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We got another fellow rodent in here

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But ur an impostor, ur in the assa channel

warm vortex
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I don’t play rogue

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I just am here for the vibes lmao

shut sand
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Just as you should be cuz ur spec literallt is called outlaw

warm vortex
shut sand
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Outlaws shouldnt have a channel

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Theyre outlaws

warm vortex
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Should be renamed to combat again

shut sand
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Fr

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So u play hunter?

warm vortex
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Survival

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Shadow priest alt this season aswell

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Sv is doing mythic (maybe MM for some fights)

night delta
warm vortex
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Brb btw

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Also yep that’s me

radiant raven
rare stone
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Has there been any sniffles or shufflings about regarding any potential changes to embellishments yet? Or too soon?

balmy condor
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they did a tuning pass like 2 weeks ago

strange onyx
balmy condor
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do not embarrass me too much

strange onyx
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Watch me forget amplifying again, a classic Skoop trick

red schooner
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Forgetting atrophic just helps your healers parse better

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Don't you want to help your healers?

strange onyx
strange onyx
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You seem misinformed

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I like that

warm vortex
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Need it for mah focus

runic hinge
warm vortex
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Nah I lock in

Sometimes

grim jay
strange onyx
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Lock in? Thought you just said you are survival

grim jay
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Surv can go die in a ditch

warm vortex
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Also David
With how Uber tanky we are not it will take a while!!

sage ore
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guys, does it matter in what order I apply poisons (amp poison and deadly poison)?

strange onyx
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Surv wants 2h for raid, they can have our scrapes when we are done

grim jay
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So I aint too worried

grim jay
viscid spear
warm vortex
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Srsly tho we are unkillable now

viscid spear
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I had three sparks and got the other mats

warm vortex
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Sv has Like
Baseline 15% and 17% DR or something

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And a decent array of defensive cooldowna

grim jay
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Still probably not as tanky as DKs

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And for some reason hunter people dont wanna use def CDs

warm vortex
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Oh 100%
DKs are in a league of their own

warm vortex
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I use them too much

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And run out

grim jay
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But you can just call it heal issue at that point

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So you are clean

strange onyx
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If it doesn’t one shot it is a healing mechanic

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This Loa wisdom you can have for free

warm vortex
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Exactly

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Everything is a healer issue

shut sand
humble verge
strange onyx
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Careful there is two sharks in that picture

hot pasture
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it is worth for rogue to craft dagger pre raid¿

strange onyx
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Yeah, if you want to

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But if you got no other rogues in your raid just wait

hot pasture
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oki

sharp viper
hot pasture
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u dont lose crest if u craft no?

shut plinth
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sooo how down bad are we guys

humble verge
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just have 4 rogues

sinful verge
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Which spec is looking better for the raid profile wise atm? Sub or assa?

tacit lintel
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Combat

wide berry
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yet to see. subs getting adjusted on tuesday

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+st -aoe

sinful verge
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Yeah I get that, I know that sub has quite a lot of upfront burst for ST and AOE - I don’t know a lot about how raid spec assa handles adds

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Whether it’s likely to pull ahead with sporadic add packs etc

strange onyx
storm forum
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We don't know the tuning. If the adds are super squish, sub will look good one-shotting them with sec tech, if they're not, assa will look good spattering all over them for 15-20 seconds.

strange onyx
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I am gonna play Sin, same with Whispy

onyx crane
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How assa handles adds, if they are close to boss and many just cleave talents otherwise let othet classes manage it

hot pasture
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if the adds are far for the boss sub better in my opinion

strange onyx
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You are entitled to your opinion, but I am also entitled to tell you that you are wrong

hot pasture
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thats fair uwu

storm forum
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I'm gonna play assa until my rl gets mad at me

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And then I'm gonna swap to sub and do so poorly he asks me to swap back

onyx crane
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Why they never get assa right

strange onyx
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Assa is right, next question

wide berry
onyx crane
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What do you mean assa is right

storm forum
wide berry
strange onyx
strange onyx
storm forum
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Cause sometimes you get assa/sub week 1 cn discrepancies and grey parsing sub is actually better than purple parsing sin

wide berry
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lets be real unless your ass is pushing hall of fame or some shit it doesnt really matter

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whatever you can play better > the 1% optimal

storm forum
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Yeah I mostly agree.

wide berry
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ill sit fat and happy in my aotc guild mashing buttons garf_sit

storm forum
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I just always tell myself I should learn OL and sub to be a more versatile player or something but then I don't cause assa fun go brrrrrrr

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Oh yeah my guild actually has a 2nd rogue for the first time in years, I'm gonna be playing so much sts on the bench cause the other rogue is actually a good player that knows how to press the N button

lethal arrow
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theres no catch up system for the prey stuff is there

wide berry
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not aware of any rn

lethal arrow
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unfortunate, seems im bricked for the rest of the xpac

sharp viper
spice surge
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The spire aint slaying itself

strange onyx
strange onyx
storm forum
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Like 1500-2000? We're late late CE

spice surge
plucky ember
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its just been 2 weeks of it

lethal arrow
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no nightmare track tomorrow when raid releases, my guilds gunna kick me

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might as well message my officers

plucky ember
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you can reach hard in one week

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not even a week

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a day

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if you got that harsh of a guild, i dosnt sound fun at all

lethal arrow
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ive said about 90% sarcasm

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it will not be a big deal but that is annoying i cant get my nightmare rewards on reset

plucky ember
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do you even get alot of rep after the first 4 each week?

lethal arrow
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no it gives 50

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thats why

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so i missed 3 hunts week 1 and now im behind 3k renown

jolly stirrup
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Can't you do random hunts for renown?

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Or

lethal arrow
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does it give 1k?

jolly stirrup
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Idk

lethal arrow
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i think theyre only 50 each

jolly stirrup
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I mean one hunt takes like 10 min, so in 4 hours yiu should get your 1k renown if you grind

lethal arrow
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4 hours!

jolly stirrup
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Ye?

plucky ember
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is it even possible to be lvl4 in prey?

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i sure as hell dont get xp for it

karmic orbit
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isnt hunt renown capped at 3 this week

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until tomorrow

plucky ember
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i think so

coral ibex
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is there gonna be a higher tier that rewards better than vet track?

plucky ember
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@lethal arrow so you should be fine

fluid oak
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hey, there is a list of pre-bis somewhere?

grim jay
fluid oak
grim jay
coral ibex
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pre bis is 259 crafted dagger and the rest vet+

fluid oak
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yes beside the 2 crafts i was looking for a list of m0 items to easily see if i need something

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i will just sim then

prime field
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hey! quick and dumb question, but does it matter if I use the second garrote from the opener after DM (by the end of the improved garrote window) instead of before DM?

spice surge
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Well you get more garrote using the second garrote

exotic hazel
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When chaining envenoms, do we wait for pandemic or do we just slam asap?

spice surge
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Instead of 24 seconds of improved garrote you get like 36

spice surge
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So generally you wait until the last possible moment of the buff being active

exotic hazel
spice surge
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Ah yeah, they removed it this expac

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It used to

exotic hazel
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Gotcha, so send Envenom when the previous one as 1-2 sec left

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(without overcapping energy)

prime field
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instead of before, like some guides show

coral ibex
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back to chaining envenoms Gladge

spice surge
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Its better to use it before DM yes

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Thats why the guide recommends it

prime field
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oh, got it

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perfect!

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tysm Eleem!

coral ibex
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how much of a loss is it to cast kb at 3 or more cp?

spice surge
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I mean you waste some cp, so its not great

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But shrugeg

coral ibex
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so its not something to worry about

hearty junco
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does high offhand itemlvl matter for any rogue spec?

onyx crane
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Bigger stat budgets

hearty junco
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sure but is there and ability that also scales with OH

mortal drum
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all of your abilities scale with stats

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offhands give stats

latent kernel
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So in our opener in AOE or ST, I see that we are supposed to chain 5 and let it drop, but with lust and haste trinket and tea should you just ignore this

coral ibex
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offhand is the least important slot

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it should always be your last upgrade

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there are no abilities that scale with offhand weapon damage

mortal drum
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but its still giving you agility

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so to ignore it completely is silly

spice surge
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Mutilate does, but its so unimportant that it does not matter

mortal drum
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maybe im misinterpreting the question

coral ibex
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offhand doesn't matter any more than wrists

mortal drum
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sure but are you gonna walk around in adventurer wrists all expansion?

coral ibex
spice surge
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Some classes have both their weapons as their most important slots

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Rogues are not one of those

mortal drum
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my bad

spice surge
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Because almost all damage is based on mainhand dps for us

royal lantern
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open yt->whisp trying to spread missinformation again

karmic dawn
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We love our (Mis)Info King!

spice surge
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Loa of misinformation

sacred oyster
grim jay
kindred roost
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is it only worth to be evenoming at 7CP or is it just use at 5+

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same w rupture

normal mist
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5+

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Unless darkest night

gleaming geyser
normal mist
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Then you force 7

kindred roost
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ok pog ty

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first season as rogue (clearly picked a good one) and didn’t feel right using them without max

normal mist
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Noobie mistake that is often seen amongst new members, glad you asked

gleaming geyser
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People already complain enough about energy management, imagine if people were forcing 7 and wasting all those CPs

shut sand
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Are trinkest the next most important?

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I heard they buffed a lot of trinkets

normal mist
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Trinkets and special items are often what we refer to BiS, alongside with MH ilvl

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The rest is figured out by simming

shut sand
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So some stuff is very situational due to stat weights and mix of secondary stats? U get a lot of 2nd stat inflation already in first season… back to same issues old days

spice surge
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What

shut sand
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So having too much crit raises the value of say haste or mastery(mastery a lot worse this season though) and shifts their value

normal mist
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That's why you sim

shut sand
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Which can change which item is best for ur gear

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BiS is like so good that no matter the sim it outperformw

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Right?

normal mist
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Do you read what I said above

shut sand
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Whereas other items is situational

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Yes

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I was just asking for clarificstion

spice surge
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Besides trinkets or special items

spice surge
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You basically just get ilvl

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For almost all specs in the game

shut sand
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I see

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Ty

normal mist
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Special items = items with special effects

shut sand
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But some pieces can differ right? The ones we use for stat sticks not the special effects ones

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Depending on stat weight

spice surge
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Not really

shut sand
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Say I was doing bad on crit which is very valuable for me cuz many of my high ilevel items have haste mastery, i could go with that crit/haste wrist over one thats 2-3 ilevels higher?

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Or that would be negligble?

normal mist
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You mean crafted?

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Or?

shut sand
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Just in general

spice surge
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Mostly negligible

normal mist
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I'll repeat

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For the 3rd time

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Sim

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Your doubts will be answered by simming your character

golden loom
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also remember to not sim statweights garf

normal mist
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If I answered this for you I'd be lying

shut sand
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Idk how to do that, I just got back to retail after 100000 years. So idk if I would be doing it rigjt 🥲

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I just trust what u guys tell me

normal mist
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There's a command Somewhere

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!simc

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Fuxk

shut sand
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Fuxk

normal mist
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!simulation

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Fuxkagain

shut sand
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Fuxk^2

golden loom
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well the most important thing to follow then is just

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go by highest ilvl

normal mist
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Basically

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Agility > secundaries

fallow canopy
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!raidbots

shut sand
fallow canopy
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Fuck

shut sand
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I guess this xpack will be very noob friendly

spice surge
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Its been like this for a decade now

golden loom
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and then when you have multiple pieces of the same ilvl, then you can sim them against eachother by getting the simulationcraft addon -> typing SimC -> copy pasting into raidbots dot com and using topgear

shut sand
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BfA was so fucking braindead though my most hated xpack

fallow canopy
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!simguide

prisma monolithBOT
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Guide to Simming yourself: https://www.wowhead.com/how-to-use-raidbots-sims-stat-weights

For more accurate results you should always sim yourself using Top Gear for gear you already have in your bags
or Droptimizer to see which content drops the biggest upgrade for you. Do not use Stat Weights sims to evaluate gear.

fallow canopy
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There it is

normal mist
normal mist
shut sand
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Played it for couple months then left. U literally got stronger by equipping less gear

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It was stupid

normal mist
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Wait what

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Oh

shut sand
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I saw naked rogues in arenas

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One shotting ppl

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Then they tried to patch that shit, and so ppl used low ilvl gear with high ilvl trinkets and strong gems

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And it was same shit again now even more broken

weary stump
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Bfa corruptions were funny as hell at least

shut sand
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Yes, but the idea that the game was ”unfair” for ppl who didnt wanna or have not progressed their characters was stupid

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Ur literally taking out like one of THE points of playing an mmorpg…

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U progressed backwards. Remove gear and become thanos

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Arena rewards became pointless mostly

weary stump
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I mean it was one of the progression points, I don't pvp at all though so I cannot really debate these woes

shut sand
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Bro this affected pve as well

normal mist
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Shadowlands S1 pvp gear way better / equal to raiding

shut sand
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Afaik

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In LFD/LFR at least u got ilevel scaling

weary stump
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I don't recall that issue in raiding at all, like corruptions were borked but I don't remember that

drifting cloud
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talking about some random bug that probably got fixed in a week from 6 years ago as the main point

storm forum
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Tbh I liked bfa pvp. I really didn't see those exploits often and I liked the slow-ish meta.

drifting cloud
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it definetly didnt

normal mist
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Heroic S1 shadowlands was like 213 ilvl and rival gear (1800 pvp) was 220 lol

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226 was both mythic and gladiator gear

storm forum
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There was some weird scaling issues but they really weren't that impactful. Most of the complaints from my friends were about not wanting to buy carries for mythic drestagath trinket.

drifting cloud
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I remember the were some outdoor world scaling issues but thats about it

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corruptions and the drest trinket are its own can of worms

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the bleed one was wreaking havoc in pvp for a while yeah

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before the corruption vendor and nerfs

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same thing as rogue spamming whatever that ofd gcd ability was for echoing void

storm forum
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Season 1 bfa pvp was actually quite baf

lethal turtle
storm forum
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Bad

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Azerite gear was not balanced in pvp

shut sand
storm forum
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And monks could meld and unequip all their gear and have touch of death 1 shot

shut sand
storm forum
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Season 3 was good though

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Or season 4?

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Nyalotha fun

shut sand
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But we dont have pvp scaling anymore right? Right???

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No more wonky bugs plz

storm forum
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It's tied to the pvp gear now

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So pvp gear scales it's ilvl in pvp

shut sand
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Whats the point of pvp gear rewards then?

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If its all the same

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U do still get stronger right?

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With better pvp gear

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Or no?

drifting cloud
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yes

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its just not by alot

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since the easy to get pvp gear is ok in power

coral ibex
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do you guys think we will be forced to do rbg’s for a catalyst charge next week

fluid oak
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hey question, Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage you can have on both weapons?

lethal turtle
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And a item to cata

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If not no point and easy unlock in m+

radiant otter
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has it been changed from being aotc/m+/1600pvp? why not just aotc

lethal turtle
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I don’t think you can even get the raid on until the last raid opens

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But I could be cooked

spice surge
fluid oak
twilit lagoon
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Did they ever confirm if shrouded suffocation not giving the extra CP on the second Garrote is working as intended or if its a bug?

twilit lagoon
radiant otter
runic hinge
jolly stirrup
drifting cloud
twilit lagoon
muted ridge
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anyone has the assa rogue stats gif?

coral ibex
shut sand
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Is outlaw better in cleave and single target by a lot than assa?

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In current sims

spice surge
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Probably

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But thats sims

runic hinge
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I’d never lose to an outlaw rogue

boreal lichen
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anyone now whyy wowhead says s1 starts in 23h ? i thought we get raids as always on wednesday.

coral ibex
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typical euro

runic hinge
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Imagine not being in the superior region

worldly sail
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CN?

shut sand
coral ibex
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yea Cnorth Namerica

runic hinge
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RAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅RAHHHHHH

coral ibex
shut sand
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I can soon play

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Fuck work

fading belfry
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With the nerf sub took is assa still behind in aoe?

shut sand
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Assa has some of the best kit for aoe

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We just lack the love from the dev team to make it all come together beautifully

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It feels like its lacking something

azure carbon
shut sand
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But if spread bleed to 10 mobs with CT as fatebound and just spam envenoms… i dont see how ur losing to sub

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Isnt sub suppost to be the single target oriented spec?

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Per identity

spice surge
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No

shut sand
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Makes no sense then

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What tf is sub identity even theb?

coral ibex
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burst

spice surge
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Shadowy clones

shut sand
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Makes sense

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Not

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Buff assa plz

night delta
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ninja shit

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that's sub identity

hidden robin
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should I make sin rogue or survival hunter for midnight

azure carbon
compact mortar
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you're on a biased discord

fluid oak
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on 24th we become best dpscopium

hidden robin
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I've been playing sin rogue and quested through all of it to to Harandar

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I really like the play style and class fantasy

subtle tundra
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people talk about spec identity as if every spec is supposed to be special or some shit

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shut up and play you cant even parse 90 with these ez specs

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👽 👽 👽 👽 👽

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varas naughty boy you do t even play the game

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get real loser

golden loom
hidden robin
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but I was wondering if survival hunter would be more fun for like open world or solo content

runic hinge
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Better off playing a tank

hidden robin
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having a pet is nice

runic hinge
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Not for your content

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For delve hof

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Surv probably better than any rogue spec

subtle tundra
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or are you behind

golden loom
subtle tundra
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youre over

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whats yo ppls ilvl

hidden robin
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also I feel like chain pulling multiple mobs kinda sucks as a sin rogue

subtle tundra
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@golden loom

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will you do +10s on Wednesday

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raid opens!!!

golden loom
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well m+ releases next week..

severe meadow
golden loom
severe meadow
subtle tundra
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cant even do 10s

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lmao

golden loom
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time to reroll pvp

subtle tundra
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🥱

golden loom
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I do have a weeks vacation next week tho (wasnt even planned for wow but)

leaden anvil
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How we doing bois? We lack energy regen 🙁

subtle tundra
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bad boy

spice surge
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Assa is fine, and no it doesnt really lack energy regen

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The spec is designed with downtime in mind

golden loom
subtle tundra
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yeah more downtime means you can do more mechanics

viscid spear
subtle tundra
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me too yes

static glacier
leaden anvil
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Yeah, I feel like it lacks energy compared to Bfa. It felt so prime in bfa

hearty seal
# spice surge Assa is fine, and no it doesnt really lack energy regen

my take on this is that what Assa lacks, fundamentally, is any good idea on what it's supposed to be other than arbitrarily slow (why? why does a class that is thematically super agile and fast, have not one but two specs that are based around waiting for things to happen)

energy woes are just a very easy way to make it slow without having to think much about it, or what the design should even be

subtle tundra
hearty seal
subtle tundra
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bfa had 5 or 6(not always played) cp, that meant you finished at 4 a lot of the times, it means more finishers used, more ruptures used

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idc assa got irreversibly fucked in df and after

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so assa will never be assa for me

hearty seal
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ok yeah Whisp was basically going about the same thing
I figure our viewpoints on how it should be differ a lot, but I can 100% agree it's not something you can fix, design-wise, by just going "here's infinite energy, you happy now"

storm forum
severe meadow
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Probably because it’s a wall no one will read and talk about anyway

snow tundra
hearty seal
royal lantern
spice surge
runic hinge
spice surge
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Not every specs need to be the same

runic hinge
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jinx

storm forum
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ABC is fun, but intentionally breaking that is really fun

onyx crane
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I think assa still plays abit clunky in AOE scenarios but I do love spatter, poisonbomb and ct not making so we don't need tab-target applying rupture

hearty seal
onyx crane
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I am happy assa is a slow spec, I am too old for the frantic APM specs

golden loom
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spec being focused on bleeds and poisons should be kind of slow thematically?

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makes sense imo

hearty seal
severe meadow
night cipher
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wish they left the feral with the bleeds and we got a poison rework

hearty seal
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esp since combat is now outlaw and GUN is more a theme than just "sword fast"

onyx crane
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it will def shine more when trash lives longer than in M0

golden loom
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death by a million cuts is fury warrior garf

royal lantern
leaden anvil
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Any of yall pvp in sin?

hearty seal
royal lantern
hearty seal
onyx crane
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on a practical note, do we craft wrists yet?

royal lantern
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cus thats how math works

jolly stirrup
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I do feel a bit bad having that wall of Text as an answer to my stupid takes garf_sit but in the end I learned stuff from it and some others maybe too

royal lantern
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and fury is the pinnacle "but I WANT TO SPAM DONT MAKE ME WAIT BLIZZ IM A CHAD WARRIOR APM APM APM" spec

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so each hit will be on the lower side

golden loom
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I do like furys class fantasy of I am very angry and I need to keep pressing buttons to remain angry

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goes hard

twilit lagoon
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Do poison bomb applications overlap?

onyx crane
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i don't think it procs enough for that to happen

hearty seal
# royal lantern turns out if you give a spec high apm, it will do lower dmg with each hit

brother I am talking about thematics
like Fury isn't about actually a million small attacks as an idea, more like just lots of wild hits but without any deep purpose
ngl the thing I'd personally associate with Assa would be "methodical", which can honestly be any speed, as long as the actual loop is purposeful towards something specific
like KB is a good foundation - here's something to work on for a big payoff, but these days there's not much interplay with it

royal lantern
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was there ever any inerplay with KB really

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outside of "have shiv and envenom running"

runic hinge
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you uhh

hearty seal
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DM kinda does interact still

runic hinge
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well theres

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uh

hearty seal
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but yes, that's the point, there isn't much that works with it
which is why it's a good foundation but with no real building on top

twilit lagoon
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Ah, I miss the days of getting double pi on a KB and killing assault in 45s.

onyx crane
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should maybe add something that empowers envenom if you cast 3? in a row

golden loom
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that would change the rotation from pressing envenom to pressing envenom

hearty seal
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empowering envenom after 3 casts of X in a row exists

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it's called "press three Mutilates"

wise plover
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@spice surge is there logic in the APL that pools to a specific energy # after we drop envenom chain? or is the only logic that at 80% implaccable we dont finish till we gain buff.

onyx crane
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I do think assa rogue can do with some visual effects

#

like envenom needs to look flashier and I want to see some blood spatters flying around when my empowered garotte is running

storm forum
#

I like CT's effect, but I would like Spatter to put a big splash of green out when it procs

golden loom
#

id rather not have my game giga lag from every instance of spatter dam

severe meadow
golden loom
#

yeah lets not increase the lag

fallow canopy
wise plover
# balmy condor The second

i havent spent too much time in pure ST yet, but if i am playing incorrectly somehow. and i get stuck in a situation where i cant get my implaccable to 80% because i keep starting my envenom chains on low energy. feelcraft wise should i be pooling to get it back to 80% implaccable chains or just keep pushing my buttons?

storm forum
#

I wanna crash the servers with KB spatter

night delta
#

double tickrate every 45 sec on a infinite time dot

#

what could go wrong ? dracthyr_shrug

hearty seal
#

ngl that sounds like a flavourful assa thing even if it's stupidly broken

#

"the longer the assa rogue is in combat, the stronger they become"

night delta
#

exsanguinate was fun to press at times

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I remember Ny'alotha when corruption was completely broken open

#

stacking ungodly amounts of haste

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and exsanguinating

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infinite energy

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infinite bleed dmg

balmy condor
#

The first stack is 20%

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The rest are 15%

spice surge
night delta
wise plover
#

okay thank you both ❤️

night delta
#

like, after 2 minutes, it's fully online

#

or 3 or whatevs

hearty seal
# night delta exsanguinate was fun to press at times

tbh I think exsang could have been a promising design direction
like if they want us to fuck around with energy (and they will always want this unless Energy itself is redesigned, because the alternative is just no energy)
they could in fact try to do something where we benefit from both low energy and high energy in different ways, IDK
like pooling could make sense if Exsang was kind of like Breath of SIndragosa IDK, something you have to build up for, then start blowing and keep things going for as long as possible by doing upkeep actions
i.e. you're energy positive on the basic rotation BUT Exsang overrides that, and your goal is to keep Exsang working for as long as possible

true tusk
# balmy condor The second

I read your comment about Assa and its energy regen, and honestly you're right. In fact, the other day I realized that its problem isn't even really the energy. It's that its bleeds and poisons take way too long to actually do their damage, which makes the spec pretty useless in low Mythic+ keys, since mobs die so fast that your damage never really has time to ramp up.

I think the solution would be to make bleeds more similar to Feral's, with shorter uptimes but much stronger ticks.

storm forum
# hearty seal "the longer the assa rogue is in combat, the stronger they become"

A while back I had an idea to have envenom chains build up a debuff and when they dropped they did a fuck ton of damage, but tying the idea to uptime sounds really terrible cause like, if you have perfect up time until execute you instantly kill the boss, but if you gotta do any mechanic ur damage is fucked and idk, this reminded me of that

spice surge
night delta
#

like, exsang supercharges your energy regen but ends as soon as your energy hits cap

#

so you have to spend spend spend like a madman while it's up

hearty seal
night delta
#

and when it ends, you're full energy, and you can go back to seeing it go down

hearty seal
#

well yeah, that could be a fun thing if tuned correctly

#

however it will also make Assa very vulnerable to downtime, funnily enough

royal lantern
#

can we not say the E word please

storm forum
#

I love the E word

#

Say it more

night delta
#

it was kinda what it did during the Ny'alotha haste corruption hayday

#

when you hit exsang your energy went completely nuts

royal lantern
#

i mean, sorry but

#

taking the corruption phase seriously is a bit of a meme

night delta
#

but there were definitely fun things that emerged for a time

royal lantern
#

not just balance wise lol

#

it was literally just "lol 200% haste" or "lol i have my major cd every 30 seconds"

#

and the ussual "wow players will tell you something is fun when its OP"

night delta
#

i mean of course i'm not saying it should be the standard

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but the directions things went to indicated there was design space for some ideas

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like a "supercharge your energy" button

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that kind of jazz

true tusk
storm forum
#

Sometimes I miss fishing for haste procs, but it really is for the best that exsang stays gone

#

At least in that state

night delta
spice surge
night delta
#

maybe make it closer to viable

#

though we'd be back to bleed sniping maybe so

#

heh, maybe not

hearty seal
#

eh, I'm mostly looking at Exsang as "something that could've been a core thing if it wasn't fucked up"

#

basically the point is, currently all three Rogue specs are energy negative and aren't even playing with the resource in any interesting way, so the design def could be more in-depth

severe meadow
#

They can just shoot doomblade and syst failure and rework them into something new / energy based and call it a day

night delta
#

I can see how implacable is them trying to do something more

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than just "don't overcap and the rest doesn't matter"

hearty seal
#

yeah but it's...kinda just lame
like they got the first draft out and said "yeah that's it, job's done"

#

"yep just wait till your envenom falls off to get more energy back, that's resource management"

night delta
#

because currently no rogue spec has to really think about energy

#

even in sin, yeah we gotta play more patiently but it's not like env uptime is a tight fit

coral ibex
#

i think they could do something to combine the implacable effect with auto-tea, so that the regen can be proc'd intentionally without the counter-intuitive play pattern of letting envenom expire

night delta
#

I've several times been a proponent of making envenom a %energy cost

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and scale off of that

#

would make it interesting to try and minmax being high on energy for some windows

coral ibex
#

i was thinking bonus energy regen based on how late you overlap envenom

#

later = more regen

night delta
#

that's just forced pooling

coral ibex
#

well yes

royal lantern
#

sorry, but you all kinda just throw random stuff into the chat rn

royal lantern
#

like, do you think that things like "envenom energy reg based on how late you overlap" is actually a good idea lol

#

if you think that staring at you envenom timer 24/7 for gameplay is good i gues

true tusk
coral ibex
#

except chaining envenoms is a more intuitive playstyle than intentionally letting a debuff expire after 5 envenoms

#

imo

night delta
#

it does feel kinda counterintuitive to purposefully let a good buf expire

royal lantern
#

not really

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like at all

#

reminder that specs are supposed to be playable without actually going too deep into them

#

if energy generation would suddenly be based around you always waiting for the last 1-2 seconds of pressing envenom, it would be giga un-intuitive

#

implacable is literally passively happening by itself

hearty seal
#

well I made my suggestion with nu-Exsang, IDK, that sounds like a decent idea to me
normally energy positive rotation, like it actually regens faster when you're doing it than standing still
activate exsang that costs even more than what your rotation regens (or maybe it scales up over time, like starting out small but +1 cost/s), keep it up for as long as you can, eventually run out, regen to full, start exsang again
like your main goal here, as a dot spec, is to empower your dots through a good basic rotation
sounds very Assa to me tbh

night delta
#

that's why I feel like the implacable thing is half baked

fallow canopy
#

what I gather from all the opinions is that no matter what gets implemented someone would be pissed about it garf

hearty seal
tranquil birch
#

Now that people are getting up to like 240ilvl, are yall starting to run builds with demise in M0s?

coral ibex
#

idk how it would be unintuitive, late chaining envenom has been the assa play pattern many times over history

coral ibex
#

we were doing a pooling minigame in tww s1 before the rework for 2 envenom debuffs

runic hinge
#

what if envenom consumed extra energy to do extra damage up to double its current cost

analog field
#

what if we had a more feline appearance?

runic hinge
hearty seal
strong epoch
#

i'd really like blade fury instead of fok

hearty seal
#

idk broski, would you really?

#

like BF is...interesting
but it comes with so many downsides too

runic hinge
waxen oyster
#

you have BF as sin

#

its called spatter

#

technically

hearty seal
#

if BF procced off Dispatch, kinda

sacred oyster
#

we cant get demise w/o losing something too critical

#

on 4 mil ads and 40 mil boss, SD is 2-3% dmg loss

spice surge
#

Like it was in previous seasons in tww

static glacier
strong epoch
#

I would. you would have to still spread your rupture with CT but garrote would spread with BF.

spice surge
#

If they wanted to

golden loom
#

blade flurry on the double dagger spec while fan of knives is also one of the most iconic abilities sounds very weird

strong epoch
#

i respect it's not for everyone. i just want more "fun" buttons to push while still doing respectable damage. BF is one of those for me.

mint urchin
#

Is blade flurry a fun button though?

#

Like in 2-4 target you actively want to avoid pressing it until the last second

analog field
#

Where did you find my photo ?

naive sable
#

What if Simulationcraft even included ASS in their sim’d raid charts they put out today. Hmm…

spice surge
#

The reason assa isnt on there is because nobody (see: Whispyr) has pushed a default profile, so they dont have anything to base it on.

storm forum
#

How many bugs are left Eleem?

#

Tell me the truth

spice surge
#

Idk

storm forum
#

There are more now than last week aren't there

spice surge
#

I havent checked under your floorboards, maybe there are some

#

Or in your basement?

#

Maybe youre spidermaxxing so there are none

#

What do i know

storm forum
#

I'm spidermaxxing

#

The spiders in my room are so dumb

#

They have reverse camouflage or something

spice surge
#

Im not saying that is the case now, but its been the case in the past and they could adress it (i dont think they will, but they could) garf_sit

true tusk
runic hinge
#

deathstalker is not fun

fallow canopy
#

I like DS xla

scarlet orbit
#

Its kinda impressive how they made the most hated part of the whole herotalent even worse

azure carbon
#

Without fixing the bugs. 😂

jolly stirrup
#

When I started I liked DS, now I despise it

compact mortar
#

hey guys, new to assa here, what's your ilevel and what is your dps on single target in like a 2 minute fight cirka?

jolly stirrup
#

240 and idk, I simmed 5min 51k smth

#

With low level enchants and gems

compact mortar
#

raid talents

true tusk
spice surge
#

Whispyr could push a profile, he just doesnt want to contribute to the sim dps slop comparison charts

azure carbon
#

Lol watch as Whispyr has cooked up an OP talent combination and APL that's actually the best ST of all 3 specs.

#

And has been sandbagging legendarily whole xpac.

runic hinge
#

Doubtful

#

But the thing is

#

There’s one ST boss so Assa can be good because the free cleave exists

#

Execute can matter

azure carbon
#

I mean sure, but I would laugh so hard. The sandwich bit into the sandbag reveal would be goated.

runic hinge
#

There’s a lot of good things on this spec that can keep us competitive even if our straight line dps isn’t the top

azure carbon
#

Legit I wouldn't be surprised if sin sees play in some fights over OL / Sub.

#

I'd probably be surprised if it didn't.

compact mortar
#

are you guys also experiencing bugs with tracking implacable?

severe meadow
compact mortar
#

checked the pin, thanks

balmy condor
solar wyvern
runic hinge
#

Oh

spice surge
#

Well the cost of cleave is quite low as assa

#

But yeah its not free

runic hinge
#

Idk I have no looked at raid talents that much

#

Mostly cause there haven’t been any raids xd

solar wyvern
#

Yeh u gotta drop doomblade !!!!!!!@

#

Hehe but no u gotta drop quite abit to take secondary bomb ct precision spatter

#

Maybe just spatter is enough but idk

spice surge
#

I dont remember the exact numbers but it definitely wasnt a huge deal, since stuff like poison bomb is actually good even for ST

compact mortar
#

by the look of the raid we will be using the raid cleave build for most of the fights?

bright turret
#

i wanna brain dead press CT on a boss instead of tab/mouseover dotting

fallow canopy
balmy condor
spice surge
balmy condor
#

(I will have to inevitably adjust it)

haughty flicker
azure carbon
storm forum
#

How do we feel about chocolate covered pretzels here?

royal lantern
storm forum
#

I used to not like them but I'm coming around

azure carbon
#

Yogurt covered pretzels>chocolate covered pretzels. And it's not even close, tbh.

storm forum
#

I'll try them. That sounds bad but no one has ever given me bad food advice in this channel

balmy condor
#

TWO normal distributions

azure carbon
#

Is the second one even a normal distribution? Kind of looks like 3 to me, TBH.

balmy condor
#

idk, that first one around 45k seems to be oblong enough to count as one

#

just a very flat one

runic hinge
#

Why is it like that tho

spice surge
#

Some iterations get stuck somehow

subtle tundra
#

he was born like that..

haughty flicker
azure carbon
#

😂 not sure anyone could tell you that. Clearly something's in the apl caused it to explode and stop doing things.

royal lantern
#

i feel offended by you mfs saying that this shit exists in the first place

vestal wren
fallow canopy
#

Imagine having easy access to pretzels

vestal wren
#

which causes the low dps results

haughty flicker
#

insanity

spice surge
#

Like maybe they have a "use tigers fury at 5 combo points" and "dont use a builder when tigers fury is ready" and it sits at like 3 cp for the rest of the iteration

#

Just as an example

frosty cedar
#

am I giga stupid or is there a reason why I sometimes am getting 2 combo points after envenoming, presumably from poisoners drive, I cant figure out why

spice surge
#

Its from the coin critting

frosty cedar
#

lmfao

#

banger

royal lantern
spice surge
fallow canopy
runic hinge
#

Holy shit assa op

#

Extra hero talent

haughty flicker
spice surge
#

Is chocolate pretzel the "pineapply pizza to italians" but for germans?

haughty flicker
#

tbh im just now learning that they apparently arent common everywhere

coral ibex
#

italians care about pineapple on pizza?

#

i thought that was an american thing

storm forum
#

I also didn't realize chocolate pretzels existing was a contentious topic

coral ibex
#

chocolate pretzels are a common bagged candy in america

storm forum
#

My bad

coral ibex
#

you can find them in literally every gas station convenience store

shy heron
coral ibex
#

in fact i had chocolate pretzels over the weekend

haughty flicker
#

a big chocolate soft pretzel

#

sounds a bit cursed

#

but i'd be willing to try it

storm forum
#

Maybe dipping a big pretzel in a chocolate sauce could be good

shy heron
#

I feel like that's beer cheese or mustard for dipping only

storm forum
#

Beer chocolate sounds like it has potential

spice surge
storm forum
#

But now that I've said it out loud maybe it's cursed

coral ibex
#

ive eaten a gorillion of these in my life

vestal wren
#

but germans like to put cream based sauce on Wiener Schnitzel, which is equal to some of the italian crimes you can commit like breaking your spaghetti

shy heron
#

you mean like a bechamel sauce?

vestal wren
#

they usually like to put "jägersauce"

shy heron
#

that's a mushroom gravy right?

#

jägersoße?

vestal wren
#

yes, its basically a cream based sauce with champingions

balmy condor
#

and it's the best thing ever invented

storm forum
#

When you say weiner schnitzel do you mean the flat fried cutlet or the hot dog?

vestal wren
#

means you have a perfectly crisp schnitzel and then burry it in sauce making it all soggy

storm forum
#

Oh my God it's like chicken parm

coral ibex
#

there is no hot dog

sharp grove
#

are sin sims counting the execute phase?

shy heron
#

it's like chicken parm yeah

balmy condor
coral ibex
#

i mean its basically veal parm but with a cream sauce

jolly stirrup
coral ibex
#

instead of tomato

jolly stirrup
#

I never seen something like this

shy heron
#

but with mushroom gravy instead of a tomato reduction yes

sharp grove
haughty flicker
#

im actually kind of stunlocked chocolate pretzels are an american thing

balmy condor
haughty flicker
#

it feels like such an obvious combination

#

sweet and salty is a classic flavor combo

balmy condor
#

if my youtube comments are anything to go by

#

we are both perma cooked

#

and perma too happy

#

so

#

just wait till the raid actually comes out

#

and we'll see what happens

storm forum
#

God I love the internet

vestal wren
#

i am curios how the bosses are tuned

#

the raid looks fun

balmy condor
#

I agree

storm forum
#

This is making me crave chicken schnitzel, I'm gonna have some tomorrow

vestal wren
coral ibex
#

wat

shy heron
#

because americans associate the word wiener with a food product and not a word meaning person from vienna

sharp viper
drifting cloud
shy heron
#

I mean hell we even have "vienna sausages" which are just canned sausages and as far as I know have nothing to do with Wien

balmy condor
shy heron
storm forum
vestal wren
#

@shy heron is this an outlaw tier?

turbid sandal
#

Am I blind or does Wangbar not have a profile setting? I want to have different Combo thresholds for Assa/Sub/Outlaw

shy heron
storm forum
#

Please tell me Wangbar is the real name of an addon lmao

spice surge
#

Yes

turbid sandal
spice surge
#

Locally produced

sharp viper
coral ibex
#

you have to maintain the unbothered chad facade until the 5% aura buff + CT damage nerf + garrote/rupture buff hit and then you can rip the hardest packwatch of all time

#

but if you cry and shit your pants and close your discord

frosty cedar
#

wangbar is goated

coral ibex
#

there's no coming back

balmy condor
#

sub's low target cleave in the raid is really bad honestly

I think they should add back rupture

vestal wren
#

master baiter

sharp viper
#

having 2 minute cooldowns is way too strong, that means it lines up with a second bloodlust more easily

#

90s cooldowns is way weaker

slate birch
forest nacelle
#

wish they would fix the CDM for implacable 😠

#

keeps disappearing

fallow canopy
slate birch
haughty flicker
#

#forthepeople

storm forum
idle radish
#

Np

fallow canopy
#

wangers rise

idle radish
#

But also fuck u for not using it

#

But ty

balmy condor
#

are you personally fucking everyone that's not using it

azure carbon
idle radish
#

Yes and yes

#

I’m cocking them

balmy condor
#

is there like a queue system I need to sign up to

#

waitlist type shit

fallow canopy
#

same question

azure carbon
#

Oh. Well I guess I can't use wangbar anymore. 👀

slate birch
fallow canopy
#

and does it count if I used it but recently for unrelated reasons I stopped

idle radish
#

Ill review all cases

#

And wang accordingly

glass moon
#

hey i never really played a rogue just leveled them - - how hard are rogues to get really decent at ? ?

azure carbon
#

Define really decent.

storm forum
#

How bad is ur adhd?

glass moon
#

able to kill a npc with out using any poations

jolly stirrup
#

take of that what you will

#

^^

azure carbon
glass moon
#

alright thanks guys i made a harandar rogue for looks mainly

haughty flicker
#

haranir is sick

royal lantern
thorn thorn
azure carbon
#

If you're playing Sub, which imo is right choice for leveling, just smash dance on everything - and if dance is down stun stuff till dance back up. It's pretty smooth.

glass moon
#

alright i will keep playing him - the more i play him the better i get i hope - thanks guys

cyan kestrel
#

on the wowhead page it has us taking 2/2 lethal dose for m+ and on icyveins it has 2/2 Fatal Concotion instead, is one of the sites out of date or are the talents just very close in value?

balmy condor
#

icyveins is a bit outdated

#

me and seli are both setting guides live and doing a lot of edit passes cause we're the respective guide managers for wowhead/icyveins

#

I share my notes with seli, so the guides will eventually sync back up

#

but it's a bit stressful atm

cyan kestrel
#

all good u guys do great ^^ ❤️ i just didnt know which was older bc they both say updated on 2/25

#

does fatal work on Kingsbane? I can never remember if that counts as a weapon poison

balmy condor
#

no

#

weapon poisons are the 1 hour buffs

#

kingsbane is a regular poison

#

and it will count for like, lethal dose

#

and zoldyck

cyan kestrel
shell kraken
#

So what do you guys predicte regarding the raid and Raid general vs Raid ST build

humble verge
#

sub

shell kraken
#

?

humble verge
#

or bench

shell kraken
#

What spec do we use at bench?

humble verge
#

assa

slate birch
onyx crane
humble verge
#

im just joking

#

idek

slate birch
shell kraken
#

Sure sure, but ST or AoE version?

bright turret
#

sin will get big aura buff, and then funnel the secret final boss to death

humble verge
#

it just feels assa is bench again first weeks of tier

#

atleast if youre gonna try raid at a high level

slate birch
#

it'll be fine

#

lowkey

onyx crane
#

low key, we can't just keep doing 7's

humble verge
#

wdym

slate birch
frosty cedar
#

last boss starts at 35% hp there will be no aura buff

humble verge
#

we are aura

slate birch
#

or crown?

frosty cedar
#

midnight falls but im spreading misinformation cope on the internet

#

this is my personal cope

#

u can share it if u want

slate birch
buoyant herald
#

3% aura buff inc

#

As is tradition

#

Might high roll and get 4% but I don’t want to jinx it

slate birch
#

we are getting a 6% aura buff

buoyant herald
slate birch
#

it has been manifested

foggy moat
#

anything less than 15 would be an afront to rooshkind xd

frosty cedar
balmy condor
#

midnight falls?

#

in spring?

strange onyx
#

Midnight has fallen

#

Assa has risen

#

Doubters will not be here

onyx crane
#

assassagenda

strange onyx
#

Knowers will preserver

frosty cedar
#

assassagenda is when we all sandbag in hc correct

strange onyx
#

Some of you will sandbag just by showing up, but you shall be the stepping stones of the great

balmy condor
#

if they touch energy I would be genuinely surprised

spice surge
#

That would indeed be very surprising

polar sail
#

If not 24 march 30 march

balmy condor
#

energy is honestly where it should be

#

st buff, aoe nerf is most realisitc

polar sail
#

little more we want energy not to much we dont want starve

strange onyx
#

Mut / Amb increased, Imp Garr nerf Caustic %randomized either up or down, Envenom dmg increase

flint tusk
#

I want to add my unhealthy dose of doom so assassination gets some tuning (yes fatebound is higher no i have no idea if this info is correct or verified)

Guy's it's so over. oh woah is me sims say bad me cry

frosty cedar
#

it is time to nerf energy

safe frigate
#

@balmy condor is Ass rogue a good prescience target?

balmy condor
#

idk, you tell me

strange onyx
stuck lodge
#

I feel like an AoE nerf might be unnecessary, can't really even get a good idea of our AoE DPS right now

safe frigate
safe frigate
frosty cedar
#

we do enjoy crit but do we do dmg

#

time will tell

flint tusk
frosty cedar
balmy condor
#

and in beta keys, assassination was kinda owning

spice surge
frosty cedar
#

they should remove caustic spatter and buff bleeds

#

caustic spatter is the enemy

stuck lodge
frosty cedar
#

right now its m0 so I dont think that counts as keys at all, stuff is definitely getting oneshotted

stuck lodge
#

oof, I've never done keys that high

subtle tundra
#

so real

#

king

frosty cedar
#

real

strange onyx
#

Taking it down in 2 min

flint tusk
frosty cedar
#

new tuning update

#

they buffed fire mage

#

we are not listed

flint tusk
#

holy fuck

frosty cedar
flint tusk
#

those are huge

#

And the following Retribution Paladin note has been adjusted, with an additional new bug fix.

Final Verdict damage increased by ~~30%~~ 15%.

We got any ret pally watchers?

strange onyx
#

I was a ret main for many years

storm forum
#

Blizzard pls stop, every time we get ignored in a balance blue post my cock shrinks 1 inch T.T

frosty cedar
#

im telling you guys blizzard knows something we dont

#

last boss IS starting at 35% hp you can refer back to this post

flint tusk
#

12 assa rogues in rwf

#

incoming

strange onyx
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I think you will be surprised by rogue spec with cleave and cds

frosty cedar
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thanks loa of misinformation

pulsar coral
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amg last minute tuning update looks inside rip

storm forum
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The execute cleave is gonna go CRAZY

bright turret
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final boss will have add waves with a super high priority add starts at 30% hp you want funneled down

misty holly
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How bad is Strength of Halazzi enchant? The one that makes an 18 second dot.

celest helm
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or feelscraft it and let us know

misty holly
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Well I just had to craft several of them for skill points, so Im hoping they aren't too crap.

haughty flicker
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They likely are very crap

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Better than nothing tho

misty holly
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Blizzard scared to give people a dot since gushing wounds.