#assassination

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burnt ember
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Sure fair, on some mobs absolutely

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Like the banshees in WRS

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Very relevant there

spice spire
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Caustic exists

gilded oasis
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wym our aoe is cleave off a single target

zealous moth
burnt ember
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But even in high keys there are many pulls where nothing is dangerous enough to bother focusing on

zealous moth
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caustic spatter exists

spice spire
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Big health or kick target

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Caustic

zealous moth
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you are increasing poison dps with dm

gilded oasis
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just pick the bro that looked at you funny and DM it

zealous moth
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which directly increases your cs damage

coral ibex
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i mean it sounds like you just kinda dont get it, like in a general sense

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and by it i mean how to do damage in a dungeon

spice spire
burnt ember
burnt ember
coral ibex
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you dont want one fat guy to remain after all the shitters die

zealous moth
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dm didnt do anything

gilded oasis
burnt ember
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Yes but most of the time that’s not even happening my friend.

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Most packs die evenly

zealous moth
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but why would you do that when you can hit a target with 6m+ health

burnt ember
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In most every level of m+

mellow oriole
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Do you hold DM and Kingsbane if you'll get to the boss within 2 minutes?

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in m+

coral ibex
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no

zealous moth
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no

coral ibex
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you should be sending cds on cd unless you your target will die early

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if a dungeon lasts 25 minutes you should have cast DM 13 times

gilded oasis
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or save them all for the next dungeon I guess

zealous moth
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dm is 16 seconds, do you think your target will die in less than that?

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if yes, save

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or swap target

spice spire
zealous moth
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if no, send full cds

burnt ember
zealous moth
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what

burnt ember
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That’s why deathstalker doesn’t fit

zealous moth
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in what dungeon are you swapping targets because of mechanics?

burnt ember
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You should always be tabbing based on mob proximity

haughty flicker
zealous moth
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Tabbing

burnt ember
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Unless you’re deathstalker

gilded oasis
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idk im always in range of my target

zealous moth
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ok now i know this is bait

coral ibex
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bro HATES amplifying poison procs

burnt ember
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In which case you have to attack one thing

coral ibex
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yea this is insane bait

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xd

haughty flicker
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im glad i looked in here

burnt ember
haughty flicker
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this is a banger

gilded oasis
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I just stand in the corner and throw dagger honestly

zealous moth
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very based

gilded oasis
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tab, throw dagger, tab throw dagger, tab, throw dagger

zealous moth
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throw knife insane ToT value

spice spire
golden loom
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I mean havoc DH is badly designed cause you chaos strike (a single target spell) like 10 times in a row even in aoe! (Ignore all the aoe stuff you also do)

coral ibex
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arcane mage did nothing except cleave off a single target for all of TWW and it was one of the best specs the entire time

burnt ember
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I’m imagining all of you just missing uptime because your 7th bad tank of the day doesn’t know how to not pull mobs away from you and into puddles, forcing you to tab to something in range while you’re out of the puddle

golden loom
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Cloak and stand in the puddle garf

zealous moth
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literally

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cloak and stand in puddle

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lmfao

burnt ember
gilded oasis
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just play with a tank with half a brain cell

burnt ember
haughty flicker
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what you're describing isnt needing perfect play lmao

gilded oasis
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yes taking 2 steps out of a puddle is playing perfectly

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he got me

golden loom
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Idk what melee class does well if the tank has the pack inside of an inferno?

gilded oasis
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only top 1% of m+ers do that

zealous moth
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literally only scenario where i stand still doing nothing is when tank valeera is holding a single add in fire

golden loom
zealous moth
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otherwise, not an issue i have ran into

burnt ember
spice surge
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?

zealous moth
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why are you playing ds anyway

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go fb

spice surge
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Deathstalker isnt played because the numbers are low

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It was played literally all of tww

golden loom
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Yeah you played ds the whole of war within

gilded oasis
burnt ember
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Oh I’m not playing DS. It sucks both in numbers and in playstyle. FB is way better. I just think buffing DS’s numbers is silly when it needs a rework.

zealous moth
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it didnt get buffed tho

waxen oyster
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.....what

zealous moth
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did it?

burnt ember
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I’m mad about the 0.5 changes not going far enough

waxen oyster
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DS was fine in keys

burnt ember
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In 0.5*

waxen oyster
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i literally played it two entire seasons

golden loom
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Assa, arcane and havoc were all super good specs in season 3 cause they were all funnel specs

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Literally designed to kill 1 target

south zinc
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I’m new to assassination rogue, when it comes to pooling, is there any sort of gauge as to when you should? Is it just when kingsbane is coming back off cd?

burnt ember
sacred oyster
waxen oyster
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yeah they just tuned it lower

golden loom
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I mean yeah sure the design of ds is bad I can give you that

waxen oyster
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the only design flaw of ds as if mark was on a target than went immune

gilded oasis
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or friendly

burnt ember
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Yeah like my only point here is that it needs reworked because like funneling in melee is a lil bit ❓ in a lot of m+ and raid situations

waxen oyster
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funneling is literally fine

golden loom
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Yeah that point I dont get

zealous moth
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i mean if you go to wowhead the first thing you will see when checking the talents is that you prefer going fb for dungeons because of the improved qol over the absolute miniscule dps gain that ds could provide

waxen oyster
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the problem was you'd lose mark if the target became non hittable

spice spire
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Funneling is how packs die at the same time

golden loom
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Most packs in m+ have an important target to kill

zealous moth
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that still has nothing to do with what you were saying about dm

spice spire
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Otherwise you’d have one fatty left in several packs

golden loom
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And then you can bring the rest of the shitters to the next pack

spice spire
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And 0 damage for it

golden loom
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Chaining is good

waxen oyster
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the ret paladin asking you to look at details

burnt ember
waxen oyster
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as he pads on little slimes before blight of galakrond

zealous moth
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other than maybe dm flips 2 coins or some shit like that

zealous moth
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maybe i lost the plot at some point

waxen oyster
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like if ds compensated you for your mark target going immune

gilded oasis
waxen oyster
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the hero tree is literally fine

gilded oasis
zealous moth
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right?

south zinc
golden loom
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Or just make garroting a target without a mark apply the mark -> solved hero talent

zealous moth
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should be getting DN if target becomes immune for whatever reason

waxen oyster
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yeah again the design of the hero talent is fine

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just losing your mark to outside factors is giga stupid

burnt ember
# golden loom And then you can bring the rest of the shitters to the next pack

That’s true in a lot of situations but I’ve found, at least in this m+ pool, there seem to be fewer situations where it’s totally necessary. I was testing DS with ‘sin earlier this season on some 12s and honestly things died so evenly most of the time that deathmark ends up just feeling irrelevant in practice.

waxen oyster
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some people lose their mark from not paying attention

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though

south zinc
gilded oasis
burnt ember
tight ginkgo
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Sniping low health adds for Mark Maxing? HOLY

gilded oasis
subtle tundra
golden loom
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Idk if you mean deathmark the 2 min cd or deathstalkers mark if I am being honest

golden loom
waxen oyster
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Ok riddle me this

zealous moth
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but for most of tww fb was unplayable for ass

waxen oyster
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how is fatebound designed well

waxen oyster
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its literally just a passive tree

burnt ember
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Good catch

subtle tundra
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tope, the past tense of type

zealous moth
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best tree

subtle tundra
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bro dont know basic england

burnt ember
waxen oyster
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fatebound is the most uninteractive hero tree

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it wasnt even "unplayable"

golden loom
waxen oyster
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it just simmed lower

tight ginkgo
golden loom
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"using garotte on your active target applies a mark etc etc bam boom"

chilly horizon
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is there an addon or weakaura for envenom stack tracking?

waxen oyster
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sorry i should have not forgotten slightly lower sim=unplayable

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to wow community

gilded oasis
golden loom
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Fatebound coinflip sounds are great tho @waxen oyster

waxen oyster
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fatebound was literally barebones sin except your finishers sometimes procced more damage

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or gave you a damage amp

frosty cedar
burnt ember
waxen oyster
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is the biggest cope

golden loom
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Ye true idk what it even is tbh, cosmic gambler?

zealous moth
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i mean thats a bit of a weird takeaway

golden loom
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When I could be thor

waxen oyster
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you could literally paste it on any class

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since it has no real interaction

zealous moth
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i dont think anyone said it was greatly designed

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i just said ds is badly designed

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fb is boring

waxen oyster
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from mark being lost if a mob went immune

zealous moth
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ds is annoying because the mark is not a buff on us

waxen oyster
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that was the sole reason

burnt ember
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So I agree

waxen oyster
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like assa focusing a mark target

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isnt bad

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random losing your mark due to immune shenanigans however

zealous moth
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that is mostly fixed tho

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right?

waxen oyster
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so whats the problem with ds

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now

zealous moth
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they supposedly made it so that if the marked target became immune

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you just get dn

golden loom
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Aren't the bugs even worse atm?

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Idk

zealous moth
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or at least it gets removed

real pike
waxen oyster
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yeah but i dont count bugs as design

real pike
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I'm deffo gonna give DS a whirl in m+

zealous moth
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so moving it is cancer

burnt ember
zealous moth
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and their bandaid is "heres a button that moves it, go fuck yourself"

waxen oyster
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Why do you need to constantly move it

real pike
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the mark thing is really overstated imo

zealous moth
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not constantly

real pike
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it's really not that bad

waxen oyster
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its really not that bad

real pike
zealous moth
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but why do we need it to be on the target tho

gilded oasis
zealous moth
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like what would be the big gamebreaking upside to just having it be a buff on us

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instead of a debuff on an enemy

zealous moth
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FB can already target whatever tf you want

real pike
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so use the 20 sec cooldown or press cloak or deal with it

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that's literally the challenge

zealous moth
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why cant ds do that too?

waxen oyster
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i mean assa being a dot spec means you cant as readily swap to another target

gilded oasis
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forgot my /s sorry

waxen oyster
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the way sub can either

golden loom
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Yeah I mean I thought it was fine during tww when you were able to for example vanish ambush to move the mark, only being able to move it with darkest night is horrid imo

zealous moth
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they gave us a button that spreads cleaves

real pike
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tww was fome

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fine

waxen oyster
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like you cant readily swap anyway when you need to dot up a new target

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as is

zealous moth
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with fb you drop garrote rupture ct ct ct and now you can hit whatever you want without a downside

golden loom
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Cause its not like you can vanish garrote or anything similar

zealous moth
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just press ct until your new target gets the bleeds from other adds

waxen oyster
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why are you hitting an undotted mob

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what the helly

golden loom
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For example if you went into mugzee cage you could vanish ambush to mark the gaol target

zealous moth
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youre missing the point tho

golden loom
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Now you would have to hold DN in that situation

waxen oyster
zealous moth
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with DS you are forced to hit the target with dsm

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if you want to swap target you need to either kill it or consume the 3 stacks

shell kraken
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Has anyone tried Potion of Recklessness?

zealous moth
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which limits the speed at which you can swap targets

waxen oyster
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I mean i preferred the tww version

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personally

burnt ember
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No one is saying you’re hitting an undotted mob. They are saying there’s many situations where funneling is maybe not always the best strategy based on a wide variety of circumstances, and DS forces you to do it, making it feel bad in those wide variety of circumstances.

zealous moth
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adding the fact that you need to dot the new target anyway

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FB doesnt have that

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so you just have to worry about dots

waxen oyster
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fb doesnt have anything

zealous moth
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like, your question is valid

waxen oyster
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its just passive damage

zealous moth
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it still applies to DS as well

shell kraken
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"Losing 213 of your lowest stats", but I currently only have 54 vers - will I go negative?

burnt ember
golden loom
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Like okay nightmare scenario, play DS on chimeras garf

burnt ember
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I would prefer nothing to DS.

waxen oyster
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idk my only gripe to DS is removing the ability to move it

golden loom
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But now imagine you could just move the mark with garrote

zealous moth
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genuine question

waxen oyster
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trickster is the only good hero tree imo

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of rogue

zealous moth
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its just less noticeable for us but think this

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whitout FB and DS

burnt ember
zealous moth
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what reason do you have to spend 5+ cp?

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you can just send a 2cp envenom

golden loom
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No

waxen oyster
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you probably would still send 5

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with a 7 max

zealous moth
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oh yeah because of stratagem

waxen oyster
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you sent 4 when it was 5 max

real pike
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like you just have to see what's about to happen in the fight

zealous moth
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but if the damage gain is the same per combo point, there is no point to spend a set ammount

real pike
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and time your Darkest Night

waxen oyster
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I mean there's alot of things i disagree with.

real pike
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I like the challenge of doing it

waxen oyster
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Like I thing IC shouldnt exist

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as a talent

zealous moth
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just builder > spender > builder > spender

waxen oyster
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IC just makes assa way too easy

golden loom
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And you have to wait for it to die

zealous moth
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you know what would solve this issue forever?

real pike
zealous moth
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making DSM a buff on us

golden loom
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We dont have it yet?

waxen oyster
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they really should just refund you DN

real pike
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so we're discussing the iteration of a spec that is going to be changed drastically imminently

waxen oyster
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in that scenario

real pike
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what's the point of that

golden loom
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Also the ability isnt gonna be used to move the mark

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Its gonna be used to snipe shitter mobs for DN

zealous moth
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yup

real pike
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well that's a decision

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that's good, it allows for dynamic decision making and skill expression instead of just following a script

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I like it

zealous moth
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i mean

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they literally dumbed down all specs to make them easier to play

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that would go against their current design

waxen oyster
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not much to dumb down about assa

zealous moth
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true

waxen oyster
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besides people cant count single digits

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but wcyd

golden loom
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Off the gcd ranged ability so you can just mouseover an orb on vaelgoer and then darkest night the boss garf

zealous moth
waxen oyster
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Like honestly i kind of hate

zealous moth
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dsm spent 3 seasons being bugged

waxen oyster
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IC and SD

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they made this spec way too simplified

zealous moth
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just rip the bandaid and make it a buff

waxen oyster
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then people being like "assa too slow"

zealous moth
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or instead of giving us another button, fully bake that functionality into garrote

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the limitation of "as long as DN or DSM are not active" makes absolutely 0 sense

golden loom
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Also singular focus not working with caustic for season 3 is a total failure

waxen oyster
zealous moth
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it should only be if DSM is not active on the target

golden loom
zealous moth
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we already spread bleeds with CT, so that makes no sense

golden loom
waxen oyster
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yeah

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mark itself was fine outside of immune mobs

zealous moth
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just losing your entire hero tree because

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until you get vanish up

waxen oyster
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though it didnt happen often

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and thankfully vanish wasnt a dps cd

golden loom
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There was also the envenoming a mob as it died to nuke your mark

zealous moth
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ToP first boss

waxen oyster
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m+

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🤢

zealous moth
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was there a council fight on s2?

waxen oyster
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by the time first boss died you restealthed

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on the way down

golden loom
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Did not touch ds outside of m+

zealous moth
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oh, not a bug but

waxen oyster
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ngl....

zealous moth
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flarendo and torq, if you didnt sync DSM with swap

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you just lose it bc it stayed on the other boss

waxen oyster
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?

golden loom
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That was a great scenario for vanish ambush

waxen oyster
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you just early swapped

golden loom
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Cause you played vv and not imp garrote

waxen oyster
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to the one you were going to

haughty flicker
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ye that was just a vanish angle if you messed it up

waxen oyster
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lol

zealous moth
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yeah, thats what im saying

haughty flicker
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until you mess it up then press ambush too early after vanish and it doesnt work

zealous moth
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to avoid that, they tied dsm to garrote

waxen oyster
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flarendo it was a non issue

zealous moth
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but it still works exactly like vanish ambush

waxen oyster
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unless you were just an idiot

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idk

zealous moth
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because you still cant swap it at will

zealous moth
haughty flicker
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i mean lets not pretend everyone plays perfectly 100% of the time

golden loom
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No its not at all like vanish ambush

zealous moth
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it happened to me until i got used to the flow of the fight

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just time it better

waxen oyster
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and yeah vanish covered the few times you fucked up

golden loom
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Currently if you have mark on flarendo there would be no way other than getting darkest night and using that on torq

haughty flicker
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yeah now its just worse

golden loom
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Or I guess letting mark expire and then garrote

waxen oyster
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all you had to do was hit the guy you were swapping to early

zealous moth
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exactly

haughty flicker
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huge gaming

waxen oyster
zealous moth
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and instead of addressing that

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its just a bandaid button

waxen oyster
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but again trickster is the only good hero tree

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on rogue

zealous moth
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what does it even do?

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other than the unseen blade

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which is just cleave premium

golden loom
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1 hour tricks

zealous moth
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cleave gold +

golden loom
zealous moth
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true

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that is such a random talent

waxen oyster
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you also cnat get parried

haughty flicker
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double coup was a lot of fun on sub last season

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ngl

zealous moth
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istg it feels like they were considering making ToT baseline 1hr

gilded oasis
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if I can't get parried, what is even the point of the game

zealous moth
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and just ran out of ideas for trickster

gilded oasis
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I love being parried

haughty flicker
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actually made it feel like rogue had a decent hero tree

golden loom
zealous moth
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ohhh i forgot about coup

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sorry i just play ass

real pike
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like even in TWW I felt like DS was fun and FB too simple for my liking

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and now FB is super dull and DS isn't played

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they should either make one the raid spec and the other m+

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or have it so DS has higher damage potential but only when played well, FB better otherwise

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but having FB ahead in damage everywhere sucks imo

zealous moth
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i mean isnt that the case for most specs?

real pike
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isn't what

zealous moth
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1 spec is best for all content because of tuning

golden loom
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Fatebound was also unplayable for 2/3,5 patches its been out so far

zealous moth
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yeah sorry didnt clarify

real pike
signal karma
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i swear sims must be somewhat inaccurate with some of this stuff, i can't see how fully upgraded heroic solarflare, the next best passive trinket besides alnseer, is simming .1% better than the champ renown trinket

golden loom
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I mean so is ds now?

cedar crater
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bois, am i going sin now or what?

zealous moth
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like it looks like all specs are runing 1 hero tree for all contect because the other one is undertuned

real pike
golden loom
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Ds is like 3% behind, fatebound was 20% behind in aoe

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They are both very simple

golden loom
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For both arms and fury

analog field
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What do you mean fine?

zealous moth
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they scream at me and i hit harder

analog field
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Also the point is not to make simple specs or trees be worse than harder

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The point they are trying to get to is have everything around the same DPS so you play what you like

signal karma
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@balmy condor is there a quirk with the crucible trinket i'm not aware of with sims? this thing at champ sims within .1% of every single fully maxed hero trinket besides alnseer and puzzlebox, which seems incorrect

golden loom
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Trinket is good

zealous moth
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it is just stronk

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big crit a lot of times for a lot of time

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and also is a trinket you get from a quest

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no rng involved

gilded oasis
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what is life with no rng

spice surge
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Yeah trinket is good

analog field
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My champ plume Sims higher than the renown one

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on champion track even

zealous moth
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Probably yeah

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Depends on the trinket

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Myth maxed solarflare prism simmed BARELY better than it for me today

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700 dps gain

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And it gives double the crit

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But if you full upgrade the trink with the console it ends up giving almost the same crit value

signal karma
zealous moth
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Between amount/proc rate/uptime

analog field
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m gearing is practically vault gearing every Wednesday

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Nothing more you can do

signal karma
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isn't the upgrades at the console pointless besides the 3 nodes that give the protocol buffs

real pike
real pike
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you mean the easier hero talent is better?

signal karma
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if not having campfires, a mount, and tower defense towers is lowering my dps this game has truly gone too far

tender condor
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any changes to our rotation given the buffs the last few weeks?

analog field
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literally losing like 10% on the 50-50 or something

real pike
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ok yeah that is very poor

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think everyone can agree that the amount of time impactful bugs are left on rogue is extremely poor

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I will try playing DS cause I find it more engaging, but I have to admit it really feelsbadman knowing that I'd be doing more damage on a much simpler hero tree

real pike
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it's just common sense to me that the more complex and challenging spec should be higher reward

waxen oyster
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the trinket is like

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70-80% uptime

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or some wild shit

balmy condor
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Can’t do that in a multiplayer game

sand elm
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do u guys run caustic on beloren?

real pike
maiden tapir
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Do we slam kingsbane after one envenom ?

real pike
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it was like that in early TWW and I thought it worked well

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or like I said when DS was for m+ and FB was for raid

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that was nice too

real pike
heavy sentinel
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is sin better than sub yet i need to justify switching to my raid team

sacred oyster
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just switch and dont say anything

coral ibex
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its been better for everything except bursting aoe on shitters that die instantly

sacred oyster
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way i see it, if the ads die so quick you cant even do anything to them, then you switching to them is a net negative, just stay on boss. If the ads are staying alive long enough and group is wiping because you didnt help kill them, then help. either way, if your outputting damage in a way that is helping the group win, it shouldnt matter.

dapper oracle
heavy sentinel
coral ibex
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yea like what are they gonna say, they know rogue better than you?

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you only need to be able to say like 2-3 smart sounding sentences that imply you know what you're talking about

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and they'll just let you do whatever you want

shell plaza
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every tier ill just say - ill play whats best for the raid comp

subtle kiln
#

so not assa OMEGAKEKW

shell plaza
#

im almost always playing assa

#

if im asked - well thats best for our raid team

fallow canopy
#

Just say buzzwords like prio execute and timings

shell plaza
#

damage profile, cleave

balmy condor
spice surge
#

In multiplayer games that effectively translates to the easier things being useless

balmy condor
#

Yeh

#

I hate to keep yapping about it but Maplestory has this problem as well because homogenization is way less there

#

There’s a legit 300 apm, animation cancelling character called blaster

haughty flicker
balmy condor
#

And the opposite is like bowmaster, you press cd macro and hold down a button

#

But they deal similar damage

#

Blaster is just insano hard to play

#

But it caters to a niche of players that want that gameplay and thematic

#

If you made blaster do crazy ass damage, you would just alienate 99% of the player base instantly because not playing blaster would mean you’re a shitter playing a dogshit class

cloud dune
#

So like rogues

#

In WoW

balmy condor
#

I mean, yes, to a way lesser extent

#

Rogue is not hard

real pike
haughty flicker
#

mfw the point is fun

balmy condor
#

No, the alternative is harder thing can be enjoyed by people who want it

spice surge
#

Well no because some people find the harder things fun

#

Then both people can play together

balmy condor
#

See also: all the people bitching about sub being boring

cloud dune
#

I used to play sub

real pike
#

yeah but if you're playing competitively or at a relatively high level, it's gimping yourself to play the sub par choice

#

I don't think there's an easy answer

#

to be clear

cloud dune
#

I dont anymore because it's boring (:

real pike
#

I think it's really hard to get right either way

balmy condor
#

You’re not gimping yourself, that’s the point

haughty flicker
#

the point is the goal would be for them to be similar to each other regardless of difficulty

spice surge
real pike
haughty flicker
#

the path you want would exacerbate that issue by both intentionally tuning one spec ahead of the others, and making it harder so more people are alienated away from it

cloud dune
#

I'm also ok with rogue not being super top tier meta because it means we aren't swarmed with fotm players

spice surge
#

Theyre both just press button specs garf_sit

balmy condor
#

Yeah but sub has less buttons

haughty flicker
balmy condor
#

Mental overhead or whatever

spice surge
#

It had less buttons before too

real pike
haughty flicker
#

assa was always the hardest rogue spec confirmed

real pike
#

not always and not massively

#

but was the case when gaming was a niche thing

bleak star
#

hows the buffs today

real pike
#

as it's become more mainstream, its had to be more accessible

#

I do get that

balmy condor
#

It’s the same way blizzard doesn’t tune the game around mythic

#

Or liquid

real pike
#

yeah ofc I appreciate the game has to stay popular, profitable, etc

spice surge
#

Idk doesnt really have much to do with that

#

Just more people have fun

balmy condor
#

Yeh, it’s not corporate really

#

It’s just how you have to do things for the game to function

real pike
#

lol what

#

ofc everything is corporate these days

#

especially with massive studios like Actiblizz

balmy condor
#

Corporate doesn’t care if bm hunter is the best spec

#

Or how big the gap is between fb and ds

real pike
#

I genuinely think corporate 100% cares that the more popular specs are better or at least not dog

real pike
#

those guys are measured HARD on player count, retention, all the usual business metrics

#

it's a different world up the top

balmy condor
real pike
#

still both playable

#

hence not dog

balmy condor
#

Okay

haughty flicker
#

ret was really good for like a patch and a half post rework and ever since then people act like it was always a great spec

#

ignoring the fact that being mid was the best they could hope for like a decade previous to that

#

despite being one of the most popular specs in the game

balmy condor
#

By your own argument earlier though it feels like if they’re not the best, they’re unplayable

#

So idk

#

Like Hunter has a better ranged spec and a better melee spec

final geode
#

should we all be playing assassination for our main m+ specs now

real pike
balmy condor
#

I mean depending on the patch, that happens yes

real pike
balmy condor
#

But that’s not like a stated goal

real pike
#

that's why I come here to have these debates

balmy condor
#

Like imagine if you decided to play a rogue

#

Sub was harder

#

And rogue happened to be a class where harder = better

#

Why would as a new rogue ever bother learning assa or outlaw

#

It’s not viable

#

And considered bad

real pike
#

well by your logic because it's fun

#

it fills a niche

#

that's what you were saying no

#

because people enjoy it?

balmy condor
#

Because that would collapse the rogue fun

balmy condor
haughty flicker
#

you can choose to learn and play the spec you enjoy because they arent intentionally tuning one to always be better than others

#

the way you're wanting, that simply isnt a choice

#

because one spec would always be tuned to be better

balmy condor
#

Like no matter how you try and get around it, if you reward difficulty, you eliminate people that want to one trick

#

I wouldn’t be able to one trick assa

real pike
#

I think my feelings are definitely fuelled by an old man shouts at clouds view I have on gaming in general, that gaming is become more simplified, homogenised, and less rewarding in general

balmy condor
#

The feral mains couldn’t one trick melee druid

real pike
#

skill gaps are being reduced and stabalisers everywhere

balmy condor
#

They’d be forced into boomkins right

#

Etc etc

real pike
#

it frustrated me and I recognise that

#

frustrates*

balmy condor
#

It’s just not the big popular games

#

Because it can’t be

mystic urchin
#

how do you sim assasination, my sims seem so wrong. 75k dps on 2 target boss for 5 minutes seems kinda low for ilvl 240 no?

balmy condor
#

But even something like binding of Isaac has that

balmy condor
#

I’m simming like 114? At 274

#

You’re 34 ilvl down

#

That’s a massive drop

vocal basalt
mystic urchin
#

How come Assa is so ass? Its worse than I thought

spice surge
#

Its not

mystic urchin
#

But why is it fun still

lime onyx
#

It feels really good for st and for M+

vocal basalt
#

The key here is balance, which some companies struggle deeply with.

balmy condor
#

Assa is good

real pike
#

it's frustrating

lime onyx
#

It just seems like it sucks in raid logs because of adds

vocal basalt
#

Simplified as it is, people still fail at classes.

lime onyx
#

Only part that sucks is the accursed puzzle box

mystic urchin
lime onyx
#

It’s perfectly fine if you’re aiming in killing the boss rather than being top dps

vocal basalt
#

nonsense

lime onyx
#

Because boss dam is still #1 prio unless you’re unable to kill adds in time

vocal basalt
#

I must be doing max damage and ignoring every mechanic

mystic urchin
#

I guess its not so much "Assa is ass" but more so other classes overshadow them with how they get better pay off

latent copper
#

Is there a real option for puzzlebox? I mean thats 2 sec u do nothing…sometimes 3 if u have to cancel

bleak sedge
#

what can be the reason for puzzlebox and deathmark desync? some haste stuff?

high dust
#

Wait Im not the only one with that?

vocal basalt
#

Okay, I wasnt going crazy

bleak sedge
lime onyx
#

Just do 12s and forget about it 🙂

mystic urchin
#

Xalatath is just there to irritate you, the real pain is that she desyncs

high dust
#

still worth to wait for the puzzle i suppose?

lime onyx
#

100%

high dust
#

I had it macroed and I was going crazy

#

"damn, I have deathmark up, why the fuck isnt this thing casting"

mystic urchin
#

how much haste do you guys run around with unbuffed?

high dust
#

600-700 is good I think?

mystic urchin
high dust
#

same tbh...

balmy condor
#

There’s not really a breakpoint or a recommendation

high dust
#

I was switching between sub and assa, and mastery items kept dropping hard...:')

balmy condor
#

Especially at 240ilvl

#

You’re just short on gear

high dust
#

im like this at 271

#

wait, that's sub

balmy condor
#

Was about to say that’s not a lot of crit

lime onyx
#

You can pretty much go between sub and sin for raid by just like swapping one piece of gear and haste flask instead of crit

high dust
#

JASKDHALSD

#

trust me

#

that crit

#

isnt moving an inch

mystic urchin
# balmy condor You’re just short on gear

oh 100% this character is lvl 90 since today so Im not taking it TOO serious but I felt like I was underperforming in the content I did do and I am just trying to understand and analyze what to change.

high dust
#

oh wait it did.

#

the game was like "you want mastery? have some mastery."

bleak sedge
#

whispyr what are the situationals where DS is better than FB after tomorrow? Which one will we run?

high dust
#

Being EU is bad...I wanna play with the buffed version...and see my vault...

bleak sedge
lime onyx
#

Important question: what happens to death stalkers mark on beloren egg swap

haughty flicker
#

nobodys made it that far as a rogue

high dust
haughty flicker
#

so no idea

coral ibex
#

if you wanna see some real stats lmk

haughty flicker
#

stats are bad

balmy condor
coral ibex
#

many people are saying my stats are incredible really

gilded oasis
#

oh whisper is here time to show him my job on Chim

coral ibex
#

maybe even the best

#

they say we've never seen stats like mine

haughty flicker
#

many people are saying it

coral ibex
#

many people!

gilded oasis
#

i've heard it myself at least 3 times

balmy condor
haughty flicker
balmy condor
#

Except it’s actually in 20 minutes

#

And it’ll be much more bigly than @coral ibex’s vault

#

Some are saying I have the best vault

#

We’ll have to wait and see folks!

lime onyx
#

I got myth occlusion of void so I’m a happy boi

high dust
#

If I see cringe box on Myth

#

I'm dropping assassins so I dont have to play that shiet.

spice surge
#

Gaze* sorry to disappoint

high dust
#

what If I am one of tho- oh...gaze...

balmy condor
#

ITS FILLED WITH ME?

high dust
#

With you...?

balmy condor
#

Wait you’re right

#

I have a girlfriend

#

I couldn’t possibly be gay

sharp viper
gilded oasis
#

liking girls is gay as hell

balmy condor
#

(More fudge please!)

sharp viper
balmy condor
#

Have to be careful with zar

#

She has my home address

#

Next package I’m getting is ricin

sharp viper
calm grail
#

Got a scenario here

high dust
#

Or sell your home address

calm grail
#

KB becomes desynced from Mark in a key

balmy condor
calm grail
#

Do you hold KB

balmy condor
#

You hold dm

calm grail
#

So send KB's if desync

#

but hold mark

#

gotcha

balmy condor
#

Yes

plucky ember
#

wait i thought eu opend the vault at 9am?

high dust
#

more like 7 I think?

zinc vessel
#

Are we better than sub in raid now ?

torn elm
#

whos we i play rogue

ocean ore
#

guys, we have any addon to auto tricks tanks?

lime onyx
high dust
#

just focus cast it

sacred oyster
coral ibex
# balmy condor We’ll have to wait and see folks!

Whispyr says he's gonna have the best vault, can you believe that? The best vault. The guy gets mogged on a daily basis in ravenholdt... have you seen his profile bling? mimes clapping feet he's got the feet going, i mean its really something to see. but he's a total nobody in terms of vaults. i remember just a few weeks ago he was coping about it not being too bad and now he's trying to get attention by saying his vault is the best. i mean can you believe it folks, we dont... who here believes it? nobody. nobody believes it. so we're gonna keep having the best vaults every week and wonky Whispyr... well we all love those youtube videos don't we?

spice surge
#

!tricks

prisma monolithBOT
plucky ember
#

nah i dont do enough threat during raids for tricks huehuehue

spice surge
#

If you cant be arsed to search for it yourself

sacred oyster
torn elm
#

put dmg buff back on tricks and ill cast it

#

or bring smoke bomb back, tbh we need some kind of group utility

viscid spear
plucky ember
#

do we even need that addon after they do the change to trick?

sacred oyster
#

focus is annoying cause every time you 'teleport' like in spire, it clears your focus (wtf does it do that for?)

balmy condor
high dust
#

tbf Im not using tricks. only on sub and because that shit lasts for a fucking hour

balmy condor
plucky ember
#

that its an hour on target?

#

wasnt that a thing

high dust
#

only trickster

plucky ember
#

ahhhhh

high dust
#

we cant pick trickster

balmy condor
#

that's a talent on trickster

plucky ember
#

ohh

#

ive missed that info

high dust
#

and that's sad cause trickster fucking helps un nullaeus

viscid spear
high dust
#

Maybe they like what they see.

viscid spear
misty holly
#

What is the crit% breakpoint where eyes of the eagle enchant becomes worth?

coral ibex
#

ask the clanker

final geode
#

wondering if i should be playing assassination in m+ over sub now

sacred oyster
#

why would you not use tricks in keys though. super useful to start spreading bleeds before tank has finished rounding the ads up and giving tank initial aggro before other DPS starts too early and gets themselves killed too.

bleak sedge
#

Btw do you guys focus a different target than the one with Deathmark and Kingsbane on it in m+ to keep them ticking as long as possible?

real pike
# balmy condor Because it can’t be

sorry was in a key, yeah I do agree and I get why it has to happen, but I personally think they've taken it a bit too far in wow and for me personally it's frustrating having to choose between having more fun or parsing higher (which I also find fun), but obviously not everyone is always gonna be happy so it is what it is

coral ibex
#

because once aoe blind comes back, it becomes a useful aoe DR

#

and good tanks don't need help gathering or holding threat

real pike
warm vortex
#

Almost got puzzle ox on my very first m_ run

#

Healer loot specced ir for me but couldn't trade lol

coral ibex
#

30% DR on the whole pack

warm vortex
#

Did it mainly to piss off an officer in our guild

high dust
#

good tanks exist? I thought they were crying that they're so few

coral ibex
#

well i rarely pug and if i do i group with the tank

#

i just play with my guild

balmy condor
high dust
split mantle
#

Newb-ish question. Does caustic spatter splash the damage of the first application? As-in, if a target does not have caustic spatter, and you cast envenom on them to apply it, does the damage from the envenom that applied it splash?

viscid spear
high dust
#

whispyr dont look at me like that cant make fucking jokes with u huh

real pike
lime edge
#

if only i was still on sub

balmy condor
viscid spear
real pike
#

brb watching whatever video you've just sent me no questions asked

balmy condor
#

yes

#

precisely

bleak sedge
balmy condor
#

I'm also incredibly brand-safe

viscid spear
split mantle
balmy condor
#

yeah it's totally fine

high dust
split mantle
#

I thought you had to do one cast to apply caustic, and another to start splashing.

viscid spear
#

But always make sure I have them for boss

sacred oyster
#

i thought eu went before us, why is ppl saying tomorrow?

bleak sedge
balmy condor
sacred oyster
#

o.o weird

lime edge
#

well u gotta poison the mob to ramp up kingsbane

#

if u swap ur kingsbane barely does dmg

balmy condor
lime edge
#

and that

split mantle
#

Well, right. That's why I said 'Outside of Kingsbane' xD

balmy condor
viscid spear
sacred oyster
# real pike wat

well it appears i was wrong, but as i literally said, i thought eu was also tues lol. I thought it was just "noon your timezone" kind of thing

bleak sedge
#

Guess ill try to find a mob that the other aren't hitting then lmao

real pike
high dust
#

nah we wait for wednesday, we wake up with vault's loot.

sacred oyster
#

im guessing its so they can ensure EU vaults are post a weekly patch?

#

but odd its not just aligned with the us reset. still a prime time for EU.

real pike
high dust
#

they sync yeah. I'm still playing unbuffed assass

real pike
high dust
#

to then lose at 5% on RWF

lavish frost
#

any useful macros ?

real pike
#

!macro

prisma monolithBOT
#

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

#showtooltip Deathmark
/cast Deathmark
/use 13
high dust
#

and imagine casting cringe box AFTER deathmark

#

yikes.

lavish frost
#

puzzlebox after deathmark ?

bitter solar
#

And the use line is pretty useless with everyone running pbox

high dust
#

cringe box then deathmark

real pike
#

and kick

lavish frost
#

got a problem with puzzle then deathmark, its not using deathmark at all

high dust
#

u have to click it twice

spice surge
#

Yes you cannot macro puzzlebox

#

As it has a cast time

real pike
#

you can do some cast sequence wizardry but yeah that macro isn't going to work

#

I just have puzzle on a separate key

high dust
#

i have it on castsequence myself.

sacred oyster
#

just have a macro mouse and hit yo damn buttons

verbal sable
#

@solar wyvern dont look

balmy condor
#

@coral ibex @solar wyvern @strange onyx @spice spire suck my eggs losers loser

bleak sedge
lavish frost
#

can you show me the secquence ?

arctic crown
#

Guys

bleak sedge
arctic crown
#

WHat would be our best comp?

fallow canopy
balmy condor
high dust
#

that fucking gaze...

balmy condor
#

is that me in the corner

#

that looks real to me

#

maybe I'm AI

high dust
#

...

#

three fingers in front of u

#

so we can check

spice surge
red schooner
#

Looks like a socket vault to me

#

Take the socket

#

It calls to you

fallow canopy
high dust
#

atleast if I get it on HC... maybe there's hope...

sacred oyster
bleak sedge
#

I got my hc one in vault. Guild chat turned into league chat

gilded oasis
forest whale
#

Is the set of Voidlight binding rings bait or decent? I have heroic maxxed and just got Mythic version of the other in vault. Says its like a 1200 dps increase over mythic tier chest vs my heroic.

high dust
#

we cant fucking open it yet and there's already people waiting

spice surge
#

About 0.5% on ST

high dust
spice surge
#

However one of the rings does not have crit, which is a bit unfortunate

balmy condor
elder agate
#

what u guys recomend to upgrade, tier set itens with hero crests, or the ring combo

#

have mythic ones

forest whale
#

Guess I could not be lazy and sim it.

high dust
#

im running it myself but...that might be because I'm having like 0 luck with rings.

tall jay
#

Easy key

high dust
#

algethar hates me once again

#

what's the affix this week?

gilded oasis
#

me

#

i am the affix

high dust
#

do we have to feed you or some shit?

gilded oasis
#

kick me until I go away

#

7 kicks

high dust
#

damn what's this, mythic++ l'ura?

sacred oyster
#

if you wanted to force loot from specific dungeon, could you run it 8x at end of the week so all 8 of your last clears is that 1 dungeon, or does it pool from all regardless if you did them or not?

strange onyx
#

No

#

Don’t be silly

high dust
#

Tbh I dont know how that works neither

strange onyx
#

I know

gilded oasis
#

no, dungeons is all pools

strange onyx
#

And I am telling you

#

Don’t be silly

sacred oyster
#

you had yet to answer the Q

high dust
#

so...all pool

#

I think.

strange onyx
#

Yes

sacred oyster
#

raids seems like it is biased on what you actually cleared. so its not unreasable to question if dungeons did too.

gilded oasis
#

but only cleared once then its in your pool

#

every time

high dust
#

didnt delves drop quel'danas stuff last week?

haughty flicker
#

the weekly quest, not delves themselves

high dust
#

oooh

sacred oyster
#

oh, so its a 'ever cleared' so if you didnt do chim this week but have in past, but did voidspire, chim loot can still drop?

haughty flicker
#

yes

gilded oasis
#

for raid, yes

#

I believe dungeon is just all dungeon all the time

#

regardless of clear status

high dust
#

oh, great, now I dont have to do chim hc anymore then

haughty flicker
#

any boss you've ever killed will permantly add its loot and the loot of all bosses before it in the dungeon journal to your vault pool

strange onyx
haughty flicker
#

well you can get loot from a mythic boss you havent killed

#

if you killed the boss after it

#

if i kill vorasius but not first boss, i can still get first boss in vault

strange onyx
#

Can you? I recall this being a thing

haughty flicker
#

ever since vault of the incarnates

strange onyx
#

Not like it matter much unless you buy a BOOST 👀

haughty flicker
#

people were abusing it not being a thing to skip certain bosses to not have them in vault

#

so they made it work this way

subtle tundra
strange onyx
#

@balmy condor Please stop streaming my crest wastes from last week

subtle tundra
#

the nuke i mean

haughty flicker
#

also just if you get benched for whatever reason

#

not that a rogue would ever be benched

high dust
subtle tundra
#

not nice

high dust
#

lets steal from him

strange onyx
high dust
#

Hey dont call me peasant. Too much responsability for me thanks.

spice spire
warm vortex
#

oh boy

#

I hope it's puzzle box

strange onyx
plain thistle
#

for sure its box

high dust
scarlet meadow
#

any updates to talents after the bleed buffs?

high dust
wraith knot
balmy condor
calm grail
#

I asked earlier, and I think it was answered, but you're typically running the same gear for keys as you are raid? No ring/enchant tweaks typically?

viscid spear
solar wyvern
#

?

balmy condor
#

eventually

#

but putting crests in that thing blows

strange onyx
#

Get his charrend

warm vortex
#

Whispyr

strange onyx
#

Get him*

warm vortex
#

You look fantastic today

viscid spear
wraith knot
strange onyx
#

If you craft a 285 trinket you can save a lot of crests on the gaze upgrade

balmy condor
warm vortex
#

Btw

warm vortex
#

wanna see what i gotr

balmy condor
#

not really no

warm vortex
#

Aight

#

nbvm

high dust
#

damn..had to check... i sim like -10k on dungeonslice ass vs sub...

strange onyx
high dust
#

good head.

warm vortex
#

WARNING DO NOT CLICK IF YOU ARE WHISPYR BECAUSE HE DOES NOT WANT TO SEE THIS

wraith knot
viscid spear
#

Wish me luck

warm vortex
high dust
#

HEY, THAT GUY IS NO ROGUE, THAT'S A DAGGER'S THIEF.

#

GET HIM BOIS

warm vortex
#

You troglodyte

strange onyx
warm vortex
#

it's epic

wraith knot
#

Wdym it’s the bomb

#

Haha

#

Hehe

warm vortex
#

And in aoe

strange onyx
high dust
#

Why I feel like assa p4 is...how to put it ...