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I tank these questions so you have a peaceful night
people just fucking overcomplicate it
it's the most interesting of the 3 rogue specs idk
We play game where people can't calculate anything, it's a normal thing
wdym
just found a addon "nooka implacable", seems to work
Yee, calculated
With sim
People can't decide what item their bis without sim
it's literally just start pooling if you're at 80 implacable, send envenom anyway if you're gonna overcap energy
if you read the tooltip this is obviously what you do to not waste energy
well yeah, there's like 250 items in a given season
and if you're comparing them at 6/6 myth
any single swap is not impactful enough
sims are a necessity for gear
It's not about items, but how game and stats works
We going to the point that "overcomplication" is the nature of this game
So it's fine sometimes
stats don't work in a way, especially for rogues
the game is inherently designed to where you can just do whatever you want at pretty much any given time
You can't choose your gear based on stats most of the time
Game created environment
I mean you can and the difference will be small, but you will not pick the best combination probably
the overcomplication comes from the humans playing the spec. i promise if you just slam buttons and dont even think about the apex and do everything else correctly (unlikely) you will have great logs
It's like saying "we have so many addons because of community and not because game ui is dogshit"
this spec is literally designed to be low thoughts per second
do you guys have any theories on why there are so few rogues compared to other classes? like is it thought of being to hard to play, or the lack of utility? just wondering
the game created a need to sim and optimize because it can't be tested by humans
the community created a delusional dreamworld where things are more complicated than they actually are because they think they're so much smarter but in reality we're all insanely bad at conceptualizing the best thing to do given 50 different buffs and combat states
many people have a perception of rogue as complicated and hard to learn with lots of button bloat
source: i ask people in every guild im in
we can solve for those with sims, and we do, that's why we play around apex talent the way we do
the class is ass at solo content
but overcomplicating it because people think they can find some edge case that's better in a hypothetical that doesn't exist
Oh ye, game created by super ai and not humans who do a lot of stupid things
and most players are hyper casuals
Alot of overcomplicating gearing is because wow players try to find something else to blame
than their own gameplay
your ring enchants have no bearing on your success as a player
”its not i suck its the gear”
Or talents that doesn't work
Like I can imagine someone to try and create his own build
idk i paste the wowhead build
actually WHISPYR changing to crit eff enchants was an upgrade within margin of error i'll have you know
When you don't know what is working and how
i havent read half the talents
Like internal bleeds with ct
Why do you have to call me out like that
Hey buddy I'll have you know my enchant sims told me to change for +16 dps
there's some rogue doing 20's with canny btw
funny! because its not so hard to learn the basics (sin atleast). what are the thoughts of bringing some kind of raidbuff to it? was just thinking about maybe a crit-buff wich would fit the fantasy (target bleeding and 20 ppl hammering on the wounds sounds like critical hits)
Idk id argue ct+internal bleed is doing the expected outcome when reading the talents
Few margins of error and here we are
Still it sims better on my feral btw
ngl i havent read half the sin talents in midnight
i just paste what whispyr’s guide says
And even so, why the f we have same numbers if they are not same
Agreed, unlike Lethal Dose apparently

internal bleeding is so giga op btw
bruh people overcomplicate lethal dose
Real
Mostly because some tanks will turbotrain your asshole if you put on crippling poison
because there has to be hidden tech
but oh boy would I do it for that sweet 2% gain
Agreeed and uncanny seems like it suits ultra high keys
that tank can suck me from the back
Rank 1 feral closed 19 with random talents because forget to swap them
Skill before some small things
frost mages periodically rooting
What
because crit is better in high keys than it is in low keys or what
It was few weeks ago, now it's not that impressive ofc

How/why? Internal bleed is doing 4-6% for me
Idk the tcs do all the math
Heyo whispyr the new patch raid build how come we dont want dtb? Other talents bigger number?
Factually i dunno. But i could make an assumed understanding why zerocool was running it.
bruh
everything a streamer plays
I've ever heard
must be correct
if zerocool told you to drink 10 monsters in one sitting would you do it
Them ciggies gotta crit
If sim says so
In the huge pulls. Envenom crit dam could be the difference and boss dam is very important at high keys
Idk I'd argue the other way too, theorycrafting doesn't account for the tank standing afk waiting for his wifes boyfriend to finish before pulling the next pack
the first time i read that talent i was like
but.... it's worse boss dam 
who the fk balanced this node
Rip
and canny actually kinda sucks in huge pulls too cause you're not getting more cp
so like
none of what you said
makes any sense
but if i was fr doing keys that high
I am not saying its right. Internal is gigga for me
Why not
you just dont have the right mindset
to play a rogue you need to have a chip on your shoulder and a dildo in your ass
Prob a dh guy
Switching to belf to get half of it
part of theorycrafting is accounting for that btw
like it's pointless to just sim and say "here's best" without any context
just look at sub haste breakpoints
those are simmed technically, but they're heavily feelcrafted
ye they account for the human factor
I have dragon with useless mastery(from tww1)
Everything is better
nightborne
Every night, all you do is fight, fight, fight
but now the sub players are saying mastery is shit stat cause crit gains good value with trickster so ya know
ROUND AND ROUND WE GO MORE PEOPLE JUST BRAIN OFF
and the guidewriters say stats dont change much
Crit makes my number bigger, haste make my number faster. How could it ever be anything but best?
Sounds a lot like SD

Rift on immobile ranged caster? Incredible. Rift on mobile melee dps? Donkey dick.
if it went over holes in the ground
or z axis
it would be cool
but it fucking doesnt
by immobile ranged caster you mean lock/spriest?
thought its better to be drac
I was thinking of my priest
Y'all reckon they're gonna buff asa now that they put outlaw and sub ahead of it
No
drac priest is sick
Dragon is great for certain mechanics, but a long range gtfo button is life saving in way more circumstances for me
sick as in illness
yeah i mean thats what playing priest does
hope the chemo goes well 
idk i thought glide is op on priest
when do we fok over mutilate? when theres 2 or is it 3 targets?
Depends on talents. With blindside 3 targets, without blindside 2 targets
ahh ok ty!
Knockback canceling is OP for priest, but so is a long range blink.
spatial just feels like
a really bad door of shadows
and i think half the time i used door on rogue was just to disorient people
Maybe it's cause disc is rly mobile recently, and that's what I play most, but I find getting knocked back isn't too bad most of the time and being able blink through a bad puddle or a wall or wherever the tank needed to freestyle dragging the boss to is better for me more often.
Yeah rift being 3 minutes compared to no CD sucks sometimes though
I miss door of shadows
Except for all the times it gave me "no path available" on what looked like a flat surface
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me comparing logs between DtB and SD
SD is like reverse Aug, make allies look like they're doing less damage and not giving it back in logs
In theory yeah but in practice nah
I don't see the demo locks blasting the low hp stragglers in the back and I don't see party members live calculating my bleed damage to stop their dps on mobs so they can naturally bleed out on the last ticks
Falls in under envenom damage I think
Also even if I gave my SD damage to allies I'd still somehow be doing more damage overall than DtB build
I gotta fill my quotas bro its a grind
I like SD when I'm doing low/mid keys and nothing is gonna live a dtb KB
I'm at 16 keys and SD is still doing more than dtb if I subtract the SD damage
blindside gives me nice dopamine hits
I'm doing a meth cook SD build tho Whispyr would get an aneurism
Posion bomb on saladbar mythic or nay. I rekon nay as the boss is being kited around the room.
A couple of the top 10 dont run it
yeah but seeing spatter up there is fun to me
oo i didnt think of this but yeah i miss blindside in keys sometimes
Technically it's higher up there on SD than on DtB 😛
vs DtB
It feels too good
So true !
That splash
ignore that it killed me twice in a pit 17 cause it covered ground effects
well it proc'd cheat once and killed me the 2nd time
Monks touch of death ain't got nothing on us
Totally not holding cds on last boss until he is low just to pad the max number
With the set does garrote spread through CT apply poisons to the target?
no
it's easier if you just pretend that whole "garrote applies poisons" thing doesn't exist
because functionally it doesn't
it's actually so abhorrently bad that you can't tell immediately if it's working or not by looking at sims
the 30% garrote damage is obvious
but when the poison thing got added to sims, the damage was within margin of error
and we had to go and look at applications and debug
whispyr can you confirm for me again that not using crippling poison won't deprive me of 2% damage from lethal dose?
and go "yeah, thats working actually, it's just that fucking bad"
I know I ask this like once a patch but my memory bad
non-lethals got removed from lethal dose at some point
lord knows when
ty
plz do a spirit bomb for me os i get alnseer trinket please 🙂
I heard something about CT’d garrotes not spreading em
correct, the poisons are only applied from casts of garrote that the player character does
At this point I just believe anything I hear on the street 
Imagine just auto attacking
it guarantees to slow whatever you open up on when you use crippling poison
the solution is to not use crippling poison or wait until everything is grouped
I don't think crippling is really that big of a deal considering people play with frost mage literally constantly and they just slow everything in an 80 yard radius by simply existing
but ya know
some people also go ape shit about restealths
so I guess there's clowns in every circus
im a fan of crippling poison if there are pulls i think my tank will wanna kite out, or right side nexus point
i never play with frost mages
i havent puged on my rogue in like 3 expansions
idk what that means!
been flipping coins all expac for this
we get bonus rolls in the .5 patch tomorrow/wednesday
More coinflips for our rolls
Fuck outlaw, give us the die
Dice?
I never knew which one was the plural
outlaw fake rogue spec 😠
coin flipping on dreamrift
We either kill the boss or wipe 155 times
One of my guildies tried pugging m dr
Somehow endured 150+ pulls
Didn't even get the kill
Tragic
With a pug? wtf
Yeah
John Pugs
I did 3 pulls and we got him to 7% because some people went into the 4th soak and then I got kicked cuz the raid lead was scared the best healer would leave if the RL didnt invite his friend to the raid
and then they killed it the next pull
raid lead parsed literal 0 btw
I need to become a sociopath and start raid groups to carry me
He was too busy leading to parse
I mean it is unironically very difficult to parse if you're actually raid leading in a remotely useful way
How good are you at leading if you can't reliably communicate your core strategy
I can't speak to your pug raid leader's effectiveness
Honestly at that point just use OBR
i used to think this... then our RL got r1 MM hunter on mythic crown
I mean i managed to lead our aotc groups parsing 80+
so now i dunno what to think anymore
Except for crown still got a 60something
It was no comms pug btw
no discord or anything
If your raiders know whats going on its mostly just calling out stuff
Jesus thats a much bigger flex than mine
Now im sad
hunters 
yeah i know it comes off as a brag and tbh it kinda is
but i gotta give some respect to teh guy
It absolutely is
fuck that fight
Id brag that shit as well
This isnt the scandinavia discord, janteloven doesnt apply here fam

don't mean to brag but this is better than a r1 parse
Congrats on being rich
Pls remember us when you're eating golden caviar
we just lusted at 1:47 on LFR vorasius
Yall running LFR?
ye skill issue, need the lil voidcore shards
It's my 1st reset week, leave me alone!
if we dont run mythic raid, its the best to use the new rerolls on pit since we get there many bis items ye?
Pit is prob the play yeah
even if you run mythic raid, you probably still roll on pit fwiw
Thoughts on sub vs assa for boss damage in 0.5? Cloud cover seems too ridiculous
raid bonus rolls are twice the cost
probably still comparable

not worth mythic algethar?
I just swapped off sub to assa, for better prio damage in higher keys, and better boss damage in raid, and was curious on if I'd have to keep a set of sub gear around
i see ty
you'd be pissing rerolls into the ocean realistically
Not new to either spec, just wanted opinions
kk, btw do you think sub will deal more dps than assa after the patch?, just asking out of curiosity
lol
like would you rather reroll pit and get a 5/6 chance to get something good
or would you reroll algethar for 1 single item
SINGLE ITEM TY
probably yeh
but not much
you can still play assa
Bountiful delves honestly
perfect
hey clan, can i hav a log analyse? idk what i can do better 😭 https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/KGJCHY6gxW29B8Pw?fight=1&type=damage-done
Outlaw looking juiced? 
yuh
gamer
Tbh sub being meta then assa getting over buffed to the point where it overtakes sub it's just boring at this point
Is there a way to see the simc for who will have the highest dps next patch?
freaking dot spec> burst spec. Member when sub was like the best spec? Yeah it lasted 1 week

even if that would be useful, or if that was possible through sims, which it isn't, sims won't be updated until after the patch

Thx man
Gl during ur raid
ty
No one is holding you at hostage and making you play outlaw lol
Any items we already have on myth are out of the reroll loot pool?
Dawg I play rogue I can’t read
that's what the outlaw cabal want you to think
i would not be surprised if a small goblin like creature lives in zacs walls and forces him to play outlaw
Someone said earlier that Zac would play outlaw if it healed mobs and I’ve been thinking about it all day
meh play what u like and enjoy
personaly i dont like to burst for 15 sec afk for next 2 min
Isn’t that every class and spec rn
ngl i dont feel like that when play assa
but i can see ur point
pulling kb improved garr with vanish
theres things u have to keep in mind
and sorta plan ur stuff
wich i find super fun
im happy with assa and outlaw rn i dont play sub that much cant say
Hatred for assa is darth-maul-like in the new series
Always ends up on top dw. The beloved child of blizzard
That's why in arena you always go for them xd
After rwf race when i read the assa buffs couldn't even finish reading after i saw the garrote and rupture buffs was like ok bro ...
sir this is a wendys
I'm gonna be honest idk what any of that means
Im upset assa is again better than sub
better where
M+, st damage
sure yeah
whispyr please stop taking the bait and focus on prog
that's not true
Fishpyr
I'm dead because demiar didn't die
just kill demiar gup
Not bait if true
but tomorrow you'll get to be a cloud gamer
on assa, right

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do we always just immediately press envenom at 5 cp or is it better to last second chain to keep energy up permanently
you press on 5
the uptime is already near infinite without waiting for the last second
is that also the case in m+ on bosses? seem to be running out of energy so think i may be the big R word
no, running out of energy is by design
running out of energy is the default
you still have infinite envenom uptime though
envenom duration is just
dummy long
just seem to be running out of energy to keep going to max of apex then dropping it
that's fine
is crit the best buff for us to take in algethar or how does that specific buff work, it just adds flat 3% crit rate right? so doesnt matter if i have 50 crit or 1200?
yeah it's 3% regardless of rating
technically vers is the most effecient in that way
and haste is the worst
actually dont quote me on the haste i dont remember
interesting, ive never taken the vers one, does it give proportionally alot more? I think mast gives 5% flat right
mast buff gives 1111 mastery or something
cause all mast %s are different depending on spec
so they cant do the flat %
watch whispyr stream for first time in forever and get called weird
dont quote me on that exact amount of mastery either

76
no wonder ur getting called weird
that emote is from his server 
Best buff depends on your current secondary stat distribution if being really technical about it, stats gain and lose value depending on how much you currently have of them, so if you’re super capped on crit something else might be better etc…
best buff is haste/crit because theyre right at the start and u dont have to walk as far
gg
This is the answer^^
me grabbing the healing buff because i died on bird boss and its the only one u walk past for the rest of the dungeon
true it is more complicated than just % amounts but i feel u, if vers was competitive could be good to take cause the crawth boss fucks on higher keys
yeah just cause vers gives "the most stat points" if you convert % to points, doesnt mean its gonna give you the most damage
haste is definitely the wrong choice for me but it gives me the most whimsy
this is all significantly more thought than ive ever put into the choice
crit goes hard
I did all this thinking like two expansions ago
crit been my default feels nice, but figured id try to find out other than feel lol
based hold W
god i feel old
big W
I don’t grab a buff so I can shit talk other dps for needing crutch
i missed all of DF and SL so these throwback dungeons are brand new to me so never had to think about that shit b4
god i wish i missed SL
I remember running that key for the first time and tank was telling us to grab all the buffs at once lol
Back in dragonflight
i played first patch of SL, saw anima power/ap still existing and the best m+ and raid covenants were different for sin at the time afaik and just fucking dipped
was not trying to do a 3rd xpac of farming ap, even tho i heard it wasnt as bad in SL
I has so much whimsy at the start of SL
then assa was unplayably bad week one
and then once we got buffed to a reasonable state my guild fell apart
I was unbelievably hype till i legit loaded in and saw AP on the world map it hurt my soul

and then the next guild I joined needed a healer so I progged as disc for the first time but it was spirit shell meta and horrible
i rly shouldve just not
i think the worst part was terrible herb farming routes
i remember week 1 my mate writing full raid plan cds to kill the tree boss
weekly no leaver AA 10
honestly thats so real
vietnam flashbacks
Yo I cant with the blizzard nameplates
week one tree boss was a nightmare
what nameplates we usin bois
default UI lmao
playnator jundies profile
same
the stacking is usually fine for me
jundies op
got a link for me?
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ty !
np
my favorite part of all of this is the tank (kreeper) just taking the L every tank buster
and even planning when to proc cheat
goated class
In m+ is it better to use recklessness with mastery for AOE damage over light's potential? Not sure how to change recklessness from cit > mastery on sims

does recklessness not just go off what stats you have?
it goes off your highest secondary stat
i.e if you pop it pre puzzle box it will give crit
after puzzle box it gives mastery
right, so i'm just confused why you say you don't know how to change it, it likely updates on the fly no?
well the sim always just pops the pot pre puzzle box
not sure how to get it to pop it after puzzle box so i can sim mastery
i've seen a lot of very good logs with recklessness so just curious
it does it pre puzzle because it's better than post puzzle
i see, i imagine whispyrino has worked all that out already
yea ok tysm
Agility gud
as for how you would do it, you gotta get a hold of the APL and shift the pot lower down
you'd add a conditional for the potion to just say &buff.puzzle_box.up
@balmy condor do you have any suggestions on vids that teach you how to advance sim?
depends what you're trying to advanced sim I guess
need some goated coder to make a node like version of apl so i can just type simple names
raidbots has built-in syntax and autocomplete now on the text editor
it's pretty neat
very nice change
are you able to run sims locally on your own pc
blast it on the uni mega pc
like I have custom sims I run for my guild and stuff right
you know how I run those?

I fucking send it over to raidbots servers
cause simming it locally
would be miserable
im trying to figure out what I would need to spend tokens on for gearing assassin and sub.
yeah fair, I was just wondering how long it takes. but like if you were paying for raidbots / power user deffs wouldn't run locally
ok word
the thing is that the free version of raidbots is already running on 32 cores of a dedicated threadripper in a server farm
even a giga top of the line super pc you have at home
is gonna take 5x as long
oh yeah, not meaning the architecture, more so the queue times
yeah
but that's what I'm saying
even if you could take raidbots GUI
and you could skip all that leg work that top gear or whatever does
how much should i trust sims when its telling to use crit/ver crit/mastery rings instead of my her void ring and champ light ring?
the queue time + the sim time on the servers
is still miles faster than simming it locally
none of the theorycrafters sim anything locally anymore
it's simply not viable to do so
you trust it because that is the purpose of the sim
also the set bonus blows fucking ass
so that's not surprising to me
roger. jut my haste is at 16% now
champ light ring probably loses to like 8 different rings
16% sounds like a lot
probably also makes sense
nope im not. lol
oh
bro out here trying to sim to parse arguments.
i thinki had the stats fucked up in my head. my b
I'm parsing bro
the code is actually piss shit ugly don't look at it
your looking glass thing makes this extra funny
Hope you have a good night!
u too
so here's an interesting problem, how do you sim trinkets across your raid when you have the same person submitting two hero talents on the same spec
or you have like a demon hunter submitting dev and havoc
and they're agi/int differently
I had to make
this fucking ugly thing
excuse me but what the flying fuck?
and then in order to add it properly right
now I have to check
against that list

its actually so gross
I'm sure there's a better way
okay
but it works
i get the reason why you have to do that
so I just pretend the horrors do not exist
and i get the reason why you made it like that
and i understand what that is happening
this is u on 6 months of feet
but it's really cool
I one button sim my entire guild
and it sorts by tier token
and by trinket
can i join your guild for free sims
not even monetary reasons, jsut purely so i dont even have to sim
you know.... im pretty sure this is how ulria started his sheet
actual harvey dent moment right here
and the sheet is only slightly awful
but it's okay
cause I just import the CSV
and all of that works too
all of this to assign bonus rolls

you either die a hero or live long enough to make your own cross class/spec simulation spreadsheet
oh hell naw, we just use this for like week 1-3 when everyone is saying everything is a billion dps upgrade
and it's good for early tier
i'm playing windwalker, our raid asked who should get PI, i said it's good on WW, raid leader said i thought monks hate haste, i didn't get PI, and yeah..
this crazy style organisation
we don't even follow it like one to one
but it's good to have
so we can be like
yeh ele tier is huge
enhance is tiny
sub tier big, assa isn't
how likely is it whispyr's playing sub
should we give him tier
etc
thats cool but u ever try equipping world quest trinkets to make raid ones a bigger % increase
easiest gaze of my life....
well that's the fun thing
because I'm the one running the sims, I can also see when that happens
it happened this tier actually
you're also in prime position to do it
that's evil lmao
it was a trial and they failed
it's fine
but still
also I'm not the only loot council
oof failed the vibe check
i like the confidence to do that on trial
the other funny one is like
3 mages
I sim the first 2
and gaze is like +1500 or +1600
lmao what an absolute rat
I am glad to not be required to submit specific sim numbers this tier with the haste breakpoint stuff with sub
(he just had unlucky trinket drops he didn't sandbag)
we only do tier and trinkets tbf
we don't do this for like
random fuckass belts
there have been other tiers it was standard for us to give a number for most items
wait haste breakpoints are so op
yeh, that's a standard we have as well
I really cba explaining that I need to do a full top gear for everything
gemming and enchanting wrong to sandbag for haste trinkets
And droptimizer don’t work
but if it's a breakpoint thing we understand
and they just go "idk breakpoint but it's really good"
and we're like yah fair, don't mind giving it to that guy
The only thing ive put bis and put a note on was guidon where i slammed "OOGA BALUGA YUN YUM YIM"
Worked
Ye similar
we have people note every drop
The rest I just put note “my class sucks” so if they give it to me they know what they’re getting into
cause we dont' wanna pre-determine everything
I smurfed on lura today
Glaive dodger 9000
Lorelei still won tho... actually 0 hits
Shes just too powerful
so if I want a shopping list basically, go on rogue > goto both sub and sin specs > then just sim them both via droptimizer? @balmy condor
Im so tempted to play the law
yeh realistically as good as you're gonna get
I’m gonna drop a nuclear bomb on the beloren egg and then get right into pirate arc
Gonna be great
ok, and then pathwerk / slice for both
ye
ty king
how long do we think cloud cover survives
isn’t the amp fake news
a week?
it heals or something after p2 so effectively p3 isn’t even an amp
Surely its an intended interaction 
sounds wild
I mean, kindof? Youre still 2x damage
So having more in that period of time is still valuable
I'm kinda tempted to play outlaw but I'd be so rusty I'm definitely gonna grief insanely hard
The way it was explained to me it isn’t actually an amp because damage earlier in the fight ends up being double value as well
yeah, some minor talent on a choice node in the middle of the hero talent that is essentially turning a 10% hero talent into a 25% hero talent
that's intended surely
Surely
Don’t let guy see you write this
guy ain't got shit on me
I'll just tell him to go rewrite his guide
and if he doesn't I fire his ass
he was not pleased when I made this point
got that boytoy on a leash
I love guy
why was he not pleased
is that not whats happening
He fully believes it is intended and we need to stop predooming about “nerfs”
and that the interactions are in fact, completely normal
I see
And if they were to even fix it, that there would be plentiful compensation buffs for such an event
best i can do is 4% aura buff
I mean, I can get behind the "stop pre-dooming"
the doom in here is miserable whenever anything happens
I mean I think the most likely outcome is that they just fix it
but it is a funny meme
Compensation seems wack
I think it's kind of insane to think this is intended though
150% crit surely intended
be silly to axe it when it won't even make rogue close to OP
Smile
Grapple hook grip goes hard
okay but thats... just not how tuning works lmao
like hypothetically right
lets say mutilate/fan of knives was 40% of our damage dealt
same overall damage, but generators at the top
that's clearly a problem right
this is the same thing
I'm not disagreeing it's very silly and definitely not intended, but Blizzard tuning is...chaotic
that’s what I’m saying
i was only half following the conversation. what exactly is this interaction? is it this x3?
it is very chaotic of late, that's for sure
Yes
anything fazed is 3x
ahhh
cloud cover will propel rogue up, but they'll still be behind a bunch of range
The dr too!
just dont see it catching blizz's radar
probably get changed later again
so that means this is 9%
yes
okay thank you
Simbolic victory rework leaked 
would like to see sin get a little love after it falls behind though
The total fazed amp goes from 8 to 24% and then the crit damage too and the dr gets tripled
and now you know why sub is playing the rotten all of a sudden 
150% crit damage on shadow strike
kinda weird!
we chaos bolting gang gang now
Except the chaos bolt is the incinerate or w/e destro do to generate shit
no
I mean you do vanish for imp gar
but there's not a timing to do so really
as long as you have it during deathmark or whatever it's chill
imp gar is kinda whatever these days
ah ok
Anything for assa this patch or it's gg?
we are not getting a buff
were not getting nerfed either 😄
nah jumping DN stonks rising
you still get the new upgrade and bad luck protection systems
so patch makes everyone stronger
but some are more stronger than others fuu
And assa is totally fine?
Hard to say, its more that assasssination is currently the best option
but the patch does not buff it
so sub/outlaw get ahead
my friend whos playing sin wants to know why does his envenoms sometimes crit for over 100k and other times his crits dont hit for much
on fatebound
Abilities have a certain hidden damage range
he thinks its tied into the coins on fatebound
I mean yeah the damage buff you have from it is different at different times aswell
does dungeon slice work for us or is it just patchwork 5 targets
How do you sim for ptr stuff? Isnt it something like ptr=1 in advanced stuff
correct
in custom apl?
What companion makes the ?? delves boss easier? he 2 taps me from melee swings if i use a healer companion
gm
I think healer works best for us
There are tricks of the trade intervals that allegedly work
Welcome to 12.0.5
Hiya, here's a compiled short list of the 12.0.5 things to keep a note of:
Cloud Cover? Trickster? Sub? Outlaw?
Yes, Sub and Outlaw both got insane buffs with the trickster changes. We did not get any buff. We are still fine, in high keys we provide much more prio damage than sub. Outlaw might be better in keys, but we're still totally fine. In raids, the balance seems to be roughly the same. If you played sub before, it's still good. If you played sin before, it's still good.
Bonus Rolls
Mythic+ costs 1 roll, Raid costs 2, making mythic+ rolls much better. If you don't know what you're supposed to be bonus rolling, do NOT bonus roll raid items.
- Pit of Saron (Dagger + generic items)
- Algethar (puzzle box + generic items)
- Skyreach (If you don't raid, has more decent items + dagger and a second trinket)
- Mythic Chimareus for Alnseer (or Mythic Beloren for plume if you want)
- Doesn't matter, roll for whatever you want (don't roll for hero gear, 10's are very doable)
Realistically you will be in Pit of Saron prison for a while if you're wanting to be efficient. You can of course go and get your puzzle box first, especially if you are getting most of your myth items from raid, but algethar has "bad" items that you can roll, where are basically everything from Pit of Saron is great.
Voidcore Upgrades
THIS IS NOT ACTIVE FOR ANOTHER FOUR WEEKS
You can get +9 item levels on a Max Hero/Myth Item, or +10 on a myth crafted item (weapon/trinket only). You should generally never use these on Hero items, especially with the bonus roll system.
- Main hand dagger (doesn't matter which dagger, any 6/6 myth dagger works)
- Puzzle Box (good trinket yep)
- Gaze (or plume, good trinket yep)
- Crafted offhand dagger (what else are you going to use it on)
Spec Changes
Nope.
- There's a new button for deathstalker to move the mark around. It's obviously worth using if you're in a situation where the mark is off in a different country, but deathstalker itself still sucks. If you really must play Deathstalker, you would want to snipe dying targets if you have 2-3 stacks of the mark still, in order to move the mark and instantly get a darkest night. This is super degenerate, hard to execute, requires a lot of brain power, and the dps gain is incredibly hard to nail down. This does NOT make deathstalker better than fatebound. You should still play fatebound everywhere.
- The new deathmark-jumping talent negotiable contract is entirely non-negotiable. This talent is arguably the worst DPS talent ever added to Assassination. Not only is it genuinely terrible on its own, it's also on a choice node with finish the job (10% all damage during deathmark), which is genuinely a really good talent. I don't think anyone can make an argument for why this exists.
- AoE blind is back! We were already taking airborne irritant though, for the blind CDR so nothing really changes
- Sanguine Vial is actually pretty decent, except for one problem. When you DEAL THE KILLING BLOW. That is very important, and kills the talents viability in Raid, makes it pretty awful in mythic+ (although you can get a lot of killing blows with sudden demise if you swing that way). Where this talent shines is for the open world/delvers out there. Probably won't see much use outside of that.
man those 47M demise pops in TWW S2 used to hit different man. Palas and mages were always malding because the big adds used to drop dead from 30% HP before they could finish their CDs
Good times
Sudden demise to guarantee sanguine vial it’s pretty trivial actually 
What ilvl does a hero track item upgrade to?
Oh 9
We’re gonna heal parse so hard now
Chimaerus cage into pit prison into algethar academy I guess
im just gonna get gaze from vault tmrw and then first roll puzzlebox 
At least with pit prison or algethar prison you have a rough time frame of when you get released 
dafuq everything in pit is crit haste
Resources:
ArcUI - Common UI Replacement
BetterCDM - Enhancements to the Cooldown Manager
MSUF - Common Unit Frame replacement
Platynator - Recommended Nameplate Addon (Plater is not recommended)
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Misc:
Clickable Raid Buffs - Poison Reminder
WilduTools - random QoL like melee range indicator and cursor replacement
stats are very strange in the dungeon pool
I think nexus point has no less than 7 bis items for shadow priest
O.o
yeah
it's insanity
two rings are set and crit/haste and hast/mast, the staff is haste/mast
You can get 3 tier slots, cloth hands are crit/vers (cata'd to haste/vers), the legs are crit/vers (cata'd to haste/mast), the shoulders are haste/mast
so realistically with haste being the best stat
everything in there has haste or can be cata'd into haste
the back piece is mast/vers, and I don't think the cata can save that one
but it's fucking bonkers
atleast rolling a gaze shouldnt be too hard 
I think for clothies, maisara caverns is all crit as well
Progging dragons atm, anyone that know a way to make an addon scream at you if you are targeted for breath? 🌬️ Or make BW scream even harder, e.g. with custom sound for example?
pit of saron for me is like only the ring 
yeah for us the dagger is crit/haste, the neck is crit/haste, the ring is crit/haste, the back is crit/vers, the wrists are crit/haste, the belt is crit/haste, and there's legs
which are haste/mast but you can cata if you don't have myth tier
legit every item is usable
I put a rough order into the pins (and the guide)
I've had "bad luck". I have everything Biss but Hero, I have over 300 unused mythic badges D:
We get 2 bonus roll token tmrw?
+300
2 every week yes
although it's kinda unclear what we get tomorrow
If your luck is utter dogwater in gv then you get 3 a week 
like maybe there's a prequest or something
and we don't get it until next week
but the PTR actually fucking blows
so no one has any idea
Honestly I think it’ll be flavor text conversation
Augh..me balls…do like idk an LFR…more balls…
If he asks me to help him with crafting again I’ll beat his ass personally
In before lazy people complaining they didn’t do Decimus’s weekly so don’t get bonus rolls
So is getting that dagger in Saron better than upgrading the one from the second boss in Void?
Bw private Aura should have customizable sounds
With tunneling into crit/haste sure, but sims may differ based on other equipped gear. The agi jump is far more of a focus anyway imo
I think it's specifically under private auras though
max ilvl dagger is max ilvl dagger
I feel like the alert sound it gives when you have to walk out of tether, gloom, or run out of breath are like the only things you’d need to listen out for though, no?
Same difference as now
thx
do we have to pop puzzle box once bleeds are all applied or before spreading them?
before deathmark in your opener
doesn't matter, myth dagger is myth dagger
Good point, would just be nice to have a unique sound for the breath 😅 I will look into private auras in BW though
By "Farming" people mean 2 a week right? Or am I missing something?
ye
probably
How long of a patch arr we expecting tmrw?
is the item for upgrading the weapos/trinket to 298il obtainable once per week or ?
@balmy condor u reckon theyll buff asa with the buffs coming to outlaw/sub?
scheduled until 3pm pacific, 6pm eastern
no
no one knows
I guess more specifically, I don't see a world where cloud cover stays that strong
lmao so u think theyll just nerf the sub/outlaw changes?
I mean have you seen how bonkers that talent is lol
yea i mean have u seen every class in keys/raid tho
rogues like midpack
Gotta be in contention for one of the strongest single node in the game no?
yes, I don't think it's intended that a random choice node in the middle of the tree is more than doubling the value of the entire hero talent
Yeah sure rogue is mid but theres a better way to buff them then to make one random ass talents give like 20% dmg
oh i mean i agree 100%
the changes to rogue have been omega lazy
even if they made rogue top omega bis
the class still feels awful to play
ah yes, my 14 talent point hero talent tree is worth a total of 11%, except if I swap this innocuous talent randomly now it's 25%
this is completely reasonable and intended
surely

Whats the general public opinion on how assa design/feel?
Shirley they hot nerf it
energy starved and dogsht
in huge packs its fine
but anything else
i like how assa feels
yeah... that about sums it up
i feel like im a target dummy waiting for energy
I’m biased. Starving occasionally. Feels nice otherwise
"energy starved and dogshit"
immediately followed by
"this is great I love it"
it feels awful
It’s over (5 seconds) we’re so back
basically the public consensus is the same as its been for the last decade
there is no consensus
and people who hate it hate it
and people who like it like it
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