#assassination

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balmy condor
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Draw some lines that show 5% crit gives 5% more crit

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We are very normal around here

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See a desmos graph and hit em with the UH ACKTUALLY

latent kernel
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although, tbf this is per 1 cast on target counts, so technically at 3 targets its 0.3 gain per cast, but at 100 casts its 30CP extra so i guess it is more meaningful than i thought

turbid yacht
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Alright, so in paladins, which is 3 target, and with soft capped crit chance (45%), what is the average amount of combo points we get from crimson tempest versus fan of knives, noting that crimson tempest gets seal fate (combo points per crit) but only fan of knives gets TWO combo points per crit, AND has 5% additional crit chance?

latent kernel
balmy condor
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It’s a fatebound thing not a fok thing

balmy condor
latent kernel
balmy condor
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That’s not a difficult thing to beat

turbid yacht
balmy condor
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I thought so

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Ct is on like fucking everything

strange onyx
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Evening nerds

balmy condor
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Maybe it isn’t on deal fate though

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Could’ve escaped that one

turbid yacht
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Sorry, but I really was feeling it in our paladins prog this week

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It's like, VERY noticeable how often I had to press CT twice versus once compared to FoK

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per envenom

balmy condor
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Yeh fok is a good button

vital flicker
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Well I mean you don't get a combo point for every target hit you only get 1 guaranteed and then +2 for every crit, sometimes you hit FoK on 5 targets and get 1 combo point, and I think that 5% less chance of that happening is good

royal lantern
lavish hazel
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so much overthink

strange onyx
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Just hit button, feel right, that’s good feelcraft

balmy condor
lavish hazel
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can we have a tldr what do i have to press now

latent kernel
lavish hazel
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you guys have the big brain i dont have this in my head

royal lantern
balmy condor
lavish hazel
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thx

balmy condor
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We’re just arguing about the impact of a talent

strange onyx
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Wait is this new tech?

latent kernel
lavish hazel
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im coming here to know if DS wants as much crit as fb for next week

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i need to try it out on some keys

turbid yacht
strange onyx
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Send me a pin, me and Nstab can only read pins

lavish hazel
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i dont read anything tbf i just press buttons

worn geyser
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i played a few keys with it and it feels so energy starved, sim wants haste flask for me

fallow canopy
balmy condor
lavish hazel
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just want to know if i want to beg for luuras ring for my gm

strange onyx
fallow canopy
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that easy

lavish hazel
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whyspir i got auto translate if french holy sh its so cursed LMFAO

royal lantern
latent kernel
lavish hazel
chilly marsh
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!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
worn geyser
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was my dungeon slice sim on DS but think i forgot to manually swap sim to haste flask so gg

lavish hazel
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im really dumb about all of this

strange onyx
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I believe in you my French friend

lavish hazel
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you should not

latent kernel
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i gotta just wait for the buff to drop and then hit a murlok.io to see what all the nerds are running

lavish hazel
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i mean

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i might be the nerd

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if you are checking m+ rating

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and im clueless so

latent kernel
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murlok takes top 50 people i think so it can account for 1-2 clueless

strange onyx
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Its all trickle down cluelessness

lavish hazel
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okok nice

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how can i remove this icon i dont play outlaw since df

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im lost on this discord now

strange onyx
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N, give me your dream m+ comp for assa

lavish hazel
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dont play assa

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if you want the true answer

worn geyser
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assa real pov

lavish hazel
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otherwise it might be bear monk heal warr fury elem assa or smthing like dat

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or rsham / ww

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i did somekeys with ww rsham and i smashed overall

vital flicker
lavish hazel
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arms and assa its meh

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and you pref bear instead of brew

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as assa

strange onyx
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Just need to know what to force the others to play when I am not playing main in m+

lavish hazel
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maybe i can find the log wait

strange onyx
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Didn’t know you knew how to link log, big up

lavish hazel
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i dont find it it was depleted key

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can i link a clip

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wait no i know

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i pumped my overall on this press but

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yeah as you can see big overall

worn geyser
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300k overall magister is mega

lavish hazel
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i guess it was 270 after last boss or smthing

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maybe 280 idk

worn geyser
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still crazy work

lavish hazel
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we didnt time it at 4 sec so no logs hehe

balmy condor
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now that's what I call visual clarity

lavish hazel
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there is nothing so see there

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its ok to feelsgood about dmg no

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i pay my subscription for this

balmy condor
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yeah I just can't stand seeing all the numbers flying out

lavish hazel
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ye

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idk

strange onyx
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Track that 17 393 hit

lavish hazel
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track that 1m envenom on nexus no ?

strange onyx
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Make it shake and play some music

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And throw in a camera spin

lavish hazel
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ye ok so i got my information for ds thx guys

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have a gn

balmy condor
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love you

strange onyx
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Nw

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Have a gn

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See you in the wild

lavish hazel
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ill come back to know if items from new raid works on mastery

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dont spoil me if you have the answer

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ohterwise ill never comeback

balmy condor
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I have the answer but I will keep it a secret

lavish hazel
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thx

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cya

balmy condor
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bye

strange onyx
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We all know the answer right?

lavish hazel
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wait how do i remove outlaw pins or idk how we can call it

strange onyx
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Leave N

balmy condor
lavish hazel
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demise pls sir

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thx a lot

balmy condor
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oh sorry

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I got rid of the blue

lavish hazel
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can you remove me sub role

strange onyx
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You close to L’ura kill Whispy?

lavish hazel
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i hate this spec now

strange onyx
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Lmao

balmy condor
lavish hazel
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im here like im doing my grocerie YIKES

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thx a lot good sir

balmy condor
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second soaks p2

coral ibex
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tonight p3 smile

balmy condor
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surely

strange onyx
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Boss is quite easy

balmy condor
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we have been getting rocked by roster boss last week or so

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5 people called out on a random thursday

jovial cradle
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I believe in whispyr to down lura and get a 99 parse AFFIRM🙏

strange onyx
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Oof

balmy condor
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very nice

strange onyx
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Yeah, L’ura seems like a bad boss to do swaps on

balmy condor
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now it's holiday and we have 2 more mias including a crystal grip

strange onyx
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«My macro»

balmy condor
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and then next week we're missing 3 more

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yippie

strange onyx
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Jesus

haughty flicker
balmy condor
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on tuesday we got DC chained as well

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like 4 people DCing at different times

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we lost like 10 pulls to DCs

strange onyx
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Atleast you didn’t get hit by wowhead layoffs, right?

balmy condor
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it's been fun

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yeah the wowhead layoffs that reddit knows everything about

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surely the good people of reddit wouldn't be.... making shit up

strange onyx
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He layed them off 😔

balmy condor
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it's true there were layoffs obviously

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I talked about it earlier a bit

strange onyx
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I can’t stand people who make stuff up

coral ibex
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i have 4 more prog days on lura before i lose to the schedule boss

balmy condor
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but it's funny to me that reddit shits on wowhead 24/7 and they're like wow it's all slop wow they don't have real writers anymore it's all AI, the site has gone to shit, wowhead guides are trash, can't believe anyone uses wowhead for more than the comments on the database

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and then the site director gets fired and they all go WHAT?? THEY FIRED WHO???

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HOW COULD THEY!

strange onyx
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The class guides are great, the articles are not good. Then again maybe I am not the demographic for them

balmy condor
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very likely

jovial cradle
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And its ironic as the wowhead writers are more human than what is seemingly going on with blizzard’s balance changes, i refuse to believe balance changes arent AI now

balmy condor
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I mean icyveins straight up just has an AI agent scraping reddit and posting articles

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which is what people keep claiming wowhead does

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and they're not fucking hiding it

jovial cradle
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Thats just sad man

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I mean redditors dont invest time looking at stuff, especially wow players that are also redditors

balmy condor
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yes this is definitely a human

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100%

jovial cradle
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😭😭

gritty laurel
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the worst ones i've found are ARPG redditors

strange onyx
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Yo that’s my gf

balmy condor
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right......

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yes

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incredibly normal

jovial cradle
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Like dude if anyone read Porom’s post, how are u gonna say thats AI…😭

strange onyx
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She goes to a different database, you don’t know her

jovial cradle
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Whispyr did u see porom’s article?

balmy condor
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and yet wowhead is AI

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I am reddit and me is smart

jovial cradle
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😼

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They should introduce wowhead gold and silver

strange onyx
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Can I write for wowhead? I got great insight in stuff

balmy condor
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poroms a G

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love that guy

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a bit abrasive, but he's a good lad

coral ibex
spice surge
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Lugia is pretty good though

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I obviously dont mean diamond

jovial cradle
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He is a g, that post is so frustrating tho because you can tell he’s pouring his heart out for the spec and then blizzard just does more AI balance changes zzz

spice surge
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Because im dumb

balmy condor
spice surge
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Crystal

balmy condor
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you know, a video game where no one goes by their real name

fallow canopy
balmy condor
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"Yeah I'm just emma"

jovial cradle
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Uhm that’s a bold assumption, i am plungis irl and in game

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😼

balmy condor
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and they use em dashes everywhere

strange onyx
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I used to raid with an Emma

balmy condor
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like a very normal person

jovial cradle
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Yeah the AI-signature

dreamy dust
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I can't seem to locate it on Wowhead, so what poisons do you use?

balmy condor
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!poison

prisma monolithBOT
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You should always be using poisons you talent into, which means the following:

Lethals:

  • Deadly always + Amplifying if you're talented into it with DTB, Instant only as a final option
    Non-Lethals:
  • Atrophic/Numbing, crippling if you're talented into DTB

Wound poison damage in PvE is atrocious and should never be used

dreamy dust
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Thanks

worn geyser
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i have a dk friend whos main is just their first and middle name put together kinda based ngl

strange onyx
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!SD

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😔

fallow canopy
strange onyx
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If u know u know

fallow canopy
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I do not want to know

worn geyser
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!shiv

strange onyx
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!Skoop

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Skoop is very cool

fallow canopy
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Good bot(?

jovial cradle
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I dont play sin so idk, but does anyone swap to wound in MT from 3rd to 4th boss?

jovial cradle
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Curious how bad wound is for the spec

strange onyx
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If you wanna deplete

jovial cradle
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Makes sense

coral ibex
fallow canopy
strange onyx
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Just use the mechanic

jovial cradle
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I figured so

strange onyx
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The ring makes it so it doesn’t heal

jovial cradle
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I do it in law cuz instant is a joke for us :p

strange onyx
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Splash them with the debuff ring

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Gives them a massive heal absorb

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Yw

jovial cradle
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Unfortunately i dont always have that option

strange onyx
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??

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Use Dpoison then

jovial cradle
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I play law

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I was just curious how big of a dip wound is for sin

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Cuz for law it doesnt matter at all which you take tbh

worn geyser
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ds fok tech clutched up i almost thought wed have a regular st rotation

spare kayak
balmy condor
plain thistle
storm forum
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thats fucked up

worn geyser
# spare kayak ?

new whispyr video on deathstalker buffs and stuff, idk how linking rules work for videos but ye good video

spare kayak
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Oh, I'll check it out

buoyant herald
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HIYA

plain thistle
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shaman cant raid for 3 days, guess I'm the shaman now, why do I keep gearing alts besad

cerulean nest
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is there a Whispyr sheet lurking somewhere with latest sims/gear type shi

chrome plume
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First mistake was letting your guild find out you can play a ranged spec

iron thorn
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I stg I’d be happy if raid lead would have let me play my Aug

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But no “you’re coming on rogue for the DR”

balmy condor
cerulean nest
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Im old enough to remember one

buoyant herald
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It’s done by his nemesis

runic hinge
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me?

haughty flicker
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!whispyr

buoyant herald
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!tonynugz

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Hmmm command mustn’t be working

buoyant herald
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when you talk shit on disc at midnight then see movement out the corner of your eye

grave trail
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Is the mark sniping basically the same as when you had to mfd sniper with outlaw back in shadowlands?

balmy condor
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yeh

normal mist
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Not the same logic but yeah

grave trail
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Kinda cringe but might still have some muscle memory left back when I played it with outlaw and a good bind

normal mist
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You move it around more freely but the big big thing about it (7cp envenom DN) still requires you to consume the mark, and iirc it has a cd(?)

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Need to double check on that

grave trail
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Yeah i think 20 sec cd

normal mist
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Mfd my beloved

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Getting those sweet finishers back to back

grave trail
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But I will try deathstalker the prio dmg might be huge and specially on boss fights where u can funnel + the extra defensiveness

normal mist
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Yeah fair

grave trail
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M+ that is

novel dock
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if improved garrote is <6sec, is it ok to do normal garrote or do i wait till it almost expire?

normal mist
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Expire

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Otherwise you lose the improved one for a regular one

novel dock
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aha thx!

vital flicker
hazy sundial
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how do i sim whats best to upgrade with crests?

balmy condor
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top gear

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can press the little + on items

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and pick upgrades

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based on what you have the crests for

hazy sundial
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right, but what about, lets say if i have 200 crests, to sim what is the best to spend crests on?

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if i do + on items its gonna calculate all of the combined

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Just do like this?

balmy condor
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ye

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the funniest thing about that is that those 3 items are exactly 200 crests

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so you could just upgrade all 3

hazy sundial
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i have 3 more items

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gloves belt and a ring

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both rings

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but what i didnt expect is that neck and ring upgrades sim higher than shoulder/gloves upgrades

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interesting

ember mural
rigid fable
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where should i use AA trinket?

radiant aspen
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ds better

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okay looks like my rogue will rest for while

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time to play something eleseee

novel dock
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!bislist

balmy condor
keen raven
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@balmy condor

ember mural
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i said that to tony too lmao kekW

keen raven
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ew what the fuk

vital flicker
visual sun
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I can feel whispyr’s plea in the vid rofl

hazy sundial
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i need 540 myth crest to upgrade everything

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kill me

balmy condor
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that's only like

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40 keys

deep latch
balmy condor
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if it's simmin best then its best

vale shore
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I have been playing deathstalker (just saw your video)

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I like the big envenom crits 🙁

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I like marking for death.... and then death marking

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sobbing

carmine seal
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how much Mastery do you want as Assass?

balmy condor
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Less than crit, roughly the same as haste

solar wyvern
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Is there a hypothetical minmax with DS to delay kingsbane by X gcds to get 2-3 ticks in 30% lingering darkness amp instead of the 10% finish the job amp i hope this isnt real buy im somewhat struggling to see where the flaw is

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Outside of losing a cast on like a strict 4:15 boss fight

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Like say u go DM, envenom, build envenom pbox kingsbane

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Or

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Pbox dm env build env kb to cover the pbox window and hit lingering

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Also love the degen fok spam in st

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Insane

balmy condor
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maybe I need to double check it but it wasn't a thing when I first checked

solar wyvern
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I wonder if its more relevant in aoe with big spatters

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But ye just a though with all our stacking dam

balmy condor
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it's possible

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I think if anything you would like box dm ct env kb

storm forum
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I think box between dm and kb

solar wyvern
balmy condor
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you don't auto attack or are able to cast anything during box

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you want to press your 2min cd and then just not do anything?

solar wyvern
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Let me solve a puzzle fast

storm forum
dreamy dust
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Anyone know if you can use multiple bonus rolls in a single dungeon or just one per?

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(like, one per run, not one ever in that dungeon.)

fallow canopy
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One per run

dreamy dust
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Okay, thanks

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Unfortunate for my strategy of spending them all in one place but not the end of the world

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WOuld need crests anyway

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Lol

balmy condor
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it's generally optimal to spend them all in one place

dreamy dust
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Yep, maybe more accurate to say I can't spend them all at once

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Lol

golden loom
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cant wait to play deathstalker, have darkest night up then fan of knives 6 times in a row (not critting once) and then shiving for the 7th combo point

balmy condor
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optimal

burnt ember
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@balmy condor I like your point about adding exsanguinate into deathstalker… but like why don’t they just add the mark to mutilate? Like whenever you mutilate a new target it starts the mark rundown? You just cast a mutilate on your focus in AOE and if you cast it on something else early it just deletes the first mark and starts a new one.

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I don’t see why that would be bad or hard

balmy condor
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sure

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that's fine

golden loom
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why would mutilate get to mark swap when they added it to garrote and it doesnt get to do that garf

balmy condor
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but that's also what we have with garrote

jade abyss
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Make the mark a buff on us garf

golden loom
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whispyr do u think deathstalker will be worth thinking about for dragons (I assume no chance for paladins)

balmy condor
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why

golden loom
# balmy condor why

ye was just kinda curious on how its on 2 target cleave (this is cleave add with 2 bosses atm garf )

severe meadow
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Do NOT ask about the bottom one

lusty kraken
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what the hell is this abomination, fan of knives in single target?

balmy condor
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itsssssssssssss baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

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fok in single target, the deathstalker classic

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can never get rid of it apparently

lusty kraken
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yes but you used fok when it procced

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now it's the opposite

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you use mutilate when you get a proc

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like what

balmy condor
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yeah isn't that so fun

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subverting expectations of whatever

lusty kraken
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subverting expectations of class design team being competent, yes

flint siren
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More like assassinating expectations limesSip

lusty kraken
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I legit do not understand why they had to ruin whatever they had in TWW

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you legit had perfectly fine specs in TWW, such as frost DK or arcane mage

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and all they had to do was build on top of it

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instead they just fucked it all over

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for no reason

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like???

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deathstalker was far from perfect but it made sense gameplay wise

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they just had to fix the target swap issues

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instead we get this abomination

golden loom
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I like current assa more than war within, frost dk is the same, havoc is more fun now, arms warrior is better than war within, fury is maybe better?

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war within deathstalker wasnt good design either garf

lusty kraken
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no, but at least it somewhat made sense

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you used mutilate in single target

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sometimes you got procs and fok did more damage

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you use fok

golden loom
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thankfully fatebound still exists so you dont have to play ds if u dont want to

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in warwithin if you wanted to do m+ you had to play DS

lusty kraken
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at this point I am checked out of the season, I'm currently in the 12.1 PTR waiting room

analog hedge
golden loom
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Even in season 3 when fatebound was better in raid, you still played ds in keys

burnt ember
buoyant herald
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Burn it all down and start again

burnt ember
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When it comes to broader assassination? No. I think ‘sin feels generally good rn. When it comes to changing up implacable and reworking deathstalker? 100% yes.

golden loom
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Implacable is great

buoyant herald
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Mostly death stalker, I don’t mind fate, it’s a bit boring but it works

burnt ember
# golden loom Implacable is great

I simply cannot agree. It is like a 1% gain and the gain is imperceptible… so it ends up feeling the same as when I contribute to my IRA

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Like I don’t want to put money in my IRA, but it’s gonna pay off when I’m 70 or whatever.

balmy condor
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Implacable as a concept is good, but it’s not impactful enough for sure

burnt ember
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I don’t want to stop casting envenom, but if I don’t my parse will be 2% lower.

burnt ember
subtle tundra
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i wanna stop casting envenom

golden loom
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even if the impact is low, I like it way more than just mindlessly spamming envenom like we did the whole of warwithin

burnt ember
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We can agree on that, I just can’t get behind saying Quiznos is good because it’s better than Subway, y’know?

subtle tundra
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the fucks a quiz

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american fast food ah ok

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ofc the american uses american only analogy in a public server

burnt ember
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Okay well Google is free 😂

strange onyx
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Rogue hero talents are so boring they should be called peasant talents

blazing totem
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the idea behind Deathstalker is great, execution is horrible
but at the end of the day it's all just numbers regardless

marble wadi
subtle tundra
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ahhhh fok in st is back

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now we need to make CT spam a thing

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someone find something

ebon cloud
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!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
warm vortex
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Watching the new whispy video makes me think of how murder row boss 1 will be with mark

buoyant herald
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thats the one that summons the lizard or whatever?

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wyrm

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whatever

dire flume
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pet mana wyrm thats being used to transfer fel energy because the belves are worried about running out of mana from the sunwell yes

marsh fjord
analog field
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Having less energy so you gain more by activating it

buoyant herald
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monkeys paw curls

buoyant herald
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Inspired boss design fr fr

ocean root
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Is it mandatory to always wait for implacable buff to fade out ehen it reaches 80 stacks? Or depends if you got/need energy gain ?

blazing totem
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no reason to do it in aoe where you are swimming in energy

balmy condor
# marsh fjord How would you make it more impactful?

First we make room for damage from envenom/pooling:

  • remove the 10% envenom increase on implacable 1
  • nerf implacable 2 to 6%/12%
  • nerf envenom duration to 5s flat when used with 5 or more cp (this doesn't actually affect uptime)
  • make improved poison only apply during envenom, buff it to 10%, swap position with inspiring strike/poisoners drive
  • buff rapid injection from 15/30 to 30/60, swap position with lethal dose
  • buff poison bomb to increase its chance to proc by 1% for each envenom cast in envenom's buff (max 5)

we have removed 11.3% dps with the implacable nerfs, we offset it with 11.7% of buffs:

  • rapid injection gains 5.5%
  • imp poison/inspiring takes a point (razor wire), gains 1.7%
  • poison bomb gains 4.5%

Now we make room for energy from envenom/pooling:

  • nerf base regen from 10 to 7
  • increase envenom energy cost to 50
  • buff implacable energy gain by 400%

we have removed 1,600 energy, 1500 of which is recovered from the implacable change. Implacable is now 30% of the energy gained on the spec, and when it procs you're getting roughly 60 energy a second total (not counting blindside/thistle tea), meaning with a full implacable, you have enough energy to mut mut env mut mut env without your energy moving, this gives you 2 stacks, meaning we only need 3 more stacks of implacable to cap.

With the nerf to the base regen, you're bleeding roughly 30 energy per second after that if you spam every gcd, or you can understand it as a mut mut env losing you 90 energy in the process. Getting the extra 3 stacks would require 270 energy, which is not sustainable, you'd eat your entire energy bar spamming.

If you spread it out and clipping envenom, you're losing 90 energy from mut mut env for 3 seconds, then gaining 20x2 energy from the seconds you're waiting, putting you at a net loss of 50 per mut mut env instead of 90. By clipping you're able to get a maxed chain being at 150/250 instead. If you apply the clipping logic to the first 2 implacable stacks, you're gaining an additional 80 energy during that pooling, meaning you could chain from 70/250 if you played it perfectly.

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hypothetically of course

dire flume
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ok but where does sudden demise come in

balmy condor
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it doesn't

buoyant herald
marsh fjord
blazing totem
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ok but where does exsang come in

balmy condor
mortal crag
#

What about bone spear

marsh fjord
balmy condor
#

well no

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in this case they can't

marsh fjord
#

I mean, sure if you want to make the apex more impactful.

balmy condor
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The rebuttal to all of this is “you made poison bomb a 10% talent, rapid injection is a 10% talent, and implacable is a third of the energy regen”

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That’s not sustainable from like a game design standpoint

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I did make things more impactful

golden loom
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"what if someone doesnt want to take the apex"

balmy condor
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And the pooling gain went from 1% to roughly 14% because playing it wrong means the spec actually collapses

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So like

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Job successful

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But in order to do that I have warped the spec in unsalvageable ways

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Similar to how amirdrassil for example warped the entire spec with how kingsbane was tuned

golden loom
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Could they cook something up where each stack of implac gave increased envenom damage and increased energy cost (yeah I am making it into arcane blast)

balmy condor
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They could do many things

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I “fixed” it without adding anything new really

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I added a modifier to poison bomb for more chaining value

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But like, I didn’t delete or add a talent or anything

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And the real answer to “how do they fix this” is frankly just a rework

golden loom
#

yeah its all numbers garf

balmy condor
#

The healthier/correct way to do this is to add more talents that incentivize the gameplay, not buff the energy regen from implacable by 400%

dire flume
#

we should get a button called "assassinate" on a 2 min cd and it one shots whoever you use it on otherwise we're not really assassinating anything

balmy condor
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But making new things is significantly more effort and I’m not a designer I’m just a stupid queer writing an essay about one of the least played specs in a video game at 4am on a Tuesday

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So

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I’m gonna leave the actual rework stuff to people that get paid to do that

golden loom
#

The spec could always be worse garf (like DS in mere hours)

balmy condor
#

Yippie

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The response on my video was a resounding “fuck deathstalker I ain’t playin that”

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So

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Maybe someone who can do something about that will care

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Probably not

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But maybe

golden loom
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its weird tho I am hoping for alleria neck from vault so I can do some DS sub experiments

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but I dont wanna touch ds sin at all garf

subtle tundra
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u ar gae

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i have to gear my rouge soon

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what bosses are deathstalker friendly?

golden loom
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only takes like 30 minutes to get 290 garf

subtle tundra
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monk is 287 i think, pala is 288

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next is rouge

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!!!!!!!!

golden loom
dire flume
#

have you tried another game

golden loom
#

I do close retail sometimes and open tbc classic

oak ember
#

Or having an interest in women

golden loom
golden loom
runic hinge
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No

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It makes your ilvl worse

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Ask me how I know

dire flume
oak ember
runic hinge
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I have a gf and I’m 285

golden loom
oak ember
#

What's all that ilvl for then

golden loom
#

I delve log

subtle tundra
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i dont even have mythic puzzy b

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x d

balmy condor
subtle tundra
#

YOU ARE A PENIS

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nah i think youre wrong

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lura is deffo a deathstalker boss

balmy condor
#

If you really want to you could play it on salad and maybe alleria I guess

subtle tundra
#

i actually dont know what it does better

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if it does anything better

balmy condor
#

But the orbs/blobs on those don’t live long enough

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So

golden loom
#

I hate how the sin meta on saladbar is to play full aoe talents garf

subtle tundra
#

does it have better execute?

balmy condor
#

You don’t really get any funnel

balmy condor
balmy condor
#

It’s just funnel and slightly better aoe

golden loom
#

legit got mad when I opened backshotbots log and saw he played scent..

balmy condor
#

Yah well

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If there’s adds, theres pad

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And wcl didn’t remove any of the pad

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So

golden loom
#

like the fight would be so good if it was just boss and the 2 big orbs

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cause thats kinda interesting

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but the small orbs....

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they dont even fkin do anything

balmy condor
#

I think the fight is great, I just think the small orbs should get removed from logs

subtle tundra
#

yes blizzard keep making add slop bosses

balmy condor
#

Like if you really want to parse on salad, you have to purposefully sacrifice people in execute or just get like 4 carries

subtle tundra
#

enjoyable

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!

balmy condor
#

Because the small orbs keep respawning

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So you want to be as close to enrage as possible

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And most kills these days skip like 2 orb respawns

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So

subtle tundra
#

not like the DHs are holding collapsing stars and 1 shot all the adds on all the fights

balmy condor
subtle tundra
#

and you get to do 1 gcd

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and all the top parses play aoe stuff

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and they dont have the DHs to kill them

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or smth

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idk

balmy condor
#

Yeh parsing is just degen this tier none of the adds got removed

subtle tundra
#

the game is over for me once prog is done

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i am so unlucky though

golden loom
balmy condor
balmy condor
subtle tundra
balmy condor
#

Actively punished for being good at the game

subtle tundra
#

if next raid tier starts on the 18th of august

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i come back from vacation on the 17th

balmy condor
#

Then we kiss?

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Oh

subtle tundra
#

meow

golden loom
#

my dragons kill this week when I played sudden demise was also in a group without a shaman and with 4 dev dh's garf

balmy condor
#

Good meme

golden loom
#

4 dh 4dk 4 druid giga group

sharp viper
balmy condor
#

On our kill pull I looked down at meters and said “gg I’m parsing”

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Got a 97

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Legit nothing matters on that fight except the first 2 min

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Very silly

sharp viper
#

Padcane mages love alleria

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imagine them padding on wednesday with +5% aura

golden loom
#

I had a pretty decent p1 on alleria and then my 5min cd set was awful

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so it couldve been very good

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p1 looks so dumb tho lol

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2nd pot execute cds popping off also..

final star
#

Saldahaar being a 6min fight on prog and it's now like 03:30

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is very funny

sharp viper
#

we only got it to around 4 minutes

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not going to see it again for some time though, going to extend for alleria prog

#

never heard our RL be so disappointed in us

low silo
#

Deathstalker time poggersgasp

clear knoll
#

I missed read death stalker for death mark 🫩

#

Is it worth swapping now or fb still better

low silo
#

FB is still fine

#

DS is just better prio damage lower overall in m+

clear knoll
#

I really never touched death stalker. Might have to go watch a video on it

runic hinge
#

@storm forum I knew the DS copers would be here before the patch was over

eager solstice
#

How does ds compare to fb in boss dmg?

low silo
#

Worse

eager solstice
#

It was low to begin with :/

normal mist
#

Funnel dmg good

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No funnel dmg bad

severe meadow
royal lantern
#

FoK in ST

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everything is fine

severe meadow
#

DS is so cooked

light quarry
radiant aspen
hollow escarp
golden loom
iron thorn
#

Person we recruited for keys just alt f4, unfriended, left all servers etc while I was in the middle of organising a Chimaerus HC group for them

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I’m slightly confused

dire flume
#

sorry i got shy

coral ibex
#

sometimes you realize ur in too deep and gotta split

shy sorrel
#

How big of a dps increase is it to restealth after every pack?

spice surge
#

Not very big

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Dragging a mob along to the next pack to allow you to spread those bleeds onto the new pack is usually worth more dps (and makes the key go faster)

coral ibex
#

you should ask the other half of the question - how big of a dps decrease is it to drop combat for multiple seconds after every pack

severe meadow
iron thorn
#

Too nice

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So people get scared

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Ggs

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Like I do understand getting cold feet

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But idk, first time something like this happens to me lol

coral ibex
#

any good p3 pulls last night? we're still struggling to get there at all @balmy condor

iron thorn
#

But funny thing is I rolled a 100 on the gaze and now my evoker has one

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Yippie

severe meadow
iron thorn
#

You can’t tease me like that jay

spice spire
#

He’s a tease all the time

spice spire
spice spire
#

He’s about to respond in 12 hours dw

fallow canopy
fallow canopy
#

with glaive change I assume prog is more consistent or lineal (not sure which word to use) now?

royal lantern
plush isle
#

nah

#

should still expect 60% of trys to wipe in p1

iron thorn
#

Not 80%

dire flume
spice spire
#

Yes ma’am salute

unique nymph
#

man

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look at this

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XD

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dude knows nothing about elusiveness

deep latch
#

It’s death stalker day a time to tell my tank to bring funnel into boss!

unique nymph
#

my man is mentally ill i guess

coral ibex
#

seed holders still just getting blasted in all phases

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dropping seeds into glaives during memory game etc

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miserable

pseudo crow
#

How is Deathstalker looking like after this patch compared to FB?

unique nymph
fallow canopy
coral ibex
pseudo crow
coral ibex
#

im only progging this for another week anyway so either we kill it or we don't

#

on 6/2 i am pulling dancing mad (ultimate) with my final fantasy static

light quarry
unique nymph
#

in what particular way

leaden anvil
#

Death stalker for sin looking good though

runic hinge
#

brain rot

severe meadow
#

Prio damage pog

#

The thing groups usually have too much of xd

hazy sundial
leaden anvil
#

@hazy sundial honestly I like it more than unholy. Lots of burst

golden loom
hazy sundial
#

Is it dopamine inducing

leaden anvil
#

@hazy sundial unholy feels like cardboard.

golden loom
#

so its very big

leaden anvil
#

^

hazy sundial
#

Me like

golden loom
#

sound and vfx design for frost dk is top top top tier

turbid thistle
#

does it make sense to pull those 4 ghouls into the first boss in PoS for funnel? some tanks say it dont matter, but i feel like it makes it way faster

deep latch
#

Pretty fun tbh

pliant remnant
rotund oak
#

so it makes sense

unique nymph
#

tank died to mobs on 3rd boss in WS

#

and then out of nowhere he mentions me

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XD

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while healer died 2 times to phial toss

#

that monk was healer

rotund oak
#

whatever he was

royal lantern
rotund oak
#

it speaks volumes of the capacity to process information

rotund oak
spice spire
#

ayo?

fallow canopy
main plover
#

im fucking around with deathstalker stuff, how exactly does unshakeable drive work? it seems to spend 2 stacks when i mutilate with 3

warm vortex
night delta
main plover
#

well as per usual it doesnt say so

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so it can use 2 stacks max?

rotund oak
warm vortex
night delta
#

Honestly I don't know, I don't even understand why it's even better to let it stack in the first place

warm vortex
#

You a true homie if you know what this is from

hazy sundial
#

!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
warm vortex
night delta
#

like, when you get a stack that's it, the bonus damage is stored until you release it with mut

warm vortex
#

Cause the off hand also uses a stack so it consumes 2 each mutilate

night delta
#

how does it factor in FoK being somehow better dmg per energy than mut ? idk

#

maths says so I guess, but i'm clueless as to how

fallow canopy
warm vortex
#

No idea I don’t even play assassination I just watch Whispyr

fallow canopy
#

but unshakeable makes it so mutilate gets better with more drive stacks

fallow canopy
night delta
#

I mean there's fundamentally something wrong and broken if dry FoK is a better button push in ST than dry Mut

#

it just shouldn't be

fallow canopy
#

oh 100%

warm vortex
#

welcome to assassination

fallow canopy
#

DS just being cringe

#

as usual

runic hinge
#

I can’t believe people are excited to play that cringe shit

#

Fok in st shiv to force to 7

#

Yikes

night delta
#

doing big prio and 'uge funnel ?

#

fun

warm vortex
#

Blizzard wants you to play deathstalker

They want you to consume the slop

And they want you to hate it

night delta
#

everything else ? not fun

fallow canopy
#

variety is good but if I'm eating plain toast and the alternative is a steaming plate of doodoo

#

maybe I'll stick with the plain toast

warm vortex
#

Hey
It could be worse

At least you aren’t marskmasn OMEGAKEKW

#

That spec genuinely had a lobotomy

#

Also

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You can still just

#

Play fatebound

grave nova
#

Would it be bad to take the garrote silence talent?

grave nova
#

Idk how flexible ass talents really are

warm vortex
golden loom
#

its also bad cause it doesnt get spread by crimson tempest

night delta
#

in the spec tree

grave nova
warm vortex
#

Not what I meant sidnfjjf

#

You asked about ass

#

Not Assa

runic hinge
golden loom
grave nova
#

Are there really any utility spells worth taking in 19+?

#

i strongly considered blackjack since we already have MD

golden loom
#

I mean yeah tricks is only personal protection anyways

#

so up to you

night delta
#

whoa I was just finishing Whispyr's last video, he's legit onto something with the idea of a bleed-focused DS

spice surge
#

Or well, 150% on the mainhand, then 100% on the offhand

#

Because 3 stacks when mainhand hits = 150% > then offhand hits and you have 2 stacks = 100% and you end up with 1 stack left

main plover
#

wtf is this KEKW

grave nova
#

Also i know what the sims technically say but ive swapped to sin for more prio damage for my comp. Bear ele bm hunter and mw, would deathstalker just simply be better for 19+?

#

or too early to say?

night delta
normal mist
#

Whispyr already did some maths

main plover
#

and then explained how it works

#

and they said "nah fuck that class"

fleet whale
#

Well back in Antorus during legion assassin briefly used FOK in ST... but that was quickly nerfed

leaden anvil
#

Man sin does so much damage in mythic+

normal mist
#

All 3 specs do

fleet whale
#

You know when I do delves and I see Valeera using these vampiric-like abilities, I"m like wow, a vampire-themed hero spec would be so much cooler than what we have now

deep latch
hazy sundial
#

Do we stay on chimi the entire fight or do we swap to adds?

#

mythic

jolly heath
#

Stay

#

By the time you reach the adds, they are already dead

night delta
#

being formerly dreadlord-posessed and all

hazy sundial
#

What about the big one?

night delta
#

if downstairs group nuke it to kingdom come, you might be able to swap on it before your burst comes in

#

usually I ask to be in 2nd rotation to not deal with these ethical issues

grave nova
#

!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
night delta
#

by the time 2nd deathmark comes back, upstairs fellas already started chunking the big guy and you're not quite leaving dowstairs phase yet anyway, so I can full send on boss with peace of mind

grave nova
#

why do we not press garrote/rupture again after deathmark?

#

it doubles poisons

night delta
#

you mean bleeds ?

grave nova
#

yeah

night delta
#

Deathmark already duplicates ongoing garrote and rupture

grave nova
#

oh so whatever is already on the target it starts doubling?

#

i assumed it only doubles what is put on after mark

night delta
#

well garrote and rupture specifically, but yes

#

no need to reapply

spice surge
#

It doesnt double bleeds anymore

#

It makes bleeds do 100% more damage

leaden anvil
#

How does ds feel?

night delta
#

doesn't double the energy

warm vortex
#

@runic hinge

#

Found your alt

royal lantern
#

and gave her the Old Smokebomb

#

before DH stole it from Rogue

hollow escarp
grave nova
#

why are people taking leech over avoidance? Am i missing something for this spec?

#

is leech just better since sin is uncapped?

spice surge
#

Avoidance works on the same spells that Feint works on

coral ibex
#

nobody is "taking" leech over avoidance

#

nobody has choice of tertiaries other than MDI contestants

grave nova
coral ibex
#

i use speed enchants

spice surge
#

And generally in keys a lot of the most dangerous spells arent classed as AoE, thus your avoidance will not do anything against it

coral ibex
#

can't relate

spice surge
#

And you are generally fine whenever feint works already

vital flicker
#

I feel like avoidance is an overrated tertiary stat, especially with feint in the game

royal lantern
#

and instead tried to make dmg taken a bit more consistent

#

so leech is not actually that bad on DPS now

grave nova
#

do bleeds proc leech?

royal lantern
#

all dmg does leech

warm vortex
#

like from the vault

#

cause we can add sockets

#

idk wouild be cool

royal lantern
#

before midnight, leech was just ussules

#

and speed is speed

#

atleast avoidance did something

warm vortex
#

What about indestructible

coral ibex
#

SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

worn geyser
#

viable, i have no g repairs on lura i am in poverty

warm vortex
#

Ok real talk

worn geyser
#

would kill for indestructable

warm vortex
#

The fucking repairs in this game are insane

#

Like ???

royal lantern
#

and im paying for myself after like 90min

fallow canopy
royal lantern
#

i love daggers losing 23% durability in a 20sec pull

#

for some reason

warm vortex
#

It is proper tomfoolery at this point

fallow canopy
#

You can't really cheese deaths since the crystals blow your shit up

worn geyser
#

im gonna send my gm a invoice for the gold amount im owed after we kill

warm vortex
worn geyser
#

140x430wipes

warm vortex
#

for some reason i'd lose like 40% bow durability every pull

#

or

#

not "no reason"

#

i know exactly why

#

but i was mega madge

royal lantern
#

like, the only thing keeping me afloat is the fact that i have weaponsmith maxed out and can use the enjdless repair hammer on my daggers

#

cus holy fuck

#

rogue daggers and prot warrior shields just break after 2-3 pulls

warm vortex
#

I mean

#

if it's really bad ig you could like

#

HS out and go to a vendor instead of the mount repairs

#

but that would be giga troll

#

Unless they changed it

worn geyser
#

my guild automatically sends a 40 second pull timer as soon as priest res goes off

warm vortex
#

i think mount repairs still cost more than vendor repairs

warm vortex
#

was very funny

#

"Uh i accidentally hearthstoned instead of rez.."

#

old habits die hard idk

rich lotus
#

DS out cleaving fatebound on the dummies rn

warm vortex
#

oK

#

Fix idea for DS

#

how about you mark your allies

#

and it becomes a rogue healing hero tree

storm forum
#

stab the grimreaper away

warm vortex
#

Exactly

marsh fjord
clear knoll
#

Fan of heals

warm vortex
marsh fjord
#

True

terse night
#

anyone know hjow to get garrote to display the timer in cdm

marsh fjord
#

DS is the reason why i went for DK this tier

terse night
#

?

marsh fjord
terse night
#

it only showi sthe cd of 6 seconds

marsh fjord
#

Show me your CDM

#

Like the main group

spice surge
#

Well thats improved garrote

#

But garrote isnt under buffs, its in the other section. It should be enabled by default

marsh fjord
#

Yeah thats why i ask show the main group

terse night
spice surge
#

Ye and if you press garrote on something, the timer shows up on the icon yes?

terse night
#

yea oinly 6 seconds

spice surge
#

But also numbers meant your settings, not how it looks

terse night
#

but under essential cds i have garrote there not improved

#

so its confusing wehy it doesnt display the 24 seconds

weary stump
#

Get it, because you'd be a stalker garf

spice surge
#

As in create a new one, not a copy

royal lantern
#

our warrior suddenly said mid pull

#

"i disenchanted my weapon"

warm vortex
#

Bro first the guy playing HS during fyrakk prog

royal lantern
#

yes

warm vortex
#

now this

#

what on earth is yourt guild

royal lantern
#

i love them

marsh ferry
#

Saw a clip of someone accidentally disenchanting their trinket on Imperator

royal lantern
#

wait, leme find the HS clip again

#

its just so good

warm vortex
warm vortex
#

It's why i remember

royal lantern
#

there you go

warm vortex
#

how do you accidetnally fucking disenchant

#

like

#

how

royal lantern
#

@coral ibex this is serious mythic raiding btw

warm vortex
#

He was playing plague dk aswell

#

what a rat

fresh kelp
#

I saw a clip from this tier of someone disenchanting their trinket mid m+ dungeon

royal lantern
#

he was streaming it for guildmates

#

thats the best part

#

and the RL was in the stream

#

looked at it

warm vortex
#

How do you disenchant

#

An item

#

mid fight

#

Like how

royal lantern
#

and just sees that his MW healer plays hearthstone midfight

fresh kelp
#

for a trinket

latent kernel
#

@balmy condor just watched your video, the flying dagger point on the DS talent tree is only so you can use FOK in single target right? how much do you actually gain in single target to offset not picking up secondary or fatal in aoe? like over the course of an entire key is it really that much better?

fresh kelp
#

if you have a disenchant keybind

#

and then press your trinket keybind right after

#

it in fact

royal lantern
fresh kelp
#

DEs

royal lantern
#

he disenchanted random gear

#

and then

warm vortex
#

6 minutes of p2

warm vortex
#

idk i didn't play slv

#

but i t seemed miserable

royal lantern
#

SOMEHOW

managed to disenchant his equipped weapon

royal lantern
radiant aspen
#

ar ds changes live

#

?

royal lantern
#

its this combination of shock and dissapointment

fallow canopy
#

Literally what the helly

deep latch
#

Where my DS degens at?

warm vortex
#

Btw anyone here played terraria infernum at all
fucking hooked on it

radiant aspen
#

Fu ck DS

warm vortex
#

Trickster assassination is what i play

#

Idk what you all are doiong

royal lantern
warm vortex
#

Tbf

#

His primus did just get removed