#assassination

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bold wigeon
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i dont trust you, loa of misinformation

solar wyvern
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If boomkin devour rsham pwar was meta

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Ds would be turbo

strange onyx
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Buckos coming in here expecting in depth research answers when they can just go do a lil bit of digging on their own

solar wyvern
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Idt its meant to be without specifically routing for it tbh

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And i cant get NA to try normal routes

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So

lavish peak
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“Normal routes”

strange onyx
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I’ll do my weekly 9s today and do some research

lavish peak
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“Arachnophobia”

golden loom
solar wyvern
strange onyx
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SD DS could be something SDDSASSA, it sounds like a sims cheat code

solar wyvern
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Vause we only have 1 poison dispel

strange onyx
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Could be m+ cheat code

iron thorn
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chonky character sheet

runic hinge
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DS brainrot in full force

coral ibex
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somebody tell me how much prio damage DS does in pull 7 of pit saron +21

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NOW

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these things MATTER

runic hinge
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“Let me play a hero talent that does worse numbers and feels like ass to play so I can cope on my prio which my spec already has a ton of”

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We’re talking about Fok in ST and people wanna do that?

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Imma puke

lavish peak
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Though I guess you do have funnel for it

golden loom
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pull 7 teleport out and swap to fatebound

coral ibex
golden loom
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catch me dead before I play deathstalker

coral ibex
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if i swap hero talents people will accept me into keys...

golden loom
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I am just doing my silly 10s demising all over the place

coral ibex
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mages are on suicide watch and they're just having a bad season for a rogue

golden loom
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look demise can even remove damage from your group, now thats what I call prio

lavish peak
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It’s crazy it’s that close still

golden loom
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fire mage takeover

wide ferry
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bout time they felt the pain

dire flume
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pride month soon

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cant wait for spec discords to change their pfps and invite some of the most deranged takes ever out of nowhere in general chats

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its gonna be so good

coral ibex
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its an easy filter

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people who freak out over pride can get lobbed

dire flume
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yeah its just really entertaining to watch people join the discord for 2 days to complain about lgbt being "shoved down their throats" and thinly veiled bigotry until they can't hide it anymore

balmy condor
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Its like a yearly spring cleaning

runic hinge
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its always fun when someone who isnt necessarily bad but i generally dont like gets baited by some pixels into getting themself banned

little tulip
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the crazy part is most of it is paid chatters making people womp out

strange onyx
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You have that here?

little tulip
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yeah i know salaried trolling is wild

strange onyx
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That’s crazy if you don’t have a rainbow parse you don’t get to have opinions

strange onyx
coral ibex
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whispyr pays me in pp touches to counter-shitpost

strange onyx
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Whispyr lets me use his raidbots login for free, but that doesn’t feel like getting payed

dire flume
little tulip
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..

radiant aspen
little tulip
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12 hour headpatting standoff gone police no no square chat

real pike
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Damn Germany actually has some pretty good views on the train

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Missing raid tonight for a football game, feel like I'm getting dangerously close to normal people behaviour

light quarry
storm forum
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Oh no I just noticed it's not vdh/dps druid

golden loom
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to be fair to the lad, I think he was 240 ilvl

storm forum
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Ahh

cinder seal
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@balmy condor why u dont like ds?

light quarry
spice surge
cinder seal
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i saw it

shrewd night
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So if you saw it, why do you have to ask Sus

little tulip
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you know why

strange onyx
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Ragebait?!

low silo
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DS kinda fucks tho

little tulip
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(i didn't know deathstalker got an update, thanks)

radiant aspen
little tulip
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yeah deathstalker feels like bopit sometimes

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i liked it but also it's too specific

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like..the one cool branch of outlaw was hidden/kir right

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deathstalker is kir levels of specific with none of the benefits and it's a tuning nightmare for sure

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and of course kir is every 6 minutes every pull deathstalker can grief in about 10 seconds etc

spice surge
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Something that whispyr didnt mention in the video (since its mostly assa related) is that this talent actually feels insanely ass for sub

little tulip
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we were living a 18 magisters i take 0 responsiblity by the way

spice surge
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Because in general your dances line up so that you can consistently DN twice in dance, and then hold some sht for the next set of dance+2x dn

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But if you proc this you have to hold way longer, or screw up the alignment

blazing totem
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even if it works it's bad lol

cinder seal
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Is it bad when every spec has its own gameplay feature?

I really like DS because it gives the spec its identity since WOTLK. Assa identity has always been tied to the mark. I'd like it to be the main spec; I've always liked the mark crap.

What Whisper says is more propaganda for class versatility. He likes it when it's convenient and there are no problems.
His main point is: I don't like the DS mark crap because you have to think about how to move it—what's the point of even having a mark if you can move it at any time? I think if you don't like moving the mark, it's better to find another specialization whith playstyle you like.

Well, what he says and what he wants is essentially FB—a boring, piece of crap that doesn't require you to think much.

little tulip
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deathstalker's mark isn't executed particularly well though

spice surge
little tulip
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it's st prio damage on a spec that dominates aoe cleave

spice surge
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You can design the mark in a way that does not feel like shit

little tulip
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i'd like a hidden opportunity take on deathstalker and a kir take on deathstalker ngl

golden loom
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also I dont think deathstalkers mark was a thing in wotlk garf

spice surge
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The difficult part shouldnt be moving the mark, it should be working down the stacks

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To get the payoff

little tulip
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there was some steroid assassin had in wotlk that was like deathstalker

coral ibex
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i love the assertion that if you can move a mark there's no value to the mark

little tulip
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it wasn't hunger for blood but i vaguely recall that being a thing

coral ibex
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no justification for it

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just naked assertion

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as if it is fact

little tulip
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i'd rather be able to mark multiple targets

runic hinge
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fuck the mark, fuck ds, shit is terrible

little tulip
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3-4-5

shrewd night
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Leave the propaganda people to their antics, tony. We know the real truth meow

blazing totem
# cinder seal Is it bad when every spec has its own gameplay feature? I really like DS becaus...

the mark fantasy would have maybe worked, as you say, back in WOTLK - in modern WoW it presents multitude of problems, especially with how modern raids are designed

I get the sentiment, I really do, but there is currently no way you can reasonably defend Deathstalker's mark gimmick when there are issues like you being unable to re-mark if add despawns or you need to move targets due to mechanics but you cant because your old mark is still active - boom, now you play without hero talents. This is not a question of identity but of design and it blows. Blizzard in their infinite wisdom even doubled down on this by making Vanish no longer able to spread mark to someone else and only after major backlash they introduced the now new separate ability to move the mark, but this is only a bandaid solution

golden loom
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unless you mean combo points being tied to the target?

blazing totem
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if a hero talent needs bandaid soltuions like this, it's a bad design. Just remove it and do something else already

little tulip
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yeah i'd rather have a cd that marks 5 targets and leaves a mark on your main or something when it expires

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its literally stapling bad classic mechanics on to retail wow

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and then not even babying them into something fun for 90% of the player base

rotund oak
blazing totem
little tulip
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290 hitting 600k on first pull of pit of saron is fun

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but some parties don't immediately grab the dreadpulse lich

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deathstalker is literally just sitting in the no damage chair til that guy gets pulled etc

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its bad

runic hinge
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assa having single target cds is "thematic" but at least this expansion they gave dm a damage amp

cunning needle
# blazing totem I touched on this before and it really feels like we are going backwards, they m...

Vanilla - Combo points on player
Cata - Introduced redirect to move combo points to another target
Mop - introduced marked for death (assign 5 combo points to a target)
Wod - delete redirect and put combo points on the rogue BECAUSE COMBO POINTS ON THE TARGET WAS SO FUCKING RESTRICTIVE. MFD is now on the player
DF - delete Marked For Death because it was too jank for people or something and they didn't like how it played out
TWW - ADD BACK AN ABILITY CALLED "Deathstalkers Mark" WHICH ESSENTIALLY PUTS COMBO POINTS ON A TARGET
Midnight patch 0.5 - Add an ability TO REDIRECT THE DEATH STALKERS MARK. WE ARE NOW HERE

blazing totem
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we truly went full circle

golden loom
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Marked for death was kinda op in pvp aswell right

rotund oak
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always was yeah

cunning needle
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idk but who cares about pvp

runic hinge
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yeah instant full cp kidey

fresh kelp
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i cant wait for marked for marked for death that puts up 5 stacks of deathstalker's mark in tlt

rotund oak
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very strong on demand dmg

cunning needle
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you know what

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just ban rogues from pvp

dire flume
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they should just turn deathstalkers mark into physical touch of the magi

golden loom
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rogue indentity is pvp tho lets be real garf

little tulip
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i like darkest night though ngl

dire flume
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builds dam on the ST then big aoe pop

cunning needle
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80% of our shit gets gutted because it's too OP for pvp

little tulip
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that's some good skill expression but everything else in the kit seizes up while you setup for it

cunning needle
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the other 20% is shroud

worldly carbon
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is the ring set from nexus a good choice? I have both on myth and have simmed Eye of Midnight + Sin'dorei Band of Hope and it's slightly lower (technically sidegrade). What do you think the best rings overall would be?

rotund oak
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respectfully

cunning needle
grave nova
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If its the opener for a big pull like AA, is it ok to garrote garrote and then crimson instead of fok?

cunning needle
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im too old and lazy to care about world pvp anymore

golden loom
little tulip
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so yeah let us replicate damage on multiple dsm targets and don't waste time trying to polish gritty classic logic

blazing totem
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tbh I didn't mind it as much when Vanish still allowed you to create another Mark

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this Mark move is just jank

golden loom
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also idk when it was added but I know in cata atleast you could slice and dice a dead target (I guess you could redirect from the dead target aswell?)

blazing totem
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just sucked it being tied to 2m vanish

little tulip
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they kind of had a hidden opportunity version in tww with the differences between the zeross build and hybrid

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two vanishes way more lenient

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vs 1 vanish first try

cunning needle
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honestly DM was an attempt to bring back to old assassination feel

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they tried something

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and they failed

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good work for trying

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but just take it out the back of the shed and shoot it

little tulip
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yeah process it for good ideas/meats whatever and try again

cunning needle
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something something sunk cost fallacy

golden loom
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like so much could just be solved if garrote marks your target, even if you have a mark out already

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but nope

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make it a different spell

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and worse

little tulip
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i think they spent most of the time allotment on getting crimson tempest right

cunning needle
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idk why there's even a cost

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to redirect

little tulip
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which i mean no one's complaining about it

blazing totem
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this also brings back the degeneracy of sniping low hp targets

little tulip
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i'm certainly not

cunning needle
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acutally nvm i know why theres a cost to redirect

little tulip
golden loom
little tulip
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most people are just claw gripping the mouse for 30 minutes and again not denigrating, people be ballers and whatnot but they don't self start as well at lower io ratings etc

cunning needle
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there is 0 chance youre catching me sniping low target mobs with how jank name plates are in midnight

cinder seal
little tulip
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it's not as bad as we're memeing sure

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but it's pretty bad

golden loom
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its inconvenient for the sake of being inconvenient, it doesnt feel rewarding or fun in anyway

little tulip
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i think deathstalker was run in tww s2 and the advice was make someone else swap to barrels

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you had to mouseover rupture stuff for scent of blood procs

golden loom
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it was ran because it was better tuned and fatebound had its cringe rng of not having a guaranteed capstone and also reverse-funneling so it was dead in aoe

blazing totem
golden loom
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it wasnt ran because it was "fun" or "well designed"

blazing totem
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who needs target swapping anyways

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we can be the tunnel boss spec

little tulip
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it just feels like the old subtlety design

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where you black powder in 7 targets evis otherwise

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there's no good reason for it that's just the momentum it had going into dragonflight

light quarry
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how does the unshakeable drive stacks work exactly? how come we want to eat them at 3 when we only consume 2

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or is first stack 150% 2nd 100% etc

golden loom
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yeah

light quarry
golden loom
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150% 100% 50%

light quarry
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ye i get it now

cinder seal
runic hinge
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whats the identity other than target locked cringe mechanics?

little tulip
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fat dn crit

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faaaaaaat dn crit

golden loom
cinder seal
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I really like the concept of being tied to a targe , dont unstd why it cringe.

golden loom
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you still are though

marsh fjord
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i said this last season as well they just should make deathstalker a own buff. and everything is solved.

golden loom
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its not like fatebound assa is good at target swapping either

marsh fjord
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Assa just is a shit spec to swap on

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Remember loom?

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we never swapped on loom either

little tulip
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deathstalker scratches that itch of strategic thinking imo

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bad out of the box feel great with addons

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you need a good plater setup etc

marsh fjord
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on single target bosses DS is kinda fun tho. esp last season where you solo shiv with a darknest night 30 seconds and you saw like a 20 million envenom.

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which was really sick imo

golden loom
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I mean not really its just a buff going down

spice surge
light quarry
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going from 3rd to 1st with 1 ability

little tulip
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i'd rather mark be active during a cooldown

golden loom
little tulip
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instead of a constant through out a fight

golden loom
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but then lets say you got stuck in a jail and you didnt have vanish, did that feel good garf

little tulip
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right now it's just protect your mark and cleave

marsh fjord
marsh fjord
golden loom
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but yeah if its a selfbuff then it also doesnt really have any theme

marsh fjord
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theme is so 2010 bro

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Make it so when you have the buff you have like small shadow aura around you

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there is your theme 😄

golden loom
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yeah thats why they make fire bosses have green aoe circles on the ground right garf

little tulip
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there's a lot of that one scene in taxi driver in the playstyle

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you're just kinda making sure you're not losing it/sending damage with it correctly

spice surge
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Like the difficult part of the mark shouldnt be that its complicated to move it, it should be around having it proc at the correct times

gray raven
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They should take the unholy route and make it a self buff

gray raven
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It’s just such a pita

marsh fjord
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Its kinda fun to play a mini game where you have your darkest night up and then a add wave comes up.

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so you can consume it properly.

golden loom
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yeah I mean I liked playing around darkest night itself

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the mark isnt interesting tho

marsh fjord
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This is purely a guess but i feel like this is the same thing they were doing with covenants. just being ignorant and not willing to listen to feedback from the rogues

golden loom
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for example rick reverb aoe shiv big DN if u had good barrel spawns pog

marsh fjord
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and they are gonna listen to us

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when last titan hits

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when its 2 expansions to late

golden loom
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but again, when the boss was hard

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and barrels were the wipe condition

little tulip
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nah crimsom tempest rework and yap about cloud cover imo

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hopefully whoever cooked that one up gets more time on doing treatments for rogue and stuff

marsh fjord
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what they done with CT is really a improvement. but i do feel like its a bit weird to have fok + CT.

little tulip
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also they need to copy fellowship

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and let one target hold more than one icon

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when you mark it with X skull moon etc

vestal wren
cinder seal
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So I still don't understand what specifically you don't like about DS. You're speaking in the abstract.

Is it really that hard to time the Darkest Night or the replacer to switch adds at the today moment?

little tulip
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the dungeons this season are almost smooth but little stuff like that is definitely not great

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well if blizzard felt it was safe to make it dominant rule of thumb spec they would have

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i think they're having the same conversation about it tbh

vestal wren
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I disslike how much low target cleave there is, when my prefered spec was changed to be bad on low target cleave

spice surge
vestal wren
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The dungeon pool is fine, i am not extremely excited about one specific dungeon but neither of them is a absolute no go i hate playing

little tulip
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dev evoker is literally gathering dust and moths in the corner cause aug is so good in keys is a hang up for me

spice surge
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Like why is there a rupture damage increasing talent

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Why is there a choice node between fok+ct damage and fok+ct damage

cunning needle
golden loom
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the 2 best feeling deathstalker talents are legit the defensive node and the one that gives shadowstep CDR

spice surge
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Why do hunt them down and singular focus stop working when you get the "payoff" of darkest night?

cunning needle
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midnight s1 it's somewhat not bad because this dungeon pool has a lot of prio mobs

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but then it's also kinda bad because nameplates are an abomination

little tulip
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just copy platynator's aesthetic in plater

spice surge
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Why do we have a talent thats buffing mutilates, but its actually proccing a lot more in AoE, where you arent actually using mutilate

worn geyser
golden loom
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yeah why would you use plater kekw

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jundies platynator and chillin garf

little tulip
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better pvp support

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we've talked about this

analog field
worn geyser
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those 10 pvp players will love that advice

cinder seal
golden loom
marsh fjord
shy heron
golden loom
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Also could you imagine playing deathstalker on Dimensius garf

analog field
marsh fjord
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RIPPERS

cunning needle
# cinder seal so u dont like it because u need press button to switch instead free switch

Yes. It is very clunky game design which does not fit with how fast paced the current modern era of wow is.

I'm reposting this but

Vanilla - Combo points on player
Cata - Introduced redirect to move combo points to another target
Mop - introduced marked for death (assign 5 combo points to a target)
Wod - delete redirect and put combo points on the rogue BECAUSE COMBO POINTS ON THE TARGET WAS SO FUCKING RESTRICTIVE. MFD is now on the player
DF - delete Marked For Death because it was too jank for people or something and they didn't like how it played out
TWW - ADD BACK AN ABILITY CALLED "Deathstalkers Mark" WHICH ESSENTIALLY PUTS COMBO POINTS ON A TARGET
Midnight patch 0.5 - Add an ability TO REDIRECT THE DEATH STALKERS MARK. WE ARE NOW HERE

We had this exact same thing before

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and we've just gone full circle

analog field
little tulip
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i don't wanna see percentages on friendly players what can i say

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platynator needs to uP their game

cunning needle
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DSM and CP on target is the exact same thing

golden loom
cunning needle
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in how restrictive it makes the gameplay

analog field
cunning needle
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back in vanilla -> cata when youre only hitting a singular mob at a time

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it's probably fine

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but not in the current modern day of wow

little tulip
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gouge is objectively as valuable as aoe blind

analog field
cunning needle
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but it's not really that good to

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a class can have a niche without being dogshit

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like DKs

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or warlocks

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or mages

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or ret paladins

golden loom
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also assa already has the niche without hero talents

little tulip
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i wanna like jundies but i dont need big blocks of color it don't do nothing for me

cunning needle
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or what feels like almost every single other spec/class in wow atm

worn geyser
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i just feel like ds should be working to enhance specifically our prio target burst not increase prio target damage in general, like the mark just doesnt thematically fit

worn geyser
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damn did u increase the dot icon sizes

golden loom
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yeah I've done some cooking

cunning needle
golden loom
little tulip
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nah i get why it's the dominant nameplate profile

worn geyser
little tulip
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it just doesn't help me play the game any better

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there's a deadzone under the plates but it solves itself by having big nameplates to grab

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like it's good just not for me

cinder seal
golden loom
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why did you not kill dimensius with it tho?

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I checked earlier and legit not a single person (outside of boosts) killed dimensius as either deathstalker assa or sub

little tulip
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a pigeon landed on the raid and sat the whole roster probably

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it happens

worn geyser
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has anyone killed lura on DS yet, i could grief my parse and do that for fun

little tulip
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90 of the pad in that fight is the mini add phases

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why would you do

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that

golden loom
cinder seal
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just because numbers but not play style

fallow canopy
worn geyser
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its not that much worse theoretically i could even still r1 on it

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that would be funny

golden loom
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play sudden demise DS

fallow canopy
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People coming down on the channel

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"Bro wtf DS is busted rank 1 killed with DS"

spice spire
worn geyser
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imagine how hard ur dn envenoms are hitting p4

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could be money

cinder seal
golden loom
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you do you king

fallow canopy
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Science has really gone too far

spice surge
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Yes, but the fact that negotiable contract is its own talent is criminal

meager latch
spice surge
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Why is it not on finish the job

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Or even avulsion (the rupture damage), or sudden demise

spare kayak
golden loom
marble hemlock
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never thought id get to use this meme again

marble hemlock
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been almost 10years

spice surge
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Bro perused the ancient archives

fallow canopy
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The more things change

spice surge
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Fok.. fok never changes

runic hinge
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oh, we're fok'ing in st that so not cringe

little tulip
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some people buy deags on pistol round

worn geyser
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shiv on 6 for DN envenom super dope good playstyle change probably

little tulip
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it is what it ees

golden loom
little tulip
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nah like the best version of cs let t side buy usp on pistol rounds

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so source/1.6 xp

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the original p250/tec9/five seven tank strat

cinder seal
runic hinge
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thats not a difference in playstyle tho

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you still maintain bleeds and mut mut envenom

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and do some combo point overcapping for funsie wowie

spice spire
runic hinge
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my b

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i am just speaking against these DS copers

spice spire
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You may be right I’m just a hater

runic hinge
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I can't let them win

spice spire
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What about the DN copers

runic hinge
spice spire
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(Darkest night)

fallow canopy
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You need to cope DN

runic hinge
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I've done 3 keys today

fallow canopy
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(Not darkest night)

runic hinge
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I'm doing charity work in these 12's

fallow canopy
spice spire
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Big puss

fallow canopy
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Haven't seen a feral in years

runic hinge
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Feral is v fun tbh

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I probably have done more feral keys in the past 2 seasons than rogue

rotund oak
lavish hazel
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hello i tested ds in 22 dont play it have a good day

marsh fjord
lavish hazel
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i lied

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for cameras

marsh fjord
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Same

lavish hazel
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as always

marsh fjord
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But i deleted the tweet

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Remember?

spice spire
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Me when I lie for attention

fallow canopy
jade abyss
shy heron
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me when I go on the internet and lie 😈

marsh fjord
lavish hazel
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ahhhh ye

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as you could see no vers allowed on sub

golden loom
lavish hazel
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yes

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i did it

golden loom
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Hell yeah thats what life is all about

lavish hazel
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to do less than fb in single target / aoe

runic hinge
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I'm gonna throw up

lavish hazel
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ok maybe main target die quicker but you play with arms warrior right so who cares

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its diying first anyway

golden loom
runic hinge
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you're just stealing his funnel

lavish hazel
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but you do less single target

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whos trolling now

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fb doing 10% more st for me xd xd

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ye idk dont play this garbage tree who is enjoying doing 15 fok to do 2 envenoms ff

marsh fjord
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Just delete FB

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i mean

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DS

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Not FB

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Sorry brain cooked

lavish hazel
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ye

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or let us pick avulsion withouth droping anything essential

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maybe the tree would be playable

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idk

wooden jasper
#

!stats

prisma monolithBOT
#

Assassination Stats
You will always get more accurate results using Raidbots Top Gear, as stat values will flucuate depending on gear and situation.

Agility (Item level) > Crit > Haste > Mastery >>>> Vers
The ratio between secondaries ends up being roughly 40/33/26/1

clear knoll
#

What haste does DS like to sit at?

coral ibex
#

bro read the message literally right above yours

dusky granite
#

Do people just dislike Fatebound that Deathstalker rebounding?

plain thistle
#

no, people just dislike DS

dusky granite
stiff shoal
#

Anyone can answer me which M+ rings are BIS? I have not Raid rings, so i need an alternative

stiff shoal
#

okay Ty 😄

grave nova
#

!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
worn geyser
#

in this very cringe situation its gonna be better to just slam the DN asap and not hold for the apex to fall off right?

runic hinge
#

in that cringe situation id press n and respec

worn geyser
#

its cool to have an apex that wants me to hold my envenoms sometimes, then have a hero talent that i wanna slam them asap to get my mark back that is neat i think

runic hinge
#

I'd assume its always get the mark back up asap

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you can let the apex proc after but hunt them down and stuff is just a ton of damage to wait on

deep latch
#

People still trying to cook with DS?

golden loom
#

yeah if you dont have mark you arent getting singular focus / hunt them down - also consuming dn gives a lil energy garf

worn geyser
golden loom
#

also if you dropped envenom you wouldnt have rapid injection for the DN

humble verge
atomic osprey
#

Do stat prio matter that much? I have 41% mastery on 272 ilvl

humble verge
#

just sim it

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whatever sims the best

atomic osprey
#

Lol, mb

humble verge
#

nah nah i mean

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you want high mastery but

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how much mastery even is 41% as assa

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i dont even know

atomic osprey
#

I mistakingly typed my mastery on sub, it's 28% it seems.

#

309 Mastery

humble verge
#

thats literally nothing

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💀

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thats 1/4th i have on my main

atomic osprey
#

probably ilvl then

humble verge
#

yea i mean im 290

royal lantern
iron thorn
#

Okay last call I need a decision

#

Do I play DS Sub or Assa tonight on crown

humble verge
royal lantern
#

cus like

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the fight is basically full ST

iron thorn
#

No no not DS Assa

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I’m think whether I play assa

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Or sub but DS specifically

royal lantern
#

oh

worn geyser
#

whichever one u find more fun

royal lantern
#

bro

#

we are not in week 5 of the patch anymore

#

play what you can play better and think is fun lol

worn geyser
#

could even play law prolly if that was what u wanted

iron thorn
#

I just thought there’d be something like “assa plays weird in that phase” or something

#

Some nuance

strange onyx
#

Assa more execute damage, if u get through p3 you kill the boss

iron thorn
#

Now thats what I wanted to hear

iron thorn
haughty flicker
astral sundial
#

Good evening. Maybe someone have the patience to explain to me, why people like Assa as keys goes higher? I feel like as sub I have more defensives and cheap shot is easily castable. Sims says dmg should be higher too, is that no true in practice? is there something else I am not thinking of?

normal mist
#

assa can ramp up its dmg

haughty flicker
#

sub and outlaw are both played more in higher keys than assa anyway

humble verge
#

we are almost ultramaxxed

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just need socket on waist

haughty flicker
#

hm

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how do you have plushies as weapons

#

wtf is that

humble verge
#

woodfish

haughty flicker
#

damn

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i shouldve gotten those when i had the chance

astral sundial
modern moon
#

would it make sense to macro mark for death into envenom on DS?

normal mist
#

MFD exists?

haughty flicker
#

thats the button to move deathstalkers mark

jaunty sky
normal mist
haughty flicker
#

original i know

worn geyser
normal mist
#

thats what happens in low keys

worn geyser
#

the below is what i use

#showtooltip mark for death
/use [@mouseover, exists] Mark for Death; Mark for death

astral sundial
#

I get it that assa is not good in very low keys, I am asking what makes it better then other specs aat higher keys.

normal mist
#

All 3 specs are played at that level, not even i understand their question

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probably not even they know

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outlaw was actually reaching higher keys than assa iirc

astral sundial
#

Yes, but I am not going to play that 😛 - I need lots of time to learn it and gear for it if I ever bother.

haughty flicker
#

better prio is the reason you'd play assa in higher keys

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normally you play sub or outlaw, but assa has very good prio if your comp needs it

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or just bc

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you know

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you like assa

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thats also a good reason

normal mist
#

Also, atm in the ladder, top1 is outlaw ( @midnight mist )

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Fucking frenches

midnight mist
#

its always outlaw tho

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doesnt count

#

it was outlaw in s3 tww and outlaw was prolly the worse spec in the game

haughty flicker
#

zac is built abnormally

normal mist
#

Zac has 3 arms and 1 leg

low silo
#

I feel like in a vacuum assa works better with fury than outlaw which 90% of warriors are fury

snow kindle
#

ye cause fury doesnt have prio dmg

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outlaw has prior tho so

low silo
#

Yeah but having two target capped specs means you have to do different pulls for efficiency

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Arms+law, Fury+sin is probably the most efficient, but obv they still work either way

snow kindle
#

Working better and having different pulls are not the same category when looking for what is better

worn geyser
#

fury is pretty good with sin, feels much better to run with imo than arms but I think @lavish hazel runs with arms

worn geyser
#

my 20s are with FURY** but you can make alot work in those compared to 22s/23s , for example we have a holy priest lmao

snow kindle
spare kayak
worn geyser
#

need more practice

royal lantern
#

allright jokes aside, is "omg giga highrolling for so much more dmg" even a thing for outlaw rn

worn geyser
#

yes

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wox getting like 12 mins of jackpot on a pit doing insane numbres

royal lantern
#

"yes, just like all specs" or "yes, it can highroll bigger then other specs"?

worn geyser
#

i think yes, but i am also no outlaw expert, it looks like much higher variance from vods ive watched at least

royal lantern
#

thats why i asked zac, im kinda curious rn

worn geyser
#

like on good jackpot timings hes doing insane numbers

royal lantern
#

zac probably knows more about outlaw then most others

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just a tiny bit more

lavish hazel
#

i run by my self

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self made man here

royal lantern
#

solo m+ chad

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just get that 5% dodge chance against all melee hits

#

who needs tanks

worn geyser
#

ah my bad then, I just saw a few keys, true chad

lavish hazel
#

i mean

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it depends key i guess

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on sr ye arms is ass or just painful to play with

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on cavern you want to play with arms xd

#

infinit funnel

kindred oriole
#

So quick question, I'm sure it was answered 1B times: if we choose to play DS, should we reallocate some crit towards haste/mastery? Or both DS and FB can be played at high crit?

lavish hazel
#

but ye i guess fury is better with assa but i think in high keys you wnat outlaw arms

#

and outlaw canceling flurry for arms funnel

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cause outlaw single target withouth funnel is really good

#

compared to assa

worn geyser
#

yeah, outlaw is in a good spot with current phys meta

spice surge
#

I thought the arms mostly swapped to slayer, in which case they dont need the funnel nearly as much? Hmm

#

Or maybe the new buffs were strong idk

midnight mist
#

very wild

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especially in keys

low silo
#

Some pulls I drop like 600k, others 250k

#

It's fun and frustrating at the same time

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I thought I was bug abusing or some shit yesterday cause I hit 7 consecutive jackpots

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But then I hit 10 doubles in a row and realized it was just the bones being the bones

humble verge
#

it took first official farm week @golden loom garf

humble verge
#

everyone but our offheal dps did 99 or 100s

golden loom
#

not playing assa on farm...

#

u changed

humble verge
#

i dont need to play assa

golden loom
haughty flicker
#

I should actually

#

Play my rogue

#

Maybe

fresh kelp
grave nova
#

!fuu

prisma monolithBOT
glass moon
#

hey guys dont sure where to ask this BUT i am having troubles in my delves and prey stuff - what is a good spec to solo elites ? ?

normal mist
#

all 3

#

sub probably the best

glass moon
#

thanks @normal mist i will see what i can do with that spec

humble verge
#

not even 69 or 67

haughty flicker
#

we live in the worst timeline

topaz dragon
#

!stats

prisma monolithBOT
#

Assassination Stats
You will always get more accurate results using Raidbots Top Gear, as stat values will flucuate depending on gear and situation.

Agility (Item level) > Crit > Haste > Mastery >>>> Vers
The ratio between secondaries ends up being roughly 40/33/26/1

sharp viper
#

finally crown dead

golden loom
sharp viper
#

now i'm chilling while my guild starts beloren progress

copper thorn
#

!pooling

prisma monolithBOT
#
  • Energy just is low on the spec there's nothing to do about it, you will run out
  • Without the Apex talent there is no reason to pool, once midnight drops this will update with whatever logic is found
normal mist
#

The logic: full send until you can't send anymore

copper thorn
#

i don’t have to worry about this whole “drop at 80 stacks” thing?

golden loom
#

so you drop it a lot of the time

strange onyx
#

New tier set:

2 piece: Your implacable can now stack above 80 stacks and extend its duration with 3 seconds every envenom.
4 piece: Every implacable stack above 80 increases wound poisons damage with 3

runic hinge
#

3

light quarry
#

3

strange onyx
#

We obviously don’t want it to ramp too high

latent kernel
#

Unironically better than the current tier set

spice surge
#

Thank you for your suggestion Skoop!

strange onyx
#

Cooked up a tier set or hero talent for Deathstalker aswell.

#

Finishing moves no longer consumes a stack of Deathstalker's mark. Instead it adds a stack of Deathstalker's mark. Every 4th stack of Deathstalker's mark added to the target grants you a Darkest Night

night delta
#

like, what

#

how's that so simple

light quarry
#

fan of knives now applies deathstalker's mark on all targets hit

CT now consumes a mark

#

fixet

waxen oyster
#

honestly multiple marks being active

#

would go crazy

iron thorn
#

adhd a-d spamming

night delta
waxen oyster
#

i dont think DS is a problem tbh

#

so, lol

night delta
#

Imo the specificity of the "stick to your mark" mechanic is just plain problematic, what they attempted to fix it is just too clunky

#

and leads to degen

#

they can encourage keeping focus on a single specific target as a core mechanic without making it so harsh in edge cases

lavish peak
#

Ds is weird for assa because the specs major cooldown already fits the exact theme and niche of “pick a mob you want to mark for death”

#

Deathmark functions how deathstalker probably should, but it can’t because deathmarks already there

waxen oyster
#

the dot playstyle makes it less capable of sudden target swaps as sub can

night delta
#

ik but now with bleed cleaving being easier than ever

waxen oyster
#

also spatter encourages focusing down a big target

night delta
#

the restriction feels more... well restrictive

waxen oyster
#

+both kb and dm being st cds

#

Idk i played ds the entirety of tww and it felt fine

night delta
#

I mean, we still spend 75% of our time outside of KB window

#

being still stuck like glue to one target even outside those CDs feel overly restrictive

waxen oyster
#

And honestly like, what situations exist where you are constantly swapping targets?

night delta
#

granted, it's maybe not the majority atm but that's definitely a possibility in encounter design

waxen oyster
#

?

#

Most of the time assa has been bad at "add spawns, kill it"

#

just because its a minimum 2 gcd commitment to bleed it up

#

even pre hero talents

#

Mob going immune and losing your mark was my singular gripe with DS in TWW.

latent kernel
#

Honestly would love for them to add a poison themed hero talent for assassination, we’ve had the same 4 poisons for like 10 xpacs now

night delta
golden loom
#

I mean fatebound isnt good at target swapping either

waxen oyster
#

I mean assa has never been good at nuking adds that evaporate in 2-3 gcds

#

thats how the spec has always been

#

even without hero talents

#

honestly i'd go as far as to say

#

a dot spec shouldnt be

latent kernel
#

Should’ve just gave us another bleed or poison similar to wither for warlock and it would literally be better

balmy condor
waxen oyster
#

Assa is way too centered around slamming envs

#

the last few expacs

balmy condor
#

So like it’s not THAT old

night delta
waxen oyster
#

That's....usually 90% of the case.

latent kernel
night delta
#

imagine the witch coven with TWW DS mark

latent kernel
#

So it feels old

#

lol

night delta
#

that'd be fucking torture

waxen oyster
#

not really....

#

they lived longer than 3 gcds

#

unless you were doing a 5

#

pretty sure i just bled all 3 that one amirdrassil season

night delta
#

you were complaining about mark sticking on an immune mob just now

waxen oyster
#

we had wcm

night delta
#

like

#

it's literally the shtick of the witch coven

waxen oyster
#

Yeah like i said

golden loom
waxen oyster
#

that's my one problem with ds

#

otherwise the build is fine

latent kernel
#

I mean they could quite literally just go look up “poison synonyms” or “rupture synonyms” and come up with a hero talent better than deathstalker lol

waxen oyster
#

im honestly sick of assa being a poison themed sub

latent kernel
#

Add another dot to the mega dot class, guaranteed to have good reaction

waxen oyster
#

with dots

#

"big envs" is basically sub

#

but green

#

Dot specs have pretty much always needed ramp to do target swaps

#

And that's fine

night delta
#

I mean, it was never complaining about having to ramp our dots...

waxen oyster
#

Assa has always never been good at target swap

#

due to the ramp

#

let me throw an envenom on a no bleeds target

#

pre tww

#

XDDDD

night delta
#

this is literally running in circles

waxen oyster
#

You've failed to cite an example where it's a real issue outside of witch coven.

night delta
#

us being fundamentally not good at swapping, which is fine, is not an excuse for making a clunky ass mechanic that punishes that even further

waxen oyster
#

which i agreed losing mark to immunes is dumb

night delta
#

while also being bad in a few edge cases

waxen oyster
#

clunky how

waxen oyster
night delta
#

well cleave situations with moving priorities for starters

#

unless you have good timing lining up for swapping mark

#

the new button is a ok band-aid for such situations I guess

waxen oyster
#

The moving priorities usually isn't shorter than a mark cycle

night delta
#

but fundamentally, at baseline, it's just straight bad at it

waxen oyster
#

And typically you still need 2 globals to get your bleeds going on a new target

night delta
#

well, like I was saying earlier, now it's one

#

and it's a pretty good option

waxen oyster
#

You don't always run CT

#

I can't think of a single boss recently that it's been an issue

#

Outside of dumb mark disappearing if a mob flies away

night delta
#

even still at it was on a 6 sec cooldown with garrote

waxen oyster
#

....bruh you are not swapping to a new target

#

every 6 seconds

night delta
#

it's a future-proofing thing, because it's not a huge problem necessarily now doesn't mean it can't be a huge problem in other situations

waxen oyster
#

me when i make up stuff to be upset at

night delta
#

it's not about needing to move the mark every 6 sec

#

it's about having to move it at precisely the wrong time during the Darkest Night cycle

#

and losing investment into the previous target

waxen oyster
#

...so you're upset you have to think ahead

#

I've still yet to hear one legitimate encounter where this was problematic.

night delta
#

oh for heaven's sake I already told you it's not a now thing

waxen oyster
#

So we're just making shit up.

#

yeah

night delta
#

whatever, if you say so

waxen oyster
#

Like is this about council bosses

#

add spawns have never been assa's strong suit so doesnt matter

royal lantern
waxen oyster
#

But thats a fault of just losing mark if a mob goes immune.

fallow canopy
#

personally it took longer for me to remember silken court timings

waxen oyster
#

You see i'd remember that more.

#

But typically i was more annoyed at our plate dps being terrorists.

#

on average

royal lantern
#

DN on queens court

#

was legit cancer

waxen oyster
#

bro DN was nothing compared to the affix

#

of a monkey warrior charging through

#

and exploding both of you

fallow canopy
golden loom
#

yeah but I am making up the scenario where it was playable

fallow canopy
#

oh

golden loom
#

then it wouldve been bad garf

waxen oyster
#

man

fallow canopy
#

yea that would be terrible

waxen oyster
#

good thing fb timers were better

#

.....until your cdr bugged

golden loom
#

and tuned very high

#

and yeah fuck cdr bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

waxen oyster
#

best comms

#

"i might have cds for platform, depends"

fallow canopy
#

still remember one guy that mentioned he had the perfect rotation for bugging it favorably

#

so you always get the extra cdr

waxen oyster
#

i also remember

#

losing my pad on dimmy add set on pull

#

because my opener rupture got parried

#

😠

fallow canopy
golden loom
#

the rank 1 I got on fract was a chill 200k dps ahead of rank 2 at the time garf

fallow canopy
#

how would you bleed a gigantic void lord with no blood smh

golden loom
#

just fkin bug bro

waxen oyster
#

oh yeah

#

"do i send now? yeah just bug and get another in exe"

golden loom
#

bugged out so I got 2 cd sets in execute

waxen oyster
#

yeah

#

nothing will top final dm set

#

on mugzee or gally though

#

holding that 2nd pot for the dm while spattering goon cages

golden loom
#

I loved checking logs and seeing people 1b ahead in spatter dam

waxen oyster
#

1b?

golden loom
#

I mean the chinese logs

#

were legit 500/700m ahead

#

idk

waxen oyster
#

man i thought i had a good kill

#

with 400m spatter

#

it was a 98

marsh fjord
#

You know what the bug also did for me?

waxen oyster
#

fyi

marsh fjord
#

If I had a shit parse I would just blamed it on the bug

#

😂😂😂

waxen oyster
#

true

#

the 30 stack prism dm in execute

#

hit diffy

marsh fjord
#

Prism was a lovely trinket better then shitbox

waxen oyster
#

waiting for the hoc glazers

#

(it was just a generic on use slightly higher budget)

golden loom
marsh fjord
#

and i really don't like chimearus trinket either

#

to much variance

waxen oyster
#

i dont pay attention to it

marsh fjord
waxen oyster
#

i should run plume for the bit

#

oh im full sent into rng

#

especially since velf rn

marsh fjord
#

let me show you

#

😄

#

hold on

marsh fjord
#

😄 😄

analog field
#

All passive trinkets have this issue

#

Also the floodgate one

#

literally all of them

fresh kelp
#

wdym the floodgate one was goated

#

it wasnt rng at all

golden loom
#

pacemaker my goat

analog field
#

in a minute it had 30 sec off and 30 on

#

so if you send cd's when it is off

#

you lose dmg

fresh kelp
#

ye but it was deterministic

golden loom
#

antenna cringe, pacemaker based

fresh kelp
#

it would proc for 30s every minute

marsh fjord
#

Its just crazy to me

analog field
#

yeah but it is rng if it procs with your cd's

fresh kelp
#

exactly at the minute mark

marsh fjord
#

that you can do 75k more DPS in a opener

analog field
#

in m+

#

yeah in raid it is ok

golden loom
#

m+ is a minigame garf

fresh kelp
#

i mean if you had downtime it was more likely to proc with cds

#

since you would restart the clock running between packs

marsh fjord
#

Like is it me? or why does such variance exist on trinkets???

fresh kelp
analog field
#

it is so they are balanced otherwise you will proc it 100 times and I will proc it 1

fresh kelp
#

same reason the vault exists

waxen oyster
#

F

#

pacemaker was god tier

#

always up on the min mark

fresh kelp
#

the goat will always be ominous chromatic essence

marsh fjord
#

Imagine i played perfectly entire fight. oh but got fucked over by RNG because of trinket. yeah might be a good parse. but could be a rank 1

fresh kelp
#

perma uptime select the stat you want

golden loom
marsh fjord
#

or 6

#

cant remember

#

was 2004

#

PROC CHANCE

#

GIVE THAT TO ME

golden loom
marsh fjord
#

This might be a cooked take but i think i rather play 2 on use then have a passive with bariance.

marsh fjord
#

i just dont like it.

analog field
#

then they made them ppm

golden loom
marsh fjord
#

Where is skill in that?

#

or is my brain that cooked?

golden loom
#

where is the skill in crits

marsh fjord
#

Well it isnt.

#

5% variance okay. 25%? no beuono

calm grail
#

Alright so I have a question. It's m+ or whatever. You have an improved garrote out. Do you let it run out before refreshing/spreading? Or do you refresh it with a few seconds left and then spread?

marsh fjord
#

You let is run out all the way

#

Dont even pandamic it

analog field
#

I mean w/e

#

if you lose 2 ticks it's nothing

calm grail
#

So your pull having no garrote for a bit is fine as long as you refresh right after?

marsh fjord
#

Nah but i would rather have 2 ticks

calm grail
#

Okay

marsh fjord
#

then not 2 ticks

analog field
#

in a big pull you probably should pandemic it on a shitter

golden loom
analog field
#

so you reapply garrote faster

#

yeah that was my point xd

#

Haven't seen whisp

golden loom
#

the improved garrote will tick down fully on some mobs atleast garf

analog field
#

ideally you want your main target to have the imp till the end

#

but realistically who cares

golden loom
#

sometimes u just gotta feelcraft it out aswell garf

#

do what feels good

analog field
#

yeah sometimes you need to go out so you refresh it etc

thorn thorn
#

is that a small a above the a

golden loom
#

åäö

#

(yesterday in swedish)

dreamy quail
#

w

thorn thorn
#

swedish

#

neaters

golden loom
#

swedish speakin finn garf

thorn thorn
sweet ledge
#

sooo hows this new deathstalker buff? worth trying in 18+ keys ?

coral ibex
#

pins

storm forum
#

If you don't have an aug and can coordinate with the other prio specs in ur key, maybe

humble verge
#

r25 beloren on first reclear

#

not even 99

storm forum
#

25/25?

golden loom
coral ibex
#

im never gonna reclear garfD

#

i might not even kill lura

#

hope 2 days is enough to prog p3 and p4

golden loom
#

p1 wipe factory garf

humble verge
#

i mean thats what we did today

#

LULE

#

surely i can get

#

top 50 lura log

sweet ledge
#

so i remember in his video on DS he said we fok in single target for a buff at 3 stacks then mutilate, but im not seeing that in the wowhead guide, is this a thing still orno

trim cairn
#

POV joining a "first 4 bosses" voidspire mythic pug

#

This raid lead gonna have a bad day after imperator

normal mist
sweet ledge
#

sweet thanks bro

balmy condor
snow kindle
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if im pugging is sin just better for push keys

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also how ass would it be to run double passive plume/gaze over box. Feelcraft makes me believe it evens out monkaHmm

calm grail
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Is anyone swapping for keys though really?

marsh fjord
coral ibex
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got final fantasy ultimate prog starting next week

marsh fjord
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ahh

dreamy dust
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I have now looked at wowhead and hit 240 ilevel, I'm ready to get carried through M+ by my friends and spend bonus rolls

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Lol

balmy condor
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Based

buoyant herald
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Quite a fun time I reckon if you have friends

haughty flicker
snow kindle
drifting cloud
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outlaw

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for invites atleast

storm forum
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SD gets singular focus'd right?

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for DS

balmy condor
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no

spice surge
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It does not unfortunately

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It should

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But it does not

storm forum
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this game sucks

buoyant herald
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Can’t have nice things

worn geyser
haughty flicker
cunning needle
wooden jasper
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When is it worth to shuriken storm on deadstalker?

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deathstalker?

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when theres adds

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and the passive of 100% crit is out

marsh fjord
wooden jasper
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FUCK*

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mb mb thx

marsh fjord
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HAHAHA

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np np

supple cloud
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does anyone else have a bug that deathstalker for sin is doing less dmg than fb?

fresh kelp
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Whispyr I didn’t know you played Diablo 4, what class is your jam? Do you play rogue there also?

trim cairn
storm forum
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DS does less everything except prio and funnel

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in big AoE they might pull ahead though

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but big hero pulls arent rly supported in the dslice sims cause the average player isnt doing those

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and you need to be doing a high enough key that a target actually survives the funnel

keen raven
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I mean based on the #s whispyr shared that isn't true

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Unfortunately I haven't been able to really test yet

cunning needle
onyx veldt