#assassination
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No
legs are mistress
Haha
Hey guys, just had a question and couldn't find an answer anywhere :
One of the racial traits of the nightborns increase the spell power by 1%. I've got an assa rogue, mainly poison damage.
Do you know if the racial take effect on the poison damage ? I mean, poison is supposed to be nature magic school damage, so it should be, but as it's not a direct spell, I don't know if it works.
If somebody has the answer ๐
It buffs poison damage but it still isn't good
belf>everything
List of trinkets for each spec: http://tc.ravenholdt.net/
^^^^ it's the same link
Thank you guys ๐
with exsang build u still envenom at 4+ cps?
Yes
so at 4 cps uonly use mut if u need to do a 6cp rupture?
Why do u need to do 6cp rupture
before exsang?
I thought that was when you snapshot with ns
You can set a bar that shows cp at certain points and then abilities used
Then compare
try the resources tab
This is hard to decide. I have on my weapon a 950 Shadow Relic with Master Assassin, Master of Shadows and Master Alchemist and I got today from the weekly chest a 960 one with Master Alchemist, Murderous Intent and Master Assassin. What do you think I should do?
Sim yourself
I basically have to chose between Master of Shadows and Murderous Intent + 10 ilvlels
I did
the new one is slightly better
There's your answer
thanks
You did it all by yourself buddy
I know, but also I don't like getting rid of Avoidance
on the other side, 1500 Versatility is still gret with Concordance
Hence why it's best to rely on sims. No feels involved.
Just plain numbers and results
Yeah
imagine the horror of the results tho :S
I have three cats.
Wow how good was that sim

You ain't posting them often enough m8
I'll reply in offtopic so Giggle doesnt rise from the dead to shout at me
"its not you, but me"
jk its always you
and your lack of abs/money/charisma/libido
๐ฎ
am i wrong though? ๐
Wut
well either that or you screwed around and got caught
Nah man, sometimes grown up people grow apart.
yeah right
Yeah, right.
watch and off she goes for the normie stock broker or the first steroid pumped player on the local gym. Or maybe she needs some BBC endeavours
He's just had a 10 year stint, be nice comrade.
truth is, you didnt fulfill her needs
Time to tyb ๐
on mythic eonar should we be putting ruptures on all the adds ?
i mean
mythic high command
not eonar lol
on the 3 adds that spawn
Just FoK when theyโre in range and tunnel the extra combo points you earn into the boss is the most optimal way Iโve found, adds simply donโt stay alive for rupture to do meaningful damage in the long run
Depends entirely on your group setup and on how fast they die ๐คท
My team has a three aff locks so the snowball effect is real
i got a 960 relic out of my mythic antorus chest yesterday, -0,4%dps(roughly 8k) but +4,55 avoidance for a total of 9,09% without gear. Feeling wise i think it was a good decision, but dunno. Feels bad dropping 3 ilvl on weapon :p
who has 50% baseline?
Not a good decision :p
maybe if your guild has ilevel 700 healers its a great choice ?
It's baseline with a cost of 7 energy per second
and how much energy do we make per second?
Not enough to keep feint up tf?
7 is basically the rupture + garrote energy return without the talent
That simple math not analysis
there is a difference between 7 per second and 35 every 5 seconds
That's what it comes down to
and it's quite noticable in some occations as well
also
analysis is simple math ๐คท
when you're starting out that is
please elaborate
elaborate what?
analysis is simple math, i would like to hear more on your theory please
this gun be gud
It's not really a theory, it's just what you start out with when you start at a little higher level. So it's simple compared to higher math. But then again there is also a difference in the level of "analysis" so....thats why I said its what you start out with as it's the simplest form and a good starting point
So well, it's really dependant on the context you put it in
God I fucking love penis
You can have really simple analysis as in high school math
but you can go way further than that
!warn @vapid moth not the channel or place for that, keep it in #off-topic
Alright, @vapid moth has been warned because 'not the channel or place for that, keep it in #off-topic'.
What we get warning for that now?
If you can't understand why that would be a warning, literally the most wrist-slappy action a mod could take, then maybe you shouldn't be arguing/lecturing folks on math
Just a thought
That's not what I meant but ok
If you want to make unfunny non-sequiturs or off-topic comments, they belong in off-topic.
Understood
I wish tertiary stats were more impactful
universally
Speed is helpful to any spec in any situation, but it's a relatively weak stat
Leech is similar
You think that avoidance or leech are well-balanced/impactful for rogues?
Rogue doesnt benefit from avoidance as much as other classes
but leech can be useful ๐คท
When I pick up a piece with leech on it I don't notice a difference, really
It's not going to make the diff between life or death, except maybe in solo
well yeah
As Outlaw I notice haste
but I don't think something that might be on an item or might not be
should have a huge impact over survivability
maybe if they change the system around it
could be good
I guess I just wish it felt more like "Awesome!" and less like "Oh, neat"
gemslots on a wf/tf piece = "Awesome!"
It's the difficulty in balancing. If tertiaries were too strong they'd feel "mandatory" ie any piece without them is "trash"
But if they're too weak (which I'd argue they are, right now) they feel like a sort of afterthought that "doesn't really matter but is neat"
just bring bk reforging

tertiaries are a mistake
and id say they are incredibly strong right now, and undervalued, at least avoidance/leech are
avoidance was a big help for tanks on argus/varimathras/aggramar
avoidance helps tanks, there's no debate there
in raids its less of an issue because youre looking at 18people as a unit, whereas in m+ everyone is looked at individually
yeah
I guess I'm guilty of not caring/taking M+ particularly seriously
leech is by far the best stat for healers to have, especially pallies
and leech can become a very strong stat depending on the playerhealth/playerdps ratio
yup
leeching poison and a leech piece or two will put you close to 20% leech, which is actually quite insane
to get back to your original point, sockets and tertiaries are just something that shouldnt be in the game, or at least not decided by RNG
maybe work toward unlocking certain socket slots
i liked mop when it was linked to blacksmithing
but i'd always propagate for vast customization
I liked when we had more control over gear
good thing we're getting that back with forced PL amirite
C O N T R O L
F R E E D O M
T R I A L S
what's a trialist
i wouldnt mind having sockets or even tertiary stats be related to long questlines, spanning multiple patches, that eventually unlock them bit by bit so you can add them to your gear
would also make a decent gold-sink
like... that amount of tertiaries is just ridiculous
and i still sim 2.2mil with that gearset
lol that leech
ive got a 57% leech set, hitting ~85% leech with chestproc+consumption, actually used that one once
was ridiculous
anyway, more control over our gear would be nice
more control over our talents would be nice too
right now most specs just feel like a half-finished mad-libs booklet and the talents are there to finish the story. if you want you can pick hemo, alacrity and dfa to make some fart-joke madlibs out of your class, but thats not really the point right
But more choices means the casuals have a harder time being viable with their own builds.
And we can't have that
Lord knows 41 talent trees made shit bad
yeah well, either you give people multiple talents to choose from, or you dont want to confuse your low IQ casual playerbase
cant have both
im guessing thats why we get azerite pieces now, where you can "choose" your bonus, only that each spec just gets one it can use ๐
I want more control over my gear so i can have 25 gear sets 
i got 15 ๐ฆ
i want 24
guess thats why i didnt make it to mdi
I have 3 gear sets
compared to the bruh
more spck then!
learned monk in 2days
was carrying hard
6mil overall in NL, but not enough ๐ฆ
i was sarcastic ๐
i went to bed one night and had a vod from darkee running with audio while i was sleeping, hoping his spirit would seep into me in my sleep
seemed to work, next day i was blasting
and no, im not joking, thats how desperate i was to finish top8 during timetrials ๐ฆ
well was an experience
Where did you finish in the end mate?
Kinky
didnt finish all runs
tried NL for 4days straight, couldnt get a good run going, so we called it early
had like a 19min upper, 21min NL
and still needed to redo upper with 4dps, and do a sub 9min maw to have a chance
but without the NL, there was no way in hell wed make top8 anyway, so thats where all our effort went into
was a nice experience though, definitely gonna try hard next time around
is the site bloody crucible stat weights accurate for the netherlight cruci?
idk about them, but this is up to date https://www.herodamage.com/rogue/relics/1t-t21-rogue-assassination-boots-bracers
Relics results of the Tier 21 Single Target simulations for the Rogue Assassination.
tyvm
np boyo
Dis gud?
okay
its pretty good
smexy good
Its not bad. For some it sims pretty well depending on off pieces
So bummed, had my best progress last week, got AotC finally, completed my highest key (+13) and got absolutely no upgrades... Weekly chest was a haste shoulder piece, and no loot or bonus off argus...
Expecting upgrades from the weekly cache is a road to depression my friend
Well considering how many pieces I still have at 930 I thought I'd have a pretty good chance with the 950 min from the +13
Well its X item level (depending on M+ completed) based across all dungeons
So chances for well optimised upgrades arent as high as you'd want
Im on 6 weeks of shit so far
Haste gear meta
I actually thought I got bugged on argus loot too... Asshole mage dropped dal crater portal as I was clicking the chest... Couldn't loot, never got mail saying "You forgot this". Ended up submitting a ticket to make sure I didn't miss anything.
God damn.. .6 weeks, I dn't want to hear that!
Chances of getting an ilvl upgrade are good, stats you want; not so much
Exactly
Yea, but my luck is already below average! Lol
I have just stopped doing weekly m+ because its just more stress than its wort
I was running LFR ToS (highest I've unlocked) on my druid alt last night, I got 5 cloaks... 5 different cloaks... None were an upgrade. Hahaha
My ilvl is only 955 so I feel you
Once I get keymaster, I probably won't be playing my rogue much more in general. Maybe play around with outlaw a bit to get a feel for it before BfA, but that's it
LFR TOS, there's a poop show. I got my DH to 110 and had like 8 880 tokens and only 1 or 2 have stats I actually need
it litearlly was a poop show... 5 stacks of determination for kiljaden I think...
I have never done lfr
After i used all my tokens I think I was unlocked up to NH, so I did'nt do too bad in that regard, but I havne't really moved up since now.
5 stacks is pretty normal for KJ. If it isnt the soaking part that people miss its lack of dps. Yes. Lack of dps for KJ on LFR is still a thing
Yup, we enraged twice at least
Or are the bare minimum requirement to enter
My DH is 824 after the tokens which I guess isnt bad for dinging. I dont really want to play it, I just wanted to have it at 110
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I mean if there are a lot of people 200-300K and under on that fight its going to be rough. Same with Argus LFR, I hit that enrage a lot because of people under 400K
It is... Scarier than that is how necessary it is...
110 boosts more than likely
Unless you're Toph apparently
They get what, 870 from the boost?
i think its funny when you point out people dying on purpose or who look afk and get
"its just lfr"
"stop being elitist"
I don't know, I haven't used mine. Lol. I've still got a 100 and a 110 token
its like they enjoy wastin gtheir time
I'm scared of boosting because I don't want to be "that guy" who doesn't know his class. Lol
I have to buy bfa, idk what I'll boost. I may save it incase I server transfer or want to faction change on a new server
I mean I get it, its lfr its easy. But Jesus I dont want to be here all day because of potatoes.
I need to go level one of my ally toons so I can get those allied races next. I really wish dark iron was horde, I want one so bad
@hoary copper Yeah 880 from boost iirc
Lol, my druid quick sims at < 500k right now, so I guess I'm not doing as poorly with him as I thought
you have to actually try to get kicked from lfr
even fi you are afk people dont seem to care that much
like the only way to guarantee it is to completel screw up and not respond to anything as a tank
If you ask people to do things properly like tank or heal you'll probably get kicked from lfr
"elitest" "dont tell me what to do!"
Hey - one of the reasons I'm looking at Assassin for BFA is because it's the lowest APM (abilities per minute - literally how often you click something) melee spec. Can you think of any reason why that might change in BFA?
I know that haste will actually become useful again for example, and wondered if that will increase the pace a lot more than Legion?
Assassination is one of, if not the lowest APM currently
With pruning it's only getting slower
It's still low APM.
well in m+ is quite fast
Thanks @solid nova - are you on Beta?
just st is zzzzzzzz
thanks. I know it seems weird but I've mained fury for Legion and I actually want a slow paced spec where I have more time to concentrate on boss fights, other raider's positioning etc (I raid lead quite often)
Quite a change from Fury to Sin in terms of APM
and also get to think about the ability you are going to press more, rather than just going mad clciking every 0.5 seconds like I do with Fury + haste + BL
Well dont worry, you'll have auto attacks on your damage done a lot higher up
Plenty of time to be looking else where ๐
haha. I'm not saying I think assassin is easy AT ALL by the way, I know there can be a lot of tactical decisions about overlapping poison buffs, empowered ruptures, toxic blade window etc
it's just the APM I want to reduce
Assasination is easy dw
It will be hella easy in BfA
I mean, whats fun is subjective to the player
but isn't it "easy and slow" right now in Legion compared to other melee?
Its easy and its slow yes
To half of people in the game pressing a button and seeing damage is fun. No matter how much damage it is
Man school lunch is so shitty
It is according to SimulationCraft.com yes
Few basics, followed by small fine tuning
so what do you guys all enjoy about assassin then?
since I'm thinking of maining it ๐
I like the stealth
Survivability is pretty nice and cheesing stuff
It's good for doing most things
I main sin because I suck at sub
Sub is like the complete opposite of sin
I'd say demon hunter is the complete opposite of sin
You just press one button without considering anything
Completely disagree there
I mean I'm not very good at sin either but... Worse at sub
Depends what we're learning Toph
My dh is rocking 4p t19 so still the old chaos blades, blade dance build which is not as spammy
I like the idea of sub, but when you play it feels like there are like 3 extra buttons that shouldnt be there. Like why the hell is an ability like Nightblade a core part of Subs rotation?
Because its a damage buff?
They coulda made it a passive aura with a timing mech
3 extra buttons lmao
You mean like
Dw about the 3 extra buttons
so you'd want it to be just backstab and evi
You got 10 less in bfa
I mean thematically? It makes sense for Sub to be about going into stealth midfight with shadow dance, but why do they have a dot that's also a buff that has to be maintained?
nice fucking class design
3 BUTTONS
@viscid helm too far
Duration could be rupture duration or 2p T19,15 seconds is annoyingly short
You dont even maintain it 100% of the time
Its fine
It feels out of place on sub. What kinda ninja maintains shit
what I mean is if I want to play a spec around maintaining dots, I'd play assassin, not Sub

its one dot
FFXIV ninja is a totally different thing tho
Theres better classes for dots
its not dots
HAND JUTSUS BROH
You maintain one dot
or signs or w/e
fwiw I agree with Moon, I don't think it necessarily fits the theme or flow of the spec
then goes into hiding aagin
I think the idea of dots fits well with sub and assa
only not so well with outlaw
Pirates dont need no rules
Bleeds worked fine with combat/outlaw
because you're kinda crippling your oponent or weakening him for the next attack
With a wooden leg
I'd play that
me too
haha
tbh

true
Assassinations aren't about fairness duh
yeah
so that's a difficult fantasy to build off of
assassination = assassins
Sub = ninja
outlaw = everything else more or less. Thugs, in BFA
everytime i think about "assassinating" i think quick and clean
not drawn out and dirty
Yeah, that bugs me too
just make sub a ranged spec
Stealth archer spec
Sub ranged, outlaw tank
Oh god
1000 YEARS OF DEATH
sub could be like
and i dont like blizz assuming my gender
ninja in ffxiv
sub class fantasy is ninja
"a woman's weapon"

i mean, statisticially women are much more likely to use poison to kill someone
C A T L I K E
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Women are toxic confirmed
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falling
damage
Gotta reroll dh for no fall damage
@marble hemlock I'm legitimately curious, where is this stat lol
It's kind of funny how the assassin artifact is Kingsbane, which poisons your target, yet when Garona used it to kill the king she just stabbed him with it right?
Lmao
Just a name
I can't even keep track. WoD ruined everything
I dont even remember it dropping
I have/had it

I dont get how people rember shit from vanilla/bc. I dont remember anything from last expansion
Am I the only one who just hates ions face
Not that weird when you've played WoW for 10 years
I can name more WoW zones than I can capital cities in Africa.
I think he's a fine guy. His communication skills are lacking, and I'm sorely concerned about his leadership/the direction he's moved WoW in
but as a dude he seems fine
That's cause wow zones are more relevant that African capitals ๐
now they totally won't think I'm Ion haha clever move Don
His thin beady eyes
they are really small eyebrows tbh
His Jewish nose
@vapid moth ???????
Wut
"jewish nose"
was that necessary or even accurate
did you think before you hit enter
Always press enter
Yes I did. Most people know what I'm talking about when I say Jewish nose
@vapid moth I think its only fair you post your face to compare.
Xaethron you will paint by the numbers
I will learn you
"jewish nose" is an ethnic slur, don't do it.
^
Xaethron 
In china there is a saying that you should think 3 times before you say something
can't believe I have to explain this shit
You are one of those people that should think 9 times

So we aren't gonna act like some groups don't have more prevalent physical features?
Depends if you're going to use that factor as an Ethnic slur lmfao
Come on mate
Wakey wakey
We're gonna say that
- it has absolutely nothing to do with Assassination
- It's not important to bring it up
- It's still an insulting stereotype
Consider that your warning. 2nd one of this morning...keep it up it's El Muterino for you, give you plenty of time to think before hitting enter
Capeesh?
Smh
I like having fun
but having fun in a public setting requires a teensy bit of sense
Just ban him and be done >.>
'We aren't going to act like some groups have more prevalent physical features' said no white supremacist ever
@shrewd night Let's not keep it going
back to sin or at least WoW convo
gdi bruen
nice self-delete lol
Idk what you're talking about
Double poison bomb chance in bfa POGGERS
@kind forge can't say it feels op on beta
I'm the innocent one of Sin
just feels...much the same
Doesnt matter when CT is better 
Thought it would Feel better
but numbers haven't been ironed out yet
I think it does feel better, but it's still rng
Numbers > Feelers
That's not gonna happen
Yea I know
Forcing PB will never come to be
Would be still cool tho
No i wont thx
rewarding is debatable
On FF I feel like all abilities hit like a soft pillow
different game
different feel
ffxiv feels like
Rather not tilt off the face of the earth
If you are actually good at the class youre gonna get good logs
but there are less raids
less variety
Eh it's straightforward. Where WoW is moer priority rotation etc, FF is basically dancing around mechanics, target swapping, and rotation gameplay
less classes/speccs in general
if you are good at the class and have good gear/group*
Sounds like wow
Yeah right
tbh at this point idk why folks would choose MMOs
ff enforces no-log polacy
Some mmos have evolved
If I'm at 3CP and TB is going to drop before I can get more points, is it worht just casting the 3CP envenom?
Into VR I guess. IDK. None of them really innovate at all
And most of the MMOs have actively taken steps that make community unnecessary
I like the combat system in games like gw2
@cosmic pier Yes.
I can rant more about this is #off-topic
For pvp anyway
Pet battles probably
mmo aspect
Mythic+ is legit
@keen inlet
Without M+ i would not be playing this game.
Best thing they've done in a while
Just needed an excuse to use that
there goes tom again
yep
I dont particularly like m+ people are toxic enough in raids never mind 5 mans
lol
Why do you even play the game
eh once your in high keys most people are good
@Toph#0001 because i need to hold myself from working out too much because if id unleash the beast the world wouldnt be the same
thats why i play
IRL sao?
I ask myself that a lot lately. I used to be able to raid all the time and that was enjoyable, now its harder to find time
@hoary copper I don't pug M+, its a mine field of all kinds of shit fiesta potentials.
just don't be impatient when forming a group

i barely find toxic people in m+
and if i do i just leave group and move on
whats the deal
Yeah slag
I pretty much only pug, 3700 atm
What do we think about
Master Assassin talent ๐
chasing 4k this week
you also play bleed because as poison you would just get all 100's
This weeks affixes are perfect for pushing
Your gameplay is lacking
yes
10-14 keys are the worst. Because people are bad and they aren't easy enough to ignore shit
because if i let myself go
there wouldnt be a leaderboard
ther wouldnt be a competition
just apocalypse
I M+ with guildies and friends, and on voice


I wish i had guildies good enough to do high m+
Rather wank with sand paper then pug with randomers on higher keys
like 3/5 of my group are decent, but usually theres 1 dps that lets us down
I wish i knew people good enough to play high m+...because thats totally not on me
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You should see his real face
I pretty much only PUG because guild and server are pretty much dead. I just have too many 110s and it costs too much to go to another server
yes hes like me
day 213 - i sitll read toph when i open this channel at least once
holding back the beast
Too damn good looking for mortal eyes
why was my old avi better
more qt
Wow top guild on my server according to wowprogress is 4/11...sad day
2/11 for alliance
Just transfer
Ranked 115 out of 120
Who cares about alts. Make new ones
I know Im just terrible about picking one to stick to and then leveling them is gross
Richard, are you offering?
I would buy boosts for sex
almost beating boomy/dh in eoa ๐ฎ
@Toph#0001 
XD
tuesday
Right, the Toph @s are fucked. Glad to see its not just me.
it's a stupid people curse
Bruen, Not sure how it works if i'm younger than you, but we can give it a go.
Such Assassination talk ๐
๐คช
Oh we can give it a go alright. I think instead of sugar daddy they call that sugar baby ๐
why not sugar mommy
Because the money isnt coming from her? ๐
Im sure thats a thing too
My dear Toph
We'll get drunk and have another late night chat about the birds and the bees
Lol whos that in your new avi? thats not kpop @spare cloud
its toph pop
Tpop
dude
all germans look like that
I have no issues tagging
where it says
Must be the technique
I laughed.
done
Look at those lips
Woooooow
Damn son
That's deep
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Between the DA and WW, their movement may not be super bad?
Oh. I had the default avi show for like 1 minute there
Link me your tinder profile xoxo
And I was all like 'well he wasn't wrong'

those are some DSL
digital subscriber line?
damn sexy lips
dim sum lips

Lips made for things that happen in jeeps apparently Slagg

are u guys hyped for bfa sub
Yes
filler xpac
It's going to be assasination > dead spec 1 > dead spec 2
I enjoy the slow gameplay because I can't play mechanics otherwise
only one talent per row
I'm uh
heya guys !!!
More hyped for outlul than ass
idk why you'd be hyped for outlaw
nothing to be hyped about at all for outlul
nothing new just removals
mastery doesn't suck and that's about the only thing that has truly changed on beta for the better
ON DEMAND AOE HELLO
they even took free pistol shot after ambush
and Blade Flurry is stronger but "more work" now
i think they sublime test the waters with assa. they drop the apm close to 10 so they see how people react if it was ffonline

@shrewd night Are you saying Outlaw is going to be better?
Am i understanding you correctly
Confirm or deny
they make assa mainline and bring it to 2 apm so when someone gets ddosed at mdi no one will notice
Assuming I'm Assuming things about BETA?
lol
U wot m8
ok sorry
with that joke
REMAKE
Kjell
@shrewd night I wager you a happy meal that Outlaw will be shit
I'd wager you a mcflurry that sin will be shit because underpowered blindside
"look at this assa rogue.. look at this dmg.. look at 'em moves... the pooling"
"but slooth, why isnt he moving?"
"he's focusing - give gingi a second to calm down"
Just need to find another game to play when bfa comes out so i dont fall asleep at my keyboard when raiding
happy meal ๐ป
You still got ff14
@solid nova slay the spire
Oh wait
you can play sub ๐
Ive not even played FF 1
bring back the peggle addon so you have something to do?
Gambling addons mid raid
@vestal wren how to play sub. in 2 weeks we aint got any 90 and 100 talents ๐ฆ
So you can press 1 a few more times throughout the fight
i am actually intressted in what talents they will add
if its nothing which lines with symbol
like dfa did
but then again..it shouldnt be talent
i assume they will add a dfa like talent back
current sub gameplay is fine idk why they want to add another must have one
would make sense to keep a similar gameplay
idk.. we'll see
so far bfa for me is
just legion light
removing things that made specs playable in legion
and thats the baseline left and they think they ll fix with azerite traits
and i believe so aswell.. cant wait for hyped +5 ilvl trait to farm
fucking dogshit company lmao
its fine tho... they just cant do 2 good xpacs in a row
as long as ion smiles on twitch im happy
i expected them to keep dfa tbh
if they dont want 10 pages of spells over xpansions just make some good passives into the spells itself
but i assume they just add it back in a slightly diffrent form
ambush also gives you free pistol shot proc.. voila
maybe they add a azerite trait to remove sod from gcd
rtb needs a fix
this whole row needs a fix
idk which drunk monkey made this row
loaded dice alacrity and snd
in one row -
why is alacrity not baseline yet?!
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its too exciting to be base line
you need to choose it like your wand chooses you before you enter hogwards
But what if you're a muggle
but beside all these facts i rly like beta
@mossy hazel you can play the peggle addon now https://github.com/adamz01h/wow_peggle
its too bad, the environment of BFA is really cool
do you guys remember Combat Rogue AoE finisher name?
but god the fucking classes and specs are garbage
questing in bfa is cool aswell - and the zones are cool
Classes should get better over the expansion, but at launch they're gonna be ass
I just hate that they standardized subs unique playstyle
classes should be fully playable and self contained, and additions from azerite armor should enhance and change things
not make it viable
they might dont do that
but we will see
only issue i see currently is the loss of energy procs, but thats a design decision i guess
as long as we get traits like +5 ilvl and +30 ms and 200 healing when we kill enemies
i stay hyped
cant wait for bfa
wait i can wait - waiting is on gcd :^)
do the +5 itemlvl impact the t1 trait?
When I read "+30 ms" I thought you meant there was a trait that ddos'd you slightly
as the t1 scales with ilvl
its atm the last choice (or maybe even second last choice with "new" ui)
you start with choosing 1 out of 4
then 2
then 1
second one is heal/utility
then comes +5 ilvl
but they added another row below so idk
would be cool to see minor traits and 1 "golden" trait in each piece
so we keep roughly the dynamic trait system and have some impactful traits
but this would need some balancing and creativity
i hope they ll figure out
+5 ilvl is nothing you should have on this shit
unless you run out of ideas
which is reasonable for such a small indie company
My only hope is that it gets better over time, cause with legendaries and artifact power wasn't the start of legion kinda rough too?
now thinking of it its maybe okay to have a bit clunky start. if you remove all traits in legion you are also fucked
if they ll do fine on the azerite traits it can work out. but some removed stuff still should be balanced to compensate
+5 seems fine to me if it scales up t1 &2
and legendaries was a trash system
idk why you would put +5 in a system which is to give you flexible traits
for different scenarios
less work per item
why not have a tier that just makes you stronger
why would you remove 20% of this potential
it seems fine from concept
into smth that makes everyone stronger for no reason without any real impact
it also provides a stable increase
if so they can remove just all abilities
when the traits are sometimes shit
and make this trait +200% dmg
with white hits
who needs traits if your aa's hit hard
doesnt make sense for such a system
at least to me
its an easily balanced thing. Its a knob that can be changed later on if needed
its stable
does it cause balance?
traits are a volatile/unstable increase
I don't like external things acting like talents honestly
talents should be a choice
for different situations
+5 ilvl is just lame and stupid and doesnt fit
for the idea of having different items with different traits
its just a lame excuse for less work and knowledge on classes
i have a hard time imagining choice, if they're trying to move away from "this is the aoe build, this is the ST build" mindset
i d rather have different utility /heal things in this row
t1: you get the most powerfull trait
t2: you get an defensive trait
t3: you empower both earlier traits
it seems fine to me
t1: you get the most powerfull trait
t2: you get an defensive trait
t3: you get utility trait
sounds better to me
reducing sprint cd... giving shs stack.. cloak cd reduction
feind no energy
stuff like that
this would made t3 less desierable
i think its more useful to have these choices
I was thinking about it this morning. Blizz is in a difficult position.
- Classes change wildly, frequently
This is bad, overall, because people feel like they have to re-learn specs, and/or expect that if they don't like something it will change eventually because it often does. So it creates entitlement.
Solution: We get the "core" baseline specs down and solidified. Legion was the first step, BFA continues this.
- Players need to feel progression, and that includes new abilities
But constantly adding and subtracting abilities doesn't feel good either.
Solution: tie abilities more to items, so that it "makes sense" that they're lost and end of xpac and "re-earned," even if players resent that a bit it's just "part of the game"
since it doesnt impact your piece of set
dps wise (trait wise)
but you can wear it like a blink chest for mage in hov +25
- Reducing class dev team
idk about the why of this, but it's definitely occurring, and fewer devs are working on more specs
Solution: see 1 & 2. Reduced effort in designing/balancing classes patch to patch.
its a: okay its cool that i wear a piece of azerite chest based on the utility on it
the def traits are bullshit and lame aswell though
they had some good ideas with non dps legendaries and so far i dont see any of it
its more the bullshit NC trait style
Tyra I think your comment ties in to #3
the more complicated defensive/utility traits are tougher to balance, so they're just skipping over them, no time
in a proper way
if not remove +5 ilvl and seperate these lame NC #2 traits
from legendary effects
which will be in #3
but pls do either of these
the current #2 ones are so useless
they have so much potential
azerite's just an endgame progression system
that's all it is
trying to paint it as more than that is silly
engagement tool
you have to view a lot of the choices from a development standpoint
all changes would take 600 hours, you have 400 horus of available time before deadline, what gets cut?
so you shortcut your changes
We aren't going to like it because we're generally resentful of it. We can see the wizard behind the curtain.
And we just had most of this stuff
So you can shrug and view wow like a Megaman game (lose your weapons every new game somehow)
What I'd like to know is
or get upset, but I'm not wasting emotional energy on WoW anymore
How was rogue in the beginning of the expansion?
i didn't play it back then
was it as slow as its going to be
if you cant focus too much on azerite system cause you had not enough time (which is lol)
you can focus more on make base line specs more appealing
or was it faster already?
Rogue wasn't as slow as beta bfa
was the gameplay more exciting?
It was fun because rogue could "cheat" questing objectives etc much more than other classes
grappling hook up mountains etc
and then in raids rogue was underpowered...then competitive, then OP, then mid-tier
thats like a poor mans heroic leap 
legion rogue baseline was even faster than bfa baseline
considering legion rogue was fine to be a but clunky cause of massive amount of traits you farm in further 3 months
this system changes now - you ll have less minor and major impact
by default and even less cause you can stack traits
like you can have the same trait on 2-3 pieces of gear
the other issue with AP/traits was that it turned into "if you don't have them, you're underpowered. If you have them, you feel like your spec should feel baseline" because everything was tuned around you having them
so its even more important to have good baseline specs
yeah but i think it was fine
cause you got them pretty fast
it wasnt perfect but it made sense
if you had all traits most specs felt alright - from gameplay perspective
not balancing one
and bfa - as i said - feels more like legion light right now
it will get eventually better cause i think they ll add a lot of traits for azerite gear
I'm not as optimistic
but it will be kinda rng and still way less additions
well it will get better its not like they are that retarded
but i think they have no feeling for how much needs to be baseline
and how azerite should work - its not easy to balance and maybe legion was just a lucky punch
and they think they ll be able to do it again
but they wont for sure
but we'll see
The r word 
using the r word while talking to don 
the specs feel slower mainly bc. of the loss of certain traits
thats sth we need to accept kind of as i dont feel blizz wants the spec to be extremely spammy
outside of that sin does not play terrible, sub is wip and outlaw works but still needs a rtb change
it just confuses me
legion feedback overall was very good and balancing was fine aswell
Iโd like to see less RNG on PB, make it more reliable with less damage so it evens out damage capability.
if you remove the 1-2 outliners each tier it was well balanced and people liked most of specs
why would you do just so many changes just for the sake to change something for next expansion
with a new expansion it shouldnt feel like "alright its just about removing and slowing wow down"
What's weird to me was that Sub was king for a while
its not balanced if all 3 specs are on top
sub was overtuned slightly in tos
legion was totally fine for assa and sub
kind of overtuned bc. strong dps + insane utility of rogue
I'll be happy when the delta is 5%, or even 10%, between top and bottom dps
it was a sin xpack
but it's not
sub was always strong if you had proper legos
sub was op in tomb
there were times where the delta between top and bottom was as high as 30#
sub was op bc. of rogue utility
bc of tomb bosses
yes
but sub was also as strong as assa in NH
dps output of other classes was higher

