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@harsh glacier check the pinned message about ss
Simming ss is tough too as the default apl prioritizes not wasting cps over using a 3rd ss emp garr
Would you drop to a 340 SS, over a 385 of ruinous bolt for m+
If it would make SS a 2 stack
Probably. I drop my 385 tailwinds and 370 sb for 340 and 355 ss
Hmm I'll give it a go, test it out
I drop 370 laser matrix for 355 ss, that’s about it.
Worth dropping any 370 for 340 ss, in m+.
Triple ss is still by far the best m+ regardless of ilvl drop
Not saying it’s better cause I haven’t tested, but I wear 370 archive over 340 ss in m+. Still 2 ss though.
Archive maintains stacks in between pulls pretty well
I do the same @spice frost but i only do 9+ keys. That may matter
The higher the key the better, lower then 10s idk shit doesn't live long enough
guys a quick question please which race is better for rouge troll orc or blood elf?
BE master race
belf apparently
I did feelycraft after the ss nerf. Did 8 m9-10s and the combo im running performed the best from a % overall dmg perspective running with the same group
Hero Damage doesnt show SS as #1 though guys? the tcupdates thing says its updated
Race doesnt really matter but if youre looking to absolutely minmax, pretty sure troll is best
I'd argue the higher the key the worse ss gets @lime panther
Theres definitely a sweet spot for ss @ruby idol @lime panther
ok i thought it might be orc or blood elf
Even tyrannical week you hit packs where you get your garrotes off, they tick down, and then theres another 30 seconds of the fight
Each one of those seconds ss loses value
I mean the higher u go u get more vanish uptimes on trash so idk it's hard to determine tbh
Its a different play style no doubt
In a good group I'm typically 13.5-16k overall
Ss you want to push hard on trash, no ss would be hard st. and generally speaking, you make up more time on trash than you do on bosses running "aoe sin"
In 10s
Which is usually gonna put you at top for overall dmg
But I run ex CT religiously 😂
Hell yea
Ya I'm talking 14-16s is where trash starts to feel more rupture/ct reliant than ss garrotes carrying. Tho it's still bis trait, I can just feel it start to lose a bit if value
do you use any special wa or addon to keep track of multidotting
u just watch the nameplates? i just get confused trying to keep track of the rups and garrotes and stuff in big packs ^^
you only need 3 ruptures in big packs
Says who?
in M+ 3 ruptures should be sufficient to keep energy up
if targets live long enough, more is fine 2
Pretty sure you want to put rupture on any target that will live long enough.
But rupture is more dmg/cp than envenom is @deft sparrow
yes 😃 that's why i said, if they live long enough 😉
You can tab out like 3 cp ruptures and it will still be good
Okay then don’t say “just put out 3 ruptures” because that’s not the case at all.
my bad
People will misunderstand, just like there was some idiot in here saying “SS is trash” earlier
anyway. he asked if it's possible to track it by WA
as far as i know, it's not. correct me when i'm wrong
You might be able to see how many you have out with a WA, but I’m not sure how that would help
You’d still have to see which targets are NOT dotted, so what does the WA do for you
so you guys just watch nameplates? finding it ''hard'' since im not used to it when having garrotes and rups and everything
just have afenar wa atm
Well what would you like the WA to do?
if i use two pieces of gear that have reorigination array on them does it double the stacks? or is there no additional benefit?
well.. i just tab switch quite often between targets.. if they are not dotted, i dot them
might have give in and change from standard nameplates then 😃
Yeah, idk how a weakaura would help you
But there are some good nameplate addons that will stack the nameplates and show dots pretty large
was thinking something like if i have 3 rups up, i can see duarion on each of them. but wouldnt help me since i wouldnt be able to tell directly from the wa wich rupture is on who
that's not possible @mystic glade
Yeah exactly, it can tell you the number of ruptures but it doesn’t tell you which one is on what target
So it seems pretty useless
U get that info from the nameplates
And what yamsa said
Thanks everyone 😃
correction: it's not possible via WA. as the others say: it might be possible via nameplates
damn it, just got back from 16 day holiday (non WOW playing) and now i'm so confused with the nerfs etc
U can have your WA show only when on selected target , so if your targeting something without bleeds you'll know.. but it's far better to use nameplates in a dungeon setting
It's rogue dots or rogue bleeds , but I have mine customized
is there anyone with the opener with MA / TB ?
Pins?
Wich one would u reccomend of the name plate addons if im allowed to ask in this channel : )
I use elvui nameplates and I don't recommend it 😂 I'll be changing them soon
Kui nameplates has good defaults for rogue imo
so Double Dose over SS now ?
i use plater and love it but its personal preference and definately depends on how much effort you put into customization
i use blizzard standard and its working fine
UI is totally preferential use whatever you like the best
what are some must have addons u guys think? im using hero rotation instead of weak auras
for the spec or game as a whole?
i guess the game as a whole
i mean nothing obvious like DBM
but do u guys have any hidden gems to share?
AzeriteTooltip
what does that do?
Only WA (or anything similar) and Bigwigs/dbm is must have imo
Everything else is fluff
how is herorotation different from weakauras?
yeah true i just learned of pawn recently i really like it, anything that helps me think less i love
herorotation is just a super simplified version of WA
its for people with sub 80 iq
which is perfect because im like high 60s
WA doesnt require IQ to import some strings and use them lol
the flashy lights and effects confuse me
i am a simple boy i see button with number i press that button
hey what you guy s using as sources for the most up to date pvp guide
@nocturne mulch herorotation gives suggestions on what keys to press next in rotation, weakaura lets you display cooldowns/buffs/other conditions in whatever way you want
you can make a rotationhelper IN weakaura if you want
If you end up at 5cp with toxic blade ready, do you tb->envenom or envenom->tb? I'm guessing the former but just looking for confirmation
envenom tb
Why?
dont waste CP
dont you think 30% extra damage to envenom is worth more than 1 cp?
It's a whole wasted global
you can run a sim of it if you want but no, it's not
back to exsang after being a tb heretic for a whole week
That should be on the way back up
if i have 4 combo points should i do envenom or do tb to get 5 CP and than envenom?
damn
It's a good thing I think.
it is a good thing, tho i'll probably switch my crit enchant in a few ç_ç'
u know what fuck that, not gonna spend 5k
Tb and env
thx steck
@lucid bolt i'd do tb and env, tho don't be holding TB for when you have only like 2 cps, use it right away and fit 1~2 envenoms 4+cp inside it easy peezy
do you use weakauras?
trust me, you should be using this one
aight when i get home this evening ill try to remember to check it out can u dm it to me?
thank you!
done
just a regular cp bar but the colors on it makes it easy enough to know how many you got without checking it all the time neither eyeballing all the time
i switched to just used a giant # showing 0-5 ala mizerok, love it
Whats opener like for MA?
anyone got time to look at a heroic log? i'm parsing in the green and grey and think I have a lot of work to do
link
@feral sedge something tells me you're not using sb with high enough stacks
avg cast was 4k? wth o_o
sb?
to start your opener is wrong, put dots up then vendetta. have you read the guide?
oh, was looking parse by parse, mb
10.5 wrong row
yeah, I goofed my opener pretty bad on taloc I think, I read and fixed it
on the fetid you have one vendetta and 5 toxic blade in 3min+ fight
prepot, gar > rup > rup > ven > tb > envenom
no
ye
can u guys do me to?
still didnt do that on vec
i'll try it with current gear and find out
what are you cheapshotting on fetid?
also vanishing... do I vanish > gar after the first gar drops (SS)? if so, do you hold Ven until vanish is back up?
@tulip wedge ma opener is the "non ss opener" on rh. It is g m r m vend tb van env m env
but he has ss
I was answering your question prior to his
ah thx
guide says to stack vanish and vend but the timing is off if you use it on 2nd garrote
you use first vanish when garrote < 5.4s
!ss
Shrouded Suffocation
Currently still bugged. Applying 1-3 Garrotes in Subterfuge, and then applying another Garrote outside of Subterfuge, all of your Subterfuge-empowered Garrotes lose the Shrouded Suffocation multiplier, However the Subterfuge multiplier still remains.
Advised to not cast unbuffed Garrotes to avoid losing SS trait damage bonuses until this has been fixed.
ok so buffed garrote is fine for overwrite
in pandemic window
just not the 3rd one etc
ye
@hollow stone we have to bother timing vanish with dots or does everything get buffed via MA
can anyone give me advice on my dps? im thurgadin
Ma is dynamic
During your ma window, your pre existing dots will have 50% more crit too
meaning i just use it on CD (high CP high enegy)
So vanish and vend on same 2m CD, but going to be like 20s apart or so after the first vanish. Hold Vend for that or not?
hold
running subterfuge atm
ok, MA should be cake to transition to then not much change
is that wrong with SS?
no thats right i was asking a different question earlier
ok
about MA
If you played sin in legion, ma is legion sin w/o kb
for example on vectis you're not garroting/rupturing the add much are you
@tulip wedge cheapshot was probably a fat finger
somehow...
cause Subterfuge keeps up my stealth bar and I was trying to use envenom? idk why but thats been messing me up
if I'm doing stealth moves right it shouldn't tho
well two things hurt your parses a lot, 1 --> low ilvl, and 2 --> kill speeds
one thing for you to notice is that your fetid devourer kill was decent
60'ish is still fine, given you could've improved the dots uptime a bit by not switching to the add ( not sure if the strat you had was zerg boss or not )
well there you go, even with bleeds ticking on boss, you can see autoattacks are one of our top dmg too
it goes for up to 1/4ish of our dmg ( 'cuz of instant poisons too )
Gotta max cheese on fetid: have group pop all cds except lust and yours on pull, push to 50% super quick, pop lust and your cds then, ???, 100 parse
Dont actually listen to me
lul
seems that for raiding I should be really going for max haste and dumping crit
i'd be simming stat weights
i had haste below agi for a week, switched back to exsang with 1x SS only and BAM
so exsang is going to play a lil different than TB where you're using it on CD or mostly the same?
Quite different tbh
well some say if you have galecaller's boon it's worth it to delay exs to use it within GCD's effect 'cuz of bleed snapshot
but ideally you wanna sync every vanish/vendetta and exs
it's more complicated
way more syncing shit to get the hang of
right, high dmg dots ticking faster
idk someone said sin is the easy spec... i found outlaw easy tbh, but this is more fun imo
Yea. To minmax xsang, you really need to know your timings and be planning at least 5 seconds, ideally 10 seconds, ahead
Outlaw is the easiest to play for sure. The reason people say sin is easier is because it's slower giving you more time to think about your next ability
Sin is easiest pure st imo
Yea, this is obviously opinion based, i find outlaw the easiest for everything, personally
outlaw snek is easiest fo'shure
its fun in pvp, i dont have to think about rotation
just whats going on
massive pressure
Snek makes me sick. Too much rerolling for my liking. I run ds and ace for outlaw; again, this is preference
Sorry, im leading this convo off track. Carry on with sin stuff
ace gives you 2 short CDs to track and makes it a little more heady to play... I still switched to Sin for the challenge
quick navigation on my mh and oh is good right?
I know they DR when they stack like that but idk if its best to do
i run deadly/quick, but I do M+ also
yeah i love M+ :)
Check pins. You want 2 diff stats for weap chants
It does not. Tho technically your oh (for unknown reasons) has a slightly faster aa speed so, prob better to have better on in oh
But idk and if it makes a difference it is a tiny difference
cool
glad this community is so helpful, thanks for the feedback
Thats another reason sin is the "easiest". The community is bomb a/f
Myself included.. pats back
opener different with MA? Couldn't find anything about it in the pins
its not in the pins because its in the guide
where is it at in the guide?
under rotation
but the guide is in the pins 🤔
thats true
The guide says nothing about MA? all four openers only mention TB/Exsang with andwithout SS
and given the talents only mentioning Subterfuge, my assumption is that guide simply doesn't account for MA
well then make an assumption as to why it doesnt say anything about the rotation chaging
Idk why people think sin is the easiest. Outlaw is mindless as long as you have a reroll/keep wa
i use gar->mut->rup->mut (1/2 depending on crits)-> vendetta->tb->env->van-> mut/env spam
might be completely wrong but i see 30k in raids
Like you even need a weakaura for outlaw
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/A7CmGYJthNRajwyT#fight=23 guys can you tell me where I am fuckin up?! ignore mother and taloc and mother, shit happened
mother and taloc and mother.. fck
@cursive cloak Hmmmm... ignore it?
Went back to beat on her again?
should try playing MA instead of subterfuge when having no SS
ma sims about .5% higher for me with 0 ss
it sims really close for me either way, i prefer MA with no SS tho
Currently for me the difference in DPS without SS still running Subt against MA is negligible
just go w/ your preference
I have completely diff traits now, that was the day after they nerfed sharpened blades into ablivion also
but subt without SS feels weird lol
@daring imp w/ 1 ss exsang sims 0.1% higher than TB
and TB is so much more straightforward, most people will play better with TB
I would consider any two that sim that closely to be whatever you prefer since one crit will swing the number
yeah im not consistent with the spec to add more complexity to it yet
@sweet flame For MA my API goes: garrote, mut to 4-5, rupture, vendetta, vanish, tb, mut, envenom, ect. On second vanish and thereafter it weaves vendetta vanish into normal rotation. That is, if you have 4-5 cp it envenom mut envenom, with 0 CP it mut envenom muts. Does not hold TB for vanish, use on CD.
TB has been higher than exsang even with 1 SS for me for quite some time
with 3 ss exsang is barely better for me
Didn’t they put massive dr on stacking ss?
rip sharpened blade
!wa
Assassination WA's for BFA:
https://wago.io/HJUbINlV7 (Mizerok's Group)
https://wago.io/E1EB91OtM (Lokkek's Group)
https://wago.io/SyLUNGD4X (Sovv's Group)
https://wago.io/SJLQKGjMM (Afenar's Group)
https://wago.io/ByzCxPq-m (Devlin's Group)
would master poisoner be better to run for someone that is new to assa then elaborate? feel like i cant get another env while elaborate is active
Im gonna have to have this copied for a while it seems: ma opener is the "non ss opener" on rh. It is g m r m vend tb van env m env
@mystic glade probably. Whatever one you’re best at usually wins out
No
If you don't run with EP you'll never learn how to have EP upkeep
i would just learn EP tbh
sit on a training dummy for 10mins and you'll be good to go
I don't know how API handles envenom clips if at all, don't know much about that stuff in general really, but I would recommend going with EP if only to practice
guessing the point with it is to get env in during the 4 sec window?
The goal is to keep it up 100% of the time
no the goal is to have maximum uptime
Or as close to it as possible
use env/rupture to do that. after that it's really just passive % increase for everything else
If you can, envenom with 0.1 sec remaining, so you buff envenom without losing to much EP uptime
Something that might get you used to pooling is to pool before your rupture refreshes, until rupture is going to run out or you are going to energy cap(do not energy cap) then you will find you can usually get the next one or two envenoms after that to clip EP buff
better get practising then o.o and also if i may ask opener in guide is to use TB just before the env but under the QnA is says '' tb on cooldown, really? Yes, on cooldown.'' does that mean that if i got 5cp when tb comes up, i do finisher then tb then mut? not waiting with the tb until 3/4 cp and use it right before env
or is it just literally 100% on cooldown no matter situation
Pop it when it comes up
Because even if you're overcapping you'll get a TB empowered Env
Is there somewhere i can read up on an MA opener ?
Its literally legion sin rogue without Kingsbane
okay thanks 😃
ma opener is the "non ss opener" on rh. It is g m r m vend tb van env m env
I knew copy pasta'ing this would pay off
lol @hollow stone
thanks @hollow stone you da real mvp
Hero rotation APL shows g m r ven TB van m env m env
Am I just dumb?
Well, I am, but am I doing it wrong and dumb
No, the apl is because it worries about "over capping" cp
But not on TB? cuz it’ll show me a TB at full CPs over an envenom.
My gut tell me to envenom cuz it feels dirty to not use a finisher on 5 points.
Right. Tb dmg is shit now so getting the buff up rather than waiting a couple gcds is better
Which is why i m before vend
Ok, just want to make sure I’m not relying too much on the APL
"Worst case" you get 2cp into vend tb for 3-4cp. Then van env m env
Usually one of your mut hits or the tb crits giving you 4cp for that first ma emp env and then your ma emp m "should" give 3-4 and give another env
In your window. And if really lucky you get he big dirty env m env m env in your tb and spike hard on pull
Yea, crits have been treating me good, I actually enjoy MA more than I thought I would tbh
The env m env is only ever out of stealth right?
Just making sure. Was going for 4-5 env x2 during normal TB
Its just cause youre counting on the 2 env crits in ma/tb/vend window
Which is big dmg
Yea. That is what you do for your tb outside of ma window
I luckily just got a SS 370 piece so I'm gonna switch back to that.
I usually run with a warrior so I let him crush the boss and I just fuck up the trash.
It's not shit. Its just not bis st trait
@hazy pebble SS is fine. Chart is just using ma.
@quick fog why not the other way around! :p
It requires subterfuge.
fml i got 380/375 outlul weps
Then get em when they least expect it! Blindside OP
I keep up with our warrior for m+ overall with 3ss. Seems fine.
and 365/360 daggers
Blindside confirmed execute killer
I've been maining outlaw and only our warrior and DH usually beat me in ST. Sometimes the Sub, but I prefer Sin so I'm trying to get back to it. Need to get weapons again.
Wait you have a DH beating you in ST? I thought they were stronger in AoE
Ah alrighty
Its Uldir so it's all cleave. Lol
I suppose? I mean Taloc, MOTHER, Fetid, Vectis, and Mythrax are pretty much ST with an add phase
I dont get why they nerf rogues like a mad dog and leave DH alone
If you really think about it
Dh actually got buffed
Demon's Bite got buffed along with some talents which I think they already used
Hero classes gonna hero
I mean rogues are still sick so the complaints aren’t really necessary
TFW they've never made a ranged hero class
Warlock is a hero class, lets be honest
i hope they make a intellect tank class
Granted I guess DH counts as ranged since they can close the gap in half a second
with cloth
They could have made survival the 3rd DH spec lul
Omegalul
i cant believe i still play a melee class in 2018
I have a mage alt for some of the cancer fights
why cant we all learn that ranged is just god tier in wow...
which stats affect exsanguinate damage the most?
I see a lot of top rogues still using fathoms, is it still bis even though it doesn't sim that high for rogue overall?
ye but in prog u only see like 3-4 melee in hardest bossies
ye
Fathoms sims very high wtf? Its better than most trinkets until 370ilvl
thats all i care about me no dmg hoe
@rancid seal yea what dude, fathoms sims great
He probably sees it way down on the list and doesn’t understand how the graph works
Feelsbadman
i cant wait to replace fathoms
am I misinterpreting it then?
a true beta trinket
Hey dude, dropping anchors on people is the best trinket idea ever
^
Hover your mouse over the little bar next to fathoms
It tells you the % dps increase you get from it
Now compare that number to other trinkets at that ilvl
Or even 370/385 trinkets
Also, compare it to other trinkets based on the ilv required to outperform fathoms
i finally replaced fathoms for m+ though its lit
Yes, other trinks show higher on the charts, but only at ridiculously high ilvs.
how is it a 180 im saying i dont use it in m+ my guy
Unless that sentencing was completely screwed in which case it still makes sense
Hey guys, is SS still terrible?
It was never terrible
I don't know if this will ever get old
@nimble tartan same. Shoulda just gone warlock back in 2017 like @zealous dew said.
WtF SS SUCKS NOW?
im figuring out what ranged is gonna be fotm
because playing rogue still is wrong imo
Arcane
Elemental Shaman
Rogue doesn't even get battlerez.
JK HAHA
imagine playing scuffed dh
Shame
Triage Rogue will have Battle Rez
Honestly just take a monk for the debuff and run like 14 BM hunters
It will be called "Get the eff up"
And a warrior for the attack power
But it will be a melee range brez, where you kick the downed player
i wonder if the next raid gonna have no use for rogues utility like this tier
Rogue Brez will be "Shoulda Feinted Bruh"
How about "Do u even Cloak?"
Cheat death is just worthless
"Evasion Dude?"
Alright, lets not get get carried away, Cheat Death is not worthless
its p shit
like it was good on what like m kj prog to eat a big annihilation without dying with feint
Cheat death has saved my ass many a time when I tunnel vision to be fair
but now its like just something to saveur ass
yeah, exactly, which I bet it does more than once a raid for most folks
I’ve died through cheat death so many times
That doesnt make it worthless.
Yea bruh it doesn’t even save you half the time
im just comparing whats even good about being a rogue in uldir
Elusiveness is too good though
to me a rogue is just another good dps class, but if you were to be optimal and in an optimal raid comp you'd just have no rogues
Sub has useful niches though like on Zul though
well ye
But I’ll be playing my mage on prog more than my rogue I think
sub is just needed on that fight to make it a 3 minute encounter
w +
otherwise it becomes a real fight
That arguement could be made about nearlly all melee, beyond bringing 1 of a few classes
Also my guild is like 50% melee so it’s some serious cancer sometimes
yeah alot of melee this is true im saying rogue doesnt provide anything useful other than damage
not special
no good execute
no raid debuff
Blindside is DOPE bruh what are you smoking YO
haha
Ez execute
blindside belongs in r/therewasanattempt
Didn’t assa have a legendary that gave you execute dmg?
when is blindisde even gonna be good ever
Idk I didn’t play rogue last xpacw
Make that a talent
we are just gonna go back to using master poisoner
Easy game
Just bring back legion sin rogue
I still have Kingsbane on my action bar to pay homage
melee doing a lot of dmg doesnt make them great for uldir lol
silver im not talking about damage, i already said melee do good damage obviously, but people are min maxing and only bringing 3-4 melee on the actualhard bosses in uldir
and guess what those few slots are hard locked with dh/monk/war
@nimble tartan Alright, I can get behind that statement
people always ranged>melee for the most part. until the kills are smooth. the dps>all. always been the pattern
Survivoral hunter over BM there? Outlaw over sub and sin?
You can throw frost DK in there too, all I ever see people recruiting for these days are Frost DK and Lock
im just saying that rogues usual mainstay of usefulness to raids when it came to cheesing mechanics and whatnot is gone already
How well does the darkmoon deck of fathoms work with assassination?
literally if rouges damage starts suckin and the next raid is just like this rogues gonna get feral treatment is all im sayin
Extremely @south geode
ah alright!
we still have a great kit imo to other melee. but i see what youre saying compared to past raids. as long as other classes cant do it. im good lol
fathoms doesnt sim correct. its more like 3-5% of your total damage. which is crazy
I guess we are saying the same thing, I attribute the problem to not wanting to bring melee at all, you are saying that because there are so few melee spots, rogue is on the outside.
btw anyone knows why my SS sims better than archive of the titans ?
Is the ivl the same on the two pieces?
do u have another uldir trait on another piece
Show me the sim
yes
Ok, well that is the answer
ah
Credit to @nimble tartan for getting there first
😛
No, there is no reason to ignore the sim
but the titans buff is good
SS is really good for dungeons too
Particulary since you are already running 1xSS, so it won't require a change in rotation or talents
yes
Ok, your name is clearly inaccurate, because you have had enough meth, it is rotting your brain
i know it is for dungeons but im running raids more..
SS is mathematically superior to Archive for you and your gear
SS sims better because it is better
Quick Question: M Zek'Voz, to burst boss down with orb and BL in P2, Exsanguinate probably > TB, right?
what's even the question here
Is the buff good, yes, but SS is better, for you
@sturdy flume Yes, if the question is "In a vacuum, is Exasang better for burst than TB", but there are a lot of variables there
depends the haste u have ii think ? 😮
And the traits you have
y
i was especially thinking about the 30 sec window, so 2x TB vs 1x Exsanguinate, but you're probably right. I'm running around with gearsets for both, usually tb is like 1-200 dps ahead
I mean, in reality, if you the question is "What is best for bursting down adds" the answer is "Not Sin"
welp, also true 😄
btw @inner pulsar in my opening rotation after the typical Gar/rap/Gar im going on for vendetta rap exsa u think is good or im wasting my vendetta ?
forgot 1 mutilate after vendetta !
What you posted is correct
Vendetta right after you come off of Subterfuge, then Mutilate into a full 5CP Rupture, then Exsang
Correct
good
You would not want to overwrite a buffed Garrote or Rupture
ye
I feel like DH has more mobility and burst than I do, am I doing something wrong?
meh TB sims more than exsang to me now 😛
@hollow cave No, that is how the class is designed
@daring imp don't have to care about performance when you live on instaqueues 
Thats like saying "I think BM Hunters have more pets than I do"
we missed a +12 timer for like 10s
Do I just ignore DH, lol
Yes
Gotcha
Or reroll
and the motherfucker dared to blame me when i clearly said THE ENTIRE FUCKING DUNGEON to not chainpull and he did anyway
fml
It was a dumb question, thought it was fitting
on 3 or 4 trash packs on an entire atal dazar i had the ss bonus
EVERYTHING ELSE NOTHING
Ok, I could have used "I feel like warrior execute is better than blindside, am I doing something wrong?" and it would have been functionally the same
Yeah, that is the DH wheelhouse
Okay
lol
Man, I might as well of asked why Junkrat has more AoE to my rogue
That's totally a comparable example

lol
almost all dh skills do aoe/cleave dmg
does anyone know how much haste is required for an extra tick of garrote
@inner pulsar I've played my alt rogue as sub since leveling. Interested in Assassination. Is there a better one for m+ in your opinion or should I sim my gear and decide based on that?
Its literally their thing, DH are aoe burst and good mobility
of course they are going to be better than you
2/(1+haste/100) = tick rate, 18/tick rate = numbah of ticks, enjoy math @amber arrow
haste rating or % @daring imp
%
@blazing mortar I think the general consensus is that Assassin will do well oh higher m+ difficulties because the mobs live long enough for dots to work. In lower difficulties, Outlaw outshines both other specs in my opinion
I would say @daring imp probably does more M+ than I do, I don't know if he has anything to add
sin>outlaw>sub in popularity in m+ according to raiderio
Literally just aswering your question mate.
i played with a few decent outlaws on a few 9's and 10's, but pugging usually has either me or a frost mage/dh on top overall dmg
don't get me wrong, depends on the size of the pull, i have a stupid hard time beating any dh on trash packs over 4~5 mobs
That's fine, I'm just talking about the guy being an asshat about it
@daring imp @inner pulsar cool. Thank you.
lol
if they live too long, i overtake him, if out group bursts too fast, i just can't catch up
The nice thing about outlaw is that you are consistent on trash. Sin is too unless your tank is a dick @daring imp
@hollow stone YES
FUCK DK TANKS
THOSE STUPID HURRY-ASSING TANKS DON'T LET ME RESTEALTH EVER
I LITERALLY GET ATLEAST 2~3K MORE OVERALL DMG BY RESTEALTHING AND THEY DON'T CARE ANYWAY
They are the worst
Tfw waiting actually increases speed
So are the tanks that are like "i know, i play with rogues" and then do it anyway....
to be fair i think those two quel'thalas and ragnaros tanks didn't know english
or they did and just ignored the heck out of me
I cant comment on that without sounding racey... no comment
i mean they didn't talk for the entire dungeon
i whispered
spammed
everything
not one response back
even when we ended the key they were mute
unless they were already ignored and i didn't bother to check tho ...
@amber arrow I know your question is from earlier, about haste. But they made it so that there are partial ticks in the game, so that there wouldn't be haste breakpoints anymore for dot classes to receive extra ticks... whatever you have left over will be your tick damage... To make that clear, if your dot ticks every 3 seconds, and you have 2 seconds remaining on the dot since it last ticked, when it falls off it will tick for 2/3rds of the normal damage.
boys should i use 1 archive and 1 SS or 2 SS in uldir
are your SS's high ilvl
well
nope
1 is 340
the other one has
archive and SS
3rd one is pretty high but shit azerite
avoid 340's SS like the plague for raiding if possible
unless a high piece
i say that and i actually came back to 1x ss on raiding because of pvp 355 chest lul
ty @weak socket
I'm still running 2 340s, and one of them is Tidal Surge.....
Np man. I only just learned about it's existence today when researching a different class for a guildy.
is the meta 2x archive 1x(something else) for raiding
just looking at hero damage default filter
Do I mut for cp on 2 targets or shuriken storm (or whatever it's called for sin)? If I have combo pnts on pull for M+ trash, do I prioritize rupture on all targets first or use tempest?
good luck getting those two double dose at high ilvl lol
@ebon prism Fan of Knives on 3 targets or more
@ebon prism apl uses FoK's at 2+ targets but in reality it basically doesn't matter. Very marginal difference at 2 targets
So little diff between mut and fok for 2 targets?
Ty!
Also idk about your combo points question. Do you mean instead of getting an extra SS garrote off, instead using CP on CT or rupture?
And then using CP from the other 2 SS garrotes
?
Yeah, I wish folks would worry less about the current BiS traits, based on the fact that they are incredibly hard to target to get, and if you look at the actual rankings, plenty of people doing well with all kinds of trait make ups
I just wish they'd sim the situation instead of asking because I can't tell them what will be better with just the information of two different traits...
@weak socket i don't get it @_@"
i know for sure that now that i have the 355 SS chest, the normal fetid will drop his chest to me
not the heroic tho
Haha
Hey. I got the normal fetid chest this week!
Got myself 10 Sanguicwhatevers off H Fetid last night
even with fetid chest 370 raidbot tells me to go Archive and Master Assassin/TB
Well it is just kind of funny "Hey guys, is 1x Archive + 2xSS best?"
"Yeah"
"Ok, well I have Battlefield Precision, Tidal Surge, and Posioned Wire, but I was just wondering"
LOL
@stable rover do you have any other uldir traits on any other piece aside from chest?
355 laser head and 355 archive spaulders
and it still tells you to pick archive on the 370 chest?
y
rip SS lul
@lone junco I even did a better thing than playing lock, I just stopped playing 😃
i got a 340 SS and 370 Chest that has SS and Archive
i guess in uldir archive is better
my shoulders are 385 but they have shit trait
@stable rover Can you show us the sim?
I thought you could only get Reorig array from 1 piece, and that when you simmed multiple pieces each piece added it, which is a fault in the sims. Am I sick in the head?
@zealous dew winner winner chicken dinner.
😄
@weak socket I hadn't heard that the sim was doing that
Vegas style
@weak socket well you get the array from 1 piece only, the subsequent uldir ones do not increase array stacks
hence why i asked if he had another uldir pieces to activate array and put other slightly better traits instead
No but archive after the buff actually stacks pretty well
@zealous dew I have 1.6M$ worth of contract between now and June. I should prob do the same.
best decision ever
when would you guys say MA + TB is better than EXSG and Subterfuge?
@delicate gull When it sims higher
depends on traits, stats, trinkets
When it sims >0.5% better
thousands of parameters
besides if it sims higher, cuz thats not how this works in this raid
@delicate gull Definitely how it works
like would subterfuge be basically better in any situation with adds or am i thinking of it differently
why not on increased damage taken by boss phases too
I ended up dropping all my SS traits for Tidal Surge and going TB/MA after the SS nerf it’s been performing better for me
it's better with ss, but yeah probs not with subterfuge with no ss traits
sorry, i assumed you'd only pick subterfuge with ss's X_X"
yeah same, i have 1 with subterfuge, or i can go double archive + twist and MA+TB for 70dps? idk
Well, it is possible for Subt to be higher without SS, mine is close
but MA is so cool :X
@stable rover Why are you simming with no buffs?
The double archive is going to outperform with more targets, you’re getting that much more agility to buff all of your abilities rather than having an empowered garrote multiple targets
good point
@inner pulsar https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/wGNvCTb4yLqickku1kstKg here you go with buffs :p
Double archive is suboptimal in bis gear but may be your bis depending on what youve got
haste still your guys best stats for those using MA+TB?
We're talking st raid
@clever raven not sure i get what you meant
H c m for me when running ma tb
But the values were pretty close overall
So ilvl; for the most part. Gotta sim yourself to be sure tho
will 240ish agi make up for the bonus dmg on garrote?
Everyone's weights are different, just like irl
Probably considering the fact that the agi is going to buff literally everything in your kit
i know, letterz, but SS was broken on multi target, and is still king for a reason @_@"
that's what i meant
@stable rover Gotta say, that is an interesting outcome. The agi gain from archive just edges out SS at that ilvl I guess
that's assuming you get a decent window to take advantage of ss's garrote spreading on other targets
Are the m+ numbers up on herodamage?
And depending on how long the stuff is actually alive for Archive to reach max stacks
@daring imp Well, in his case @stable rover 's gear says 240 agi from Archive does indeed outweigh 1 SS trait
@inner pulsar oh sorry what i meant was for @clever raven haha
@clever raven you're talking m+ or raiding?
Raid
@daring imp I know, but your question was poignant, because that is exactly what was showing in @stable rover 's sim
Thought that’s what we were talking about anyway
yeah i was a bit unsure when you said how long stuff is alive
Cus someone mentioned M+
well as long as you are 100s in combat you'll be full stacks on archive for the entire fight, no?
In raid, archive should outperform ss
^
Yes
i might be a shitty case then, the only piece i've ever gotten from uldir was mythrax head with shitty laser
@daring imp Same
and this laser has fucked up so many m+ of mine already
I’m currently rocking a laser matrix
i gave away the ghuun chest, maybe mistake
accidentally forgetting to switch fuck my life do i agro mobs so far away without any reason at all
The Zul shoulders are where its at yo
Ya those are still hiding from me
He and Mother eat all my coins....
Yup
It is nice that the shoulders and a wep drop from him, or nice in theory I guess
You ALWAYS want to cast TB as soon as it comes off cd right? Only delay when Vendetta is about to come off cd
Line up with vendetta but you don’t want to hold it for too long
Pool energy before it comes off CD and fit as many envenom into it as possible
y
Cus envenom is bugged by TB
Yeah so if you have no energy when it comes up you planned it wrong
@vestal abyss Right
The energy pooling isn’t as big a deal when you’re going to sync it with vendetta
Yeah but TB is 25 sec cd so youll use it without vendetta 5 times
is it 25 sec cd?
i honestly dont know
Yes
i wonder if thats worth it
no idea
No
Cus that means over the course of an average raid fight you’re going to lose 1 usage of it
True
Never hold something to the point that you miss a usage
So many yellow and cyan colored names around these parts
It wont change mine
Does that mean anything?
I play all the specs
LOL I’m jk. I changed to red yesterday from yellow. Feels good
i only play sin now but red is ugly 🐢
I was red, when it was totally not cool
Your icon is the epitome of assassination bleeds
I like yellow
i didnt even know color were assigned to specs lmao
i still remember the good ol' week 1 and week 2 days agroing a thousand trash with boss as sub on m0 for the st dmg
Cyan - Subtlety
Red - Assassination
Yellow - Outlaw
@primal gazelle
Was all practice for Zul
ayyy
Is it possible to completely avoid having to refresh bleeds during TB?
You can change them by going to the botspam room and typing ? followed by your spec choice
@vestal abyss Barely
You can refresh early to avoid that
Should i want to?
Yes, because your bleeds don't benefit from TB
hmmm
Should I want to refresh bleeds before the pandemic window kicks in to avoid having to refresh them during TB
Cus if you’re playing TB you’re likely not using SS traits so refreshing garrote early isn’t a huge deal
Well, you would still need to Garrote
tho you can also time it to have tb buffed by ep
But a fully pandemic Rupture is what, 32 seconds?
@daring imp gonna do my last 2 timewalks tonight. and bask in the glory of the SS Soul Capacitor
Same
belligerent dps.
oy i remember that trinket
sephuz. 4p20. ss. soul cap.
oh fuck
Refreshing rupture early and losing seconds on the pandemic versus not doing that and losing seconds of bleeds ticking cus they fell off during your TB window
Real talk though, when are they going to start selling Void elf unlock in the ingame shop, cause this AR rep grind is lame
melee attacks counting dots and stuff? or only directly melee stuff?
Yeah so far ive just been refreshing rupture during TB window
i think i found something to improve upon
sweet
try critting more during MA
@inner pulsar i hope they remove the requirements in a few years lul
i'd racechange 😦
they losin' big monies
i agree, i hate farming rep
I'd give them $40 right now
off topic: can you cloak omega vector damage on Vectis?
ever since i stopped with bdo i hate stupid grind like that
No, but you can cloak to avoid the dot at the end
i think cloaking omega vector makes you not take the damage but you still have the debuff tho, no?
Im gonna formulate my intuition behind the rotation
cant get rid of stacks in vectis
yea stacks will get you with or without cloak
cloak only prevents the dot applied by omega vector
wait it bounces off when you cloak?
oh
Okay so a full pandemic windowed rupture is 31.4 seconds yes?
if you cloak before it hits you it will stop the application of the DoT so you dont get assraped from the dmg. it will not prevent omega vector from going off, or it applying the stack
TB is 25 seconds, the buff is 6, which is 31 seconds
pandemic depends on the first aplication
if you cloak to avoid the dot at the end, does it drop to another person or just disappear on you?
Cloak prevents omega vector from damaging you while it’s on you it prevents the stack at the end
Im gonna wait with my thoughts till the who vectis discussion is over
And it still jumps
ah, I see, tyvm
omega vector always will spread aint shit to do about it. your group should have a strat in place to even out distribution
ohhh
Yeah
Okay about this rupture thing
2 of them cycled between taunting boss off when debuff on the guy w/o debuff was with boss' debuff
easiest run of vectis in my life
@vestal abyss I can almost guarantee you are overthinking this at this point, but go ahead
WIth 5CP, 4 CP is 5 sec
neither what the 31s means
Oh its 9 seconds
well anyway the cd is 25s regardless of the buff duration
I am definitely overthinking this but:
TB is 25 seconds
4 cp pandemic rupture is 26 seconds
nice
llul
So if you apply rupture at 4 cp every time you never have to refresh rupture during TB
jitz, given you NEVER delay the delay itself between rupture/tb and never delay tb, maybe
but good luck getting 4 cps everytime
So the best case scenario would be 5CP Rupture, then a lucky 4CP Mutilate > TB >Envenom
the thing is that if the duration is the same you dont have to refresh it just before TB
you can refresh it at any time
or just bank 4+ cps and energy to refresh rup before popping tb
Exactly
so tb>mut>env would be with ep
Which is what you would want to do each time
Yeah okay so if I do that, do I refresh rupture before TB regardless of the remaining duration?
i would not if you want to do this kind of minmax
I’d only refresh it IF it’s gonna fall off during the TB window
if your rupture has like 12s left or so just do the tb combo
Yeah so if rupture is <11
right because you still have to build the cp after TB window to refresh rupture
so maybe even 13
12s would give you an energy bank of approximately ~200 energy
if you have energy beforehand to pop stuff it would be more
Which you attempt to empty out during your TB window right
yeah
tho you don't want to have even 1s w/o rupture
so check the last envenom before popping it
But honestly I don’t think this far into it when I’m playing, I function off my reptilian brain and have mad reflexes
I think its good to have into the back of your mind
Pretty much, you gotta fuck up real bad to not get 2 in there
Yeah but you gotta do real good to get 3 in there if youre lucky
probably only doable if with vendetta popped within tb or lust
doing 3 i mean
or mut 4cp in a row for the lulz
Ha, I was told I'm a failboat for not getting 3 in there, "its ez bro"
it's too rare to get 4cp
and probably doing 3cp isn't worth the cost inside tb
so you spend atleast 140ish energy per envenom
So yeah, if the best case requires some luck, and the worst case is hard to find yourself in (just 1 envenom in TB), I go back to my "you're overthinking it"
the 1st one you can cast when you pop tb if you had cps in bank beforehand
But I get wanting tho think it out
the other two only with some sick energy regen
Well yeah, but before this conversation i just refreshed rupture during TB window and getting only 1 in so its nice to think it fully through and know what to do
I fit 3 by having 4 CP banked TB into Envenom
all the time tho?
Yes
also not delaying tb?
I do find myself wasting the CP generated by TB, because I find myself with 5 CP and <4 seconds left on TB cooldown, so I just pool into the TB so as not to delay
it's much more than "just prep time" @_@
hey guys im trialing for a new guild and they want to see at least 1 orange parse during my trial period
any tips to cheese out a good looking parse?
ignore adds focus boss
@tropic heron Look for a new guild?
only switch for adds if they're on top of the boss
ignore mechanics
which boss would be easiest to cheese on with assassination?
if they scream at you say you dc'ed from discord or something
feint it and clos it
mother
No no, they are encouraging bad play, you should find a new guild to trial
be in the last group
Because thats a dumb ass request in my opinion
vectis is great for logs too
@tropic heron ghuun hc is pretty easy orange or it must be a mythic boss?
ghuun hc not that easy to orange overall
@tropic heron Whats your ilvl?
Normal
yeah
Lawl
subtlety
@sullen pagoda Whatever except Outlaw is just Sub and Sin, and why would you play Sub on Taloc?
When mythic first dropped sub was better
my sub is pretty decent on taloc when i dont die on laser cuz im 50 iq
lul
Cus blade in the shadows hadn’t been buried yet
@subtle kiln Because it isn't as good as Sin?