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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)
Yeeee. Got a dagger, outlaw was fun for two days. Comin' back baby
What buff I grab for sin on opulance
i think Opal but I'm not sure
for M+, is 3xSS 3xEB the best combination of traits? (assuming all traits available ofc)
I would think that you would want 1 echoing mabye 2 and then either a dd and vendette bleed or just dd
But I dont know anything since I just came back
I'd recommend throwing a SoB in there
Because SS can fall off pretty hard at high keys
Yeah
i always find myself holding vanish for way too long but then again i haven't really been doing huge keys or big pulls most of the time
its like by he time my garrots are finishing pull almost dead so it feels like a bit of a waste
anyone having a problem with literally always being one of the 3 hexxed right off the cuff on conclave?
I literally cloak @ 94 energy and I see hex pop up as "missed"
literally every single pull without fail
Yeah that's pretty much how it goes, either don't have the energy to garrote 3 more things for good value, or they die before you can vanish
Looks like it's just 3 people
it probably scales with raid size
When using Variable Intensity Gigavolt Oscillating Reactor, do I need to save my burst until I'm at 6 or just use burst in the opener?
anyone else tired of galcallers?
When using Variable Intensity Gigavolt Oscillating Reactor, do I need to save my burst until I'm at 6 or just use burst in the opener?
What to do when you stack SS traits and the tank chain pulls due to high keys
maybe keep only 1?
Tell him to stop
seriously, I just looted a 400 Gale, all happy and shit, come here and Genesiz is like "yo i got a 415 fu" lol =/
Sorry man. haha 400 its still a good trink. Trinks are hard to come by so ur good !
yea, it's all good. just hilarious.
For hectic add the adds only come up everyone now and then
does it matter what casted 1st TB or Vendetta?
@somber otter try raidbots dungeon slice
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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)
@faint vault Hey ๐ I have the same question. Also, I assume that once you hit 6 stacks, you wait 6 seconds, then hit the On Use effect to get another 6 seconds at max stacks (so 12 secs at max stacks total)? or do I have an incorrect understanding of the trinket?
it just adds 6sec to the timer, basically
Yea, so wouldn't you want to wait until you're at max stacks to get the most out of it?
Why add 6 seconds to a counter when it's on 1 stack?
yeah, use on 6
is there any reason to care about your offhand dagger? just curious, as it doesn't matter for outlaw, but w/mutilate you are hitting w/both daggers?
but it doesn't matter when on 6
it doesn't matter MUCH
I think it might partially impact mut?
Ok, that makes sense
And if you're on low stacks on pull, do you still pop all your coolies?
Offhand is literally just stats
@sinful lotus I would, yeah
otherwise you may lose out on casts
in theory you can, through equipping and unequipping, with a ~30sec pull timer, guarantee max stacks at pull
but your guild will probably not go for it ๐
MH weapon dps stat weight is around 10 for me while OH is ~1
yeah, the stats on the OH are worth more
I think actually the OHdps no longer impacts mut since the change to %AP vs wepdps for ability damage
@quick ice haha thanks ๐ that makes sense
i like bigwigs better than dbm, but i like dbm voice pack better is there a way to get big wigs voice pack to say keep moving on the sister boss in waycrest manorr?
i'm playing with sub/tb - 1x ss trait
question:
first vendetta in the opener, do i vanish refresh garrote WHILE vendetta or AFTER so i have it again buffed ? i'm really confused because i read somewhere to refresh it afterwards because its already buffed but then next vendetta window i have to wait until vanish is up again what would happen again after vendetta and that is bad?
you let the buffed garrote from the opener run out before vanishing
then you either garrote garrote if u vanished at 0cp or garrote enveom/rupture garrote if at 1-3 cp
As assassination do my dots snapshot when I put them up? e.g. should you use trinkets before using garrotte?
its dynamic
@weak creek okay and the next vendetta window ? should i wait for vanish and how do i start the infight vendetta window with vanish ? do i want to vendetta vanish garrote garrote so i have the buffed garrote the full vendetta time or how ?
do you store up energy to line up with your toxic blade everytime?
dont hold tb for more than 4-5 seconds @mighty elm
@obsidian girder usually wait for vanish if you have ss traits before vendettaing again
only time you would use vendetta before vanish is literally if the raid encounter would end before your vanish would be up
vendetta lasts 20 seconds so you want your empowered garrotes to get the most benefit possible
@weak creek do you want to get out 2 envenoms in the TB window everytime?
optimally yes
its fine to hold tb for like 3 seconds if ur refreshing a rupture or something of that nature beforehand
but usually cast on cd otherwise
@obsidian girder you can refresh a emp garrote by an emp garrote. Below 5.4s
the more you hold tb the more seconds towards another tb that are wasted, so in total you could miss an extra tb window if you hold too much
Just don't refresh by a non empowred
^
@weak creek okay nice that helped alot.. last question to the infight vendetta. how do you start it ? just a rough explanation
opener or just
vendetta mid fight
opener is garr rupture garr vendetta tb envenom
mid fight if ur cds are all up (vend/vanish)
ty
midfight ๐
first thing is dependent on if u have 0-5 cp
if you have 4-5 cp spend on finisher before vendetta
or
you can vendetta envenom vanish garrote garrote
theres a lot of ways you can do it tbh
if ur at 0 cp you double garrote during vanish
if ur at more than 3 cp you garrote envenom/rupture (if you need to refresh) and garrote again
You can be out of energy for the second emp garrote then if you're not careful though?
vendetta gives energy back, if ur not completely starved from lack of pooling and being smart with energy you shouldnt be starved
if for some reason you are starved, you can wait half a second for a bit of energy though i suppose
ofc sin wants as much energy regen as possible due to costs being expensive on mut but, you should be setting up for that cd window
but like you said, thats assuming ur not being careful
Yeah, I just gotta learn to watch my energy better
You use exsanguinate only รกt full pandemic rupture and garrot, or use it at 20+sec?
exsang you usually want as high of bleed times as you can get without wasting cp
so after your first emp Garrote with Vendetta (24s into the fight) you Vanish and use another emp double Garrote.
Now your Vendetta will be up 24 s before your Vanish.
It's always worth to wait for Vanish before using Vendetta again.
After your 2nd Vendetta/Vanish they will align everytime.
Is this correct?
With NP traits do you TB before Vendatta?
no, still after
afaik
@hidden dirge yes, you wanna make sure somewhere in the next 3 gcds that 2 of them are garrote to get max uptime on them
@void gazelle make sure ur 3rd exsang is always used with vanish to line up empowered garrotes
if fight lenght allows you the 3rd vendetta/vanish stack then it's worth it
pandemics should be fine outside of vanish exsang
@weak creek okay great then i found my mistake ^^ first like @real bay sait i didnt refresh buffed garrote with buffed garrote. i just let it ran out and refreshed it then so i lost 5.4s pandemic. second mistake was i finished vendetta window with vanish+buffed garrote. so all my garrotes werent buffed by vendetta.. im dumb ._. but thanks alot guys<3 will change that
np
some weakauras will help a lot with this stuff
and dot tracking on multiple targets like 2nd boss
Is there any WAs that differentiate between normal and emp garrote? The one for my feral druid does that
Or maybe I can just set that up myself
yes
that would be great.. a little greendot or something would already be enough to see if a new garrote would be better than the one on the boss. like feralbleedings ๐
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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)
Afaik Mizeroks does
I'm using Afenar, but I'll check out the others. Would be cool with a red border on garrote or something when it's empowered
Mizerok's says "EMP"
I couldnt recommend learning WAs yourself enough, its such a useful thing to be able to do. Takes no time at all as well
Then you can all sorts of personal additions etc
iirc details even allowes you to create weakauras without a lot of learning, never looked more into it tho
Yeah, should've gotten into that before the raid started when I had some time
Hello fellow rogues ๐ I was scrolling up and reading some comments on Parsing etc... This will probably sound like a dumb question, but how important is fight length for a Parse? I assume, the shorter the fight, the better the chance for a good parse as the boss may still die while you're coming down from a solid Burst or CD window? The reason I'm asking, is I can't for the life of me get a good %IL parse on Champions (on Heroic). I've looked at the Timelines/Cast/Rotation of some top Parsing Rogues on WCL and I see them open on Adds, switch to boss, maintain a few dots on Adds, kill boss and end with some nice results.
Fight length is a factor yeah
But as for fine details that would be down to the log itself
good morning guys, is there anywhere a list that provides info how mich titan residium i can receive on which source?
thanks
either very short or long enough to get CDs 2nd time at least
I believe the wowhead guide gives all the details on TR?
Well here's the most recent Heroic Champions log: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/fvH46MwWYKgjD7An#fight=5&type=damage-done
(I'm Fuzz)
ok thx @quick ice will google that one
52% for IL
I'm sure i've made mistakes. Our fight was a little over 3 mins, other top Parses for rogues are 1-2 Mins. Not sure how much of a factor that is.
I think the opener was him opening with garrote on all the adds?
Yea I have SS so saw other rogues using GG on the ads, then 3rd G and Rup on boss
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/8FqR5y8tH84b2SrKrcCdaw > would you play TB or keep with exg for the flexibility ?
And your 2nd vanish + vend isnt lined up
Yes, not lining 2nd pot with Vend was definitely a mistake
- 2nd pot
that as well
Would have helped
Do you vanish GRG then Vend, or Vend then Vanish GRG?
Where do you see the opener? ON the timeline?
Timeline/Casts
What are the demon hunters doing btw?
Ok, ty. Having the same issues as you and learning a lot here

@strange python ๐ It's rough lol. I checked the timelines/casts for a bunch of rogues and tried to immitate their pulls. (@solid nova) pointed out some interesting mistakes i've made, so I'll work on those ๐
the other got meleed then died from incidental
For AOE, do I garrote x3 then rupture finisher -> FoK -> Envenom
Lol, it's not that bad. I was looking at the wrong rogue at first @sinful lotus
We're a casual guild, and that wasn't a great pull ๐
But just to confirm, to line up Vend + Vanish and Pot. Do you Pot Vend and then Vanish GRG TB? Or Pot Vanish, GRG Vend TB?
@real bay unfortunately that's true ๐
It also matters on what strat your using, most high parses are not spreading the adds on this fight and just tank them on top of the boss and just keep hitting boss. Using all healing cds on the big AoE and kill before next
When you actually kill the boss the opener goes to shit and you get 0 envenom crits
@solar rose Ah i didn't know that. My guild tanks the adds way way on the far side, opposite the boss.
So really impossible to maintain Dots on the adds while hitting the boss
Anyway, need to step away from the keyboard,thank you all for the help/feedback!
I did okay dps on our champions mythic kill, pretty much just opened with 2 emp. garottes on adds and 1 on the boss, then just did my ST rotation on the boss.... finished around 23k? iirc
but my boss tanks adds miles away from boss
is there any reason to tank them far other than the hammers you just avoyd
hi guys, what do you think about the master assasin build if you have DD,TC, and NP on all pieces?
tanking them far just sounds like an annoyance in general
@real bay maybe consecrations on the ground from the adds too
im not entirely sure tbh
i have very bad experience with tanks and tanking in general
and uptime is quite essential on subtlety so it matters even more there
but usually throwing a decent hint helps
just put in more ranged dps and be fine, they usually dont lose sth with bad tanking
yep
i'd like to think that would work in my guild fuu.... but i doubt it.
They seem to have all the tactics sorted already and don't really want to deviate unless necessary (which i understand to a certain extent)
They 100% wouldnt change a tactic so i could do more DPS on champions :p they dont care about dps too much
tell them it's easier to interrupt close adds 
just throw in a decent hint like
"WHO ON EARTH WOULD TANK THAT SHIT SO THAT THE MELEES CANT DO DAMAGE, ARE YOU PURPOSELY CRIPLYING OUR DPS TO NOT KILL THE BOSS?"
(btw i am just joking)
hahahha :p
A tank who tanks with the dps in mind is a thunder buddy for life
yeah that just what those ranged dot classes need to make them competitive this tier ๐
opulence is actually such a cool fight
Is bleed or poison build superior now in m+?
@night vale what role is your RL playing ?
Warlock
aw, funny he doesn't care about dps
we have a boomie as RL, and optimizing dps is fundamental for him
yeah its more that i think he's worried that people will ignore mechanics if they try to max dps, so wants everyone to be setting a good example
yeah, think about the fact you're raiding in mythic, which implicitly involves that people should be able to play mecanics AND do their optimal dps
Optimising dps while working around mechanics = cleaner kill
i mean our rl send me through early on mother even tho i was with that dissadvantage by far the first in dps throught he whole tier
a lot of ppl in rl positions are not good, and there is often not much you can do about it
either they respect your opinion and work with you or you need to find sth better
yeah agreed, and true, problem is when people ignore the mechanics for the fat logs ๐
raidelead that knows that rogue CC has a cd?
that would be my wet dream
i think i need too explain atleast 3x each week that sap is from stealth only on enemys that are not in combat, cheap shot is stealth only, kidney shot needs CP and has a 20sec cd
you forgot blind
fking blind on agramar
BLIND STAR
yeha ok, but i have a 2min cd, you should maybe let somone else do it in case somone fucks up
WHY IS STAR LOSE
(meanwhile the warlock is spamming dots on everything too pad the meters)
ye wcl creates some very fun situations
big brain, use the worst cc possible 
"okay who of the healer has a cd up"
\all healers looking away bc. they all used their big raid cd on the first slight drop together\
ok maybe shockwave or stormbolt was worse
and thats not uncommon
also i liek if rl's go like "oh ye well we have a 30 man raid on a tough fight".... "i guess 3 healers will be suefficient"
๐
atleast our fking warlock got benched after he didnt enter the living bomb circle 10x in a row because he had the trinket where you get a crit boost when no teammates are nearby
WHY IS IT ALWAYS A WARLOCK
or just do it right and stack with everyone cus its mythic and you need too do the mechanics
that or gtfo
i use too many bad words again
i experienced (btw. in a guild) stuff ppl do for logging that is insane, e.g. on opulance we had dh/warriors not putting golden shit outside and rather drop it in melee
yea we had a crap pool in melee too
yeha, atleast my rl is slowly starting too sort those people out
i mean why? both of them can just 2 sec downtime do it
fat exec proc
XD
blockade was also fun
where we had ranged dps stand in melee so they dont lose dps if they need to clear
spawining adds directly on boss
xd
What kind of guild do you even raid with
200 iq strat
there are stupid people in all guilds
ehh Jaina was pretty monkaS, ranged get ice blocked 50 meters away from boss in last phase
big brains
there are always 2-4 people that are in the raidgroup, die or do stuff wrong every single pull but dont get benched for some reason
Tbh i'm normally the biggest dps whore in my guild
Jaina is a nice idiot check
And i would still go mfd for varimathras when playing sub, or do the bridge on imonar
phantom singularity from warlocks?
Oh yea
or orb of frost/blizzard/glacial spike spamming from mages?
cus both happend too us
Arms WB BS rip adds
Luckily, as i said, i'm normally the dps whore of the guild so i yelled anytime a crawg died
''dont attack adds!'' orb of frost flying into the group
i mean those ppl are literally the reason why ppl hate sub
don't kill adds, 2 DHs proceed to eye beam all of them
or when a bm hunter tried too explain that he cant controll his aoe/cleave
we should move to #wow-general btw. we are a bit offtopic
question for m+ i simmed myself with dungeon slice and haste comes out on top by a long way.
However lots of people say to ditch haste for m+ ?
what should i do?
The haste value in dungeon is slice is because it tries to account for bosses
But it is slightly over valued
haste is our best stat for single target right now, but you spend most time in dungeons doing aoe stuff, wich takes value out of haste
Dungeonslice is a good starting point but with experience of the dungeons and your group you should tweak as you go tbh
okay thanks a lot guys ๐
yeah i think moving out of haste on fortified weeks and back in a little on tyrannical is a good play
what are you using crimsom tempest or poison bomb, teseted several times both and poison bomb feels like better so far at least for reaping
I use almost exclusively CT - PB in KR and Temple sometimes
i prefer PB for reaping... only cause they melt in my group.... so CT doesnt have time to work most of the time
Hello guys, this is my first time posting here so I'm not entirely sure if I'm ontopic (if I am please suggest the correct channel).
I simmed my character and it currently sits around 19k dps ST. However yesterday we did stormwall blockade hc with my guild and my dps in that fight (16k) sucks compared to my sim. Can someone help me in order to identify what exactly did I do wrong? I used wowanalyzer which mentioned that both garrote and rupture had 96% uptime yet my top dps skill is melee? I'm really confused and don't know where/what to look. Any help would be really appreciated!
sim dps is like hitting a target dummy for 5 min with buffs, it simulates a patchwerk fight where you don't have to move and do everything perfectly
Yeah, Sims will always assume perfect conditions
patchwork is basically a target dummy fight
but you can write your own fight scripts so
I'm aware about the perfect conditions with sims. However I had better equipped gear compared to the other two rogues and they both did 3k more dps than me so I must be doing something wrong
post your log!
that's probably true then:)
This is our log https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/JpkL8YWgcHBG2fqz I'm Axsxce
looks like you had to stop dps on your boat for a while which hurts a lot
@rose perch Hey, saw your comment about moving to or from certain stats depending on the M+ affixes. Do you have completely different gear sets? or do you re-gem/re-enchants/re-forge all of your gear?
well with EB i'm pretty much always gemmed/enchanted crit
but i had some like crit/haste 385s and crit/mast 385s that i'd swap between
But do you use you EB gear in raids?
Do you feel like your DPS on boss suffers a lot if you go full SS EB for M+?
The reason I stopped dps was because the RL called for everyone to stop so I didn't have any choice regarding this
I normally do top dps on bosses and I have 3xSS 2xEB. @sinful lotus
Yea? I assume your AoE/trash dps must be insane as well?
it's less than if you don't have EB for sure but it's definitely worth
to run the trait
for M+
like you sacrifice boss damage but you can't just do M+ for boss damage M+ is so rarely single target dps checks
Ok, thanks for the info ๐ don't have an alternative gear set for M+ yet, but once I do, I'll hopefully be able to put together an SS EB set ๐
yeah definitely if raid is your priority
then just use your raid gear in M+ and you'll be fine ^.^
Ok cool! Thanks!
but if you're looking for the best possible thing to do in M+ well 1) play outlaw but 2) ya EB is great
I have 2x Sets already (lucky+nerd). 3xDD, crit haste heavy for raid. 3xSS 2xEB crit mastery heavy for m+
lol, i tried outlaw (and most likely because I'm bad at it) the results were embarassing.
@delicate spade another problem here is refreshing/overwriting your shrouded garrotes
Do you pretty much want to stack Brigand and Deadshot for M+?
it happened a few times looks like - make sure you let them fully bleed out
@sinful lotus 1 wits, 3 deadshot, 0-1 blitz, 0-2 TC, 0-2 ace
I see, thank you for your insight
any benefit to rolling orc for racial + on use trink + vendetta?
yeah for m+, sin in raids!
on assass
i think all the races are pretty close for sin, not worth changing it for anything imo
for m+ being a belf is pretty high value
for torrenting stuff like in KR
ah i see, i wondered why i still see belfs since the change. im undead for looks - they are so damn cool
being any race for looks is perfectly valid imo
Alright, i'll check it out, thanks ๐
Is it worth waiting with TB just so I don't waste one CP
Wowanalyzer is telling me not to
ya just fire it off on CD because if you're at 5 CP then you're about to affect an envenom with it so that's good value too
or better yet see that it's coming up soon and don't mutilate at 3cp, just pool for a bit
Yeah that's what I'm trying to do, but sometimes shit doesn't line up
ya with TB whenever things don't line up just press the button it's fine
way more dps lost by missing a cast of it
imho whatever you do just pool some energy before TB comes off CD, that way you can surely envenom at least twice into it, even if you use it at 0 CP
what would you do if you find yourself in a sitation, where TB is coming off CD and ruputure has like 7 seconds left?
refresh rup and delay TB for like a second or two
Dont delay tb
I would refresh rupture
Just refresh rupture
also how much energy you have and CP matters
ya i always just tb there and refresh rupture during
Isn't the goal to always get two envenoms during TB window?
Its better to refresh then let it drop off
ya but the mainer goal is to not miss any TB casts
^
So would it be worht to G and Rup preemptivly before TB comes up just so you acn get both envenoms off?
even if it's not optimal time to refresh
yeah the least bad of all the options is to just press TB on cooldown and refresh bleeds during
what combo u would use dice + dead eye spy glass both 400 item lvl and spyglass has socket or dice 400 item lvl + dread gladiator medal 370 item lvl with socket
@rose perch Love your vids ! They're very helpful โค
@pallid spruce dice+spyglass for sure, @dapper bough โค
nyan cat set?
I have 415 Dice. 400 GCB, Dead-eye and Plumage. For ST with DD and TB they sim almost exactly the same
What should I use? That will give me most value in real gameplay, not a sim?
Plumage works well in m+ and lines up with Vendetta
Thanks Eleem!
does it matter which weapon enchant is mainhand/oh? lol
usually you want your best stat MH and your second best OH
it doesnt matter
it matters actually
just use 2 different enchants
it's definitely very minor
wtb 400 weps
spam m+
spammed shrine a day straight aswell :p
Any recommendations on weak auras to get feedback on maintaining bleeds?
I wanna see if plater can make it very obvious if a npc has my bleed on it or not, but other than that I just use one that tracks if my current target has them
im using tidy plates and stacking, ez
Is there any feedback for the empowered bleeds?
nah
!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)
I saw earlier that Mizerok's WA got the feedback on empowered Garrote @zinc orchid
are u talking empowered as in stealth or as in EP?
when its applied in the first 3 seconds of stealth through Subterfuge
Mizerok's one will do the job then
sorry new to rogue ๐ I might be looking for the wrong information
np dude
@sinful lotus You're right about the 6 stacks. I just can't figure out if it's better to save my burst for the trinket, or use it on pull.
is SS fixed yet btw? havent played for 4 month x)
Yes
October 3rd 2018 is was fixed ๐
You can apply 3 emp garrotes
ye and the 4th doesnt remove emp anymore?
nah as Richard said it was fixed a long time ago
ok thanks
You can apply 4 stacks of garrote on the same target?
no lol
ok I was confused there lol
No, you can only get 3 gcds in your subt window
right they dont stack
yep, you're coming on a 4-npc pack, one emp garrote each, then one not emp on the last add
@faint vault ah ok cool ๐
is dead eye spyglass even good? it seems to never proc
@eager kernel can you help me with sin questions?
I only played it when 3x ss was op pre nerf
I had the same experience with spyglass tbh, I didn't use it much though
depends on ur statsweigths
there isnt really a bis list anymore these days since all the titanforging etc.
but generally haste will always be the stat ur mainly lookin for
Kinda
yeah
is mastery/crit still better in m+?
well I know all the titanforging and stuff but arent there still pieces with bis stats, so for example some wrists from some dungeon, so I farm that till they drop titanforged?
or do I just spam random dungeons?
some dungeons will always be better to farm then others
if you want to do M+ you need to raid and do M+ and wq boxes.
40% crit is a great number
gl
but u would have to be lucky to get that key on join someone who has that key over and over again
Freehold is a good pick
@eager kernel which dungeon?
like which trinkets are best rn anyways, forget what the website was called where you look it up
At the moment its best to look at your weakest item and see which dungeon drops the best upgrade according to your statweights
Herodamage or bloodmallet for trinket sims and azerite
and freehold is a good pick like erttu said
+its one of the better/funnier ones to imo aswell
!sims
BfA Simulations:
Herodamage: https://www.herodamage.com/rogue/
Bloodmallet: https://bloodmallet.com/index.html
Rupture, Garrote, Toxic Blade, and Vendetta all have 2s remaining. I'm at 5cpt and 40 energy. My gut is that I should get the buffed envenom, letting the rupture/garrote fall off for a second or two.
I imagine the math is pretty simple. I just need to so the break even between the extra envenom damage vs X seconds of bleed
is there a guide out there that covers the rotation in more detail, i.e in m+ with certain traits when to use FoK etc.
!guide
Assassination Guide: http://www.ravenholdt.net/assassination-guide/
yeah ive seen that one, but i was looking more for specifics, like how many targets to FoK @ with EB trait
3+ I guess
see i've heard people say 2+ so was just wondering if it was covered anywhere, no worries ๐
the guide says :
Fan of Knives, if there are 3 or more targets and you want to refresh or apply poisons to targets that are not poisoned
Fan of Knives, if there are 4 or more targets
yeah but that changes with the EB trait id imagine
With eb traits it changes. I cant remember if you fok on 2 targets with only one trait or it takes more though
mmh indeed
Thatโs probably only worth it with a certain amount of crit too
depends on a variety of stats
generally, fok on 2+ with EB. fok is more damage/energy, while mutilate generates more cp/energy, so depending on what youre going for use the respective ability
i.e. if youll have to refresh bleeds soon, it might be better to use a few mutilates to generate the required CP quickly, and then go back to fok
Should definitely ping something related to this kind of questions
Danke, Mr cat man
ty for insights
Thanks a lot ๐
indeed
say youre running a TTK or two, that means the value of generating CP over raw damage from your builders becomes more important again
makes sense, so mut is better in your case
anw we have the big picture of it
ye
someone smarter than me could probably develop a model and create a graph that compares mut and fok on 2 targets and calculates a crit-threshold
pretty much, ye
its entirely feelycraft
I never pull small 
depends on the key lvl I guess but yeh
the only thing i can say with confidence, is that if youre running at least 1 EB, no matter whether you still muti or fok, the difference is gonna be very very minor
right so if you have at least 1 EB... then 100% you should be FoK'in on 3+ and maybe on 2+ depending on gear
Read the guide, still iffy on comboing Vanish with Vendetta. I run Sub w/ no SS.
Based on the opener, Vanish comes up halfway through my second Vendetta. Should I immediately Vanish+Garrote, regardless of pandemic timer?
pretty much snimo
Your vendetta should come off cd ~20s before vanish @copper kestrel
So you hold vendetta for when vanish comes off cd for the second set, after that they line up
You Line up your cd at 2m20sec then 4m20 etc
Believe you'd vanish garrote to Max pandemic then vendetta
makes sense
Since garrote will be 24s long and vendetta lasts 20, get Max time inside it
Final question :)
If TB comes up <10s before Vendetta. Should I still use it on CD (so I won't have it during the Mut+Envenom spam). Or is it worth holding at that point?
the real question is, why dont you already have 3eb?? ๐
Probably depends just how long you're holding and how long the fight is blaq. Holding tb for 10s twice is basically a lost cast over a long enough fight
dont believe its worth holding TB for that long, in my experience TB lines up pretty well with Vendetta
Do you always go for the traits that sim the highest or is it different with Shrouded Suffocation (cause on warcraftlogs there are literally 95% running at least 1 SS trait )?
we use what we have, second week ๐คท
dont think everyone has every azerite they want yet
When you guys say use it on CD are you guys using it the second it gets up or are you pooling a bit before to make sure you get 2-3 envenoms
On CD. Do any pooling before
To illustrate it a bit, if you hold tb for just 5s Everytime it's up you'll lose a cast in a fight that's only ~3 mins long or so
Yea I have a bad habit of tb is coming up but my bleeds are about to fall off so then I end up pooling while tb is usable. Should i still use it on CD then?
Got it. So best to think of it in lost cast terms. 10s was the extreme. I'd expect it to look more like ~5 (if it all). Which should never be a lost cast with <10min fights
imo its a good habit to keep your energy kinda pooled always to a certain point unless you know you will have to move and cap before getting back on boss, just makes TB windows easier to manage
I mean, you only need to pool when TB is coming off cd, but i agree, always good habbit
5s would be lost cast over a fighter over 3 mins or so, don't know exact number. That's only if you're doing it every time of course. If you're just doin it on a fringe case with vendetta it's probably fine but more often than not tb will just come off CD inside vendetta
Shyach, the play is to just make sure that doesn't happen. You can't let bleeds fall off so keep them up
Yea doesn't happen too often for me but kind of sucks when you see like 5 seconds left on your rupture and tb is up lol
Yeah, just try and pay attention if your rupture is ever similar time left as your tb CD. If so just make sure you have energy and cp ready to pandemic rup asap so you can make use of tb
I suck at it, sounds nice though
So I am trying to get better at this game and have been trying to figure out macros. Do people not give up their macros generally? Are they basically like trade secrets?
im psure the guides have "common macros" in them
no secrets, there are just not a lot of macros required
I think the only macro i have is trinket + vendetta for when im using a 2 min cd trinket
(which isnt often)
Yeah def no secret macros 
Doesnt Sub still need a Shadow Dance macro to avoid backstabbing the first global?
Yeah I've looked at guides. I'm just confused on why some don't work I guess... I've nevr tried to make macros before
yes sub uses some macros
I have one that is either tb or exsang depending on talent choice and one that is kidney or cheapshot depending on stealth state but those aren't game changing
my old guide is still up and should have them
n->select outlaw is my favorite cast sequence tbh
I've still noticed I backstab if spamming it too quickly though
outlul
@frigid notch what do you mean they dont work?
@wary ice I figured I'd be able to cast like garrote and mutiliate together but like i said im new to this lol
nah
Macros dont break the game lol
Macros were bigger in the past when most of your damage buffs were off the Global Cooldown
Now that most damage buffs are on it, we cant stack DPS buffs instantly as much anymore
Hence "not a lot of them are needed"
/cast vendetta```
thats a useful one
Probably spelt wrong
but it uses your major cooldown with item slot 13
(ie trinkets)
Useful for when you have something like the feather from atal
that gives stats on a 2 min cd
Most other macros are like things for quality of life
like you can make it so shift+[kick bind] will kick a focus target so you dont have to swap your DPS target
which is super nice in Keys
I'm sure there are youtube tutorials on BFA macros that can explain it better
Is it worth getting triple SS instead of 1 or 2 SS with 1 DD and TTK
That would be pretty brolic in a fight where you can reliably keep two garrotes up or in mythic+, but if it's pure st having more DD/TTK will likely pull more
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how are you guys handling reaping? lots of EB ? I'm tempted to go outlaw literally just for reaping....
there's a good clip from musclebrah where he blasted reaping
but yeah mostly eb
enough ruptures/garrotes so u dont go ooe and u blast with eb
OL shreds reaping. Had a 5 proc for a reaping pack last night and peaked at 160k dps. But yes, if sin, 3x eb is extremely valuable for reaping
If you're rocking an opal gem do you have to tab target or will FoK trigger it?
Fok'll do it
it wil ltrigger
thanks fam
Is the reason for doing garrote garrote for the opener in ss rather than garrote rupture garrote because it will give you one more env in the vendetta window and line up with when garrote is falling off? Is that superior in terms of smooth play alone or both that and dps?
you should do garrote rupture garrote
I guess the main question would be if an extra 2s of empowered garrote + the 1 tick of rupture you'd get is not worth the boost on 1 env from vendetta
3x garrote is only for aoe
g>g>r>g is a nice way to waste subterfuge and SS ๐
since the last garrote is outside subterfuge window
๐
That's not what I was saying though
single target you do : g > r > g and for AoE : g > g > g
for subterfuge with SS ofc
for AoE, those garrotes are on different targets ๐
That's what I currently do. Guess I'll keep doing it
yeah, whoever told you to do g > g > r > g is wrong ๐
I think he was just asking if it may be better
^
oh ok, my bad
Nw
Best thing to do if youre looking to optimize is: run your sim, review the apl, do thst
That*
Yeah def, still have to learn how to run a specific opener in a sim
Nah. If you sim it. The big brain rogues have already done the legwork for you. Just look at the opener in the apl (html report)
Ohh I see. Sweet thanks
No prob
Is it quick navigation main hand and deadly navigation off hand? Thanks in advance ๐
Doesnt matter which hand it's on
@odd hatch yeah, g g r g is outside of subterfuge and wrecks your ss
I still don't do that lol
I love patchwerk fights
tbh i think popping that GCB earlier for a few faster garrote ticks before exsg could prove slightly more valuable
but you would lose exsang value of garrotes if they were "ticked faster" via gcb before exsang application
Would gcb speed stack with exsang if garrote didn't fall off during ex's duration?
Haven't used either of them so legit don't know
Not sure what you mean. Haste causes dots to tick for more. If you GCB>exsang the bleeds snapshot your haste when you hit exsang meaning GCB bonus lasts the entire bleed duration
So I keep seeing people simming here with like 17-18k dps at ilvl 385+
But I had a pug rogue in my raid group last night who was 383 and pulled almost 21k consistently on Rasta
dafuq
Was he upstairs? Lots of cleave
Rasta has multiple targets
Ye, but he was 20k when we had Rasta solo (away from Bon) before P3
Zombie totems die in like 3 seconds
ah fosho
Also, the opeer has 3 targets
right right
And on top of all that, sin is not an ilvl spec because of how low agi value is. Its all about traits, mh weap, trinkets, n sockets
So a lower ilvl as sin is not as detrimental as it is for many other classes n specs
Oh? I was not aware of this
im 401 and sim lower then some people here with 396 cus my stats are all over the place right now
What i mean by that is basically a lower ilvl piece with the right traits is gonna be better than a higher ilvl piece with bad traits; same applies for stats
Yee
That is irritating
Unlike frost dk, for example, where str is very important and all their secondaries are close in value. A fdk will pretty much always use the highest ilvl pieces available to them (with a few exceptions)
Yea. And (i dont have access now) but im 396 simming a bit above 21k
i work with the items i get, so w/e
Exactly. We optimize when we can
16%haste 23%crit but 34%mastery and 5%vers ftw
397 simming 18.6 feelsbadmen
dont have new azerite stuff?
Do
The right pieces will come, my homies
Oh shit I lied. 390 ilvl**
big difference between SS/Subt. and the suggested DD/NP/MA setup in an realistic raid scenario?
on like 10 targets, with 2EB and CT talented. Do we CT as soon as we reach 5cp ? (given that we already have the optimal amount of bleeds up to sustain FoK spam)
i know at 3 EB with CT, you only refresh CT and not spam it, not sure with 2 EB. I'm sure you can just do the math tho. Look at initial hit of CT dmg, compare that to 1 cast of FOK (add some value for EB procs)
+pb reks for reaping packs ๐
With subterfuge and ss, is it always better to hold onto your second vendetta for vanish to come up, since the second vanish is usually about 15-20 seconds behind the second vendetta?
Yes
Line em back up for the 2nd vend/van and they stay lined up for the rest of the fight
Yeah makes sense. ty
@hollow stone I mean really. lol I read about 0.5% of this channel and go on a 15min bender about one comment taken out of context. and people gonna at me
Im over on twitter arguing about wizards not shitting their pants.
droptimizer put priority #1 on a .4% upgrade lol
but that's apparently the biggest non-azerite upgrade I have in heroic BOD
wow droptimizer's really cool didn't see it before
Subterfuge toxic blade - is it best to hold 2nd vendetta for when vanish is off CD
@bleak spoke yeah, its about a week old. But it really helped me decide where to coin tbh.
damn i need premium for that azerite thing
even though i think i have a pretty good idea of what pieces i want anyway
nothing is more than a 1% upgrade :x
wait why am i wearing my echoing pieces
oh FFS
@bleak spoke I got the premium, been seeing champions, jadefire and mekk for the pieces typically. Not sure if covenant being overly valued by raidbots tho need to do some more research
Thanks, Iโll take a look
for all intents and purposes other than very specific fights i'd say you have basically 95% uptime anyway
maybe not on mekka or jaina
Right makes sense
crimson tempest the way to go for +10s now?
crimson tempest is always the way to go change my mind
single target
Why does First Mates Spyglass rank so high for Assassination trinkets?
crit, 2 min cd ๐คท
wq trinkets are op
Im still hoping i get a berserker juju at 400 socket.
keep hoping xd
you can /use/use it with GCB
I have a 345 maybe that was = = fathoms after i adjusted the APL to use it with GCB
wtf
GCB is a ground buff, and juju is a haste buff. for some reason you could double mash with a macro
both 1min
the fastest
i took a screenshot at 104% haste
wtf
was lust + gcb + juju
what was that exsang snapshot dps lol
thats like literally having 2 sets of extra bleeds in your vendetta window
so big picture here, the haste is just E return not more SS dps.
oh?
mastery buffs bleeds.
haste increases tick rates a bit.
but haste is a monster for Static E. and Tick rate E.
some. but it didnt scale like I wanted.
is it even worth it for the energy then
I think it was 0.4sec ticks.
in exsang?
i find that i'm capping energy with galecallers and lust tho
even though it does feel really really nice to use
but tldr get a 400 juju, and we can make it work.
ive since swapped to a MA build that i like a lot more but definitely feeling it on energy
what boss are you using galecallers?
all.
galecallers is like trechorus , its only good on sim
yes.
but i dont have a better trinket
no it's not
in a perfect world, its good
galecaller's is amazing
at least in dungeons for me
running 2 nothing personals monkey?
you need to have a 95% active rate on it
for it to be good
im running 3 sadly
3DD, 3NP
says you got a treacherous covenant
thats just what topgear
ah
that trech is a NP
guess your only option is a SOB instead
yeah i swapped to 2 dd/1 eb instead and went MA
Im enjoying playing master assasin
Ill stick to 2ss subterfuge.
33DD, 3NP im bursting for 70k without lust
im much more consistent in my parses now
in an ideal world with MA you'd get like 3 DD 1 NP and 2 TC right?
yeah
3s50% ma is so limp compared to shoulders.
TC sucks
big meh from me.
not be fooled by a sim sitting infront of a dummy taking 0 dmg and never having to move
yeah. 100% 5 -6 sec.
wtf that's big dam
its either run a TC or run a 2nd NP for me
@junior aurora do you raid mythic?
MONGO dps
no
do you do high keys?
Bleed counter addon anyone?
like 19s +?
no
then TC is fine for you
@autumn stag wa?
I should announce that im strictly speaking on Mythic Raid / High Keys
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yeah TC is really good imo for most players then
if you can prevent taking damage regularly
do you switch between SS/Subt and ST-traits/MA on per fight basis in BFD or just going one route for everything?
how do you handle it with master assassin when vendeta and vanish is up but toxicblade is on a ~10sec cd?
wait for tb or use?
like Normal / Heroic BoD (raid) you never take extreme amount of dmg. mind you theres alot of AoE dmg, but you can feint it off
@royal lantern ur TB should ALWAYS LINE UP with ur vanish
if it doesn,t you're using it wrong
first time this expac im playing with master assassin lol
@shy axle i dont think theres a fight that SS is good on in BFD
unless you are using ss for raw st
even then youd probably get more raw st from double dose
pretty sure my last ss was 0.3% loss from DD
and 0.3 can be made up for in 1 single mechanic run.
yeah read different things, first that you are "fine" to use DD/NP/MA for all, but ravenholdt says it "might" be a goto for 2/3rd Boss. But tbh i did not raid much because of work and uni so i can`t speak from experience at least yet
Oh i have to run out?
you cant play DD wrong unless you miss mutilate casts
If you run out and delay TB by 4 sec. taadaaa
Haha. You know i love you @lone junco
i know you know i know
i could see SS being decent on 2nd boss
i cheesed my way to an orange opulence parse but thats the first time ive gotten orange this xpac
I didnt enjoy uldir that much.
weird fights are weird.
all the fights ive done this raid have been good tho minus grong
Ilvl gronk parse is my validation ๐
grongs just boring
I love patchwerk
i think opulence has been my favorite so far, but we're only 6/9 so far
my guild makes me play lock for progress feelsbadman
we got to heroic monk/wizard sky game. and it was too late to even grasp the concept
Stupid fucking sky portal shit.
I got new weps. so im going to dumpster last weeks.
I went up 2k dps from a 390 socket wep and 390 WQ offhand.
got a 400 wep but its for outlaw 
honestly gonna be sad if gronk winds up being just short of 2:30
will murder my vanish round.
mine looks so different
for the same fight lol
17% melee misses time to go farm some +hit gear
the 300k opulance peak i saw last week looked pretty nice.
300k lmao
opal stack delayed vanish.
feels sooooo good
i think i did 30k overall opulence for the orange parse
mekka hc farm run
i got the first 2bombs, first 2 shrunks
and 2xs on vanish only 2 cp with mulitate
#1logs inc
it could have been 100% for 3 sec. or 50% for 5 sec
i had to run red gem last week but i made the monk take it this week bc he didnt have to heal
they should make a dh take red gem imo they spam so much
we dont have a dh
like autos and dot ticks don't actually stack it
dh/outlaw/fury are the best for it imo
sticky enough too not drop stacks and spammy
imagine if they never nerfed sub
and sub could have doubled down on eviscerate combos...i was getting 100k envenom crits i can't even imagine what those eviscerate crits would look like
i still think sub might be worth trying
sub is the worst rogue spec on it according to wlogs stats
outlaw is by far the best
for M+?
was that Zuul sub?
ya
I tried that on heroic and couldnt get the 2xfury to stop gibbing the craigs.
fuckers
My sub tornado got exactly 1 6cp combo
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Mythic Gronk
Good to see Loktark on there.
there is only 1 sin rogue there running ma /3dd. no ss
the top sin rogue tho
3 NPs
quite a few people still having 1ss
mythic opal though. Holy shit.
the sin version.
thats just 1 ss
ah ok
but I guess once you have 40% opal, you could smash some trash if the DH didnt.
How do you make a use trinket macro that doesnt spam "item not ready yet" in error speech when the trinket is on cd?
I think i turn of error speech all together.
yes just disable it
Does MP buff DD damage?
Welp
Now to get a DD and try, also if mastery buffs
tbf, i think there is a outlaw nerf incomming
its good, but only dh and warlock are allowed too be good most of the time
but yeha, it feels slightly overtuned right now
guess I should look for some spare DS and give it a go
DS is that pistole shot trait?
yea
triple NP O_o
the problem is, outlaws traits are too strong when you can stack them multipe times
3x deadshot is insane burst
3x between the eyes into a 3x deadshot proc oof
does it matter which enchant you have in mainhand / offhand?
there's a veeery slight benefit to having your better stat on the mh
ok cool. my old main hand had quick nav with socket so so I will just simply keep enchants and put it in offhand
yeah that's absolutely fine!
@royal lantern yeah, but if you nerf outlaw, it has nothing left. Maybe it`ll stay like DH
Hate that there are nomore any big chances to classes before every new raid. Last was ToS if i remember correctly, since then just "ah this 3%, that 2% and cvall it a day"
if they nerf it they need to do the same for some other classes..
dh should be nerfed
well, yeah, but if they were going to fix DH they would have done it by now
yep, but they cant nerf the only dps spec the class has 
if any melee need nerfing it's sin and outlaw imo
well, thats true, as assassin i out dps high DHs by 20+% on 14+ keys
just dont tell anyone
Too bad blizz balances around raiding
@rose perch shh
Dh will live forever
The good demon hunters keep up with sin
they cant really balance around 5man where there is a crap load of mobs sometimes
They dont keep up with outlaw
sin just works very well in a dungeon setting
unless they do some magic that changes how your class works in instances/raids separately
how about sub?
Sub needs an aura buff
ya, i mean outlaw is better on reaping, by a bit but assn is better small pack and boss dmg
is there a new opener for SS with subterfuge and toxic blade?
They should give the phys dmg buff to outlaw so we can finally be done with the joke that is ww monk
is there any discord addon i can find that automatically reacts
to everything dad says?
yea i think WW monk is stupid
This sin beats outlaw on boss dmg in keys meme needs to stop

