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still goin for 80k+ dps on reaping so im fine š
but for fort weeks ill guess ill switch one ss for one more eb
especially with teeming
I wish I could pull 30k. Only like 404 equipped though and I dont run high enough keys either. Been going back and forth from 3x EB, 2x ttk, 1x ss and 2x eb, ss, ttk.
im also only 404 equipped
Oh jeez. I'm clearly doing something wrong then :)
maybe
30k on waht
I do 22 to 25k overall
its okay, depending on dungeon
30k on ML or FH, which have a lot of trash
25-28k on such dungeons like Temple or KR
What traits are you running?
It depends on your tank pulling too, and group comp, and a number of other factors such as what youre doing for the group. Id say 30k+ is good for end of dungeon on meter dps
i think you should really go for 3 ss, other ones are kinda whatever as long as you have 1 eb coz why not, also in ml and fh you should play CT i reckon
Ct is poop. And a trap
did some 15-17s with outlaw and he did overall maybe 1k more, pretty much only beat me on reapings, bosses were quite equal, he did beat on some
Get more eb and dont run cr
Ct
With 2eb im pulling over 100k on reap using the dayvanie strat and just dumping fok after fok
ct is good, idk what youre smoking, for reaping it blasts and on freehold at least you get easy packs that can double pull
You do you. But trust. Ct is weak
idk if 35k overall in freehold 17 is weak for you
Nah, thats good. Clearly its working for you
On reaping packs are you putting up two rupture then just fok and envenom spamm
the trap with ct is that you spend too many cp on it insted of keeping your 6-7 ruptures so youre low on energy and then u slowly become useless
Nah, just rupture sniping on reap and then just foking
With some env cause i have 2ttk too
i think you just use envenom to keep the buff up probably
Like you fok past max combo points?
Yea
to spam fok every gcd you need at least 4-5 ruptures rolling
Depending on the reap size, fok w eb will do more dmg than ct or anything else
You dont for reap if you rupt snipe
I have been doing it all wrong cause I was fok to 4 or 5 CP then spending it on envenoms
Just depends on how many eb, ttk traits, prio targets, and total targets you have
On high enemy count u just rupture 4 targets then fƶl the hell out for pure aoe
As enemy count shrinks u use finishers again
Huh ok. I normally run 2 or 3 eb traits so certainly be. Doing it wrong. So just open with 3x ss spread around and then another 3 or 4 ruptures spread around. Then just into fok?
Until back down to like 2 targets?
You dont put up 4 ruptures when you have 3 garrotes rolling
You need a total of 4 bleeds to be energy neutral (assuming you dont have literally 0 haste)
So while the first 3 garrotes are up, you dont need 4 ruptures ontop of that
Next week is teeming fort, people still not running CT?
Imo its never worth to run CT anymore
EB killed CT
If you want that kind of "pad damage" you might aswell play outlaw
Its not pad per se, but it looks good on the meters but doesnt make your run that much faster
If the entire dungeon is about big amounts of trash, its not really padding
you are literally without a talent on boss with CT
Is the master assassin build the one to go for with the double dose/nothing personal traits?
Like, does killing the small reaping souls 2 seconds faster actually make the run faster if you have to spend an additional 6 seconds killing the one with the smashes?
Killing the souls faster gets you more dps, but doesnt necessarily speed up the run
... who said anything about reaping, its teeming fort
?
Regurgitating the same moot point about āmight aswell run outlawā everytime someone says something about aoe is pretty dumb
its not really dumb, if you wanna run CT because you need aoe dmg then yeah outlaw will do it better
If you want to sacrifice a lot of low target count damage for better high target count damage, which is exactly what you'd do if you'd spec outlaw
instead of assa
Its not like assa does 0 aoe without ct :p
A single fok still does more damage than a ct cast
with eb traits
But sure, if you want to use CT go ahead
I'm currently at a spot in where with my two sockets, i have one mastery and one haste gem
that is how close they are for me
Next week might actually be one to play ct on in dungeons with a lot of casters because mobs might be hard to group up for the pbomb
Nah. Next week is play outlaw week lol
Well yeah but lol
Iām still not tryna play outlaw in kr or temple but honestly Iām really really not tryna play ct in those dungeons either
With bosses dying in some 1:30 lookin timer on 15s
Yeaaa
So in a way the affixes donāt really affect any decisions
Except now I have a sub set I might play that next bolsto
Ew. But also yay. Somebody's gotta bring it back
Yeah I havenāt played it at all this season
Just been alternating outlaw and assa every dungeon to see which ones I get more out of cycling AR vs being locked to vendetta
Thatās the main thing for me itās not aoe quality or st burst itās whether cooldowns line really
If they donāt then I play outlaw
Ive played sin all week to help prio shit down to avoid huge stacks since my other dps are mongos. And we have boomie prot warr dh for reap :p
Yeah I think I want a macro to take flurry off next time this week comes around
Too much of me shouting I CANT STOP with grand melee rolled in aoe lmao
How much % of your overall damage do you guys normally do to raptor's on conclave?
Nothing
Nice, I like that
Hi,guys.
Does anyone have a weakauras for a rogue in 7.3.5 or even in the legion
Or throw a link please
I stay on boss and let the mongo dps insta rape the raptors
That's the kind of validation I need
congratz, you are now a top tier prot warrior
In mythic i maybe use 1 kidney if a raptor targets a worthy guy
idk, thunderclap and top dps
And the raptor runs near boss
I had a tank shit talk me cause my raptor damage was low but was leading overall dps so I needed validation from other rogues
Thx
If you donāt want to lose anything spec internal bleeding
If raptor dmg is a problem spec outlaw, as assa you could single env them and thats it
And the kidney pays for itself in terms of dmg per combo point and energy regen
Itās actually higher base dam than envenom
If raptor damage was a problem we should have kicked the 3k dps shadow priest
Pugs are a struggle
The struggles of a casual guild I hate raiding
Well I hate raiding with casuals I mean lul
If youāre topping damage in a pug with someone doing 3k you probably deserve a better group
Thanks lol
Donāt make yourself angry and waste your time for no good reason haha
The struggles of raiding with friends who insist on bringing shit guildmates
Yikes
I think even in full m0 gear youād have to be outstandingly bad to not maintain like 12-15k on any class right now
Dead dps deal no damage
Youād have to be outstandingly bad to die before paku wrath
As rdps
Like
How does that even happen
Iām actually confused
Yikesssssss
As a dh?
it has got to be a timing issue with meta or something
Jesus
No way
You can blade dance on cd
And do more than that
Actually
Afk auto and just spam blade dance
Last hc run, one lock needed to go afk and was just placed there, pet hit the boss that guy did 1% logs with only pet dmg
Who knows what goes through peopleās heads when theyāre playing haha
Anyone had any weird issues with jade fire?
We had the rings of hostility show up but we didn't teleport
Yea, monk always disapears when i pop Vendetta
or wait, what did you mean?
š
Hahaha
So we were just right on the orbs
Is it hp based?
oy
My world questing alts are 390 so idk
any advices on galecallers usage?
On cd
Use it when you gotta run, so you run faster.
Line with every vendetta
ty @strange python
np friend ā¤
@storm pilot hes trolling.
Loool
use it when you can stand still in the circle. or you get no buff.
?
there is a circle on the ground. Be in it, or you get no haste.
on cd is fine. lining it up with vendetta is fine. but dont use it prior to movement. thats stupid.
And yes @storm pilot , i wasnt being serious. Dont do as i said, do what @lone junco and @bleak spoke said ā¤
I knew ur trolling so im a bit confused right now. Just thanks to all of u š U are nice guys ^^
On some fights you can use it to kite too
I love that thing on opulence right side
Cuz if you drop it in md of the golem you move so fast
Using GCB to avoid the flames oO
Yeh just donāt do it before room transition
Iāve been memed pretty hard
A bit of good news, my guild isnāt going to make me take ruby anymore cuz I linked a clip of ashine addressing guild masters who make rogues take ruby xd
Never had a problem taking the ruby gem myself. So good for you i guess D:
Ahh you can reasonably pool long enough for the buff to just fall off is the issue
Cuz 2.5 seconds
Especially playing TB
link the clip, wanna see it š
I want to take opal :/
Well, if im carrying Ruby im sacrificing my own DPS for the better of the raids DPS. Thus i dont pool that hard š
I mean I literally donāt have the haste to upkeep the buff
Ruby rogues unite
I mean hes not wrong
But he is also not right
Rogues are decent for ruby because they're durable and dont die
Hes not wrong, im not saying that. But it can work, and i dont have a problem with making it work
just because he is correct doesnāt mean heās right?
Moreso than them being the most optimal applier
Yeh to be fair Iām one of the idiots who never actually falls over until the very end of a wipe
Bm hunter are best ruby
I just donāt want to drop the buff or something and be upset
Does their pet stack it?
We have such a strong kit to be the last ones standing on a fight, makes us worth habing Ruby on even if its subpar
Rather not wipe the raid on otherwise what is a kill
If they still make me take ruby Iāll play outlaw and just afk sinister I guess
BM hunters tho lul
Don't know but they can use a skill 100% every 1,x secs
Our issue is people not making it through he rooms without splattering anyway
And when they get swapped they tard out
p1 is the hard part of the fight anyway
yea for sure
you will need like 4-5 p2 pulls too get the kill
second time p2 we killed it
To be fair I was honestly resigned to take the ruby cuz Iāll be top damage regardless
Like even with the two pulls we made it to the actual boss with the ruby itās like 5 fucking people total actually know how to play their fkn class zzz
nobody cares about your dps/dps logs on opulence
You dont have to pat yourself on the back all the time :/
thats 1thing people should learn ;P
Yeah I donāt care either my ilevel parsed are gigadepleted lol
On hc you all go right and only kill 1 golem, then you get good logs
well, you spend more time on p2 then
I have a 99 anyway xD
wich means more opal stacks
That sounds cheesy and fun
It is
all 100 logs are cheesy as hell
Do you even take opal in that case
100 logs on fury warrior in legion?
do it with a guild
everyone except the warrior stops dps when you reach 30%
enjoy your fury 100 log
With 1 golem you get more add spawns, opal is king
lads
scent of blood or unstable cata for grong?
ik it's minor but haven't put in traits yet
Or do you go emerald and donāt move
Sim yo self!
i would go cata
doesnt help because catalyst always sims high
ye
fuck it
no real movement in the fight
so cata can't be bad
Id take scent
just to go against the majority
St it's a 300 dps difference
lmao
HUGE agility during add phase, tripple rup rolling
big big numbers
Yeah just leave grong with full cp
The adds will spawn immediately as you refresh the rupture
It would line up with vendetta/Plumage as well if you're running that trinket
you're a cruel man krem
But instead of leaving for them just mutilate the boss twice
Haha, am i making you doubt the unstable choice?
š
lmao
get but it's minimal
So you can open again with rupture vanish 3 g rupture
so idgaf
my guilds dogshit anyway
not like logs are achieveable
If its a minor differemce. id always go with the passive gain.
well
i dno if it's minimal
how do you sim a boss like grong
Get toss on you as Unstable spawns, and its wasted.
for example
Idk my guild strugglebusses on everything but my progress logs are still purple/purple side of orange
And they make me stay on the range add cuz our rdps canāt kick xd
lul
If you arent unlucky, Unstable is probably the way to go. But if you wanna guarantee you get worth from the trait you go scent
Your call if you wanna play the lottery or not š
unstable puke 
Itās the only 415 chest I have and beggars canāt be choosers
Thatās actually not true but I play grong chest for outlaw m+
The adds spawn every 2 minutes and die after 30s at most
Or if your guild is throwing then you get a full second TB before theyāre both dead
This is actually an interesting question of whether scent is viable on that fight
If you're doing the tactic where you leave 1 add up, youd get 2 full rup on that add before it dies
thats 48s of 156agi
Best case scenario you get back to boss as your garrote falls off if you kill one add and return
415 is 179 agi
Like what I would do if my guild didnāt make me play both adds unlike every other melee would be to overwrite 4s of empowered garrote from the opener with a non empowered one
Even better! š
Like do garrote rupture muti and leave
And then rupture vanish g g g rupture
And then you have Tb come off right there
does it depend on traits if i should be running master assasin or subterfuge?
yes
And bleeds rolling on all three
Yes if you have shrouded at all run subt if not ma probably sims better
so one shrouded is already enough for subterfuge? i have 2x DD 2x shrouded 1x NP
without subt, the difference between MA and Sub is <100dps for me
was jsut checking logs for blockade and ppl seem to paly both
Blockade is ST fight, so go with your best ST setup
Yeh on blockade I put the shrouded away usually
When mythic happens Iāll play exsang for that cuz I already know my rdps wonāt kill the adds
And Iāll have to vanish for them
And pretend Iām in m+
Yeah, there's a reason the big guilds run like 3 melee for that fight
Same.
3 melee on blockade?
We have 21-22 players and 5 are melee. A few of us are working on ranged alts and stuff
We're 3/9 as well
Yeah I have a warlock I mained last tier and maintain weekly but
I love the rogue and I feel tepid about the lock
Like when I show up on the lock I still gun on the meters but itās not like the rogue where I give everything haha
I'll be ruby-bitchin'it up on Opulence tonight, gunning for 4/9. But the fight is so long, if we can't progress on the gauntlet and see P2, I'm a little concerned. And we only have 3/20 players who can solo the golden shower
2 BoPs available
We have 2 bops. Weāve made it through gauntlet twice
Our players donāt seem to understand the swaps after 7 hours of pulls
What immunities are we going to use to mitigate Coin Shower? Battle Rez.
We pulled once for a dry run on wednesday and then we had someone disconnect and hte game forced an update that was taking forever so we had to swap to heroic
bop
And the way they place gold in heroic makes me think they literally never have run Kings rest before
Kings Rest is hard. Dead Key. GG
you can soak the first one or two
I love Kings itās big assa dungeon
The skill expression on the last boss is kinda nuts
When I see someone like seli run Kingās I know I have such a long way to go and thatās a good feeling imo
lies
lies
ive always been on top and always will.
Coin Shower on Mythic does 3.2million damage, is there an external setup to actually soak it as a raid? Seems like too much
considering you want rotations to cover greed's wail
soaking the first is fine
soaking the 2nd is fine too but if you cant handle it just do first
So like 100k in darkness
And like 50k after feint for us
Thatās like two stacks of resounding
feint is a dps loss
Nah thereās multiplicative scaling on dam reduction
And traits and shit and other things
why feint when you can blame healers?
Loool
Stack Vers and soak em alone
Plumage to soak :^)
Just curious, who here acctually likes blightbourne infusion as a trait
Everyone
What is there to "like" about it? o _O
l o l
But itās got lots of uptime
Idk its a 80 dps upgrade for me over a 2nd NP, but litterally the trait
is just pure puke proc
Right so what is there to "like" about it, it either performs well or doesn't.
what is so hard to understand about the question, it sims well but the proc feels shit when playing the game
what is there to not like about it vs another nothing personal
Feels like the 4cp mutilates happen a lot with it but thatās obviously feelgcraft
how does another nothing personal feel better
consistentsy vs a proc that c an proc when you are not doing anything
or it can proc but how good is that proc if its 80 dps over smth thats consistent
is that worth, imo no
No itās not
no ive already had gorak tuls for ages
but i didnt have first boss head until thursday
If you play that piece in dungeons itās big dick though
ye sorry im talking purely from a raid POV
Yeh for raid Iād play np over it for sure
Cuz you choose when you vendetta
Thatās already stronger right
Im not saying something is right and something as wrong im curious how the thought process of others is
But that's... some special garbage.
Sounds like youād have to be a nutter to try to get that to work
You know those tv credit things at the end of series where they tell you what a characterās doing with their life after the events of the show. āThis rogue is now trying to optimize incanterās flow on his mageā
Xd
It's more about losing DPS from not triggering a proc, which is entirely counter-intuitive as none of these procs are worth that much DPS.
But from time to time you can simply switch to a target that you could make better use of that DPS.
But again, none of those procs do that much.
Nothing like that buff at the end of legion right
heh
That people actually lined cds for
Err something legionfall
Idk I didnāt play then
So you think we can soak coin shower with darkness, barrier, some personals? Personals need to be saved for greeds wail?
Personals should be saved for people with liquid gold
You can soak with 20 on darkness
Itās 3.2 mil right
Probably rallying too
How much does gold tick for on m opp
And will I care because I think Iāll have to outstandingly unlucky to get more than one that I can just sprint and drop with clos
Is it practical to soak with 20? Does it overlap with liquid gold?
Dude thatās less damage than a mid level Kings key if thatās an issue I will flip
Yeah haha
For m+(and if it is dependent on fortified/tyrannical), do you vanish on CD for trash, or use situationally in order to have it up for bosses? I try to use once after a boss if I only used it once on the boss (if this makes sense)
Vanish on cd roughly for trash
You donāt need vanish for most bosses to do very good damage
So you might run into bosses with like 1 min of vanish and vendetta up
In that case you just save vanish for second vendetta or use it on CD or on third exsang or whatever conditional
If you need to burn a boss like in temple or Kingās in pure st try to really make cooldowns line well
Hmm gotcha, that'll give a lil boost to overall damage for me then
Basically if the difference between a successful kill is the damage then line and save
If not youāll get more time from using on cd
Personally I play exsang gale for assa m+ so if my vanish isnāt up on pull I use it with second gales and hold second exsang for it
With three SS at 412 and the shittily optimized high haste I have it seems to be an st gain but your mileage will vary
If I could drop my haste to 10-12% I would be more careful about playing the cooldowns but that would be much more damage
400 plumage and 405+socket razor leaf with 380 gcb/dice, also slight aversion to exsang so after some dots i tb something to doom
If youāre playing the poison funnel with TB then vanish on cd
Your vanish isnāt that relevant on ST cuz you donāt need to grab empowered garrote to make exsang chunky dam
What conditions usually make exsang better than TB? I always sim higher with tb
Energy starvation
If you canāt maintain infinite foks during a big pull cuz youāre energy negative spamming fok with 4 dots out (11% haste) exsang global means you get to cheat
Thatās the biggest one
Also TB locks you to one target so in dungeons with many pulls where thereās no strong prio target
Exsang nor Tb nor vendetta are pressed on the pack at all
So think underrot freehold
If you run CT you put yourself behind on energy balance
So exsang usually makes it flow smooth
Same-ish logic for vendetta? I may use it for a big trash mob but usually have it ready for bosses
In which case you garrote 1 garrote 2 garrote 3
Uh I mean
(I havenāt been trolling until this last bit)
But actually you do three garrotes ct and then pick a rupture target and that first one you exsang as the global after rupture
So you go from having 4 rolling dots of energy to the equivalent of 6 rolling dots for 7 seconds
Then you can put two more ruptures out to stabilize before having to refresh ct again
Then after fok spam for another 4 seconds your first rupture falls off
Which means if you donāt crit then the very first non exsang rupture will fall off after you do second CT
And then you do fok ruptures until youāve refreshed your 4th rupture and like clockwork itās CT time again
And this is like 50k+ damage no matter what stats you have
But the thing is you actually start to ramp after these 33-35 seconds
Cuz you now have the energy to spam fok CT on big packs
By the time your ruptures start to fall off is when your exsang cycles
And then you can vanish for second exsang to redo this
Itās strong even if your tank chain pulls because you can roll the engine so to speak for 1:30
Sounds fun but more brainpower required then pressing blade flurry and spamming ss:/
Yeah
Thatās why now I play outlaw in most dungeons xd
50k on pulls with true bearing rolled ez clap
play dh
is it only me or does my char actually sim quite for low that ilvl https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/jdXre7GqFGZREUdWjRyEzP
dont even need too roll ;P
š šŖ
I'm 403 and sim for about 500 less
opener without any SS traits and running MA?
you dont have 415 azerite on all slots, no 415 weapon and not 10000000xsockets like some other people on this channel
sockets are op as hell and push your dps trought the roof
Eleem what do you sim for now
I really really try usually
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/4zDmaLPCtBtcELeTx1qo6K
Real rogues sim for 20 second Kappa
was thinking wether to use toxic blade or 5cp envenom from vanish
Envenom muti envenom and pray is one option
From 3+ cp vanish tox envenom muti is also valid
Second is more consistent but first can net you bigger damage
alright cool, thanks š
first is basically how it worked in Legion, which is the one i would use but that is just because i am already familiar with that opener
I miss legion crit shoulders
pretty sure you cant
possible to cloak coin shower on mythic oppulence?
sure, u still die tho
Cloak used to have like a glyph that also gave partial physical reduction
who would put cloak on cd for a physical dmg reduction
A question about sim and bloodmallet, currently i see a lot of rogues running SS x3 even though double dose sims higher, is there a reason for this? is x3 double dose better or no?
depends what they have, its better for st
what's st?
Single target
No
Can we like pin that we canāt cloak/evasion/solo soak coin shower? I see that question at least twice per day
sorry
Does envenom work on coin shower for mythic opulence
Lul
been told i can shadow step out of it if im fast enough tho
but does vanish for on it
Shadowstep into raid, kill all
Can two rogues feint the damage tho
when u wipe on 2% mekka when u have rank 1 parse
the MA life was delivering the goods
never doubt MA
you mean you got no bot duty
high logs on mekka just mean you where lucky as hell
it was just a yes or no question
yes you can stack but personal sim will give you more information
i wanted to be the luckiest girl in the world
I amost got super lucky then both tanks dc'ed
TTK or ES preferred for m+?
Besides my opener running MA is there any change to my rotation?
anyone have a sim of a decently-optimized ilvl ~410 character? just trying to get an idea of easily i could swap my gear over
I mean, besides azerite and trinkets its basicly get the highest ilvl thing you have
Perhaps a slightly lower thing if it has a socket
I simmed myself earlier on dungeon slice, best I could squeeze out was about 28k. my outlaw set is ~33k, I feel like I'm missing something simple that could help close the gap a bit more
in case anyone is bored enough to look, sin: https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/8AdgHhHu8pQSbPh7c43VyZ outlaw: https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/8qpFigUTLVJJnGWU9KghYz
outlaw pulls bigger overall dps most of the time in m+ right now and your outlaw gear is better, idk wath you expect
get a better offhand weapon and 415 azerite
guess there's no magic trick to it eh š¦
you should probably not try too get more raw aoe dps then with outlaw, and focus more on the TTK priority dmg build
cus if you sacrifice so much singletarget stuff too do aoe burst that is close too outlaw....you could just play outlaw anyway
that's a great point.
sorry for the questions. checked slack history and ravenholdt, so as far as I can gather the TTK build is 3xTTK and run TB? would the remaining traits just be 1xSS 1xEB and 1 anything?
err discord history not slack
what is ttk
twist the knife
gotcha
finally got a good dd ish set running for master assassin for raid. and i just got outlaw to outsim my sin for m+ aoe. so i can now just swap instead of having to trait swap gear back and forth which was just ridiculous in cost
@pale agate running 2 EB is probably is definitely preferable, is stacks extremely well and with reaping you want to be maximum your AoE potiental even on tyran weeks
thanks, that makes sense
Show me your 27k ST sim. Go!
This might be a little vague, but what are you folks tips for improving? I'm decently new to rogue and my parses are fairly low, but looking at sites like wowanalyzer there are no red flags. What sort of tools/techniques would you guys recommend for diagnosing where my biggest issues are?
look at a good log and go through it thoroughly and compare to your own
opener, Cd useage , energy pooling
stuff like that
watch ppl play rogue
on streams
bleed uptimes and cooldown usage are probably the biggest ones
if they have that like rotation addon that shows spells for viewers
can look at that during certain periods of fights
get an idea whats good to do
In terms of energy pooling, is the goal primary to maximize actions within elaborate planning and toxic blade?
u wanna pool for toxic blade so u can get like 2 envenoms within the time yes, or atleast 1 during a non period of CDs
if u have CDs u can prob get 3
you got any logs to link @calm depot , would be happy to have a quick look through one
none that i feel great about, but sure, let me find one real quick
linking the one that you did worst in when you're not sure why would be best, will be easiest to find the mistakes
I'm pretty sure in this grong I played okay for what I understand, though I did have to stand with one of our dps who was using the orb so there might be some weird breaks
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/3CrRTKPVYGjvZ4pd#fight=last&type=summary&source=25
What? You dont have to stand still with the orb?
it was lining up with the fear timing (not sure if thats by design or just our dps rate)
your sad sun profile pic makes me sad
oh no
I still dont understand what you mean, you can move after you've picked up the orb
yeah the person using it was casting it during the fear, so unless they had someone with them theyd get feared
i agree that it doesnt sound like the best plan but thats what people wanted to do so i kinda just went with it
Why couldnt the guy with the orb just stand in the regular group? š¤
i think they wanted to pop it as soon as they picked it up, its something we'll likely fix on more clears, but this was our first week on heroic, so there are some weird choices
But in general, your bleed uptimes are rather low, it should be 98%+ on both, you're around 90%
Also not using any potion will obviously result in a lot lower damage
@calm depot could early issues, you need more a lot more haste (200-300 min), you've got to switch some vers out at as vers is quite low weighting for sin, your traits are also limiting, scent of blood isnt terrible but is quite bad, you've only got around 90% uptime for bleeds on grong should be aiming for ~100%
worth pooling for TB, but is it worth pooling to maximize uptime on EP? or just ignore EP as a passive?
consider switch scent out for either NP or DD
Wait no 27k ST sim? Come on...
so reset garrote early within vendetta?
@warm harbor thanks for all these, ill work towards fixing the gear issues and aim for higher bleed timing. what did you mean by 'could early issues'
You use vanish garrotes before vendetta, otherwise you wont have it up for the entire vendetta
@calm depot on your second vendetta you dont toxic blade until the end, meaning that all that NP damage wasnt buffed
and was a typo class hahah sorry
whaddya mean by NP?
also make sure you hold that second vendetta an extra 20 seconds or so to vanish/garrote than vendetta
Nothing Personal
anyone fancy answering my nice quick question? š
okay so save vendettas so they line up with vanish?
Yes, you should also probably sim yourself, looks like you could pick better traits on your azerites
Doubt that twist is higher than another NP
yeah some other mistakes are, so for your vanish at 20 seconds you garrote straight after to proc Subterfuge, but then 5 seconds later you press garrote again completed losing out on that empowered garrote dmg
okay so there i think what i was trying to do was get a second one in within the subterfuge window and might have missed it?
But yeah, just using a potion (even if its prolonged because the regular ones are too expensive) will increase your damage by a pretty good amount
Thats like the easiest way to gain a lot of damage
i mighta just done a really bad job on the first one matthew, generally im trying to do two garrotes in the sub window because the opener has it, is this right to do?
yep just do a double garrote straight away
even if i overcap on energy?
this will increase the length of the dot by around 30%
Eleem, yeah I get that, i wasnt potting mostly because we were 1-2 shotting a lot of these bosses. I figured that with where my parses are at even with pots I'm missing something significant
so for sub window, aim to enter with combo, then just double garrote?
with 0 combo**
yeah 0 or 1 combo is fine
so other than stats and gear the major issues I'd say or, dot uptime time, syncing your post-opener vendettas with vanish and toxic blades, and making sure you dont miss the sub window on your vanishes
ha, other than everything š
you'll be right hahah
that atleast gives me bullet points to aim for, thanks
If youāre stacking NP do you TB before Vend?
you should be TB in your NP/vend window yeah
I just switched from outlaw to assa and I have a problem with "subterfuge".
In my stealth bar I have sap on 1, while on the normal bar mutilate. So subterfuge doesnt let me mutilate for 3 secounds.
Normally I need the 3 secounds for garrote, but especially in single target I miss some attacks then.
Do I have to rebind my abilitys, or is there a kind of bind, that makes my mutilate useable in subterfuge.
I would like to keep my main builder on 1 š
dont have a stealth bar
anybody? worth pooling for elaborate planning? or just ignore as a passive?
in terms of simming is the raidbots patchwerk profile a reasonable way to sim for this raid tier? is there a better/more accepted way to do it
and where do you bind sap? @warm harbor
just have it on bars as per any other ability
@calm depot its general reliable for most fights for sin
My elvui profile doesnāt use the stealth bar for subterfuge
It switches as soon as I drop out of stealth
okay I also use Elvui, maybe my loaded profil doesnt do this, I should use some default maybe š
???
My stealthbar stays in subterfuge
is it just me or does assassin really drop off at around 30 seconds in
i can burst upto 35-40k then drop to 16k
Assassination has very high opener damage as well
maintaining envenom/EP will help alleviate some of it though
anyone has a weakauras that only show the remaining time for garrote and rupture in the target?
I'm refreshing it to early and loosing dps
!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)
thank you
When running 3x EB do you need hidden blades well for it be ideal or pb still ok?
@desert vault Hidden Blades is definetly not a need, I personally run PB all the time, especially on tyr weeks. CT is only really ok on teeming weeks imo.
for master assassin. when vanish comes back up for 2nd time. is it just vendetta vanish tb muti envenom?
@grave elk its currently up for debate which one is better, whether or not you tb before or after vanish
personally i would tb->vanish->env->mut->env
Always do that. And pool before.
I have that trinket off mechatork too so I pop that + tb + vanish then env mut env mut env mut
idk how anyone thinks tb after vanish is better than having double envenom
just how the sims work out or something
someone recently mentioned it in the tc-research channel aswell i think
You still get the envenom inside TB and MA window
so is opener still vendetta vanish tb ?
after the garrote muti rupture of course
@warm harbor
No, check guide for openers
i think it would be better to after the garrote muti rupture to muti ven tb van env muti env
if you do it the way you say you wont get 2 env's in the MA window
Ah the wowhead guide is a bit different than the RH one I see
oh yeah i have only looked at RH
even so @grave elk go to a training dummy and test this stuff out
To be fair, you won't always get those 2 Env in the MA window because it's not 100% crit. Sometimes it's Env mut mut
yeah thats very true, so doing the tb after vanish will give you more consistant dmg
Anyone having actual success with MA in raid? I feel like I'm gambling with my dps
If that env doesn't crit it feels so bad
been using for m mekka prog, quite happy with it
what traits do you guys aim for in M+?
3xSS 3xEB
couple builds atm grom
3x TTK, 1x SS and 2x EB is also going around
like a psuedo sub rogue
I would like a build that is good on Tyrannical and reaping basically.
Twist the knife is being used that much?
Tbh though, i don't run Assass in M+
@river zinc You can't really build for ST and AoE
You could try 3xDD 3xSS
I've been wanting to try that myself tbh
Can you even get 3xDD 3xSS?
idk
that would be kinda of problemic when choosing between tb and exsng
cause if you are going for prior dmg then tb w/ double dose would work but then you have 3x SS's than could be exsanged which arent going to be
no real point taking the extra SS's compare to EB
not your mention the extreme drop-off in dmg in reaping's and large pulls
I don't think DD really makes TB that much more appealing, if really at all
I feel like if you are going to run assass in M+ it would be KR/ToS so not a lot of value to be gotten from EB
Otherwise I'd just go Outlaw
Trait system makes it hard to play around with multiple builds which is a shame
how sad would you be if this happened to you
@prisma crescent yeah that makes sense, not sure if having that third SS trait would be worth it over EB still. but yeah the reforge system sucks, just make it free like talents
mmm
is Sapphire of Brilliance better than the agi pot in any scenario??
overall its more useful, you have to think about how you can line up its second use with lust and cooldowns though, since it has a 5 minute CD, im not sure if you can use it on pull and then just agi pot whenever, but yaeh 400 all stats is better than 900 agility, especially sicne haste is weighted so high for us
Can anyone confirm whether its possible to cloak and soak all 5 frogs on Rastakhan? Ive heard its possible but i havent seen it done
@spare flame yes it is
So you only get the initial 5 puddles and nothing more?
What do you mean?
the umping frogs
When frogs goes off, the 5 pools spawn with frogs. Im assuming you sprint/cloak and blast through all 5 but does that stop them from jumping and leaving additional pools?
@Wolfie yes thatās correct
correct, ok
The initial 5 pools will always be there
Thanks for the info. Seems strong
kinda?
My raid team likes to stand in things
your group shouldnt be putting that inot your strat is what im trying to say
shouldn't be putting that not?
into :/
if your group is getting hit by avoidable dmg, tell them to get their shit together
you shouldnt be using cloak for that kinda thing when you could be using cloak for emergencies
The only other thing worth cloaking on Rasta is the leap which you get 1 of at the beginning of the fight
By the time you need it for the hectic part itāll have been long off CD if you used it early
What makes assassination so strong in pvp compared to the other two specs that it is the represented class in arena
Most* and I mean represented above 1800 according to the website
wat? is that a question? being highly represented doesn't make it a strong spec... it is highly represented BECAUSE it is a strong spec. for sin this is many reasons including garrote silences, being able to drop combat while still having dots on your enemies, etc
I mean he said its represented because its strong...
I didnt say being highly represented made it a strong spec, I was asking what did lol
okay yea it wasn't phrased like a question and there was no question mark... that's why i asked what you meant lol
btw if that name is a reference to Sheldon's rogue from TBBT good for you! š
It is a reference to TBBT!
well not to get off topic about other specs, but sub is actually still great at short-window burst... the problem is that raid bosses require more endurance dps and in pvp it's too easy for smart players to counter burst windows
I agree though... haven't had fun playing sub since HFC in Warlords š¦
blizz has a lot to do in term of class/spec balance
For m+, is it better to use haste or crit ring enchants?
Crit
Depends how much haste do you have, but crit is the best for m+
@proven wasp for sin in m+ having the 3EB 3SS build, youll want really high crit, at least 26% or more, with minimal haste
if you're building with TTK youll porbably be focusing on ST so youll want maybe a tidbit more haste
I assumed since my 380 galecaller simms better
š
How to excatly deal with reaping on 10 and above keys?
Crying in 415 invocation
I play with 3xss 1xeb
I feel I should max dot 2 or 3
They just die before that
I average arround 23-25k total
But on reaping I feel like I am doing much less than I am suposed to
401ilvl
if your group blows them up you don't have time to start blasting
Not necessarily true, with 3xEB I do average 80k damage to reaping waves
Fok + EB is like 60% of my damage on reaping
in order to be correctly "blasting" though, youll need to put up your three garrotes, and a rupture or two to be able to spam out 3 fok in your EP windows
Yeah ofc... tbh I triple garotte then usually have to put out 3 low cp ruptures so I can spam fok every gcd
if you have a dh and stuff you don't have time to do that in like a 10
just get some foks off
15+ different
some cases sure
Anyone really struggling to put up good numbers in bod playing ass or is it just me?
Post logs and we can see š
Haven't raided ass for a few weeks been going combat
Considering how well both those specs perform in general, unless there's something we can look at it's a 
yeah 15 and up the reaping mobs actually start having hp so that sin can help do dmg again lol
i think thats the main reason everyone is on the outlaw hype train
Outlaw is meta regardless of level above 10
yeah im not saying it isnt
its just that class like sin and aff and spriests arent good in content where the mobs have 10 hp
how common is it for outlaw to run out of BF charges , I mean the guy I did some 15-17s with did few times , ripped dps right there
if theyre smart they only run out of charges at the end of the pull
ok
Depends on how you define "meta". There are more assa rogues than outlaw unless you look at 20+, and even then its still like 60/40
Who's playing assass at 20+? I still use assassination in ToS/KR but anything else I'm using outlaw
Morningwind is the one with the highest keys done
Morning, seli
But not many people have tried assa with 3x twist
i still play sin because outlaw makes me suicidal š
A lot still believe SS is the way to go
It's very very very good
Yeah, killing the big reaping souls at the same time as the small ones is š
Tbh, I'd love to see how assa is played in M+, I'll check out seli/wind
jep, two awesome assa players
they made me switch back to assa again, also to focus more on prio target/boss dmg.
if you got DH and frost mage, you dont need a third big aoe burster in most cases
Looks like 3xTTT for Tyran and 3xEB or SS for fort...guess its worth a shot
also for fort TTK is nice, especially if you got prio targets
problem on some dungeons is, that the trash is dying to fast cause of other classes aoe burst
Its more like, you go 1ss and then fill the rest 5 slots with twist+eb
If you want more aoe go 3 eb, otherwise go 3 twist
ill test 3eb 2ttk 1ss next id
this coming week tho youll prolly want eb ss
as its fort SS maybe loses value due to longer living trash. need to sim that
and also you maybe want to let some big mobs die faster š
thats what i said, didnt i?
Yes
someone else said 3xss, 3eb for fort tho š

you still can play that, its not bad, but maybe not the most effective
3eb 3ss does a lot of dmg
Better off taking blightborne or something instead of a SS
but remember, after your empowered ss falls of the trait loses value
if you got maybe got swirling sands trait, thats also good š
Anyone else feel like SS isn't scaling as well as our class is? Seems like SS is getting more and more outclassed as we get more gear
Sure but i feel like that gap is shrinking
im running 1 or 2 SS atm depending on dungeons and affixes
2 SS cause im lacking of a good m+/st aleternativ
Even m+ st
Its just that people didnt have any azerite options in uldir so everybody played SS because it was available
and array made exsang better too
hm... oh well
i guess i got a better option ^^ just had that TTK /swirling sands piece on my assa gear š
Well imo ss/subterfuge isnt as good in higher keys, since you'll chain pull alot. Same with triggering reaping midpack.
so i got 2ttk 2eb 1ss 1swirling
gief 2x EB 2x TTK 1x SS 1x Blightborne
Thats one of the reaspns why i started play outlaq
dont like the playstyle
yes it does a lot of aoe dmg
but im got DH and frost mage in my group
and assa still does good aoe
What do you guys think of the Bile-Stained Crawg Tusks (The statless proc fist weapon from underrot) for outlaw? Heard it was a bis offhand for demon hunter, but not sure how it is for outlaw
Pretty good for ST but not aoe. Since it doesnt proc with BF
maybe ask that in the outlaw spec discussion š
been hearing a lot here about some sort of TTK build, where can i learn more? I always thought it was mediocre at best
I rolled a new pair of shoulders yesterday and got a duplicate baddie shoulders
motherlode chest 
Legion Sublety style priority target damage? Aka spam FoK and Envenom priority target? Like if I wanted single target, why wouln't I just take DD
cause you want aoe+st dmg
you are not a big help for doing dmg to exactly one mob
an DD is meaningless on aoe
and with EB traits you do good aoe as well + the nice prio target dmg
yes sub style priority target
not that hard powerfull, but pretty good
its this good for assasination for m+?
Clean your bags 
oops, sorry!
Oh, I see. I feel like I spend more time dotting up targets than doing priority damage, but that's 'cause I generally do low keys (12 max). I'll look into it though, thanks!
you normally only rupture 4 targets for energy reg, then start to envenom
- EB and TTK profit from crit rating
but one SS is not bad, cause of triple silence for 6 secs
DO you guys trust raidbots or bloodmallet+herodamage ? showing differently
raidbots is for precise, HD/BM give rough idea
yep thats the point
So no point in refreshing garrote, only go for ruptures for energy regen? Like for raids I'm currently running 3Ć DD, NP+SS+TC, and those are 400 + 2 415's, but if i wanted to go EB, I have to run two 385's, which sucks, might as well look for some TTK's in there
Like, the fact that I have to run so low azerites and I can't another 400 dagger for shit kinda tilts me to run outlaw on fortified weeks
Dead-Eye spyglass loses value on target switching right? whats the ramp up time?
u dont refresh garrote
nope, dead-eye is fine
You dont have to auto attack the target, any damage source will trigger it
it only uses value if it procs on a low life mob which dies before the proc runs out or is fully stacked
So fok/bleeds will both trigger it
i got 400 dice and 405 + socket dead-eye spyglass. the spyglass is simming a little higher
and what is your other trinket ?
415 lumstrous
im running dice + spygalss atm
hm..
crit is more worth when running EB or TTK
@feral shore you just garrote 3 targets out of stealth and start rupturing
if targets die very fast, dont rupture it
or at least not all of them
Yeah, still need at least some for energy regen, got that. Given all this, haste kinda loses its value, right? Since I'll do way more damage via envenom+fok spam than to rely on bleeds. Same goes for mastery. And since Fahwi already mentioned that crit is more worth it, I might consider regemming and stuff - only got 24% crit right now
As for HB vs PB, this choice depends on the count of EB traits and crit chance?
24% crit is sure a bit low, should be around 30% or higher
im playing PB only cause of the ST component
CT has zero value on bosses
and PB does good dmg. CT is well for giga pulls on fort, but for tyra i would prefer PB over CT.
- as you play TB with TTK, PB gains also from the TB debuff
Good point. I was just considering HB 'cause of the RNG of PB. It's not as bad as in legion, but I feel like it's still significant and doesn't proc as one would like it to proc
why suddenly TTK in the mix? At the start of the season everyone talked about 3 Eb/3SS - whats the pro of using TTK ?
priority damage
with 2+ EB, HB will do more dmg on ST than PB
No
it does for me
In my gear setup HB sims 1% behind, and since its bosses we're talking about then it works to sim
And that also assumes you go into the fight with full stacks, which you wont most of the time
on St you do always tough. Wait for full stacks, use fok
Yes
But you will not have 20 stacks when you pull the boss
Because you cleared trash
no offense man but in general such big amount of nitpickery on such little things here, the essence of the question gets ignored for the sake of "being rigth"
you sometimes forget to press FoK during a bossfight though^^
Well, a lot of people here seem to spread missinformation, and if the goal is to help players get better then providing the right info is important
Atleast to me
Also hb isn't practical, it's crap talent to play around
all I'm saying is that if you have 2+ EB it's just a switch of a talent, you can try it out and see for yourself
ofc it's not the same for everyone, it depends on your gear, team, instance etc.
I have 2xEB and I have tried HB just becouse... why not. And the value you get out when pulling very fast is close to zero. I could not find any value at all with it. Personal experience ofc but I did not see any good use of it. To be added we do some high keys were I only get like a millisec to restelth between pulls so I never went in to a pack (after AoE) with more than around 1-3 stacks. =1 proc of PB did way more damage
is there any comparison betewen outlaw and assa? how much behind is assa ?
I mean itās fairly close in terms of overall dps in high keys... obviously outlaw does more damage in the vast majority of keys... in my own personal testing, freehold is like 33k dps as outlaw and 30k as assassination
Most keys it seems about 10% ahead for me
Thatās just my personal view though
Yeah seems about right
But its worth noting that a lot of that damage is "sniped" by doing damage to low hp targets very fast (such as the risen souls). Outlaw will do higher overall but what matters is the speed of the key, not your overall dps
man, i just tried to play a key with no EBs for poison funnel and it was fkn disaster
Well why wouldnt you play eb?
cuz was talking to ashine about the build and he said if you followed the logic all the way down why wouldn't you just not play any EB at all so you don't kill the mobs you're generating cp from
and since my key was a siege thought i'd give it a try
I did a SoB last week and priodamage the big mobs such as Commander in every pack
Every single pack died at the same time. It was super smooth. It is worth more than overall
i'm pretty sure it was the first time i've lost to a DH in overall in weeks and the key depleted too
though there were some... misunderstandings with the spotter
i mean topping meters is usually about killing something faster before others do so u can grab the free aoe chunk for yourself
the pack only dies as quickly as the highest hb mob
that is the strength of the build if you want reliable mass cleave of course ol is gonna be better
Not necessarily true, you can pull mobs that are still alive with the next pack in a lot of cases
But yeah
its a bit weird that it took the niche that sub had and yeah that too i guess
i havent really tried ttk build myself though hope hey don't nerf it
be just like blizz for them to do it
Sub still does more prio damage by a fair margin
Its just that assa can do decent aoe and st with the same setup
On Opu M can we Evasion/cloak the shower?
no
is there a merit to tracking envenom duration?
hey im looking at the opener for assassination rogues without shrouded suffocation and it says to vanish at 5.4 seconds left on garrote "or less with subterfuge" what exactly is "or less"?


