#assassination
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Only needs a single trait, sin needs a very good set of gear to do equally well
Well, the runs i see assa pulls 30% less then outlaw
30% less damage pretty much just means they don't blast reaping as hard as outlaw
but priority targets in a 3-5 mob pull?
they're probably destroying OL
30% less means they are not good
I don't think the priority dmg gab between assa and outlaw is very high. It's there but outlaw is too easy to do well
Good morning fellow rogues ! I will try to bee the clearer i can (obviously english is not my native ) . I'm a recent rogue player who just ding 120 . I prefer the sin gameplay over outlaw one ( playing gamble feel ... meh) And i'm a bit lost when i check azerites traits i'm suposed to get. I understand there is plenty build for sin but , with the fact i'm pretty new on this toon and in the extension , i would know if there is a "global" build to start aiming before checking for specifics ones ? I play in NM/HM raids and do some mm+ to help friends (so in a range of +5 / +10 , not over)
actually i run 1 SS , 1 NP and 1 EB and i feel pretty useless in multi AND in mono x)
Or maybe outlaw is more "noob friendly" for unstuffed boy ?
Get 1 wits and be set. Assa alone needs many combos of ss ttk eb for different affixes dungeons
You run 3 azerites less than anybody else, you should have 6 major traits
Eb is useless in st
For raid get dd np and if you like the playstyle ss, else go ma spec
Raid has good chest and head so gamble for gorak shoulders
!azerite
Assassination Azerite Season 2 changes: https://bit.ly/2U86I7o
!guide
Assassination Guide: http://www.ravenholdt.net/assassination-guide/
wowhead guide is more in detail
I thought it links wowhead
oh ok , so obviously i have to get max NP , DD for ST but i will be "useless" for mm+ ? for these one i need an other stuff with EB and SS ?
not sure about ttk
Any mix of those 3, is good, when you have better opportunites later you can muck around with the balancing
Ttk is very good
2+ ttk is worth while playing, 1 isn't really
i know i get jumped on again but there is no actual prove ttk is super valuable there.
Changing your rotation to priorize env is potentially the main reason ppl use ttk for
yes but there is no actual connection to ttk there
You become sorta like a budget-pre-nerf-sub
other traits can work just as good for the prio damage increase
Yeah but with that you just spam fok into env
however the trait gives you the perception that its super good for it
And with tb one target gets nuked
It's also good for bosses
I mean ttk just increases damage by flat amount on env
You just spread dots with ss and 1/2 rup
Then start hard env dumping on 1 targrt
Not as good this week as others, but you have great control over what dies when
For bolst/sang etc
well ttk increases the envenom dmg by a lot
and since u can just spam it in packs it gets super value
ever since I got 2 ttk i never wanted to go back
Idk pressing 1 fok to get cp to just do env fok env fok on a target with tb on it with 2+ ttk traits
Feels amazing
That thing fucking dies fast
when last it was bolstering it felt so amazing
Yah
being able to solo make targets die at the same time
even with 400 500k hp difference
did a 20 atal and in the pack after totem boss
i basically did 70% of hexers dmg
which is super good cuz the casts shred
Not skipping that pack 
the one downstairs
Ah
with 2 stalkers
nah ever since I saw when someone showed me to shroud from stalker 2 packs into totem boss
never played it differently
routes get better and betetr with mdi too
my last atal 19 was like 50sec left
Shroud and vanish/meld run out
now with better route atal 20 with like 3min left or smth
Hellla neat
well no vanish out for me as sin but we had hunter so he took care of it
maybe it a little bit placebo but at current state i'd even drop down to 1 eb and use 3ttk 2ss 1eb
the dmg value feels just so much better than the eb pad
I'm running 2 ttk 2 ss 1 eb 1 bbi
and the overall isnt significantly lower
Feels pretty nice ngl
i think my best motherlode with 3eb was 47k~
last motherlode I did with 2 eb 2ttk 2ss was 43k so
who cares
whats the best built for assassin this week for pluses
the one you can play with
i havent played assassin in awhile i just got my rogue to 120 barely a week ago and was playing outlaw but its not cutting it for st
well theres no "best" build
it depends on your gear, group constellation
any combination of traits shrouded suffocation/twist the knife/echoing blades is fine
alrighty
guess ill just see what i got im sure it will be better than outlaw this week with the gear i got
Also, outlaw isn't bad for st. It's probably more about your gear/play
ya
i mean im like 390 simming barely 17kish
will resim again and see about changing things
that and im still getting use to the dice thing
is there an addon for the roll of dice buffs or is it just say f it and look at ur buff area
how do you use vend + vanish in the MA build, with regards to TB alignment? is it fine to just vend>vanish>env >mut>env if TB isnt up, or should i wait for TB?
so which is more important, getting a 3rd envenom during toxic blade, or refreshing rupture / garrote if they'll fall off while doing the 3rd envenom ?
refreshing rup/garrote, losing the energy is huge. as long as get 2 envenoms in a TB its fine
try for 3 but be ok with 2
also not getting any pandemic has the knock on effect of costing more energy later (having to refresh the dots sooner)
What would guys consider a good amount of haste to be at 400?
what ever the sims tell you that you need
there's no such thing as breakpoints anymore, just what stat gains improve your dps the most
Perfect, thanks!
@cosmic pier Ideally you want to vanish inside tb+vendetta
But as always, if delaying means you lose a cast it's not worth, but most of the time you don't lose a cast
I saw a video that said to vanish after your opener when you’ve pooled enough energy, then TB out of stealth into your rotation
yeah thats what i assumed, just delay the vend+vanish since youre less likely to lose a cast of it
You don't need to vanish right after you vendetta
You can tb+vanish 10 sec into vendetta
Which means you'll have to hold it the next time sure, but you don't need to hold vendetta much at all
only time you really hold vend is to line up vanish with it
when you're running subt
also for jaina, is it worth cracking a second set of cd's on the boat? I only have to wait ~20 secs once we start p2 for them to be back up
If it means your push timings are better, sure
But it doesn't really matter
You're only gonna get 1 vendetta in P2 regardless
if you dont need the 2nd set of cooldowns to transition before the 3rd ring, id suggest holding it
and getting a properly setup burst window in p2. if you pop CDs at the end of p1 a second time, youre gonna get the 3rd vendetta ~around the 2nd barrel, which has a lot more movement than the first
trying to create a TB buff timer weakaura... do you guys know if the 9 seconds start on a successful cast, aka you hit the target? for example it won't start if the TB gets dodged/parried etc
Debuff doesn’t get applied if TB gets parried.
ah its a debuff, that makes things easier
i was making it an even
event**
thanks!
Also, if you use the template in Weak Auras it’ll take care of all of that for you. If you need to know whether or not the debuff gets applied from a parried hit, you’re probably doing a lot more work than you need to.
yeah true, thank you!
@marble hemlock do you end up losing a vendetta over the course of the fight if you hold it for P2? I’ve been using mine at the end of P1 to try to push before more bombards, avalanches, etc. but it definitely makes it awkward to use in P2.
no
you will get 4 vendetta
or 3, if you hold on to it because dps in p1 doesnt matter
you can get 2 in p1, 1 in p2, 1 in p3. if you dont use the second one in p2, you still only get one in p2, but with a better timing
Gotcha. So 1 less in total. I’m guessing overall damage ends up being about the same but you have more damage in the later phases.
Overall damage is entirely irrelevant unless youre trying to parse
Yeah I know.
Pushing phase 1 before the second bombard from the third ship makes everything a lot cleaner though. We’re not always doing that consistently. I’ve been using my second vendetta to push P1 but we also haven’t gotten to the wall yet. I’m not sure if it’s going to mess up my timings later in the fight.
vendetta will barely help with that, since on most pulls that bombardement comes in at ~2minutes and 10seconds
so even if you 2nd vendetta p1, it wont really help with transitioning the boss faster, since youll pop it like 3% before transition
Not if you cloak the second ring, then you get most of the vendetta of
meh, sure, but then you cant help soak swirlies in intermission
1 question about m+ this week. it is tyrannical but with easy affixes. so more mobs can be pulled. should i use 2 EB 2 SS 1 DD 1NP or 2 SS 1 EB 1blightborne infusion 1 NP 1 dd
do you have some other pieces that doesnt have NP?
or DD
neither one of these traits are very good for m+, even on tyrannical
Is TTK really that far behind DD/SS and NP?
for singletarget? nah
its not great, but its not terrible by any means either
the cephalohide chest for example has TTK+DD+OP and sims higher than mekka which has NP+DD and a slightly worse t3 trait
so its not like theres a huge discrepancy
Just depends on if you want bigger burst damage or more sustained?
It's not far behind damage wise in the end
Highest simming ST azerite set up includes 1 ttk
since cephalohide chest has OP on it
It's not bad if you can pick it, but there are certain better picks
whats the other 5 in this sim?
y
Highest ST trait sim is 3dd 1 np 1 bbi 1 ttk 3 op
1st boss helm/goraks/ceph
if there was a chest with dd np op that'd sim higher than ceph
but atm, there isn't, so on the basis of 3 op ceph sims higher than spymasters/mekka
bbi = blightborn infusion ?
yes
so i can go 3 ss 2 eb 1 bbi for m+
yeah you can
worth taking KR tank trinket for M cabal ?
1mn30 cd for 70k absorb sound like I could take debuff 100% with that
does someone sim +27k here?
I do why ?
can i have a look at your gear?
erf not really since I'm geared for M Cabal right now (with 3xSS etc...)
I have 3xDD 2xNP 1xTC and 8 sockets
415 ilvl
405 plumage 420 deadeye
maybe i could get a bit more with all azerites i have but i love sub too much to give it up
and i'm around 26.9k too
you won't get much more sim dps with azerite unless you don't have 3x Overwhelming power and can get it
got so excited when a trinket dropped first hc week, then i saw it and my day was ruined
F
actually it's really hard to use
the dot is nasty
unusable on most high keys, not usuable on Mythic progression
i thought so
it's splashed over 30sec but it still deal around 170k damage overall
Just gotta get more sockets https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/qfPLJ3hyVnmiB3K1qHULUA
Just get the CoS trinket
is nothing personal worth stacking?
stacked np better than a single np and a tk?
Depends
In what context and what your pieces, simming is gonna be the answer my dude
np as is sims better than ttk
but depends on third ring too^^
I have a head, unstable, and elemental
thx
I don’t have lurkers trinket yet but is there a guide on using it for a good stretch of time? Just communicating to healers that you’re a priority and cloaking the worst?
I mean just telling them
you know, taking about 10k a tick here a HoT or two would be neat
It's not that much damage to begin with, just surprise them.
that's about it, it's not enough to be actually scary
Ah I’d read before the dot got really high. That’s not bad at all
allright, i have a question, is the envenom dmg calculated the moment you use the skill, or the moment you hit the enemy and the dmg number shows up?
example: TB at 1sec left, you use envenom, and hit the enemy when the tb timer is at 0
still tb buffed or not?
Wdym, there is no traveltime for envenom since its a melee skill
It hits when you press it
Just open the Combat Log and see for yourself :3
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/362585425342234624/572153510490275840/unknown.png
Wish I got this opener every pull on cabal mythic -.-
do u guys take all buffs at td 17+ ?
Depends on group
but I normally just take the ones on our side
Cba taking other side, td is easy enough to time
i thought that also
Although if you don't have int/ap buff with heavy caster/heavy melee might be worth
idk, most of the time is made up by the cannon thos
tyrannical the wisdom buff is realllly nice
What are the reccomended traits for M+?
@royal lantern at 0 seconds it still applies before the buff is still up as it shows the 0 second timer. Typically I mixmax by using this principle.
@humble crane who the heck burst that?!
@shy dust any combo of ttk ss eb is good
and any general idea of what good stats to go for are?

For m+ crit/mastery is ur best friend
Me with 9 stack
is it viable or worth while to level or M+ as Sin?
Yes
@rose perch I was talking to you about whether you would drop a SS for more ST the other night on your stream. Wondering how your burst window compares to mine (have to scroll up a little) during lust/9stack burst on cabal.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/zngLtpvT2FZfYBDW here's the most recent night of prog i did
it doesnt matter which weapon has what enchant right? so long as I have two different ones?
Pretty close then. Are you raiding tonight @rose perch
so close to GoT lol. my guild shut off sunday raiding till GoT is completed
anyone?
it doesn't matter no fel
ty ty
I was running a 1 ss setup for m cabal and liked it a lot averaged like 43k dps over the course of the night like 30 pulls
It felt good to me i do think that more ss setup probably more overall dps but the 1 felt good playin it I felt like my st push damage to phase was a lil more value and I wasn’t losing out too much on other stuff
@strange python it is perfectly viable
Yo, what do you think about the CoS trinket? Is it really that BIS?
Why wouldnt it be?
As long as you dont die by using it, its an incredibly strong trinket
This is for MM hunter, I wonder how it would fair with vendetta though
Ah nvm, trueshot has CDR
Mythic Stormwall talent set-up 2/3/1/0/0/2/1?
Standard ma st build
The pants and boots from CoD are BIS as well?
Anyone having difficulty with Apophic blast hitting melee despite being WAY more than 5m away from the Zax tank? Getting 1shot with PP due to Apophic blast and I'm dumbfounded
Good evening everyone. Im fairly new to raiding as a rogue though i have always played melee. Would anyone mind looking over my armory and maybe suggesting where i can improve? https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/the-scryers/tnomax
It says outlaw but i am assassination
Good solid traits, trinkets okay, only thing I can tell you to fix there is increase the amount of haste you have
12% is pretty low
I have all the haste i can get with my current gear just gotta get more gear
Thats about all you can do then really
whats a good amount to aim for? in a general sense
Depends on your goals in the game.
i just wanna contribute to my raid
I have 20% haste and haven't raided mythic yet only cleared heroic BoD and CoS
I do over 20K dps
depending on fights
im not a mythic raider and dont plan to be just normal and heroic
then if you can get around 20% you are great
what was ttk again? i'm always losing myself with these acronyms
twist the knife
k thanks
np
Hey all, I ran Subterfuge for a long time, then switched to MA because it simmed 200 dps higher, but I've been told SF is still beneficial in M+, etc and to still run it. thoughts?
?
It is.
cant do keys without subterfuge, you need it to line up your garrotes
I find exanguinate far more fun in dungeons
Any idea how much cost of items for titan resedium will go up in 8.2
only theories so far, nothing confirmed yet
BBI over TC? I have all 3 bis azerite bits at 415. Or just Sim? Wasn't sure how good Sims are for proccing effects like bbi
sims accurately display proccing effects.
!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)
@drifting cloud that’s pretty steep
dont think its offical, but yeah they dont want people to gain a big edge
Almost 200k for pick a piece
its mostly to avoid the high end teams walking in with 3 pieces of max ilvl azerite
but the price isn't confirmed officially yet
Yea, I get not official
I wouldn’t think 25 times is done that’s a bonkers amount
What was the increase last time
just to make your hoarded one as irrelevant as possible
15 times i believe
it was around 10x
it was a bit under 10 actually
70k seems more realistic
it will be bigger than before for sure
because residium mechanic came in the middle of the tier and they were able to stack up so much for BOD
if it only went x10 like oceblade said all top guild will have x3 mythic azerite before they even step into it
people figure out a talent set theyre running consistently? or does it switch up weekly for m+
was thinking of trying out 3ttk 2eb 1ss, but not sure if i'd lose a lot of value from garrotes doing that
3ttk is feelsbad - my opinion though - everyone else seems to dig it
that's what i've been reading also. i'm still running 3eb/ss but boss damage is pretty low
I’ve been running 3eb/2ss/1ttsk boss dmg is also low hahaha
actually, yeah. i'm running 3eb 2ss 1ttk LOL
i mean, i guess in that sense, losing 1 eb and ss for 2x ttk would boost boss dmg by a fair bit as well as not losing all too much on adds
is tricks broken for anyone else? my clique bind isnt working, tried a focus macor, even just targetted the tank and hit it from spell book and it always says invalid target all of a sudden
does your tank have a neural silencer
multiple tanks, and current one doesnt
nothing just the glowing glove, then if i click on tank invalid target
were they mounted
if it doesnt work from spellbook its neural silencer
not sure what else it could even be
noway my whole party has em, their not that good at trolling lol
damn, ill figure it out
maybe you have an addon that hides the buff of it or something
@near pilot got the same prob. Just replace the spell on your bar by the spellbook once. Worked for me
Is it possible to interrupt Aspix's Jolt cast in temple without taking any dmg from lightning shield?
A focus kick macro prevents you from auto attacking him and getting hit I believe
@valid cipher thanks but not same for me 😦 ill try some stuff out
If you focus the tank and click on tricks directly in the spellbook, what happens?
Coming from outlaw Im having some questions regarding EP. Back in Antorus I remember being golden if the next finisher I cast was still within the previous EP window. Yet now I dont neccesarily see that being possible most of the time, either because of unlucky crits or too low energy regen. Is EP something we play around at all, possibly is it just me needing to calm my outlaw fingers and slow down the pace?
I personally cant keep it up on pure single target fights, during vendetta i usually try to use the finisher at the last second so you still get the bonus dmg
it's much more methodical compared to outlaw imo , some say boring but i enjoy it. i think TB windows play a bigger factor than EP
and getting them crits
@shrewd night ep is just to buff dd trait as for me
Also, in legion u vanish with Master assassin at 5 Cp. Now u enter with no Cp at all to start tb window and proc DD twice
Or vanish tb env mut
Or tb vanish mut env mut
You see all kind of stuff but they all crit in ma window. No crit = unlucky
as long as manage to fit TB -> Mut -> Env in your EP windows I think you fine
wouldn't worry a lot about EP , properly doing TB windows is higher importance ,2-3 env on each
is it possible to survive the crushing doubt aoe dmg (#2) on mythic restless cabal while u have 9 stacks of the dmg buff/debuff with only feint ?
feint doesnt work on crushing doubt
the only way to survive it consistently, is to run 3 resounding protection, get a disc preshield, and pre-feint with elusiveness talented
2RP are fine too, but that requires people to run out properly so you only take 40k per hit, so 80k in total
with elusiveness thats ~60k damage after mitigation, and you get ~45k absorb from 2RP+Preshield
Get dispelled
Play another class
i just described it?
And/or complain on reddit until they fix feint
get resounding protection traits, talent elusiveness, make sure the disc pre-shields you every time. you will still need a dispel prior to fathuul transitions
i tried with 1RP+elusiveness+preshield, and it wasnt enough
that was 1RP. with a second one, i wouldve survived with like 3k HP
there is a guild halcyon tehy played with 2 rogues and neitehr of them has any resounding protection trait
and in they kill vid, rogue pov he just stays 100% hp with not using anything
fake news
1st you survive because only 4-5 stacks, 2nd you should have Raptured pws + Barrier + SLT, then you can survive another one with Cheat death and you should have Barrier+SLT combo for 4th
World #12 guild to put an end to The Restless Cabal.. no deaths to swirlies pog :) Horderain, assa rogue https://www.wowprogress.com/guild/eu/al-akir/Halcyon
hes getting dispelld but after chrushing doubt or nah ?
they just all stack up in the priestbubble and have both discs blanket the raid with rapture shields
with 2 disc you'll never die from that shit
theres no difference between having 1 or 2 disc
1 disc can blanket most people who dont survive it by themselves
and you cannot stack priestshields
yes you can ?
anyway 2disc is a constant thing in multiple kill we saw on this boss there is a reason
doesn't WS only apply for the caster ?
ok, thank you Seliathan
Well
With 2 disc you have rupture more often and more barrier
Which means stronger shields
& odowla
But you cant have multiple shields no
Wait the disc is the video used regular barriers
you can stack shield bro
wake up
you can put 12 shield on the same guy if you have 12 priest ...
are you drunk
there's a debuff you get that prevents you from doing that
it only prevent the caster from spamming shield
no
the person who gets the shield gets weakened soul preventing further shields..
even when weakened soul wasn't a thing last tier
it was made so that priest can spam shield on multiple people but not on the same guy
you couldn't 12 shield someone
the more powerful shield overwrote the less powerful shield
Not sure what you're talking about there mate.
they didn't stack infinitely
if it worked that way, i mean
why wouldn't you just full stack disc priests
and literally ignore every mechanic ever
the tooltip may say "you cannot be affected by that players shield again" but it applies to all priests
since you obviously never played priest
there are fringe cases when everyone uses pw:s at the exact same time
where they can apply multiple shields due to the ws debuff not being present yet server-side
no
Well, show us a log with that then
as i said, there can be fringe cases where its possible
is that 1discshield +1sp shield?
yes it is
so youre literally taking the one exception of the rule
which i already mentioned
its called rapture
which SPECIFICALLY circumvents the "only 1 shield per caster" rule
to say "ye, you can have more than 1shield"
ok imma take another screen
Does this come back around to #assassination at any point or is it priest lessons?
According to priest disc multiple priests can shield the same target
2 disc 2 shield 2 WS and number are confimed with the wa
well, it started with the question of whether assa can survive crushing doubt without RP
yes so I tell you if you have 2 disc priest you can easily survive no matter what
but i guess i learned something new then. weird how not a single player in the entire raid got a double-shield that wasnt cast with 1 priest having rapture up 🤷
best thing is to get a weakaura that actually count up how many damage you can take
so you know if you need to use c os or not
in any case, even double PW:S is not enough to survive crushing doubt unless the raid uses even more externals (as in the video linked its devotion aura+pw:b) unless youre playing elusiveness and prefeint it properly
yes it isn't enough (without rapture should be around 45k absorb) but you can
add this some stuff like inge belt
seems to have been a 8.1 change btw, wasnt aware of that, so sorry for the misinformation
it's fine and it's indeed a 8.1 change
its still barely worth it, considering you have to dispell only slightly later for fatguy transition anyway
back 8.0 priest could spam shield anywhere anyday but then they put this back to prevent theim from spamming shield on the same target
while rogue can do significant dps if you can keep the debuff rolling, it requires some investment in the form of gear and raid-attention, im not sure if id ask my discs to preshield properly every single time just for a slight dps increase
but for M Cabal I think there is maximum 4 time where you will actually tank Crushing doubt with stacks
the transitions line up pretty well with 2mins, so you can get a full debuff vendetta out every ~2mins anyway without having to play around absorbs that much
that's the idea
only get that full stack for your vendetta
and it should line up with multiple raid cd
like Rapture / Barrier / SLT
using Cheat death for tanking one
can also be a thing
i tried maximizing promise uptime last raid and it didnt feel worth it, so ill just take the debuff now whenever i can unload CDs, play the appropriate azerite to maximize dps within those windows, and then just do regular cleave and help soaking instead
you'll only do 4 anyway
and just play around the BIG burst
i ran 2scent and could hold 50-60k
but its so much more attention required
and not worth the risk
that sounds like a lot of work
i definitely found SS traits the play on that fight ho
it is, and i died a handful of times or hit a stun cause playing melee multidot on that mess of a fight (as in visual mess) is just insane
@marble hemlock I could run 3x scent and 3x ttk with 2x rp 🤔
btw
dont
you're a fucking wizard for TTK build
finally had my group pull enough to make it worth
im pretty confident in my ability to multidot and still be aware of my surrounding
Oh mb its 2x ttk and 1ss
Yeah im probably not going to, but that seems like the log setup
eihtere you play safe, lose uptime, and then scent isnt worth it
or you do, and youre gonna have eagle-eye rank5
literal bggest brain play
well, the giga-parse setup is to either run 3RP and just keep the debuff, or just have priests pre-shield properly
run 3 RP + engi belt
564 agi per rupture target with 3scent 🤔
check out thoose 2 rogue that killed the boss
Big agi
they did the thing pretty properly with taking 4 debuff
(other rogue in the log only take 1 debuff at the start)
bc to maximize the buff you wanna be spamming out ruptures
but then it feels like a waste because all you're doing is tab rupture tab
well, the 2nd vendetta lineup is pretty bad
i suppose you could proc CD on purpose there
well, they still feint curhsing doubt w/o elusiveness
even tho regular feint doesnt work 😄
at this point, feint hasnt reduced fall-off damage on any of the major fights in the last ~3tiers
the last one i recall where it did still work, was nighthold
both elisande tank-debuff and anomaly bombs could be reduced with feint as far as i recall
every mechanic that came after or even some that came before that had more than just a strict damage-component (i.e. dresaron aoe was damage AND a knockback) feint was very unreliable and more often than not did not work
What about Kin’goroth?*
we knew feint didnt work on the doubts, usually its muscle memory or running out of melee and being energy capped etc
its just the muscle memory of "taking damage, lets feint" that weve been accustomed to
as i said, fall-off damage has been very weird recently
maybe bombs were different because its not based on distance to a player, but a doodad
whereas siegebreaker/crushing doubt are
but in the end its just something thats not consistent, period, so we have to figure out what it works on and where it doesnt work
if you have healers with the absorb trinket (from uunat i think) you can survive 9 stack promise, thats how we did it every second one
the other we had a cd stack for
It doesn’t work on KR final boss either?
nope
we assumed we needed to have very good promise uptimes on everyone since we couldnt class stack
should i be buying 415 azerites if i got only 1 or should i keep residium for 8.2 ?
do you need/want upgrades now? then buy them now
don't think it will make big diff for 15/16+ key right ?
hard to say, depends on the azerite you currently have 😄
and what you consider "a big difference"
specific max-ilvl azerite with 8.2 will be ~30-40k i imagine
probably more
well i am able to have 3EB and 3TTK, not at the same time and having perma 1 SS at least
so saving up a couple of thousand now will not really allow you to get a new max ilvl azerite the moment the patch drops
well, that seems good enough i suppose
but again, even random max ilvl will probably be somwhere around 15-20k
Certain stuff is just gonna bang you if you don’t have 415’s in Tyran.
random will cost 43125 residuum
It was sloot that said it from the summit
He said they were considering increasing the cost/reward per tier by 5x instead of 3x as it is right now
Which would be 25x as expensive
we had a ~9times increase in cost between the two previous tiers, so it'd be weird to suddenly have a much much bigger one
Saving up like 5k won’t really matter then if that’s the case.
esp since it would still allow people with gear-share raids to funnel enough azerite into a single person so hes able to buy a maxlvl piece the moment the new raid comes out
Tbf method is gonna be able to do that for most of their players almost regardless of what they price them at 😄
Josh' hc run the week before crucible gave him 2.4k residum
Josh & Frag gonna run 15 splits a week again.
Is there a macro I need to cancel the CoS trinket, like the one we used in HFC for soul cap
@marble hemlock should i try my shrouded + BBi piece for my ttk set or just leave it, do you think
@marble hemlock racing flag on kr last boss is fkn god tier
Thanks for the recommendation!
And the macro xd
is it normal for plumage + galecaller together simming much lower than pretty much any other combination of good trinkets? (plumage + dice , plumage + dead-eye , boon + dice, boon + deadeye, etc..) i don't get it
2xuse trinket
Because using one on-use trinket puts the other one on a 20s cd
So you cant use them at the same time, which makes one of them A LOT worse
@bleak spoke hm, not even sure what i'd use flag for on KR last boss, but glad its working
eb is overrated
but my pad 
Hey guys starting cabal tried today(guild allready had some enrage wipes). I read that you can survive the aoe with RP traits? Is that correct ? Don’t want to try it out and sabotage
anyone running masterful navi for m+?
the daggers carry u @mighty elm :D
everyone actually has gorak tul and cephalo kms
shouldve just saved for specific from the start but i guess i wouldnt have any outlaw/m+ gear in that case
but gambling the same shoulders 6 times was fun
hail the rngesus
ive gambled every shoulder atleast once so far
@nocturne gate not rly 😄 its the boots n trinket
apart from gorak tul
:))
and 6x tentacle laces 4x pistoleers i think
meanwhile there is people with 29k+ sim
IMGINE
10 is low propably more like 16 so far
but im saving now
if you take expected value buying specific is only very slightly better than gambling anyway, + you get some offspec pieces, but i guess i should have stopped after 3 or so
UHhh
No
If ur asking if your loot lockouts are still locked; they are
ah k ye was asking that if u can join 2 different raids on same char per week
that have both killed atleast 1 boss
You cannot no.
ok ty
I had relative luck with my gambles on pieces
finally 27k club https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/iARWE6AhMFBbDwacxN2jLN
everything in one week
without gift i wouldn't be +27k
Are those traits for pure ST?
which chest is bis?
Cephalohide Jacket probably
got gold tasseled shoulders 3 times in a row
i feared the 4th and rolled chest
i went mythic real quick. finally 29k https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/kUAAF4wzKgbNSV3KsydJP7
Yo
Is the scuffed trinket from the second boss in CoS good for aoe?
the Idol of Indiscriminate Consumption
It's trash from what I'm told. Maybe good for PvP. In AOE or something dumb
12 sockets? eat a dick 😦
Think it's just with item ID's, posted a sim earlier with 27.3
ye i know, no one is gonna be that lucky 😃
Well you definitely can be
Rise who posted his sim has supposidly highest sim of all sin rogues according to warcraftlogs
but it's not very accurate
Not gonna get 12 425s with sockets
But getting 410s ish just requires lots of play and slight luck
29k simdps O.o
Yeah if you're spamming 10+ all day
You're bound to get a good amount of them
There isn't a list of the highest sims anywhere is there?
I have 7 sockets, but unfortunately no lurkers yet so 😦
Only 1 that is 420, rest is 400-415s
I had 9 sockets late uldir 😄 But then i also played a lot more pvp
Currently got 5 sockets so
And pvp is definitely more gear than m+, but requires you to be high rating and actually win games, so its signifciantly harder
But obv it cant give trinkets (now that lurker>pvp trinkets) nor 2p cloak/ring
Assuming same ilvl yeah
Can't get a dice to forge for the life of me so never getting that
running fucking ML trink 
Just get a 400 socket :^)
oof
sockets are ridiculous rn
@lost horizon 8.2 has epic gems
So its 60 per socket instead 😄 😄 😄 😄
yikes
or 120 agi
Not by much though, since the scaling of gear isnt linear
My friend got a 415 socketed dice on his dh alt
honestly you shouldn't be able to get sockets randomly
When I boosted him :^)
it should be fixed
A 5 ilvl titanforge is worth a lot more from 420>425 than 385>390
either per equip slot or per item
Yeah idk
Idk feels weird that sockets are just worth that much
make all rings have sockets since it's insane to balance them with random sockets
Imo its fine, but it should be capped at something so you cant run around with 10 sockets 😄
or make them never be able to get sockets
capping # of sockets equippable is sort of gross
do rings have a higher socket chance?
just not an elegant solution
cuz it feels like it
doubtful, but the value of socket on rings is so high that you always see them
imo the best solution is to remove the random socket rolls and just set certain gear or slots to always be socketed
hello all; quick question about running multiple nothing personals. i see tons of rogues run more than 1 when possible but have yet to come across a simming scenario where that is ever better in single target/lightmovement models. Is there something specific that enables this build? Or just a side effect of the best azerite pieces happen to also have multiple NP's?
it Sims better for the people that use it, or they just wanna.
gotcha. right on thanks. i just wasnt sure if there was gear breakpoint or something that enabled that specific build since so many 413-418 builds run as many as possible and ive never seen a sim recommend more than one haha i appreciate the quick response!
Np is very good still even after the 1st trait and (excluding dd since you should always aim for 3 with those builds) it only gets outsimmed by bbi as a standalone trait
But 3rd ring matters too and a piece with op might still sim higher than non op piece with np, thus choosing the op piece @keen elk
Prime example of this is cephalohide chest where dd ttk op outsims dd np elemental etc, since thete are no dd np op chests atm, ceph is BiS
Perfect! Thanks for the in-depth response. It seams the piece that has stayed consistent and kept simming a 2nd np was in exchange for 80% or higher uptime on treacherous covenant. I was tinkering with it and if that uptime is below 80% or the fight is shorter than 5 minutes the 2nd NP sims higher on both SSx2DDx1 and DDx3 builds for single target.
I mean when running basic 3 DD MA builds
Thank you for the detailed response though! That helps a lot. 3 weeks back after a 2 year break hah relearning while also trying to keep up with mythic progression
normally you'll see 1/2np and a bbi/ttk
Optimally 1 of each
Assuming chest is ceph and shoulders are goraks
For the difficult bosses you'll be better off going a heavy DD build with MA
for the first 6 SS's can be good for doing more damage, but a lot of the time it's pad damage for parses
Yeah for sure, I’ve got the padding down on champs, jadefire, grong and conclave. And then running outlaw on opulence and looking like for rasta too now (first week saving lockout and working on him) so I’m just tinkering with sin stuff for learning purposes for the time being
Yeah I mean for the first 6 bosses you can pretty much run most things
and you'll have a decent time
but rasta for example
you can run a bunch of SS if you want, but the damage you're doing isn't really damage, it's just pad
add damage doesn't really matter, what matters is the ST damage
So you might aswell run standard MA build
Even though on the meters you might look worse because you're not padding as hard as all the others
Yeah so basically we’re running DD/MA build on the progression and pure ST fights while we run SS/pad build to parse in fights we can cheese it lol because for anything where add damage is important we are usually running outlaw anyway. Sound about right?
Sure, I mean I wouldn't count out sin because of add damage
When you look at parsing for boss damage @ opu, sin has higher parsers than outlaw does
Outlaw's damage on opu is mostly just add damage normally using opal and using 1 wits to have your damage go through the roof each time there are adds out
that normally die quite quickly, meanwhile sin just takes the CP from FoK and dumps into boss damage, sorta depends at what rate your adds are dying and if you need the damage 🤷
Yep I actually got moved onto opal and outlaw for our opu kill because add damage was an issue lol
I generally play sin while learning the fights too unless it’s cut and dry outlaw>sin. And like I said, I’m only 3 weeks in so I’ve only seen these bosses in heroic once and mythic the other 2 weeks lol so still learning. SSx3 was amazing the first week or so because I could focus more on fight mechanics and not lose as much uptime damage lol
Yeah makes sense
I mean I think sin is generally better for the hardest bosses
i.e the last 3
Hopefully we get to see those here in the coming weeks haha we will see. I really appreciate your time and conversation and insight my dude. This discord is just as helpful as it’s always been
Aye gl with getting there^^
Would you guys take 405 Cepha with DD/TTK/OP against a 415 DD/NP/ EleWhirl?
If anyone still wonders about the 29k sim, i set all items to have a socket
With better azerite it would be a bit higher
You cant prove it
The sockets are a lie
Yeah, max sim possible atm is like 30k
😬
But that requires, as you said, like full sockets
And "lurkers gift will be fairly easy to get at 425 since thats its baseline ilvl on mythic" that i said a few weeks ago
I kinda dont agree with that anymore 😄
Used the full 30 sec in bod reclear, was fun
I dont have one yet 
Tbf i havent bothered to run it for extra coin chances, but still
I got mine from a hunter again
I don't drop good azerite or trinkets in bod/cos
In uldir i got the good stuff
wait you don't have 12 sockets 
😐
I have 2
@marble hemlock ive been using it to dodge the jump away from my team haha
not as far as i noticed, nah
unless elusiveness I take it?
but i couldnt tell you for sure
since i almost always play elusiveness in KR anyway
i hate not having cheat, but i guess that's even more of a reason to play elu 😦
well, cheat is nice
but KR has so many bosses or even trash with DoT effects
that elusiveness is just amazing
all 4 bosses have a DoT you can get, although its avoidable on the last boss, and most trash has some form of DoT :p
dont
every othe class has one or multiple proper defensives
we just have immunities and take much more damage
whenever those immunities dont work, we're screwed
fair
Master poisoner or elabarote planning for mythic + ?
EP
pretty much alkways EP
leeching poison or Elusiveness for 3rd boss in Temple?
elusive
do you guys use exsanguinate over toxic blade?
Barely anyone runs exang as current meta
are bleeds snashotted? If I use a trinke that increases my agi or mastery will my bleed do the multiplier dmg for it's duration even after the trinket buff ends?
No
only haste w/ esang, subt/nightstalker empowerments are snapshotted
Quick question about pooling and not clipping EP. is there a certain energy range to pool to before using a finisher if there is no chance of fitting envenom into the last 1 sec of EP? Example; no EP, 5 cp, pool energy to X, then envenom, fit 2 mutilates into EP window, repeat?
*when running DD build
You can honestly just spam until TB is coming up and make sure you have enough energy to get in two to three Envenoms in the window.
There's a bunch of nuance when it comes to keep ENV up for as long as possible but you have to learn when to not try to clip EP, and when you should be pooling and not looking at clipping ENV.
Once Vendetta/Vanish comes up make sure you have enough energy to do whichever rotation inside the Master Assassin window you have lined up.
Right on. I appreciate ya
👌
I've seen the basic guides but is there a more in-depth guide that goes beyond your rotation?
SIM says I can do 23k ish but I end up with around 19-20. Figured I'm missing something beyond "keep dots up"
sin rotation isnt really indepth
keep dots up, dont overwrite buffed garrotes get 2x-3x 4+ cp envenom in tb
Hm ok. I hit 99 once in the logs but at times it seems like even with high dps and not clipping I fall to the 60s range
if you have a log of your fights use wowanalyzer.com it will tell u the major flaws in your rotation in that fight
and for logs, depending on encounter/tier playing good doesn't necessarly reflect in orange log
its dependant on your killtime as well and how you put yourself into the position to cleave/cheese
Okay that makes much more sense. I'll try to be of around wowanalyzer. Thanks.
gl
Guys what is evasion working on? Only meele attacks?
And is that 30% on feint more worth this week for kr then cheat death?
for KR elusiveness is always better
Kr and tos I'd take elusiveness every time
evasion works not only on melee attacks @fallen bay
also the charge at KR 3rd boss, or sharknado in freehold e.g.
yeah, they are kinda melee attacks, not direct but physical
does evasion work on eudoras shot?
yes
yeah
Evasion is so nice on tyr fh and kr
Dodge 1st boss and eudora shot, and dodge bleed blade thingy from 3rd boss kr
i need reminding, what boss does eudora shot?
oh.. lol
ahh yes!
hey guys, im going to gear my rogue for mostly m+ with ma bois and just wanted to check if im going for the right setup. i saw that i should go for crit>mastery mostly, but im not sure about the traits. do i want 3x SS and 3x echoing blades in a perfect world or a different combination?
you can pick 3x ss 3x eb
but also 2x ss 2x eb 2x ttk
or 1x ss 3x eb 2x ttk
any combination of those traits is fine
adapt it to your personal liking, e.g. you lack single target reduce eb increase ttk, you lack aoe, reduce ttk/ss increase eb
i see, thanks. i was trying to stalk some people on raider.io but had a hard time finding an assa rogue 😄
raider.io is not the best way to see the traits they use since its not super regularly updated
but there are some streamers that play assa twitch.tv/incarnated or twitch.tv/flawlesspls
incarnated basically plays assa only, for flawless hes playing outlaw too, but used to stream assa as well
(for general gameplay, traits, talents)
3x EB is def overkill for tyr
running with an outlaw and can keep up with him easily with 1x EB except some reapings which are easy anyway
I blast his ass with 6 garrotes on big groups
3x ss
playing mostly with a frost mage and a DH so dealing with reaping is not really a problem
then 3x SS is pretty solid for small/mid size cleave and ST boss dmg
personally i think 1 EB and 2 EB makes a noticeable difference
Wanted to ask about the pooling energy, how does it exactly work in rotation with example please cause I think I don't understand it properly and losing dps when trying to do it
Main point is to pool before TB so you can get 2 envenoms off
Pool to +-80% energy before envenoming as well, then do 2x mutilate (1x if crit to 4cp or 3cp + tb soon up) inside the Elaborate planning window then wait for the pool again
the 2nd sentence is outside of TB windows btw
Thats your TB window yes
Holding TB is almost never worth unless for big cd's like Vendetta/Hero/2nd pot (and the only holding it a bit)
So I should refresh dots with pandemic during TB debuff?
I refresh if I know I'm not gonna get another envenom out, otherwise I delay the refresh - but that's purely what feels right to me, haven't simmed or researched that
Okok
you should anticipate when TB comes off CD and refresh your dots before that, that's the tricky bit in assa's rotation
And every window I should do like that on bosses I guess
if you are outside of TB window just take it easy and pool energy, don't rush to spam finishers, plan ahead
Usually mine automatically line up pretty well so has never really been a prob for me
And is that haste trinket from shrine worth to dungeons? Cause I see lot of movement and I don't usually use the full duration of it
It all really depends on what you want to get out of that trinket. If you want high Overall damage and you usually cant use the full duration, then no - harlans or spyglass is probably better. If you want some more deeps on bosses and dont really care about overall it could still really be worth it. Not saying you do - but focussing on overall damage isn't the way to go. Cater your azerites and trinkets to what your group needs
Does it need more boss dmg? More big AoE/reaping? or more pack damage? Or just prio target damage?
So might be worth switching it from darkshore boss trinket or motherload trinket?
For*
Don't have spyglass
Whats the darkshore one caled?
forest lord's razorleaf
Think it would be worth swapping to Boon yeah
Boon sims better than both of them on ST and MT. but if you feel like you barely use the boon's time cause of movement then the Forest sims 2nd best
dice spyglass or forest lord leaf all good , plume isn't bad either I hate gcb tbh unless you can just tunnel still
gcb is really bad for m+
you're constant moving, it would be mostly worth for bosses, but even then only if you are sure you dont need to move doing duration
It's pretty hard to get value out of it in m+
If you have one, a plumage will be better
I think gcb is aight for harder tyr weeks tbh, since a lot of time is spent on bosses
But plumage is literally just "press this button for more damage"
What should we aim for with Crafted gear Affix wise?
those mechagon set rings look kinda interesting
although i guess its gonna be a grind to get the ones you want and also at a high ilvl
i know that
but im assuming it will have more then 370 ilvl
they are still interesting anyway
What would be the ilvl needed for it if it were to be out now?
Is it gonna be a grind to get it down in the first hand?
they are in the dungeon journal
the concept is there
and it seems interesting
lots of combos like that
Hm yeah they look interesting
so one tells you what you have to do to get proc other one gives you proc
Just hope they'll give competitive gear
its all placeholders
im just talkinga bout the concept is all
there are healing combos and stuff
defensive ones
Myeh gonna be down to ilvl ig 🤷
and thought it looked cool havent even read wowhed lately
I know ilvl doesn't matter super much, but still
idk
depending on the icd on the shield
that one seems the strongest by far
or the heal one
yeah
running the heal one on every player, and stacking the uwunat tanktrinket on everyone too
might allow for some janky 4dps+1tank comps
Dealing nature damage + 46k damage
Env + 46k 
but im less excited about dps ones
Tb wont increase the damage right?
numbers tuning will come and i guess they will put them on the vendor
Sad
but i found doing a set bonus that way interesting
Yeah def ones could be interesting, might be diff between 4/5 heal
If several peeps running those
none of the assa multipliers are global ones
its kinda weird tho
seeing how assa only increases rogue-skill damage
but sub dmg increases for the most part are global ones
I'm not sure that sub dmg amp are increasing damage that don't come directly from player (like trinket, azerite etc...)
I mean not anymore
should be aoe
Yes you can feint it
@marble hemlock Sub damage amps are not really global
Or well, they don't apply to trinkets nor Azerite
probably changed it from legion
since legion ones were
they mightve just redesigned the entire thing
Yeah they changed it from legion
Afaik trinkets and general damage traits are not affected by any amps
what would be the ideal traits for pure ST (how many stacked etc)
with current gear 3 dd 1np 1 bbi 1 ttk
(cuz thats the pieces with overwhelming power)
ty ty
most cooldowns only affect the damage of things tagged with your spec/class now iirc
sup boys? 3x DD or 2x DD+ 1x NP for ST?
You can have 6 traits total, ideally you want 3x dd
on my current gear i got this 3x dd but no other assa traits, wich are usefull for st... got the 415 engi goggles (haste buff picked), BoD stat buff on shoulders and dagger in the back on my chest in the second rows
I'd recommend heading over to Raidbots.com and simming your character
Trust the sims
is there a discord or any website that has multiple rogue uis?
looking to swap from default finally and want something that is not overwhelmed with weakauras
the majority uses wa for a big part of their ui
you can look at https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/cat104.html for ui's
if you want to use elvui: https://wago.io/elvui
or build your own
If im not using any SS traits, do I take master assassin instead of subterfuge on st fights?
okay, ty
tb you take even with 1 SS no ?
Most likely

