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it depends
like I can't think of a situation where you MUST NOW refresh your garrote, and the envenom is gonna be like 4-5 seconds away from a mut
and if it is, pool better
thats the point
it removed the pooling factor
it's w/e
and probably gonna scale better with haste over the longer dur
well then its a nerf cause the dot is now 8 seconds and you're gonna override it
so its a QoL buff for small brainers
and an actual nerf for big brainers
@crimson palm Doomblade was always 8s on beta tho
that's what I heard as well
i havent touched assa on beta
so in the end, just a tooltip change
was just letting you know
well i hope this is just the start of a tuning campaign and we get some buffs
how viable is Sin looking in SL, new to rogue. But decided to it make it my main alt for SL
i take it outlaw is still M+ king in SL
so p much same as bfa
or am i wrong
yep
mmm, not a big fan of outlaw
welcome to the chill zone then :)
hidden blades is only good cause the other options aren't great
its anti-synergy to the playstyle
poison bomb has design issues and rng
crimson tempest just isn't strong enough on shorter pulls
(this is all shadowlands btw, if you take hidden blades in bfa you're trolling)
outlaw does look better playstyle wise in beta without spamming roll the the bones
I tend to agree
i might actually enjoy outlaw with the changes
I probably won't 
that's Weebspyr to you, peasant
excuse u
Who is Schmokspyr?
swamp 

swamp:
super wet ✅
slow and chill ✅
monster ✅
witches brewing love potions ✅
sin channel:
drippin as fuck ✅
pretty quiet ✅
whispyr ✅
wholesome vibes ✅
where's the fucking difference

sin chan is most chill channel atm
i didnt study enough about castle nathria yet
but i wonder of there will be a boss more favorable for sin
than a ST target where sub should be ahead
bench is looking quite sin-friendly

I think that's second to last boss?
yea the bench prog
huntsman seems like a pretty obvious candidate
but its boss 2
so kinda irrelevant
but also sub mastery affecting rupture more than sin mastery affecting rupture
kinda yikes
we'll have to see though
and pray for heroic tuning to bring us back
kinda yeh 
for all we know, sub can get destroyed tomorrow, and sin over buffed

whispyr ✅
whispyr 📉
fixed that for you
i'd more call you the token furry
Wow rude
i love how the slaughter tooltip was updated to say that you replace your poison with a more powerful lethal poison
still just deadly poison but shadow damage lol
Shadow > nature confirmed
5head blizzard
nothing new
that akaari nerf was kind of a joke tbh
combo points are still there
does shadow damage now
Yeah and it’s actually not even a nerf cause deepening daggers apparently
I didn’t think it would work
that nerf
But apparently it works on undead racial
So it’ll work on akaari’s too
Not documented that it doesn’t
correct
unless it was a bug
because it never states there should be cp's there
so who knows

Maybe even 9 if you crit
Nah but shiv actually does some damage now
It’s still not great
But it’s not nonexistent anymore lmao
Not as dank as damage trinkets
@balmy condor Sepsis got added to Shiv +nature damage.
I know
big 
just going off this
What even is that
i trust
Sepsis buff adding more power to the DoT makes the Conduit slightly stronger and if it also gets affected by Shiv.. 🤔
I'll have to make a Night Fae Rogue rq and test it out
I fucking hate sepsis tbh
You like having to vanish for damage when the other two specs can use it for utility?

I just like the idea of Night Fae tbh
since i don't have beta i can't say if i actually like it
Anything that makes the stealth talent row stronger is bad in my book
It sounds more intresting then "press this button for an infinite dot" or "you get a diffrent poison"
i just really want to stay away from mantle, so im with whispyr, if it means mantle, im staying away from night fae
Stealth reliance is a fucking disaster
Why do you guys dislike it so much tho
mantle, was the most annoying thing for me in legion
idk with shadowlands both the other specs have big reliance too
I liked mantle in legion

hated it

No they don’t
What’s sub get from vanish
another slaughter hit 
i'll still take bone spike at this point
I only do m+ because i'm bored and people need someone
otherwise i'd never touch that shit
i'd need a stable group
and i've never had one
so it doesn't interest me, maybe in SL i'll get one
I’ve had stable groups but we’re still bad lul
lol
xD
why you NA 
True
EU friendly stream tomorrow dw navi 

Y u do dis
Path of exile league man
But yeah, for m+ i can see how stealth reliance is annoing, but for raiding i really like it
i only do +15s
Which means as sin
and some +20s when people force me
You fucking done for lul
i don't use vanish and vendetta 70% of the time because i forget i can use it on adds

m+ god

8.3 is the first time i actually did some m+
so yeah
Since i had a break since ToS
You eu or na @normal olive ?
he's eu
EU
is assassination still good for pvp or sub is first now ?
rip celerity now?
yes
god dammit
only outlaw now
didn't they change it?
sub channel says it's not proccing
celerity change is literally just a tooltip change
is it not proccing off of snd anymore?
not when spec'd as sub, no
I mean I know it's a tooltip change
it's Adrenaline only on wowhead
"Adrenaline Rush increases your damage by 15%, and you have a chance while Slice and Dice is active to gain the Adrenaline Rush effect for 4 sec."
if anyone could test that'd be great lol
People in sub were saying it doesn't proc anymore
yep
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don't have beta though
me neither

no beta club unite
not meant to have it anyways, it's an outlaw legendary
no beta lul
I have to take people's word on it as well
it looked like just a tooltip change
unless if blizz specifically says it
stuff like celerity not working for Sin or sub probably won't be visible in datamined notes
like akaari's no longer grants extra cps
even though the datamining doesn't actually mention that
yeah
there's just so many things that might be bugs
or might not be bugs
and not documented anywhere
and no communication
now if was live and akaari got the cp part remove
there would likely be hotfix notes on it
blizz doesn't usually post beta hotfix notes
akaari just loses all the cp kek test it yourself nerds
i'll go test celerity 🙂

gonna test it on assa too i guess
but can you test that for me?

rip
i mean the leggo was pretty clearly designed for outlaw
it's designed for outlaw but working cross spec wasn't that bad tbh
when it's clearly better for outlaw already
don't tell blizz
I'm not a fan of cross speccing cd's
I also am not much of a fan
celerity not working anymore on sub or sin?
correct, as it should be
Yep, outlaw only
Dashing going to remain how it is imo, you guys expecting it to get nerfed a bit?
I’m expecting nurfs
I want zoldyck m+ poison dream
Buff slaughter poison like the “empowered” or whatever said
Pair it with the fok poison stuff
Big poison m+
Zoldyck for bleed and poison single target
Fuck ma, reverse synergy with subterfuge
I’m here for it
that would be awesome imo too
All they need to do is make poison bomb 15x stronger
And we’d basically be back to legion


didnt PB only proc on envenom in legion?
they changed it to rupture as well at some point
I just want it to do damage
yeah the pb part is a meme
i think it did both but it had a like, 5% chance
I'm actually sort of interested in hidden blades
its fresh
cause it sucked so bad all expac
tru
CT I'm alright with
But it's gotta be one of the weakest last rows for a class
Feels like it
yea the RNG on PB is lame would be better as a cd
It was controllable tho
it wasn't tho
If you tracked the time from the last PB, you could kinda guess when the next one was coming more or less
oh
Like if you are finishing a pull and it has been +40 secs since the last one
You hold envenom
I hated that
And you had 1 for the next pull for sure
yeah, it was rng
You compare PB or hidden blades to darksoul what a joke bro
but it was quite consistent
with a few outliners
Like 80% of the time, with +1 min since last PB
because on a 1min 30sec M Harj pull, i had it doing 17% of my dmg, other times it was 7% or 12%
its random
you could get one in the next 2 envenoms or so
never controlled
I don't remember the numbers exactly anymore
Noadays I think it's different
for a pb on opener
nowadays*
I don't think you could ever track it though
*pray for tanks to not move out of pb
You could 100%
weakaura to scream when your pb procced in m+
I had a notepad with all the procs
i could get pbs, but tanks would literally scoot out
No man, but what I mean
I tested using envenoms instaly after getting a proc
and then waiting X time after one
I think with 2 mins since last one, you had a proc almsot for sure
But this was in legion
the way it works got changed I believe
And the dmg got nerfed enough not to make it worht to track
why can't we have an item like this
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/370393981021978626/756330810398867516/unknown.png
wasn't work tracking to begin with 
also that staff with the stat changes
omega rip
It was a +1 million dmg proc on pulls
1 haste item instantly taking you to 20% DR
at the end of pulls you could avoid using 1 or 2 envenoms
and secure one PB proc on the next one
SL Question: Is shrouded suffocation built into anything moving forward? Furthermore, will assassination play similarly in m+, with garrote openers, poisons and ruptures?
in terms of shrouded suffocation, no, there's nothing like it in SL
Kk
it should play fairly similar in M+
Thx!
seems like celerity doesnt work on sin anymore? anyone else havin the same results?
it's apparently been locked to outlaw only, yeah
I heard something about Venthyr and Slaughter Poison outscaling Bone Spike at some higher conduit level?
it didn't quite outscale for sub before this build
got closer than it does for sin though
? thats not what i remember seeing from fuu's sims
but i mean, they arent super important, since its at max conduit level
o
yeah, venthyr wins, but anyway, it's not bad for sin
but doesn't quite get there
(with conduits)
!bugs
Rogue Bug tracker: https://github.com/SimCMinMax/WoW-BugTracker/labels/Rogue
there's a lot of tuning to go still though, so no reason to pick now
I'm behind on the news, but so far venthyr is the worst (currently) for rogues out of the 4 covenants. BUT I WANT TO PLAY IT FOR THE CLASS FANTASY. BUT I DON'T WANNA SUCK. 😩
oh?
Kyrian is BY FAR the worst
How are we looking come prepatch? Is Ass gonna still be top dog, or is it gonna tank? And how are we looking at Artifact traits? I've been told Heart is just gonna be... gone?
Like ain’t even close bad
Heart is fine
Traits are fine
Essences are fine
Literally just corruptions gone
the only time it's good vs venthyr is if you use literally nothing, no conduits, nothing
Take your haste set that you use now
and even then, the other two stomp it
Also, Kyrian is so solid, I love not being able to benefit from it because crit chance gives extra combo points so we will never be able to use the ability 🙄
I had prepatch sims laying around here somewhere
Cause someone else asked
Let me get back to my pc
I’m on a walk atm

Walk > Sims
Definitely not
Walks are dumb and stupid but it’s warm inside and my therapist said I should try going on walks
Anyways
Blindside seemed mega suck
Heart is fine
@balmy condor how you going to activate it
^^
Crit build going to be the pog
Gibbering, Gorak, and Tortured would all be Nothing Personal D:
yeah no shiv r2 til 58
You mean exsang?
Yes
exsang has worked best
Was still pumping like 56-57 apm
Im in that pile
I keep forgetting that Rogues are a pooling class because of all this haste
Ah yep kk
Yeah on the beta branch
Also set level to 50 obviously
Which is probably why the haste is so high
Memory kinda carries apm super hard
And the guy I was simming
Ye
Yeah he had a couple crit/mast pieces
Once I gem haste maybe even wrath trinket?
Probably not
If you’re playing exsang the burst is still too good
It’s still 3x SS and goraks and all that
yeah ss still makes it nuts
Why not still clock
Goraks beats clock
Exsang simmed best for me on prog when I had literally no expedient yeah
Even 3m?
Are they changing what is offered in the Heart of Darkness slot? because with Gibbering/Gorak/Tortured it would wind up being 3x SS and 3x NP
Clock got buffed by exped
Ye
Lol
Blightborne is insane
Ye bi is bigboi
Hod would be from the ilg shoulders
Are they bad
Yeah but goraks is strictly better
i meant on the other 2 pieces
Yeh though the energy is quite redundant with the expedients
We probably won’t have the haste to play ct anymore
def not
Definitely not
Im ready for np ss vop major meme exsang build
Blindside 
i'm not big on blindside
Seems unlikely though given EP in exsang window is probably pretty wild
yeah idk
Here, the TLDR
Ptr sin is the same as live except for:
- Blindside sucks because we have high apm, high EP uptime
- Poison bomb > ct
- Change all your hods out
- Equip memory again
That’s it
As long as you’re wearing shrouded it seems unlikely
rip
BotE // EotFI+BotD+MLD?
Did anyone sim without breath, I mean it's always been awesome but also required until now
Probably clf
Iris
Iris
Holy shit just call it iris then
Capital I is a baby l
lmao
I read it 3 times and got it
Seems fine 
I was on a roll!
What is mld
I don’t want to use my brain anymore
I thought your shift button was broke
I assume
...
Lucid, iris, breathe
^
Blood // Iris+Breath+Memories gahd
Very easy very clear
Blood was simming higher last I checked
It's MofLD guyd
Yeah
Get it right
And also with CLF you would have to replace the bote/breath/Iris minor with memory/breath/iris
And that’s kinda rip
first time we've had nerfed CLF without exp holding it up
CLF is dead to me, because I don't have it, so... that's good. Healthy.
Man prog essences were wv major for me
Big tb gaming
What
It's shocking to me that MofLD isn't catching on 
idk no one used it after like maut
I’m not playing tb deeper subterfuge
It can stay there imo
there's no TB
Yeah that was with alacrity
is poison referring to poison bomb
yeah, but TB is gone
shiv 
Poison = Posion bomb, or... Master Poisoner? Don't hate me more, please.
Oh yeah we get shiv default
For dd builds
Inb4 dps requirement for killing nzoth is 1k 
It’s just like a crit build atm
we're gonna lose buttons kinda
Wait what is the opener with shiv exsang
you don't shiv
Yeah
Shiv does nothing in pretach
Lose tb
You don’t cast shiv
yeah
Thanks blizz

Ah
Fml
So alacrity vs exsang then?
Yeah
Surely exsang with shrouded and like a galecallers or something would own
That’s “bleed” in the middle
well corruption is gone w/the prepatch right
This is gonna be some venom rush tier gaming
Hahaha
Yeah but exsang simmed better for me before I got any expedient
No but effectively the gameplay is the same
As if you had vr
Sure

I felt 8 people cringe reading that @bleak spoke hahaha
Like tb or exsang are just such a big part of your experience as sin idk
Rotation gonna feel so fucking empty
VR 
Wat
If we don’t have shiv to press
Prepatch always fucked
Virtual Reality
Venom rush
Venom rush
Agree to disagree 
Vdead Rtalent
i dont even know what venom rush does
Nah he’s right that it’s empty in prepatch
that is how foreign a talent it is to me
if the target is poisoned
Lowers cast cost of muti
it's awful
literally never been used since it got changed to that
Not just awful for damage but also awful to play
What we going to change the macro button to do? /dance?
It reduces now? No longer a refund? lol
Not exactly but I’m being pedantic
lol
Shallow and pedantic
Refund and reduce is the same thing realistically
That difference is only important for subtlety innit
Like if deepening wasnt a refund but a cost reduction
It would be way more forgiving
Whisp just going to have an empty hole where exsang used to be coz he drags it down every respec
i feel like im going to play sub and just forget sin exists
Err not deepening, I meant relentless
until its effective again
XD
The 6e/cp spent passive
The macro lives!
Nah gonna be playing outlaw
Imagine pressing exsang when you only have 3 secs on your dots left 
Like 4% behind
With both blood and bte amp
Not that bad
Im going to play affliction
exsang 
Gonna be fun
ye same
@fallow otter stop that cringe war
Prepatch is a meme fiesta
Uldir is like a weird one
nah sub feels easy to me after playing it on the beta for a few hours
gotta wait for a boss for that
I tried it a bit on ptr and it feels more forgiving
i fought a target dummy for 2 hours
At least on a target dummy
@icy ember have another go now that akaaris doesn't give cp
ye i bet dance feels reduced 
Always has been
Wits with new flurry too
no wits 
Really feels like sin got nothing
Ohhh yeh
Man I’m gonna miss wits, even this shitty version of it
I mean... Sub probs the fun thing to do for prepatch
^
Shrouded combo points yeah
i think they'd have to do a big pass on the other two talents if they did
which i mean, they should anyway
i mean nightstalker is so janky
could make it so any crit over 100% converts to bonus damage
then you could be the master master assassin assassin
no that spec is dead

apparently fires don't spread if there aren't phoenixes around
lots of phoenixes on the west coast of the us right now 
Can vouch for Phoenixes
you'd think that after so many rebirths they wouldn't need any more gender reveal parties
okay that's enough this is a spec channel me sorry
Might just be pigeons on Fire though
Next you gonna tell me I can't cook on my combooosted mages
They already are
Can cook off rag pet also
that i knew at least
lots of phoenixes on the west coast of the us right now <
the one time I come into assassination 😂
I want prepatch already, im tired of corruption 😦
agree 🙂 they sucks 🙂
Whoever thought corruption was a better idea over titanforging must have been out of their mind
And I can't believe I am saying that
tbh i am really happy about the m+ loot nerf..
so raid will be more relevant.. .. old times taste imho
Same
Covenants are going to be a mess though. Thank god I am part of a raiding guild that doesn't really care which one you pick because I really dislike necrolord aesthetic hahaha
m+ imho were just mhe..
i will go fae i think
cause bonespike will get nerfed for sure
and i think sepsis give us more stuff..
On prepatch, we won't even be using shiv right? since it does nothing
so, is the rotation literally maintain bleeds and env?
Shiv basically functions the same as toxic blade on live
isnt the shiv nature damage for lvl 56 though?
so at 50 it just does the poison thing
Let me log in to beta and check
who cares about prepatch 🙂 shiv for assa will be like tocis blade so
not on prepatch though
Correct. You will not be pressing shiv in prepatch
my guild will raid since a couple guys are missing mounts
Seems very strange to add shiv in to the rotation whilst leveling later
It changes from utility to core rotation ability
imho on prepatch just play as usual .. no prob
true 🙂
we are slowly becoming a 2 button spec
the thing i will miss will be SS
Sin has always been easy
We're not. We have snd, the two dots, exsang is still used in prepatch assuming you're well geared
i dont like snd on assa but i will see 🙂
recupricate return when
We have improved poison on prepatch?
Like the rank 2 thing? No
Tbh idk if it even works yet.
Was bugged last build still at least
Ok, i would like to play with mp again
Can I rant about how stupid slaughter is for sin
I mean you can, but it's better for us than it is for outlaw
It does the exact same damage as ambush only it leaves a dot. It's so uninspired
That's what the conduit is for
What does the conduit do?
Still seems a tad uninspired
Kinda
I guess it kind of fits the theme of sin being the easier rogue spec but come on
It's that I am a sucker for vampires or otherwise I would be truly lost on what covenant to pick
It's not just a sin thing though
I know
Not sure if they're leaving bone spike as it is, but considering that rogues did not get a lot of attention during the beta I'm assuming they're leaving it how it is
Tuning only just started, there's still lots to do
I'm sure that one will get looked at, in one way or another
The animacharging of the combo point is what I have the most issue with though
Is most people's biggest issue. Wouldn't be too hard to remake, if that's what they want. Probably too late for that though.
I just expect some sort of dmg buff
Yeah, and to be honest, it sucks but it's also understandable compared to the dumpster fire some classes were like shadow priest
It does, but I think they can play around within the ability they've made and make it a bit less frustrating to play. We'll see.
Based on the name, I think a rework where the ability "mimics" your finishers for a limited time for extra damage would be kickass
has any1 tried using sepsis with nighstalker? does the whole dot duration gets 20% damage increase?
subterfuge only works with garrote tho, thats why im asking cuz a 20% increase on full sepsis dot could be big
i see it give 10% mov increase and 12% damage increase while stealth is active
20% mov increase
or am i wrong ^
?
righ, could be but still
12% is for sub
The kyrian ability is so zzzz, they’d have to fully rework it or make it the best by far for me to run it

I'm probably choosing Venthyr , don't care about bonespike, since I dislike Necrolords zone
Plus the tmog is way better
uh oh
does sepsis activate master assassin?
Both for MA talent and MA leggo?
the world is your playground
Nobody knows
Safest bet is make sure you have a weapon set for outlaw and one for sub/sin
in terms of pvp, outlaw is very doubtful to be a serious contender imo
I mean you just need 3 weapons to have a weapon set
Dagger is better in outlaw offhand anyway when weapons don’t have special effects
wrong channel lmao
against 3+ enemies is it better to spam fan of knives as a combo generator?
live or sl?
live
depends on how many eb you're running
i think with any eb you use FoK even on 2 target
assuming you got enough crit for it
without that stuff its 3 target to apply poisons if any of the 3 are missing them
but you dont spam FoK until later
i think 4
but that might be outdated
whysper will be along to correct me
🙂
eb?
echoing blades
I heard my name
Fok on 2 with eb, 3 without, 4 with vendetta
With 2 Eb you can start overcapping
DD is add 1 more
Multiple DD is add 1 more
So vendetta with 3 dd is 6 I wanna say
2 dd is also 6
Id have to check though
Dd logic is kinda

whats dd? sounds like a long forgotten memory
what should have been in place of Alacrity
Feels like it should be baseline tbh
Mutilate/envenom pooling isn’t really a baseline mechanic outside of shiv
even in TB/Shiv it isn't a real mechanic
ye
but at least DD as a talent would allow Sin to specialize in Crit (DD) or Haste (Exsang) which is nice.
dunno why them did'n mint to port this in talents for SL...
by talents and legos sin might be good by the start...i hope them change/fix patch-by-patch as usual
sub will be the start
not enough stats in early for sin to be competitive right now
Did they officially announce pre-patch date?
no
about 2weeks later? this wen
FB channel
some friends told me and minding this fit the neck fullfill
nothing has been put out
dunno cause i'm freezed for beta by august
hm?
we putting our bets on very last minute announced sept 29th or very late october 5th
3 week prepatch seems short
theres only legit 2 weeks worth of questline so i dont see a long prepatch
since itll likely be chaos
the bulk of prepatch benefit for blizzard is finding deployment issues or bugs in the class changes so they can be fixed before SL goes live
shrinking that window is spooky
god help them
those released in august
legion did
and cata released in december
so either it would get knocked back wayyy to december
or stay as is
mainly due to holidays and the raid opening
You mean mainly do to Cyberpunk release 😆
problem is SS kind of needed subter to work well
if SS and subter are on the same row, dead talent
i dont think many people care about th cyberpunk release lol
SS is also good just for the extra CPs
take away venom rush and give SS
I am for that
a talent tier with SS and DD in it would be sick
if anything
alac in dungeons
you can use slice and dice between pulls if you're shrouding or smt so you don't drop stacks
there's 0 gameplay implication on DD
ppl who think dd is a well-designed trait 









