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Or soloing raid bosses
They gotta get rid of us somehow 🙂
I want to be broken 😦
In no situation outside of target dummies will you reach that kind of exsang levels
Sepsis+Shadowdust was actually legitimately kinda broken for Outlaw lol
Ppl don’t see things as they will be used in practice
Back when it Vanished
Oh, I've already been broken on the inside. I don't see a joke here 
You can have up to 38k dps with SBS/Exsang I think, which is similar dps to what a whole 2/3/8 raid does.
O
How long will that take?
seems fine 
How many exang is needed to get to that?
Is it really that hard to just tune the other druid covenants so that they're on the same level as convoke? Or hunter covenants to wild spirits? That's what I have trouble withv
Convoke is a pretty good example of a design that got carried away but then couldn't really be scaled down appropriately to their new Covenant budgets while feeling good 😦
It might get even higher, that's just the highest that I've seen so far before the game crashing.
No clue how many Exsang's it takes.
Pretty important if you ask me
Maybe their target power budget is too low 
They lowered the power budget late in beta to try to mitigate the potential differences between Covenants
If every spec and covenant had a convoke level button would it be that bad
Rather than just making an easy way to swap between the abilities
Like they should have to begin with
Yeah and with Blizzard reinforcing "meaningful choice", you're stuck with the covenant
Having to come up with solutions to problems of their own creation 👌
It's like dota, if everyone is OP then no one is OP
It’s the dilemma blizz has on their hands with wow being a (mmo)rpg and not a game where you choose a diff character every round?
On the Exsang thing, if something like that actually went live probably the best Legendary would be Shadowdust to get instant double Exsang on pull 🤣
fingers crossed
ahh yes excellent
Can't nerf a covenant the majority of the player base is using, because that would force them to change covenants, and that's something Blizzard doesn't want you to do. So CTS will just stay like that until 9.1
I mean I've felt like Exsang should have been redesigned like 4 years ago though
But that's just me
Don’t get me wrong, I still think the exsang sbs will be kinda bonkers. But it’s very specific for long fights and there are very few of them in the game
It's not just you
Seli sighting in assa 
Definitely. It only became relevant in BFA because of a borrowed power. It's an awful talent in itself.
But tbh, Venom Rush is still the worse.
Venom Rush at least is not as bad but needs to be doubled again to be good lol
You mean you don't like a meaningless amount of energy back?
Vein rippers on 45sec cd instead of exsang. Thanks.
Hidden blades and CT in the same tier is just trolling by blizz
Ironically
The new tuning of Venom Rush
Probably would have been competitive on the row in BfA
A man of class. Excellent
hidden blades working the way it does is just a giant troll lol
It's similar to the BFA version of Buried Treasure where you basically lost more energy using RTB than you got from the passive itself.
But +8 Energy Venom Rush wouldn't have been terrible in BfA vs. Toxic Blade and Exsang
Would have been very slightly behind, but not much
Less than 1% probablty
Alacrity is just too strong though
Yeah, not bad.
When was the last time Venom Rush was actually better than the talents in the same row?
I mean you could argue "left side" passives are often not good by design. But I figure they should be close.
I actually like Exsang as a talent and concept, too bad it doesn't do much.
!oh
Mutilate requires a dagger in both hands, this makes using a non dagger weapons undesirable.
@marble hemlock Vein Rippers design is definitely a little more interesting although I'd like it to be its own on-use rather than Vanish
Good job! 
Vanish is probably already a little too overloaded with DPS value atm
Exang is a really cool talent. Too bad cool doesn't always mean good. Alacrity just needs to be baked in so we have more choice.
Yeah, uncoupling it from vanish is important
@marble hemlock I'd like to see exsang reworked into a single target version of vein rippers on use, that becomes aoe when vendetta is up
The feeling when blizz put more thought into our torghast anima powers than SL changes 
Ct should be baseline, put vein rippers there instead, remove exsang, replace with kb
torgast audience > mythic raiders
That would make vendetta into a meaningful aoe cooldown and remove the vanish dependency
CT definitely should've been made baseline
SecTec probably just needed to be deleted or merged somehow as an improvement to Black Powder
Yeah
It's totally vestigial now 😦
Honestly I think black powder should just go
And sec tec be made baseline in its place
spicy take
Black powder just doesn't make any sense as part of sub
I mean, with bp being a thing now, sub at least has a baseline aoe finisher
The fact that outlaw and assa don't is just ridiculous
I'm not big on the b a s e l i n e train because I deal with Havoc players that literally want every talent in the entire Havoc talent tree to be baseline
BUT
which was its biggest issue in bfa iirc
I do think Crimson Tempest should be baseline
They could lower the cd of sectech to make it replace bp
it had like no aoe and they gutted the aoe -> st funnel after zul
Because I think all CP specs should have an AoE CP dump
Imagine ret having to talent divine storm
can rogue just have DfA back
Making the burst spec have sustained aoe just doesn't make sense
Oh hey, thrash is a talent now
I mean tbf Seli
Whirlwind talent only
It took a long time for Feral to get an AoE CP finisher too 😦
both of these are generators, not spenders
It's just dumb that a combo point>finisher class, has an aoe builder but no finisher
But Feral is basically Furry Assassination
not wrong
I really wanna level a Feral just for that reason.
Make Killing Spree baseline as an AoE Finisher
A lot of classes have a similar resource system and their aoe dumps are baseline
I mean Outlaw's design is fine
that ability is so frickin cool
Black Powder wasn't a bad idea either
pleeeeeeease let me have it
Design-wise Black Powder has issues, but the concept of an AoE finisher is fine
And gouge really needs to come back for all specs...
But CT would really be better if it was something baseline tuned to be used on 3T+
I wiped us once on mythic SLG because I used Killing Spree when Wicked Blades went out and it clipped on me while I was woosh wooshing
Getting snd back which they just automate for every spec, but gouge isn't...
now if gouge came back without dots breaking it, Id be pumped
SnD is such a boring ability.
it is
Especially now that they removed the energy regen for Assa
It would still be a nice disrupt
it's a prime example of blizz not understanding what the playerbase wants when they say "unprune classes"
Even if it insta breaks from dots
same way pala got back "turn evil". yeah man. that's what paladins wanted.
Just give Rogue's PI.
oh and all specs can now use SotR, except one spec doesn't even use shields
Jk we have Alacrity already
I don't like black powder because it gives sub sustained aoe, but it's bad at it
I don't think they should have sustained aoe to begin with
Just give rogues back preparation Kappa
Much less a poor attempt at it
Sectech is more sub flavored and thematic than black powder
Someone said it's better to open with putting up SND first then rupture? im running MA leggo with NS is it not better to gar>mut>rupture>mut>SND?
It should be the baseline one and bp shouldn't exist
sincei can put rupture on 5 CP and SND on 4
No
Maybe make the cdr stronger if you have to
Why would that matter
really?
you want SnD first for the enhanced regen / attackspeed
Might change with 9.0.5
oke cool ty
Might.
because of 1 more energy for the first tick?
Wouldn't be surprised.
na man
No more 10% regen from snd
yeah. unless you totally butcher it you can do w/e
my openers never look the same, partially because you have to adapt
Might be noticeable for the first 10s :^) but yeah won't be after the boss is dead
Did somebody say opener 
My opener is always very similar, partly because I play with MA and it rids you of the RNG element for 8s.
Hard to believe honestly
Im thinking new subt opener would be
Garrote-SND-Mut(till4)-Rup-Vendetta(and trinkets)- Sepsis- Shiv- Mut- Env
Yeah just quad garotte on ST, ezclap. Impossible to screw up, giga deeps 
I'm not a big believer in 1cp finishers
I think there's a strong case for a 1cp SnD with cttc
fuck that's true
You could spend 1 cp on SND only for nearly the entire fight and use those cp on rupture instead
GIGA uptime!!!
Psure whisp and i have spent a decent amount of time on openers and just decided that it's not worth spending hours on figuring out which opener does 10 more dps in a 5min fight
i said partially. majorly because my brain is damn smooth
smooth as a marble
With cttc things will change a bit though
I wish I knew how to customize the apl, because I live for those juicy 10dps increases.
I tried doing a sub-action list for my stupid opener and I couldn't get it to work after an hour. So I just gave up.
My opener actually just never changes
But brain smooth is a problem
Sorry to hear it
i mean, whether mutilate crits or not changes it up a bit
No it doesn’t
g m snd m m r?
No
I mean it only changes how many times u mutilate tho
its still same prio
In opener, yes
how hard for torghast at sim?
i learn more things every day
Sim opener was going shiv into 1 cp rupture
yah its literally same thing, doesnt matter if it crits or not
barbaric 
And that’s perfectly fine
5 cp or bust

lol
as sin**
godly tbh
Sins strong in torghast
Probably asking if Torghast is hard for sin or not and it can be if you don't get good powers. Sub is definitely easier.
I mean it doesn’t anymore, because of the sync changes koji made
hm
But individually, there wasn’t a gain moving that shiv
You can't exactly run to the last boss of every floor, you need to get some powers on the way.
So it was just there
gonna be cool that improved poisons ranked 2 that was bugged for months isnt bugged anymore
Probably won't make much of a difference in your gameplay
We lost Envenom pandemic, gained insta-application of dots.
You win some, you lose some.
yea FeelsSadMan
I hope they fix that soon
Maybe it was intentional because of CTTC? but even still, that would be so dumb if it was
Raising the value of CT single target we love to see it
We actually do love to see it
Alac ct bug still exists
Ah nice
Envenom in keys I sleep
It’s single target
You do on some bosses.
Which ones?
It's a gain on Generals/Huntsman/SK
Basically any boss with 2+ targets at all times.
Generals and huntsman are kinda iffy because they aren't always 2t
There's a few gaps
dooooomblade soon
yea when huntman pulls out second pet
i got r1 huntsman but private log 
Well I did do 1k more damage than the r2 parse on HC Huntsman with CT
CT benefits from Zoldycks, yeah?
Yep
Doubt it
yea its a bleed
@ this
i mean yeah it is a bleed but blizz is insanely inconsistent
you did get 2 PIs ceverion XD
let's just say envenom apparently is both a poison and not a poison
I did.
in this case they arent consistent, it works
Never said I didn't.
It's hard to tell how much of your extra damage is from pi and how much is from ct
are*
so its not a very good comparison
I'll sim PI for you on 2 targets 3 minutes and see how much more it does
Assuming 2 targets 100% of the time, unlike on Huntsman where it's closer to 80%
buff poison bomb and Ill be happy
Rework
but mooooom\
Don't just buff it the way it is
It should be like: envenoms during shiv proc poison bomb
would that be a gain?
would prob be a slight gain
u can usually only fit 2 or 3 env in 9 seconds
would be consistent tho
Considering PB is random, getting 2-3 guaranteed procs every 30s is kinda similar to the proc rate we have now
But it makes it controllable
would be awesome in pvp if that was a thing
Right?
adds about 6k dmg to kidney burst
It would be pretty nice in m+ too
If only we had a class developer 
Truuuuuuuuue
doooooom
Doomblade GANG
Who among you has the pure unadulterated chaddiness to join me in the mastery stack doomblade cult
Our envenom DPET will blot out the sun

Coomblade is love coomblade is life
!wa
Assassination WA's:
https://wago.io/E1EB91OtM (Lokkek's Group)
https://wago.io/SyLUNGD4X (Sovv's Group)
https://wago.io/SJLQKGjMM (Afenar's Group)
https://wago.io/ByzCxPq-m (Devlin's Group)
i hate sin but i will be honest, i miss the fact that blizz loves it more than any other rogue spec... just let ANY rogue spec be top and i will be happy to play it
I got my coom up to 225 this week
When I highroll crits and get a 99 or 100 because of my giga mastery I'll be the one laughing
I hit a 12k envenom in a 2s the other day and I nutted
I hit a 26k envenom on sludgefist
No mastery stack no doomblade
I think if I went full mastery stack with doomblade I could hit a 50k easy
Oh lol I had blade but I also was like 200 ilvl
I wonder if I can restore all of the mastery gear I sold and disenchanted 
Why mastery tho isn’t it ass
yeah you can @stoic needle
Don’t you want haste
mastery for envenom damage I guess
It adds more damage to envenom per point of stat than any other secondary. The goal of the build is to get the biggest envenom possible
It's a meme, totally not bis, but I want to do it anyway
memes > dps
If you get really lucky with crit and crit all of your envenoms you'll do more damage than a haste/crit statted sin rogue, but it's less consistent
It's all about the one in a million high roll
also we do a lot of theorycrafting in this channel
and i was wondering how up-to-date the sin guide is on wowhead
It's pretty up to date
and not just "check the timestamp" but rather how accurate
Well it doesn't have the ptr stuff reflected in it yet
But other than that it's solid
got it
Wait mastery works on envenom? Lmao I thought it was just considered a nature dmg ability not a poison
RIGHT
But no, it actually does
That makes no sense
If you go to the page for our mastery on wowhead you'll see that envenom is affected
Blizzard is just inconsistent as shit
Either way I hit a fat crit in full haste gear and I was a full coomblade truther
Just swapping my doomblade gloves from crit/haste to haste/mast or crit/mast adds like 300 dmg to an envenom crit
If you have a full set of mastery gear your envenoms will be fucking nuclear bombs
And it makes your garotte and rupture hit harder too
I wonder if mastery stack could ever make CT worth running on ST with doomblade 
what stats do i wnt as ASS pvp?
I am with you in this, not by choice but by my vault trolling me
Haste vers
what is looking like our best leggo after the changes is it still gonna be zoldyk or are the other ones improving enough to over take it
There is no single best legendary for all scenarios
imagine if our mastery was "Poisoned targets take X% more dmg"
for mythic plus then
wouldnt make any sense at all considering everything is poisoned
I’m at 30% (and that’s without weapons which have also mastery 😅)
Logged out with a fishing rod equipped like a true G
Zoldyck is a real good bet, but so is MA
If you have MA id recommend playing around with it a bit before committing to assa and Zoldyck
i already play both ma and zold
was just wondering if the changes would actually be worth making a new leggo
Oh mb i misread
I think it’s very difficult to objectively compare MA and Zoldyck for m+
So changes will not make that easier
Sim can't break 6k yet 
once 9.0.5 hits doomblade or dashing will definitely be worth crafting
no good mastery gear to item restore 
If you look at difference before and after 9.0.5, Zoldyck would win I think, just because MA loses value by whitelisted trinkets and NW weapons
Im just excited cuz I already upgrade doomblade for pvp
But that is a cheesy answer tbh
😄
Osh recommends dashing, HANG HIM UP BOYs.
well, MA also got a boost because of APL optimizations
yea i figured it wasnt gonna do much tbh
Dashing might actually bis for single target
with sepsis
And I’m memeing. Doomblade FEELS right
EXACTLY
oh yea has anyone seen if venth ability is gonna be good
im so tired of being other cov
Feelcraft isn’t always the truth tho
dashing increases your envenom crit chance by 15% because this game is coded with 
necrolord is gonna be quite competitive after the buff too
We won’t know until Necro lord update. But venthyr, NF, and necrolord are all forerunners
me wanna suck
expect to see big 10k+ SBS crits
Kyrian are the 
Ehe venthyr sin here
im just glad they fixed the abilitys second cast it was the worst thing in the world honestly
Thats prob the only reason I didnt go suck covenant, felt awkward to use
when is the .5 patch supposed to be live?
yep same
20march no ?
I went from NF to Kyrian to NF
Venth or Maldraxus?
me will prob be Venth
so , now dashing scoundrel is the best for PVP? 🙂
noooooooooooooooooooooooo
#cursed
plus dashing doesnt pandemic atm
so I doubt it would be super good
Definitely. I hit 49k with MA lege, EP NS MFD talents
nah, dashing isn't good for pvp at all. MA or doomblade are best right now, MA for 2s and doomblade for 3s /rbg teamfights
Hum thats pretty huge
Bruh I’m happy with my 22k and you’re deadass hitting a 50 burger? Come on
doomblade is bugged too. the dot is being affected by armor. if neither bug is fixed i believe dashing will be slightly better than doomblade
everyone go on the PTR right now and report envenom and doomblade being bugged
gogogogo
explain envenom bug
the envenom buff is supposed to pandemic but it isn't on live
"supposed to" based on? (seems like a weird thing to suddenly stop working)
did it used to pandemic?
It used to work for like 9 years and now it doesn't. Blizzard hasn't said anything
even if it is better, DS cant DOOOOOOM
Overall I’d suggest not crafting anything/switching covenant until they announce the new patch and “final” changes
But yeah. PI doesn't give 1000 damage and CT is better than PB on 2 targets.
Or even when it goes live. And even that is no guarantee you’ll make the right choice
Just beat HC Sire for the first time Pog 😄 My damage wasn't really good but kill is a kill
That's also a bit scuffed because I was using Vigor and not MFD, even though the sim suggest MFD.
Damage doesn’t matter as long as you kill, grats on the huge W - obviously hyperbolic. But the kill is the goal!
Hell yeah
big grats
god dammit i need to kill that motherfucker
Thanks all 😄
Yeah. PB is simming 250 dps less (for me) even without PI. It's huge.
Same here dog. I need my guild to stop shuffling roles 😛
We pulled him 3 times last week. This week we pull him all Monday
CT is busted tbh
oshosi, explain doomblade bug, is armor "double-dipping" mitigating both the initial hit AND the dot?
i already parse pretty well on huntsman i'm gonna go for that 99
Yes
yes indeed. mutilate dmg is armor reduced, and then the dot is being reduced by armor as well. someone even showed a log where the dot got parried
Lul
Dot getting parried is pretty 
Don't worry boys, you'll both get it this week. #believe
I'm typically down there I. The early teens. Grats that boss is nuts and fun and asa note I tend to look at damage taken and death % to see how I do for that fight. Was sitting as one of the last to die feels good.
this is push week though >_>
its hard to choose between M+ and suffering through sire pugs
Every week is push week
Pushing on hard weeks actually makes you better.
Yessir. Luckily I have the guild over osh. So that’s a little bit easier of a feat.
Sire pugs have been pretty 
i've been pushing every week
but this week i found a group to push with
so i'm trying to get as many 15s timed as I can
Our hpal one shot it last week with a pug. Dude is a nut tho
if i get lucky I could get ksm this week or next week
Yo CEV. Happy late bday my guy. Grats on KSM too. That’s GIGA
also which slot is bis for doomblade
Cheers boys 
Shoulders mostly. Higher stat cap
do you guys run cheat death or elusiveness in higher keys? i cant really decide. cheat helps me when i fuck up but elusiveness is nice for bursting this week
shoulders and gloves have the same stats actually
yeah 
I just run Cheat Death on all content tbh, I can't be arsed with Elusiveness
Cheat death
Holy moly. I’m lit.
So doesn’t matter
i press feint like my life depends on it
Choose the weaker piece
Elusiveness only in pvp
dead ppl deal no damage
Using energy for healer mechanics 
you do 0 dps when you're dead though 
^
lmao
Standing in sanguine? Healer should have out-healed it
Should have predicted that I get insta-shot by a cleave mechanic
That’s a healer mechanic my guy
do you guys still have that sharpend blades buff?
The Azerite Trait from BFA? No
Cheat death is almost too good to pass up on. I like to see it as my own personal battle res
yeah that's the thing
just not dying is so huge in keys
but the damage reduction from elusiveness is no small thing either
Elusiveness might be the big brain move, but usually when I proc cheat death I didn’t see it coming
lmao
I value Cheat Death much higher because usually you die to an insta-shot mechanic if something
So elusiveness would be 0 value there
And not something that slowly kills you
the fucking cleaves from the big skeletons in NW
Elusivness wont save u from a 1 shot
It's usually due to poor positioning, getting cleaved, missing a mechanic or something of the sort
Tanks dancing with cleave mobs like it’s a tango
It's a loooot of energy wasted during the dungeon honestly
35 isn't much but when you use it 30 times, it stacks up
If u die to damage. U would have died with elusiv as well..
last night on my PF15 I tried to soak like 3 of those slimes that spawn after the plague belchers die because the last time i did PF was a 12
I still press feint pretty often for everything it might suppress just if I see my healer has to go hard
i just went poof
I had no clue they did so much more damage on a fort 15
and also those stupid tentacles gripping me into the plagueborer explosion 
Then I usually panic and activate all defensive
And it's [Elusiveness] pretty niche for what it does. Usually your healer should be able to heal up periodic damage
Also, Cheat Death is honestly op as fuck
You can tank pretty much any mechanic in the game and survive.
Chained to someone? Not for long
Yeah it's so troll, you can literally kill your partner in Sludge and not even die
lmao
Cheat death is so nice but I wish it were more consistent for how long the cd is
Feels bad to get one shot through it or to get double hit and still die
I'm just gonna run cheat all week and collect data for whispyr's defensives spreadsheet 
eh, ironically, Cheat Death might be the weakest "Cheat Death" effect in the game currently
not that there are many of them i guess
does poison bomb stack if I manage to get lucky ?
like if you proc it twice in a row? Yeah you'll have two separate pools and they both will do full damage
I see
any idea what assassination leggo i should instantly upgrade to 235?
Zoldyck/Dusk/Doom im assuming
Tiny toxic blade 
What are you playing sin for
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

just trust
Outlaw in raid/keys atm
which covenant are people looking to go in Raid and M+ venthyr?
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Probably doomblade
were progging on sludge
But having zold at 235 for sire isn't a terrible idea either
@sleek otter stop dooooming you coooomer
I want to have the biggest dickest doomblade envenom competition
Sadge
@gentle gyro
its PTR LMAO
LMAO
Marksman Hunter? I sleep
Assa Rogue? REAL SHIT
Got +18 De Other Side completed. Don't have to go to that dungeon in a looooong while, fuck yes
hunter was french, and we all know the aim of french marksmen is bad
NICE
shots fired (and missed)
what's your damage breakdown?
Rarely see Crimson Tempest at the top, usually it's garrote
dos has a lot of bigger pulls tho ?
so was it just a lot of medium size pulls that lived a long time due to fort? and was that with zold?
any action on the PTR for us, or are we still bottom of the barrel?
Not bottom of the barrel, but nothing significant. We got some new stuff, but lost something else. Still no sims for the new SBS.
are you using MA ceverion?
Yeah, it's the usual DoS route with like 4-5 mob pulls. I did run Zoldyck for this dungeon
icic
ardenweald pulls
that's why
yeah
20.8% is huge tho x)
never got that personally
But i didn't use it enough until today
It's a lot for sure. This is the breakdown on Territorial Bladebeak which was my #1 damage target
I guess that's about legit
So makes sense
Yup
Just posted this in the wrong channel: I’m probably an idiot. However where’s the new flag changes? I’ve read them 1-2 times before but I want to remind myself of what could of been before it gets nerfed
I’d be pretty surprised if more than the conduit gets nerfed
What the ability does (will do)
craft doomblade on shoulders or hands?
Compared to the 17 GCDs it takes to use now
its basically press once and it does damage
doesn't matter, whichever is your worse slot @gentle gyro
i mean it technically does matter, no? shoulders have a higher stat allocation
If you plan on killing mythic Stone Legion, then gloves are the better option.
And no, they literally have the same stat allocation.
Press button, do damage, 12 seconds of spending cp gives extra damage and a haste buff, haste buff lasts an additional 12 seconds
wait really?
61 agility at 226
Yes
Do you have to click it again to gain the haste or is it a fire and forget?
ok then nvm my question
I got punked too flint. TIL this exact thing
Fire and forget
Happy days luckily enough I’m a casual rn and I’m sat at 30 renown on venthyr
then let's see what is more .... affordable
mystler confirms scaling is a thing on wowhead? PogU
assassination scaling into top ST dps spec 9.0.5?
S C A L I N G
We also scale with buffs in all fairness, but that’s not an assassination only thing 
PogU assassination making a comeback due to scaling in 9.0.5 sounds great!
nvm fuck this
Yeah I wouldn’t go down that path 

Keeping my eye on 2 channels
nah its fine
Aight
nothing to see here
More stats = more damage. Is the tl;dr
stop you'll make me respond
Hype we love more stats
yeah, but that would apply to otl too
Yo you right
remove it from my vision I can't control myself
more stats is good for all, but more stats seems to just be better for sin
Oh no no no
S C A L I N G boyos
reality! mystler says so
If you meme enough it becomes reality, whispyr
I'm doing everything in my power to not talk about the s word
we scale better dude
You’re all wrong.
What they fail to embrace is that assassination rogue is simply built different
make "scaling" a banphrase tyvm

lol then make TC rogues stop using it on wowhead tyvm
so my blood pressure and body temp is steadily increasing
it's okay bro. just embrace mystler's scaling love
hey, maybe if we continue we can use Jordan as an infinite energy resource
and feed off his hatred
PogU we've defeated thermodynamics with..... SCALING
on a more serious note, why is sin doing so much better on 905 beta than otl
More buffs
i dont actually understand, and i know that scaling is a big meme.
buffs and changes to how the spec works
yo guys, what do you think the best leggo is for progress? like Zoldyck seems only good once you are getting the boss into 30%
cttc
Simply, we get a push on energy regen with VW buff and CttC allows for more damaging finishers
Where tho
my personal take would still be zoldyck's because progress bosses have this tendency to live too long at the end
Okay but where in that does he say we scale
execute is really valuable on progress fights
"I wish Blizzard would look more into continuous balancing and locating where issues lie. The Sub and Outlaw Rogue spec auras were not touched since 8.1 in 2018! There was no tuning (aside from legendaries or conduits) for the entirety of Shadowlands Alpha, Beta, and 9.0 release. In other words, Rogue balancing feels like things just happen by random chance and the reason Sub started out fairly well (compared to BfA) in Shadowlands was pure luck from the few changes they made to spec gameplay. I miss some active balancing. With more active balancing and tuning, "scaling" wouldn't have to be such a buzzword in the community and the Warcraft Logs statistics wouldn't be spanning such a big range." to be precise
Okay
And what is that supposed to show me
That scaling is a buzzword and blizzard doesn’t tune as often as they should?
Well then I suggest you fucking stop
xd
lol why
Scaling is at the point where the meme kind of isn't funny any more
because so many ppl believe the wrong shit that its just annoying
it was a bit of fun, and then i asked the actual question behind my wonder.
Because trolling ain’t allowed, trolling this topic in particular ain’t funny, and because I’m asking you to
Because people don't actually understand what the word means or implies
is it not? so if i go back in logs on several different chat's i can't find people trolling me neigh endlessly in this discord?
nice. I'll copy/paste it to wowhead since every other class TC always seems to mention it
Who
think it was mages and hunter's TC's on the rdps post
oh w9
you meant who trolled me?
that's probably a solid strat
but i shouldn't have to block community figures or admins
and seems like a solid way to go to ban town if you block admins idk
Dude
whaddap
hm, i think that there's probably a difference between making jokes in any form, and actually insulting someone based on their views too, however i'd bundle it all as trolling
What?
so but back to my actual question, do we know why sin is pushing higher in ST on ptr than otl?
i thought that someone said we didn't get buffs? what's changed on ptr for the bois?
There’s a hundred million pins on the topic
i thought there were no changes to the top dps set up tho, as in niya burrs still beat out venth? i must have missed a lot in the last week or so then
The top dps setup changed covenants, conduits, and legendary
my my.. thanks
Np
were these changes put out on wowhead at all? i can't believe i missed that we're going to be using doomblade and venth
can't wait to grind an entire new covenant...
haha
Blue posts my dude
at least they made it more likely to drop renown from all those tasks
If they implement sweeping changes like this that significantly change covenants they need to expedite the renown gain when swapping
Yes, all the big stuff was datamined in ptr passes
They have, but renown gain is actually pretty quick. It’s a lot quicker than it once was. The major wall seems to be the quest line
by the time this is out you'll be able to hit 31 without any storyline
shouldn't be too awful
This shit is gonna be impossible to time without Master Assa next patch
Yeah this is my first ever, I only have one +18 as well
not gonna lie I'm sweating a bit after that
Didn’t I tell you tho 
I know right, I was thinking 7.6k or whatever was sick but this shit is insane
What's the doomblade bug?
Oh so it's not bugged in sims is what that pin is saying
Or sims calculate it with the bug fixed
do rupture+garrote do dmg to remornia when she is away doing massacre and stuff or is she immune and shit then btw
two days ago I was 4/10 M, we just got 6/10M x)
I'm happy, Spires 19 stream coming in about 30~40 minutes 

sin key?
y
link to stream? 🙂
where is cutting edge at
"i don't know about getting curve because it's push week" - oshosi 2 hours ago

Good job dawg :^)
i didn't expect it to happen tbh
I can't get into any groups because my r.io hasn't updated yet :''( guess it's time to sleep and do more keys tomorrow
polyvalence_dei on twitch
yo so doomblade and venthyr might be good for 9.0.5?
tomorrow man
gotta pay for that instant update
@limber lion The MA stuff in NW is insane man, I hit 12k overall as outlaw last night in an 18
Are pins up-to-date with Serrated Bone Spike rework ?
SBS rework is not implemented in sims yet
ty
feeling bad for those early birds swapping to venthyr if necro become actually better
Alright, sleepy time. Good luck on your key Dei
How well does Assassin cleave stack up to Outlaw? Can DoT spread remain competitive with flurry?
it's about 10% worse
From my experience if the cleave is more than 15s long ie. the pack doesn’t Insta die, sin is competitive otherwise not so much
ooga booga blade flurry is just too good
I’d say probably 20s given the initial prep time for garrotes
grats!!! I just started that encounter last night. Probably will be a week or 2 for me yet.
Grats man!
why is there no proggers or progchamp emote
It's honestly a really fun fight. Learning all the little optimizations and timings over the pulls has been fun
so how come ppl be recomending doomblade now, if dashing scoundrel sims higher
or is it just me
I feel like we need to wait a little longer to get some proper sims since DS and Doomblade are both pugged on the PTR
But they're both looking juicy
does anyone know if there is a way to boost renown on ptr?
I know you can recruit followers and pvp currency etc but i cant see anything for renown?
Any reason why Doomblade lego is simming best for me ?
never tried sin on council is it worth?
its probably the best
decent value out zold with the 3 30% phases or nah
I’ve tried both on ptr. Same rotation multiple times and Doomblade came on top every time.
Sorry I meant on a dummy. The raw dmg etc.
aa
But it’ll definitely be doomblade better for raids and DS for m+
Since we don’t multilate a whole lot on m+
i would assume outlaw would be king in m+ still?
but recently switched to assass in raids and it feels way better than outlaw
Are we even sure doom blade sims are correct? It doesn't even come close to 30% mutilate dmg whenever I play with it
Yeah Outlaw probably still king in M+
atm am using MA in raids.. Wanna make the best Assass lego,but on progress im not sure if zold is bis for progres TBH...
Doomblade is currently bugged on live and ptr, the dot is being reduced by armor. Even with this bug it will be better on pure ST than Zoldyck
and yeah just simming i was surprised it doesnt compete with doom or dashing
Zoldyck is definitely bis for progress and m+, and aoe in general
Yeah I don’t think outlaw will be outperformed by any spec when it comes to cleave.
Is it a bug or is it intended?
It's a bug
Sin is more than fine in keys though, the difference between outlaw and sin doesn't matter until you're pushing 20s+
Have they announced anything about fixing it or nah cuz that's seems like a pretty big bug
No
They don't really announce bug fixes
We just have to wait for more ptr patches and keep retesting it
Higher keys might be better for sim since trash takes time to die and Sin slow setup can bring some dmg.
Yes, sin does do more damage the higher key you do
But ofc outlaw will shine when it comes to dmg things fast.
But outlaw is still better overall
So I know no one takes hidden blades but is it just like. Normal levels of suboptimal or is it Hilariously bad
Cold Heart is one of my favorite FDK talents, and they’re very similar, so it makes me sad bc I’d love to try it in a key
Are we not using MA for M+ even in sin?
They will prob add a lego that promotes the use o fok tho 😂
You can use ma, nothing wrong with it at all
Rogues legos are just trash
Echoing Blades legendary when?
Hidden blades is bad soley because CT is better in almost every practical situation
Hiddenblades also shouldnt be looked at like cold heart
If you want to compare it to a FDK talent it would be inexorable
It keeps you from losing damage from losing uptime
Zoldyck is good on both fortified and tyrannical weeks, and raging, on single target and in aoe
which isnt exactly something you need when half your spec is dots
Yeah that makes sense - do we know btw just how much better CT is over Poison Bomb in keys? I made the swap after I’d gotten over my initial learning how to play sin / gearing up so naturally I was performing better, but I rly miss poison bomb on boss fights
where I feel like I should be pushing more
CT > PB is like a 100 dps loss on st give or take
its a ~400 dps gain over the course of the dungeon though
Is 9.0.5 a possibility for next week reset together with the mythic raid for NA?
I doubt it
They haven't even implemented the new bone spike changes yet and monk and rogue still have bugs
Damn
PB doesnt really push ST damage as much as "is used in st by virtue of being passive and not Hidden blades"
Everything is taking so long lol
I’m bored as hell
That makes sense bull; I’m just sorta sad when we get there and I feel like I have a talent I shouldn’t use
Though I believe I heard in zoldyck window it’s fine to apply
If you have CT you should always use it on ST
Assassination needs a rework man. Eventually if we lucky enough to get one.
I don't think we need a rework tbh we need a talent refresh
The core of the spec is fine
Yeah because it works
I guess I don’t know when to CT in ST between applying bleeds and shiv envenom and keeping up SnD
you dont
Yes you do bull
??
So many bad talents
It's a 50 dps increase to CT on ST
since when
Specially pvp ones
Since forever
I wouldn't refresh ct in the middle of a shiv window but you should still maintain it
Also current venthyr talent makes it mega hard for me to judge the order I should be doing stuff - I usually just use it before dumping SnD and hope it all works out
CT should be baseline
Cant wait to not have to reactivate it
Yeah current flag is trash
Super
Ct and alacrity should both be baseline
Put shrouded suff and echoing blades in their place
Ezclap
Suddenly we're amazing
imagine having an actual rogue developer 
If we complain too much they will remove CT
Fuk so ez man if they are this lazy
Makes CT baseline and a talent that empowers it
Simple
That would do already
what secondaries do i put on zoldyk
Haste crit
What is an increase ?
over not using it at all
Oh nvm i misunderstood lol
an increase is usually defined as to "become or make greater in size, amount, intensity, or degree"

I thought you were referring to something else being 50dps better than ct
Whispyr with the burn
I feel stupid
happens
i was reading that we should ignore the sepsic procc on assa is that true? since it doest make the mutilate cost 0?
by @stoic needle I think the CT stuff actually gets worse with PTR
sepsis proc doesn't make anything free, yes
so you don't do anything with it
you just go as normal
ehm not mut but ambush obv my bad
you mean better, right? 
I hate you
ok thanks

one of these days i'm going to sim full mastery stack sin with doomblade to see if it can be a gain to use CT on ST over PB on that
Sorry if this has been asked a lot already but is PTR updated with SBS changes?
I don't see how that work work
the extra 5% envenom damage from CT being up, and mastery making CT and envenom do more damage
yeh I think so
vs pb
but pb is affected by mastery too
yes
so you're relying on the 5% envenom damage eventually catching up to the difference between pb and ct?
yeah i guess so
that seems pretty unreasonable tbh
is it? the difference between CT and PB isn't THAT big is it?
it's probably like 1.5% or something like that
would assume that covenants also affect that
venthyr haste on top of CT for example
yeh I mean it actually gets slightly worse seems like
and that's venthyr as well
If your comp has difficulty with attendants swap to Sub and make a shadowstep macro for them ❤️
Closing in on 30 Mist runs, still no dagger. I love this game.
ive never played sub for real, id be lost

Outlaw can also pump attendants
yeah i started as outlaw this xpac, i just fucking hate roll the bones
as soon as Sin simmed close i made the swap
and now all is right in the world, with the exception of blizzard fucking all rogue specs this xpac
blizzard is big mean
ive been maining sin since legion, before that i was maining combat
Instead i have to 99 parse to be top 5 on meters lul
i like artificer because i get to top our damage meter because all the good classes have to do mechanics
i actually really like playing MA leggo on single target
makes the opener not shit
rn i hate that i have to do like 8 gcds
before i can vendetta
Dreams shattered
sooo do we use shiv in your rotation now or still useless
on cooldown,yes
ty
If the buffed Doomblade goes live with it counting Bone Spike dot

it was only useless in prepatch because there was no rank 2
ah k
We need envenom icon in reactions
was it confirmed to work?
People were saying it counted a few days ago on ptr
I dont believe changes like that are intended or not until they go live tho








