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Hello, for 9.0.5 we still use same talents? (Venth and doomblade)
people can be wrong
Most people just take single target talents and don’t bother swapping
The difference isn’t that big
I think that with dragging boss to shades for sure makes it worth to take CT for p2 alone
I think it’s worth even if you don’t
Shii I'll giver a go on tues
I thought Poison was better for 2 but makes sense with zold I suppose
CT seems to be better and better than at the start of patch I guess
Our tank doesn't drag, sucks ass for us hand full of melee
DKs should be gripping shades
Might just tunnel boss next week and see if I get yelled at lol
We only have one, and he grips one shade onto the other
Dos, top and nw left for ksm 
One DK 🤔
Zold affects Pb and CT, that doesn’t affect the evaluation
My raid is casual aotc, everyone has jobs n kids n shit lol
Weird. What changed then cuz I thought pb was just better for 2 and if it got to 3 ct took over
refined palate or wasteland propriety for theo
Tea time
CT got buffed in prepatch
Wasteland usually sims a little higher
I've had double potency simming better for theotar but whispyr gets wasteland propriety
I'm gonna do some more sims and see what's up
If it's a gear thing or what
word
That double potency shit real weird man
I’ve tried like 210 ilvl profiles with 226 conduits
And it still shows wasteland
I guess it would depend on how much vers you have /shrug
So you either got some weird profile shenanigan or what
Is it really that hard to believe that extra shiv damage beats out some vers every 1.5m with flag
Not quite sure what’s happening there
Yeah we'll see when I run the sims again


Let's enjoy lashing before it gets nerfed
People arguing about soulbinds when lashing is half of the value of an entire soulbind

If they nerf lashing I'll rage quit
if they nerf lashing they are on some cooked shit
Sounds like blizzard tbh
thats not how it works
Do some m2s
just did 4 normal bosses and 1 renown
they fixed this long time ago
When the cap is like 963
Yes, renown isn’t 100%
im 23 and I swapped less than 24h ago
That’s normal
u do the weeklys?

the 1000 anima and the maw?
I did the anima one yes, waiting for 24 for souls upgrade
It's 2 renown. That's not soft capping you. Do content and you'll get renown
Is everyone swapping to venthyr?
Just the true believers
But na they are actually all very similar now so just people wanting to test new waters
There’s also been concerns about venthyr during uptime
Which is insane to me tbh
Cause people would still play sub if it’s 5% above sin
But they don’t play venthyr because they might lose 50 dps from having to move
Kinda weird logic to me
well it's not the same

need to build combo points for new flag
so downtime hurts more
it lasts 12s if you cant predict whats happening in the next 12s
I mean most of the time you will vendetta in a flag window anyways so
Also what mechanic are you off the boss for more than 5 seconds
that's true but saying that it's weird logic 
If mechanics are an issue for using flag then you should pay more attention to mechanic timers
next tier 
?????
I only got 10 renown
Idk
Thrill seeker is the only annoying thing sometimes but even then it's not bad after actually using it
It just doesn’t make sense to me
People will play sub and go “it sims higher than sin”
sin needs 2 daggers right?
When sub suffers so much harder
Downtime hurts your dps
?
And I used to claim the thrill seeker not being on demand is annoying argument
But then venthyr has the potential to maybe lose a little bit more than normal
ok, jump on the wagon
And everyone loses their mind
There was a huge argument about it earlier today
you just said it's weird logic, which I don't think it is
Weird how everyone went NF when it also simmed highest
im going venthyr just so i can be non night fae for m+ 🙂
and also ill play outlaw in m+
But what if burrs misses cause the boss moves dude
almost every healer is venthyr anyways
Wut

Kyrian doesn’t suffer from any downtime 
all good m+ paladins are venthyr
ah yes
sounds like it's the same logic as why zoldyck was better than other legendaries that sim higher, so we all recommend zoldyck for the niche and now we go the opposite 

priests are only venthyr for pvp
Imagine volunteering for 3-400 dps loss in a spec barely making it
and divine toll is a great m+ ability
Zoldyck also simmed within 10 dps of dashing and doomblade

lol
i have no earthly idea what mw goes lol
So yes, we recommended zoldyck when it was almost equal to other bis options, and did. better in aoe, and gave execute
yes its better but half the front page is still kyrian
And now that zold is almost 5% behind doomblade, we’re recommending doomblade for single target
No it's all don't you know
doesn't it have a long ass cd? divine toll is 1 min cd heal everyone to full
in super high keys the dmg is great, but divine toll still good
You take hpal because of the dmg so it makes sense you would boost dmg. They don't need all the extra healing if your group knows what they're doing
!guide

The main reason paladins go for venthyr is is they are doing the insane pulls planned around it and covenant diversity
ashen hollow is overrated in m+ ngl
Click on any top holypala on rio, what's there to be laughing about?
Ashen Hallow is incredibly strong when it matters, Venthyrs are important to have for the corresponding dungeons and are not popular among the meta dps.
Sorry for the off-topic, but it's not like you are gaining much dungeon-wise by going Venthyr even when pugging as they're very easy to come by.
just say you're playing outlaw and ass as an excuse to go necrolord obv
If you look most pally healers will tell you toll is more consistent
Pugs never pull big though so do whatever you want I guess
why does reavenholdt have mastery over vers 
if you play outlaw + fire mage prides arent an issue
ok, but regardless the whole argument was "every healer goes venthyr" and that's just not true lol
Cause it’s a little outdated and weak was having trouble logging in to change it
I’ll let him know
It's better than kyrian for sin anyways so it's not even trolling
tbh we play it with this in mind
it's what im doing since there is much more cleave/aoe content, but having a good low-variance ST spec will be refreshing
the argument was about telling people venthyr could suffer more from downtime than the other 3 covenants, which is true in every meaning of the word
denying it is just.. wrong
That’s true, it’s just the concept that venthyr is bad because of it
That’s the weird one
Well, not bad, but worse than like necro
someone said its the best in every situation
and the counter was "well it has a downside if you cant keep uptime"
Both of those can be true
But there’s not really any situation atm where the downtime difference hurts venthyr so comparatively hard that it would make it worse than other covenants tbh
At least the way I see it
probably not in CN
cus if you've played this raid for a while
you know exactly when you can use things and not
so I dont press flag 1s before blades go out?
So would you say that during prog next tier, with current numbers, venthyr would be worst?
sounds hard
Or worse at least than like necro
yes thats why im going no covenant, cant lose anything then
no i mean if you're a good player its fine
Genius
but sub players definitely had issues with CN when it was new
Yeh
I'm swapping to mawsworn when it becomes available tbh. These coves have only ever griefed me
lol banned streamer has 30k dps after 2nd boss in nw
wonder why its g etting nerfed
30k overall that is
Must be that blizzard hates rogues and hates fun and ma in pvp is WAYYYY Too op and sub rogues are one shotting with skulkers
pins cant hurt me
God forbid we cheese a mechanic so we can end up on par with fire mage
not even from vault? tf
10/10 still never did either 🙂
I get it in heroic every week
If those kids could read they'd be very upset
imagine if ur guild wants to do slg after downing itonce
They wont
ive had a few buddies say to me they are more concerned w/ council reclear than slg. couple of annoying fights
shriekwing hardest boss confirmed
have your buddies done SLG or are they just crazy
council is literally just an easier version of slg
council becomes easier with higher dps, SLG not so much
they are progging sire and just had a lot of problems with council, doesn't mean council is harder. i've mainly heard slg is hardest boss in CN, but im talking reclear not prog
depends on guild
the whole
sire vs slg thing
we killed slg in 170 pulls ish
sire in 78
were those 170 pre or post nerf?
they're a bit closer post nerf
@balmy condor oi champion, doomblade on tuesday what's the scoop


prenerf
vel hunters dont have doomblade
4th alt needs to have bis
or well we killed the boss the raid after the first slg nerf to goliath hp
but it would have died anyway
I mean push outside of your example ive yet to see a guild with more wipes on sire than slg 😛
Ive seen plenty of guilds with slg wipes x2 sire
pre nerf SLG was the real end boss, after all the nerfs they're pretty close to denath
the SLG nerfs are kind of funny in general since it shows blizzard really doesnt understand the fight problems
fixed the timers, but that kinda fucked everyone that had progged it for a while
the commando hp nerf was big, but that's about it
the fight problem is its dogshit designed, nerfs arent gonna fix it
make the intermisson shorter and nerf commandos again
theyd literally need to remove a mechanic or neuter it
ezpz
like how KJ got a big soak removed at the end lol
man we spent an entire night
about 25 wipes
on learning a new slg strat
100% worth
ye but youre on farm for a month now our farm starts in 4days
ship the speed strat and slg becomes less taxing
I doubt sire dies 1st week
whats speed strat bro omg
took off 3.5 minutes of our first kill
you bring the goliath into 2nd intermission right?
there are faster kills
oh, havent checked in a while just saw alot of 8:45 kills
and a normal 1st kill these days is 11+- 10s
yea thats insane

idk wtf happened there
okay you literally have 5th fastest kill but not that many people are doing it
theres alot in the 8:50-9:50 region tho
Will assa be the play on sludgefist now? Trying to decide on what my next legendary will be and Im coming up on Sluge prog
yes
its prob because you kinda have to invest some time
and sacrifice some mental for a raid
perhaps, idk
my guild swapped to the bringing goliath strat around the end of prog so we had a shit rank cause we spent too much time on that
its certainly different
ye these speed logs are something else
just checked bdgg sludge, it hits pillar at 21% and dies 1s after debuff ends with 1 dps dead
what are they even doing different
moar deeps
but that much
just 4 heal and stacked classes
2 boomie, 4 hunter, 3 lock, 2 mages, sp, ww, fury
ah okay (:
whats the bis sludge speed strat, like dh/war tank with a mw for debuff 1 hpala and 0 other melee
I saw ptr note that now exang works for sbs dot. does it applied for simc results in pin?
Weird
is the simmed pin comparable to simcrafts posts?
like could you take the 7200 assa and just drop it in here? https://www.simulationcraft.org/reports/T26_Raid.html
sure but most of those are probably not updated aswell
yes but that doesnt mean theyre all kept to date
and alot of them just dont have the same TC power that rogue does
and affli one is totally legit 
Everyone is gaining some dps from the stat from gear change too
Fire mage will get a sizeable buff
i have no idea what that is, can you explain?
They increased the amount of stats on gear iirc
isnt it like 1-2 secondaries
Per item?
I guess so
Mythics not dropping Renown, friends :(
Regular or M+? Both?
Hello, new rogue here as a fresh 60. Was wanting to mainly set up for pvp, with pve as a secondary. Is assas/venthr pretty decent looking at 9.0.5? Thanks for your time and comments.
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Did a couple m+ around 8 level and no renown, sad times
same happened to me, last night i was getting every dungeon then before i got off i did the weekly maw quest and now i get one every 5 or 6 dungeons maybe
how much garrote and rupture can stack durations??
or im dumb?
Check out this message. Says Venthyr is BIS. #assassination message
A 15 drops me
on tuesday
for what its worth I have a 226 septic shock that sims higher than all the other 213s on outlaw (not including cto), so I would say no a 145 isn't going to beat out a 213
Any talent build changes come tuesday?
probably does matter, i would sim it
honestly doing callings for renown got me a 200 lashing real quick so that would be my rec. to get it before tuesday
ill be switching tomorrow after raid
doing prog on sire lol
I got 2 200s from 3 callings and only 1 of them was an epic box iirc
so its probably super common now
ah fair enough even still youll have 3 callings come tuesday so decent chance to get it for raid
you can finisht that quest anyway
you'll still have to wait a year for dravens approval
this is the 2nd one
theres a thing saying that in game somewhere?
u can test it urself
I'm not hardcore gimping myself if I go necro right?
wow tooltips are notoriously misleading / lacking info
most things in the game pandemic
160 dps difference in sims can hardly be called hardcore gimping but if you have another sin in your raid you'll feel really bad about it constantly; on ST fights that is
nah I'm used to playing sub in raid alongside an outlaw
i know i asked that cuz i saw that happens today
ya i don't think its written anywhere in game, its just a known mechanic
fuck draven
The ST loss of necro vs venth is more than offset by the AOE gain if you're playing outlaw for M+
Although well it's not a like-for-like comparison, and one could argue bursty ST priority dmg is more impt
assuming your playing assass for raid and keys, would venthyr still be the play over necro?
yes
BIG SPIKEY BOY
yo whispyr when do you typically stream
TFW I get dagger from Council of Blood the week I decide to switch to Sin 
9 months ago Preach said that door of shadows was going to be mandatory for all M+ groups and no one would invite a non-venthyr to pugs. That's why it's so bad now.
He did not say such a thing, ever. He, alongside anyone else with a brain was a bit scared when everything was first announced and blizzard said they would make fights so that all covenants feel like they are needed for different fights
i allready miss soulshape whos idea was it to cast 1,5 sec door of shadows 
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tbh i dont even think its an issue of door being so bad more so soulshape being too good, like compared to necro and kyrian door is pretty much equal in power
oh shit
if the cast time of door was .5 sec it would be perfect
i killed the world boss
got renown got conduit got the feet aswell
wtf crazy loot
yeah was going to say, maybe if they halved the cast time and reduced the range to compensate it would be better off
no, just lower the cast time tbh
no just make it instand
it would still be balanced
and like give it 5 charges
it was instant in beta 
instant is kinda too good imo, at least for that range
they can give it 2 ranges
one abit shorrter
but instant\
and if u wanna tp far u have to cast
i should be a dev
oh shit im not on ptr no wonder the conduit added negative dmg
ncie
lmao
see you there on tuesday 👀
which change is making sin more popular now for PvE content? New to rogue trying to understand what I should be learning
flagellation got a rework
2nd gcd removed and the damage boosted, and the amount of haste boosted
sin was popular but now that we have cttc back and a buff on wv + doomblade +flag + lashingscars mega beroken = scaling
3 consistent buffs, cttc coming back and then reworking their covenants and legendaries
oh u know what happened
i literally pressed flag
and was like why did it not go off
and pressed it again
and used the second part
im glad they took it out
it was okayish but i literally was used to 1.50sec sepsis shit
and pressed it and was like maybe im not in range or something it didnt go on cd
my brain
right and outlaw/sub don't get Flagellation is that why?
I'm prob still gonna stay NF tbh, I can't give up Soulshape and the aesthetic
Venthy is literally the most fitting aesthetic for rogue though
yeah soulshape for me is the real seller, dont really care much for the theme or anything, but short cd instant blink that heals you is pretty op
Oh I'm not saying they aren't in like, the context of a Rogue, I just mean overall I love the NF shit
biggest issue with sepsis for me is how little it interacts with multiple targets, at least with venhyr gaining the extra haste has abit of interaction, but just putting a st dot on a big mob in a pack is kinda eh
and yeah i agree with sky, theme of venthyr much better suits rogue than night fae, save that for druids
Yeah, Sepsis is pure ST and can be clunky, no doubt about that
It fits the fact that our other damage CDs are one-target Debuffs 
i want to see how much damage i can do in aoe with full stack flag + PI + pride + anima battery + full set of garottes/ruptures/CT up
probably worse than necro but i still wanna see it
It would still be a good chunk I feel
Just as I reach 60 and ready pick covenants I read the changes
Still going with NF prob, it just fits so well with night elf
hopefully I am not going to regret it 
NF soulbinds are quite strong and make up for Sepsis being kinda lame, to be fair. xD
Nah I don't think you will, play what you like imo
At least Sepsis has interaction with Shiv, that's about it tho
True, but it's not like you'll hold Shiv just for Sepsis line-up either.
I'd still definitely recommend people try/test abilities of covenants to decide their play-style preference first and foremost.
Oh yeah no, it just helps with opener burst ultimately
it's still pretty nice even if you don't go out of your way to line it up
Well said
sadly the playtest while leveling really wasn't adequate for figuring out what abilities I'd end up wanting to use in actual lategame content
nor was the dummy testing
i thought the initial iterations of flag and bonespike would be great to use and very fun - they were not
but i didn't figure that out until i started actually raiding and doing keys with them
Yeah it's really unfortunate there isn't much of a way to test abilities in real practice without picking a covenant, other than like heroic/normal dungeons since you'll automatically get the ability of each zone if you haven't picked one. But again, very out of touch with how M+/PvP/Raid works.
Yeah I thought Bonespike was gonna be like, insanely strong when Raid opened, but then it was more "All are pretty close in DPS"
For a while on beta, Bone spike was absurd and like >30% of overall damage, but that was the buggy fracture high AP version so people got baited into bone spike.
O o f
Don't get me wrong, it was great. xD Top DPS all raid testing I did basically.
Then it was nerfed and blizz forgot to compensate
I believe it 100%
it didn't help that a lot of top players hyped up emeni
It did seem pretty potent at the time, especially with how valuable primary stat is now, but yeah kinda oof on that one.
Heard it from preach first, rogues are rising
They also nerfed the % I believe from when Lead By Example first existed (I think?)
💎 ✋
emeni still seems underrated frankly if you stack necrolords
because you benefit from other instances of LBE
you still suffer the damage loss from going necro in the first place
and going a bad necro bind
all the damage you might gain from emeni cheese is wiped out because you're trolling your own damage in the process
do you use crimson tempest on single target if you specced into this?
Yes
How far is emeni behind heirmir?
ty
I think on live like 1%-ish
Yeah I feel like 1% can't be that hard to make up with the cheese
then why does no one run emeni
whisp 

Is that high the difference between venthyr sins and necro sins in ST?
150 dps seems high but idk on fights
also that comparison is the fact that you go necro to begin with
Bc no one is dedicated to the cheese
Maybe the reward doesn't match the effort required
Well this is just in the context of necrolord as a covenant, I'm not saying it's better than venthyr
yeah idk
I just don't see the value
and during beta, there were attempts to be like "oh well sync the buff to stuff"
and it just didn't show anything
like syncing to your own cooldowns didn't even show a gain
lbe is by far the most feelcrafty thing in the game imo
cause it's like "well if I hit 3 fire mages during combust with it, it must be worth right?"
and there's just so many variables that you have to factor in
No it's more like what happens if 3 people using lbe use it at the same time
For a large cumulative mainstat buff
Like stone legion or past sins but with your covenant ability
You get more mainstat the more people you buff, and you also gain from other uses of lbe from other people
yeah but you also can't choose who it's going on
so you have to position it
and then the question is how many lbe buffs do you need for it to be value
do you need 5?
where are you getting 5 necro players
I mean if you have 9 dps and say 3 of them are necrolord that's a decent chance of getting a buff
sure
I don't know enough about what other classes pick necrolord for dps to say how likely that is
but we're talking multiple right
the point is, not a lot
Well, dks usually and shamys
And there are usually 1-2 dks / 1-2 shamys per raid
Shadowpriests aswell
It does require a lot of knowledge I don't have about the differences between necrolord and other class's bis dps covenants to see whether the gap is small enough to make it potentially viable
But imagine a scenario where all the dps go necrolord for the shield for progress, and they all go emeni and toss the lbe buff back and forth
That couldn't be THAT bad
venth is love
venth is lyfe
I think most of the meta-ish classes that don't go necro atm lose like 200-500 dps going necro
side note

almost there
what the fcuk
I can't wait to finish these 2 keys and insta swap
i got to 20 today and quit its so boring
you ppl up to date huh
i got to 19 and got tired
I swapped wednesday night
I don't remember what I was when I swapped
i swaped like 3hours ago and im like 10
What renown were we when the last covenant campaign quest released?
worst part was the campaign tbh
im still mad that we dont go dauntless duelist
went into lfr and shit was crazy
don't like questing
why don't we?
We do tho
worst part is lfr 
what i thought familiar predicaments bc we get 2 potency conduits

big oof

lashing and cto on outlaw
lashing on sin/sub
that's it
everything else is trash
is there a point where potency will actually be good for sin?
like max ranked conduits?
Shietttt I'm only renown 23 
do u go lashing cto with no dauntless with ol for mplus? is that even a thing
not currently
thats so sad
I think it might be
who knows what will happen in 9.1
Not even at high conduit ilvls?
ima try stuff when its on live rn my flag with a 200ilvl conduit does a total of 0 dmg
Emeni is fine, its still BIS for DK because of the primrary stat it adds to the raid
I feel dirty not using my classes conduits
but when 200 WPS gives 15 less dps than a 226 WPS
who gives a shit tbh
gives less dps than ilvl
huh
wait, after swap i need to Q U E S T ? not just doing arenas rbg callings etc?
hate questing ..
campaign gives 9 renown, yes

goosh
i like numbers. not lore gibberish!

how do u even get used to doorofshadows
like stand there and "cast" as a rogue
yikes smol company
to be fair, I've enjoyed lore from every mmo except world of warcraft
i do hate questing
story in wow is actually trash imo
I mean I won't lie that wows questing is kinda shit
But shadowlands is the best it's been in a long time
It feels the same as legion questing
Wasn't legion questing good tho
wow lore sounds like pretentious crap. i just wana raid and do m+
short question : will weightstones and agi potion be better than oil and phantomfire due to more dmg for flagellation ?
There would be no raids and dungeons if there wasn't a story lol
and all of a sudden that's it gg new story
it's like a collection of short stories instead of something more long winded
i mean, the story went to shit long ago when they started with alternate universes and now the afterlife tbh
pretty unrecoverable now
to me at least, the best questlines I did in recent expacs were the wrathion stuff in bfa, the khadgar stuff in legion, etc
Idk i think they've done a fairly decent job of connecting all of the different sl zones together
and not "here's a zone story" "here's a zone story" "here's a zone story"
The jailer fucking shit up is the common thread between all of the stories
imo the story was good till pandaria/draenor then they took a bump over it
But it's not finished yet
i rememba playing orcs vs human in warcraft3, and now its afterlife jailer ,,, like waaaat?
they've been building up to this slyvanas crap for like 3 xpacs so whatever is happening, it better be good
the sylvanas stuff has never felt like the actual story to me
it's always been the side quest
what's gonna happen is we'll have an arthas redemption story like we did with illidan, cos they cant come up with anything new imo 😄
which i guess is like "oh she works from the shadows" or whatever bullshit
Well you have to keep in mind that wow wasn't supposed to go past TBC, everything after that story wise has been them making shit up as they go
but man the whole sylvanas arc has been a snoozefest
ya except in bfa when the whole thing was supposed to be horde vs. alliance and she burn da big tree
but before that ya
Sylvanas is just garrosh 2.0 but bigger scale
ye got used to these bulshit stories. they drifted far away from original orc vs human conflict
It's kinda boring
every single horde storyline involves the leader being shit or dying instantly lol
but to be fair. they cant milk orcs vs humans forver
remember in legion when they said the world quest system would help make old zones relevant again

World quests need to die
But they're a fundamental part of the business model now so it'll never happen
idk why they decided to make them more annoying in slands
they introduced it and were like "this is one of the ways we're making the world of warcraft a WORLD, and not just individual zones"
At least they are completely optional except for switching covenants lul
in bfa it was like "kill 1 rare" now kill 3 rares and 12 normal mobs
and we're like cool
then do it
make it a world
fucking do it
don't be a pussy
and then they never did

a turtle made it to the water
Classic was a world 
tortollan wq lowkey bis
it's a world because there's no auction house in the capital anymore so you have to go to org every now and then for raid mats
Make loh go to hell

?? what do u mean u chase every guy owning a longboi
just be a engineer bro
shadowlands actually just isolating every zone also feels like shit to me
world of warcraft: the minigame
run around in this ball pit, and then go to the other ball pit

The terrain design in SL is ... Interesting
going from 1 zone to another u have to go make some coffee and take a shit cuz it takes like 10 minutes
Pretty to look at but kinda weird to navigate
I disagree with this tbh
It takes 5 min to fly from anywhere in SL to anywhere else
Vanilla flight paths were literally 20 min
yea but im not comparing it to vanilla, im comparing it to legion n bfa where stuff was much closer to each other
it was like 30 seconds not 5 min
i usually just hearth to oribos but its still just obnoxious
what does sbs do now if u exang twice
oh ok
flying is coming in 9.1 which is nice anyway
the question is
will it let us fly through the zone portals ourselves
probably not
yea idk, at least it'll make revendreth much less annoying
Oh i thought it did work just couldn't use it twice? Good to know venthyr easily the play now
They said in blizzcon that you can't, it would take you like 20 mins of flying at flying mount speed to make it from a zone to oribos
I can't find it in the pins (though it might just be me not having a brain as per usual), but is Necro stronger than Venthyr during execute by virtue of the SBS bleed being an additional bleed, with Zoldyck equipped?
funny because in oribos they used to have click and teleport portals to every zone on alpha and early beta
then they removed it and turned into fly points
so that was a deliberate decision
overall more online time is my guess

yo good question, anyone got an answer?
gimme 5 min
Thank you!
@eternal wave @strange python
tyty
Many thanks!
Was definitely a good thing to test 
Thats just DPS during execute phase?
Has anyone tried out doomblade with exsang+venthyr, feel like the timings could line up decently
I don't like Exsang personally, but I do hope this Doomblade buff makes it competitive at least rather than a dead talent
exsang is a dead talent
Bummer haha
yes, that's a full execute fight

more or less identical to st sims
I mean
At least the difference between Necro and Venthyr is less than 2% 😛
yeah
That sim was done with zoldyck right?
when you use the same legendary
and it's affecting the same stuff
except that it affects sbs dot
you're gonna see similar results
True
Still thinking that execute is one of Assa's main draws, even if it will be the top Rogue DPS for ST regardless
And planning Covenants around that would definitely be valid
I'm still so tempted by the DR on Fleshcraft though, as well as SBS being my favorite Rogue ability since I can't even remember
if only i could progress my campaign
tothemoon!
but my ticket got an automated response so I have to wait another ~20 hours
a bugged quest?
swapped to venthyr, and now there is no quest offered to continue.
or rather, i never got offered one to START the campaign
i don't even have soulbinds
SO I'm stuck with a useless char for now
because Blizz sucks
hmm, takes a few quest to get a soulbind but pretty much from what I remember you swap covenant and then they send you to sinfal to talk to the prince and that's where it begins
yep, talked to renethal, got both covenant abilities, got sent to talk to Rendal (this small guy idk what they are even called) and then....
nothing
no follow up
Yeah that seems weird
so you have 0 quests right now?
yep
normally you'd get the calling quest (non daily)
and the anima intro quest, like 375 anima isntead of 1K
much better than before for sure, not sure how that puts us in the meta tho
It's definitely going to be a lot easier to play
it's already pretty smooth
Messing around on the PtR, I only had to cast Slice and Dice once, and had 99% uptime for 5-minute tests
any reason to wait for reset before crafting doomblade?
Oh it is, yeah, but now it's like, smoother because of CttC
it's only gonna get better from now on, the buffs and changes to venthyr and necrolord covenants are great for assa
it has a raid niche with the execute leggo, probably dps is going to pop off post 9.1 with more stats and items (and even more changes hopefully)
Cries in
how difficult is it to swap now?
from 38 renown one covenant to 38 another
given i have like 4 renown there
Eh, it's not difficulty, moreso I really like Nightfae that I don't wanna switch even if Venthyr will be strictly better
You’ll have more soul ash and can craft a higher rank immediately and not waste gold
The crying is mostly joking since Soulshape doesn't need a buff, and Sepsis is completely fine where it is
If that’s not the case for you, do whatever
Takes a day or two to get back to 30+
You just do heroic/normal/lfr raids and the campaign and you're done
im torn right now, whether i should craft haste/vers MA for outlaw and for trying out assa, or risk it all and craft zoldyck right away
MA is generally really good for Assa for a lot of content. If you want to multispec, that's definitely the play.
I think most of us started with MA or a combination of something + MA
It's still top tier in M+ for Assa and very good in the raid.
can i ask you guys something about recuperator?....in order to get healed again...do i have to recast it? or it will heal forever for the duration of snd?
if u go MA you don't ever use MA talent right? I know it's obvious but i wanna make sure
yes
It will continue as long as snd is up
If you are new to rogue and still trying out specs I’d recommend MA legendary as well. There is not a single piece of content where it is not up there at the top
It's the most versatile legendary for sure.
Is the doomblade legendary also the go to for arena?
Probably still MA, but can't say for sure yet.
ma SUCKS
I'm curious on how much the MA nerf will affect M+ performance since you won't be able to use Trinkets or things like the NW weapons
leggs for beta males
Not much at all. It just won't be a necessity in NW anymore.
NW will be a lot tougher that's for sure, but doesn't affect other dungeons.
That's good to hear at least
does zoldyck work on bonespike?
Yes
From what people have gathered here, yeah
op
not really :P
ITS OP
I'm actually glad I won't have to do Nw weapons anymore
same
I'm not, I liked it :''(
I mean most of what it was was just dumpstering on Surgeon, wasn't it?
No
one on amarth
You pulled huge packs and used spear on the pack to instakill all the pulled mobs
Instantly dealing millions of damage
That sounds 10x better, damn my groups for saying hold ALL for Surgeon 
If you look up NW on the MDI, you can see teams pulling every pack in the beginning of NW then the rogue just oneshotting everything
!sims
Simulations:
Herodamage: https://www.herodamage.com/rogue/
Bloodmallet: https://bloodmallet.com/index.html
Literally no point using on Sturgeon
Oof, yeah I didn't watch MDI at all tbh
The average pug sure isn't pulling it off mdi style. So actually the guaranteed crit isn't even a huge deal
Whenever he escapes, you can just insta-hook him back with the old stitchwork
just check jpcs vod for a 25, after 2nd boss he has like 30k overall
Sure they aren't pulling every pack in the beginning, but they still do pull huge just for the spear.
Well, I certainly hope comps that relied on that strat have a backup come this Tuesday
I almost +2 chested a NW +19 only because the tank was pulling so big for the spear
I would assume that most high end groups will try to push for a really high NW this week, because it's the best push week in the game and because the MA nerf is coming up.
Very fair
So just about to try assassination for the first time, and I see that doomblade is the single target best however it seems on logs everyone is using zoldyck. Which should I go for in 9.0.5?
That's because Doomblade is getting a huge buff in 9.0.5. Currently MA/Zoldyck are the best legendaries, but on reset day Doomblade will pull ahead.
^
Zoldyck will still be the go-to legendary on AoE and execute scenarios.
Yes. Zoldyck and MA are the best legendaries currently.
crit/haste for doomblade?
Ah that makes sense. But how much will it be better? Is it like Akaaris where it will only be better by a few dps?
or haste/vers
MA is also the best legendary for short fights, like Shriek/HD.
Doomblade is easily the best legendary in ST, it's not even close.
what is slg shoulders?
However it does fall quite a bit on more targets.
Gotcha, Ill make that one for now then, tyvm
slg shoulders are crit/vers
but they are 233 ilvl though. Hence why they are bis.
Mythic Stone Legion Generals Shoulders, ilvl 233.
There arent a lot of guild clearing Mytchi STL atm though. Its not your avarage player
Mythic*
i see! thx! I don't think I'll kill slg anytime soon. So I could still go for shoulders ?
If you are not planning to kill Mythic SLG, then you can make either or.
im just wondering about the stats on the missives, not the slot
It doesn't matter, just replace whichever gear is worse.
If you have 200 ilvl gloves and 220 shoulders, you should just make Doomblade on gloves then
Sry, 1 more question, why do I see most ppl on logs using crit haste on their legendary when supposedly haste-vers is the best?
Verse and crit are similar in value. Sim yourself to find whichever is better for you.
Doomblade also makes dashing irrelevant, so I wonder how blizz lands on the numbers it does
assuming the new version, when should I use Flag in the opener
also assume MA talent
muti-snd-muti-gar-flag-rup
Vers and crit are similar. Even tho I’m gonna do haste vers irrelevant of sim difference just because of pvp
mut snd mut gar flag rup mut shiv vendetta enven -> normal?
Vanish before envenom, otherwise yeah looks good
i swaer i always forget vanish when not using subterfuge
also just from renown-farming in lfr, who the hell is playtester at blizz and signed off the original version of Flag
why is the reactivation on a global
It's awful. It would have been fine if it wasn't on the gcd, similar to how the Coral trinket worked in BFA.
And instead of removing the gcd, they just removed the activation completely. Oh well, I'll take it. 
Also current flag is still a lot better than whatever Slaughter was.
i mean that wouldve been my next complaint
that you can MISS the activation
so if you want to get the maximum out of it you risk getting nothing
i guess it wouldn't be as bad if it was off the gcd
I've done normal and lfr for renown and let me tell you that I missed the second cast MORE times than I remembered to actually cast it the second time.
pretty sure that ability is unusable without a WA to track it
Thank god Soul Igniter isn't like that at least... Double Presses that just fizzle if you don't press it again is just, ASS
I literally had to make a custom weak aura for it
Oh I agree with that 100% tbh
So it tracks stacks, the cooldown of the ability, the 20s timer of the buff and so that it glows up at 3s before finishing
Without the glow, I would not remember to press it.
Yeah honestly I need a lot of WAs in my face, especially for Gar/Rup/SnD 
i'm also gonna write me some stuff to track shit on multiple targets
multi target wa's are jank
i'd agree for like m+
just clutters your screen
but e.g. multitarget fights like huntsman they can be useful
I literally just have a stack count as a number in the corner to help keep it concise, hard to see who has what timer on them but, NugRunning kind of helps with that
Just use nameplates with pandemic timers and you gucci :^)
Honestly seeing specific timers helped me mostly for Sire pushing before 3rd set of Cabalists come out
That's the best way to track dots
i just simmed myself and venthyr was like 2% behind NF and I'm like "wait what wtf why am I even switching"
then i remembered changes aren't live yet
You can use advanced sim to sim yourself with the ptr changes
rn, venthyr is still 
By putting ptr=1 at the top
in the custom APL options?
No
Before your simc paste
You just type ptr=1 at the top, enter, ctrl + v to paste your simc
Would I want to hold my sepsis for 1-2 seconds if it will line up with shiv ?
Only works with advanced sim though, doesn't work for quick sim/top gear etc.
or just press them both on CD
You usually want to hold Sepsis for Vendetta. But yes, you should line Sepsis and Shiv.
oh great thanks for the response
If they're within 5 seconds of coming off CD of each other, I usually wait yeah
was about to complain it says invalid input
https://i.imgur.com/5mcpA4I.png
increased my renown and thought maybe I can just skip the first chapter until the support figures it out

but Renethal ain't standing here
You're on the wrong floor.
Just odd that people saying that neco is lower dps when it was last night the Necolord update was relases on PTR how can be 100% sure. just saying
Use the mirror to descend to the lower floor
what updated last night?
nono, Renethal is supposed to stand there, but I'm bugged currently
Renethal stands on the lower floor but doesn't offer quests or dialogue
Welp, rip.
Well, good thing Renown only takes a day to grind so shouldn't be too bad when they get that fixed for you
So the current topgear sims arent using the 9.0.5 changes right?\
Yeah, gonna be fucked if you were planning to raid tonight lmao
correct. you can only sim ptr in advanced atm
gotcha ty
@balmy condor Was told some time ago by InfexiousGaming that Bone Spike Spell was not out for PTR and
Dalaran Gaming sad it was just realsesd on PTR last night that park of the Bonespike
infexious 
we know how it's gonna be because blizzard made a blue post stating the changes
So I guess Im surprised that doomblade is simming much higher than zoldycks even though its using the current build and most ppl are using zoldycks
I can still farm renown, but I cannot do anything with it
yes I understand that, but its the same thing as testing it and see it action vs a blue post 😛
no access to soulbinds
there was a discovery that envenom doesn't pandemic anymore for 0 reason, that hit zoldyck a little
yes but you can scrub the ptr data?
blue post, then ptr spell data scrub, then implement in sims, sim it
ez
I see, was that recent?
bout 2-3 weeks
i cannot sim specific fights, right? like simming inerva to find out which legendary would be better
no
I understand that and i get the datascrub. but its not allways the same as runing around with a char :=) but i do Trust you
and even if you could, 95% of specs don't even have implementation for ttd events, let alone raid events
so good luck with that
na it was more about whether doombladeor zldycks have more value for inerva
You can use cleave add to get some idea
aka does the length of the execute make zoldyck better than doomblade
but considering it's just one long dps check
ye
not because of any fight length
Inerva has no adds 😦
Hmm
All guilds just immune all of them ;<
if you only bring warriors she doesn't 
lulw
Haven't seen a single guild that can immune all adds
na that's not realistic
Nah not all of them tbh ;p
No one has immunities with 1min cds
DK's? 😮
isn't warrior spell reflect 25s?
Ah yeah, that was misspoken by me
ams is 1 min
pretty sure anti magic shell is a 1min cd no? I might be wrong
it is, can be reduced to 40s with a talent
Meant to say that guilds cannot run setups where all dps have 1min immunities
Either way, ofc people don't do it that way. But adds die in matter of seconds
Unless they run 14 warriors/dks, which is highly unlikely.
Our guild runs 3 healers and rest dps. Adds die in matter of seconds. I doubt Zoldycks would have any value at all there
i mean you can dot adds and then forget them if they die within the first dot window (which they SHOULD)
Everyone just presses that AoE button whenever they spawn and adds i just disappears D;
The big boys last for a while
but if we're not maximizing dps for ourselves, but the raid doomblade for higher overall ST is likely the correct choice
because you need bossdamage here
I mean sunking, sire and council maybe? 😮
You need big ST to push those phases on council mythic.
Specially if you don't have Moonkins that oneshots the attendants D:
And blast the waiters
Its hard to play moonkin okay? YOu have to press convoke and starfall to top the meters there okay?
Super hard.
You don't even press starfall because Convoke does it for you 
What is this? Is this lethal poisons?
yes
ty
I read that as horny and was slightly concerned
Nothing to be concerned over!







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