#assassination
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It's been my exp. that the bosses on tyranical are the hope enders not the trash lol. (in DoS)
what are you guys using when in keys leggo wise?
Yeah. It really is the difference in comp
does it mnatter which hand we put weapon enchants on? for sinful / haste one
I’d two absolute trash pumpers but not so solid on boss for frost. So I bit the bullet and went DB
I don’t regret it, but it was an overall drop in damage for sure
Is it bad to constantly be depleting your energy? For example not controlling how much energy you use, are you supposed to attack in specific bursts instead?
the reason i recommend zoldyck is because it's good on every single week, every single dungeon and every single affix. but doomblade can be a bit of a loss depending on the week, dungeon and affix
^
You are not wrong.
the only pooling you need to do is around envenom. try to use envenom only when you're at 70% + energy outside of shiv, and spam it when you have just used shiv. otherwise just use stuff as it comes up
why exactly do you pool like that
so that you have a lot of energy when shiv recharges
yeah is envenom that important?
you wanna always get 2 envenoms into shiv? or is 3 possible
basically there are a few different times when you want to pool energy, but pooling around envenom is the easiest way to take care of all of those conditions
3 is possible, don’t actively hold for three.
oh okay
also keep in mind that not pooling energy at all is only a 30 dps loss vs pooling perfectly so it's not a big deal regardless
im used to smashing dispatch soo ye
side note: look at this weird ass sim. exacting preparation simming highest in dslice? even over theotar??? https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/8dx9VoMHiU7teUVpba7BRa
That was in miki’s too earlier
Yeh we did those sims earlier as well.
Wasn’t it?
Not Miki's, Kojack's
!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)
Ahhh
the hell is going on
Fucking sepsis boys smh
It's not simming the highest for me
Highest for me is 2x potency conduit with Nadja
With Lashing + LP
Katar one time 
Highest for Whispyr was Lashing + Katar

Seems to vary quite a bit
i don't even know what to recommend anymore for aoe soulbinds
Recommend someone to sim themself 
Better to just sim for different stuff
exacting preparation reminds me of blessing of kings from classic so i can see why it can be good
So sim 2min fight and 5 target 1 minute
raw stat boosts are always really good
its better to know when and where stuff is better and worse
than just sim dungeon slice
extended maintenance tomorrow, how dare they make me wait even longer to be disappointed with my vault

But honestly, unless you're a god gamer and/or you eat feast every time you die in M+, ExPr can be pretty pog
i'm actually very hype to see wtf is in my vault after all of this valor farming
just something, do u pop vendetta insta on pull or wait before u have dots up ?
I can't be bothered and for me it sims less than double potency without food
definitely wait
Try simming it without a food buff
i made the mistake of leveling my phial to 220, now im gonna get in my vault
Because on default it assumes that you eat a feast, which you definitely don't do in M+
oh yeah
i'm looking at a sludge log and he just pops it right away so i wasn't really sure
but ill still be happy so w/e lol
i just use haste or crit food
Stream the phial drop when servers go live 
generally u wanna pop it when ur energy starved
if u wont be energy starved then pop when u go into envenom spam
Kinda seen this being thrown around, on the opener do we flag between garrote and rupture or after vendetta?
i mean on pull
yes
i think sludge may be different because people are trying to get it to line up with pillars
on sludge u pop on pull
im gonna have five 226 vault pieces and none of them are gonna be a weapon, AGAIN
mythic atleast

i know u pop on sludge any 2min cd i just looked at a peen log and he just straight up put his vendetta right after his snd
so i was wondering
Just pvp and get your weapon
You also “can” on heroic. Just depends on when you down him. If you down him on 3, save for 1 and 3, if not go pull 2, 4.
i suck at pvp, my skill ceiling capped out at 1800 lmao
with hero on pull u usually wont do that right
correct
On sludge in a shiv window, we only pop envenoms right? Even if a bleed falls off during this window. Is this also on other bosses? (Ideal situation bleeds never drop during window i know, but what if...)
also casting it early for it to line up a LITTLE BIT better with pillars
No, you want to reapply dots if they fall off. But like you said, ideally you refresh them right before he hits the pillar
depends on whether ur also using CD's
Else you'll be hitting an envenom then afk for 4 gcd's because you don't have energy to mutilate
then another 3 because you don't have energy for env
You can let them drop off at the end of the stun
It means you take a stat and it applies to a window of damage. A good example of this was exsanguinate in 8.3. If you had galecallers boon when you pooped exsanguinate, the bleeds would continue to tick at the rate for that haste, rather than whatever haste you were at at the time.
Then the boss is already out of the phase
It’s a shitty explanation but yeah
and fuck being high vers 
That’s a mood for life
i mean like shiv is also strong cuz it amps ur poison, so even if u cant get 2/3 envenoms in the windowu still press it
i was surprised how many sidegrades i could get from valor
cuz envenom isn't the only nature damage u have
poisons dont really deal a lot of damage
in the window
but u def wanna cast envenom early in shiv cast
Env should be your first gcd in that window
And shiv used right before he hits the pillar
on sludge specifically you should refresh your bleeds and snd early before the pillar to 100% make sure they dont fall off during it
I have 220 crit/haste simming better than 226 vers/x
oh i know envenom is the prio in shiv, usually u can get 2 to 3 envenoms
dont you have like 28% vers 
nooo god no. 29.
XD
why does mastery suck this much for assas? iirc it was good before?
usually rupture hit pandemic window soon before he'll get to the pillar so i dont think u'll be running into that problem alot
Can’t wait to see the new shriek cheese papi
Spaghetti coding. And haste used to not affect our bleeds but y’know here we are now
But on sludge u wanna use shiv off CD until first pillar
then u hold for stomp
use again and it lines up with 2nd vendetta
Same here but
i have 3x as much vers as mastery
so realistically the stat is prob a lot worse than vers
isnt it decent in aoe / m+?
haste is kinda mastery but better
its still the worst option for me
But aren't you stacking mastery, how in the world would mastery be equal to vers?
Or are you just spreading lies and not actually doing it yourself? 
opener without lust feels so RNG tho
listen i haven't gotten any good mastery drops or items in vault since i discovered the One True Way
also have to pool for vanish
cant build a mastery set if you dont get any mastery drops
thats not a lot of either
These are my stats with doomblade on
What the fuck
and I fucking despise mastery
Hehe just craft ur legendaries with vers/haste :)
i don't have mythic gear 
I played myself 
Any vers haste crafters? 🤣
me lmao
119 
the god font Gilroy-Bold pogchamp
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
literal bis font
Beggars can't be choosers
i want shriekwing legs and huntsman necklace
You can have my necklace 
Huntsman neck you say?
Here
Take it
Tanking when?
I don't want it
Leech enchanters 🤣 👉 🚪
just the neck alone is like 40% of my mastery
cant seem to replace heroic denathrius head and every single pants just have mastery in their pockets
farm SoA for bis neck
both my zoldyck and my doomblade are haste/vers
ye only really PvP helm and vault stuff can replace it
wish i'd made them crit/haste
I have 234 mastery and like 150 is just the neck
this neck is a banger, wish i had it in 226
Just upgrade it oh wait

Toxic chat today 
i'm afraid of socketing 220s
Hey that's my neck
this ring though
i socketed this
I have that ring reversed
imagine doing the maw 
yea exacting preparation sims highest for me in dslice too with only crit food
@stoic needle Whats the name of the addon that puts de % after the stats values?
imagine keeping a food buff all run in a pug tho
imagine dying 
Better Tooltips
this is why i regret crafting my legendaries as vers/haste
i could be a 30% crit chad
I TRIED TO TELL U GUYS
thanks 🙂
damn even with just haste food exacting prep is still simming higher than wasteland prop
council boot
oh yea

Da FUCK?!?!
wtf is a 5t 5min
Cheating ass sims
i'm doing dungeon slice, 5 target 5 minute, 2 target 3 minute and a couple other types to see wtf is the difference between all of these soulbind combos
Why 5t5m though, what's the point of it? There's nothing like that in the game
YET
Agree, its absolutely useless
M+ packs are like 20-60s
i mean at that point what's the point of a 5 target patchwerk when there are no patchwerk 0 movement fights in the game
it's not a realistic scenario ofc it's just trying to see what the different talents do in different situations
also no point comparing tea party to katar
its the most realistic scenario available
since it gives ur bros vers
exacting prep even wins with no food buff 
anyone know if serrated bone spike stacks. infinitely on a single target? so if a fight lasts 6 minutes, you can have like 10 stacks ticking on the same target? 🤔
Yeh, but 5t5m literally doesn't exist
because all you want to know is whats your maximum dmg in your dmg phases on boss
5 min patchwerk also literally doesn't exist
:^)
well its 100x more realistic than 5t 5m
no it doesn't
you never know!
really? 😦
again, it's not about realism
it's just about seeing what the different talents do in different simulated situations
to try to discern some kind of pattern
I'd argue that HD is a pretty patchwork-y fight.
inerva +- 5min, artificier +- 5min, sunking +-5min, hungering +-5min
but there's a lot of movement
But yeh alright
makes sense i guess
?
sludge +- 5min
There's movement in mythic, but HC HD is literally 0 movement
if you don't cloak the consume, there's a lot of movement in hungering
Why wouldn't you cloak it?
maybe your raid is boomer and makes you clear orbs
because your mongo RL yells at you
but the point is that as soon as you move 1 step it's different from a 5min patchwerk sim
but it doesnt matter for what you want to know from your sim
It's possible to have 100% uptime on Hungering Devourer without missing a single auto-attack or cast
It's not possible to do 5T5M on any boss, ever.
that doesn't make patchwerk any less valid of a sim type, but the point is that even if it's not representing reality it's still useful as a tool
Or have that sort of uptime in that sort of scenario
its the best sim there is
and yeah its not 100% accurate but it tells you all you need to know
whats my best setup for effective dps time on boss
is there a document on what abilities we can cloak to avoid mechanics in CN?
whispyr is working on it
How's your 60s sim looking like?
it's not released yet
only thing Id actually do a really short sim is sunking
i'm waiting for it to finish right now i'll let you know
cuz nothing matters but how much dps can I do in shield window
Ah okay. Trying to lurk in here and watch youtube gives me some tips, but that will help a lot.
i bet that increased potion duration bind will sim better in a short scenario actually
Live and learn. When you get a mechanic on you next time, try cloaking it
:^)
for sunking you can probably even play exsang
I mean it's ok to explore this for academic sake and understanding, but it does somewhat sound to me that you're basically just trying to do the same thing that DungeonSlice already does, just manually and in your head 🙂
i mean
not for overall obviously
but the only struggle in progress besides healing is doing enough dmg to break shield so
from a pov to kill boss thatd probably even really good
Yeah it's mostly for understanding's sake. I want to know why a specific talent is good and in what situation. dungeon slice doesn't really tell me that because it's all of those situations combined into one sim
Exsang just sims soo much worse than alacrity even on short fights. But you actually got me intrigued, maybe it can be a dps increase in a 10s window
That would be pretty dope
I love Exsang
Too bad it's awful 😢
So I can then use my own judgement for which talents to pick for a certain dungeon
I loved playing around it
i havent simmed it was just a thought
cuz due to fight design especially sunking it doesnt matter if I lose 500dps overall
if I do more dps in that window
for progress that is
Ok so im legit loving Katar Double Potency. I dont think ill ever do back to Wasteland
im pretty sure if boots would make u able to line vendetta with push points in bosses youd play them as well even if they are overall loss
Unless i get a shit ton of crit to warrant it
you mean 5%? 
can anyone tell me how to sim for different covenant abilities i cant find it
in top gear you can pick every covenant
Na, cause then id be like "What would %5 Crit ontop of that already %5 Crit look like"
Its a endless loop of wanting crit
when you scroll down
@woven bane
you can compare them all, also all conduits etc
so if i choose another soulbind it also sims with their respective ability?
i think if you consider the vers wasteland gives to your homies it's probably better overall but katar definitely doesn't seem as bad as i thought
I mean.... selfishness
fuck those boomkins amirite
yes you can check everything you want to compare
The second someone snitches to my tank that i can give Vers to the group imma break my keyboard
Question for you guys, Who is still running Vigor Vs Deeper Stratagem? Right now DS sims about 50 dps better than Vigor, but vigor feels much easier to use. just thought id see if anyone has a preference?
is shield phase 10s?
Any shield-breakers here?
Idk but the sim starts the rotation from the beginning applying garrotes/ruptures/shivs and building cp
So it's hard to sim it where the target already has garr/rup/shiv/vend/flag on it before he casts the shield
But it's definitely shorter than 10s
no dagger until 5000 valor yeah 
it probably is the highest dps output you can get for shield phase
My current sim, and im 21%crit 27% haste 28% mastery 5% vers
Most likely
I go vigor because I like the way it plays over DS 🙂
and it should be a good amount higher if you are necrolord covenant
no not really
If you have everything ready and then just exsang and vanish env/mfd/env/muti/env
Actually
oh ok ty osh
where is all this damage coming from
:^)
maybe do a 20s sim to give it time to put dots up?
Exsang is 45s so it's a bit meh
I think the shield is like 5s, that's why I gave it 5s to apply bleeds.
Also has 20% variance just in case, but doesn't do much on a 10s sim lmao
stack haste, get pi every pillar in sludge, blast
I'm actually intrigued
i think whispyr made a custom sludge pillar sim type to test that and it was still bad
sad
because of the time inbetween the pillars exsang is so much worse than alacrity
But what if you kill it on the first pillar 
who cares overall WHEN U R TOPPING DETAILS ON PILLAR
you just need to show superiority to your group
"guys why is yellow on top of blue and purple and orange"
i think exsang could be legit for sks tbh
for progress definetely
or if u wanna push boss dmg log
it should be the highest dps you can get
theotar MA/NS MFD exsang 
how do you get 18k dps with a 222 ilvl ass rogue
@marsh yew i agree on preferring the way it plays but the minmaxer in me is finding it really hard to ignore the 50 dps XD
if you're a min maxer you have no choice
You don't.
deeper is the way
^
this is the way
That's a 10 second simulation, that's why it's 18k
take pre workout before raid and you get 18k dps
whey of spectral power
You can get that much dps before patch 9.0.5
I just simmed that in 10s in 9.0.5 bruh
But yeh, do not recommend for anyone to actually do it
With ma ?
Our sims and our opinions are not that of Ravenholdt
how strong is assassination burst now? seems lackluster 🤔
EP/SD/MFD/Exsang/PB talents, with MA legendary
Burst is pretty decent, not the best.
Isn't opening with ambush better now that combo points for the first finisher (slice and dice) are irrelevant since it last infinitely now?
Sustain damage is what it's about my boy
That sounds like the disclaimer message on a social media account
No.
Okay why? Before hand you chose mutilate for more points to boost slice duration
Now that factor is no longer relevant.
You still apply poisons with both hands, you have a chance to proc blindside and the extra cp is always nice.
tbh Deeper strat isnt harder to play around, i just prefer vigor because i feel like im doing more XD
so from my collection of sims i've found that refined palate is bis if you're popping agi potions on CD on trash packs and for general burst damage, lashing/poisoned katar is a very viable alternative to wasteland propriety in dungeons with high target counts, and exacting preparation is just really damn good if you can keep your food buffs up consistently no matter what food you have active
Okay so its for blidnside
I can see that, so without that talent ambush should be prio?
gets mutilated flesh ramping also ♿
i really wanna try out NS+MFD next fort week
i guess MA would be bis for that
i should max mine out
I was messing around with MfD in raid and it actually felt surprisingly pretty fun
getting another envenom in the shiv window feels good
or being able to put up a rupture instantly
like I know it's worse in raid but it feels good :):):)
^^^^^
screw with it on reclears
In terms of gameplay, which covenant ability do you like most?
I thought that might be it, but Whysper has said no matter the talents Mut is just better always. I guess between combo point generation and poison procs it edges out ambush.
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/6zrMcPs5ewB14KGaNnda4W
so the game says that if im gonna be a weakling and take vigor i might as well take vigor and Elaborate planning
interesting
That's my setup.
Screw blindside.
for better or for worse it’s nice having competitive talent options.
Yeh they walk hand in hand like DS and BS
there's definitely an argument that EP/MFD could be viable for fights where burst damage is more important
I might try it out on a couple of our reclear fights, 40 dps is a bit of a loss but it isnt massive
on the 7.3k dps ST Venthyr bis SIM, is it using double potency or dauntless duelist?
I'm 90% sure they are using dauntless
Yeh, and NS on top of that.
Especially if running MA legendary
Hello boys i've tried many opens on ST with MA wich one is the best for you ?
Running vigor and EP give me big nighthold vibes not gonna lie
i'm torn between doomblade and MA for sks
no more valor after got 5000 this week?
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/3Qi2EF7WWEEKTY2LaQFMtz i think if get these last couple 213 slots to 220 with valor i should be around 6700 dps
the cap should go up next reset
my man's been grinding
no 226 any weapon in vault
of course I opened 3 gear from the first week
garbage game
KR server pvp sucks
I know in a perfect world you will pool 80%+ energy before your shiv is ready and have all dots rolling but if this is not the case do you delay shiv to pool energy or just use it on cooldown even if your energy is low and pray for blidnside procs / crits?
I havent seen a vault weapon since the very first week when I did a +4 dungeon
still using that =/
I am simming 6726 with Double potenxy and the shiv conduit, wondering If I can reach 6800+ with dauntless
Then try it with dauntless picked
Iam Still at 25 renown, Will Try simming It later
Don't delay shiv
don't envenom until you're at 70%+ energy and you will always have enough energy for shiv
@odd flax dauntless was about 180 dps better than double potency for me, even with 213 lashing and 213 steel
Nice, I have 213 lash and 200 steel
The issue I have is sometimes ill be at full combo points and abuot to energy cap and shiv is still a few seconds from coming off cooldown so I will envenom then mut x2 to build up for the next shiv but now my energy is fairly low.
Should I just let it energy cap?
Typically I just do it. Too many fights have movement that trying to minmax to that degree means sometimes missing out big
like oh I saved up for the perfect shiv and then got the thing and have to run out for 7 seconds
should have just used it
depends on how many seconds. if it's just 2-3 seconds with full energy it's fine
I have a few options I guess. 1. Energy cap for 2 seconds while waiting for shiv to cd. 2. Envenom mut x2 + shiv at low energy. 3. Envenom mut x2 + delay shiv for high energy. 4. Envenom then shiv without combo points saved up.
might depend on raid size. I often am in 10 person raid. That thing that targets a random person hits me more than someone who does 25 person raid maybe.
#1 and #4 are your best options
I love that Shiv almost always perfectly aligned with my need to refresh rupture XD
Yes, quite annoying.
Speaking of that. If rupture is about to expire during shiv 9 second debuff do you let it fall off in favor of envenom spam or do you sacrifice an envenom to refresh it?
refresh
I'm pretty sure you want to save the rupture, but I could be wrong, the energy back is a little too important to drop
Yeah it seems like a tough call. On one had env will do 34% more damage from buff but on the other it loses 5% from rupture with doomblades and you lose a bit of energy
If I can squeeze an envenom in and then end up refreshing rupture with like 2 seconds left then I will do that, but I don't think I'd let it drop
its not "a bit of energy"
dropping rupture/garrote is the worst possible case
cus you immediatly starve extremly in energy and need a long time too get it up again
yeah like, if you have to shiv and then spend the whole window refreshing garotte and rupture that's totally fine
It do be like that sometimes 😦
Yeah you basically want to just Shiv on cooldown, if you have to rupture yeah it sucks a little but you lose more damage from holding Shiv or letting rupture drop
I always refresh garrote since its a builder so it doesn't really cut into my envenoms
I can work on the rupture part
Like when I mean I let rupture fall its is like on the third envenom. Not the first where I would lose it for 10 seconds. I'm talking about right at the end and my choice is between one last envenom and refreshing rupture in two GDCs which is only a 16 energy loss or rupturing the last envenom and losing 34% dam on it.
Sometimes if I see Shiv is about 4-5 seconds way and rupture is on about 10 seconds I'll refresh it a little early so I can get the perfect envenom Shiv window, but that's a trade secret
I would obviously refresh rupture if it was waring out like right into shiv. That would be a crap load of energy lost.
I don't do m+ as assa, I also don't push for CE (only 5/10 so far), however I might run some pvp as assa. Is Doomblade still better choice than Zoldyck in this case, wanna know what to make after reset?
I believe the answer is yes, Doomblade is more better
Tbh I use to dislike the Assassination rotation because it felt so basic and didn't really have any 'wow moments' like subs shadow dance or outlaws 5 roll. But the more I've played it the more I really enjoy the simplicity but impactfulness of the spec
Idk, 18k envenoms are pretty wow
How TF you get 18k? I'm 222 ilvl hitting for like 13k
Ven, mastery, shiv and doomblade
Inside Vendetta with shiv and doomblade
it may not be the best dps but who cares
mine hit for about 15k right now and I don't have that much mastery
My envenoms inside vendetta with shiv and doomblade at ilvl 222 are like 13k
I'm doing something wrong
https://i.imgur.com/effgawc.png
every time i log onto my dk i get reminded that i have this there
and now on my rogue

I'm also Kyrian still so they're 7 CP envenoms sometimes
That's prob the difference
really low mastery i guess?
Are you using nightstalker or soemthing?
My mastery is low but mastery sims low so why would anyone stack it?
Me? No. Phial and Chain
Hmm what's your mastery?

My 213 monk got a 226 phial while my rogue got week 3 of no upgrades I was big sad :(
Getting a billion Pi's kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it lol
Lower than yours...like 20%

Is PI actually good for Sin?
It's haste
Passassin
We like haste
Decent
Yes its good
more hast, more ticks, more auto attacks
more skills
more dmg
more energy, more spam, more brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
There's several better targets for PI though
if playing MA do you hold vanish for first garrote to run out so you can reapply a subterfuge garrote?
You mean in M+?
Just do it when the garrote drops in pandemic range
yh
So under 6s
U mean on bosses or packs?
40 M+ no dagger
either
on boss u prob dont hold
damn, man
on pack u do
So what you are saying is when our fire mage/ MM calls for Pi I should give the priests 50 gold to give it to me instead?
a little more
but yeah
I think assassin might beat MM on ST PI value
Mythic gear also can be upgraded?
im still using boe dagger :l
scuffed dagger
Yeah I'm doing something very wrong then. Just now tested on a target dummy and with Vendetta + Shiv + Doomblade + 25% mastery my envenom crit for only 11,277. Overall item level 222, weapon is 223.
No.
It's not even close
Assa gets around 300 dps from PI on 5min fights
Marksman get like 500+
Is that with 1 PI on pull?
What's your vers
629, 15.73%
Is it ok to use pox in OH if you have lower I lvl dagger?
KR server pvp suffered too many abusers and there top players and nubb only
U dont have to PI the same target through the whole fight
cant
Insanely hard to run 2100+
U want to do it at max value points
Can't mutilate without a dag
Mutilate requires a dagger in both hands, this makes using a non dagger weapons undesirable.
damn, raidbots telling me to play DS and full crit with only 12% haste
feelsbadman
That's why you compare them without lust, like was done with this sim

And MM beats every other class by far
SP is actually the highest
DS want 5+ bubble and two mut without crit sucks your rotation
But they just use PI on themselves anyways
Than crit is also very important
How do they sim assa in that
Ok so the difference comes from soubinds I think. We have the same vers, you've got higher mastery
is it venthyr?
Hmm
Maybe if they were simming Vigor on Venthyr, but they're not
Haste is still a great stat to get with DS
I'm running Pelagos while I learn the spec, so I get like 20% bonus mastery. I get 17-19k envenoms in a raid environment
PI allows u to get consistently 5-10 more stacks on flag
I'm went to log it real fast but I didn't get a single evenom crit
so waiting for cooldowns again
That sim give PI on perfect timing?
what are best slot legs you can have? De Other Side haste mastery one?
We got fired up after several process
He's not asking for craft
droptimizer -> weekly chest +10
There's really no such thing as overkill haste for Assassination at this point, it's just that MM is better because Wild Spirits is a busted ability 😛
Whispyr simmed the differences between 18-25 stacks iirc and it wasn't a huge difference either way
there is not best slot legs
Fair
its whatever sims best for your gear
Because people were asking whether or not to finish early during flag
mb
how many targets for tempest?
1
Idk, ask him.
Lol did another try at logging it but again I didnt crit a single envenom and yes I am using master assassin talent
Cause to him, 2% isnt a huge difference
Top parses in Nyalotha were getting about a bajillitonty-five haste on pull so really we want as much as possible, it's just that some specs are way more overloaded into their cooldown windows
Tbh all I am hoping and dreaming for from my great vault is either chest from ToP, phial, helm from HoA and neck from spires
Vendetta is a pretty weak CD compared to a lot of CDs now
Vendetta is awful
Yea vendetta sucks
truu
the one from SoA is good tho
I mean it's really just the fact that as far as burst goes, +20% is pretty tame by current standards
Or just buff it and keep the flavor. Let us tunnel 
Vendetta burst isn't really burst when Balance Druids can do 250k damage with one button press 🤣
On the same length CD too lmaoooo
Dont compare anyone to balance druids man cmon
Convoke go brrrr
Not a single Rogue spec is even remotely close to top CD burst
Right right, compare to the fire mages instead
like Vendetta is a shit version of Nemesis, which is a talent for DH's
b-b-but we get 60 energy
They get 40s more duration 
Pretty sure there are more specs above Assassination in terms of burst CDs than below it, even as the best Rogue spec at burst
Depends on how you count burst
first 10 sec? probably
but after 30 sec its kinda equal
atleast with stuff like boomers
But that's not burst anymore is it?
30s is a pretty hefty time frame
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/9td48hT7GgMfcDNQ/#fight=last&type=damage-done&source=1. So that is with sepsis mastery, 25% mastery unbuffed, vendetta, shiv, doomblade. Why is my envenom hitting like a wet noodle?
It depends
Do elaborate
CA is probably a stronger cooldown during lust than Vendetta tbh
But yea we dont burst 40k dps
Even without Convoke
It just depends on what u call 'burst'
Never seen anyone refer burst to a 30s window before, but I'm open for interpretation
Noone refers to any specific window
In a raid scenario i think most people would enlarge the window a bit
for dungeons, prob 10-20 sec is more relevant
10s is fair enough :) sludgefist also want to do that👍
But isn't the definition of burst "As much damage in as short of a time frame as possible"
I mean the current Rank 3 Assassination parse on HD (no externals)
is 6th in their raid in DPS by the end of lust
Does it matter if my higher ilvl weapon is main hand or offhand?
Yes, put it in mainhand
Where does he end up when the boss is dead?
I'm guessing he climbs up?
2nd
Yeh
10 dps below the #1 Warlock
So basically tied for top overall
And still meh during lust
Lol
6th in burst isnt that bad when some of the other classes get PI probably
and can be UH DK's
is he losing to stuff like boomies?
Yes
like losing losing or 1% less
2 boomkins, 2 afflocks, shadow priest during opener
Where can I see opening rotation for Venthyr MA doomblade sin?
!rotation
And not particularly close
Single target with the Master Assassin talent:
Muti - SnD - Muti - Gar - Flag - Rup - Vend - Shiv - Vanish - Muti - Env - Muti (until 5-6 cp) - Env, etc.
That's first 40s
Considering that's a R3 parse
And those Balance Druids are like.. low 90s parses
i wonder if during mythic sire you can have 10 bone spike stacks on sire
Rank 400s
How does he fare up against the guy who gets PI on pull?
10 bone spike = 1 ambush every 3 seconds XD
Do they get PI?
During lust window specifically
Which one? Passassin or whatever who gets like 7 externals per pull? 😄
Pass
with 2cp on 2nd mut i go garr mut -> flag->rup
So u dont have to refresh during vendetta
I bet that guy has a jacked up truck with giant wheels too
Passassin was at 11.6k during first 40s
13k on the dummy is fine, that's right about what mine is. It'll get bumped a significant amount in a raid environment, which is where the 18k number came from
Is there a good add on that helps track poisons on each target when you target them or are you guys just watching debuffs on threat plates or something ?
But assa only gets 300 dps from PI man
It does
We're talking about the 40s window
Assa gets 300 dps in a 5 minute window
Why sim in a 5 minute window thoe...
Pass also has BF and multiple PI's from 3 priests
Those sims should be pr cd set
He doesn't just get 1 PI on pull
The top caster parses during lust and stuff will be doing like... 15k during lust
Minimum
Like if you want you can just advance sim PI on yourself with external_buffs.power_infusion=0/120/240
Damn that is a really large increase I'm gonna check my raid logs from last night to see if I had any near it
Then just add as many PI's as you want there
Top MM Hunter parse is also around 14.5k during lust
?? HD is a 4 - 5 min fight
Yes but why would u ever restrain urself to PI the same person
instead of making it CD based
that just makes 0 sense
Because of laziness
You just focus someone and then /use PI [@violet plaza]
PI the UDK on pull and then your focus target after that
Sure, but why would anyone who actually plays their class restrain themselves to PI the same person
Also, the 5min sim prob doesnt line up flag with vendetta
which might be better if ur getting PI
I've looted more shoulders and oozes from plague fall than anything
Yeh that's why you PI someone else on pull with lust and then full focus on who gets the most value out of it in 2 min windows
ie. Marksmanship Hunters
Sure, but thats now what 5 min sims show
And yes thats what im arguing the whole time LOL
Doesnt matter if ur comparing classes with same CD windows
You PI the one with the longest, hard hitting cd's on pull (Unholy DK) and then you PI whoever has cooldowns for the next PI (ie. everyone with 2 min cds) and then you PI whoever cds when it comes off cd again (4 min mark, so again 2 min cds)
Highest I had was just over 16k on sire. Guess I just need more gear.
Your PI target could potentially change at 6 minutes because you could PI someone with 3 minute cooldowns then
Assuming that all cooldowns are used on cooldown that is.
Of course if an UDK wants to hold army to match with a priest's PI, then that might pull ahead of course.
Yes noone is arguing otherwise Ceverion
No no, I'm not implying that.
Just specifying reasons why you would PI someone who has 2 min cds constantly.
hello there, saw lot of assas going m+ with doomblade instead of zoldyk, how does it work? u just spam mut/garrote/rup on multiple target instead of fan of knives/rup ?
what do you look at, first 20 secs of fight?
i'm seriously confused about doomblade in plus
Also, where do i input PI buff in advanced sims
It's generally good for dungeons with not a lot of trash mobs
APL ?
After your simc-paste yeah
I gained 300 dps in a 2 minute sim
Just first full 40s during lust
Normally you'd just want to run Zoldyck/MA for most dungeons though, Doomblade~~ gets no value at all~~ loses value from trash packs bigger than 4.
that seems to be where they taper off. on inerva the FMage would top off at about 20 seconds i would be even and at 30 seconds i was ahead considerably (this was UH).
best Conduits for assa?
Lashing Scars > WPS > LP
Lash for Venthys, otherwise WPS
Also 
wr does lash drop
Sire Denathrius, callings, world boss
Is there a haste cap for sin?
There is no haste cap for any class/spec in the game.
Well I know four outlaw you don’t wanna be over 600 unless something changed
Why not? Also that still doesn't imply a "haste cap"
More so a recommendation of sort.
Health reasons I bet 😂
Sorry @vestal wren go ahead 
just wanted to know what time frame we talk about
over 600 haste as outlaw = carpal tunnel
because i was rly high in burst last night on inerva because of very lucky wm procs during the first 20 secs
Yeah worded wrong not cap
Rogue gcd's don't get shorter with haste, so doens't really matter
basically #1 in damage meter, but well that did not last long
more energy = more buttons to press though
Havoc DH during lust though...
Sad our opener is so RNG based
With Akaari's as well?
na with finality
Ah
also its first 40 secs, so havoc wasn't even up there
Ah that was just referring to the carpal tunnel syndrome that Osh talked about
Havoc DH with lust + pi = hand goes bye bye
Yeh me neither, that's why I just play Assa

deeper strat sin is so comfy
i want less APM thanks
assassination ironically feels to slow for me
i had an MM hunter and it was quite relaxing. aimed shot 2.5 sec cast was like aaaa low apm, relaxing
all casters are low apm
except fire mages
if i could halve my energy regen to double the damage of my abilities i'd do it
but thats still low apm
assassination without blindside is 📉
not really
so slow
fire mage is higher than rogue
Assa without blindside is anti stonks? 
yes, at lest on pure st
Imagine playing without BS and Vigor. 
Assa without blindside is a pi stacking assa <.<
Fire mage is not higher apm than outlaw
well no
Not even close
yeah i think it’s cuz my haste is pretty low in my assass set still, but i’m glad vigor is simming like 45 dps higher than DS for me, feel like DS assa has got to feel so slow rn
Imma blindside and deeper strata kinda guy 
Well everything is higher than sin
top of the apm chart:
Yeh that's fine, they walk hand in hand pretty much. If you play DS, you play BS.
I'm pretty sure with mark outlaw is highest
protection 😐
mm/ele is quite slow
oh outlaw higher than fury dang
I’m a newly reformed master assassin guy too thanks to you friend 
ya MM hunter is like wtf low lol
outlaw with deeper stratagem is probably the one on the chart
What happened to MA?!
i still havent decided if i want to

owlwaving is in a different profile that has more middle of the pack apm
necrolord or venthyr 🤔
lol i must not be pooling for envenoms enough then, over 32 m sludge pulls ln my apm as assass was 58
so feral is not that slow possible
Yeh, I think they nerfed it (or are planning to nerf it)
I was playing subterfuge and resimmed and found out I was hard inting my dps by playing subt over ma talent
Aaaah
i think blizz disslike if something is to dominant
Just sneak in, you're literally a rogue.
ofc the totally ignore ranged dps balance for unknown reason
May the loot gods bless you with all the loot
Here's a side question. I'm making the Doomblade legendary and have the max Zoldyck. Should I stick with Zoldyck until my Doomblade is 235? Or is switching from the 235 to 225 worth it?
loot doesn’t exist, i brought my fresh mage alt to a full heroic clear and left with one piece of loot that was traded to me
My 210 doom blade sims higher than me 235 zoldyk as well
Interesting.
how can you look up APM without using old charts from december with 0% haste?
zold is prob only the play on sire now, and probably not even by tht much
How is Zol on old Kaelthas? He sits in execute range for a solid minute or so
where can we see the full list for the apm chart?
The fight revolves more breaking shields than anything
Looking at a decent 97% parse I got as outlaw on hungering last week I had 80.7 APM.
Im farily sure with mark + haste outlaw blows every single class out of the water with APM
enchant proc, mutilate off hand
Babylonius's spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DsAxgSmQbBGVp6UOYYkHd0MBNSgwELEAddcbvKJ7yQM/edit#gid=239122079
READ FIRST
READ THIS FIRST!!
This data is taken directly from WarcraftLogs (almost) daily. I take the data then so that its specific to whatever tuning was done that week.
This spreadsheet is aimed at seeing, using statistical measures, how specs stack up to one another using real Raid data.
Dat...
I'm just looking at outlaw
stuff like this, where combo point is counted as CPM and both weapons enchant procs
Oh I see that now. Combo points is the biggest issue.
actually ele shaman rising the most haha
Shiv right now is basically part of the kingsbaine ability from Legion right? Only think it's missing is the additional damage amp from deadly poison?
Hmm we need someone to go through all the top logs and redo apm
I love survival tbh, it's awesome
and for the level I play at, I can still out dps people.
hmmm, i think toxic blade and now shiv is more like old agonizing poison and not kingsbane
yeah
replaced with toxic blade
Flagellation is closer to Kingsbane.
Ahh yes, kingsbane was basically just a decent nature dot
Quite similar in fact.
With a damage amp
does flagellation hit all targets you hit with CT?
no

just swapped covenant and lost about 400 dmg on sims, only have 1 conduict, it will improve much or?
Anyone have a good WA add on to help track poisons and bleeds uptime
Or do you I just need to get used to seeing them on my threat plates
Open weakaura, click new weakaura
it would probably be quite easy to make your own for that if you don't want to look for one, just make a debuff tracker for rupture & garrote and separate them a bit
& CT i guess
I can give u mine but theyre built around my bars
So a decenty geared outlaw rogue with 100% uptime with marked for death and two on use trinkets has about 70 APM. No wonder my fingers hurt.
70 APM doesn't even sound like that much for a melee
sounds like me playing warrior & leapcharging on cd lol
Next highest melee is fury in the mid to low 50s.
what are the stats for rogue assasin in m + ??
!stats
**Shadowlands: ** Haste > Versatility => Critical Strike => Mastery
haste > crit >> vers > mastery for m+
It used to be crit vers in bfa, but it’s probably the same as ST now
Hey Doomblade lego on shoulders or hands and what stats ?
hands, crit haste
doubt it would be the same as ST, crit way more important in MT for cp generation
okay not shoulder bc of main stat?
Unless you have no foreseeable chance of getting SLG mythic shoulders. Then it doesn’t matter
not shoulder because there are 233 shoulders available but not 233 gloves
I picked shoulders cuz I had 220 shoulders and 226 gloves 
@stoic needle thank u man 🙂
one day my guild will prog hard enough for me not to get 233 shoulders drop because my luck is shit
a guy can only dream
kekw
Plus my guild still has council and sludge to get through before we get to stone legion and that’s probably not enough time to get a real shot at the 233 shoulders by the time the tier ends
I think that is blown out of proportion. By the time mythic general's shoulders are even relevant to you gear just doesn't really matter anymore. I say get whichever piece is the best upgrade
Poison Bomb or crimson tempest in m+?
Ct
CT
Yea I made shoulders since I’ll only play this spec on sludge prog
Once I have generals shoulders back to outlaw
Why wouldn't you play sin on sire
so u keep ct on st up for that doomblade Envenom buff?
If you're talented into CT, you put it up in ST
Regardless of legendary
People have been pumping pretty hard on sire even with doomblade
Idk it’s a ways off now so I haven’t decided yet
any reasons why vendetta after rupture?
also, why not vanish after getting to max combo points?
Progressing council atm as assa, holy shit does this feel bad compared to outlaw on this fight 😦
we've been working on council too. was thinking of switching to assa
dont
not for council atleast
might be our guild tho, but we're moving everything way too much, and the opener is scuffed cuz the add spawns just in time for your vanish envenom muti envenom part
ew good point with the vanish
i mean u delay 3-4 secs its not a big deal
This spec probably wouldn't feel as clunky if garrote didn't have a cd
Rupture is a dead gcd so Vendetta gets more value by using it right before you start muti-env spam
That's what the sim suggests, but some people like using Vendetta earlier. Dps is similar for both
i mean shouldnt you be saving that burst for the attendant anyway
or just wait until its dead
fuck no






