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grim meteor
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why is zold better for aoe? isnt it just pushing dmg during execute?

wary ice
cursive garnet
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but in higher keys mobs take more time to die

grim meteor
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okay makes sense

nimble spoke
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because aoe has adds that reach 30 percent and your dots hit harder. So even if it's more adds, that means more time for them to tick

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yea, and higher health at higher levels

stoic needle
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And it's free execute on everything, you have to envenom or mut something for Doomblade to have value

wary ice
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it being entirely passive is kinda big too tbh yeah

nimble spoke
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I think I'll be crafting Zold today and try it in raid

dull cloak
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bring back gear swapping in m+

tight ginkgo
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Other than gouge only complaint about sin in m+ is mobility. One shadowstep and no CDR on sprint via restless blades feels sad. pepehands

nimble spoke
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we're only 10/10 H but might try mythic shriek again

grim meteor
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yeah i am thinking about the same question

stoic needle
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My doomblade at 210 outsimmed my zoldyck at 235 for st so you don't have to have a maxed doomblade to benefit from it

cursive garnet
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so zold it is

nimble spoke
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yea, I'm thinking so, too, Boom

cursive garnet
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okay thanks guys

nimble spoke
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I was going to do DB for raid/M+/PvP, but since it seems strong enough just for the ability, I'll do Zold and see how I like it. Think I can only craft a 190 today, anyway

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oh, I might be able to get zold 190 and DB 210, actually. I have like 580 ash right now

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might be close

stoic needle
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Legendary ilvl is overrated

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I remember people reeing at me for crafting MA first week because it would make me one week behind on ilvl for finality

gentle gyro
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Effect > ilvl

stoic needle
nimble spoke
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haha XD

stoic needle
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All of those people are mad they even crafted finality now

wary ice
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I'm not 😦

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but i ree'd making MA strictly because the idea of another 2 years of playing around vanish as a dps cooldown was giving me stress sweats 😦

nimble spoke
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I have a 210 finality and celerity. I kind of regret making them since i want to focus on Sin, but it's all good

shy dust
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Higher keys doesn’t instantly mean

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Zoldyck becomes better

ornate dawn
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Just use DB for everything and be a fckin baller with them fatty envenoms

strange python
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Hold up, is sin back on top? I've been afk on notes/logs for like 2-3 weeks

burnt star
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M.a is kinda nice to have too

strange python
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But sin > sub by a decent margin right now?

thorny rose
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yeah sub is in shambles

burnt star
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At least we arent hunter

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🤣

dawn haven
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Is it better to put Sinful revelation on your mainhand or offhand? Icy Veins guide says offhand but that seems odd.

shy dust
dawn haven
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Just for pure ST btw.

dawn haven
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Ah

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Ty

strange python
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Lowkey, I've been waiting for sin to pick it up, been sub since beginning of xpac

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Happy to see it doing well, will have to give it a shot now

wind dune
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I just got ion'd Spent all of last week running 30 plaguefalls to get a 220 phial just for it to show up on the weekly feelscryman

shy dust
strange python
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Well I'm glad .5 has come then

stoic needle
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i saw 3 phials last week

wind dune
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yea it is

burnt star
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Still a good upgrade

stoic needle
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yea 30+ dps aint bad

burnt star
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I would totaly get it no question asked

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Also i just realised. Why did blizz put so much pant with mastery in game..

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Like the raid has mastery only pants. And m+ also has a bunch of them.

wise gull
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already had a 226 but that haste thoooo

frigid kestrel
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looks like its a Stygia Week for me

stoic needle
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its good to have a small amount of mastery if you're stacking crit/haste in other slots

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those pants usually give you a good amount so you don't need much elsewhere

wise gull
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I'm such an idiot for not doing my venari rep

burnt star
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I only do the weekly ven quest

wise gull
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sockets are a bigger upgrade than any item in the game for me now

dull cloak
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0 mastery gang

frigid kestrel
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Let me Sim this Memory real fast before i take this Stygia

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Im like %99 Sure its trash

burnt star
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Memory 226 is good to have

wise gull
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memory of past sins is not trash

burnt star
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In raid

stoic needle
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memory is good everywhere

wise gull
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if its 226

burnt star
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Skulker is a bit higher in keys

stoic needle
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just a solid trinket

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fuck skulkers

burnt star
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Bah not really lollll

stoic needle
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i've been skipping the maw grind but i need to do more i want to socket my MA

frigid kestrel
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I have 220 Dread, Phial, Sulkers, Hateful, and IQD

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I dont think Memory beats them out

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but ill at least check

shy dust
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Memory is not that good of a trinket

burnt star
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A 226 will outsime them yes

shy dust
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Most other trinkets beat it out

stoic needle
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why not

frigid kestrel
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a 226 Memory will outsim?

shy dust
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Because it does less damage than other trinkets

burnt star
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I use phial 220+ memory 226

stoic needle
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if you have a lot of haste chain is probably bis

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the proc scales with haste

burnt star
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While having 226 skulker. 220 dreadfire. 213 chain

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226 chain is the only upgrade i can get till 233 dreadfire

wise gull
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226 skulkers & memory for sludge

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just dont kill ur homies

shy dust
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Chain is shit

tropic echo
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oh thank god mort is up this week

burnt star
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U use trinket on pillar anyways

shy dust
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In comparison to phial

burnt star
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U use chain + phial..

compact pumice
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I use 220 Phial over 220 dreadfire, but I use it with 226 skulkers

wise gull
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why didn't i grind sockets/rep sooner? pepehands

shy dust
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No you use whatever combination sims the best

frigid kestrel
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Pfftttt Like imma run 220 IQD and 226 Memory, forcing me to drop my 220 Phial for 10 whole dps... Silly sims, go home

fathom lynx
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I had a question a few days ago regarding if Mutilate applies Deadly Poison twice from Stealth - and in my combat log it only registers once, but I tried it with Wound Poison and I always get two stacks if I open from Stealth, so I would think Deadly Poison also hits twice from that.

This would only really matter when opening in single target when you use Subterfuge, because Garrote doesn't apply Deadly Poison at all while Mutilate does it twice. In my mind you would open with Mutilate>Garrote instead of Garrote>Mutilate, on fights like SLG or in m+ when there's a single target fight.

Does this matter at all? Or does it go into the thrash-bin of "Openers do not matter"?

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here's a pic for anyone who cares

shy dust
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Don’t insult it

stoic needle
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226 hateful chain is exactly the same as 233 dreadfire with 22% haste

frigid kestrel
stoic needle
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so its not really shit at all

fathom lynx
brittle pawn
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did something change with flayedwing toxin? or is it better for sin than other specs. it's simming within margin of error of both skulker/past sins

shy dust
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Also @frigid kestrel

stoic needle
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if yo have high haste

shy dust
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Just use the trinket a bit

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And yes I have 19^ haste

stoic needle
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it sims the same as dreadfire

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i watched whispyr sim it on stream

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at 22% it was the same as dreadfire

compact pumice
shy dust
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It’s a sim trap if you can’t use your brain

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There are fights where he’s

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The 2nd proc will give you mana

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But other fights you can consistently get stats every usage

frigid kestrel
stoic needle
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you can change that setting in raidbots tho

shy dust
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Which is feasible

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On lots of bosses

compact pumice
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Maybe with the weakaura that predicts effect

frigid kestrel
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We are straight on Prog, so seomtimes when it gets messy.... it legit gonna not give me stats

shy dust
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You can get stats

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Every attempt of M sire

compact pumice
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I’m glad I didn’t pick my IQD 226 from vault

frigid kestrel
compact pumice
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The 226 hateful seems sexy though

stoic needle
shy dust
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its literally a sicko mode trinket

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what the heck

frigid kestrel
compact pumice
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I’d rather not have to micromanage if that slot would be useless or not, and only for a minor upgrade compared to something like a phial, and only for sin(since it sims pretty bad for outlaw which I still play a lot)

stoic needle
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hot take: it's not useless to help out your raid with the othe rprocs

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also how is it bad for outlaw

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how are stats bad for outlaw

compact pumice
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I don’t know but it sims bad.

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It’s like 8th or something

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Loads of better trinkets

frigid kestrel
# shy dust its literally a sicko mode trinket

Im not saying it isnt, ive been using my 220 for a while now.... but it bombs at times, or you have to hold it and hope your raid stabilizes. Like out M Inerva kill was slopy af, everyone was low.... how am i getting a stat proc?

shy dust
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hateful chain is shit

limber lion
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I wouldn't even blink an eye if I saw an IQD in the vault

stoic needle
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thats your gear

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with the t26 bis set it sims within margin of error of 223 dreadfire

compact pumice
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I was simming bis gear

frigid kestrel
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My entire point was this, my sims is telling me to drop 220 Phial/IDQ combo for 226 Memory/220 IDQ combo

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and im like... na im good doggie

solar hare
compact pumice
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That’s one look. It’s a lot different for assassin

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Cba setting up my own sim

lean rover
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hey guys, is there a typical scenario is aoe M+ when you spam CT instead of one CT then envenoms for the next 12sec ?

stoic needle
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when you've pulled 8+ mobs and need to get up CT on all of them

safe canopy
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sometimes i get lost in the sauce trying rupture everything. are you supposed to just ct and then envenom one guy?

stoic needle
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it's rare, only like the ghost pull in TOP or ardenweald in DOS

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you're supposed to rupture things

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envenom is rarely used in aoe

safe canopy
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yeah sometimes i feel like i rarely env

lean rover
safe canopy
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oh cool that makes sense then

stoic needle
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it's not nothing but it's still less damage than getting ruptures up

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in that situation i would definitely refresh ct early over using an envenom but that's just me

safe canopy
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are there dgs or situations where bomb is equivalent or better than ct

stoic needle
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no

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MAYBE top/pf on tyrannical but not really

limber lion
safe canopy
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oh yeah i was just asking for dungeons haha. never for raid

limber lion
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Yeh, always run CT my boy

stoic needle
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apparently dashing duelist with PB is pretty decent for M+ because it makes PB crit more

limber lion
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Find a good keybind for it an get comfortable

stoic needle
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but nobody has tested it yet

stoic needle
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derp

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dashing scoundrel

limber lion
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Ahh

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Too bad DashScr is pretty bad for M+

stoic needle
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apparently dashing + pb sims really well in dslice

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i'd try it for the memes but i dont have soul ash to spend on memes atm lmao

limber lion
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Hmm, I'll have to sim that and test it out

safe canopy
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i just wish assas had a little more edge when it came to aoe in m+

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SS last exp was nice but not enough

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triple SS*

slim kernel
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More on trinkets: my choices are 226 flayedwing (vault option), 213 IQD, 213 phial, 213 hateful. Bloodmallet points to IQD+Phial for ST and add cleave. That may be the answer but figured I'd ask if I'm missing something before I pass on a 226 trinket. None of the other vault options are particularly amazing.

fleet anchor
limber lion
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Will have to sim it myself and see how it fares against the other picks. Kinda cool seeing different legendaries come up and not have to run the same legendary for all content, and actually have more variance to choose from. :p

unkempt ginkgo
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Does the leggo change between fortified and tyrannical weeks?

limber lion
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For the profile that I'm using it's around 90 dps less in DSlice and almost 200 dps less with PB instead of CT.

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But it's not that giga, pretty cool.

fleet anchor
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PB+Dashing is about 0.5% ahead of Doomblade+CT in DS for me. Close enough that it's basically whatever.

limber lion
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Ah right, actually

strange python
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That’s pretty nifty

limber lion
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Are these changes in the Raidbots default apl yet?

fleet anchor
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Yeah

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I mean I don't have Dashing right now and no immediate reason to craft it, but it's nice to have the option

limber lion
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That's odd, using Whispyr's profile, Zoldyck still sims the highest with MA second.

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Dashing with PB sounds like a blast tbh. Not that I would craft it myself either, but still :p

fleet anchor
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Yeah my best setup is MA leggo+Subterfuge+CT

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Which is about 1.5% ahead of that Dashing setup

limber lion
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Mmh. How's Zoldyck doing?

fleet anchor
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But all in all I'd say those are all close enough that it won't make any notable difference in a real key

limber lion
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Yeah, definitely not.

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And every dungeon is different

fleet anchor
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Zoldyck was side-gradey with the ST ones, could be ilevel replacement related though

limber lion
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With different tanks/healers/dps and different routes/pulls.

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I did a Mists +18 and did 7.4k in overall. Then I did one a few days later and did 6.7k overall. Tank pulling big is the #1 thing to increase your dps, if you're into that :p

fleet anchor
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Not really sure I'm gonna stop running Outlaw for keys though 😛

limber lion
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Yeh, Outlaw still pumps.

brittle pawn
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so are the other people in your group

fallen current
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hotlaw

sick scarab
limber lion
sick scarab
stoic needle
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Tyrannical week so back to sin I guess Pepehappy

primal zinc
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hello ssins sin

silent tinsel
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The difference between haste and crit gem/enchants is less than a fraction of a percent lol

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like 4 dps in total between all crit or haste

primal zinc
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hello my friends @stoic needle and @limber lion

stoic needle
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Sup

primal zinc
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drinking blood

stoic needle
primal zinc
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you?

silent tinsel
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I prefer butter over magarine

stoic needle
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Feeling good that I got an outlaw wep in the vault and never have to do plaguefall again peepohappy

steep gust
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If i have Doomblade crafted - is it even worth crafting Dashing?

stoic needle
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I didn't get a pox, I got the 2nd bedt one, the gorebound predator's gavel

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More than good enough for me to stop farming a pox and just wait for one from the vault

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Pretty sure it's better than a 220 pox

primal zinc
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there a 4 core leggos .....dashing/zoldyck/MA/doomblade

steep gust
primal zinc
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i have all 235 except MA

stoic needle
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Dashing and doomblade are pretty much interchangeable

primal zinc
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i would use it in case your haste i WAY low cos you need that extra energy ticks

stoic needle
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Most of the benefit from dashing is in the fact that it makes envenom and pb crit 15% more

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The energy is a nice bonus tho

primal zinc
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before the patch i was using DS on mythic hungering....i had 300 energy raw gain none wasted

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thats like 6 free muts leading to finishers

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@steep gust

steep gust
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ah ok

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ty

primal zinc
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YES!!!! (i feel bad tho) the last 1900 stygia i spent for potency was lashing scars to 226 😦

weak jay
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isn't that a good thing?

primal zinc
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the last potency

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i had to spend 15x1900 for others

stoic needle
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Ouch

primal zinc
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dont need ambidexterity for example

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😦

fallen current
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you totally do

gusty mirage
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its okay guys I got a 226 maim mangle from raid

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best upgrade ever

sick scarab
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lol

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mm

dawn ivy
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oh i had no idea dashing made envenom and PB crit more often as well

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thats interesting

spice spire
full flicker
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!guide

knotty sparrow
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anyone have a good sin SLG PoV video?

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know of one i mean

heady rain
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Hello everyone! I was wondering is there is a specific threshold of crit/haste needed to use Deeper Stratagem over Vigor? If so whats a good rule of thumb to follow when deciding which talent to use?

knotty sparrow
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vigor is -50 dps for me

lean rover
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hey whats the best legendary for single target boss ?

raven granite
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What conduits should I get for doomblade sin on m+?

heady rain
knotty sparrow
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unbuffed

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im also venth though i think someone was saying you need less haste if youre venth

silent tinsel
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Ive been using leeching on sludge because I feel like if someone dies and procs cheat then its already a wipe

knotty sparrow
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i love leeching

silent tinsel
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also counters the persistent damage

knotty sparrow
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in general

dull cloak
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whats the hps on your leeching

silent tinsel
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Im usually in the same range of tanks

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6% base leech from rng loot

heady rain
knotty sparrow
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im not sure i would just sim yourself with different rings and enchants and stuff

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check what works for you

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i have tons of vers from pvp gear so i wouldnt go off mine

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but you have tons of mastery and as sin mastery tends to be dogshit a little bit

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just sim it up

shy dust
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Aim*

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For any specific stats

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Just run top gear and find your best setup

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There is no x of a certain stat to aim for

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Ilvl is generally king to

knotty sparrow
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yeah i can drop like 30 haste for 7 agi and its an upgrade easily

celest sail
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is there any reason to use ambush outside of a blindside or sepsis proc?

knotty sparrow
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no

heady rain
celest sail
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so safe to put muti in that spot on my stealth bars

knotty sparrow
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thats what i did yeah

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mut is still mut while stealthed

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ambush is elsewhere

limber lion
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Yeah, you still need a bind for both.

stoic needle
stoic needle
limber lion
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Yeah and leeching is honestly pretty bad.

knotty sparrow
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ive been killed by a skullkers on sludge a couple times, ashamed to admit

stoic needle
silent tinsel
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I never use skulkers until a pillar

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and pull

fleet anchor
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Cheat doesn't always save you from a chain break though since you get HP capped on it and it leaves you with extremely low HP. You have to be relatively high health to allow cheat to save from a break in Mythic

limber lion
knotty sparrow
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cloak after cheat should work

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i feel like ive done that before

limber lion
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So you can't exactly do anything

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It's all on the healers at that point to keep you alive

fallow glacier
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Is haste/vers fine to craft onto MA if I'm also looking to PvP and do m+ with it?

stoic needle
knotty sparrow
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literally all my leggos are haste/vers

fallow glacier
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Huh, Wowhead says Haste/crit

stoic needle
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You don't put crit on ma because it gives you 100% crit

limber lion
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Haste/Vers is a safe bet for many legendaries

limber lion
knotty sparrow
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i would haste/crit a new doomblade

stoic needle
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Same

limber lion
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Haste/Crit is generally the best stats for most legendaries

stoic needle
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But it doesn't particularly matter and I won't be recrafting

limber lion
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But not for MA.

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And doesn't even matter

stoic needle
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My Ma is vers/mastery kekw

limber lion
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Even if you crafted mastery/vers legendary, you'd be fine

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You just alter your other gear around it

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And enchants/gems

stoic needle
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It's only 10 dps lower for outlaw and 40 dps lower for sin

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I don't use ma enough in sin to care

fallow glacier
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Does wrist/ring matter?

stoic needle
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Ring is generally more dps

fallow glacier
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Aight, cheers guys

surreal halo
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Haste&Crit on doomblade according to pins - is that still right?

surreal halo
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ty sir!

limber lion
dark token
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!bis

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that sheet went away?

stoic needle
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Bis list is kill

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Use droptimizer

final ferry
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Yo guys, I was wondering on TOP, do you use full multi talents?

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or do you change some talents for a mono target vision?

stoic needle
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Still use full multi target talents. You could experiment with pb but its probably still worse than ct

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Doomblade is pretty nice for it tho

mental laurel
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So I have IQD and Skulker's Wing. Any advice on how to use two on-use trinkets? I was thinking IQD at pull (with Vendetta), Skulker's at 0:30, then Skulker's 2:00 (lined up with Vendetta), IQD at 3:00 and wait out Skulker's to line up with next Vendetta (4:00) if the fight will end soon, otherwise pop it at 3:30 and get another at 5:00. Does that seem like a good setup?

shy dust
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Send skulkers on cooldown

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It doesn’t benefit from vendetta or anything like that

mental laurel
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Oh interesting. I didn'tt realize that

jovial horizon
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what do yall think, 203 helm -> socketed 220 sadist's sinister helm, or 200 dagger -> 223 stitchflesh's scalpel? the helm sims ~20 dps higher but it feels weird to leave a weapon in the vault

fossil slate
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Sim it

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Go with what's higher 🤷🏻‍♂️

jovial horizon
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did u read my full message

fossil slate
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Yes and I'm pointing out the solution of what item to pick sim it and pick what's best

drifting merlin
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@jovial horizon make sure u simmed with enchant tho

fossil slate
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If you've already simmed it it's pretty redundant to then ask people what they think when you have the sim results

stoic needle
jovial horizon
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thanks for your help tellas

stoic needle
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In general there is no reason to take a 220 or less item from the vault because you can just farm the exact same item and upgrade it

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Use the vault for 223+ items

late badge
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!guide

fossil slate
frigid jasper
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how do people feel going necro sin instead of venthyr?

north basin
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they feel regret

sweet rampart
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so when running master assassin, there is no snapshotting or anything right? Just keep rupture and garrote flowing, vanish with vendetta and use as many muts/envenoms after vanish?

limber lion
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Playing around Shiv is probably the most important thing for Assa.

sweet rampart
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so weird to me after playing sin last xpac, not opening with a garrote from stealth haha

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Line up Shiv as close as i can to vendetta right? but don't hold very long

limber lion
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On opener you just do the same thing every time

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Muti-Snd-Muti-Gar-Flag-Rup-Vend-Shiv-Vanish-Muti-Muti-Env

sweet rampart
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outside of opener = don't use shiv if i have to refresh a dot within the window?

limber lion
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You refresh the bleeds preemptively before Shiv comes off cooldown.

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You don't want to ever delay Shiv.

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You want to slam it on CD as much as possible

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And to do that, you need to pool properly before it and remember to refresh bleeds so you don't have to do that during the Shiv window.

sweet rampart
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right

astral bluff
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can someone tell me why we open with mut instead of backstab?

limber lion
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If Shiv is not on cooldown, you press it.

limber lion
jovial horizon
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cause we dont have backstab

limber lion
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But you're probably talking about Ambush I assume

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Here's the answer to that

astral bluff
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yes, sorry

limber lion
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!mut

prisma monolithBOT
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Ambush is currently only used from blindside/sepsis proc, not from stealth.
The reasoning is a little complicated, but the most important of them is the difference in combo points on crit (up to 4 vs 3).
Some other factors to consider are increased poison applications, blindside, and doomblade. This is true for all talent combinations and legendaries.

devout oxide
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open with mutilate instead of ambush because of master assassin. mutilate will give more CP

astral bluff
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thank you, it is exactly what i needed

limber lion
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No problem mate

forest wing
limber lion
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But yes, you would refresh Rupture early if that were to happen

forest wing
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Cool, tks

stoic needle
fossil slate
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Yet he could get a 226 and the 223 weapon was less of an upgrade so it's a bit of odd advice

fossil slate
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It's not all that difficult

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Just do content

limber lion
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Right

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What content would you recommend then?

fossil slate
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Well obviously that would be dungeons bud

stoic needle
limber lion
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You cannot get 226 weapons from dungeons

fossil slate
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for a DPS loss it would be

limber lion
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Only from the vault

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My boy

stoic needle
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You've obviously never been stick with 213 weapons for weeks because none show up in the vault

limber lion
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You cannot grind for a weapon from dungeons

fossil slate
limber lion
#

Just like all of us chose to get 226 Phial from the Vault as well

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And 226 IQD

fossil slate
#

and yet people still do have it

limber lion
#

Yeah, but you can't grind for it

fossil slate
#

Well you can grind the chance bud

limber lion
#

The only content you can grind to get a 226 weapon from, is PvP

limber lion
fossil slate
#

and telling someone to pick a 3 ilvl upgrade as a dps loss is just pepega

limber lion
#

You can do 10 dungeons every week for 2 months

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And never see a weapon

forest wing
#

Or a phial, FeelsBadMan

stoic needle
#

Framing it as a dps loss is just weird

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You can get sockets and upgrade into the literally exact same item

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But you cannot upgrade into a 223 wep

#

And weapons are the biggest dps increases for sin

fossil slate
#

yet the 220 was a dps increase over the weapon

limber lion
#

Okay, don't fall for his bait boys

fossil slate
#

so why why valor and time farming it

limber lion
#

He's farming

sweet rampart
#

@limber lion how long would you hold shiv for vendetta/vanish? timing windows for dummy on me right now, while keeping shiv on cooldown, i have to hold it for about 8-10 seconds before vendetta comes up again

fossil slate
#

When it's a better option to just take the 220 item from the vault

jovial horizon
#

the helm is actually indestructible as well, so i can't farm it, i think tellas is right

limber lion
fossil slate
stoic needle
#

You can hold it up to 12 seconds for vendetta tho

sour thunder
#

Would it be reasonable if I expect to do DPS as much as Ele shaman with Assass in M+?

limber lion
#

You don't have to use them both at the same time.

icy haven
#

depends alot on the ele these days i think

sour thunder
#

Generally speaking in performance wise

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coz I dont care much about raiding and Im inbetween ele and assass

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Dunno if it would be wise to play assass for M+

icy haven
#

i mean its not too bad, just ol blasts

limber lion
#

It does pretty decent damage and will work fine up to +20 keys.

#

But yeah, it's not Outlaw-level.

spare crown
#

!opener

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!bis

limber lion
#

I can help you with those guru

jovial horizon
#

turns out if i upgrade a helm i have in my bags to 220 and socket it, it's a bigger dps increase than the one in my vault. taking dagger, thanks all for clearing that up so succinctly

spare crown
#

ty.. xD

sacred thicket
#

figured i'd try ass so i changed my loot spec to ass for the vault and got a 226 dagger lol

limber lion
#

Which covenant/talents are you playing?

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I can give you an opener for ST if you'd like.

spare crown
#

i am necro.. mostly play outlaw but want to try assa for pvp

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and raid

nimble spoke
#

I was necro and am now venthyr. I love it, but I mostly play sin for everything

stoic needle
limber lion
# spare crown and raid

Right, the opener for PvP and raid is really different. You can go to #pvp if you want to learn the openers for that.

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I can help you with the raid one if you'd like

spare crown
#

yes please

limber lion
# spare crown yes please

Right, are you playing with EP/Vigor or BS/DS talents? I'm assuming with Vigor because you're Necro?

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In that case, the opener is pretty similar is it is for Venthyr:
Muti - Snd - Muti - Garrote - Rupture - Vendetta - Muti - Shiv - Vanish - Env - Muti - Env - SBS

spare crown
#

i am following pin talents

limber lion
#

For more information on openers/rotations, you can refer to

#

!guide

limber lion
#

RH and Wowhead guides are updated with new rotations

#

I think Icyveins is a bit outdated.

spare crown
#

oh okay.. thanks bunch!

strange python
#

Any rough estimates on how much dps I'm losing by not using vanish? Master assassin.

#

Trying to match my sim dps on a dummy and details goes all fucky when you vanish.

limber lion
strange python
#

I'm off my sim by about 200 dps

limber lion
#

That seems about right.

strange python
#

The biggest gap seems to be my flag and trinkets are doing a fraction of what my sim thinks

sleek sparrow
#

3 worthless necrotic wake items from vault POGGA

strange python
#

Over 5 mins sim think flag should have done 70k, mine does 35k. Flayedwing poison sim suggests 30k, dummy it did 10k

sacred thicket
#

I wish I wasn't so mongo that I can't hit my sim numbers on a dummy.

strange python
#

Huh?

safe totem
#

can u get an item from PF if you haven't done any m+ PF?

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in the vault

strange python
#

I mean if you're hitting the same number of autos as your sim and your passive proccing trinket just does half the damage...must be mongo

sacred thicket
#

@safe totem yes

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dungeon loot pool is anything from any dungeon.

safe totem
#

tyty

sacred thicket
#

i got some mists loot despite not doing it this week, iirc. good stuff

cyan echo
#

i have 220 weapons but im scared ill never get another 226 vial

#

phial

#

**

#

do i just take the +6 phial?

limber lion
#

Weapon is probably bigger, sim them

cyan echo
#

weapon is bigger

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by 22 dps

limber lion
#

There we go

stoic needle
#

That Phial though

burnt star
#

To be fair. I only got 1 dagger since week 1

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(And i got 226 since week 1 too)

stoic needle
#

To also be fair

spice spire
#

Imagine getting daggers pepehands

stoic needle
#

I've never seen a Phial but I have 3 daggers and now an outlaw mh

#

Pick your poison

hardy dagger
#

so is the m+ opener the same old tripple garrote into ct?

burnt star
#

Ive never seen phial either

mint kindle
#

Is there a good way to sim some form of the Sludgefist fight?

stoic needle
#

A better comparison would be to sim a 220 weapon to 226 weapon, and 220 Phial to 226 Phial

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And see which is the larger upgrade

stoic needle
cyan echo
#

yea i went with the phial

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no way i was passing it up it would be another year til i see it

sacred thicket
#

I'd complain about never seeing a phial... but the vault keeps throwing weapons at me.

burnt star
#

I hope we wont be using it in 1 year tbh

spice spire
# stoic needle Pick your poison

I get neither 😦
Only reason I have 213 daggers is because another rogue pulled them two weeks in a row and didn’t Need lmao

cyan echo
surreal halo
#

Is necro supposed to be this close!?

stoic needle
#

Yeah

subtle tundra
#

it is with vigor aswell so its a bit closer

stoic needle
#

If you had more haste gear the gap would be slightly larger too

limber lion
#

Yeah, sim yourself with Deeper Stratagem my boy

surreal halo
#

Nice one yeah, ill give it a go! Only 15% haste rn... Making the switch from outlaw for the raiding fun

plush oasis
#

So I got five daggers from PF and saw 5 other people in my groups get phial before I finally got the damn thing. Should have guilted guildies to help me get it.

limber lion
#

You don't need much haste. I have 17% and it's just fine.

stoic needle
limber lion
#

Crit is already my highest simming stat

cyan echo
#

^^

stoic needle
#

Lol

#

I don't blame you because there's no replacement for a Phial

#

But there's lots of ways to get weapons besides vault

cyan echo
#

yep

plush oasis
#

Now I have to decide if I want to pair phial with chain or with iqd. Iqd naturally sims better, but I know that's probably not realistic.

cyan echo
#

i couldnt do it haha

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couldnt let it pass

sacred thicket
#

There's really not a lot of buttons to press here is there

tidal gorge
#

I hate all of you that get good items in your vault. peepomad

shy dust
#

Sin is a very streamlined and simple spec hazard

#

Does not have a lot of buttons

plush oasis
#

Dude. My healers are always oom. Iqd is so frustrating.

sacred thicket
#

ok, just getting anxiety that I have so many empty buttons

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also fck managing iqd

#

the real qustion is should I bind my vendetta to a shift mod just for muscle memory of "big cd is shift mod" that I've already established.

knotty sparrow
#

I love that sin has fewer buttons

shy dust
#

Either you get stats or you don’t

knotty sparrow
#

Meanwhile sub PvP requires like 18 macros

shy dust
#

You look at a wa it tells you

sacred thicket
#

i mean if u need a special aura to make it the best....

#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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and it's an icky 3 min cd

unborn eagle
#

did they fix the daggers to swords transmog cheat

shy dust
#

I too would not use a really strong trinket because it requires me to shift my eyes to a wa for a total of 5 seconds

surreal halo
#

😵 Went with DS aswell and haste gems and necro came out on top!

dawn ivy
#

quick swap

surreal halo
#

I am so confused! How!?

plush oasis
#

My problem with iqd is that I keep finding myself prepped with all my cds ready to go, then iqd is just stuck on mana.

knotty sparrow
#

Did you sim venth with the Flag conduit?

plush oasis
#

For probably entil execute is available.

#

Plus with the 3min, fight duration is a big deal.

limber lion
limber lion
#

You're also simming a 143 ilvl conduit

balmy condor
strange python
limber lion
#

Hah beat Whispyr to it

#

Yea yea you're on the phone

cosmic tinsel
#

Sup guys. With recent Assa changes I've seen some new pvp videos, and a lot of them are suggesting Master Assassin legendary as it works well with Vanish as offensive CD and shadowmeld. But I'm playing chad Horde, not Alliance so my guess is Master Assassin isnt THAT good without shadowmeld for pvp?

limber lion
limber lion
lucid harness
#

Hey yall! any reason why Doomblade is recommended on shoulders? Does it really matter if shoulders/hands?

surreal halo
#

Ahhhh that makes sense! Thanks @limber lion and @balmy condor! I thought that made my covenant switch choice very easy, but back to the drawing board I guess haha

limber lion
lucid harness
#

Sweet thanks my dude

limber lion
#

No worries mate

sacred thicket
#

is it worth it to sim stat weights and build my lego off that or just go the top two

limber lion
slender urchin
#

Which two trinkets would you run for M Sludgefist:

limber lion
#

Just use all of the combinations and see which one comes out top.

slender urchin
#

Hard to sim Sludgefist style fights ;;

limber lion
sacred thicket
#

oh huh top gear will let me know that info?

halcyon zealot
#

phisl nd dfv

limber lion
#

Yes.

slender urchin
#

Thanks bois

limber lion
#

Have fun

halcyon zealot
#

memory of sins is super good too if u have it

slender urchin
#

We should get him tonight with the nerfs

strange python
#

Anyone here use dashing instead of doomblade?

sleek sparrow
#

@sacred thicket you can sim legendary crafts with different stats in top gear

dense bramble
#

can i see damage chart like details after running a topgear sim?

sleek sparrow
#

No only quick iirc

limber lion
#

But you can just do a top-gear sim, then copy the build to Quick Sim and there you can see everything

dense bramble
#

gonna try. Ty Cev!

frigid kestrel
#

Ok

#

So like

limber lion
frigid kestrel
#

Whats broken with Bloodfang? Do the bleeds just not hit hard enough, or not proc enough?

limber lion
gusty mirage
#

wtb more soul ash per wing already

limber lion
#

It needs the Doomblade treatment to be good.

frigid kestrel
#

Gotcha, seemed like it would have been a solid M+ lego reading it

#

Got bored, now im reading over the lego abilities for the first time since beta

limber lion
#

Quite a few cool legendaries out there, which are not usable because they are undertuned.

gusty mirage
#

kinda sucks, because it'd be fun to experiment with the dif ones and see what weird builds people could make viable

frigid kestrel
#

TTB is what shiv should be. without a lego

gusty mirage
#

you're not wrong

limber lion
#

Shiv is already kinda loaded tbh

frigid kestrel
stoic needle
#

Bloodfang with a couple more % on it would be pog

#

I'd run it

frigid kestrel
#

Be neat to see a DP build, Like if we had enough energy to just keep Vendetta up

stoic needle
#

Does bloodfang work with exsang peepoStudy

gusty mirage
#

maybe

#

test it out next PTR 😛

limber lion
#

2 awful abilities combined to make one giga-ability

dense axle
#

did necro sims change recently? cause now Sudden Fractures is simming above any other conduits for me

limber lion
limber lion
dense axle
#

crazy

limber lion
#

It is generally the better conduit for Necros now

#

Not for everyone and not for every situation

dense axle
#

5 min patchwork is my baseline

#

and if there's multi targets itll just get better

#

well now I can use Heirmir for all of my specs. Poggers

sacred thicket
#

I somehow after all this time do not have lashing scars... ope

gusty mirage
#

I found a correlation between needing loot from a boss and getting conduits. If you don't need loot, you won't get the conduit. If you DO need loot you'll get the conduit. So go into heroic sire and pretend you really need loot

limber lion
#

Literally do all callings, kill wb and kill sire on all difficulties

#

No way you don't get a lashing after that

sacred thicket
#

hrm haven't killed sire in a minute

limber lion
#

How many callings have you done?

#

You also have to be Venthyr, in case you weren't aware.

sacred thicket
#

oh eh, I went reading up on it, I'm not venthyr so that explains that. not gonna swap either I don't think so B tier it is.

limber lion
#

Welp.

sacred thicket
#

I thought it was odd that with everything I do I hadn't gotten it lol

dense axle
#

lol

sacred thicket
#

cool well thanks to this discord I'm ready for my first day as Sin

gusty mirage
#

Welcome to the club 🙂

#

in case anyone's wondering, Whispyr's blessing of my GV didn't work

#

I got hot garbo

sacred thicket
#

the only reason I'm trying Sin is because I was like "f it i'll try for a dagger" and I was blessed.

gusty mirage
#

only reason you're trying sin is cause we're the alpha rogues now

sacred thicket
#

eh, I like outlaw

limber lion
#

Assa best spec

gusty mirage
#

There's always next week FeelsGoodMan

sacred thicket
#

I remember my Sin glory days back in... uh cata?

gusty mirage
#

I had sin glory days in bfa man

raven locust
#

Cata was Sub

sleek sparrow
#

@gusty mirage but wait I do need H sire loot and still haven't gotten the conduit pepehands

sacred thicket
#

MoP? I was Sin at some point back then.

limber lion
#

I just played Combat in Cata

sacred thicket
#

Cata sub was fun

surreal halo
gusty mirage
#

tbh I still need a 220 dreadfire, so I just get anima power

raven locust
#

Assass was very good in MoP

gusty mirage
#

I think if you need loot AND the conduit, you get anima power

sleek sparrow
#

Sadge

tropic echo
#

haste crit on dblade right?

sacred thicket
#

I never touched combat until this xpac, but hadn't played since MoP so

limber lion
sleek sparrow
#

Cata combat with legendary daggers was lit

raven locust
#

Yea it was pretty fun

limber lion
#

Yeh

#

Taracgosa was still a much cooler legendary than Fangs

gusty mirage
#

I missed cata and mop, and I'm actually so sad about it

sacred thicket
#

loved those daggers... with the xmog would still let u get wings

raven locust
#

Though Cata during prepatch Assassination was insanely OP with the daggers

raven locust
#

Was a lot of fun for those few weeks

gusty mirage
strange python
#

What % haste are you guys around?

gusty mirage
#

I think I'm at like 17%, I'd have to log in and check though

limber lion
#

17.4%

shy dust
#

Somewhere between 0 and 20%

strange python
#

Gotcha thx

stoic needle
#

19.39%

gusty mirage
#

17.5%

sacred thicket
#

16 😦

stoic needle
#

getting kinda impatient with these boes i might just equip these boots

#

instead of waiting for them to sell

sacred thicket
#

mythic ones?

stoic needle
#

yeah

#

theyre really good for sin

sacred thicket
#

I'd slap those bad bois on

stoic needle
#

but they're 500k on my current server

#

and 200k on others

gusty mirage
#

I would if they're an ilvl upgrade and you don't need the gold

stoic needle
#

so i could sell them and then buy them again after transferring

#

xD

gusty mirage
#

oh tru

#

are you coming to area 52 to hang out with me and Google for Rogue?

sacred thicket
#

can i interest you in day trading?

stoic needle
#

maybe pepehmm

limber lion
#

na frogs

stoic needle
#

i still haven't quite found a guild that i'm hyped to be in yet

limber lion
#

Me neither and I've been in this current guild for a year now

#

kek

raven locust
#

oof

gusty mirage
#

my IO from s3 and s4 bfa got me into my current guild lol

stoic needle
#

i wish they could combine EU and NA

#

so lame that half the cool people are across the pond

limber lion
#

Yep, too bad the servers can't handle it

#

And it would suck for the other continent ping-wise

#

NA players sitting at 30 ping and EU at 280

#

Pog

strange python
#

hey i just switched from sub and im not doing as much as i feel i should

stoic needle
strange python
#

can som1 lend a hand?

stoic needle
#

post some logs

strange python
#

dunno if i have any fro mthis week let me check

sour citrus
#

Get dem choices...213 boots with crit/vers VS 216 overcharged anima batt, whilst I have 213 mem of past sins and 207 quantum device... Grrrrr

gentle gyro
#

Ah riiiiiight, vault tomorrow

sour citrus
#

Dont open it!!!

#

Lol

limber lion
#

There's so much downtime and random stuff happening

gentle gyro
#

Time to get a 2nd phial as my only choice kekw

strange python
#

ik but only fight as assa besides 2 hours a day on the stick

slate harbor
#

should my first leggo be doomblade on gloves with haste crit? Guides are kind of saying various things

spice spire
gentle gyro
#

Generally yes, but

limber lion
#

SSK is a really troll fight, legit cannot help you with that.

#

You can run a ST build to maximize Shade damage, you can run a burst build with MA legendary and EP/NS/MFD to maximize shield damage or a full aoe build

spice spire
#

I mean you’re not wrong. You’re either padding hard or feeling bad

limber lion
#

Literally cannot help you with that. Would need to see some other logs.

#

If your comparison on "not doing well" is from 1 single pull on SSK, it's not a good comparison

strange python
#

ill upload today ones later then

spice spire
#

But yeah, literally ANY other fight

strange python
#

no no i have full night of attemps

limber lion
#

You played Sub most of the prog

strange python
#

like 20 trys half assa hals subt

#

yeah been sub whole exp so far

#

switched a week ago and just to train mostly. but feel i dont quite get it

limber lion
#

But yeh, upload any other fight and we'll take a look. Preferably Shriek/Huntsman/Arti/Hungering/Lady or Sludge

#

But generally, anything else but SSK xd

strange python
#

i think we going hungering today

gaunt geyser
#

is really covenant doing that much in case of dps?

sacred thicket
#

what boss is ssk? blanking

strange python
#

kaelthas

sacred thicket
#

ah.

limber lion
#

But in the end it doesn't reaaaaaally matter

#

Necro and Venthyr are quite close, NF is not too far away of those and is very versatile for most content.

#

Kyrian is pretty lackluster for Assa though and doesn't really fit into anything.

gaunt geyser
strange python
#

yup but im not switching again xD

limber lion
#

But it's not like you will do 1k less damage by going a "sub-optimal covenant"

#

Necro does the most sustained AoE damage, Venthyr the highest ST damage

#

So you'll be gucci if you go Necro

gaunt geyser
#

ok then

#

thank you 😄

gentle gyro
#

Basically, do w/e you want

velvet bridge
#

Do we get energy for deadly poison procs?

gentle gyro
#

Except kyrian

strange python
#

D:

limber lion
#

You are required to have a poison on the target for that to work though.

balmy condor
#

Boys

spice spire
#

What the fuck is that

balmy condor
#

Cache sucks

spice spire
#

Ye I’m ready for disappointment

gray fjord
balmy condor
spice spire
#

That’s cursed In every single metric, chief

gray fjord
#

Yeah pretty much the stuff of nightmares, the more I look at it.

gray fjord
#

Naw that's tame

limber lion
#

Looks pretty cute

gray fjord
#

uwu

limber lion
#

Reminds me of my ex

gray fjord
balmy condor
#

I have so many emotes

gray fjord
#

I need that little kissie bear one you have, Whispyr.

balmy condor
#

I actually had to leave a server to join yours zera

gray fjord
#

❤️feelsloveman

stoic needle
balmy condor
#

Cause there’s a server cap

strange python
balmy condor
vestal wren
#

the server cap is 100

balmy condor
#

Yeah

gray fjord
#

So Whispyr is a Discord Hoe is what we're saying here.

limber lion
#

Never knew someone that was addicted to Discord emotes

balmy condor
#

parse why can’t I hold all these emotes

limber lion
#

There's always a fetish for everything

balmy condor
limber lion
#

help this man

strange python
icy crater
#

prob swap enchants to crit

inland heath
#

mastery increases the dmg of phial of putrefaction?

stoic needle
#

any other sinful, celestial, and lightless force dagger gamers? smugpepe

balmy condor
inland heath
#

why is it soo wanted then

shy dust
stoic needle
#

i can't decide between sinful or lightless for my hammer

shy dust
#

just does A LOT of damage

limber lion
#

Everyone wants the trinket

balmy condor
#

Boys I have the hottest of news straight from the presses

limber lion
#

Not just us

#

Literally warriors and demon hunters want it

#

And they are ooga booga smash characters

limber lion
#

This just in

balmy condor
#

Barring any crazy borrowed power

balmy condor
#

We’re dropping blindside for ep early next tier

stoic needle
plain thistle
#

rip

stoic needle
#

even lower apm sin gaming

#

god bless

#

i can't wait to hear everyone whine KEKWW

balmy condor
#

I just got it to sim higher on a 240 profile

limber lion
#

Still with DS?

balmy condor
#

Yep

limber lion
#

oh no.

stoic needle
#

but think about how big the envenoms will be

balmy condor
#

Doomblade envenom stacking seems to kinda be a thing

stoic needle
limber lion
#

Soon even CT will pull through

stoic needle
#

10%(ep)+5%(deeper)+15%(doomblade)

balmy condor
#

That’s probably doubtful

gleaming eagle
#

so which weapon matters again

#

left hand or right hand?

limber lion
#

main hand

gleaming eagle
#

left hand ?

limber lion
#

:^)

stoic needle
#

both actually

gleaming eagle
#

which 1 is main hand

#

left or right

stoic needle
#

left

limber lion
#

Right hand

#

So the left one in your character sheet

stoic needle
#

mut damage and therefore doomblade dot damage scales from both weapons

gleaming eagle
#

ah ok

balmy condor
balmy condor
#

(In comparison to pb obviously)

#

On paper ct single target is still a thing

limber lion
#

Yeh for sure

#

So, when we get 2 legendaries next patch, PB will pull even more ahead when we start running Doom + Dashing

stoic needle
#

doomblade+zoldyck tho pepehmm

limber lion
gleaming eagle
#

buff zoldyk to 50%

balmy condor
#

Inb4 some crazy ass borrowed power that gives you 900000 agility per bleed on the target and CT single target skyrockets past poison bomb again because poison bomb is a shit talent

limber lion
#

Too bad it'll be old tier at that point :'''(

stoic needle
#

sludge will be the go to fight for cheesing the biggest envenom ever for the rest of the tier tho

limber lion
stoic needle
#

so i will be enjoying it

urban shadow
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gimmie that legion pb

limber lion
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Hell nah fuck that

balmy condor
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Delete pb

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Legion pb was worse than this

stoic needle
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shiv makes your next envenom guaranteed to proc a PB. there fixed problem solved write me a check blizzard

balmy condor
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Rng parse nonsense

limber lion
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The top parses had 20-40% of their damage done by PB

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Very healthy design

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Even more on AoE bosses like Eonar

hollow escarp
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oh dude

limber lion
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But current PB is so ResidentSleeper

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Like nothing happens

hollow escarp
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proccing PB on those ads

limber lion
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You never see it or feel it

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It just

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happens

limber lion
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But still, awful design nonetheless lol

hollow escarp
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proccing PB during MA window

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it was fun

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trash but fun

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a scuffed version of Convoke parsing today for boomies

stoic needle
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but imagine how satisfying PB+CT together would be

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i've had it in torghast it's litty

hollow escarp
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would rather have PB a 45 sec cd tbf

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and just deal a lot of damage

balmy condor
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@stoic needle

limber lion
balmy condor
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tempted to take the trinket just for ilvl or something

limber lion
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Don't you already have 2 226 mastery rings anyways? LULW

gray fjord
stoic needle
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the trinket for queue ilvl is valid

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also apparently it's a good trinket when you take into account the overall raid dps bonus

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just hard to sim for that

limber lion
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Trinkets that benefit your whole team? pepedisgust

balmy condor
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oh btw before you ask, I have that cloak

limber lion
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Skip

balmy condor
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and this is ring situation

stoic needle
limber lion
gray fjord
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But that is like

balmy condor
gray fjord
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FOUR DPS

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Think about it, man.

limber lion
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Take the trinket my boy

gray fjord
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^

limber lion
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Never play it

gray fjord
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^

limber lion
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But take it

stoic needle
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that's such a dogshit ring

balmy condor
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its vers mast

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I thought you would be cooming

stoic needle
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vers MonkaChrist

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i want to be 0% vers gang

limber lion
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vers literally increases your envenom damage tho

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haste doesn't

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and neither does crit

stoic needle
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yeah but mastery is more efficient at it

limber lion
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But

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Why not both

stoic needle
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because i dont want melee to be in my top damage sources drakeNo

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envenoms, deadly poison, garotte, rupture

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melee

gray fjord
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Ez

stoic needle
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in that order

limber lion
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It won't be with 0 haste my boy

gray fjord
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Don't cast slice and dice

stoic needle
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thats exactly why i want to be 0 vers gang

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haste crit mastery

limber lion
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But Haste = more melee damage

stoic needle
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not as much as vers....?

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idk

limber lion
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You don't want melee to be your top damage, but you build toward it

stoic needle
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vers increases all sources of damage equally

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mastery is just the good stuff

torpid spoke
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is quantum device that good?

limber lion
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Yeh

torpid spoke
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maybe for parsing...

stoic needle
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haste is unavoidable

dull cloak
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is there such thing as too much haste :)

torpid spoke
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i feel like it sucks everrywhere else

stoic needle
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it's amazing in m+

limber lion
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And haste only increases your attack speed, energy regen and bleed tick speed

stoic needle
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and on prog

limber lion
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And attack speed = very big melee

stoic needle
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giving your healers mana isnt a bad thing

sudden river
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haste sucks in m+ :/

stoic needle
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wrong

limber lion