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balmy condor
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But I get where they come from

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I think it was originally kojiโ€™s idea

stoic needle
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I mean let's be real even if we had infinite energy all the time we'd still be worse at aoe than real aoe classes

slow marsh
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Well yeah

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We still rely on fok

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for cps

royal lantern
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turns out, when all your aoe is DoT based with no real impact skills, your aoe is bad

slow marsh
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energy not really the issue in aoe anyways. we are overcapped a lot of times

stoic needle
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Give sin 'malicious rapture' kekw

royal lantern
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no

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then warlocks would complain

slow marsh
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Give alacrity baseline

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too op

royal lantern
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"wtf affliction is the real dot spec, why do they get something like that"

stoic needle
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Fuck warlocks

royal lantern
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meanwhile affliction multidotting is instant casts with no cd kekw

hollow escarp
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I'm tempted to start playing lock besides rogue

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full dps classes always have a spot in raid

royal lantern
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well yeha

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except rogue

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cus you are melee

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๐Ÿ™‚

slow marsh
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I've thought about rolling a lock but for other reasons

hollow escarp
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it used to be the same for rogue, but I think cloak was the reason

royal lantern
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i like how hunters complain about the nerfs(yeha they where overblown) but they STILL get taken cus they are ranged OMEGAKEKW

slow marsh
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It's more that they can target swap wel l

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But yeah

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melee feels

limber lion
slow marsh
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Would exsang be good if it worked on all our bleeds instead of just target?

limber lion
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But numbers matter too much in this game.

slow marsh
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They also have lots of ways to mitigate mechanics

hollow escarp
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it would be good even if it was on primary target, if it wasn't on the same row with Alacrity PepeLaugh

limber lion
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Even with a perfect toolkit, you still need the numbers to back you up.

hollow escarp
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yeah, but as rogues, we have the immunity that isn't a dps loss

royal lantern
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i would say best raidingclass goes too mage

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they have SO MUCH tools

slow marsh
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Na

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druid

hollow escarp
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druid brings nothing besides CR

slow marsh
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But close for sure

hollow escarp
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innervate

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roar

royal lantern
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altered time alone

slow marsh
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mages can't brez pepeclown

royal lantern
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is such a 10/10 broken ability

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or mirror images

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and nobody talks about those

slow marsh
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also druid bear form

royal lantern
limber lion
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Mirror Images aint that great tbh

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Only on dots

slow marsh
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or not bear

hollow escarp
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imagine being rogue and complaining about defensives

limber lion
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Or passive damage.

slow marsh
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whatever makes them op for chains

royal lantern
slow marsh
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I mean I like feint for sure

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I wish evasion was more useful

hollow escarp
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Nathria is a not the best example

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but we have great defensives

slow marsh
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If we had evasion for physical anything then it would be nice

hollow escarp
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we can dps while cloak is active

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feint every aoe

royal lantern
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there is a small difference bettwen "you can maybe reduce aoe dmg by 40% by using your offensive resource, but 70%is blacklisted anyway"

hollow escarp
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health pot every 30 sec

royal lantern
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and "lmao 2min cd that is a flat 20%dmg reduction for that stays for 45sec"

limber lion
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Direct damage breaks the mirrors

royal lantern
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it litearlly does

limber lion
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And they disappear

royal lantern
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yeha

limber lion
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It only works on passive damage like I said

royal lantern
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you know what counts as a DIRECT hit?

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almost nothing

limber lion
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Ye

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Like Wicked Blades

royal lantern
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you get targeted by the arrows on huntsman? you dont lose a immage

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and you have 3

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its not like 1 mechanic=gone

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it litearlly needs too be 3 in 45seconds, when almost nothing counts as a direct hit

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that shit is so stupid

slow marsh
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I mean tru

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but feint

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Is better imo

royal lantern
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feint cost energy and is blacklisted for how many things again?

shy dust
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What are you feinting on sire?

royal lantern
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^

shy dust
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Feint is an amazing ability when it works

royal lantern
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like

slow marsh
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tru

shy dust
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Doesnโ€™t work on most things

royal lantern
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the entire "but feint" thing is so weird when feint just doesnt do shit in so many fights

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yes it would be strong

shy dust
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Alter time like Tryan said

royal lantern
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but it just isnt

shy dust
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Is one of the most busted defensives

limber lion
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Ye, AT is dumb af

ionic flume
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Can u elaborate on feint not working on most things

royal lantern
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altered time+mirror immages alone should be the ENTIRE toolkit

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but no, iceblock+shields is a thing too

slow marsh
ionic flume
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I was using feint religiously when I still played

royal lantern
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there are many abilitys that do aoe dmg

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but dont get reduced by feint

limber lion
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Feint is dps loss

royal lantern
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cus blizzard doesnt want you too reduce that dmg

limber lion
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not worth

ionic flume
limber lion
hollow escarp
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@limber lion yeah, rogue has trash defensives sadboy

ionic flume
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Can u give me some examples

royal lantern
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on some fights that means your entire deffensive toolkit is MAYBE cloak(if you dont need it for a mechanic) and vial

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๐Ÿ™‚

royal lantern
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you mean

limber lion
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But you didn't count that for mages either

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So

royal lantern
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that thing mage has baseline?

limber lion
royal lantern
hollow escarp
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so ok, rogue and mage have the best defensives in the game

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mage has better defensives

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that's about it

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right?

royal lantern
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fking arms warrior has better deffensives then rogue lol

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die by the sword+deff stance alone blow rogue out of the water

hollow escarp
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not talking about raid cooldowns

royal lantern
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the entire "rogue has great deffensives" thing would be real, IF most raid dmg would be aoe

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but it isnt

grand ridge
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30% damage reduction on a 3 min cd

royal lantern
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rogue has cloak, wich is great, dont get me wrong, but also limited

grand ridge
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vs immune to most things on 2?

hollow escarp
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I know Nathria is weird because all the non-magic damage

low girder
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"most things"

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lol

hollow escarp
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maybe our defensives are limited because energy cost or damage type, but we do have a solid toolkit

grand ridge
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you can cheese so many raid mechanics with cloak entirely

royal lantern
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LIKE?

hollow escarp
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you could

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not in Nathria

royal lantern
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can people give me notable examples for that

hollow escarp
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thot harvester

royal lantern
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like srsly, that like some peak reddit shit all the time

low girder
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you can sit in consume for like 6s more dmg, huge

limber lion
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Consume peepoHeHee

shy dust
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You can clear traps

royal lantern
shy dust
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On artificer

royal lantern
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it does dmg trought cloak

shy dust
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Then die to the dot

royal lantern
hollow escarp
low girder
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no it doesn't?

limber lion
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No it doesn't.

low girder
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i've done it

limber lion
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You can cloak consume lol

shy dust
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You can sit in consume

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With cloak

low girder
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that's pretty much the only thing though

shy dust
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Just have to wait a second

royal lantern
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maybe im mixing up the mechanics now

low girder
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the big succ on hungering

royal lantern
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but ye like

limber lion
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You can cloak everything in Hungering

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So

royal lantern
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you just read all the time ROGUE DEFFENSIVES SO STRONG, THEY CHEESE EVERYTHING

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and then its like

stoic needle
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I don't think you can cloak the miasma?

low girder
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it removes stacks

limber lion
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You can

royal lantern
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give me a notable example that makes a raidteam go "damm, we want a rogue for that, they would be good"

low girder
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but it doesn't go away

hollow escarp
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it's like I haven't said that Nathria is a weird example

stoic needle
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Yeah but it doesn't stop it from hurting you

low girder
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just makes you not take dmg for a bit

stoic needle
royal lantern
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instead of "eh, just take a mage or hunter, they do the same while not losing dmg from running out"

limber lion
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Like if you're at 10% hp, it'll give you immunity for 5s

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So you can get healed up

grand ridge
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m+ should also be taken into account

hollow escarp
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m+ is a mini game though

low girder
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hungering is like the one fight cloak is really strong on

royal lantern
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nobody is talking about m+

grand ridge
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think of the countless things cloak will save you from

stoic needle
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Cloak is great in m+

royal lantern
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m+ will always be a unbalanced mess, same with pvp

hollow escarp
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in m+ and pvp we are way more busted than raid

royal lantern
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there is a reason why they balance around raids

limber lion
royal lantern
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and for raiding, the rogue toolkit is really mediocre right now

grand ridge
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mythic raids bring only certain specs to them due to imbalance

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same goes for m+

hollow escarp
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right now yes, because physical/bleed damage

limber lion
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Sub wouldn't be a dogshit spec for 3 years + if they actually balanced all classes around raids

low girder
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i mean let's not pretend cloak was some incredible thing in nya either

hollow escarp
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pvp is secondary

royal lantern
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m+ has WAY more restricitions if you go higher then mythic raiding ionwut

limber lion
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They definitely consider some classes "raid specs" and some specs "pvp specs"

royal lantern
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like, you can still take all classes/specs for a mythic raid if the player is good

low girder
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legion had its moments

royal lantern
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you cant for high keys

low girder
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blizzard stopped making that mistake after tomb

grand ridge
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you can get ksm with any class/spec combo

royal lantern
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ksm is not even close too mythic raiding lmao

limber lion
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KSM is very low tier tbh

royal lantern
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ksm is like curve

grand ridge
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what else is there to go for other than a number on your io page lol

hollow escarp
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but anything beyond KSM doesn't really matter

subtle tundra
hollow escarp
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just for fun

royal lantern
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anything beyond heroic raiding doesnt matter

stoic needle
royal lantern
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you get your shity mount from the last tier on hc, why do mythic????

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bruh

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that argument is not very good

subtle tundra
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yuge

hollow escarp
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what argument?

grand ridge
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mythic has an achievement lol

hollow escarp
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all you get from doing 16+ keys is more 210 loot

royal lantern
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mate its just, if people say high keys

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they dont say 15-16lol

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they say 21+

limber lion
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Consider this

royal lantern
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and thats the point where it gets WAY more restrictive then mythic raiding

limber lion
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People raid mythic and do high m+ keys

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because they want to

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and they think it's fun

royal lantern
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cus a good player can carry himself in a good group in raids

limber lion
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๐Ÿ˜ฎ

slow marsh
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easier to get carried to KSM than it is for CE

limber lion
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What a crazy thought, having fun in a video game.

royal lantern
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in m+ you hit a wall at some point where your class/spec makes it impossible too play anymore

hollow escarp
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but there is no mythic equivalent for high keys as there is for Mythic raiding

stoic needle
royal lantern
stoic needle
royal lantern
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NO FUN ALLOWED IN MY VYDEA

stoic needle
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And doing extremely well

royal lantern
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it was just a made up number man

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you know excatly my point

stoic needle
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Sub is like objectively one of the worst m+ specs in the game and ppl are doing high keys with it

elfin valley
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trying to make an argument between M+ and raid is kinda hard bc M+ infinitely scales wheras mythic is the hardest difficulty. So you can always be like oh well M+ gets harder

stoic needle
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The number doesn't matter, I'm saying that if you're a gamer you can do high keys with any spec

limber lion
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Up to a certain point

hollow escarp
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you need 4 other people to believe in you

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on a meme spec

limber lion
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At some point it gets to the point where you need every single bit of dps, perfect pulls/routes, execute everything perfectly etc.

hollow escarp
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and we don't have corruption resistance every week

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to carry us

stoic needle
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Idk I can't say that I know the ins and outs of every single spec in the game but I don't think it's entirely accurate to say that it's impossible to do keys above x level unless you're playing meta specs

limber lion
stoic needle
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Is it gonna be harder? Absolutely. But impossible? Idk about that

limber lion
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It's not about it being harder

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But actually not possible

glass root
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guys sorry to jump in and ask again , im NEcro sin rogue at sludgefist right now whats the choice lego and rotation for me ? ๐Ÿ˜„

limber lion
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That's the nature of infinitely scaling content that's tied to a timer.

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Eventually you just don't do enough dps to time the key.

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Otherwise we would be seeing +40 keys being done toward the end of season

hollow escarp
limber lion
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But we don't

stoic needle
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The problem is that we don't have infinitely scaling gear

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Being capped at 229 ilvl limits all the classes

limber lion
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No we don't, we simply have some classes that perform better than some

hollow escarp
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well, there are some specs that could technically push high keys but there are not enough people trying to push with them

limber lion
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Meaning that with a different comp you can possibly push for +1 or +2 higher keys

hollow escarp
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a good example was assa until Ryfie started pushing, it looked like assa can't do 21-22 keys

elfin valley
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@glass root also u do a slightly scuffed rotation on pull where u just make sure u rush ur CDs out so they are up on pillar

clever vapor
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which revendreth soulbind should I use for mythic+? Nadjia still?

limber lion
clever vapor
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@limber lion Thanks

limber lion
tawny basin
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if im running crimson tempest for m+, on ST bosses - do you ever use it?

thorny rose
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Yes

limber lion
tawny basin
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thank you, couldnt find the answer for that anywhere on the guides while browsing

limber lion
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No worries mate

forest beacon
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Should I run double potency conduits for m+ picking up poisoned katar, or stay single potency and DD

gloomy knoll
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probably double

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can sim it tho

limber lion
gloomy knoll
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rogue dslice actually works

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unlike other classes

forest beacon
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sims higher for sure, just thinking about tyrannical bosses

limber lion
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But you can run double potency on Nadja as well if you'd like.

gloomy knoll
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you don't go giga st for tyran weeks

limber lion
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Wasteland is usually the better choice

gloomy knoll
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that's a misconception people have

limber lion
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It sims similarly to double potency, without taking into account the vers buff you give to your team

forest beacon
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cool that's what i have been running this week but wanted to check for sure

fervent beacon
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You go Giga regardless, sin cleave

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I just run the talent accordingly to key, run lash with lethal poison

forest beacon
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yeah without DD my st on bosses have been fine

fervent beacon
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Then I swap the route for dauntless duelist for raid.

forest beacon
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yeh i swap for raid, dd and just lash

fervent beacon
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Yeah, sin ST pump but weak cleave. I mean you may as well just play outlaw for key.

limber lion
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I just use Nadja with DD on raids and Theotar with Wasteland on all m+.

limber lion
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I'll show you cleave

forest beacon
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except I personally don't feel like playing outlaw

limber lion
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Assa is perfectly fine.

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It does around 7-8k dps in keys. Perfectly good number.

forest beacon
fervent beacon
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Yeah just bit of work to get it going but I always run with boomkin and mage so they got aoe covered and I just brrrrr ST

limber lion
fervent beacon
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Just run mist unit you get daggers and upgrade to 220.

limber lion
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They're probably just shit at the game.

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Only time I lose in overall is in DoS

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Screw that dungeon and its 15 mob pulls

forest beacon
fervent beacon
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Yeah first run as sin in SL and I beat my boomkin and mage

burnt star
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For real. Ns + ma + ct opener is just too good

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In m+

limber lion
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It's pretty fun yeah

fervent beacon
burnt star
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Not going back to outlaw ever

forest beacon
fervent beacon
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What's the opening with that btw?

limber lion
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I swapped from it to Zoldy+Vig/Sub at around +19-+20's

fervent beacon
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I heard of it so I may want to try it.

limber lion
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On 3+ targets that is

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On 1-2 targets you MFD - Rupture

forest beacon
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^^^

fervent beacon
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With MA legendary since we're taking nightstalker?

limber lion
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And you use the MA legendary

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Yeh

burnt star
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Watch your dps on 5 mob with this opening

forest beacon
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MA sucks if your tank chain pulls.. but what can you do

fervent beacon
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Hmm, may as well try before going back to outlaw for a bit. I like to bounce around to keep it fresh.

burnt star
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If u stick a little to the back when he chains pull u can restealth

fervent beacon
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Or just vanish

burnt star
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Depends how close the last mob dies

pastel shale
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Subtlety is getting HUGE buffs in 9.1, mark my words

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BiS spec in all content

low girder
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if your tank is chain pulling with sin he's inting the key anyway

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tell him to stop that

pastel shale
limber lion
fervent beacon
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All they just have to do is bring back the SC

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And slight buff ST.

pastel shale
fervent beacon
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Hence the slight buff to ST

pastel shale
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that's an honor reserved only for everyone else

forest beacon
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I tried NS CT with zold last night vanish mfd ct when mobs are at about 35% pretty fun same opener

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but MA is better with NS CT ??

stoic needle
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Much better imo

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With NS you need another way to get up bleeds quickly for energy

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MA does that

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Also gives you big vanish ns envenoms

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I had a 15k envenom crit from stealth on a pride earlier today

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That's like doomblade level

forest beacon
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I though NS did a snapshot on the duration of dots, i'll give MA a try later

stoic needle
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It only does for the ct you do from stealth

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And your deadly poisons

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Shiv to 5cp, vanish, envenom, mfd, envenom, mut, envenom is actually insane priority damage

forest beacon
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yeah that is what i though. MA huge envenom sounds fun though

stoic needle
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But also vanish to reapply ns ct is also fun

burnt star
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Totaly

balmy condor
forest beacon
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my group isn't pushing high keys, just 15-16's fun and easy so i can play around with talents legos for keys

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yeah vanish rupt doesn't feel very rewarding does it

balmy condor
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I mean that depends who you ask

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I think itโ€™s quite good

limber lion
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Getting a juicy 30s NS rupture sounds pretty good to me.

forest beacon
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it's definitely good, just don't see the huge envenom damage. which is kinda fun.

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thanks for the info, back to work for me.

carmine token
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!wa

prisma monolithBOT
thorny pond
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Bad talents too

compact plover
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i use neatplates and can see what dots are on what targets

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idk if thats what you want tho

carmine token
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i could prob tweak my plater to do that

balmy condor
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Youโ€™re overcapping cp quite a bit

burnt star
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Name plates are pretty much the best way to keep track when multi

balmy condor
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Are you forcing 6 cp or something

carmine token
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nah it was when i had to get away from boss

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i just tossed out poisoned knife sometiomes to keep damage up

balmy condor
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Like there garrote and mutilate and shiv overcaps

carmine token
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but yeah it was sloppy

low girder
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waited waaaaaaaaaaay too long to get snd up

carmine token
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im sure thats only like 20% of the reason

limber lion
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You should never lose combo points with garrote.

balmy condor
limber lion
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Yeh

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Seal Fate is fine

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And that happens

balmy condor
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Seal fate overcap is sort unavoidable yeah

carmine token
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i think sometimes i hit buttons when i dont have enough energy then move to the next, a problem with going from outlaw to sin, the energy regen is vastly diff

low girder
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this isn't helping matters

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you should have bleeds up

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before ever hitting envenom

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you're losing a ton of energy

limber lion
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Gar/Rupture should be your #1 priority.

low girder
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SND too

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you keep it up with envenom now, it should be up long before you hit it there

burnt star
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Your openings is basicly how u set up the pace

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And get that energy regen coming

carmine token
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got it

limber lion
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Also you're overcapping/wasting 20% energy.

carmine token
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good advice

limber lion
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Which is A LOT

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Energy cap should be around 1-2%

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It's fine to be a little bit higher on 2T because you might cap out during lust whilst having both targets bled.

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But 20% is wayyy too high

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Not sure if you go afk during intermission after killing goliath or what's up

burnt star
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More advance stuff in slg heroic would be to keep hitting boss after the goliath is dead in intermission

carmine token
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How do i check the logs for energy caps?

limber lion
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Could be that.

carmine token
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nobody was picking up orbs -_-

limber lion
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You choose your character, click "Resources"

carmine token
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yeah im there

limber lion
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Then you click the button that says "Hitpoints"

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And change it to Energy

carmine token
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ah got it

burnt star
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Even if boss takes lower damage. Key is just to make sure u dont lose your 5 stack of alacrity

limber lion
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But the thing is

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The boss does take 5% damage

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The shield is a 95% damage reduction.

carmine token
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yeah it does

burnt star
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Was about to edit haha

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I didnt mean litteraly

carmine token
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in that pull i was actually trying to throw knives at the ranged above

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idk what i was doing

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Im looking at htat one now for energy capping

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just to basically compare if its a one pull problem or if im bigger derp than i thought

limber lion
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Still needs some work here and there when it comes to that.

carmine token
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damn i wasted a shitload of energy on slg

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okay gotcha

uneven plume
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guys

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how long from 1-40 venthyr

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=[

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can i possibly do it before reset?

carmine token
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spam callings and dungeons and its possible i think

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i went from 1-40 in two resets

uneven plume
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of course its possible it took me 1-40 in two days for necro. im just hyping myself up because of the grind SucksMan

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I dont want to go through it again...

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Any tricks or faster shortcuts?

prisma carbon
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yes
the trick is to play all day

uneven plume
carmine token
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this was that sludge opener, is this still too slow for snd?

balmy condor
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Slice will always be your second gcd

near igloo
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Stealth -> Mutilate -> SnD

uneven plume
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arent you supposed to be mutilate then snd on opener

near igloo
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don't wait for it to cap

balmy condor
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Yep

uneven plume
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then mutilate>garrote>rupture>shiv>vend>vanish>mutilate>envenom?

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or should i switch something around

balmy condor
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Yeah thatโ€™s fine

near igloo
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I use Envenenom from Vanish (w Doomblade)

uneven plume
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ill try that aswell

low girder
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either is fine, with deeper you're only getting 1 envenom in the MA window anyway

limber lion
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But it differs for some people and some people get renown locked

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for god knows what reasons

uneven plume
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only thing i can think of us not doing campaign

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=/

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is*

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those are the last 9 pretty much

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then 3 per week from daileys

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then idk i think the higher renown higher the drop rate?

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lower*

thorny rose
#

like nothing else willl give renown

uneven plume
#

i remember doing 4 dungeons in a row and getting 1 on the 5th

carmine token
#

i got to about 20 renown before i did the campaign

uneven plume
#

then not getting one for an other 2

near igloo
#

I'm at 40 renown with Venthyr but my campaign shows 8/9

uneven plume
#

hmm

balmy condor
#

I farmed up heirmir in about 8 hours of playtime

#

Wasnโ€™t bad

carmine token
#

okay so, work on opener and try not to overcap on energy are my big key points, yeah?

balmy condor
#

Yeh

#

Sin is very simple in nature

#

Getting all your maintenance up early, keeping it up, and hitting everything on cooldown

#

And youโ€™re pretty much good to go

#

Just remember to finish on 4 with vigor, 5 with deeper

carmine token
#

got it, thanks for advice!

balmy condor
#

Np

dawn ivy
#

does vendetta not effect flag damage? my raidbots is telling me to flag>rupture>vendetta

balmy condor
#

It does affect flag damage

#

Itโ€™s about equal to running the vend before flag

#

Doesnโ€™t matter either way

#

Openers in general arenโ€™t that important as long as you follow the general rules

low girder
#

i vendetta after the 2nd mutilate in the opener kekW

#

doesn't really matter much

balmy condor
#

Hard-set โ€œfirst this, then that, then this, followed by thatโ€ is pretty irrelevant

#

You just get the general gist of like โ€œokay snd/gar/rup early, then cooldownsโ€

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And youโ€™re good

low girder
#

am i losing more than like 5 dps doing that

supple compass
#

with the subterfuge opener how come u dont garrote more than once to extend the duration within the sub window

#

as venth

heavy skiff
#

its not worth it

low girder
#

not worth the energy cost when you only get 1 CP for it now

#

was only done because of SS in BfA

round harbor
#

misss SS

#

=[

supple compass
#

ah ok, also are you supposed to have to refresh garrote and rup within vendetta with that opener

slow marsh
#

Yeah it's fine as long as it's not in shiv

dusk lion
#

For dashing scoundrel is it best to put it on a cloak or boots or does it not matter?

slow marsh
#

Boots cuz slg back ilvl

dusk lion
#

Thanks

carmine token
south totem
#

how does crimson tempest works? if there more than 8 mobs can you press it twice to get more application? also does it priotize the nearest targets?

misty holly
#

but its something to look at

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also, for some reason you have way more mutilates than I do, but the same amount of finishers.

#

are you mutilating at 4cp?

carmine token
#

yeah, if its 4, i mut>finish , if its 5 i finish

#

im running strategem

misty holly
#

ahh ok, that could be it then. I use vigor

carmine token
#

gotcha

drifting cosmos
#

peophammer yea I had a hard time trying outlaw too, things seem to move so much faster

carmine token
#

i started outlaw, and now sin seems much slower haha. i'd prob just play outlaw but getting into M+ groups is a joke, so im learning sin to raid a bit more in my free time (since im 3/10m on main, easier to get into groups)

misty holly
carmine token
#

yeah was thinking that too, just was curious if anything major was there. Shiv timing maybe or something. I still need to do heroic sire this week but pugs are a bit terrible for it so i just did shriek with some advice earlier as to maybe build upon it

#

I will keep practicing :)

strange python
#

do we use Shiv on CD now?

shy dust
#

Yes

median igloo
#

does exacting preparation affect deadly poison?

hollow escarp
#

don't think poison count as weapon enchant

hardy wind
#

is it worth swapping to crimson tempest for heroic sire or just stick with poison bomb? adds only live maybe 8-10 seconds in my current group (P1)

hollow escarp
#

as we have them as buff to player not to item

median igloo
#

ah

hollow escarp
#

not sure how it is for enhancement shaman though

#

because their weapon buffs are on item

#

not like ours

median igloo
#

yeah i heard it works with wf

polar willow
#

is shadowgrasp totem actually good or is it a simtrap?

hollow escarp
#

how would it be a simtrap?

low girder
#

it has a range but it's fairly forgiving

#

not really a simtrap

balmy condor
#

Simtraps

#

Thatโ€™s the next word on my hit list

hollow escarp
#

IQD is a simtrap Kapp

balmy condor
#

scaling
ambush from stealth
Simtrap

hollow escarp
#

but but

#

the chinese rogues

balmy condor
stoic needle
#

can you guess what dungeon these were SMILERS

#

can you guess what i still dont have SMILERS

hollow escarp
#

farming Shadowgrasp Totem?

stoic needle
#

I GOT THAT ALREADY

polar willow
#

soz i main hunter and it was a simtrap for mm in 9.0 and i just remember that was due to range

#

obv not a problem with rogue

hollow escarp
#

I was actually using that on my alt hunter, but a lower ilvl version because I had nothing else

slow marsh
#

What's the deal with Shadowgrasp? Are people just bored and experimenting with trinkets? Is it that hard to get a mythic skulkers?

hollow escarp
#

skulkers is boring

low girder
#

we discovered it's hasted so it's actually a decent trinket

#

and people hate iqd

#

i guess

slow marsh
#

Yeah I knew about the new hasted thing

stoic needle
#

we also hate skulkers

hollow escarp
#

I actually like my IQD

#

didn't knew what substances it releases

#

can't let it go now

low girder
#

idk why you'd go for it specifically but i guess since IQD is in the same dungeon

#

maybe people hate life after trying for a phial

hollow escarp
#

I got it randomly

low girder
#

ye i meant shadowgrasp

hollow escarp
#

ahh

#

I was memeing

#

because I know oshosi is farming IQD

low girder
#

i should but

#

ugh

#

already hitting p3 anyway

#

soon i can actually farm a mythic trinket

polar willow
#

i got 223 iqd in my first vault ๐Ÿ˜„

hollow escarp
#

nice

#

I kinda like when there is no clear bis trinket and we can test and play around with multiple trinkets

#

there are bis trinkets, but not everybody has access to them happymalddent

heavy trail
#

190 ilevel now did a +4 was able to out dps some dps like 10 ilevels higher overall and also take the least amount of damage. Starting to enjoy the spec now only if a higher level dagger would drop lol

hollow escarp
#

if nothing drops, you can do the pvp weekly quests and buy the conquest 200 dagger

#

not sure if the conquest will be enough, but you could play some games t oget that

polar willow
#

i think theyre 900 conq

#

so youd need to do your daily wins a few times

hollow escarp
#

900 both?

#

because main hand would be enough for the beginning

shy dust
hollow escarp
#

have I upset the broker lords?

shy dust
dawn ivy
#

wait that means the 226 shadowgrasp in my bags is good

#

dammit

shy dust
hollow escarp
#

yeah, don't disenchant it

#

IQD is like having PI but gives you crit

stoic needle
#

IQD GAMING

#

LETS FUCKING GO

strange python
#

Something told me to save iqd but I was an outlaw fixed on remaining to that spec smh

#

Now of course itโ€™s like almost bis trinket for assassins lol

frigid kestrel
#

Which 10/10 times for me is Haste, so itโ€™s just like PI

#

In keys itโ€™s gives me crit tho

stoic needle
#

you have to gear around iqd for it to really shine

#

get that crit up in your raid set

#

look at this

#

almost 20k dps in one pull with NS+MA

frigid kestrel
#

See, but when I change enchants to favor crit my sims ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿ“‰

fleet anchor
#

I did 20k dps one pull too. I pressed Skulker's and it crit and it killed the enemy!

stoic needle
frigid kestrel
stoic needle
#

you're venthyr right?

frigid kestrel
#

Tied, itโ€™s legit beautiful

frigid kestrel
stoic needle
#

how much crit do you have? cuz for me crit and haste are tied, mastery and vers noticeably lower

#

and i have like 30% crit

frigid kestrel
#

Same

stoic needle
#

and ~18% haste

frigid kestrel
#

Let me get off the shitter and check. Give me 3 minutes. Iโ€™m not a savage who doesnโ€™t wash his hands

fleet anchor
#

IQD doesn't give you your best stat by default though

#

Only during lust

#

Otherwise it's 50/50 between your two highest stats

stoic needle
#

yup

frigid kestrel
#

Uhhh I thought it was always your highest stat

#

Must have read it wrong

fleet anchor
#

No only when lust is active

frigid kestrel
#

Ahh

#

Gotcha

fleet anchor
#

I think it'd be really hard to make a raid set that had higher crit than haste these days but I dunno ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

frigid kestrel
#

Yup

stoic needle
#

maybe i'm lucky then

fleet anchor
#

I have like.. 350 more Haste Rating than Crit

#

With full Crit gems ๐Ÿคฃ

stoic needle
#

i have 717 crit 596 haste

shy dust
#

I have more crit than haste

stoic needle
shy dust
#

For my raid set

#

Wasnโ€™t too bad

stoic needle
#

interestingly my weights aren't what i thought

shy dust
#

And thatโ€™s with the inerva ring

#

Which is a massive amount of haste

stoic needle
#

nearly 32% lol

#

hmm wait that sim was with theotar

fleet anchor
#

I have Inerva+Sire ring lol

#

That's like 75% of my Crit budget right there ๐Ÿ˜„

stoic needle
#

yeah i have the bloodoath ring and arachnid cipher ring

#

both huge crit and haste

frigid kestrel
#

Shit i lied

#

That must have been my last weeks sims before i got new gear

#

660 Crit and 657 Haste currently

#

Just pressed IQD and got Haste

#

So yea it random between top two

#

Learn something new everyday

balmy condor
#

Yep

#

Out of lust itโ€™s random top 2

#

In lust itโ€™s always top

uneven plume
#

When do we reapply garrote on target? How many seconds

#

Running ma talent

stoic needle
#

5.4

strange python
#

should i even bother using iqd with 950 haste

odd spire
#

which stats should i put on doomblade

balmy condor
#

Haste crit

odd spire
#

thanks

cerulean raft
balmy condor
#

Your uptimes are definitely a problem

#

Slice should be 99%

#

Rupture and garrote should be 95%+

#

On huntsman specifically, you werenโ€™t dotting the dogs very effectively, and you let dots drop on huntsman at the same time

vestal wren
#

is there a reason to use vendetta 3rd gcd? (from the log)

balmy condor
#

The other problem is youโ€™re just not vanishing

balmy condor
#

But thereโ€™s like

#

First vanish at 1:30

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And then another at 5 min

#

Should always be syncing vanish/vend

gloomy fern
#

vendetta third gcd feels pretty nice without lust

vestal wren
#

is using skulkers after vendetta a big isssue?

balmy condor
#

Vendetta is whitelisted

#

So trinkets are whatever

#

Probably not great practice to wait 30 seconds to pop a trinket

#

Lot of weird decisions for sure though

cerulean raft
#

how am i supposed to open the fight? i start dotting hunter and add there. is that right?

balmy condor
#

Yeah you always start with snd, and then spread dots

#

Envenom to fill

cerulean raft
#

do i delay vendetta and covenant then?

balmy condor
#

No

#

You just cd/bleed target 1, and bleed target 2

vestal wren
#

my thought was, that hence the log has extended downtimes (up to 2 sec between casts in the beginning) it wouldn't make a lot of sense to delay a trinket use.
The trinket has a 1,5 minute cd and is used 3 times over the entire fight (5,5 minute fight)
Unless the timing is rly bad it could be used 4 times without a problem

cerulean raft
balmy condor
#

I highly suggest practicing on a dummy

#

Sin is mostly maintenance

cerulean raft
#

yeah i know man ๐Ÿ˜„ it a matter of time though^^

balmy condor
#

So you can easily get the hang of it by just slapping a while

vestal wren
#

displaying dots noticably on your nameplates is also a very big help to keep track of your bleeds

balmy condor
#

Agreed

cerulean raft
#

thanks for lookin at it guys ๐Ÿ™‚

#

definitly need to train the opener. sadly we also lacked enough dks to avoid running around to the shades

ebon thorn
#

@balmy condor can u rate my tmog

storm hedge
#

On huntsman could it be worth it to go with the execute legendary? Since you're basicly getting 4 executes?

balmy condor
#

Doomblade is still better on 2 target

balmy condor
misty holly
#

I need to get to work.

ebon thorn
#

Whispyr is very helpful in every aspect of rogue

odd spire
#

Weird question here. Am I supposed to be getting Broadside sometimes?

balmy condor
#

No

#

I would get rid of cto though

#

That conduit is pretty awful for sin

odd spire
#

ohh

#

thats why

#

thanks

balmy condor
#

Np

odd spire
#

keep forgetting about conduits

#

which conduit should i be running?

balmy condor
#

Ls on venth, sf on necro, wps/lp/pk otherwise

odd spire
#

Thanks

balmy condor
#

Np

eager abyss
#

Hi, we are running fire/ret/rogue, and we lack dmg, gear/play issue aswell but am I better going assa or getting my outlaw up to speed? Feel like they beat me on both aoe and st tho so not sure D:

balmy condor
#

Thatโ€™ll happen

#

Outlaw is usually the play for m+

#

Sin is playable

#

But you shouldnโ€™t beat a fire mage ever

fallen arch
#

single target you can

#

as sin rogue

#

Fire mage is more bursty tho, and way more (uncapped) aoe

eager abyss
#

ye I stand no chance on aoe when he combusts, but he does really well st aswell

balmy condor
#

Usually even fights are short enough for the mage to snag a win as well

fallen arch
#

On Tyr weeks and in raid, my sin rogue beats my mage almost every ST fight

#

The longer the fight, the better assassination gets I feel

eager abyss
#

Ye I tend to almost catch up on prolonged fights

slow marsh
#

I mean it doesn't really matter if you're just doing 15s for weekly but if you're pushing you want to be outlaw for the cc and aoe for sure

#

I routinely get 1st overall in pugs for 14/15 for vaults and generally tie/just under when I play with guildmates which is usually DK + destro lock or hunter lock

sacred isle
#

For the cc ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

eager abyss
#

Ah neat ๐Ÿ™‚

slow marsh
#

outlaw gets gouge?

sacred isle
#

Its not something you go outlaw for.

slow marsh
#

Which is effectively another kick

#

No not specifically but it's part of the reason why its better for pushing high keys lol

sacred isle
#

You really should never need to solo prio interupts as a rogue and gouge isnt greatly used in high keys if you check pushers

slow marsh
#

k

sacred isle
#

Its a nice to have thing. But if your team fails prio interupts its not the rogue not having gouge fault

fair geyser
#

Outlaw is such a shit spec to play

#

Casino spec

mystic island
#

how bad is necrolord for assass?

willow eagle
#

Pretty good for multi target

#

Falls behind venthyr on st

mystic island
#

even with zoldyck?

willow eagle
#

Don't think zoldyck changes anything really

mystic island
#

so if i were to choose necrolord

#

which soul bind would be best?

#

emeni or the bonesmith?

grim shuttle
#

You can sim what would be the best for your own dps

frail fossil
#

u go bonesmith

#

for me necro sims like 100 dps under venthyr

#

and is better in any 2 or more targets scenario

brisk forge
#

For pure m+ necro is the best conve, but more stuff to do so "easier" to mess things up but tker like few min to get it right ๐Ÿ˜„

#

Heirmir for sure

frail fossil
#

i mean in ST necro is rly easy it's when u have to manage 3+ dots that it becomes harder

royal lantern
#

for st you just use it as a generator

#

not really "hard" too use

#

aoe is different, but st its a no-brainer

#

doesnt matter, venthyr gang o/

hollow escarp
oak cypress
#

nadija is the soulbind we wanna go for Venthyr right?

hollow escarp
#

for single target, yes

oak cypress
#

theotar for MT then?

limber lion
#

For M+ generally yeh

hollow escarp
#

tea time trait

limber lion
#

Usually you just run Nadja for every boss in CN

limber lion
oak cypress
#

ok sweet, thank you

hollow escarp
#

I haven't used Theotar in Nathria that much

#

only when I forgot to respec

#

guess it should be good on cleave fights

compact pumice
#

Using NS+MA in M+ how do you use vanish on ST? I figure I open the fight with MFD+Rupt for the empowered rupt but later vanish during a shiv window for an empowered Envenom to be better, no? Like compared to refreshing the empowered rupture.

hollow escarp
#

I vanish at full CP and apply a Rupture

#

it's interesting that Rupture tooltip doesn't change in stealth

#

but Envenom does

stoic needle
#

I think you should reapply Rupture and then MfD evenom

#

Best of both worlds

#

But if it's a pride or something that needs to die asap you can double evenom

hollow escarp
#

or vanish, rupture, mut, envenom, mfd, envenom

#

all in MA window

limber lion
#

Adding a Shiv before the Vanish as well for big deepe

#

Deeps

hollow escarp
limber lion
#

Which is like 30s when used in pandemic

#

Quite a long time tbf

mellow pier
#

Is it just a shlands thing that your crit % change is hidden for MA?

stoic needle
hollow escarp
#

on tyranical it's probably the play to do after 20+ sec in the fight

mellow pier
#

I remember it doing it in bfa and legion

compact pumice
#

I think I need to reprogram myself then to save the refresh of Rupture to inside the shiv

limber lion
hollow escarp
#

you already get 2 envenoms in MA+shiv window with Elaborate planning up

#

so it's not bad to rupture after shiv and vanish

mellow pier
#

Just rupture when u need to and everything will be fine 99% of the time lol

limber lion
#

Yup

mellow pier
#

Itโ€™s not that complicated

compact pumice
#

But here you maximize the NS and MA window with a Shiv

limber lion
#

We're talking about NS rupture though

#

Which is different @mellow pier

stoic needle
#

Does sbs snapshot ns? peepostudy

limber lion
#

No.

mellow pier
#

Oh m+

stoic needle
#

Lame

mellow pier
#

:/

hollow escarp
#

I tried NS on a sun king pull

#

don't recommend

mellow pier
#

Just get PI

#

And do ST

#

Hahaha

hollow escarp
#

you know what's the worst feeling in M+? getting PI and still doing less damage than the other players

mellow pier
#

True

hollow escarp
#

it may or may have not happened to me

mellow pier
#

Honestly I think after dk we should get on shriekwing

#

Lines up perfect

#

Everything off cd

stoic needle
#

Doesn't happen to me

hollow escarp
#

2nd PI, yeah

compact pumice
#

Just pick some damage category and insist that it matters the most, like damage to pride or damage to boss. pepescience

hollow escarp
#

3rd PI on Sludge for rogues PepeClown

stoic needle
#

I got pi in ardenweald huge pull in dos yesterday

mellow pier
#

Idk if that PI sheet counts for others not having cds

stoic needle
#

Absolutely insane

north basin
#

how teatime works? just 500 mastery once per minute?

hollow escarp
#

it's vers

mellow pier
#

But on 2nd phase shriekwing

hollow escarp
#

6% vers to you

mellow pier
#

I go from like 7th to top 3

hollow escarp
#

3% to others

stoic needle
#

No it doesn't, that's why the sheet is a little flawed

mellow pier
#

Without PI

north basin
#

wait and first skill

#

in tree

#

how does it work

stoic needle
#

It assumes you give pi on cd to the respective class regardless of whether their CDs are up or not

mellow pier
#

Yeah itโ€™s flawed then

hollow escarp
#

getting PI without CDs is so miserable

mellow pier
#

I still think DK with army and hunter with spirits

#

But if we get it during our cds

#

Itโ€™s really really strong

stoic needle
#

It should be 'dps gain with CDs up', 'dps gain with no CDs', 'overall 5min dps gain'

limber lion
mellow pier
#

We also benefit a lot without cds

#

Cause of our dmg

hollow escarp
#

yeah

hollow escarp
#

on Xymox I started pressing Vendetta on CD instead of lining with lust, and I still got good damage there

stoic needle
#

Yuh it does

limber lion
#

The sheet gives PI with the best value

stoic needle
#

It's literally just a 5min sim with pi

limber lion
#

Meaning that it'll delay it if it syncs better

#

The sheet literally says

hollow escarp
#

91 parse, vendetta outside lust PepeLaugh

limber lion
#

That it gives the PI to get most value out of them

compact pumice
#

I mean, to be the highest benefit for the raid team a PI might be on several different people, like UH DK at start on Army and then Rogue on second 2 mins in on vendetta and then maybe PI on a mage during combust for an add phase or something.

hollow escarp
#

it's probably because I got a 3rd vendetta

hollow escarp
limber lion
#

I've not looked at the sims on the sheet myself, just preaching what the sheet said

#

But the sheet is incredibly flawed

limber lion
#

Would not look at it

#

Rather do a sim where everyone gets 1 PI during the encounter at the best possible time

#

Instead of 3 whenever

hollow escarp
limber lion
stoic needle
#

Hmm it says "with pi used optimally" but the sim links are dead so I can't see what that actually means

hollow escarp
#

were people memeing that some class TCs inted the sims just to make blizzard devs ignore some broken stuff?

#

I've heard this about SP, but it might be a meme

fathom swift
#

unlikely

low girder
#

doesn't the sheet also insist PI is best on spriests\

fathom swift
#

most of the time sims get inted cause people dont bother optimizing them not intentionally to hide stuff

hollow escarp
#

ohk

stoic needle
#

Its not quite directly inting, but some classes have really bad apls

#

Like warlocks

low girder
stoic needle
#

And yeah spriest is designed to get their own pi

sullen pagoda
#

@hollow escarp not lusting on pull artificer

#

weirdChamp

hollow escarp
fathom swift
#

on stuff like stack rankings havoc profiles are also very unoptimized relative to other specs

hollow escarp
#

I guess 91 parse with lust outside CDs is good enough

#

pretty sure I got no mechanics

hollow escarp
# low girder

in the current state of Spriest, I think that is true

#

they are insane

stoic needle
hollow escarp
#

I think he meant lock havoc

sullen pagoda
#

spriest is on such a chopping block its not even funny

stoic needle
#

Ohhh

sullen pagoda
#

feelsbad for them becoming op after prog is over

hollow escarp
#

yeah

#

same story for sin rogues though

#

not quite OP yet though

quiet valley
#

Yeah was about to say

stoic needle
#

Are they though pepehmm

quiet valley
#

Buff came same day we killed sire

sullen pagoda
#

rogue is safe imo, like we do high ST but not so far ahead of rest like spriest

stoic needle
#

We don't really know until 9.1

sullen pagoda
#

like spriests legit almost reaching 8k dps p3 sire

fathom swift
hollow escarp
#

I also like that Limit Max is praising sin rogues a lot lately, it's gonna help a lot for community perception on our spec

#

some raid leaders follow him religiously

stoic needle
#

Blizzard could just be smoking crack and leave them unnerfed

fathom swift
hollow escarp
#

yeah, sorry for confusion

stoic needle
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Yeah that's true the t26 rogue profile was still kyrian for a while pepechortle

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And the current one could be 80 dps better with one gem change and Iqd over dreadfire NODDERS

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For rogue

sullen pagoda
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biggest spriest problem is their ST is looked at by default with PI so if they are strong WITH PI when they get balanced out PI might just go on someone else on prog so they just fall even further behind

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its such a double edged sword its not even funny

compact pumice
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They should make the double pi legendary baseline

hollow escarp
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it will mess with their CDs though

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imagine playing a spec where you hold your cds for somebody else

low girder
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i'd rather they just make it self only at this point

hollow escarp
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^

sullen pagoda
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pretty sure their cds are all over the place already @hollow escarp cuz of nightfae being bis

hollow escarp
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they added all this shit to attract classic players to retail

compact pumice
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Assass is a good target whenever tbh

storm hedge
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How much do we gain from PI rn?

low girder
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that or they make it % damage and the damage gets added to the priest

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obv that wouldn't show up in sims

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but it would everywhere else

sullen pagoda
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eh idk about assa being good target, have there been any sims since assa changes with 7.0.5

hollow escarp
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imagine if chaos brand damage was added to the DH meters

sullen pagoda
stoic needle
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The latest version of the sheet has us as the 5th best

low girder
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the sheet is technically with the changes, it was just a month ago

stoic needle
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Post 9.0.5

low girder
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and using defaults

sullen pagoda
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can you link sheet please?

low girder
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idk where you see 5th though

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unless there's another sheet

stoic needle
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Oh I guess I misremembered

hollow escarp
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sin is 2nd after arcane mage?

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wtf

sullen pagoda
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12th pepehands

hollow escarp
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nvm

low girder
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sin sim timed out

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feelsbad

hollow escarp
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but wait

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do you want dps gain or max dps?

sullen pagoda
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but thing to also consider is usually when giving someone else PI on prog its about that 1 usage to push the timers

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and at that unholy blows everything else out of the water

stoic needle
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Delete unholy peeporiot

compact pumice
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None of the sims linked work??

stoic needle
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Yeah they timed out because they're old

low girder
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the priest non-PI one does

sullen pagoda
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@compact pumice probably because of new blizzard API rule they cant save raidbot sims for more than 2 weeks or something

low girder
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i didn't try the others except sin

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but yeah raidbots removes sims older than 30d

burnt star
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the thing with that datasheet, its a simulation if the players gets all pi. and over a long duration. like someone said.. it would be more optimal to adjust sim with cd. but that overcomplicate the data

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on pull. dk gains the highest

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(cause army)

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but then drops until next army usage

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i would be curious to see if its even better then a priest pi himself vs a dk with army. on that short window

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but data didnt analyse that

sullen pagoda
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yeah thats where strength of PI comes from on prog

low girder
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not only that but it also requires APL knowledge for every spec, which is probably out of possibility for the guy maintaining it

hollow escarp
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but tbf, these sims only matter for prog

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because if you wanna parse, you want PI

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regardless

burnt star
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oh. of course

sullen pagoda
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eh for our class its possible without

burnt star
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it is simply because we lack parse

sullen pagoda
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classes like dk / mage its so much more inflated by PI parses

gusty mirage
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And then you get judged by Kojack when you do peepomad

burnt star
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get over 10k parse.. and lot more people with pi