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

energy not really the issue in aoe anyways. we are overcapped a lot of times
Give sin 'malicious rapture' 
"wtf affliction is the real dot spec, why do they get something like that"
Fuck warlocks
meanwhile affliction multidotting is instant casts with no cd 
I'm tempted to start playing lock besides rogue
full dps classes always have a spot in raid

I've thought about rolling a lock but for other reasons
it used to be the same for rogue, but I think cloak was the reason
i like how hunters complain about the nerfs(yeha they where overblown) but they STILL get taken cus they are ranged 
It is the best raiding class in the game. They can do mechanics at range whilst doing damage at the same time.
Would exsang be good if it worked on all our bleeds instead of just target?
But numbers matter too much in this game.
They also have lots of ways to mitigate mechanics
it would be good even if it was on primary target, if it wasn't on the same row with Alacrity 
Even with a perfect toolkit, you still need the numbers to back you up.
yeah, but as rogues, we have the immunity that isn't a dps loss
druid brings nothing besides CR
But close for sure
altered time alone
mages can't brez 
also druid bear form

or not bear
Or passive damage.
whatever makes them op for chains
are you serious now?
If we had evasion for physical anything then it would be nice
there is a small difference bettwen "you can maybe reduce aoe dmg by 40% by using your offensive resource, but 70%is blacklisted anyway"
health pot every 30 sec
and "lmao 2min cd that is a flat 20%dmg reduction for that stays for 45sec"
But it doesn't though
Direct damage breaks the mirrors
it litearlly does
And they disappear
yeha
It only works on passive damage like I said
you get targeted by the arrows on huntsman? you dont lose a immage
and you have 3
its not like 1 mechanic=gone
it litearlly needs too be 3 in 45seconds, when almost nothing counts as a direct hit
that shit is so stupid
feint cost energy and is blacklisted for how many things again?
What are you feinting on sire?
^
Feint is an amazing ability when it works
like
tru
Doesnโt work on most things
the entire "but feint" thing is so weird when feint just doesnt do shit in so many fights
yes it would be strong
Alter time like Tryan said
but it just isnt
Is one of the most busted defensives
Ye, AT is dumb af
Can u elaborate on feint not working on most things
altered time+mirror immages alone should be the ENTIRE toolkit
but no, iceblock+shields is a thing too
There's a rather large list of abilities that go through feint
I was using feint religiously when I still played
well, like i said
there are many abilitys that do aoe dmg
but dont get reduced by feint
Feint is dps loss
cus blizzard doesnt want you too reduce that dmg
not worth


@limber lion yeah, rogue has trash defensives 
Can u give me some examples
on some fights that means your entire deffensive toolkit is MAYBE cloak(if you dont need it for a mechanic) and vial
๐
Cheat Death as well tbf
you mean
that thing mage has baseline?


so ok, rogue and mage have the best defensives in the game
mage has better defensives
that's about it
right?
fking arms warrior has better deffensives then rogue lol
die by the sword+deff stance alone blow rogue out of the water
not talking about raid cooldowns
the entire "rogue has great deffensives" thing would be real, IF most raid dmg would be aoe
but it isnt
30% damage reduction on a 3 min cd
rogue has cloak, wich is great, dont get me wrong, but also limited
vs immune to most things on 2?
I know Nathria is weird because all the non-magic damage
maybe our defensives are limited because energy cost or damage type, but we do have a solid toolkit
you can cheese so many raid mechanics with cloak entirely
LIKE?
can people give me notable examples for that
thot harvester
like srsly, that like some peak reddit shit all the time
you can sit in consume for like 6s more dmg, huge
Consume 
You can clear traps
you cant
On artificer
it does dmg trought cloak
Then die to the dot

nope, I'm cloaking my ghost 
no it doesn't?
No it doesn't.
i've done it
You can cloak consume lol
that's pretty much the only thing though
Just have to wait a second
maybe im mixing up the mechanics now
the big succ on hungering
but ye like
you just read all the time ROGUE DEFFENSIVES SO STRONG, THEY CHEESE EVERYTHING
and then its like
I don't think you can cloak the miasma?
it removes stacks
You can
give me a notable example that makes a raidteam go "damm, we want a rogue for that, they would be good"
but it doesn't go away
it's like I haven't said that Nathria is a weird example
Yeah but it doesn't stop it from hurting you
just makes you not take dmg for a bit

instead of "eh, just take a mage or hunter, they do the same while not losing dmg from running out"
m+ should also be taken into account
m+ is a mini game though
hungering is like the one fight cloak is really strong on
nobody is talking about m+
think of the countless things cloak will save you from
Cloak is great in m+
m+ will always be a unbalanced mess, same with pvp
in m+ and pvp we are way more busted than raid
there is a reason why they balance around raids
Some specs*
and for raiding, the rogue toolkit is really mediocre right now
right now yes, because physical/bleed damage
Sub wouldn't be a dogshit spec for 3 years + if they actually balanced all classes around raids
i mean let's not pretend cloak was some incredible thing in nya either
pvp is secondary
m+ has WAY more restricitions if you go higher then mythic raiding 
They definitely consider some classes "raid specs" and some specs "pvp specs"
or legion 
like, you can still take all classes/specs for a mythic raid if the player is good
legion had its moments
you cant for high keys
blizzard stopped making that mistake after tomb
you can get ksm with any class/spec combo
ksm is not even close too mythic raiding lmao
KSM is very low tier tbh
ksm is like curve
what else is there to go for other than a number on your io page lol
but anything beyond KSM doesn't really matter
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/4U1qiVMk7QKayeSNmN3Wqf
if i socket my belt i break 7k as necrolord 
just for fun
Big.
anything beyond heroic raiding doesnt matter

you get your shity mount from the last tier on hc, why do mythic????
bruh
that argument is not very good
yuge
what argument?
mythic has an achievement lol
all you get from doing 16+ keys is more 210 loot
Consider this
and thats the point where it gets WAY more restrictive then mythic raiding
People raid mythic and do high m+ keys
because they want to
and they think it's fun
cus a good player can carry himself in a good group in raids
๐ฎ
easier to get carried to KSM than it is for CE
What a crazy thought, having fun in a video game.
in m+ you hit a wall at some point where your class/spec makes it impossible too play anymore
but there is no mythic equivalent for high keys as there is for Mythic raiding
Disgusting
๐ ๐ช out with that
I don't really think this is true because there are people playing sub in +24s
NO FUN ALLOWED IN MY VYDEA
And doing extremely well
there is one people
Sub is like objectively one of the worst m+ specs in the game and ppl are doing high keys with it
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
The number doesn't matter, I'm saying that if you're a gamer you can do high keys with any spec
Up to a certain point
At some point it gets to the point where you need every single bit of dps, perfect pulls/routes, execute everything perfectly etc.
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
It's factual. After some point (who knows what level that is, could be +27, could be +30) you just don't have enough damage to time a key.
Is it gonna be harder? Absolutely. But impossible? Idk about that
guys sorry to jump in and ask again , im NEcro sin rogue at sludgefist right now whats the choice lego and rotation for me ? ๐
That's the nature of infinitely scaling content that's tied to a timer.
Eventually you just don't do enough dps to time the key.
Otherwise we would be seeing +40 keys being done toward the end of season
doomblade and cooldowns on pull, 2nd pillar and 4th pillar
But we don't
The problem is that we don't have infinitely scaling gear
Being capped at 229 ilvl limits all the classes
No we don't, we simply have some classes that perform better than some
well, there are some specs that could technically push high keys but there are not enough people trying to push with them
Meaning that with a different comp you can possibly push for +1 or +2 higher keys
a good example was assa until Ryfie started pushing, it looked like assa can't do 21-22 keys
@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
which revendreth soulbind should I use for mythic+? Nadjia still?
Theotar with wasteland
@limber lion Thanks

if im running crimson tempest for m+, on ST bosses - do you ever use it?
Yes
Yes, you maintain it outside of Shiv windows.
thank you, couldnt find the answer for that anywhere on the guides while browsing
Should I run double potency conduits for m+ picking up poisoned katar, or stay single potency and DD
You should run Theotar with Wasteland
sims higher for sure, just thinking about tyrannical bosses
But you can run double potency on Nadja as well if you'd like.
you don't go giga st for tyran weeks
Wasteland is usually the better choice
that's a misconception people have
It sims similarly to double potency, without taking into account the vers buff you give to your team
cool that's what i have been running this week but wanted to check for sure
You go Giga regardless, sin cleave

I just run the talent accordingly to key, run lash with lethal poison
yeah without DD my st on bosses have been fine
Then I swap the route for dauntless duelist for raid.
yeh i swap for raid, dd and just lash
Yeah, sin ST pump but weak cleave. I mean you may as well just play outlaw for key.
I just use Nadja with DD on raids and Theotar with Wasteland on all m+.
1v1 me in orgrimmar
I'll show you cleave
except I personally don't feel like playing outlaw
if I had better than 213 weap, I need to find time to pvp for higher or hope for drops that havent happened
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
Most mages and boomies that I've pugged with still lose in overall dps.
Just run mist unit you get daggers and upgrade to 220.
They're probably just shit at the game.
Only time I lose in overall is in DoS
Screw that dungeon and its 15 mob pulls

I still haven't seen the mists dagger this whole expac..
It's pretty fun yeah
Took me like 4 runs. At least mist is the easiest key to run.
Not going back to outlaw ever
feels
What's the opening with that btw?
I swapped from it to Zoldy+Vig/Sub at around +19-+20's
I heard of it so I may want to try it.
MFD from stealth, open with CT. Then you do Fok - Rup - Fok - Rup - Gar
On 3+ targets that is
On 1-2 targets you MFD - Rupture
^^^
With MA legendary since we're taking nightstalker?
Watch your dps on 5 mob with this opening
MA sucks if your tank chain pulls.. but what can you do
Hmm, may as well try before going back to outlaw for a bit. I like to bounce around to keep it fresh.
If u stick a little to the back when he chains pull u can restealth
Depends how close the last mob dies
if your tank is chain pulling with sin he's inting the key anyway
tell him to stop that

Glad to hear it.
bro no then subtlety is good in specific boss fights
Hence the slight buff to ST
that's an honor reserved only for everyone else
I tried NS CT with zold last night vanish mfd ct when mobs are at about 35% pretty fun same opener
but MA is better with NS CT ??
Much better imo
With NS you need another way to get up bleeds quickly for energy
MA does that
Also gives you big vanish ns envenoms
I had a 15k envenom crit from stealth on a pride earlier today
That's like doomblade level
I though NS did a snapshot on the duration of dots, i'll give MA a try later
It only does for the ct you do from stealth
And your deadly poisons
Shiv to 5cp, vanish, envenom, mfd, envenom, mut, envenom is actually insane priority damage
yeah that is what i though. MA huge envenom sounds fun though
But also vanish to reapply ns ct is also fun
Totaly
Sadly we vanish into rupture for single target
my group isn't pushing high keys, just 15-16's fun and easy so i can play around with talents legos for keys
yeah vanish rupt doesn't feel very rewarding does it
Getting a juicy 30s NS rupture sounds pretty good to me.
it's definitely good, just don't see the huge envenom damage. which is kinda fun.
thanks for the info, back to work for me.
what can i do better? Damage is very low here, and I think i dropped dots a couple of times (any WA recommendations for multiple target dot mgmt?) https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/LfpxAbt9BDCrMVnk/#fight=last&type=damage-done&source=13
!wa
Assassination WA's:
https://wago.io/SJLQKGjMM (Afenar's Group)
https://wago.io/ByzCxPq-m (Devlin's Group)
Bad talents too
i use neatplates and can see what dots are on what targets
idk if thats what you want tho
i could prob tweak my plater to do that
Youโre overcapping cp quite a bit
Name plates are pretty much the best way to keep track when multi
Are you forcing 6 cp or something
nah it was when i had to get away from boss
i just tossed out poisoned knife sometiomes to keep damage up
Like there garrote and mutilate and shiv overcaps
but yeah it was sloppy
waited waaaaaaaaaaay too long to get snd up
im sure thats only like 20% of the reason
You should never lose combo points with garrote.
Or mutilate
Seal fate overcap is sort unavoidable yeah
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
this isn't helping matters
you should have bleeds up
before ever hitting envenom
you're losing a ton of energy
Gar/Rupture should be your #1 priority.
SND too
you keep it up with envenom now, it should be up long before you hit it there
got it
Also you're overcapping/wasting 20% energy.
good advice
Which is A LOT
Energy cap should be around 1-2%
It's fine to be a little bit higher on 2T because you might cap out during lust whilst having both targets bled.
But 20% is wayyy too high
Not sure if you go afk during intermission after killing goliath or what's up
More advance stuff in slg heroic would be to keep hitting boss after the goliath is dead in intermission
How do i check the logs for energy caps?
Could be that.
nobody was picking up orbs -_-
You choose your character, click "Resources"
yeah im there
ah got it
Even if boss takes lower damage. Key is just to make sure u dont lose your 5 stack of alacrity
But the thing is
The boss does take 5% damage
The shield is a 95% damage reduction.
yeah it does
in that pull i was actually trying to throw knives at the ranged above
idk what i was doing
a second log to compare would be my sludgefist from yesterday https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/jhRKF6pq3nd9Crxy#fight=50&type=damage-done
Im looking at htat one now for energy capping
just to basically compare if its a one pull problem or if im bigger derp than i thought
It's much better on Sludge.
Still needs some work here and there when it comes to that.
spam callings and dungeons and its possible i think
i went from 1-40 in two resets
of course its possible it took me 1-40 in two days for necro. im just hyping myself up because of the grind 
I dont want to go through it again...
Any tricks or faster shortcuts?
yes
the trick is to play all day

Use Mutilate from stealth, btw
this was that sludge opener, is this still too slow for snd?
Yes
Slice will always be your second gcd
Stealth -> Mutilate -> SnD
arent you supposed to be mutilate then snd on opener
don't wait for it to cap
Yep
then mutilate>garrote>rupture>shiv>vend>vanish>mutilate>envenom?
or should i switch something around
Yeah thatโs fine
I use Envenenom from Vanish (w Doomblade)
ill try that aswell
either is fine, with deeper you're only getting 1 envenom in the MA window anyway
I got it in 2 days by clearing LFR/Normal/Heroic and then doing the covenant campaign.
But it differs for some people and some people get renown locked
for god knows what reasons
only thing i can think of us not doing campaign
=/
is*
those are the last 9 pretty much
then 3 per week from daileys
then idk i think the higher renown higher the drop rate?
lower*
Iโve heard of people getting renown locked if you stop in the middle of a cov campaign chapter, it bugs until you finish that chapter
like nothing else willl give renown
i remember doing 4 dungeons in a row and getting 1 on the 5th
i got to about 20 renown before i did the campaign
then not getting one for an other 2
I'm at 40 renown with Venthyr but my campaign shows 8/9
hmm
Interesting!
okay so, work on opener and try not to overcap on energy are my big key points, yeah?
Yeh
Sin is very simple in nature
Getting all your maintenance up early, keeping it up, and hitting everything on cooldown
And youโre pretty much good to go
Just remember to finish on 4 with vigor, 5 with deeper
got it, thanks for advice!
Np
does vendetta not effect flag damage? my raidbots is telling me to flag>rupture>vendetta
It does affect flag damage
Itโs about equal to running the vend before flag
Doesnโt matter either way
Openers in general arenโt that important as long as you follow the general rules
Hard-set โfirst this, then that, then this, followed by thatโ is pretty irrelevant
You just get the general gist of like โokay snd/gar/rup early, then cooldownsโ
And youโre good
am i losing more than like 5 dps doing that
with the subterfuge opener how come u dont garrote more than once to extend the duration within the sub window
as venth
its not worth it
not worth the energy cost when you only get 1 CP for it now
was only done because of SS in BfA
ah ok, also are you supposed to have to refresh garrote and rup within vendetta with that opener
Yeah it's fine as long as it's not in shiv
For dashing scoundrel is it best to put it on a cloak or boots or does it not matter?
Boots cuz slg back ilvl
Thanks
okay, this seems better, what can i improve here? :) https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/XL8pgZ9KBj1C4RFd/#fight=last&type=damage-done
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?
All I can do is compare it to my own logs. Your deadly poison uptime is higher than rupture or garrote which means they dropped. If you got the mechanic to run out multiple times at just the wrong moment that could happen
but its something to look at
also, for some reason you have way more mutilates than I do, but the same amount of finishers.
are you mutilating at 4cp?
ahh ok, that could be it then. I use vigor
gotcha
yea I had a hard time trying outlaw too, things seem to move so much faster
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)
you are at 71% for ilevel so its not bad. Thats well above average dude.
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 :)
do we use Shiv on CD now?
Yes
does exacting preparation affect deadly poison?
don't think poison count as weapon enchant
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)
as we have them as buff to player not to item
ah
not sure how it is for enhancement shaman though
because their weapon buffs are on item
not like ours
yeah i heard it works with wf
stick with poison bomb
is shadowgrasp totem actually good or is it a simtrap?
how would it be a simtrap?
IQD is a simtrap 

farming Shadowgrasp Totem?
I GOT THAT ALREADY
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
I was actually using that on my alt hunter, but a lower ilvl version because I had nothing else
What's the deal with Shadowgrasp? Are people just bored and experimenting with trinkets? Is it that hard to get a mythic skulkers?
skulkers is boring
we discovered it's hasted so it's actually a decent trinket
and people hate iqd
i guess
Yeah I knew about the new hasted thing
we also hate skulkers
I actually like my IQD
didn't knew what substances it releases
can't let it go now
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
I got it randomly
ye i meant shadowgrasp
i should but
ugh
already hitting p3 anyway
soon i can actually farm a mythic trinket
i got 223 iqd in my first vault ๐
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 
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
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
nvm proceed

Something told me to save iqd but I was an outlaw fixed on remaining to that spec smh
Now of course itโs like almost bis trinket for assassins lol
Gives you crits????, give you your highest stat
Which 10/10 times for me is Haste, so itโs just like PI
In keys itโs gives me crit tho
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
See, but when I change enchants to favor crit my sims ๐๐พ ๐
I did 20k dps one pull too. I pressed Skulker's and it crit and it killed the enemy!
it can't be that much of a difference
Ye, thatโs M+. My IQD gives me crit in my Key set. My raid set gives me haste
you're venthyr right?
Na, in my raid set Mast, Vers, and Crit stat weights are all at .75
Tied, itโs legit beautiful
Ye
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
Same
and ~18% haste
Let me get off the shitter and check. Give me 3 minutes. Iโm not a savage who doesnโt wash his hands
IQD doesn't give you your best stat by default though
Only during lust
Otherwise it's 50/50 between your two highest stats
yup
No only when lust is active
I think it'd be really hard to make a raid set that had higher crit than haste these days but I dunno ๐ฆ
Yup
maybe i'm lucky then
i have 717 crit 596 haste
I have more crit than haste
interestingly my weights aren't what i thought
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
5.4
should i even bother using iqd with 950 haste
which stats should i put on doomblade
Haste crit
thanks
hey guys, i have problems getting good logs on hunter myth. Can someone have a look at my logs? Is it my dot Uptime or are there any other tricks i didnt get? ๐ https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/CXVxALwTbapjh76M#fight=10&type=damage-done&source=12
Your uptimes are definitely a problem
Slice should be 99%
Rupture and garrote should be 95%+
On huntsman specifically, you werenโt dotting the dogs very effectively, and you let dots drop on huntsman at the same time
is there a reason to use vendetta 3rd gcd? (from the log)
The other problem is youโre just not vanishing
Thatโs probably less of an issue tbh
But thereโs like
First vanish at 1:30
And then another at 5 min
Should always be syncing vanish/vend
vendetta third gcd feels pretty nice without lust
is using skulkers after vendetta a big isssue?
If it didnโt miss a cast, nah
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
no not really. normally i want to cast it before first evis
how am i supposed to open the fight? i start dotting hunter and add there. is that right?
do i delay vendetta and covenant then?
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
yeah, still practising fluent rota. Works better if there just one target rn >.<
yeah i know man ๐ it a matter of time though^^
So you can easily get the hang of it by just slapping a while
displaying dots noticably on your nameplates is also a very big help to keep track of your bleeds
Agreed
thanks for lookin at it guys ๐
definitly need to train the opener. sadly we also lacked enough dks to avoid running around to the shades
@balmy condor can u rate my tmog
On huntsman could it be worth it to go with the execute legendary? Since you're basicly getting 4 executes?
Amount of executes is not important, itโs the time spent
Doomblade is still better on 2 target
I guess
omg is that a thing we can request?
I need to get to work.
Whispyr is very helpful in every aspect of rogue
Weird question here. Am I supposed to be getting Broadside sometimes?
Np
Ls on venth, sf on necro, wps/lp/pk otherwise
Thanks
Np
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:
Thatโll happen
Outlaw is usually the play for m+
Sin is playable
But you shouldnโt beat a fire mage ever
single target you can
as sin rogue
Fire mage is more bursty tho, and way more (uncapped) aoe
ye I stand no chance on aoe when he combusts, but he does really well st aswell
Usually even fights are short enough for the mage to snag a win as well
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
Ye I tend to almost catch up on prolonged fights
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
For the cc ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Ah neat ๐
outlaw gets gouge?
Its not something you go outlaw for.
Which is effectively another kick
No not specifically but it's part of the reason why its better for pushing high keys lol
You really should never need to solo prio interupts as a rogue and gouge isnt greatly used in high keys if you check pushers
k
Its a nice to have thing. But if your team fails prio interupts its not the rogue not having gouge fault
how bad is necrolord for assass?
even with zoldyck?
Don't think zoldyck changes anything really
so if i were to choose necrolord
which soul bind would be best?
emeni or the bonesmith?
You can sim what would be the best for your own dps
it's rly good
u go bonesmith
for me necro sims like 100 dps under venthyr
and is better in any 2 or more targets scenario
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 ๐
Heirmir for sure
i mean in ST necro is rly easy it's when u have to manage 3+ dots that it becomes harder
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/
grats
nadija is the soulbind we wanna go for Venthyr right?
for single target, yes
theotar for MT then?
For M+ generally yeh
tea time trait
Usually you just run Nadja for every boss in CN
Yep, Wasteland
ok sweet, thank you
I haven't used Theotar in Nathria that much
only when I forgot to respec
guess it should be good on cleave fights
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.
I vanish at full CP and apply a Rupture
it's interesting that Rupture tooltip doesn't change in stealth
but Envenom does
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

Vanish / Rup is still more damage if the mob lives the duration
Which is like 30s when used in pandemic
Quite a long time tbf
Is it just a shlands thing that your crit % change is hidden for MA?

on tyranical it's probably the play to do after 20+ sec in the fight
I remember it doing it in bfa and legion
I think I need to reprogram myself then to save the refresh of Rupture to inside the shiv
Might be a bit of a mindfuck because you usually wanna reapply bleeds before Shiv.
you already get 2 envenoms in MA+shiv window with Elaborate planning up
so it's not bad to rupture after shiv and vanish
Just rupture when u need to and everything will be fine 99% of the time lol
Yup
Itโs not that complicated
But here you maximize the NS and MA window with a Shiv
Does sbs snapshot ns? 
No.
Oh m+
Lame
:/
you know what's the worst feeling in M+? getting PI and still doing less damage than the other players
True
it may or may have not happened to me
Honestly I think after dk we should get on shriekwing
Lines up perfect
Everything off cd
Doesn't happen to me
2nd PI, yeah
Just pick some damage category and insist that it matters the most, like damage to pride or damage to boss. 
3rd PI on Sludge for rogues 
I got pi in ardenweald huge pull in dos yesterday
Idk if that PI sheet counts for others not having cds
Absolutely insane
how teatime works? just 500 mastery once per minute?
it's vers
But on 2nd phase shriekwing
6% vers to you
I go from like 7th to top 3
3% to others
No it doesn't, that's why the sheet is a little flawed
Without PI
It assumes you give pi on cd to the respective class regardless of whether their CDs are up or not
Yeah itโs flawed then
getting PI without CDs is so miserable
I still think DK with army and hunter with spirits
But if we get it during our cds
Itโs really really strong
It should be 'dps gain with CDs up', 'dps gain with no CDs', 'overall 5min dps gain'
You give Vers to your party when you press flag, so every 1.5mins
yeah
Incorrect
on Xymox I started pressing Vendetta on CD instead of lining with lust, and I still got good damage there
Yuh it does
The sheet gives PI with the best value
It's literally just a 5min sim with pi
91 parse, vendetta outside lust 
That it gives the PI to get most value out of them
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.
it's probably because I got a 3rd vendetta
I think with Zoldyck we have a better argument to get PI in execute phase with CDs
I've not looked at the sims on the sheet myself, just preaching what the sheet said
But the sheet is incredibly flawed
I guess on Sire or M+
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
I'm thinking about Sludgefist as well but I'm not that familiar with the fight to understand how much dps we lose on the other pillars without Doomblade
But yeh, I could be wrong. Just assumed the sims were done with proper setting up because it says so in the sheet. But who knows 
Hmm it says "with pi used optimally" but the sim links are dead so I can't see what that actually means
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
unlikely
doesn't the sheet also insist PI is best on spriests\
most of the time sims get inted cause people dont bother optimizing them not intentionally to hide stuff
ohk
And yeah spriest is designed to get their own pi
I know dude, I've been asking for weeks, now we extending
on stuff like stack rankings havoc profiles are also very unoptimized relative to other specs
I guess 91 parse with lust outside CDs is good enough

pretty sure I got no mechanics
Koji writes the havoc apl so I kinda doubt that
I think he meant lock havoc
spriest is on such a chopping block its not even funny
Ohhh
feelsbad for them becoming op after prog is over
Yeah was about to say
Are they though 
Buff came same day we killed sire
rogue is safe imo, like we do high ST but not so far ahead of rest like spriest
We don't really know until 9.1
like spriests legit almost reaching 8k dps p3 sire
the profiles, not the apl
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
Blizzard could just be smoking crack and leave them unnerfed
i meant dh havoc not lock havoc but im talking about the profiles that exist on the stack ranking, not apl issues
yeah, sorry for confusion
Yeah that's true the t26 rogue profile was still kyrian for a while 
And the current one could be 80 dps better with one gem change and Iqd over dreadfire 
For rogue
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
its such a double edged sword its not even funny
They should make the double pi legendary baseline
it will mess with their CDs though
imagine playing a spec where you hold your cds for somebody else
i'd rather they just make it self only at this point
^
pretty sure their cds are all over the place already @hollow escarp cuz of nightfae being bis
they added all this shit to attract classic players to retail
It will just go on a class where everything lines up about equal, or where it doesn't matter, and they still get high benefit.
Assass is a good target whenever tbh
How much do we gain from PI rn?
that or they make it % damage and the damage gets added to the priest
obv that wouldn't show up in sims
but it would everywhere else
eh idk about assa being good target, have there been any sims since assa changes with 7.0.5
thats actually such a good example, spriest simming with PI is like DH simming with chaos brand dmg as his own

The latest version of the sheet has us as the 5th best
the sheet is technically with the changes, it was just a month ago
Post 9.0.5
and using defaults
can you link sheet please?
Sheet1
dps from official simcraft t26 ilvl 226 profiles,with PI used optimally,DPS Gain,sim link,updated,note,seconds at which PI is applied
Marksmanship,6440,6931,491,https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/uTPVkuYK1beJMcVkd...
idk where you see 5th though
unless there's another sheet
Oh I guess I misremembered
12th pepehands
but thing to also consider is usually when giving someone else PI on prog its about that 1 usage to push the timers
and at that unholy blows everything else out of the water
Delete unholy 
None of the sims linked work??
Yeah they timed out because they're old
the priest non-PI one does
@compact pumice probably because of new blizzard API rule they cant save raidbot sims for more than 2 weeks or something
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
on pull. dk gains the highest
(cause army)
but then drops until next army usage
i would be curious to see if its even better then a priest pi himself vs a dk with army. on that short window
but data didnt analyse that
yeah thats where strength of PI comes from on prog
not only that but it also requires APL knowledge for every spec, which is probably out of possibility for the guy maintaining it
but tbf, these sims only matter for prog
because if you wanna parse, you want PI
regardless
oh. of course
eh for our class its possible without
it is simply because we lack parse
classes like dk / mage its so much more inflated by PI parses
And then you get judged by Kojack when you do 
get over 10k parse.. and lot more people with pi










